November 28 - January 4, 2025
Gaslight
By Steven Dietz
based on the original play by Patrick Hamilton
Directed by Jessica Thebus
See why audiences have been captivated for generations — and rediscover the story that gave the world the word “gaslighting.”
Strange things start to happen as the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Bella devolves into something sinister. Why is the attic door locked? Whose footsteps wander the halls at night? Beneath the mysterious flicker of gas lamps, a husband’s quiet manipulations twist reality itself, and a woman fights to reclaim her sense of truth — and power.
Elegant, gripping, and unforgettable — Gaslight is a chilling psychological thriller that will keep you questioning long after the curtain falls.
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- Run Time: Approx. 110 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission
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Photos by Michael Brosilow
CAST

Janyce Caraballo
Nancy

Cheyenne Casebier
Bella Manningham

Lawrence Grimm
Jack Manningham

Timothy Edward Kane
Sergeant Rough

Kathy Scambiatterra
Elizabeth

Gavin
Rhys Morgan
Police Officer

Nathan Reilly
Police Officer
Understudies
Danielle Zuckerman
Bella Manningham/Police Officer
Gavin Rhys Morgan
Jack Manningham
Shawna Franks
Elizabeth/Police Officer
Audrey S. Romero
Nancy
Nathan Reilly
Sergeant Rough
PRODUCTION
Steven Dietz
PLAYWRIGHT
Jessica Thebus
DIRECTOR
Collette Pollard
SET DESIGN
Raquel Adorno
COSTUME DESIGN
JR Lederle
LIGHT DESIGN
Andre Pluess
SOUND DESIGN
Ivy Thomas
PROPS DESIGN
Katie Klemme
STAGE MANAGER
Lead SPONSORS

Jennifer Christensen
Tiffany and Tobi Laczkowski
Greg and Anne Taubeneck
Bob and Charlene Shaw
Freddi Greenberg and Dan Pinkert
Presenting Sponsors
Donna and Gene Frett
Marie and Arch McKellar
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Janyce Caraballo
NANCY
is grateful to return to Northlight, last seen as Meg in Little Women and Georgiana in Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley. Select Chicago: Rome Sweet Rome, Shakespeare in the Parks (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane); Romeo and Juliet, Hope: Part 2 of a Mexican Trilogy (Teatro Vista); Seussical (Marriott); Suddenly, Last Summer (Raven Theatre); Hot Pink (New American Folk Theatre); The Full Monty (Theo Ubique). Regional: Peninsula Players, Door Shakespeare, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, TheatreSquared, First Folio Theatre. Janyce is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. She received her Master of Fine Arts from The Theatre School at DePaul University and is represented by Paonessa Talent Agency. www.janyce-caraballo.com/
Cheyenne Casebier
BELLA MANNINGHAM
was most recently seen in Betrayal at the Goodman Theater, where she understudied Helen Hunt in the role of Emma. Before her recent move to Chicagoland, she performed at the Seattle Rep, 5th Avenue, and A Contemporary Theater in Seattle. Notable credits include Indecent, The Comparables, Boeing-Boeing, This, Dancing at Lughnasa, Twelfth Night, Annie, and Old Times. She has performed at Longwarf, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Off Broadway, understudied Sarah Paulson in the Glass Menagerie on Broadway, and performed in plays over five seasons at the Guthrie Theatre. Cheyenne trained at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and holds an MFA from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program. She is represented by Stewart Talent.
Lawrence Grimm
JACK MANNINGHAM
most recently appeared in Northlight’s Jeff-nominated A Prayer for the French Republic. He is a founding ensemble member of A Red Orchid Theatre and has appeared in over twenty shows, most recently in Turret (Jeff Award – Play). Other theatre credits: Uncle Vanya (New Theatre Project); The Heavens Are Hung in Black and Hannah and Martin (Shattered Globe, Jeff Nomination- Actor); King Charles III, The Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); 2666, Inherit The Wind (Goodman); My Name is Asher Lev (Timeline); In the Next Room (Victory Gardens); Orlando (Court Theatre, directed by Jessica Thebus); The Glass Menagerie (Raven, Jeff Award – Actor); The Brothers Karamazov, 1984 (Lookingglass); I Never Sang for My Father, Wolf Lullaby (Steppenwolf); King Lear, The Lover, Late: A Cowboy Song (Piven Theatre Workshop). Film: Eric Larue, Night’s End, A Perfect Manhattan, Slice, Captive State, Welcome to Me. Television: Monsters, The Red Line, Chicago PD/Med/Fire. www.grimmactor.com. Gratitude to Susan and Nicholas for leaving the lights on and the gas off.
Timothy Edward Kane
Sergeant Rough
is pleased to return to Northlight, having previously appeared in Birthday Candles, Faceless, Lost in Yonkers, The Miser, and She Stoops to Conquer. Other Chicago credits include work with Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Writers Theatre, Rivendell, TimeLine, Goodman, and Steppenwolf. International and Regional credits: The Royal Shakespeare Company (UK), The Mark Taper Forum, Notre Dame Shakespeare, Peninsula Players, and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. TV: Chicago P.D. (NBC), Chicago Fire (NBC), and Empire (FOX). Awards: Jeff Awards, AfterDark, Chicago Magazine. Mr. Kane is married to actress Kate Fry, with whom he has two sons; he is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Loyola University Chicago.
Kathy Scambiatterra
ELIZABETH
is thrilled to be returning to Northlight Theatre after appearing in A Prayer for the French Republic. As artistic director and co-founder of The Artistic Home, she has helmed 25 seasons, is director of the AH Acting Studio, and was most recently seen there in Dying for It for which she received a Jeff nomination. In Chicago, she has worked at Steppenwolf, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman Theatre, Rivendell, Raven, among many others, and was a longtime ensemble member at Center Theater. In LA, she was an ensemble member at Pacific Resident Theatre. TV/Film credits: recurring role on Chicago PD (NBC Dick Wolf Productions), Mr. Throwback (Peacock), Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (Amazon), Good Guy with a Gun (One Shot Productions), Monuments (Zaxiefilms,) Into the Wake (Diesel Brothers), among others. She is represented by ATG actorstalentgroup.com.
Gavin Rhys Morgan
Police Officer
is thrilled to be back at Northlight Theatre! Other Credits include Amelie (Kokandy Productions); The Promotion (MPAACT); The Singularity Play (Jackalope Theatre); King Lear (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks); Twelfth Night (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks); Queen C (Trap Door Theatre); Reality Theatre (Trap Door Theatre;) and Dex and Abby (Pride Films and Plays). Gavin is an instructor at Black Box Acting and graduated from the ACADEMY at Black Box Acting in 2019. He holds a BA in Musical Theatre from Plymouth State University.
Nathan Reilly
Police Officer
is excited to be making his Northlight debut in Gaslight. Chicago Credits include: Eurydice (Snails on a Bike); The Stinky Cheese Man, Letters Home (Griffin Theatre Company); Antigone (Redtwist). TV credits include: Chicago Fire. Nathan received his BFA in Acting from the Theatre School at DePaul University.
Playwright
Steven Dietz
Northlight: Lonely Planet (world premiere). Recent Chicago: Bloomsday (Remy Bumppo), On Clover Road (American Blues), Mad Beat Hip & Gone (Promethean). Recent Premieres: This Random World, Dracula: Mina’s Quest, The Great Beyond, and The Ghost of Splinter Cove. Off Broadway: Fiction (Roundabout Theatre Company). Regional: Thirty-plus plays and adaptations produced at America’s most prominent resident theatres. International: Productions in over twenty foreign countries. Translated into a dozen languages. Awards: Steinberg New Play Citation (Bloomsday); Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award (Fiction, Still Life with Iris); PEN USA West Award in Drama (Lonely Planet); Edgar Award® for Best Mystery Play (Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure). Other: In 2019, Dietz was once again named one of the 20 most-produced playwrights in America. He currently serves as a Dramatists Guild “Traveling Master” – teaching workshops in playwriting, story-making and collaboration around the country. He and his wife, playwright Allison Gregory, divide their time between Seattle and Austin.
Director
JEssica Thebus
Jessica is a director of theater and an educator based in Chicago. Past Northlight credits include Into the Breeches!, The Book of Will, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Shining Lives: A Musical, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Inherit the Wind and Red Herring. At Steppenwolf, she has directed Sex with Strangers, Intimate Apparel, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, No Place Like Home, When the Messenger is Hot (also at 59 E 59th in NYC) and Sonia Flew. Other favorite projects: Richard III (Gift), In the Garden by Sarah Gmitter (Lookingglass), Buzzer by Tracy Scott Wilson (Goodman), Welcome Home Jenny Sutter (Next), As You Like It (Oregon Shakespeare), The Feast: an intimate Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare with Redmoon). She is Director of the Graduate Directing Program at Northwestern University.
Set Design
Collette Pollard
Collette is thrilled to return to Northlight after designing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She resides in Chicago where her credits include Fannie, Roe, The Wolves, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Fish Men and Stoop Stories (Goodman Theatre) Lindiwe, HIR, The Fundamentals and Between Riverside and Crazy (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Miracle (Miracle Productions); Sound of Music (Marriott Theatre) 42nd Street and Broadway Bound (Drury Lane Theatre); The Hunter and the Bear and Smart People (Writers Theatre); A Shayna Maidel (Timeline Theatre), where she is an artistic associate. Regional credits include Angry, Raucous & Shamelessly Gorgeous (Hartford Stage and The Alliance Theatre); The Geller Girls, Good People and The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (The Alliance Theatre); Steel Magnolias, Eclipsed and The Chinese Lady (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); The Legend of Georgia McBride (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company); My Father’s War (TheatreSquared); Holmes and Watson (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); The Cake (Asolo Repertory Theatre). Collette is the recipient of several Jeff Awards and is an Associate Professor of Design at the School of Theatre and Music at UIC. Many thanks to the endless support from her family.
Costume Design
Raquel Adorno
is a costume designer and educator. Selected costume design credits: CHICAGO: Northlight Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, Victory Gardens, Remy Bumppo Theatre. REGIONAL: The MUNY, McCarter Theatre Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, St Louis Shakespeare Festival. FILM: Curio, Limerence, Cheap Plastic Mask. Raquel has been nominated for 5 Joseph Jefferson Awards for Best Costume Design and is the recipient of The Michael Merritt Emerging Designer Award and the Academic Achievement Prize for Collaborative Design. Raquel is an Assistant Professor of Design at Northwestern www.raqueladorno.com
LIGHT DESIGN
JR Lederle
Northlight credits include Birthday Candles, 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.
Sound Design
Andre Pluess
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).
Stage Manager
Katie Klemme
Katie returns to Northlight for her sixth season where credits include The First Lady of Television, Prayer for the French Republic, The Heart Sellers, Little Women, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, 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 others. National: Hamilton (Eliza Tour Sub); Sorin: A Notre Dame Story (Tour). Regional: Lake Tahoe Shakespeare, Geva Theater Center, ArtsEmerson. Other recent Chicago credits include Dhaba on Devon Avenue, The Hot Wing King, Eurydice, A Distinct Society, Tiger Style!, Wife of a Salesman, Into the Woods (Writers); Dhaba…, Notes from the Field (TimeLine); Villette (