Illinoise

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: MJ the Musical, Hadestown, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. OFF-BROADWAY: Here We Are. TOUR: Into the Woods (Fiasco Theater). REGIONAL: Illinoise (Bard Summerscape); Most Happy (Williamstown Theatre Festival/ Bard Summerscape); Cinderella (Paper Mill Playhouse); Bullets Over Broadway (Ogunquit Playhouse). EDUCATION: BM in classical piano performance, University of the Pacific.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: World Music Festival of Chicago. REGIONAL: Summerstage, Brooklyn Academy of Music, BRIC Theatre, Celebrate Brooklyn, Apollo Theatre, National Sawdust, Ryman Auditorium (Grand Ole Opry), Groundup Music Festival. INTERNATIONAL: Trans Musicales Festival, Eurokkeen Festival (France); Querétaro (Mexico); Fusion Festival (Germany); Paradiso (Netherlands). FILM: Little Orphan Annie (2014). TELEVISION: Late Show with Stephen Colbert with Bright Eyes (CBS); Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon with Andrea Bocelli, America’s Got Talent (NBC); Latin Grammy Awards (Univision). EDUCATION: BFA in music, University of North Texas; MFA in music performance, New York University. AWARDS: Latin Grammy 2018. Domenica is an alumni of the U.S. Department of State’s music cultural exchange program, OneBeat, and was the program director of OneBeat Sahara. She is also the frontwoman of New York indie-dance group, Underground System.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. INTERNATIONAL: World Tours with Angeliqué Kidjo 2010-2016, David Byrne 2018, Anat Cohen 2006-2018, Omer Avital 2012-2016, Claudia Acuña 1999-2003. REGIONAL: Carnegie Hall, Village Vanguard, JLC, Disney Hall, Coachella, Ryman Auditorium. FILM: David Byrne’s American Utopia directed by Spike Lee. TELEVISION: Saturday Night Live, Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (NBC); Late Show with Stephan Colbert, CBS Sunday Morning (CBS); Jools Holland Show (BBC); PBS Live, The Marvelous Ms. Maisel. SELECTED RECORDINGS: David Byrne’s David Byrne American Utopia Cast Recording; Angelique Kidjo’s Spirit Rising; Sting’s If on a Winters Night; Avishai Cohen’s Flood, The Big Rain; Anat Cohen’s Notes From The Village, Claroscuro, Luminosa; Omer Avital’s Think With your Heart, Suite From the East, New Song; Ben Wolfe’s 13 Sketches featuring Wynton Marsalis; Jason Lindner’s Premonition; Daniel Freedman’s Trio, Bamako By Bus featuring Meshell Ndegeocello, Lionel Loueke, Pedrito Martinez, Imagine That, Ghost Modern. EDUCATION: Studied with artists including Max Roach, Barry Harris, Vernell Fournier, Billy Higgins, José Luis “Changuito” Quintana; Manhattan School of Music. Freedman co leads the band Saha Gnawa with Moroccan music master Maalem Hassan Ben-Jaafar.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CREDITS: performs with his ensemble Missing Piece, which commissions and curates new works for violin, cello, and other objects and instruments, including a March 13th premiere of the complete version of “diminishing fifths” by Shi-An Costello for detuned instruments (Experimental Sound Studios). Performances by Galat with Fulcrum Point New Music Ensemble, Chicago Composer’s Orchestra (concertmaster), Bach Cantata Vespers, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and others. EDUCATION: Bachelors and Masters degrees in violin performance, Indiana University. Galat is a listener, collaborator, experimenter, educator, potter, community music organizer, and violinist who teaches creative string orchestra at Urban Prairie Waldorf School, integrating improvisation and composition in student-led group music making for all students. (he/they)

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CREDITS: principal with the Symphony Orchestra de Mineria in Mexico, oboist with Sylvan Winds since 2008 (including two CDs), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, American Symphony, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Argento Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, principal with the Westchester Philharmonic and the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic. 12 CDs as principal oboe with the Toronto Chamber Orchestra under Kevin Mallon and Nicolas McGegan BROADWAY: On the Town, North American tour of Les Misérables. INTERNATIONAL: Rotterdam Philharmonic, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Calefax Reed Quintet, Netherlands Balletorkest, and many others. RECORDINGS: pop, jazz, folk, and world music arrangements and improvisations on the CDs Unraveled and Palette with her oboe trio Threeds, 2023 release of Folklorkestra A Strange Day In June, of which she is a member. EDUCATION: New England Conservatory, Rutgers University with Jonathan Blumenfeld and Matt Sullivan, Royal Conservatory (Netherlands) with Bart Schneemann. Halvorson has also worked with the Mingus Epitaph, jazz bassoonist Michael Rabinowitz, and Björk, and is one of the most versatile oboists working today, as both an improviser and accomplished classical oboist.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Associate music director Hadestown (8 Tony Awards); Oklahoma! (Tony Award-Best Revival/OBIE Award). TOUR: Hadestown, War Horse (1st National). REGIONAL: Most Happy in Concert (Williamstown Theater Festival/Bard Summerscape). INTERNATIONAL: The Great Yes, The Great No (dir. William Kentridge); The Head and The Load (dir. William Kentridge). DANCE: Principles of Uncertainty (Maria Kalman/John Heginbotham, BAM Next Wave). OPERA: The Source (Ted Hearne/Daniel Fish, LA Opera/Santa Fe Opera/BAM Next Wave), Cold Blooded (Alicia Hall Moran, National Sawdust). SELECT RECORDINGS: The Hands Free (New Amsterdam Records); The Solomon Diaries Vol 1–3 (Adhyropa Records); The Opposite of a Train (Shrimp Records).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CREDITS: big dog little dog (a duo with composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery); acoustic trio with artpop auteur Glasser and multi-instrumentalist Robbie Lee, avant folk-jazz supergroup the Hands Free (with James Moore, Caroline Shaw, and Nathan Koci); work with established composers Philip Glass; Steve Reich; Meredith Monk; Missy Mazzoli’s all-star, all female “bandsemble” Victoire; and Florent Ghys’ low strings, drums powerhouse Bonjour; Bang on a Can AllStars; artists from the indie rock, jazz, and folk worlds; Daniel Fish’s groundbreaking reimagining of Oklahoma! (Broadway/Off-Broadway). EDUCATION: the Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, Stony Brook University. Oppenheim is a writer, arranger, chamber musician, soloist, recording artist, and large ensemble player, who very much enjoys working in theater. She also runs a new music program for teens called Face the Music (Kaufman Music Center) and teaches and manages ensembles at Special Music High School.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Oklahoma! OFF BROADWAY: The Coast Starlight, Fiddler on the Roof. REGIONAL: Cradle Will Rock, Kaiser Von Atlantis. EDUCATION: MM in classical guitar performance.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CREDITS: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, The Kennedy Center, Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, Vienna Musikverein, Zurich Tonhalle, Opera Houses of Dubai and Tokyo, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, International Women’s Brass Conference, International Trumpet Guild Conference, Co-Principal Trumpet (Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland since 2008); Boston Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony. BROADWAY: The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, An American in Paris, Kiss Me Kate. RECORDINGS: Deutsch Grammophone, Naxos, Mode Records, Mark Records. TELEVISION: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS); and the award-winning Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon). Scanlon is Assistant Professor of trumpet at Northern Illinois University where he teaches applied trumpet, chamber music and coordinates the brass area, has served as the Chamber Music Chair of the Ryan Anthony Memorial Trumpet Competition, and is a Bach Performing Artist. He travels internationally for concerts, masterclasses, and residencies as a member of the award-winning, Chicago-based, Axiom Brass. www.chrisscanlonmusic.com

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CREDITS: worked as backing French hornist for artists Earth, Wind & Fire, Jon Batiste, Carole King, Lizzo, performances worldwide as both a soloist and a collaborative musician. OFF BROADWAY: Carmen Jones, Superhero, Soft Power, Whisper House. TOUR: Spamalot. Sims resides in NYC and writes, directs, and performs regularly as co-artistic director and member of the award-winning experimental theatre company The New York Neo-Futurists.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. REGIONAL: Illinoise (Fisher Center at Bard); No One’s Safe (Banff Centre); Ecstasies of Influence (matralab); There Might Be Others (New York Live Arts). EDUCATION: MM in percussion, McGill University; BM in percussion, Mannes School of Music. RECORDINGS: sound shadows, party of one (madeFor Records). www.jesstsang.net

Sufjan Stevens is a singer, songwriter, and composer living in New York. His preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (Michigan and Illinois), a collection of sacred and biblical songs (Seven Swans), an electronic album for the animals of the Chinese zodiac (Enjoy Your Rabbit), a full length partly inspired by the outsider artist Royal Robertson (The Age of Adz), a masterwork memorializing and investigating his relationship with his late mother (Carrie & Lowell), and two Christmas box sets (Songs for Christmas, vol. 1–5 and Silver & Gold, vol. 6–10). BAM has commissioned two works from Stevens, a programmatic tone poem for the Brooklyn- Queens Expressway (The BQE) and an instrumental accompaniment to slow- motion rodeo footage (Round-Up). He has collaborated extensively with the New York City Ballet choreographer Justin Peck (Year of the Rabbit, Everywhere We Go, Countenance of Kings, Principia, The Decalogue, and Reflections). Stevens contributed three much lauded songs to Luca Guadagnino’s critically acclaimed film Call Me By Your Name, including the Oscar and Grammy-nominated song “Mystery of Love.” In 2020, he shared Aporia, a collaborative new age album made with his stepfather Lowell Brams, and his eighth studio album, The Ascension, a reflection on the state of humanity in freefall and a call for a total transformation of consciousness. In early 2021, he released Convocations, a five-volume, two-and-a- half-hour requiem mass for present times. In the fall of 2021 Stevens collaborated with Angelo DeAugustine on —A Beginner’s Mind— featuring songs inspired in part by popular films. In October 2023, Stevens’ tenth solo studio album, Javelin, was released and made its way on to countless “Best Albums of 2023” lists.

Justin Peck is a Tony Award-winning choreographer, director, filmmaker, and dancer based in New York City. He is currently the acting Resident Choreographer of New York City Ballet. Peck has created and developed over 50 dance and theater works for stages around the world, including Lincoln Center, Broadway, Palais Garnier, Sydney Opera House, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. He has created extensively for film, most notably choreographing Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021). Honors include the Tony Award for Best Choreography for Carousel (2018), the National Arts Award (2018), the Golden Plate Honor from the Academy of Achievement (2019), the Bessie Award for Outstanding Production for Rodeo (2015), and the World Choreography Award for the film West Side Story (2021).

Plays include Marys Seacole (OBIE Award), Fairview (Pulitzer Prize), Really, Social Creatures, and We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About them Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Südwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915. The presenters of her plays include Donmar Warehouse, The Young Vic, Lincoln Center Theatre’s LCT3, Soho Rep., Berkeley Rep, New York City Players, Abrons Arts Center, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Company One, Bush Theatre, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Drury has developed her work at Sundance, Bellagio Center, Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, Bushwick Starr, LARK, and MacDowell Colony, among others. She has received a PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award, a Steinberg Playwright Award, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Jerome Fellowship at The LARK, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, and a Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Associate music director Hadestown (8 Tony Awards); Oklahoma! (Tony Award-Best Revival/OBIE Award). TOUR: Hadestown, War Horse (1st National). REGIONAL: Most Happy in Concert (Williamstown Theater Festival/Bard Summerscape). INTERNATIONAL: The Great Yes, The Great No (dir. William Kentridge); The Head and The Load (dir. William Kentridge). DANCE: Principles of Uncertainty (Maria Kalman/John Heginbotham, BAM Next Wave). OPERA: The Source (Ted Hearne/Daniel Fish, LA Opera/Santa Fe Opera/BAM Next Wave), Cold Blooded (Alicia Hall Moran, National Sawdust). SELECT RECORDINGS: The Hands Free (New Amsterdam Records); The Solomon Diaries Vol 1–3 (Adhyropa Records); The Opposite of a Train (Shrimp Records).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. COMMISSIONS: Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Takács Quartet, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Barbican, Segerstrom Center for the Arts. ORCHESTRA: LA Philharmonic/Green Umbrella, North Carolina Symphony, Britten Sinfonia, Albany Symphony, New World Symphony, Metropolis Ensemble, North Carolina Symphony. RECITAL: Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, San Francisco Performances, the Phillips Collection, (le) Poisson Rouge OTHER: Principia (arranger) by Sufjan Stevens with the New York City Ballet. RADIO: New Sounds (2023); NPR Tiny Desk (2024). RECORDINGS: Sufjan Stevens’s Reflections and The Decalogue (Asthmatic Kitty); I Still Play, Home Stretch, Shy and Mighty (Nonesuch Records). AWARDS: 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist (The Blind Banister), 2021 Grammy Award nomination (The Arching Path). EDUCATION: Yale School of Music. Andres is a Yamaha/Bösendorfer Artist and is on the composition faculty at the Mannes School of Music at the New School.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center Theater). REGIONAL: world premiere of A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group); El Niño (Metropolitan Opera); White Girl in Danger (Second Stage Theater/The Vineyard Theatre); Create Dangerously (Miami New Drama); On Sugar (NYTW, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Scenic Design); Cul/ud Wattah (Lucille Lortel Award Nomination, The Public Theater); Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA, Henry Hewes Design Awards Special Citation for Scenic Design); soft (MCC Theater); Is God Is (Soho Rep). AWARDS: Tony Nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Set Design, Special Drama Desk Award, 2022. Rigg is an award-winning set and costume designer based in New York. They have designed more than 50 world-premiere productions. adamriggdesign.com

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. OFF BROADWAY: Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall. REGIONAL: Kennedy Center, New York City Ballet, Walt Disney Concert Hall, San Francisco Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Boston Ballet, among others. INTERNATIONAL: Sydney Opera House, Australian Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, and many others. AWARDS: Knight of Illumination Award, Lotus Foundation Prize. Baker is an award-winning lighting designer of theatre, opera, and dance, best known for his extensive work with director and choreographer Justin Peck where they have collaborated on over 30 premieres worldwide since 2010. Recent collaborations with Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck include Everywhere We Go, Reflections, In the Countenance of Kings, and Year of the Rabbit. www.stirlingbaker.com

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CREDITS: The Night Falls by Ellis Ludwig Leone; Song of Songs by David Lang (choreography by Pam Tanowitz, SummerScape and Barbican Center); Old Man in the Sea by Paola Prestini (ASU Gammage); In Our Daughter’s Eyes by Du Yun; Grammy-nominated Soldier Songs, Black Lodge and Dog Days by David T. Little; Pulitzer Prize-winning p r is m by Ellen Reid; Aquanetta by Michael Gordon (SummerScape, 2019); Nick Cave’s The Let Go; Peter Sellars & Regg Roc Grey’s FLEXN (Park Ave Armory); A God of Her Own Making by JOJO ABOT & Esperanza Spalding; Spatial … no problem by Lee Scratch Perry/Mouse on Mars. EDUCATION: contemporary percussion and classical music, UCSC under the tutelage of Willie Winant. MacAleavey is a leader in new-music, opera, and theatrical sound design with a specialty in spatial sound, immersive theater, and classical instrument reinforcement, and serves as Director of Sound and Technical Design at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust. In partnership with Meyer Sound, he is an expert in Constellation, Space Map and speaker systems design.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Counterpoint (Hubbard Street Dance, Chicago). BROADWAY: Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’. REGIONAL: Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’ (The Old Globe); Illinoise (Fisher Center at Bard). INTERNATIONAL: Dispatch Duet (Royal Ballet); The Ninth Hour (Ballet National de Cuba); Un Autre Passion (Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève); New World (Ballet am Rhine); Watermark (Australian Ballet); Snow (NorrlandsOperan). DANCE: Song of Songs (Pam Tanowitz Dance); Under the Folding Sky (Houston Ballet); Law of Mosaics (New York City Ballet); Finale Finale (San Francisco Ballet); Thousandth Orange (Boston Ballet); Curious Kingdom (Pacific Northwest Ballet); Rotunda (New York City Ballet); All at Once (Paul Taylor Dance Company); Four Quartets (Pam Tanowitz Dance); Heatscape (Miami City Ballet); Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes (New York City Ballet). EDUCATION: AAS in fashion design, Fashion Institute of Technology; MFA in dance, University of the Arts. AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS: Research Fellowship at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts, 2017; Research Fellowship at New York Library for the Performing Arts, 2018. PERFORMANCE COMMISSIONS: 2018 & 2019 Guggenheim Works and Process (Guggenheim Museum), 2015 Fashion Show (Museum of Art and Design).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. CHICAGO: Counterpoint (Hubbard Street Dance, Chicago). BROADWAY: Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’. REGIONAL: Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’ (The Old Globe); Illinoise (Fisher Center at Bard). INTERNATIONAL: Dispatch Duet (Royal Ballet); Ballet des Porcelaines, The Ninth Hour (Ballet National de Cuba); Un Autre Passion (Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève); New World (Ballet am Rhine); Watermark (Australian Ballet). DANCE: Song of Songs (Pam Tanowitz Dance); Under the Folding Sky (Houston Ballet); Law of Mosaics (New York City Ballet); Finale Finale (San Francisco Ballet); Thousandth Orange (Boston Ballet); Curious Kingdom (Pacific Northwest Ballet); Rotunda (New York City Ballet); All at Once (Paul Taylor Dance Company); Four Quartets (Pam Tanowitz Dance); Heatscape (Miami City Ballet); Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes (New York City Ballet). FILM: It Goes Quiet. EDUCATION: BA in molecular and cell biology, University of California Berkeley; AAS in fashion design, Fashion Institute of Technology. AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS: Research Fellowship at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts, 2017, Research Fellowship at New York Library for the Performing Arts, 2018. PERFORMANCE COMMISSIONS: 2018 & 2019 Guggenheim Works and Process (Guggenheim Museum), 2015 Fashion Show (Museum of Art and Design).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Doubt, The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window, The Thanksgiving Play, Leopoldstadt, Birthday Candles. REGIONAL: Jonah, Primary Trust, The Wanderers (Roundabout Theater); White Girl In Danger, Camp Siegfried (Second Stage); English, Kimberly Akimbo (Atlantic Theater). TELEVISON: Nickelodeon, Walt Disney Productions, SNL. AWARDS: Henry Hewes Design Award. SPECIAL THANKS: Patrice Escandon, BNG Industries, Stephen Kurowski.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Little Shop of Horrors, The Addams Family, Big Fish, Head Over Heels, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Nomination). OPERA: The Egyptian Helena, Hansel and Gretel, Ernani (La Scala Opera, Milan); Cosi Fan Tutti, Falstaff (Teatro Del Maggio, Florence); Satyagraha, The Enchanted Island, Doctor Atomic, Marnie (English National Opera/Met Opera); The Barber Of Seville (Dutch National Opera); The Magic Flute (Welsh National Opera); King Arthur (Berlin Staatsoper). CREDITS: co-directed, co-composed, designed Jedermann (Salzburg Festival); co-created The Aging Magician (BMP at the New Victory Theater); designed The Nutcracker for Christopher Wheeldon (Joffrey Ballet); Cinderella (Dutch National/ San Francisco Ballet). Crouch’s production Birdheart played for the Dalai Lama in Brussels and toured as far as Zimbabwe and Abu Dhabi. He was recently Artist in Residence at New York’s Park Avenue Armory and was the first commissioned artist for the BRIC House Fireworks Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY. Crouch is a Libretto Fellow for the American Lyric Theater and recently designed Orpheus in the Underworld for the Voksoper, Vienna. He is an independent mask maker, director, designer, librettist, illustrator, and musician, and a co-founder of Improbable, and codirector and designer of Shockheaded Peter.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Carousel. REGIONAL: Paper Mill Playhouse. DANCE: Miami City Ballet, New York City Ballet. FILM: West Side Story. TELEVISION: Fosse/Verdon (FX). EDUCATION: School of American Ballet. Pierce is the Artistic Director and CoFounder of #QueertheBallet.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: MJ the Musical, Hadestown, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. OFF-BROADWAY: Here We Are. TOUR: Into the Woods (Fiasco Theater). REGIONAL: Illinoise (Bard Summerscape); Most Happy (Williamstown Theatre Festival/ Bard Summerscape); Cinderella (Paper Mill Playhouse); Bullets Over Broadway (Ogunquit Playhouse). EDUCATION: BM in classical piano performance, University of the Pacific.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Back To The Future: The Musical, Flying Over Sunset, Head Over Heels, An American In Paris, Act One, War Horse, Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away, The Royal Family, 13, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Frost/Nixon, Spring Awakening, The Woman In White, Caroline, or Change, Topdog/Underdog, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, Michael John LaChiusa’sThe Wild Party, Epic Proportions, The Civil War, Titanic, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk. OFF BROADWAY: Hercules, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the George C. Wolfe productions of Mother Courage And Her Children, This Is How It Goes, Radiant Baby, On The Town (The Public Theater). INTERNATIONAL: An American In Paris (Paris, London, Tokyo).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Funny Girl, Head Over Heels, Michael Moore: The Terms of My Surrender, An American In Paris, Act One, War Horse. REGIONAL: Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Soundtrack of America (The Shed), Kings (The Public Theater). TOUR: An American In Paris (Asia Tour).

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Appropriate, Here Lies Love, A Christmas Carol, Cost of Living. OFF-BROADWAY: Sorry for Your Loss, Lucy (Minetta Lane Theater); Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members (Soho Repertory Theater); Out of Time (The Public); The Crusade of Connor Stephens (Jerry Orbach Theater). TOUR: Waitress (NETworks, Lulu Tour). REGIONAL: A Strange Loop (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company). EDUCATION: BFA in stage management, University of Miami. (she/her)

Nate Koch is a Lortel award and Drama Desk awardwinning executive producer and the founder and CEO of NVK. Over the past 15 years he has developed a rare skill set that combines high-level creative development, rigorous financial and strategic analysis, and operational acumen for both proscenium and immersive theatrical works. He has executive produced David Byrne’s Theater of the Mind (Denver Center), Love Around the Block (Hermès), Hebru Brantley’s Nevermore Park (Pilsen, Chicago) Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street Theater), and Queen of the Night (Paramount Hotel). In addition to leading NVK, Nate is the COO of Seaview, a Tony and Olivier award-winning theater and film company. B.F.A., NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

is a NYC-based management firm founded by Nate Koch in 2016 that specializes in two practice areas: performing executive-level creative supervision and general management for theatrical productions and providing COO/CFO business management advisory services to entertainment businesses within the theatrical sector. NVK engages with ventures and businesses across the entire spectrum of the theatrical landscape, including large-scale immersive/site-specific works, nonprofits, branded experiential marketing projects, and Broadway, affording the company a uniquely 360° awareness of each sector of the industry, and with it, the ability to cross-pollinate a diverse array of organizational approaches, financial models, and technological innovation. Current and recent productions: Illinoise; Love Around the Block, an immersive musical for Hermès; and projects in development with Christine Jones, Steven Hoggett, and Pasek & Paul. Current business management clients: Seaview, KORINS Studio, David Byrne’s Arbutus Foundation, Marathon Digital, Plate Spinner Productions, P3 Productions, and Fiona Rudin Productions.

ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann specializes in new work development and engagements worldwide with Kaneza Schaal, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yael Farber, Anna Deavere Smith, Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen, Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor, John Cameron Mitchell, and more. Recent: 600 Highwaymen’s A Thousand Ways, nora chipaumire’s Nehanda, Sam Green’s 32 Sounds w/JD Samson (Oscar Shortlist, Cinema Eye Best Feature), Bryce Dessner’s Triptych w/ Roomful of Teeth, John Cameron Mitchell’s The Origin of Love, Big Dance Theater / Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Man in a Case, and Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theater’s Not by Bread Alone. He recently closed the first citywide edition of the Under the Radar. Upcoming: Bryce Dessner & Kaneza Schaal’s Ocean Vuong Project, Sam Green’s Trees with Yo La Tengo, and Penny Arcade’s autobiographical epic The Art of Becoming. He is a founding member of CIPA (The Creative & Independent Producer Alliance). More information at arktype.org.