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.

is thrilled to make her Northlight debut! Favorite credits include It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago, The Last Wide Open, The Spitfire Grill (Jeff nomination), and Little Shop of Horrors (American Blues Theater, where she is an ensemble member); Fiddler on the Roof (Drury Lane); Old Jews Telling Jokes (Royal George and Off-Broadway); The Secret of My Success (Paramount Theatre); Elf, Hero (Jeff nomination), and October Sky (Marriott Theatre). Dara is a proud Northwestern graduate and Actors’ Equity member. Offstage, she works in community engagement at the Jewish United Fund. She is married to actor and composer Michael Mahler.

is absolutely thrilled to be working with Northlight Theatre! Previous Chicago credits include: Last Night and the Night Before (u/s) (Steppenwolf Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (u/s) (Court Theatre); The House That Will Not Stand (Invictus Theatre); Constellations (The Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture); The Tender Trap (Blue in the Right Way); Charlotte’s Web (Young People’s Theatre of Chicago); the love object (Story Theatre); Pro-Am (First Floor Theater); Manual Cinema’s A Christmas Carol (u/s) (Writer’s Theatre); STEW (u/s) (Shattered Globe Theatre); As You Like It (Forest Park Theatre Company). Television: Chicago Fire. Education: BFA, UIC School of Theatre and Music. Kaylah would like to express her love to her partner, Jonathon, for his everlasting support.

has been acting, writing, coaching, directing, and producing in Chicagoland since 2007. She is grateful and excited to be making her Northlight debut! Since the critically acclaimed play for Zoom, THE SPIN by Spenser Davis in 2020, Elana has laid low, performing in workshop productions and readings occasionally, coaching, and directing short plays. Elana is the Managing Director of The Chicago Inclusion Project. She also co-hosts “You’re on in Five! The Art of Understudying,” which can be heard everywhere a podcast can be heard. Extra special thanks to Georgette! www.elanaelyce.net

has worked in theatres throughout Chicago and the U.S., including: Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court, Northlight, Writers, TimeLine, AboutFace, Berkeley Rep, Old Globe, South Coast Rep, Guthrie, Huntington, IRT, Kansas City Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Geffen, Kirk Douglas, and many more. NY credits include works at Audible’s Minetta Lane, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout, and most recently, as Standby for Laurie Metcalf on Broadway in Sam Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road. TV/Film: Patient, Regret Like That, Saint Frances, Sense8, Chicago Justice, Chicago Fire, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Prison Break, Profiler, and more. Ms. Fisher holds two Jeff Awards, the Sarah Siddons Award, an L.A. Drama Critics Award, and nominations for the Drama Desk, Lucile Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and Bay Area Critics Circle awards, and is an Inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. Rep: GJ Talent.

Theater credits include: Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet (Oak Park Festival Theatre); Translations (Writer’s Theatre); Macbeth (Invictus Theatre Company); Hamlet (Red Theater); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (The Gift Theatre); Airness (Citadel); and Blue Stockings (Promethean Theatre). Film/TV credits: Chicago Med (NBC); South Side (HBO); neXt (Fox); and The Killer (Netflix). She is a graduate of The Black Box Acting Academy, Second City, CIC improv, and Art of Acting Studio Los Angeles.

is making her Northlight Debut. CHICAGO CREDITS: Ugly Lies the Bone (Shattered Globe Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Short Shakes); My Brilliant Divorce (Jeff Nomination, Best Solo Performance), The Shadow of a Gunman, Scenes From The Big Picture, WAR, Doubt, Dancing at Lughnasa, (Irish Theatre of Chicago); Fairview (Definition Theatre), Barbecue (Strawdog Theatre); Hedda Gabler (Writers Theatre); Exit Strategy (Jackalope Theatre); The History Boys (Timeline, Jeff Award Best Ensemble); The Seagull (The Artistic Home); Elizabeth Rex, Richard III (Oak Park Festival Theatre); Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Othello (A Crew of Patches). REGIONAL: Pipeline (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Romeo & Juliet, Henry VIII (Lakeside Shakespeare): TELEVISION: Chicago Justice (NBC); The Chi (Showtime).

Victoria Angelina Cruz, is a Birmingham, Alabama native. She was most recently seen in Primary Trust at the Goodman Theatre where she understudied and went on, as Corinna. Her previous work include Two Kids in the Universe (Teatro Dallas); He’s Born, He’s Borne by David Rabe (Undermain), A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theatre Center); Rage (Elevator Project); Hamlet, The Tempest (Shakespeare Dallas). Television: ChicagoMed (NBC); Lawman Bass Reeves (Paramount+); Twisters (Universal Studios); The Short Game (in select theatres). You can also experience her work at MeowWolf – Grapevine, TX an immersive art experience. @vcruzact

plays include Mary Jane (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award), 4000 Miles (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Obie Award for Best New American Play), After the Revolution (New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award) and Belleville (Drama Desk Award nominee). She received the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Amy teaches playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama.

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 a scenic designer from Seoul, now based in Chicago. Her credits include Caucasian Chalk Circle, Man of La Mancha, and February House at the Northwestern Wirtz Center, as well as numerous productions and musical concerts in Seoul, including Achilles, Musical V Ever After, and Musical The Pirates. She is the recipient of the Norenbrock Design Award and the Shinshindangbu Young Playwright Award. A Inn is an MFA candidate in Stage Design at Northwestern University. Mary Jane marks her Northlight Theatre debut.

Chicago design credits include Ironbound, Night Watch (Raven Theatre); In My Granny’s Garden (Goodman Theatre); Baked! The Musical, Gray Gardens, Songs for a New World (Theo Ubique); Always, Patsy Cline (Firebrand Theatre Company); Out of Love, Falling (Interrobang Theatre Project); Luna, Snow Queen (Filament Theatre). Recent Assistant Design credits include Revolutions, Fat Ham, The Penelopiad (Goodman Theatre); Alice (Lookingglass Theatre). Steph recently assisted the Costume Department on season 4 of the TV series The Bear. She is currently the resident Costume Design Assistant at the Goodman Theatre.

is a lighting designer based in Chicago who, in the last decade, has lit shows for many of the most prominent theatres here including: Northlight Theatre (Dial M for Murder; Fireflies), Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Timeline Theatre Company,  Raven Theatre, Shattered Globe, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Steep Theatre, Definition Theatre, Remy Bumppo, among many many others. In that time he has been nominated for seven Jeff Awards and won two (Tambo and Bones at Refracted Theatre Company; A Tale of Two Cities at Shattered Globe Theatre). Eric also works across the country in both regional theatre and grand opera. Recent highlights include shows at Trinity Rep, Opera San Jose, Utah Opera, Minnesota Opera, Dallas Opera, Indiana Repertory Theater, and Third Avenue Playworks. He received his MFA from Boston University and is a proud member of USA 829 – the theatrical design union. ericwatkins.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

 is a graduate of DePaul University with a double major in Theatre Arts (BFA) and American Studies. She’s honed her skills in prop design, puppetry, and immersive forms of theatre. She works at Chicago Children’s Theatre as their Props Supervisor. As well as, working freelance with companies such as Albany Park Theatre Project, Theo Ubique, Timeline Theatre with Broadway in Chicago, Teatro Vista and many more.

is ecstatic to be back at Northlight! Northlight Credits: Prayer for the French Republic. Select Credits: Big White Fog, An Illiad, Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution, The Lion in Winter (Court Theatre); Cinderella, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Marriott Theatre); Ironbound (Raven Theatre); Native Gardens (Williams Street Rep); and Last Night and the Night Before (Steppenwolf). Much love to her family, friends, and Zach.

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.