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ELIZABETH MARGOLIUS (Director) is delighted to return to Drury Lane after directing Fiddler on the Roof last season. A Jeff Award-winning and five-time nominated stage and movement director, she most recently won Best Director/Musical for Shattered Globe Theatre’s London Road. Elizabeth’s selected directorial credits also include: The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk for Northlight Theatre, Tidy and Rose for Renaissance Theaterworks, Crimes of the Heart for American Stage, Le Loup-garou for Opera Southwest, I and You, Silent Sky, Miss Holmes, and The Bridges of Madison County for Peninsula Players, Queen of the Mist for Firebrand Theatre, The Scarlet Ibis for Chicago Opera Theater, Machinal (Movement Director) and Uncle Philip’s Coat for Greenhouse Theater, The Girl in the Train for Chicago Folks Operetta, Goldstar, Ohio for American Theater Company, The Merry Wives of Windsor for Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Assistant Director), Opus 1861 for City Lit Theater, Violet for Bailiwick Chicago, and Bernarda Alba and Songs for a New World for Bohemian Theatre Ensemble. Elizabeth has a degree in classical flute and has trained in movement techniques from around the world including Qigong, the Frantic Method, Axis Syllabus, and Fighting Monkey. Elizabeth is a proud member of the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC). www.elizabethmargolius.com
JANE LANIER (Director) is so happy to be back at Drury Lane! She last Directed and Choreographed A CHORUS LINE, and previously choreographed CHICAGO (Jeff Award Nomination) and MAMMA MIA. Other recent credits include- Choreography: SPRING AWAKENING: Elon University, THE CHER SHOW: Ogunquit Playhouse and The Gateway Playhouse, EMMA and KING’S SPEECH: CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE. Director/Choreographer: PAJAMA GAME, A CHORUS LINE, ANYTHING GOES, CABARET, ELEGIES: FOR ANGELS, PUNKS, AND RAGING QUEENS, and HAIR: CCPA. Choreography: GUYS AND DOLLS: Broadway (Associate Choreographer), KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN: Musical Theatre Guild, LITTLE FISH: The Blank Theatre Co, WILD PARTY: The Blank Theatre Co (LA Weekly and Beverly Garland Awards, Ovation and NAACP Award Nominations), RING OF FIRE: La Mirada, Fullerton, AR Rep, and Denver Center, JOHNNY GUITAR: both Off-Broadway at The Century Theatre & at La Mirada, SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ and PIPPIN (Associate Choreographer): Fifth Ave Theatre Seattle, KISS ME KATE: Musical Theatre West, NIGHTINGALE: Vineyard Theatre NYC, the workshop of BIG ROSEMARY written and directed by Blake Edwards, and the short films NOT YOUR TIME starring Jason Alexander and SPELLS starring John Glover. Directing credits include, BAD DOG: by Jennifer Hoppe-House, starring Valerie Harper, Anne Ramsay, and Jennie Garth, THE CONEX: by Dan Fruedenburger, JUKEBOX, SOPHISTICATED BROADWAY, and SPIDERMAN TURN OFF THE DARK: Young Playwrights Festival – The Blank Theatre Co., SMELL OF THE KILL: Interact Theatre Co, OUT OF MY MIND: by Steven Kane, staged readings of HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, THE
SWAN, YESTERDAY QUICKSAND: Interact Theatre Co. and the independent short film TOUCH.
SCOTT PENNER (Scenic Design) is a scenic and costume designer based in Brooklyn NY and Hamilton ON.SELECTED THEATRE: Job (Broadway, Helen Hayes Theatre); Dion, A Rock Opera (Coalmine Theatre, Toronto) Guys & Dolls (Arts Club Vancouver); Fireflies, Intimate Apparel, Flying Lovers of Vibetsk (Northlight Theatre Chicago); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Flint Rep); Rasheeda Speaking (Jeff Award Nomination, Shattered Globe Chicago) ; Shirley Valentine, The Extinction Therapist (Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton ON); Shakespeare’s Will (Indiana Rep); Cymbeline (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); A Raisin in the Sun, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Constellations (American Players Theatre WI); Gently Sinking (Prague Quadrennial); Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Elf The Musical, Hair (Grand Theatre, London); Body Politic, A Few Brittle Leaves (Buddies in Bad Times, Toronto); Small Mouth Sounds, The Little Prince (Theatre Works Colorado Springs); Billy Bishop Goes To War, The Drowning Girls (Globe Theatre, Regina SK). FILM/TV: Assistant Costume Designer for Station Eleven (HBO Max) and Five Days at Memorial (Apple TV). Scott is a proud member of IATSE Local ADC659.
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
NICOLE BOYLAN (Costume Design) is thrilled to be part of this production of The DaVinci Code. A dedicated theatrical collaborator, Nicole has been a member of the Drury Lane team for nearly 10 years, specializing in costume management and technology. Nicole most recently designed for the Drury Lane stage with Beautiful: A Carole King Musical and Mamma Mia! and has contributed her creative expertise to numerous regional productions. Nicole is passionate about arts education and encourages everyone to support its continued growth.
LEE FISKNESS (Lighting Design) returns to Drury Lane for his 16th show: recently Ain’t Misbehavin’, Guy and Dolls, Ring of Fire. Chicago: Steppenwolf, The Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, The Marriott Theatre, The Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Lightscape (Chicago Botanical Garden). Regionally: The Old Globe, Alliance Theatre, Kennedy Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Mark Taper Forum, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertory, Emerson Colonial Theatre, Merrimack Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Arsht Center. Opera: Chicago Lyric, San Jose, Dallas, Portland, Kentucky, Colorado, Florentine. International: Jurassic World Exhibition (China), Marriage of Figaro (Japan), Movement Stories (Abu Dhabi). He has worked on the lighting teams for TV shows including: The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Rosie Show, The Steve Harvey Show, Fox Sports, Chicago Bears Network. Lee was the Lighting Director at The Santa Fe Opera where he worked for 18 seasons. www.leefiskness.com.
JOSHUA SCHMIDT (Sound Design & Composer) is thrilled to make his debut at Drury Lane. Film Credits include THE END (2024, Joshua Oppenheimer – director). Theatrical credits as Composer/Co-Author include ADDING MACHINE (Minetta Lane, NYC; Next Theatre, Evanston; Finborough, London); A MINISTER’S WIFE (Lincoln Center, NYC; Writers Theatre, Glencoe), WHIDA PERU (59E59, NYC); MIDWESTERN GOTHIC (Signature, VA); GIFT OF THE MAGI (American Players Theatre, WI); KILLING THE CAT (Riverside Studios, London). Incidental music credits include WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING (Lincoln Center, NYC) FIFTY WORDS (MCC Theater, NYC). Theatrical credits as Composer/Sound Designer on Broadway include THERESE RAQUIN (Roundabout/Studio 54), HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES (Walter Kerr), BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (Nederlander). Off Broadway projects include ABOUT ALICE (TFANA), DINNER WITH FRIENDS (Roundabout) MODEL APARTMENT (Primary Stages), 3 KINDS OF EXILE (Atlantic), WATER BY THE SPOONFUL (Second Stage), CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (59E59), many others. REGIONAL: Over 300 productions at venues across the country including 3 seasons Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Ontario, Canada), Bay Street Theatre (Sag Harbor, NY), Philadelphia Theatre Company (PA), The Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre (Washington DC); Seattle Repertory Theatre (WA), Alley Theatre (Houston, TX); Arizona Theater Company (AZ); Cleveland Playhouse (OH), Kansas City Rep (MO); South Coast Repertory (CA); Delaware Theatre Company (DE); Hope Summer Repertory Theatre (Holland, MI); 21 Seasons at American Players Theatre (Spring Green, WI); many others. COMMISSIONS: Metropolitan Opera. TEACHING: University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, University of Illinois – Chicago; University of Nevada – Las Vegas; Lectures at Harvard, Suffolk, Mississippi-Oxford, Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, Lawrence University, Wisconsin-Madison. MEMBER: ASCAP. AWARDS/RECOGNITION: Lortel, Outer Critics, Jeff, ASCAP, NEA/TCG, Prague Quadrennial 2007, Sundance Theatre Lab UCross 2012, many others.
ANTHONY CHURCHILL (Co-Projection Design) is very excited to be back at Drury Lane Theatre! In addition to several shows at Drury, he has worked with Timeline Theatre, Death Becomes Her, Paramount Theatre, FeverUp Productions, Phoenix Theatre Company, Next Act Theatre, Marriott Theatre, Chicago Opera Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, the U.S. State Department, Rivendell Theatre, The Cher Show, Q Brothers, and the Museum of Broadcast Communications. He is a proud member of USA 829. Tony has been nominated for nine Jeff Awards for Projections, and awarded two. When not working on media, he enjoys sculpting tiny astronauts in peril, and exploring with his beautiful wife Sara, son Arlo, and rescue pitbull Douglass. artlabmedia.com
MIKE TUTAJ (Co-Projection Design)
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 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.
RICK SORDELET (Violence Choreographer) Fight Directors: Rick and his sons Christian and Collin Kelly-Sordelet created Sordelet Inc., a Native-owned action movement company with over 35 years experience. They have done 85 Broadway productions, including Stranger Things: The First Shadow and Pirates of Penzance coming to Broadway this Spring. 52 first-class productions worldwide including Ben Hur Live, dozens of National Tours including Peter Pan. Many operas with Moby Dick at the Met. Dozens of films and TV. They staged all the sword work for Chappelle Roan’s VMA debut GOOD LUCK BABE. They teach at William Esper Studio, HB Studio, CUNY Harlem, Montclair State and 22 years at Yale School of Drama. Rick is a board member for Red Bull Theater. He and partner David Blixt created www.SordeletINK, a publishing company for the first time writer. Learn more at www.Sordeletinc.com and @Sordeletinc for Instagram
EVA BRENEMAN (Dialect Designer)
BRIDGET RZYMSKI (Wig & Hair Designer) is happy to return to Drury Lane as the wig designer for this production. Usually assisting another designer, this is Bridget’s first regional theater wig designer credit. Current wig artist vacation swing for the Some Like It Hot North American Tour and Back to the Future, The Musical North American Tour. An IATSE 476 member and a Broadway in Chicago local wig artist. Many thanks to her parents for their unending support.
DAREN LEONARD (Associate Director) is excited to be back at Drury Lane after previously working on Fiddler on the Roof. This marks his twelfth collaboration with Elizabeth Margolius. He spent eight years as the Associate Artistic Director for Directors Lab Chicago and six years as the Artistic Director for Heathworks Theatre, an educational theatre company committed to working with teens to address critical health and social issues. Daren has worked with Northlight Theatre, Shattered Globe, Firebrand Theatre, Greenhouse Theater Center , Circle Theatre, Bailiwick Chicago, Not Waiting Productions, Folks Operetta, Genesis Theatrical Productions, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, Ozark Actors Theatre and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. He is a proud graduate of Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts directing program and the French Pastry School.
LARRY BAKER (Production Stage Manager) Credits include: Fiddler On The Roof directed by Elizabeth Margolius, A Christmas Carol with Brad Armacost, Mamma Mia! With Jeff Parker, The People’s Choice Awards with Tom Hanks and The Gay Games with Sir Ian McKellen. 34 years ago, while on a tour in Europe, Larry visited the Louvre in Paris , where he spent time in the presence of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
CASIE MORREL (Assistant Stage Manager)
