Martin is a London-born Irish playwright whose first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was the 1996 winner of the George Devine Award. It also won the Writer’s Guild Award for Best Fringe Play and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. The play was nominated for six Tony awards, of which it won four, and the Laurence Olivier Award. Since then McDonagh has gone on to write multiple smash-hit shows and films and win multiple awards including an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for Six Shooter (2005), an Oscar nomination, a British Independent Film Award for best screenplay, an Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Award for Best Film Script and a BAFTA for best original screenplay, all for In Bruges (starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, 2008), and a Laurence Olivier award for Best New Play for The Pillowman (won 2004).

Todd has designed 28 productions for Steppenwolf. Broadway credits include August Osage County (Tony Award), The Motherfucker with the Hat (Tony nomination), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Of Mice and Men (Filmed by National Theatre Live), This is Our Youth and Fish in the Dark. Upcoming Broadway: Straight White Men. Off-Broadway credits include Red Light Winter (Barrow Street), Domesticated (Lincoln Center) and Qualms (Playwrights Horizons). Designer for six years for Big Apple Circus. International credits: August Osage County (London & Australia), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Ireland), Nice Fish, (London). Regional includes: Goodman (artistic partner), Guthrie, Berkeley Rep and many others. Museum exhibitions include “Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition” and “The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes.” Awards include Olivier, Helen Hayes, Ovation, Garland, Jefferson, Bay Area Outer Critics Circle, and Michael Merritt. He is a professor at Northwestern University and a graduate of Yale Drama.

Theresa is a Chicago-based Costume Designer. Previously at Northlight: A Civil War Christmas. Off Broadway: Ride the Cyclone (MCC Theatre). Recent Chicago credits: Ragtime (Marriott) The Little Mermaid, Sweeney Todd, and Jesus Christ Super Star (Paramount), Rock of Ages (Drury Lane), The Audience (Timeline), Ride the Cyclone (Chicago Shakespeare), Assembled Parties (Raven).  Regionally: Something Wicked This Way Comes (DTC) and Carmen (Finger Lakes Opera). Her work has been seen at DePaul Opera Theatre, Ryan Opera Center and Lyric Opera Chicago, She is also an Artistic Associate with Bohemian Theatre Ensemble and Stage Left Theatre. Upcoming: Once (Paramount).  Ms. Ham is an adjunct faculty member at Wilbur Wright College.  She has received two Joseph Jefferson Awards for Outstanding Costume Design. Ms. Ham holds an MFA in Costume Design from Illinois State University. She lives in Beverly with her husband, Patrick and their son, Cole.

Northlight credits include 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).

David returns to Northlight where his last show was City on the Make (1985!) Upcoming shows include: The Gentleman Caller (Raven Theater) and The Adventure of the Elusive Ear (Purple Rose Theatre). Off Broadway: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Second Stage Theater), Edmond (Provincetown Playhouse). Regional: Three Musketeers and Henry V (Utah Shakespeare Festival); God of Carnage, Norma and Wanda (Oakland Press Award) and Escanaba in da Moonlight (Purple Rose Theatre). Mr Woolley is co-creator and performs as Guido in Dirk & Guido: The Swordsmen!. He is the recipient of two Joseph Jefferson Awards for fight direction, a professor at Columbia College Chicago and a member of the College of Fight Masters with the Society of American Fight Directors.

Michelle is excited to return to Northlight after subbing on last season’s Miss Bennet. Michelle has stage managed with Steppenwolf Theatre for many years, and favorite credits there include two versions of The Crucible, Tribes, Clybourne Park, August: Osage County, The Pillowman, Purple Heart (also at Ireland’s Galway Arts Festival), Art and many others. She has also worked with Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center and Portland Center Stage. Michelle currently serves as Production Manager and Adjunct Faculty for the Theatre and Performance Studies program at Governors Stage University. She is proud to be a member of Actors’ Equity, a graduate of Smith College, Mary’s wife, and Elliott & Lena’s mama.