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Brooklyn Laundry

By John Patrick Shanley
Directed by BJ Jones

Rolling World Premiere

Fran is broke and chronically single. Owen has a bad back and a lot of baggage. And then he asks her out. They might be just what each other needs… but life still has some savage tricks in store. At turns funny and tragic, this new play takes a fresh look at relationships, family, and surprising second chances.

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CAST

PRODUCTION

BJ Jones

DIRECTOR

Izumi Inaba

COSTUME DESIGN

JR Lederle

LIGHT DESIGN

Lindsay Jones

ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN

Katie Klemme

STAGE MANAGER

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Paul Epner and Janet Gans Epner

Bythe McGarvie

Donna and Gene Frett

Nan Greenough

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Artist

Sandra Delgado

Sandra Delgado (Susie) is a Colombian-Chicagoan theater artist hailed as “her own brand of triple threat” (New City Chicago), best known for La Havana Madrid, her hit play with music which will take the stage at Millenium Park’s Pritzker Pavillion this summer in a co-production with her artistic homes, Teatro Vista and Collaboraction. As an actress, she’s been on the stages of Steppenwolf, Goodman, Lookingglass, and The Public Theater in New York. Awards include a United States Artist Fellowship, NALAC Grant, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, 3Arts Award, Joyce Award, TCG Resident Actor Fellowship. Her audioplay, if you belong to me as I belong to you, is on Audible as part of a collaboration with the Oscar winning film, Women Talking. Her song and story project, The Sandra Delgado Experience debuted at Joe’s Pub in NY last year and will be back in Chicago this July. sandradelgado.net

Artist

Marika Mashburn

Marika Mashburn (she/hers) has worked as an actor, casting director, and producer in Chicago since 2002, appearing at Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, The House, PlayMakers Laboratory (formerly Barrel of Monkeys), Griffin, and many others. She was raised in a trailer home in the middle of a cornfield in Oklahoma and trained at Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Film: Reporting for Christmas (Hulu), Princess CydImperfections. TV: Chicago FireChicago PD. Marika is a world traveler, having visited all 50 of these United States, all 7 continents, and 31 countries, including a year-long stint driving ice road trucks and fronting the continent’s most famous alt-country band, Roll Cage Mary, at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Upcoming: Line producer, casting, and guest star for Incoming, an anthology podcast series with award-winning screenwriter and Broadway composer David Singer. Represented by the terrific humans at Big Mouth Talent. marikamashburn.com

Artist

Mark Montgomery

Mark returns to Northlight where he appeared in Discord, Mansfield Park, Outside Mullingar (Jeff nomination, Best Actor), As Bees in Honey Drown and Experiment with an Air Pump. Other select Chicago credits: 2666Rapture, Blister, BurnCamino Real and Stage Kiss (Goodman); Hedda Gabler, The Letters, Buried Child and The Scene (Writers); AgamemnonIphigenia in Aulis, and M. Butterfly (Court) and productions with Chicago Shakespeare, Victory Gardens, Steppenwolf, Journeymen and Remy Bumppo among others. New York credits: Mamma Mia! (Broadway), Our Town (Barrow Street), Macbeth (Public). Regional credits: Julius Caesar (American Repertory) as well as the show’s French tour. Television: Law & Order, Chicago Fire and Empire.

Artist

Cassidy Slaughter-Mason

Cassidy Slaughter-Mason (Fran) is an actor and writer based in Chicago. Recent acting credits include: The Luckiest (Raven Theatre, Equity Jeff Award for Best Performer in a Principal Role), How A Boy Falls (Northlight Theatre), Kiss (Haven Theatre), Natural Affection (Eclipse Theatre), Significant Other (Theatre Wit/About Face), Scapegoat (New Colony) and Rapture Blister Burn (Goodman Theatre, Equity Jeff Nomination for actor in a Performer in a Supporting Role). Recent film and TV credits include: All Happy Families, Later Days, Ultra-City Smiths, Chicago Fire, Easy, APB, and Soundtrack. Cassidy is a graduate of the school at Steppenwolf, a founding ensemble member of One Year Chekhov, and is represented by Paonessa Talent Agency.

Playwright

JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY

JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY is from The Bronx. His plays include Prodigal Son, Outside Mullingar (Tony nomination), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, Italian-American Reconciliation, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance, and Beggars in the House of Plenty. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world. For his play, Doubt, he received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the arena of screenwriting, he has ten films to his credit, most recently Wild Mountain Thyme, with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, and Christopher Walken. His film of Doubt, with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis, which he also directed, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano (which he also directed), and Live From Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination). For his script of Moonstruck he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for best original screenplay. In 2009, The Writers Guild of America awarded Mr. Shanley the Lifetime Achievement In Writing.

Artistic Director

BJ Jones

BJ JONES is in his 25th season as Artistic Director of Northlight. Mr. Jones is a two-time Joseph Jefferson Award Winning actor and a three-time nominated director. He’s directed the world premieres of Charm (Jeff Award Best New Play), The Outgoing Tide (Jeff Award Best New Play), White Guy on the Bus (Jeff Nominated Best New Play), Chapatti (Nominated Jeff Award Best New Play), Better Late, and Rounding Third. Notably, he has directed productions of Outside Mullingar, Grey Gardens, The Price, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. As a producer he has guided the three world premieres of The Christmas at Pemberley Trilogy (Jeff Award Best New Play), Shining LivesThe Last Five Years, and Studs Terkel’s ‘The Good War’. Additional directorial credits include Pitmen Painters (Timeline, Jeff Award Best Production); 100 Saints You Should Know (Steppenwolf); Glengarry Glen Ross (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Suzi Bass nomination Best Director); The Lady with All the Answers (Cherry Lane, New York); Animal Crackers (Baltimore Center Stage); Three Musketeers, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing (Utah Shakespeare Festival), and four productions at the Galway International Arts Festival. As a performer, he has appeared at Northlight, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court, and other theatres throughout Chicago. Film/TV credits include The Fugitive, Body Double, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Early Edition, Cupid, and Turks, among others.

SET DESIGN

Jeffrey D. Kmiec

Jeffrey D. Kmiec is an award-winning New York-based Production Designer for Theatre and Television. His designs have been seen on NBC, Apple+, Comedy Central, and the CW as well as Norwegian Cruise Line, The Rev, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Lyric Opera, Theatre Under the Stars, Paramount Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Timeline Theatre, American Players Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Porchlight, Raven Theatre, The Artistic Home, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, Heritage Theatre Festival and The Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. Jeffrey received his MFA from the University of Virginia, BA from Illinois State University, and is a member of USA 829.

COSTUME DESIGN

Izumi Inaba

Izumi Inaba (Costume Designer). Off-Broadway: How To Defend Yourself (New York Theatre Workshop). Selected Regional Works: King of the Yees (Goodman, Kirk Douglas); Animal Farm (Milwaukee Rep, Baltimore Center Stage); Dishwasher Dreams (Writers, Old Globe, Merrimack Repartory); An American Dream (Lyric Opera, Kentucky Opera); Clue (Indiana Repartory, Syracuse Stage). Tour: Million Dollar Quartet Christmas (Evan Bernardin Productions). A member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829.

LIGHT DESIGN

JR Lederle

Northlight credits include Birthday CandlesThe Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Relativity, By the WaterCharmShining LivesOutside MullingarWhite Guy on the Bus,  Detroit ’67The Odd CoupleTen ChimneysSeason’s GreetingsA LifeGrey GardensThe Retreat From MoscowLadyStella & Lou, The Outgoing TideBetter 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.

ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN

Lindsay Jones

Broadway: Slave PlayThe NapBronx 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.

STAGE MANAGER

Katie Klemme

KATIE KLEMME (Production Stage Manager) Northlight credits include Brooklyn Laundry, Dial M for Murder, The Porch on Windy Hill, 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 Chicago credits include The Hot Wing King, Eurydice, A Distinct Society, Tiger Style!, Wife of a Salesman, Into the Woods (Writers); Notes from the Field (TimeLine); Villette (Lookingglass) and productions at Victory Gardens, Theater Wit, About Face Theater and American Theater Company. National: Hamilton (Eliza Tour Sub); Sorin: A Notre Dame Story (Tour). Regional: Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theater Center, ArtsEmerson.