Windy City Playhouse Announces Season's Final Director
By: Courtnie Mele
Windy City Playhouse is proud to announce and welcome to the team our premiere season's fourth and final director: Jessica Thebus!
She will direct Neil Simon's CHAPTER TWO, set to open October 31, 2015. Thebus is an Artistic Associate at Steppenwolf Theatre company, where she has directed Sex with Strangers, Intimate Apparel, Dead Man's Cell Phone, No Place Like Home, When the Messenger is Hot (also at 59 E. 59th in NYC) and Sonia Flew.
Recent credits: IN THE GARDEN by Sarah Gmitter at Lookingglass Theater Company, BUZZER, by Tracy Scott Wilson at the Goodman, Welcome Home Jenny Sutter (Next Theatre); As You Like It (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Feast: an intimate Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare Theater with Redmoon Theater). She is currently Director of the Graduate Directing Program at Northwestern University.
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Rotary Rocks The Raue: James Garner's Tribute to Johnny Cash Raue Center For The Arts (10/24-10/24) |
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The Dave Matthews Tribute Band Raue Center For The Arts (9/25-9/25) |
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Memphis The Musical Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building (10/24-10/25) |
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Jagged Little Pill: A Tribute to Alanis Morissette Raue Center For The Arts (10/16-10/16) |
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Mozart's Summit North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie (9/27-9/27) |
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The Book of Mormon Cadillac Palace Theatre (10/23-11/01) |
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Rocky Horror Picture Show Original Cast Spooktacular Tour with Barry Bostwick, Nell Campbell, and Patricia Quinn Chicago Theatre (10/31-10/31) |