Samantha Newcomb (Kitty Bennet) is making her Northlight debut. Chicago credits include Lifeline Theatre, A Red Orchid Theater, The Factory Theater, and The Comrades. Recent credits include Sense and Sensibility, Loves Labors Lost, Oedipus, and Macbeth, at American Players Theatre and various credits at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Forward Theater Company, and Children’s Theater of Madison. Samantha holds a BFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

Emma Jo Boyden is thrilled to make her Northlight debut! Most recently she played Elaine Harper in Arsenic and Old Lace (Court). Other Chicago credits: A Recipe for Disaster (Windy City Playhouse); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Drury Lane); Hamlet (Chicago Shakespeare); The Layover (The Comrades); All Childish Things (First Folio); Don Giovanni and La Boheme (Lyric Opera); and Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man. Film/TV: Chicago PD (NBC); All or Nothin. She also works as a motion caption performer in the Call of Duty franchise. She holds a BFA from the University of Michigan. Thanks to family, friends, and Stewart Talent. Go Blue!

Amanda returns to Northlight where she previously appeared in White Guy on the Bus and Funnyman. Other Chicago credits include: King Charles III (Chicago Shakespeare); Mary Page Marlowe (Steppenwolf), Venus in Fur and Measure for Measure (Goodman); Dutchman (American Blues); Last Train to Nibroc (Haven Theatre-Jeff Award, Best Actress); Rest (Victory Gardens); Pygmalion (Oak Park Festival); Great Expectations (Strawdog); Pride and Prejudice (Lifeline); hamlet is dead. no gravity, The Skriker, Brand, The Love of the Nightingale, and Pullman, WA (Red Tape); and sixteen shows with The Back Room Shakespeare Project. Regional credits include North Carolina & Michigan Shakespeare Festivals.  TV credits: Chicago Med, Bobby & Iza. Film credits: The View From Tall. Ms. Drinkall holds a BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is represented by Gray Talent Group.

Erik Hellman (John/Friedrich) Previous shows at Northlight include Georgiana and Kitty, Miss Bennet, Shining Lives, and Lost in Yonkers. Recent shows in Chicago include: 1776, The Sound of Music (Marriott); Lindiwe, Familiar, The Burn (Steppenwolf); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Othello, Mousetrap, The Misanthrope, Proof, The Mystery of Irma Vep (Court); Smart People, Marjorie Prime (Writers); Eastland (Lookingglass); and Luna Gale (Goodman). Film/TV work includes The Dark Knight, Walden, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, The Good Fight, Mrs. America, Fargo, 61st Street, and the David Fincher Film The Killer.

Northlight Debut. Chicago Area credits include The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Goodman Theatre); Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); How to Defend Yourself (Victory Gardens Theater); Twelfth Night (Writers Theatre). Regional credits include The Notebooks of Leonardo Davinci (Shakespeare Theatre Company); As You Like It (Guthrie Theater); The Book Club Play, Appoggiatura (Indiana Repertory Theatre); As You Like It, The Recruiting Officer, The Maids, A Flea in Her Ear, Pericles(American Players Theatre); Alias Grace (Cincinnati Playhouse); Miss. Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Jungle Theater); and three seasons with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. Andrea is represented by their beloved, Paonessa Talent. Up next, The Notebooks of Leonardo Davinci at the Old Globe in San Diego. AndreaSanMiguel.com; IG: A_San_Miguel

Northlight: The Legend of Georgia McBride. Other Chicago credits include SS! Romeo and Juliet, SS! Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Marvin’s Room (Shattered Globe Theatre); Ironbound (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Balm in Gilead, Golden Boy (Griffin Theatre); White Tie Ball, Mommas Boyz (Teatro Vista); Comrades Mine (City Lit Theater Company); The Rainmaker (BoHo Theatre); The Merchant of Venice, (First Folio Theatre); What Happened When and Slipping (the side project). Television credits include Chicago Med, Chicago PD, SUITS, and The Exorcist. Nate is an ensemble member of Teatro Vista and Shattered Globe Theatre.

Yousof Sultani (Fitzwilliam Darcy) is thrilled to be making his Northlight debut! He was most recently seen in Selling Kabul at The Seattle Repertory Theatre. Other credits include: The Gradient (The Repertory Theater of St Louis), This Is Who I Am (joint production by Woolly Mammoth, PlayCo, Guthrie, A.R.T and Oregon Shakespeare Festival), A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arena Stage), And Then There Were None (Drury Lane), Photograph 51 (Court), Heartland (InterAct), Miss Bennet: Christmas At Pemberley and Guards At the Taj (Milwaukee Repertory), The Doppelgänger: An International Farce, The Fundamentals (Steppenwolf), United Flight 232 (House), Disappearing Number, Inana (TimeLine), Othello (Chicago Shakespeare), and The Hundred Flowers Project (Silk Road Rising). Film credits: Glass House. Television credits include: The Big Leap (FOX), The Brave (NBC), Empire (FOX) and Chicago Fire (NBC). Yousof received his BFA in Performance from Virginia Commonwealth University. He will be dedicating his performance to his father, Wahid Sultani. @Yo_Sultani

Preeti Thaker (Lydia Wickham) is thrilled to be making her Northlight debut. As a classically trained Indian vocalist and Bharatanatyam dancer since a young age, her cultural pursuits have always been central to her as an artist. Chicago credits include Dance Nation (Steppenwolf), The Lady from the Sea (Court) and The Moors (A Red Orchid). Regional credits include The Tempest and Othello at Nebraska Shakespeare’s Shakespeare on the Green. Preeti is a 2018 alumni of the prestigious School of Steppenwolf and is gratefully represented by Stewart Talent.

Lauren Gunderson (Playwright) has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is a playwright, screenwriter, musical book writer and children’s author who lives in San Francisco. She graduated from NYU Tisch as a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.
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Margot Melcon (Playwright) is an arts administrator, dramaturg, and playwright. She was the Director of New Play Development at Marin Theatre Company for seven years and has developed plays with TheatreWorks, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Crowded Fire Theater, Shotgun Players, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, the Kennedy Center, the New Harmony Project, and the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. She lives in San Francisco with her family.

Marti Lyons is thrilled to return to Northlight Theatre where she last directed The City or Conversation by Anthony Giardina. Most recently, Marti directed the co-world premiere of Wife of a Salesman by Eleanor Burgess at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Sense and Sensibility adapted by Jessica Swale at American Players Theatre, and the world-premiere of John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower at Studio Theatre in D.C. Marti’s other productions include The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess at Writers Theatre; Cymbeline at American Players Theatre; The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe and both the stage and audio productions of Kings by Sarah Burgess at Studio Theatre; the world-premiere of How to Defend Yourself by liliana padilla, a Victory Gardens and Actors Theatre of Louisville co-production; Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee at Victory Gardens and City Theatre; Witch by Jen Silverman at Geffen Playhouse and Writers Theatre (LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Direction); Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías at Victory Gardens; Botticelli in the Fire by Jordan Tannahill at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; I, Banquo at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Title and Deed by Will Eno at Lookingglass Theatre Company; Laura Marks’ Bethany and Mine at The Gift Theatre. Next, Marti will direct the world premiere of Galileo’s Daughter by Jessica Dickey at Remy Bumppo. Marti is the Artistic Director of Remy Bumppo Theatre in Chicago, an ensemble member at The Gift Theatre, and a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. martilyons.com.

Richard and Jacqueline are very happy to be collaborating once again with Northlight, having previously designed Gee’s Bend, Pride and Prejudice, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Mystry of Irma Vep, At Wit’s End, and Over the Tavern.  Recent designs include: Pygmalion, Northanger Abbey, Love and Information, and The Importance of Being Earnest (Remy Bumppo); Apartment 3A, and Stick Fly (Windy City Playhouse); Nice Work If You Can Get It, Big Fish, and All Shook Up (Theatre at the Center); Richard III (Gift Theatre at Steppenwolf); Mud Sky Blue (Red Orchid); Luck of the Irish and Welcome Home Jenny Sutter (Next); Hank Williams: Lost Highway (American  Blues Theatre); Barnum and The Christmas Schooner (Mercury) and Around The World In Eighty Days (Lookingglass). They have received many nominations and awards for their design work.  Jacqueline is an Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at Columbia College Chicago.  Richard runs the technical theatre program for New Trier High School.

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

is a Chicago-based lighting designer and returns to Northlight Theatre, where previous design credits include How A Boy Falls. Other Chicago credits include: Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, I Hate It Here, Ohio State Murders, The Sound Inside, Lottery Day (Goodman); I,Cinna, I, Banquo (Chicago Shakespeare); The First Deep Breath (Victory Gardens); Kill Move Paradise (TimeLine); and The Total Bent (Haven Theatre). Regional credits include: Hairspray (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); A Doll’s House, A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Wild Party, Drag On (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); and Feeding Beatrice (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). He was also the recipient of the 2019 Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award which recognizes emerging theatrical designers within the Chicago area. Jason is a proud member of The Association for Lighting Production and Design and is represented by The Gersh Agency. www.jasondlynch.com

is an award-winning composer and sound designer based in Chicago. Previous Northlight designs include: Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Dial M For Murder, Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (Jeff nomination), and many others. A winner of 7 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Kriz has designed hundreds of productions for companies in Chicago, including Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court, Chicago Shakespeare, Paramount, Timeline, Victory Gardens, Writers, Shattered Globe, Remy Bumppo, and many others. Regional credits: Seattle Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Nebraska Repertory, Peninsula Players, American Stage, and many others. Kriz is a proud member of United Scenic Artists 829 and is represented by the Michael Moore Agency. To hear more of his work, visit www.christopherkriz.com