directed last summer’s 2 Pianos 4 Hands at Northlight and also the Jeff Award-Winning hit Songs for Nobodies. At Northlight, Rob has also appeared as Andy in Andy Warhol in Iran and in Funnyman starring George Wendt & Tim Kazurinsky. Other acting credits include shows at Court Theatre, Marriott Lincolnshire, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Writers, Victory Garden, and About Face. Currently Rob is appearing in Titanique at the Broadway Playhouse and will remount Songs for Nobodies for the third time this summer at Pacific Coast Performing Arts Center and Solvang Festival in California. 

Ms. Butler’s  career spans over 40 years in the entertainment industry; performing plays, musicals, concerts, clubs and cabaret venues regionally, nationally and internationally. Northlight credits: Ella (Jeff Award), Black Pearl Sings!, Dinah Was (Jeff Award), Northlight Galas, Summer Concert series, and New Year’s Eve concerts; Chicago directorial debut with Northlight’s Marie and Rosetta, trustee on the Northlight Board. Awards: recipient of twelve Jeffs, two Helen Hayes, R.A.M.I., Ovation, Sarah Siddons, four BTTA, four BroadwayWorld, Guy Adkins, Excellence in the Arts Theatre School, Kathy V. Lampkey, Rosetta LeNoire 2016, Heller&Hover, After Dark, John Barrymore, two Black Excellence, Irma P. Hall, E.P.I.C. awards. Inducted RPS Fine Arts Hall of Fame, inducted into the Women in the Arts Museum, Lunt-Fontaine Fellow, Chicagoan of Year 2021, League of Chicago Theatres Lifetime Achievement Award 2024.
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has been seen on the Northlight stage in Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Season’s Greetings, and Side Show. She has also appeared on stage at Marriott Lincolnshire, Writers, Chicago Shakespeare, The Goodman and Court Theatre in addition to playing Nessa Rose in the Chicago company of Wicked. Heidi is also the creator and star of two Karen Carpenter tribute shows, one of which she performed for Northlight audiences outdoors in the parking lot! 

-ade her Northlight debut in Marie and Rosetta as Marie Knight. Some of her most noteworthy Chicago credits include: Billie Holiday in Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar And Grill, Bess in Porgy and Bess, Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act The Musical, and Dionne Warwick in Don’t Make Me Over: A Tribute To Dionne Warwick. Regionally, Alexis has also had the honor of portraying Nina Simone in Nina Simone: Four Women as well as tour her one-woman show First Lady of Song: Alexis J Roston sings Ella Fitzgerald, produced by Artists Lounge Live. She’s represented by Paonessa Talent and is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and Congo Square Ensemble.

is a Jeff Award-winning director as well as actor and theatre educator here in Chicago. He was last seen at Northlight in its 2012 production of [title of show]. Most recently, Stephen directed Porchlight Music Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of Fun Home and Paramount Theatre’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His acting credits include: Marvin in Falsettos (Court Theatre/Timeline Theatre), Mitchell in Cry in Out (Barter Theatre, VA), Bruce Bechdel in Fun Home, Baker in Into the Woods, and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Paramount Theatre). Stephen also served as Associate Producer and Casting Director at Writers Theatre before becoming a visiting professor at Northwestern University and then head of Musical Theatre at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. He also served as company member and artistic director at Chicago’s BoHo Theatre for six years. Stephen is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a proud member of the Actors Equity Association. Favorite roles to date are husband to actor Devin DeSantis and adoring father to their daughter Abigail. www.stephenschellhardt.com

Broadway: A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Original Broadway Cast). At Northlight: Shining Lives: A Musical, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Other credits include: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Writers Theatre), Wonderful Town (Jeff Award nomination, Goodman Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Jeff Award nomination, Paramount Theatre), Oslo (Jeff Award nomination, TimeLine Theatre).

Chuck Larkin is an arranger/composer, pianist, and musical director. Chicago theatre credits include Mr. Dickens’ Hat, Shining Lives: A Musical, A Civil War Christmas, At Wit’s End (Northlight) and Far From Heaven, New Faces of 1956 (Porchlight). Chuck served as associate conductor for Jersey Boys (Chicago company 2007-10, national tour 2011-14), and as musical director for three seasons of American Folklore Theatre (Northern Sky) in Door County, Wisconsin. He has been a pianist/conductor at Opryland USA and performed in dozens of cabaret and concert venues in Chicago and nationally.  Composing credits include River’s End with Cheryl Coons (ASCAP’s Harold Arlen Award, Bay Area Critics Circle Award ‘Best Original Score,’ NAMT, NYMF). Keep Me In Love, a full-length showcase of his solo songwriting, was named Chicago’s #1 “After Dark” Cabaret Show of 2000, and he was a featured songwriter in the ASCAP/MAC New York showcase, Chicago Humanities Festival, and in Michael Feinstein’s “Now & Then” tribute to Irving Berlin at Carnegie Hall.