Tasia is a professional director, actor, and theatre educator. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University. Her most recent directing credits include Intimate Apparel (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Small Mouth Sounds (UCCS Presents/Theatreworks), The MLK Project (Writers Theatre), and Seussical the Musical (Jean’s Playhouse). Upcoming productions include 1919 (Steppenwolf Theatre) and A Raisin in the Sun (American Players Theatre). She has appeared in such works as The Inside (Pegasus Theatre), Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (The Lyric Stage Company), and The Bluest Eye (Company One). She holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University and an MFA in Directing from Northwestern University.

Recent: Opera adaptation of Intimate Apparel (LCT), Floyd’s (Guthrie), The Secret Life of Bees Musical (Atlantic). Upcoming: MJ (Broadway). Plays include Mlima’s Tale, Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie, Evening Standard Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award); Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, Obie, Lortel, NY Drama Critics’ Circle, AUDELCO, Drama Desk and OCC awards); Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and NYDCC awards). TV: Writer/producer She’s Gotta Have It (Netflix). PEN/Laura Pels Master Dramatist Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, a Guggenheim Grant, Lucille Lortel Fellowship, Associate Professor at Columbia.

Scott is a Canadian-born, Chicago-based set and costume designer. His work explores how mass, shape and form react and connect with the body in space. His work has been seen at the Prague Quadrennial, The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Theatreworks (Colorado Springs); Aboutface Theatre (Chicago); The Grand Theatre (London); The Sudbury Theatre Centre, The Watermark Theatre (Prince Edward Island); The Globe Theatre (Regina); Buddies in Bad Times, Angelwalk Theatre (Toronto); and The Winnipeg Studio Theatre. His work includes design in classical theatre, new and modern plays, musical theatre, and dance. Upcoming projects include You Are A Field (Dietrich Group Toronto), White (Definition Theatre), Catch as Catch Can (Associate Design, Steppenwolf) and Love’s Labours Lost (American Players Theatre). Scott has an MFA from Northwestern University. www.scottpennerdesign.ca

RAQUEL ADORNO (Costume Design) NORTHLIGHT: Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, Intimate Apparel; CHICAGO: Measure for Measure, I, Banquo; (Chicago Shakespeare); Wife of a Salesman (Writers); The Island, The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor of Venice (Court); Mies Julie (Victory Gardens); Unelectable You (The Second City); D.O.A.(Strawdog Theatre Company); Murder Ballad, CARRIE (Bailiwick Chicago). REGIONAL: The Tempest, Intimate Apparel (Utah Shakespeare Festival); A Raisin in the Sun, The Taming of the Shrew, Cymbeline, A Doll’s House, A Doll’s House, Part 2 (American Players); EDUCATION: MFA Northwestern University. AWARDS: The Michael Maggio Award 2022, The Michael Merritt Academic Achievement Prize for Collaborative Design 2019. raqueladorno.com

Daphne is a lighting designer finishing her MFA in Stage Design at Northwestern University. She has worked in theater, dance, and urban design. She has designed Something Rotten (2022), Eurydice (2019), and Danceworks (2019/2022) at the Wirtz Theater Center and Enter Your Sleep (2017), Non-Player Character (2018) and The Conduct of Life (2019) at the Yale Cabaret. This is her debut at Northlight Theater. During the 2020 pandemic summer, she co-founded the performance group Grass Studio Theatre with Hamid Dehghani and students of NU. Originally from Santiago, Chile, she received a BArch in Architecture and a Master of Environmental Design in 2017 at the Yale School of Architecture, with a thesis on the transformation of urban public spaces through performance arts.

Jeffrey makes his Northlight debut. Selected Chicago credits: Photograph 51 (Court Theatre); Tiny Beautiful Things (Victory Gardens). A Shayna Maidel (TimeLine Theatre Company); Grey House (A Red Orchid Theatre, Jeff Award and Jeff nomination respectively); Kill Move Paradise (TimeLine Theatre Company); The Brothers Size (Steppenwolf); Hookman (Steep Theatre Company); and The Hairy Ape (Oracle Theatre, Jeff Award). Regional: The Great Leap (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Scapino (Gulfshore Playhouse); Touring productions include Mad Hatter Gin and Tea Party, Little Mermaid Cocktail Experience, Sleepy Hollow, Dining in the Dark, and Genie’s Bazaar (fever originals). Jeffrey teaches music composition for sound designers at DePaul University. Mr. Levin is the recipient of the Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, The Michael Philippi Prize, and several Joseph Jefferson Award Nominations and wins. He holds an MM in music and composition from DePaul University and a BMus in music and composition from Columbia College Chicago.

KATIE KLEMME is pleased to return to Northlight where her credits include Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, Intimate Apparel, Mr. Dickens’ Hat, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, Landladies, and You Can’t Take It With You. Recent credits include Villette (Lookingglass), Tiger Style!, Wife of a Salesman, and Into the Woods (Writers); Mamma Mia! and Much Ado About Nothing (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival), Hamilton: An American Musical (Chicago, Sub); Sorin: A Notre Dame Story (National Tour); If I Forget, Indecent (Victory Gardens); Mr. Burns, The Realistic Joneses, others (Theater Wit); Mother and Me (Geva Theater Center, Rochester, NY). She was resident production stage manager at American Theater Company from 2008-2018 where highlights included the world premieres of Disgraced (Pulitzer Prize), The Project(s), and columbinus (Chicago and ArtsEmerson, Boston). She is on the faculty at Loyola University Chicago and is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.