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DISNEY & CAMERON MACKINTOSH'S MARY POPPINS

MARCIA MILGROM DODGE

ROBERTA DUCHAK

JOSH WALDEN

PAUL RUBIN

KEVIN DEPINET

ROBIN L. MCGEE

PAUL MILLER

RAY NARDELLI

CASSY SCHILLO

KEVAN LONEY

CLAIRE MOORES

JIM STEINMEYER

KATE DEVORE

DOMINIQUE NADEAU

CREATIVE TEAM ASSISTANTS 

Sarafina Vecchio – Assistant Director

Kristen Martino and Christopher Rhoton – Associate Scenic Designer

Amanda Vander Byl – Assistant Costume Designer

Chris Sargent – Assistant Music Director

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MARICA MILGROM DODGE (Director and Choreographer) is a Tony & Drama Desk Award nominated director & choreographer for her stirring & lovingly staged Broadway-Kennedy Center revival of Ragtime (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director.)  For Drury Lane: Mary Poppins, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Smokey Joe’s Café (Jeff Award-Best Revival.)  On TV, Dodge appears as herself in Disney+ Encore!; choreographed Sesame Street-The Tango Festival and Elmo’s Wild West.  Dodge’s bold new approaches to classic plays & musicals include Disney’s Beauty & The Beast (Olney Theatre Center); Fiddler On The Roof and The King & I (Maltz Jupiter Theatre, both with new choreography.) Exciting premieres include Closer Than Ever (Off-Bway), William Finn’s Romance in Hard Times (Public Theater.) Dodge is also a  wife, a mother, a teacher, and a proud member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society (SDC). This year, MMD became a “@WarbyPartner” for Warby Parker modeling the Kimball frames. @marciamilgromdodge

ROBERTA DUCHAK (Music Director) returns to Drury Lane after music directing Roald Dahl’s Matilda and Mamma Mia! earlier this year and Six at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (Jeff Nomination). Other Drury Lane credits include: 42nd Street, Rock of Ages, Chicago, Saturday Night Fever, Smokey Joe’s Café, (Jeff Nomination), Crazy For You, Hazel, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, (Jeff Nomination), West Side Story, White Christmas, Young Frankenstein, Hello Dolly!, Oliver!, The Sound of Music (Jeff Nomination), Sweeney Todd (Jeff Nomination), Ragtime (Jeff Nomination), Spamalot (Jeff Nomination), Gypsy, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Miss Saigon (Jeff Nomination). Chicago MD credits: Brigadoon (Goodman), The Story of My Life directed by Richard Maltby Jr. (Biograph), The Original Grease (ATC), The Little Mermaid (Chicago Shakespeare), Rocky Horror (Mercury), and Music Supervisor for A Little Night Music (Writers). She was also the vocal coach for Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman for the Les Misérables film. 

JOSH WALDEN (Choreographer)
BIO COMING SOON!!! 

PAUL RUBIN (Flying Sequence Choreographer) served as Franco Dragone’s Flying Director for his new open-ended production of La Perle which opened in Dubai August of 2017 and is a proud member of The Academy of Magical Arts at The Magic Cast in Hollywood, CA. He has created flying sequences for productions in over 30 countries including: Singapore, Spain, Macau, South Africa, Malaysia, England, Australia, Korea, Turkey, Columbia, China, Norway, and Japan. BROADWAY: Wicked, Doctor Zhivago, Curtains (with David Hyde Pierce), The Pirate Queen, Peter Pan (with Cathy Rigby), Kiss Me Kate, Frozen, The Green Bird, Dance of the Vampires, Fiddler on the Roof, Bombay Dreams, and Saturday Night Fever. INTERNATIONAL/TOURING: Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Holland, Moscow, Tokyo, and U.S.), Tori Amos’ The Light Princess (National Theatre, London), Evolution (China), Aladdin, Carrie the Musical (West coast premiere), 9 to 5 the Musical, Spamalot, Dora the Explorer LIVE, SpongeBob Squarepants the Musical, Seussical, and Scooby-Doo Live. TELEVISION: The Tony Awards, CNN, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, and A&E’s Peter Pan. Some celebrities Paul has given wings to include: Kevin James, Tony Danza, John Rhys Davies, Adam Lambert, Paula Abdul, and Howie Mandel. Paul lives in New York with his wife Katie and daughter Juliette. www.theflyguy.com Twitter: @theflyguy; Instagram: @theflyguyny

KEVIN DEPINET (Set Designer) returns to Drury Lane where he last designed Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins. He has designed for the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Paramount Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Glimmerglass Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, American Players Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and The Mark Taper Forum. Broadway credits include Associate Designer for August: Osage County, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, and Of Mice and Men. National tours credits include Camelot and Ragtime. Mr. Depinet has also designed for the National Theatre of Great Britain in London, the Discovery Channel, Netflix, 21st Century Fox, and Disney.

ROBIN L. MCGEE (Costume Design) is extremely happy to be making her Chicago area debut here at Drury Lane.  New York credits include designs for the Roundabout Theatre, Irish Repertory Theatre, York Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Little Shubert Theatre, American Globe Theatre, New York Fringe Festival. Regional credits: The MUNY, Goodspeed Opera House, Musical Theatre West, The Maltz, SeaWorld Orlando, Gulfshore Playhouse, The Fulton Theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Arizona Broadway Theatre, John Engeman Theater, Nashville Children’s Theatre and clown costumes for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Proud Union Member of USA 829. www.rlmcgeedesign.com “with a little bit of luck” and “a spoon full of sugar”- dreams do come true! 

PAUL MILLER (Lighting Design) previously at the Drury Lane: Smokey Joe’s Café. Broadway: Ruben and Clay’s Christmas Special, Amazing Grace, The Illusionists, Legally Blonde, Freshly Squeezed, Laughing Room Only. Off-Broadway: Over 20 commercial productions including Actually, We’re F**cked, First Love Desperate Measures, Out Of The Mouth Of Babes, Clinton – The Musical, Pageant, Nunsense, Balancing Act, Vanities – the Musical, Waiting for Godot, and others.  Regional Theatre: The Old Globe, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, D.C. Shakespeare, Chicago Shakespeare, Idaho Shakespeare, Great Lakes Theatre Co., Asolo Repertory, American Conservatory Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, The Goodspeed Opera House, Pittsburgh CLO, Seattle 5th Avenue Theatre, The Stratford Festival (Canada) among others. U.S. Tours: The Illusionists, Elf, Shrek, Story Time Live, Wizard of Oz, Legally Blonde, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray, The Producers, The Sound of Music. Television: Camelot (Live from Lincoln Center), numerous specials for Netflix, Showtime and Comedy Central. Internationally: Productions in São Paulo, Toronto, London, Vienna, Milan (Teatro alla Scala), Manila, Johannesburg, Beijing, Slovenia. Paul has been the Lighting Director for the internationally televised New Year’s Eve Celebration from New York’s Time’s Square for the last 20 years. Paul is originally from Chicago and trained at The Theatre School at DePaul University.

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RAY NARDELLI (Sound Designer) Previous Drury Lane credits include An American in Paris, Mary Poppins, The Color Purple, And Then There Were None, Matilda The Musical, Mamma Mia!, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, South Pacific, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 42nd Street, Rock of Ages, The Gin Game, Chicago, Saturday Night Fever, Crazy for You, Hazel, Bye Bye Birdie, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Peter and the Starcatcher, West Side Story, Les Miserables, Young Frankenstein, Hello Dolly, Next to Normal, Sunset Boulevard, Hairspray. Spamalot, Funny Girl, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Miss Saigon (Jeff Award) Buddy, and The Full Monty.

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CASSY SCHILLO (Props Design Supervisor and Warehouse Manager) is thrilled to be with the Drury Lane family.You may have recently seen her work on DL’s An American in Paris, Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins, The Color Purple,And Then There Were None, Matilda,Mamma Mia!,Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, South Pacific, Joseph…, 42nd Street, Rock of Ages, The Gin Game, Chicago, Saturday Night Fever,Crazy for You, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Hazel, or her Jeff Nominations on DL’sDeathtrap,or First Folio’sSalvage.Designs in the Midwest include theaters: Marriott in Lincolnshire, Theatre Wit, Theatre at the Center, Light Opera Works, Theo Ubique,Griffin, BoHo, Stage Left, Porchlight, Northwestern Opera, Piccolo, Sideshow, Black Ensemble, Mammals.BFA from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater & training at Tisch School of theArts.Founding member of To the Point, a theatrical combat troupe that specializes in sword fighting & storytelling.

KEVAN LONEY (Projection Design) Recent designs include: Rock and Roll Man (Berkshire Theatre Group); Ragtime, All Shook Up (TUTS); Mamma Mia! (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (Paramount Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Drury Lane Theatre); Tosca, Carmen, HOLIDAY POPS! (Fort Wayne Philharmonic); The Trial of an American President (The Lion | Off-Bway); Show Boat (CITI Shubert Theatre); Mack and Mabel, Panto Star Force (Stages Repertory Theatre); Chang(e), ThisTree (HERE Arts Center). Associate Projection Design: This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic Theatre Company, Des. Aaron Rhyne); 1977 (Royal Caribbean, Des. Aaron Rhyne); The Wiz (TUTS, Des. Aaron Rhyne). Animator: The Sound Inside (Broadway, Des. Aaron Rhyne); Aladdin (Disney Cruise Lines, Des. Aaron Rhyne); Be More Chill (Broadway, Des. Alex Koch); The 71st Annual Tony Awards, The 72nd Annual Tony Awards, The 73rd Annual Tony Awards (CBS, Des. The 13th Studios). Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama – M.F.A. www.KevanLoney.com

CLAIRE MOORES (Hair and Wig Designer) is pleased to join Drury Lane for this production of Mary Poppins. Drury Lane designs include: And Then There Were None, Mamma Mia!, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, South Pacific, Joseph, 42ndStreet, The Gin Game, Chicago, Crazy for You, and Smokey Joe’s Cafe. Ms. Moores is a wigmaker and makeup artist with over 35 years’ experience at Lyric Opera of Chicago. She has worked on touring shows including Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Titanic, Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Showboat. Her film experience includes Public Enemies, Road to Perdition, High Fidelity, and Amityville Horror. She has designed wigs for Pine Mountain Music Festival and Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire and has served as wig master for American Players Theatre. 

JIM STEINMEYER (Illusion Design) was called by The New York Times the “celebrated ‘invisible man’—inventor, designer, and creative brain behind many of the great stage magicians.” His illusions have been featured by Doug Henning, Siegfried and Roy, David Copperfield, Ricky Jay, and many others. He created the special illusions for Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Mary Poppins, and Aladdin. He is also the author of books on the history and practice of magic.

KATE DEVORE (Dialect Coach) is delighted to return to Drury Lane where she has coached And Then There Were None, Matilda, Mamma Mia!, and Beauty and the Beast. Additional select coaching credits include West Side Story (Lyric Opera Chicago);  The King’s Speech (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Bernhardt/Hamlet, Sweat, A Christmas Carol, Support Group for Men, The Wolves, A View From the Bridge, Uncle Vanya, Another Word For Beauty, Feathers and Teeth, The Jungle Book, and Sweet Bird of Youth (Goodman Theatre); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Small Mouth Sounds, Evening at the Talk House, The Opponent, Butcher of Baraboo, and Abigail’s Party (A Red Orchid Theatre). Kate is the founder and master trainer of Total Voice, Inc., which provides voice, speech, and presence coaching. She teaches at The School at Steppenwolf, Columbia College, and Acting Studio Chicago. She has presented at numerous conferences and workshops nationwide and is author of The Voice Book: Caring For, Protecting, and Improving Your Voice, and the eBook Accent Modification: Neutral American Dialect. 

DOMINIQUE NADEAU (Dramaturg) earned her BA in Theater Studies and Dramaturgy from Webster University in St. Louis, MO and is currently working towards her M.Ed. in Drama in Education from Trinity College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland. She is the creator of the Lisle Park District’s Theatre Program and has been the Artistic Director there for six years. Her recent dramaturgy credits include Stick Fly (Writers Theater) and Women in Assembly (Thinking Cap Theatre, Fort Lauderdale, FL). During the week, Dominique spends her time teaching fine arts for grades K-8.