was most recently seen at Northlight in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and Dial M for Murder. Other credits include Misery (Peninsula Players Theatre); Ironbound, Right to be Forgotten, Nice Girl (Raven Theatre); The Writer, First Love is the Revolution, Linda, Birdland, and others (Steep Theatre, where she is an ensemble member). Lucy works as a motion capture actor for video games and as a freelance Intimacy Director and Casting Director. TV: Fargo season 4, Somebody Somewhere, Chicago Fire, Proven Innocent. Film: Brooklyn 45, Departing Seniors. She is represented by Paonessa Talent.

Demetra Dee (Beth) is elated to be making her Northlight debut. Corduroy (Chicago Shakespeare); The Penelopiad, The Nacirema Society, Relentless (Goodman); Chlorine Sky (Steppenwolf); Relentless (Timeline); Stew, Be Here Now (Shattered Globe); Cullud Wattah (Victory Gardens); The Last Pair of Earlies, Middle Passage (Lifeline); Comfort Stew, Migration (ETA Creative Arts Foundation); The Colored Museum (Pegasus Theatre Chicago); The Greenbook (Chicago Dramatist). Television: Power Book IV: Force (Starz), The Bear (FX). Education: BFA in theater, East Carolina University. She thanks the Lord for allowing her to serve. (Mark 10:45) Agency: DDO Chicago. www.demetradee.com

John Drea (Laurie) Northlight Theatre debut. Chicago: Little Bear Ridge Road (Steppenwolf); The Sound Inside (Goodman); Solaris (Griffin Theatre, Jeff Nomination); Chagall in School (Grippo Stage Company, Jeff Nomination); Twelfth Night, Cymbeline (Midsommer Flight); American Psycho (Kokandy Productions); Skunk and Badger, Whose Body? (Lifeline Theatre). Off-off Broadway: OneIronaut (The Outer Loop). Regional: Deathtrap (Constellation Stage). Television: Ashley Green, The Onion. Upcoming theatre: A Lie of the Mind (Raven Theatre). Upcoming film: PIP! (Sacred Arthouse). He is represented by Gray Talent Group. @johndrea1998

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.

Tyler Meredith Chicago credits include: Inherit the Wind, The Penelopiad, The Cherry Orchard, Twilight Bowl, Graveyard Shift/New Stages (Goodman Theatre);Campaigns, Inc. (Timeline Theatre);Eurydice, Mystery of Love and Sex (Writers Theatre);The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane Theatre);The Columnist (American Blues Theater). Regional credits include: A Phoenix Too Frequent (American Players Theatre); At The Wedding, Miss Bennet: Christmas At Pemberley, My Father’s War (TheatreSquared); Hamlet (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks). TV/Film credits include Chicago Fire.Tyler is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, School at Steppenwolf and the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is represented by Gray Talent Group. @tylermckmeredith

Yourtana Sulaiman (Amy) is so pumped to be back at Northlight Theatre working with such a talented cast and crew! Yourtana is an Iraqi-Assyrian actor based in Chicago. Recent credits: Happy Days are Here (Again) (Steep), The Singularity Play (Jackalope), Selling Kabul (Northlight), the live in(n) (The Story Theatre),  Mosque4Mosque (About Face), Chagall in School (Grippo Stage Company), NBC’s Chicago Fire, and more. Education: BFA Acting, UIC School of Theatre and Music; Eolia Conservatory of the Dramatic Arts BCN; The Second City. Yourtana is currently represented by Gray Talent Group. @yourtana on instagram.

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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is the Associate Artistic Director of Northlight Theatre and a member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. Recent directing credits include: the World Premieres of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (Northlight Theatre); The Singularity Play (Jackalope Theatre);  A Mile in The Dark (Interrobang Theatre Project/Rivendell Theatre Ensemble); Enough to Let the Light In (Teatro Vista) and Spay (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble); the U.S. premiere of The Writer (Steep Theatre); and the Chicago Premieres of Dial M for Murder (Northlight Theatre), This Wide Night (Shattered Globe / Interrobang Theatre Project) and Ironbound (Raven Theatre). Georgette is a five-time Joseph Jefferson Awards nominated director, the 2022 Michael Maggio Directing Fellow at Goodman Theatre, and was a 2024 3Arts Award nominee. She’s been profiled in NewCity’s 2023 “Players: Who Really Performs for Chicago” and in Chicago Reader’s “Best of Chicago 2022.” She is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. georgetteverdin.com

is is returning to Northlight where he recently designed Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and last season’s Birthday Candles. Recent projects include The Cave (A Red Orchid); A Slow Air, A Case for the Existence of God (Steep); The Lehman Trilogy (ZACH); The Brightest Thing in the World (About Face); and It’s a Wonderful Life (Capital City). He has worked with Goodman, Steppenwolf, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, The Alliance, and Cincinnati Playhouse, among others. He recently made his Broadway debut as the associate set designer on Purpose and Eureka Day – both of which have been nominated for Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Revival of a Play. MFA: Northwestern. Please experience more of his work at www.sotiriosdesigns.com and on Instagram at @sotirios.livaditis.

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

Emma Deane is an Indigenous Lighting Designer whose recent credits include: Confederates (Signature Theatre); 9 Kinds of Silence, (PlayCo); In the Southern Breeze (Rattlestick Theater); For the People (Guthrie Theatre); Jane Eyre, Dial “M” for Murder, Newtown (Geva Theatre); Exception to the Rule (Studio Theatre); POTUS, The Chinese Lady (Everyman Theatre); 2 Pianos 4 Hands (Northlight Theatre); Trouble in Mind (Hartford Stage); Peter Pan and Wendy (KC Rep); BAKKHAI (Baltimore Center Stage): On the Far End, Jennifer, Who is Leaving (Round House Theatre); Manahatta (Yale Rep). 2024 Recipient 1/52 Grant. MFA – Yale School of Drama. emmadeane.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

Sarah Slight is a Chicago-based dramaturg, literary manager, and producer. She is the artistic director of Raven Theatre and an adjunct professor at The Theatre School at DePaul. At Northlight Sarah has dramaturged Dial M for Murder adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and two of the three Christmas at Pemberley plays by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Bordelon. Other dramaturgy credits include  Right to be Forgotten by Sharyn Rothstein and The Luckiest by Melissa Ross (Raven Theatre); The Gradient by Steph Del Rosso (St. Louis Rep); and  The Burn by Philip Dawkins (Steppenwolf Theatre, SYA). MFA Columbia University, BS University of Evansville.