Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Goodman Theatre, closes 5/12/2024. NAMBI E. KELLEY (BFA, Playwriting, ’95) and DEXTER ZOLLICOFFER (MFA, Acting, ’90) are in the cast. KRISTIN E. ELLIS (BFA, Acting, ’11) is an understudy. LINDA BUCHANAN (Faculty Emeritus) is the set designer, JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Design, ’12) is the lighting designer, and MARIO (MARS) WOLFE (BFA, Stage Management, ’16) is the stage manager.
The Folks at Home, Indiana Repertory Theatre, closes 3/16/2024. KEITH ILLIDGE (MFA, Acting, ’18) and GARRETT YOUNG (BFA, Acting, ’19) are in the cast. LINDA BUCHANAN (Faculty Emeritus) is the scenic designer and JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Design, ’12) is the lighting designer.
The Lion in Winter, Court Theatre, closes 12/3/2023. JOHN HOOGENAKKER (BFA Acting ’99) is in the cast. CELESTE COOPER (MFA, Acting, ’12) is the associate casting director, JESSICA DONALDSON (BFA Costume Technology, ’22) is the costume shop assistant, JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Design ’12) is the lighting designer, MARTINE KEI GREEN-ROGERS (Dean) is the dramaturg, LINDA BUCHANAN (Professor Emerita) is the scenic designer, KATRINA HERRMANN (BFA Stage Management, ’05), NICK SANDYS is the violence and intimacy consultant is the assistant stage manager.
Congratulations to The Theatre School alumni and faculty who received 2022-2023 Equity Jeff Award Nominations. All in all, TTS alumni and faculty received 22 nominations!
The 2023 Equity Jeff Awards will be presented October 2, 2023 at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook, IL.
The full list of TTS-affiliated nominees are:
KAREN ALDRIDGE (MFA, Acting, ’01) – Performer in a Supporting Role, Play for Is God Is at A Red Orchid Theatre
TRACEY N. BONNER (MFA, Acting, ’05) – Performer in a Principal Role, Play for Toni Stone at Goodman Theatre
ANTHONY CHURCHILL (Faculty) – Projection Design for Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express at Drury Lane Productions
REESE CRAIG (BFA, Projection Design, ’23) – Projection Design for Right to be Forgotten at Raven Theatre
JOHN CULBERT (Dean Emeritus) – Scenic Design, Large for Arsenic and Old Lace at Court Theatre
SHANÉSIA DAVIS (BFA, Acting, ’89) – Performer in a Principal Role, Play for Fences at American Blues Theater
VICTORIA DEIORIO (Former Faculty) – Sound Design, Midsize for Motherhouse at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Design, ’12) – Lighting Design, Midsize for Fences at American Blues Theater
IZUMI INABA (Faculty) – Costume Design, Large for The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
AZAR KAZEMI (MFA, Directing, ’11) – Director, Play, Midsize for Motherhouse at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
JEFFREY LEVIN (Faculty) – Original Music in a Play for Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express at Drury Lane Productions
JEFFREY LEVIN (Faculty) – Sound Design, Large for Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express at Drury Lane Productions
JACK MAGAW (Faculty) – Scenic Design, Midsize for Andy Warhol’s Tomato at Buffalo Theatre Ensemble
RAY NARDELLI (Faculty) – Sound Design, Large for The 39 Steps at Drury Lane Productions
LAUREN M. NICHOLS (Faculty) – Scenic Design, Midsize for Anna in the Tropics at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
LIVIU PASARE (BFA, Projection Design, ’23) – Projection Design for Right to be Forgotten at Raven Theatre
COLLETTE POLLARD (BFA, Scene Design, ’00) – Scenic Design, Large for The Garbologists at Northlight Theatre
SARAH PRICE (BFA, Acting, ’12) – Performer in a Principal Role, Play for Dear Jack, Dear Louise at Northlight Theatre
NICK SANDYS (Faculty) – Performer in a Supporting Role, Play for Jeeves Intervenes at First Folio Theatre
MIKE TUTAJ (Faculty) – Projection Design for Andy Warhol in Iran at Northlight Theatre
MICHAEL WEBER (BFA, Acting, ’90) – Director, Musical, Large for Cabaret at Porchlight Music Theatre
TUCKIE WHITE (BFA, Acting, ’12) – New Work for Motherhouse at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
LARRY YANDO (MFA, Acting, ’88) – Performer in a Principal Role, Play for A Christmas Carol at Goodman Theatre
Fences, American Blues Theatre performing at Theatre Wit, closing 8/6/22. SHANÉSIA DAVIS (BFA, Acting, ’89) is in the cast. JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Design, ’12) is the lighting designer. CARA PARRISH (faculty) is the stage manager.
Pearl’s Rollin’ With the Blues: A Night with Felicia P. Fields, Writers Theatre, closing 7/24/22. JACK MAGAW (faculty) is the scenic designer. JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Design, ’12) is the lighting designer. DAVID CASTELLANOS (BFA, Production Management, ’88) is the production stage manager.
Tilikum, Sideshow Theatre, streaming, one-night-only. From Sideshow Theatre: “a one-night-only streaming revival of Kristiana Rae Colón’s 2018 hit play, nominate for seven Joeseph Jefferson awards. This event is a benefit for the #LetUsBreathe Collective in honor of Juneteenth and the Black Lives Matter movement, and in solidarity with the protests in Chicago and around the world for an end to State-sponsered violence against Black bodies. The presentation will include remarks and conversation with some of the artists who created it.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can with a suggested donation of at least $10; however all are welcome and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. 100% of donations will go to #LetUsBreathe.”
VICTORIA DeIORIO (Faculty) is the sound designer, ISAAC GOMEZ (Faculty) is the dramaturg, JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Design, ’12) is the lighting designer, AMY PETER (Staff) is the props designer, and NOELLE SIMONE (BFA, Theatre Arts, ’17) is the choreographer.
Mlima’s Tale, Griffin Theatre Company, closes 3/21/2020. JOY AHN (BFA, Scenic Design, ’18) is the scenic designer, and JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Design, ’12) is the lighting designer.
Roan @ The Gates, American Blues Theater, closes 2/29/2019. JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Design, ’12) is the lighting designer. 
P.Y.G. or The Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle, Jackalope Theatre, closes 12/21/2019. GARRETT YOUNG (BFA, Acting, ’19) is in the cast. JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Design, ’12) is the lighting designer, and CATHERINE MILLER (BFA, Dramaturgy/Criticism, ’14) is the casting director.
