At Northlight: Dial M For Murder. Select credits: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (First National Tour), Pass Over, Straight White Men (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Last Match, Witch, The Real Thing, A Streetcar Named Desire (Writers Theatre), Pericles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), The Body Of An American (Stage Left; Jeff Award Nominee- Actor In A Principal Role), Posh (Steep), Octagon (Jackalope Theatre), The Rainmaker, Write Me A Murder, Barefoot In The Park, Misery (Peninsula Players), The Play That Goes Wrong (Indiana Rep). Film and television: Pass Over (dir. Spike Lee), Working Man, Chicago Fire, and Chicago Med.

Alejandra is thrilled to make her Northlight debut! Chicago credits include: Holiday, The Cherry Orchard, 2666, The Upstairs Concierge, Measure for Measure (Goodman Theatre); Henry V, All’s Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Off-Boradway: Dying City (Second Stage). Regional: Simona’s Search, Romeo and Juliet (Hartford Stage); The Taming of the Shrew (American Players Theatre); The Odyssey, Othello (American Repertory Theatre); Sense and Sensibility (Guthrie Theater); Nine seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Lauren Gunderson (Playwright) has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is a playwright, screenwriter, musical book writer and children’s author who lives in San Francisco. She graduated from NYU Tisch as a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.
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Jessica is a director of theater and an educator based in Chicago. Past Northlight credits include Into the Breeches!, The Book of Will, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Shining Lives: A Musical, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Inherit the Wind and Red Herring. At Steppenwolf, 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. Other favorite projects: Richard III (Gift), In the Garden by Sarah Gmitter (Lookingglass), Buzzer by Tracy Scott Wilson (Goodman), Welcome Home Jenny Sutter (Next), As You Like It (Oregon Shakespeare), The Feast: an intimate Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare with Redmoon). She is Director of the Graduate Directing Program at Northwestern University.

 returns to Northlight Theatre, having previously designed scenery for Relativity, Discord, and Mothers and Sons, among many others. Recent Chicago and regional credits include Big White Fog, East Texas Hot Links (Court Theatre); Job (Writers Theatre); Anastasia (Bucks County Playhouse and Cape Playhouse); Fiddler on the Roof (Drury Lane Theatre); the US premiere of London Road (Shattered Globe Theatre); the world premiere of Relentless (TimeLine Theatre and Goodman Theatre); Nina Simone: Four Women (South Coast Rep); Misery (Peninsula Players); Waitress (Cape Playhouse); and Porgy and Bess (Musical Theatre Heritage). Jack is an Adjunct Professor of Design at The Theatre School at DePaul University, and he resides in Chicago. jackmagaw.com

is a costume designer and educator. Selected costume design credits: CHICAGO: Northlight Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, Victory Gardens, Remy Bumppo Theatre. REGIONAL: The MUNY, McCarter Theatre Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, St Louis Shakespeare Festival. FILM: Curio, Limerence, Cheap Plastic Mask. Raquel has been nominated for 5 Joseph Jefferson Awards for Best Costume Design and is the recipient of The Michael Merritt Emerging Designer Award and the Academic Achievement Prize for Collaborative Design. Raquel is an Assistant Professor of Design at Northwestern www.raqueladorno.com

Northlight credits include Birthday Candles, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Relativity, By the Water, Charm, Shining Lives, Outside Mullingar, White Guy on the Bus,  Detroit ’67, The Odd Couple, Ten Chimneys, Season’s Greetings, A Life, Grey Gardens, The Retreat From Moscow, Lady, Stella & Lou, The Outgoing Tide, Better Late and Chapatti (the last four also at the Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland). Other work has been seen at Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, About Face, Remy Bumppo, Writers, Steppenwolf, and Walkabout. JR designed lighting for seven years of the Steppenwolf TRAFFIC Series, and five Steppenwolf performances in Chicago’s Millennium Park. He has served as head of the Lighting Department at Steppenwolf since 1995.

Andre has designed the Broadway productions of Metamorphoses, I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations (Drama Desk Award nomination) as well as the world premiere of The Clean House at Yale Repertory and Lincoln Center. Based in Chicago, his work has appeared on most of the city’s stages including Northlight (Shining Lives with Amanda Dehnert), Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court, and Lookingglass where he is an associate artist. He has composed music and designed sound for theaters around the U.S., most frequently at the Oregon and California Shakespeare Festivals, Berkeley Repertory, Arena Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Seattle Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse and Center Theater Group. Choral works include: Winesburg, Ohio,Eastland, Whitman, Undone (with Ben Sussman), and Paris By Night (with Amy Warren).

is thrilled to be back for her fourth production with Northlight Theatre! Julie is a Stage Manager and Production Manager based in Chicago, and has worked with many theatres in the Chicagoland area, including Teatro Vista Productions, Definition Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Writers Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Northlight Theatre, Congo Square Theatre, and The Goodman Theatre among others. They received their BA in Theatre at the University of Illinois at Chicago and in her spare time, Julie likes taking care of her plants, reading books, and hanging out with her cat, Marinara. You can check out more of what Julie is working on at juliejachym.com.