E. FAYE BUTLER (Director) is honored to return to Drury Lane in the directing chair. E. Faye’s career spans over 40years performing and directing both musicals and plays nationally and internationally. Drury Lane credits Ain’t Misbehavin (Jeff Award),Chicago (Jeff Award). Footloose,The Color Purple (BroadwayWorld), LTGTR w/Fe & Faye MSMT Ain’t Misbehavin Portland Stage, Michigan Ensemble Theatre, Marie and Rosetta Northlight, Milwaukee Rep, Beyond the Door BAC, One Mo’ Time Anacostia Playhouse, The Wiz Fulton Theatre, GOODS Artemisia (BroadwayWorld), Five Guys Named Moe BAC, Regions of Total Unlikeness Ten Chimneys. Recipient of eleven Jeff, two Helen Hayes, Sarah Siddons, three Black Theatre Alliance, Excellence in Arts, Barrymore, Kathy, Rosetta LeNoire, Guy Adkin, R.A.M.I. Heller&Hover, After Dark, Ovation, E.P.I.C. Irma P. Hall, two Black Excellence, League of Chicago Leagues Lifetime Achievement awards. Lunt-Fontane Fellow, Chicagoan of the Year, Inducted into RPS Fine Arts Hall of Fame, Women in the Arts Museum, 2025 NewCity Stages Players 50.
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E. FAYE BUTLER (Director) Excited to return to Drury Lane last seen in Chicago! as Mama Morton for which she received the Jeff Award. Supporting Actress Musical. Her career spans over 40 years performing and directing both musicals and plays nationally, internationally. After years of standing in front of the footlights she now enjoys passing forward all the pearls of wisdom given to her during her fruitful acting career. Directing credits include: One Mo’ Time Anacostia Playhouse, Marie and Rosetta Northlight Theatre which will transfer to Milwaukee Rep. (Fall 24’), The Wiz Fulton Theatre, The Color Purple Maine State Music Theatre, (Best Direction) BroadwayWorld, and Vickie Award, Goods Artemisia Theatre (nomination Best Direction Stream) BroadwayWorld, Ain’t Misbehavin Portland Stage, Beyond The Door Tender Touch productions (Fall24’), Ain’t Misbehavin Michigan Ensemble Theatre, Five Guys Named Moe Beverly Arts Center. E. Faye cultivates new works and directs solo performances, cabarets, staged readings. Recipient of nine Jeff, two Helen Hayes, Barrymore, After Dark, three Black Theatre Alliance, Ovation, R.A.M.I., Sarah Siddons, Excellence in Arts, Kathy, Rosetta LeNoire, Guy Atkins, Heller & Hover, two Black Excellence, E.P.I.C. awards. Accommodations Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, inducted into Women in The Arts Museum in Washington D.C., RPS Fine Arts Hall of Fine, Chicagoan of the Year, NewCity Stage Player. For upcoming projects www.e-fayebutler.com
DAVID FIORELLO (Music Director) is an Equity Jeff Award-winning music director, director, performer, orchestrator and playwright that’s had his work featured across the globe. He’s worked with Marriott Theatre, Chicago Shakes, the Goodman, and Porchlight – including serving as music director for Porchlight in Concert: Sunday in the Park With George, Blues in the Night (starring Tony-Nominee Felicia P. Fields), Gypsy (starring tonight’s director E. Faye Butler), Woman of the Year, Do Re Mi, The Apple Tree, the New Faces Sing Broadway series, as well as several editions of Chicago Sings, and the upcoming mainstage production of The Irish…And How They Got That Way. He served as music director for the John Doyle Sweeney Todd National Tour, as well as Off-Broadway’s Danny & Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical. He is lead writer on a handful of television and film projects, and internationally, he’s the head of the Musical Theatre Program as part of the International Lyric Academy in Vicenza, Italy. David is also the Founder and Artistic Director of The Beautiful City Project, an organization built on raising funds and awareness for Chicagoland charities & non-profits. His coaching studio, Fiorello Studios, trains some of the best singers in Chicago, many of whom grace the Drury Lane stage with regularity. He is continually inspired by the love of his life.
KENNY INGRAM (Choreographer) is so excited to be back at Durylane Theatre. His Off Broadway Credits include: Emojiland, Turtle on a Fence Post and Triple Threat starring James T. Lane which he directed and choreographed (Audlelco Award). Kenny won a (Jeff Award) for Director of a Revue for Porchlight’s Music Theatre’s Blues in the Night. On the East Coast Kenny choreographed Sound Of Music and Disney’s Jolly Holiday at Paper Mill Playhouse, The Wiz at The Fulton Theatre, Kinky Boots at Maine State Music Theatre and has Directed and Choreographed Anastasia, 9 to 5, Funny Girl, and Purlie! He just finished directing and choreographing “Never Too Late” a one woman show Starring Kim Hale at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SIMEAN CARPENTER (Scenic Design) is delighted to return to Chicagoland, marking his exciting Drury Lane debut. Regional credits include: The Folks at Home, Tiny Beautiful Things, Everything That Never Happened at Baltimore Center Stage; Long Way Down at Olney Theatre. Simean holds a B.F.A. in Stage Design from DePaul University and an M.F.A. in Design for Stage & Film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Simean is a recipient of the 2024 Princess Grace Theatre Honoraria Award. simcarpenter.com
LEON DOBKOWSKI (Costume Design) Drury Lane Theatre: Guys and Dolls. Off Broadway: Rock and Roll Man (New World Stages). Additional design credits include The Muny (St. Louis Theatre Circle Award Seussical and The Wiz), Paper Mill Playhouse, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Irish Repertory Theater, Weston Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Gulf Shore Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater, Pittsburgh CLO, Music Theater of Wichita, Engeman Theater, Feld Entertainment’s Disney Live, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Penguin Repertory, TheatreWorks Hartford (CT Critics Choice Award nomination, The Legend of Georgia McBride). MFA Yale School of Drama. www.LeonDobkowski.com @MrLeonD
SHERRICE MOJGANI (Lighting Design) recently designed The Comedy of Errors and All’s Well that Ends Well (The Old Globe) Derecho and The Garden (La Jolla Playhouse) Bulrusher and Blues for an Alabama Sky (McCarter Theatre Center) The Mountaintop, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Round House Theater) Tiny Beautiful Things and The Folks at Home (Baltimore Center Stage), The High Ground, The Heiress and Two Trains Running (Arena Stage) Sherrice is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from UC Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. in Lighting Design from UC San Diego. smojgani.com
STEPHANIE FARINA(Co-Sound Design)
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SARAH RAMOS (Co-Sound Design) Previous designs and associate designs with Drury Lane: Beautiful, Ain’t Misbehavin, Cinderella, Shrek, A Chorus Line, Steel Magnolias, King and I, James and the Giant Peach, Smokey Joe’s Cafe. Chicago: Over forty productions at Court Theatre as the Sound and Video Supervisor. Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Writers Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, American Blues Theatre, Griffin Theatre, About Face Theatre, Gift Theatre, Congo Square Theatre, Bailiwick Chicago, Teatro Luna, Prop Thtr, Livewire Chicago. Regional credits: Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (WI), First Stage (WI), Renaissance Theatreworks (WI), Indiana Repertory Theatre (IN). She is an alumnus of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
CASSY SCHILLO (Properties Designer) is thrilled to be with the Drury Lane family and honored to be a recipient of the 2019 Jeff award in Artistic Specialization for Properties design. Drury Lane credits include Dial M for Murder, Always Patsy Cline, The Da Vinci Code, Beautiful, The Little Mermaid, The Audience, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, Cinderella, Ring of Fire, The 39 Steps, Grease, A Chorus Line, Elf the Musical, Murder on the Orient Express, Steel Magnolias, R&H The King and I, Evita, Holiday Inn, Forever Plaid, An American in Paris, 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. Jeff Nominated for DL’s Deathtrap as well as First Folio’s Salvage and All Childish Things. BFA from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and training at Tisch School of the Arts. Founding member of To the Point, a theatrical combat troupe that specializes in sword fighting & storytelling. Gratitude and love to Rodion and my family for their eternal support.
KEVIN FOSTER (Wig & Hair Designer) is elated to be back at Drury Lane! Previous Drury Lane credits: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and Aint Misbehavin’. Off-Broadway: Art of Leaving, This Is Not A Drill, and Rolling Thunder. Select Regional credits: The Fulton Theatre, The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, The Peterborough Players, Tuacahn Center for the Arts, Virginia Repertory Theatre, and Virginia Stage Company. Kevin is a NYC based Wig Designer and he holds a B.A. in Theatre from Virginia Tech. Representation: Summit Entertainment. www.kevinsfosterii.com. Instagram and Tiktok: @wigsbykevin
TOR CAMPBELL (Assistant Director)
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JAYDEN MARIE TURNER (Assistant Choreographer) is honored to make her choreography debut at Drury Lane in the acclaimed production of Sister Act. Their previous credits include Once On This Island (Jeff Award) at Pulse Theatre, Dogfight at AMDA, and Cages or Wings at AMDA. Jayden Marie holds an Associate of Occupational Studies (AOS) degree in Musical Theatre from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, graduating in June 2025. In addition to her work in musical theatre, Jayden Marie is also an accomplished model.
ALEXA WILJANEN (Assistant Lighting Designer)
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ANDREA ENGER (Assistant Stage Manager) is delighted to be assistant stage managing with Drury Lane after previously working with them in various capacities on productions such as Always… Patsy Cline, The Little Mermaid, and A Christmas Carol. Some of their other favorite credits include Anything Goes, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, Rent, and Spring Awakening at Porchlight Music Theatre, The Prodigal Daughter at Raven Theatre, Southern Gothic at Windy City Playhouse, and This Bitter Earth at About Face Theatre. Andrea holds a BA in theatre from Columbia College Chicago.
LARRY BAKER (Production Stage Manager) was the fly man for the original production of, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? Since then Larry has worked in theatres across the USA, in Europe and on the high seas. Drury Lane has been his theatre home for the past 10 years. He’s thrilled to be reunited with E. Faye & Kenny.
CASIE MORELL (Production Stage Manager) is excited to return to Drury Lane! She was last seen at the Drury Lane during Always… Patsy Cline. Her Drury Lane credits include The DaVinci Code, Beautiful, The Little Mermaid, The Audience, Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, Cinderella, Grease, Evita, Holiday Inn, and The Gin Game. Her most recent regional credits include Peninsula Payers Theater, the Marriott Theater, and Lookingglass Theater. A proud Nashville native, Casie has also worked with Timeline Theater, the Mercury Theater, 16th Street, the Chicago Children’s Theatre, First Folio, Theatre at the Center, Porchlight, Music Theatre Works, and with the Northwestern Opera. She has also worked regionally at the Clarence Brown Theatre in Knoxville, TN, The Weidner Center in Green Bay WI, and Third Ave Playworks in Sturgeon Bay, WI. Thanks to everyone in the production office for giving her the chance to hang with nuns this holiday season!
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