Marie Jones is a playwright whose work has been produced around the world. Her play Stones in His Pockets was produced on Broadway in 2001.  She founded the Charabanc Theater Company in 1983 and later co-founded DubbleJoint in 1990.  Other Credits: A Night in November; Convictions; Don’t Look Down; Eddie Bottom’s Dream; Gold in the Streets; Hang All the Harpers; Hiring Days; It’s a Waste of Time Tracey; Now You’re Talkin’; Oul Delf and False Teeth; Ruby; Somewhere over the Balcony; Stones in His Pockets; The Blind Fiddler of Glenadauch; The Cow, the Ship and the Indian; The Girls in the Big Picture; The Hamster Wheel; The Terrible Twins’ Crazy Christmas; Under Napoleon’s Nose; Weddin’s Wee’ins and Wakes; Women on the Verge of HRT; Yours, Truly; book for the musical The Chosen Room.  Awards: TMA Award, Glasgow Mayfest Award, Irish Times/ESB Award, three Tony Award nominations for Stones in His Pockets, John Hewitt Award, Special Judges Award, Belfast Arts Award in 2000, the Order of the British Empire in 2002.

J.R. previously directed Northlight’s Benefactors and The Last Survivor. He has been the artistic director of The Pearl Theatre Company in New York City since 2009, directing six shows for the company’s three-season residency at New York City Center, including Moon for the Misbegotten, Richard II, Wittenberg, and Hard Times. For seven seasons, Sullivan served as associate artistic director of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, directing productions there of Henry V, Hamlet, King Lear, Gaslight, ‘Art,’ and Stones in His Pockets among others. J.R. Sullivan’s work has also been seen at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, American Players, The Arden in Philadelphia, The Studio Theatre in Washington DC, and Delaware Theatre Company, among many others. His 1995 production of Faith Healer was a great success for the Turnaround Theatre Company located at Halsted and Belmont, garnering critical acclaim and later continuing in an extended run at Steppenwolf.

David has designed twenty-two productions for Utah Shakespeare Festival since 2000, including Scapin, To Kill a Mockingbird, The 39 Steps, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Stones in His Pockets, and Romeo and Juliet. Off-Broadway he has worked with Irish Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre. He has worked on over 300 productions throughout the country, including at the Guthrie Theatre; The Denver Center; Arizona, Pioneer, GeVa, Northlight, Fords theatre companies; the Old Globe; the Pasadena, Geffen, Laguna, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Hampton, Timberlake playhouses; the Oregon, Colorado, Illinois Shakespeare festivals; Berkeley, Seattle, South Coast, Tennessee, Missouri, San Diego, New Mexico, St Louis Repertory theatres; Williamstown, Sundance theatre festivals; Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis; A Contemporary Theatre; Florida Stage; Portland, Pennsylvania Center stages.

Recent Northlight Theatre credits include relighting Outgoing Tide at the Galway Arts Festival in Galway, Ireland. Other recent lighting design credits include Speaking in Tongues (MPAACT) [Black Theatre Alliance Award – Best Lighting Design], Pretty Ballet (Joffrey Ballet), What Once We Felt (About Face Theatre), Black Nativity (Congo Square Theatre) andBrothers of the Dust (Congo Square Theatre). Associate designs include Chesapeake Bay (Remy Bumppo), The Farnsworth Invention (Timeline) and War With the Newts (Next). Other credits include assistant and associate work for The Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, Steppenwolf, the TV shows The Playboy Club, Mob Doctor, Chicago Fire, Chicago Code and others. For more information visit: www.CaseyDiers.com

Broadway: Slave Play, The Nap, Bronx Bombers, and A Time to Kill. Off Broadway: Privacy (The Public Theater), Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Rx (Primary Stages), Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop), and many others. International: Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Festival, many others. Regional: South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage, Goodman, McCarter, Steppenwolf, Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Chicago Shakespeare, Woolly Mammoth, and others. Film scoring: The Brass Teapot (Magnolia Pictures) and the Academy Award–winning A Note of Triumph (HBO Films). Audio drama work includes A Streetcar Named Desire for Audible, and the award-winning weekly podcast for children The Imagination Neighborhood. Lindsay has received two Tony Award nominations for Best Score and Best Sound Design of a Play, seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and 24 nominations; two Ovation Awards and three nominations; and many others. www.lindsayjones.com.

Christine is thrilled to finally be working at Northlight Theatre. Steppenwolf credits include The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Good People, The March, Penelope, Sex with Strangers, A Parallelogram, American Buffalo (also at McCarter Theatre), The House on Mango Street, The Tempest, The Seafarer, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Good Boys and True, The Diary of Ann Frank, Sonia Flew, Love-Lies-Bleedin, after the quake, and Cherry Orchard. International credits include The Outgoing Tide with John Mahoney and Rondi Reed (Northlight Theatre at the Galway Arts Festival in Galway, Ireland). Other Chicago credits include The Vanishing Twin, In the Eye of the Beholder, Arabian Nights (Lookingglass Theater); Hamlet, Fraulein Else, Scapin (Court Theater); Once on This Island, Madame Butterfly, Old Wicked Songs, Violet (Apple Tree Theater). Christine also spent nine summers stage managing at the Weston Playhouse. Chris is happily married to Thom Cox and the proud mother of Joan Marie.