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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