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A.R.T.: SIX. West End: SIX, Arts Theatre/UK Tour; Hot Gay Time Machine, Trafalgar Studios; Red/Wolf, Vault Festival. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Television: “Courtney Act’s Christmas Extravaganza,” Channel 4. Awards: WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End Production (SIX); Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence, Brighton Fringe LGBTQ+ Award (Hot Gay Time Machine). Education: BA, English, University of Cambridge.

A.R.T.: SIX. West End: SIX, Arts Theatre/UK Tour; Hot Gay Time Machine, Trafalgar Studios. London: Pelican: The Cat Man Curse, Pelican: Fisk, Soho Theatre. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. As Associate/Assistant Director: Monster, Pleasance Islington; Boris: World King, Trafalgar Studios; Red/Wolf, Vaults. TV: “Courtney Act’s Christmas Extravaganza,” Channel 4. Awards: 2019 WhatsOnStage Award; 2018 Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence; 2018 Brighton Fringe LGBTQ+ Award. Education: BA, History, University of Cambridge; Musical Theatre and Dance, Laine Theatre Arts.

A.R.T.: SIX. West End: SIX, Arts Theatre/UK Tour; Hot Gay Time Machine, Trafalgar Studios. London: Pelican: The Cat Man Curse, Pelican: Fisk, Soho Theatre. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. As Associate/Assistant Director: Monster, Pleasance Islington; Boris: World King, Trafalgar Studios; Red/Wolf, Vaults. TV: “Courtney Act’s Christmas Extravaganza,” Channel 4. Awards: 2019 WhatsOnStage Award; 2018 Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence; 2018 Brighton Fringe LGBTQ+ Award. Education: BA, History, University of Cambridge; Musical Theatre and Dance, Laine Theatre Arts.

A.R.T.: SIX. West End: SIX, Arts Theatre/UK Tour. UK: Southern Belles, And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens, King’s Head Theatre; Love Me Now, Tristan Bates Theatre; Spoonface Steinberg, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Richard II, Emmanuel Chapel; Footlights Pantomime: Robin Hood, Henry IV, Part 1, ADC Theatre. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. As Associate Director: The Boys in the Band, Vaudeville Theatre. As Assistant Director: The Hunt, Almeida Theatre; The Madness of George III, Nottingham Playhouse/National Theatre Live; Out of Order, UK Tour; Platinum, Hampstead Theatre; The Boys in the Band, Park Theatre/UK Tour. Mr. Armitage is a resident director at the Almeida Theatre and a junior associate at the King’s Head Theatre.

A.R.T.: SIX. West End: SIX (2019 Olivier Award nomination, Outstanding Achievement in Choreography; OFFIE Award nomination, Best Choreograper; WhatsOnStage Award nomination, Best Choreography), Arts Theatre/UK Tour; Jeeves and Wooster, Duke of York’s Theatre; Hamilton (Resident Choreographer), Victoria Palace Theatre; I Can’t Sing: The X-Factor Musical (Associate Choreographer), London Palladium. London: Sounds and Sorcery (Choreographer), The Vaults; The Suicide (Movement Director), National Theatre; ZooNation: The Next Generation (Director/Choreographer), Royal Festival Hall; Sylvia (Associate Director/Choreographer), Old Vic; ZooNation’s Groove On Down the Road (Assistant Director/Choreographer), Queen Elizabeth Hall; ZooNation’s The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (Associate Director/Choreographer/Performer), The Roundhouse/Linbury Theatre ROH; Into the Hoods, Peacock Theatre; Polatrix (Movement Director), Hackney Down Studio Theatre; R&D (Movement Director), Hampstead Theatre. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; This Is My Family (Movement Director), Chichester Festival Theatre. Tours: The Catherine Tate Show (Choreographer), UK Tour; Blaze: The Street Dance Sensation (Resident Director, original cast), Peacock Theatre/European Tour. Film: Street Dance 3D (Assistant Choreographer/performer).

A.R.T.: SIX. West End: SIX (Olivier Award nomination, Outstanding Achievement in Music), Arts Theatre/UK Tour. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. UK: Bare: A Pop Opera, The Sainsbury Theatre/London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art; Cinderella, Civic Theatre Chelmsford; Luke Bayer in Concert, Janie Dee: Off the Record, Live at Zedel; And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens, King’s Head Theatre; Spring Awakening, Greenside Venues at Edinburgh Fringe; Damn Yankees, Unicorn Theatre London; There’s No Business Like Show Quizness, Pizza Express Live: Holborn; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Bernie Grant Arts Centre. Education: BA, Music, University of Cambridge; post-graduate diploma, Musical Direction, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

A.R.T.: SIX. West End: SIX, Arts Theatre/UK Tour. London: Stay Another Song, Young Vic; Double Double Act, The Unicorn; Mapping Brent, Kiln Theatre; Tonight I’m Going to Be the New Me, Heartbeats and Algorithms, Soho Theatre; As You Like It, Playboy of the Western World, Southwark Playhouse; Forgotten, Arcola Theatre; Super Duper Close Up, The Yard. Opera/Dance: The Magic Flute, Opera Up Close; Sevastopol, Kreutzer Sonata, Home, Royal Opera House; McNicol Collective, Sadler’s Wells; Company Chameleon, Lowry/HOME Manchester; Laura Mvula, Somerset House/Glastonbury Pyramid Stage. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Royal Shakespeare Company, Sheffield Crucible, Live Theatre, Northern Stage, The Lowry Manchester, Everyman Theatre Cheltenham, Derby Theatre, Bristol Tobacco Factory, The Drum at Theatre Royal Plymouth. Awards: Linbury Prize for Stage Design (2011). Education: MA, Motley Theatre Design Course; BSc, Architecture, The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London.

A.R.T.: SIX. West End: SIX, (2019 Off West End Award, Best Costume Design; 2019 Olivier Award and WhatsOnStage Award nominations, Best Costume Design), Arts Theatre/UK Tour. London: Showstopper!, The Other Palace/West End; The Importance of Being Earnest, Vaudeville Theatre; The Last Days of Anne Boleyn, Tower of London; Working, Southwark Playhouse; In The Heights, King’s Cross Theatre; The Last Five Years, St. James Theatre. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Peter and the Starcatcher, Royal & Derngate Northampton. Dance: Revellers’ Mass, Folk, The Green House, National Dance Company Wales. Set & Costume Design: Billionaire Boy, Nuffield Theatre; Murder for Two, Watermill Theatre/The Other Palace; Moll Flanders, Mercury Theatre; A Spoonful of Sherman, Stig of the Dump, UK Tour; Spring Awakening, Hope Mill Theatre; Bodies, Royal Court Theatre; Kommilitonen!, Welsh National Opera. Awards: 2012 Philip and Christine Carne Award for Theatre Design. Education: theatre design, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

A.R.T.: SIX. London: SIX, Knights of the Rose, American Idiot, Arts Theatre; Dick Whittington, Cinderella, Aladdin, Lyric Hammersmith; The Sweet Science of Bruising, Southwark Playhouse; The Dreamers, Abbey Road Studios; Miss Atomic Bomb, St. James Theatre; Vanities, Trafalgar Studio; Incognito, F**k the Polar Bears, Bush Theatre; Bare: The Rock Opera, Pacific Overtures, Honk, Billy, Whistle Down the Wind, Union Theatre. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. UK Tours: Club Tropicana, American Idiot, Summer Holiday, Salad Days, Iolanthe, Our House, Mikado, Miracle on 34th Street. UK Regional: Dedication, Nuffield Theatre; Once Upon a Time in Wigan, 65 Miles, Hull Truck Theatre. International: Amélie Das Musical, WERK7 Theater Munich. Associate lighting design: Chicago, Phoenix Theatre; Scottsboro Boys, Garrick Theatre; White Christmas, Dominion Theatre; The Lorax, Old Vic; One Love, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Pink Sari Revolution, Curve Theatre; The Lorax, Alexander Theatre, Toronto; Chicago, Various International; Cirque du Soleil: Paramour, Neue Flora Hamburg; Lucia di Lammermoor, Greek National Opera; Orestia, Staatstheatre, Stuttgart; The Exterminating Angel, Royal Danish Opera House.

A.R.T.: SIX. Sound Design: Amélie Das Musical, Werk7 Theatre Munich; Billionaire Boy, Nuffield Theatres; SIX, Arts Theatre/UK Tour; Mary Poppins, Zurich/Dubai, Japan (Asian premiere).Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Associate Sound Design: Hamilton, Victoria Palace Theatre; Half A Sixpence, Noel Coward Theatre; Les Misérables, London 25th Anniversary/​International Tour/​Madrid/​Manila/​US Tour; The Phantom of the Opera, London/​Broadway/​Las Vegas/​25th Anniversary/​Hamburg/​Paris; Evita, US National Tour; Miss Saigon, Tokyo/Netherlands; Betty Blue Eyes, Novello Theatre; The Wizard of Oz, Sister Act, The Sound of Music, The London Palladium; Love Never Dies, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Adelphi Theatre; Phantom:The Las Vegas Spectacular, Las Vegas; The Woman in White, Broadway; Starlight Express, Tour. Recordings: Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein – Original London Cast Recording (Producer/Mixer); Disney’s Newsies Theatrical and DVD Release (Mixer); Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording Theatrical, DVD, and CD Release (Recording Engineer/Mixer).

A.R.T.: SIX. Regional: SIX, Hamlet, The Little Mermaid, Romeo and Juliet the Musical – The People vs. Friar Lawrence, Murder for Two, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Little Shop of Horrors, South Pacific, 42nd Street, Rock of Ages, Chicago, Saturday Night Fever, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Crazy for You, Hazel, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, West Side Story, White Christmas, Young Frankenstein, Hello, Dolly!, Oliver, The Sound of Music, Sweeney Todd, Ragtime, Spamalot, Gypsy, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Miss Saigon, Drury Lane Theatre; Brigadoon, Goodman Theatre; The Story of My Life (dir. Richard Maltby, Jr.), Biograph Theater; The Original Grease, American Theatre Company; The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mercury Theater Chicago; A Little Night Music (Musical Supervisor), Writers Theatre. Film: Les Misérables (vocal coach for Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman). Awards: one Jeff Award, five nominations. Acting: Ragtime (Mother), Broadway; Scrooge (Ghost of Christmas Past); Showboat (Magnolia, Ellie), National Tour; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Rona Lisa Peretti), Chicago/National Tour. Ms. Duchak has two vocal studios in the Chicago area.

A.R.T.: SIX. London: Hot Gay Time Machine, Trafalgar Studios; SIX (Olivier Award nomination, Outstanding Achievement in Music), Arts Theatre/UK Tour; Barnum (Associate Orchestrator), Fully Committed, Menier Chocolate Factory; West End Bares, Novello/Shaftesbury Theatre; Funny Girl (Associate Orchestrator), Menier Chocolate Factory/Savoy Theatre/UK Tour; High Society (Additional Orchestrations), Old Vic; My Land’s Shore (workshop), RADA; Peter Pan (workshop), Lyric Theatre; Jekyll & Hyde, Union Theatre; After the Turn, Courtyard Theatre. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Touring: The War of the Worlds (Jeff Wayne), arena tour; Shadows & Reflections (Marc Almond), UK Tour; The Sound of Music (orchestral reduction), UK Tour; Alice the Musical, Robin Hood, The Wind in the Willows, The Sword in the Stone, Treasure Island, Cambridge Touring Theatre UK tours. Training: Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

A.R.T.: Debut. Bob is in his nineteenth season as Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s casting director, where his credits include over one hundred productions and thirty-two plays in Shakespeare’s canon. In addition to numerous productions with Barbara Gaines, other productions of note include: a host of Sondheim musicals directed by Gary Griffin; Ride the Cyclone (dir. Rachel Rockwell), CST, MCC, Fifth Avenue/ACT; Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (dir. Edward Hall), The Molière Comedies (dir. by Brian Bedford). He directed and co-created Shakespeare Tonight! with Beckie Menzie, as part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago. Prior to casting, Mr. Mason enjoyed a career as a Jeff Award-winning actor and singer, and has been a visiting educator for the School at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University.

A.R.T.: Debut: Broadway/National Tours: Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, A Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Bullets Over Broadway, Les Misérables, Big Fish, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life; Smokey Joe’s Café; Here Lies Love; Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Yale Repertory Theatre; La Jolla Playhouse; The Old Globe; Westport Country Playhouse; Asolo Rep.

(he/him) A.R.T.: Evita, 1776, SIX, Endlings, Arrabal. Broadway: Bad Cinderella, 1776, Trouble in Mind, The Play That Goes Wrong. Off-Broadway: On Sugarland, Endlings, An Ordinary Muslim, NYTW; The Winter’s Tale, The Odyssey, Twelfth Night, Public Theater; F*cking A, Fires in the Mirror, Signature Theatre; The Way She Spoke, Audible Theatre; Nice Fish, St. Ann’s Warehouse. Regional: Born For This, ArtsEmerson; Miss You Like Hell, La Jolla Playhouse, Evita (STC).

Kenny is the producer of the five-times Olivier nominated SIX, currently playing in London at the Arts Theatre; The Play That Goes Wrong (Laurence Olivier Award, Best New Comedy), now in its fifth year at the Duchess Theatre, on a US tour, and playing Off-Broadway at New World Stages; Peter Pan Goes Wrong, which played two West End seasons; The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, which has just celebrated its third birthday at the Criterion Theatre. He produced the West End musicals Top Hat and Once on this Island which both won Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Musical. He has toured Stiles and Drewe’s Honk, Aspects of Love, La Strada, and The Witches of Eastwick. From September he will be producing three new comedies as part of the Mischief Theatre Season at the Vaudeville Theatre. In June 2017, Kenny was appointed President of the Society of London Theatre.

Global Musicals was founded in 2017 by Wendy and Andy Barnes. Previous joint producing credits include: The Great British Musical, Criterion; Lift, Soho Theatre; The Little Beasts, The Other Palace; From Up Here, South Hill Park; The House of Mirrors and Hearts, Arcola; Danny Hero, The Core. As development producers: The Go-Between, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal and Derngate, Derby Live; Pieces of String, Mercury Theatre Colchester. As associate producers: The Go-Between, Apollo Theatre London. Andy’s additional credits include: The Wiz, Hackney Empire; Departure Lounge, Edinburgh, New York, London; Dr. Foster, Menier Chocolate Factory; Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Gene Frankel Theatre New York. As associate producer: When Harry Met Sally, UK Tour; Tell Me on a Sunday, UK Tour. Global Musicals are currently producing Club Mex, a new immersive nightclub musical and Pieces of String.

George’s writing credits include The Three Musketeers, Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure, and the score for Barbara Gaines’ production of Troilus & Cressida. A native of the UK, George is best known as an award-winning composer of stage musicals such as Mary Poppins, Honk!, Betty Blue Eyes, Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure, and Soho Cinders—all written with lyricist Anthony Drewe. However, he’s delighted to be making his debut as a producer with SIX, having seen the 2017 student production in Cambridge, England, and got more excited than his doctor recommends. He’s also very happy to be working with his old friends Rick Boynton, Criss Henderson, and Barbara Gaines once more, as well as three champions of new British musicals, Kenny Wax and Wendy & Andy Barnes. George has long had a deep passion for nurturing new writing through MercuryMusicals.com and the annual Stiles + Drewe Prize. If you’re a young writer inspired by what you see tonight, then get creative—it happened for Marlow and Moss!

Kevin McCollum has received the Tony Award for Best Musical for In the Heights (2008), Avenue Q (2004), and Rent (1996), which also won the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently represented Off-Broadway and on tour with the Olivier Award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong. He produced Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, Broadway; Something Rotten!, Broadway, National Tour; Hand to God, Broadway, West End; Motown: The Musical, Broadway, West End, National Tour, UK Tour; The Drowsy Chaperone (2006, five Tony Awards), Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s La Bohème (2002), [title of show] (2008), the touring and Broadway productions of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, the Off-Broadway hit De La Guarda, and the recent hit revival of West Side Story. Upcoming projects include the West Side Story film (directed by Steven Spielberg); The Notebook (music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson, book by Bekah Brunstetter); and, through his joint venture with Fox Stage, adaptations of Mrs. Doubtfire and The Devil Wears Prada. In 1995 Mr. McCollum co-founded the Producing Office, and has since created Alchemation, a theatrical and media producing company committed to new work. Awards: Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Commercial Theatre Producing (1995). Education/Training: University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music; MFA, film producing, Peter Stark Program at the University of Southern California.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater proudly produced the North American Premiere of SIX. A leading international theater company and recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare’s year-round season offers a vibrant array of classics, musicals, new works, and family programs for 225,000 audience members annually. The Theater is Chicago’s leading international presenter and, through its education efforts, has impacted the learning of over 2 million students.

A.R.T.: SIX. Regional: SIX, Peter Pan, Madagascar, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Fantastic Mr. Fox, Emerald City Theater; Follies, Harper College; Xanadu, Seesaw, Dogfight, The Hot Mikado, Parade, Into the Woods, Urinetown, Ruthless, Phantom of the Opera, Nunsense, Rockford University; Oliver, Tommy, New American Theater; Company, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, Secret Garden, Once On This Island, Starlight Theatre. Education: BA, Music, Rockford University. Member, CFM 10208 and BMA 9-535.

A.R.T.: SIX, We Live in Cairo, ExtraOrdinary, The Black Clown, Jagged Little Pill (Bass alternate). Theater: Ogunquit Playhouse, North Shore Music Theater, Lyric Stage Company, Emerson College. Orchestra Performance: Plymouth Philharmonic (principal Bass), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Emmanuel Music, Odyssey Opera, Cape Symphony, Indian Hill Symphony Orchestra. Education: MM, Classical Performance, New England Conservatory; BS, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

A.R.T.: SIX. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; A Taste of Things to Come, Broadway Playhouse Chicago. Music (with The Kimi Hayes Band): openers for Sugarland, Willie Nelson, Gavin DeGraw, The Neville Brothers, The BoDeans, Sarah Evans, Lucinda Williams, Jodee Messina, and Blues Traveler; five original albums. TV: featured song on “Eastwick,” ABC pilot. Education/Training: Sherwood Conservatory of Music.

A.R.T.: SIX. Broadway: Waitress (sub), Be More Chill (sub). First National Tour: Waitress. Off-Broadway: A Strange Loop, The Hello Girls. International: Holland America Cruise Lines (Drummer, Band Leader). Performances at The Blue Note, Birdland, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Symphony Hall. Education: BM, Berklee College of Music. Instagram: @Chickscandrum2

A.R.T.: SIX. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Norwegian Cruise Lines; Peter Pan (Associate Director/Choreographer), Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Legally Blonde (Co-Choreographer), Paramount Theatre; The Wizard of Oz, Elf, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Hairspray (Associate Director/Choreographer), Paramount Theatre; Big Fish (Choreographer), BoHo Theatre, Numbers Nerds (Associate Director/Choreographer), NYMF. Education: BFA, Musical Theatre, Ball State University.

A.R.T.: SIX. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. UK: SIX, Arts Theatre/UK Tour; ZooNation 10 Year Anniversary, ZooNation: Unplugged, Sadler’s Wells; Groove on Down the Road, Royal Festival Hall; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, West End Live; the International Olympic Committee Head of State performance, Royal Opera House; Ellesse AW19 Partner Conference Catwalk; Coco and Eve “Here for All Hair Types” Campaign; BBC Dance Proms, Royal Albert Hall. International: Pioneer DJ: International Music Summit, Ibiza, Spain. Education: Chaplins Stage School (Northampton); Boy Blue Entertainment (London); ZooNation Dance Company (London); BA, Dance Urban Practice, University of East London.

A.R.T.: SIX. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Legally Blonde, The Little Mermaid, Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Paramount Theatre; Seussical, Marriott Theatre; Memphis, Porchlight Music Theatre; Hair, Mercury Theater Chicago; Cabaret, Theatre at the Center; Beehive the Musical (Janis Joplin), Little Theatre on the Square; 42nd Street, All Shook Up, The Addams Family, Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre; One Hit Wonders, Black Ensemble Theater. Concert: backup vocalist for Kristin Chenoweth at The Chicago Theatre. Mallory is also a voiceover artist. Education: Columbia College Chicago.

(they/them) A.R.T: SIX (ASM & PSM sub), Waitress (Child Supervisor). Regional: Fun Home, Small Mouth Sounds, Men on Boats, SpeakEasy Stage; A Guide for the Homesick, after all the terrible things I do, Huntington Theatre Company; Wig Out!, Shockheaded Peter, We Are Proud to Present…, Company One; Camp Strangewood, Sparkhaven Theatre. John also leads trainings on transgender inclusion in the arts with Gender Explosion. Education: Stage & Production Management B.F.A., Emerson College. Learn More: johnmeredithstage.com

A.R.T.: Stage Manager: HEAR WORD! (2018), Dragon Cycle, The Donkey Show; Assistant Stage Manager: HEAR WORD! (2017); Production Assistant: The Night of the Iguana (Sub to James Earl Jones), Fingersmith (and Child Wrangler); Stage Operations: Endlings, Jagged Little Pill, The White Card. Stage Manager/Crew Swing: Blue Man Group Boston. Stage Management Intern: Mystère, Cirque du Soleil. Assistant Stage Manager: Cirque of the Dead2016 and 2017. Education: BFA, Stage and Production Management (Cum Laude) 2017, Emerson College.