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September 15 - October 7, 2018 , Allen Theatre

Susan Hill's The Woman In Black

Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt
Directed by Robin Herford

Run time: 2 hours, 15 minutes (including intermission)

Presented by

DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

Halloween comes early this year with a bone-chilling ghost story that will shake you to your core. Arthur Kipps never believed in the supernatural until he came face to face with evil. Tonight—desperate to exorcise his demons—he will tell his haunting tale…no matter the consequences. For over 28 years, The Woman in Black has thrilled audiences on London’s West End. Now, CPH launches the North American tour of this spine-tingling production.

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Foreground: Adam Wesley Brown (The Actor), Background: Bradley Armacost (Arthur Kipps). Photo credit: Roger Mastorianni

Adam Wesley Brown (The Actor). Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni

Adam Wesley Brown (The Actor). Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.

Left to right: Bradley Armacost (Arthur Kipps), and Adam Wesley Brown (The Actor). Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.

Adam Wesley Brown (The Actor). Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni

Left to right: Bradley Armacost (Arthur Kipps) and Adam Wesley Brown (The Actor). Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.

Left front: Adam Wesley Brown (The Actor), Back: Bradley Armacost (Arthur Kipps). Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.

Bradley Armacost (Arthur Kipps). Photo credit: Roger Mastorianni.

Adam Wesley Brown (The Actor). Photo credit: Roger Mastroianni.

Artists

Bradley Armacost

Bradley Armacost

(Arthur Kipps) has worked extensively on stage, in film/television, and in voice-over throughout the country. Based in Chicago, he has received numerous Joseph Jefferson Awards and nominations for his stage work. Select credits include Oedipus Complex, The Zoo Story, The Trip To Bountiful, A Touch of the Poet, and more(Arthur Kipps) has worked extensively on stage, in film/television, and in voice-over throughout the country. Based in Chicago, he has received numerous Joseph Jefferson Awards and nominations for his stage work. Select credits include Oedipus Complex, The Zoo Story, The Trip To Bountiful, A Touch of the Poet, and Chicago Boys at Goodman Theatre; Playboy of the Western World, Maria Arndt, The Seafarer, and Faith Healer at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, Antony & Cleopatra, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Elizabeth Rex, and The Madness of King George at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; and You Can't Take It With You and A Life (with the late John Mahoney) at Northlight Theatre. Earlier this season he appeared in Translations at Washington, D.C.'s Studio Theatre. Bradley is an Artistic Associate at Provision Theatre Company (Shadowlands, C. S. Lewis: Onstage, Tuesdays With Morrie) and Irish Theatre of Chicago (The Weir, Moon for the Misbegotten, The Seafarer, Hughie, Shining City). Television credits include the Fox series The Exorcist as Bishop Eagan, Empire, Chicago Fire, Mind Games, Missing Persons, Untouchables, and Early Edition. Film credits include Patriot, Warren, The Company, Barbershop 2, Repetition, and Eight Men Out. Bradley has made numerous appearances as narrator with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Beyond the Score series.

Adam Wesley Brown

Adam Wesley Brown

(The Actor) Theatre Credits include: Once (Broadway); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Book of Joseph, The Tempest, Julius Caesar and Henry VIII (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Million Dollar Quartet (Paramount Theatre); Long Way Go Down (Jackalope Theatre, Jeff Award nomination); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are more(The Actor) Theatre Credits include: Once (Broadway); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Book of Joseph, The Tempest, Julius Caesar and Henry VIII (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Million Dollar Quartet (Paramount Theatre); Long Way Go Down (Jackalope Theatre, Jeff Award nomination); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Folger Theatre, Helen Hayes Award nomination); A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Film Credits include: Widows and Keith Urban: 30 Songs in 30 Days. Mr. Brown released his debut album Adam Wesley Brown: Live at Bowery Poetry on Apple Music and Spotify. He is represented by Paonessa Talent Agency.

Simon Hedger

Simon Hedger

(standby: Arthur Kipps) Simon Hedger recently moved to Chicago from the United Kingdom, where he divided his time between acting, producing and teaching. Recent theatre includes Fear & Misery in the Third Reich (Haven Theatre); The Audience (Timeline Theatre), understudy roles (went on) for Shakespeare in Love (Chicago Shakespeare more(standby: Arthur Kipps) Simon Hedger recently moved to Chicago from the United Kingdom, where he divided his time between acting, producing and teaching. Recent theatre includes Fear & Misery in the Third Reich (Haven Theatre); The Audience (Timeline Theatre), understudy roles (went on) for Shakespeare in Love (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Volpone, The Jew of Malta, Love's Sacrifice, Shakespeare's Sonnets (Royal Shakespeare Company); Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (Liverpool Shakespeare Festival); The Threepenny Opera (English Shakespeare Company); Gaffer, Clybourne Park (Unity Theatre); Once Upon a Christmas (LookLeftLookRight) Bash, When the Rain Stops Falling (Said & Done); The Master and Margarita, Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Lodestar Theatre); Beasts and Beauties (Spike Theatre / Kendal Brewery Arts). Television includes Detroiters (Comedy Central), A Touch of Frost, Emmerdale, Place of Execution. Radio plays include Mr. Goodbye, Clomp, I Knew Camus, Hook (BBC). Simon received a BA in Theatre Arts from Bretton Hall and is represented by Gray Talent Group in America and Macfarlane Doyle Associates in the U.K.

Nick Vidal

Nick Vidal

(standby: The Actor) Theatre credits include: Peter and the Starcatcher (First National Tour); The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Steppenwolf for Young Adults); April 4th , 1968 (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher (Peninsula Players); Iphigenia 2.0 (Next Theatre Company); That Face, Reverb (Redtwist Theatre); Aftermath (Signal Ensemble); more(standby: The Actor) Theatre credits include: Peter and the Starcatcher (First National Tour); The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Steppenwolf for Young Adults); April 4th , 1968 (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher (Peninsula Players); Iphigenia 2.0 (Next Theatre Company); That Face, Reverb (Redtwist Theatre); Aftermath (Signal Ensemble); The Gospel According to James (Victory Gardens); Ah, Wilderness! (Eclipse Theatre Company); The Ring Cycle (The Building Stage). Film and Television: Black Box (Feature); Sirens; Chicago Fire.

Anshuman Bhatia

(Associate Lighting Designer & Production Manager) designs for Opera, Theater and Dance have been seen at Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Soho Rep, The Public, The Atlantic, Arena Stage in Washington D.C., Dublin’s Civic Theater, The Juilliard School, HERE Arts Center, LoftOpera, Ma-Yi more(Associate Lighting Designer & Production Manager) designs for Opera, Theater and Dance have been seen at Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Soho Rep, The Public, The Atlantic, Arena Stage in Washington D.C., Dublin’s Civic Theater, The Juilliard School, HERE Arts Center, LoftOpera, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Pacific Symphony, The Park Avenue Armory, Bard Music Festival, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Virginia Arts Festival, Rattlestick Theater, Troy’s EMPAC, Infinity Theater Company, and The New School for Drama. Upcoming work can be seen at Madison Opera and Classic Stage Company. M.F.A. NYU. bhatiadesign.com

Eva Breneman

(Dialect Coach) Eva is a voice and text coach based in Chicago. Recent Chicago credits include: The Doppelganger (Steppenwolf Theatre); Blind Date (Goodman Theatre); Nell Gwynn, Mary Stuart (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Plantation! (Lookingglass Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Writers Theatre); Oklahoma (Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre); The Belle of Amherst more(Dialect Coach) Eva is a voice and text coach based in Chicago. Recent Chicago credits include: The Doppelganger (Steppenwolf Theatre); Blind Date (Goodman Theatre); Nell Gwynn, Mary Stuart (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Plantation! (Lookingglass Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Writers Theatre); Oklahoma (Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre); The Belle of Amherst (Court Theatre). Regional: Born Yesterday, Blood Knot, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Maids, Death of a Salesman, The African Company Presents Richard III, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Island (American Players Theatre); The Who and the What, Always Patsy Cline (Milwaukee Rep); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville); Around The World In 80 Days (Baltimore Center Stage/Kansas City Repertory) and Mamma Mia! (National Tour/Las Vegas). Television: Empire, Betrayal, The Chicago Code. Eva is an associate artist at TimeLine Theatre Company.

Robin Herford

(Director) Robin read Philosophy and English at St Andrews University and trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Much of his early career was involved with Alan Ayckbourn and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. Joining the company in 1976 as an actor, he was more(Director) Robin read Philosophy and English at St Andrews University and trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Much of his early career was involved with Alan Ayckbourn and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. Joining the company in 1976 as an actor, he was appointed Associate Director in 1979 and was Artistic Director from 1986 to 1988. Robin has appeared in the original production of more Ayckbourn plays than any other actor, from Ten Times Table in 1977 to Henceforward… in 1987, and including the monster 16-play two-hander Intimate Exchanges. He came to London with Season’s Greetings and Suburban Strains (Roundhouse), Intimate Exchanges (Ambassadors) and Henceforward… (Vaudeville). While Artistic Director at Scarborough, he commissioned and directed Stephen Mallatratt’s phenomenally successful adaptation of The Woman in Black, which has been running in the West End for 25 years, and has completed 12 national tours. He always personally directs every recast, and has also directed productions of the play abroad: in Tokyo (in Japanese!), America, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand. Other London productions include The Glory of the Garden (Duke of Yorks); Rough Justice (Apollo); Joking Apart, The Importance of Being Earnest (Greenwich); and The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Duchess). Elsewhere, directorial credits include Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, All My Sons, Twelfth Night, Old Times, Clouds, Butley, She Stoops to Conquer, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Touch Wood and Whistle, Calling, Spokesong, Getting On, Tapster, Just Between Ourselves, Forty Years On, A Going Concern, and What Every Woman Knows (Scarborough), Hard Times (Croydon Warehouse), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Old Laundry Bowness), Ten Times Table, Sisterly Feelings, Woman in Mind, and The Constant Wife (Windsor), Man of the Moment (Chester), Absent Friends and Same Time Next Year (World Tours), Bedroom Farce (Lyceum Edinburgh), A Going Concern (Nuffield Southampton), Time of My Life, Taking Steps, Perfect Days, Shining City (Derby Playhouse), Talking Heads, April in Paris, (Northcott Exeter), Time and Time Again (Salisbury) and The Rivals (Vienna). Most recent regional productions are Hay Fever (Basingstoke), Sugar Daddies (Sonning), Home, Driving Miss Daisy, The Turn of the Screw, Proof, The Mortal Ash, An Inspector Calls, Blithe Spirit, Private Lives, Bedroom Farce, and Taking Steps (Coliseum Oldham) and The Price (New Vic, Stoke on Trent). National tours include Relatively Speaking, Confusions, Time and Time Again, Corpse!, Strangers on A Train, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Bedroom Farce, Season’s Greetings, Rain Man, and Duet for One. As an actor, Robin’s radio credits are numerous, and his TV appearances include Only Fools and Horses, Casualty, and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. Most recently, he has played the lead role of Arthur Kipps in The Woman in Black in Singapore, India, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.

Neil Hillyer

(Company Manager) is a former member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and has worked at the Royal National Theatre in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and had spells in London’s West End as well. However, Neil more(Company Manager) is a former member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and has worked at the Royal National Theatre in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and had spells in London’s West End as well. However, Neil lives on an old croft in the Outer Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland and is much happier leading a more nomadic Touring life when away from home. He has worked in Genres as diverse as Drama, Dance, Shakespeare, Farce, Children’s Theatre, Pantomime, Musicals, Opera and Ballet. This has taken him not just around the United Kingdom but also to France, Germany, Ireland, and Dubai. As well as The Woman in Black, career highlights have been the Children’s shows The Gingerbread Man, The Ideal Gnome Expedition and The Tiger who came to Tea - all directed by David Wood. Neil is though best known for his work on The Woman in Black, working with Director Robin Herford on numerous United Kingdom Tours, and also in Hong Kong, Singapore, and most recently Luxembourg.

Michael Holt

(Designer) An established and successful designer for drama, opera and ballet, Michael has collaborated with leading arts companies around the world. He has been associated with playwright Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough for over 20 years where his numerous designs for this author/director include Hero’s more(Designer) An established and successful designer for drama, opera and ballet, Michael has collaborated with leading arts companies around the world. He has been associated with playwright Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough for over 20 years where his numerous designs for this author/director include Hero’s Welcome, Confusions, Roundelay, Intimate Exchanges, The Safari Party, Taking Steps, Way Upstream, Man of the Moment and the much praised Othello with Michael Gambon, to name just a few. Michael has long associations with repertory companies and independent producers across the UK. West End credits include the long-running West End success The Woman in Black; Absurd Person Singular, Whitehall Theatre; The Glory of the Garden, Duke of York’s Theatre; Rough Justice, Apollo Theatre and June Moon, Vaudeville Theatre. He designed Julius Caesar for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and the highly successful centennial touring production of Charley’s Aunt. International credits include Ayckbourn’s Hero’s Welcome, Confusions, Intimate Exchanges and Season’s Greetings New York; Woman in Black, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore and many productions for Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, the Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas and the English Speaking Theatre in Vienna; Opera productions include collaborations with the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen; the Avignon Festival, France; the Knokke Opera Festival, Belgium and Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd for Brisbane Festival, Australia. Michael has over thirty ballet designs to his credit including The Sleeping Beauty, Quartet and Romeo and Juliet for Northern Ballet and Madam Butterfly for the Hong Kong Ballet company. Michael has also written a number of books on stage and costume design and has published a book on the plays of Alan Ayckbourn.

David Loranca

(Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to join the touring company of The Woman in Black and has previously toured with the first national tours of Jim Henson’s Sid The Science Kid: Live! and The Screwtape Letters-- including its extended run at Chicago’s Mercury Theatre. From Chicago, David’s stage more(Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to join the touring company of The Woman in Black and has previously toured with the first national tours of Jim Henson’s Sid The Science Kid: Live! and The Screwtape Letters-- including its extended run at Chicago’s Mercury Theatre. From Chicago, David’s stage management credits there include: The Marriott Theatre, Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, Victory Gardens, First Folio Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, The Music Theatre Company, Porchlight Music Theatre, Silk Road Rising, Provision Theater, American Theatre Company, Congo Square Theatre, Noble Fool Theatricals, Pegasus Players, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, and Bohemian Theatre Ensemble. Other regional work includes: three seasons in residence at TheatreSquared (Fayetteville, AR), Lake Dillon Theatre Company (Dillon, CO), and Lincoln Amphitheatre (Evansville, IN). David is a proud graduate of Western Illinois University and member of Actors’ Equity Association. DavidLoranca.com

kClare McKellaston

(Associate Costume Designer) kClare is a Chicago-based Costume Designer. She is an Adjunct Professor and manages the Costume Shop at Dominican University in River Forest. Recent design credits include: Songs for a New World, The Addams Family (Dominican University); The Last Five Years, The Drowsy Chaperone (Metropolis PAC); Scarcity, more(Associate Costume Designer) kClare is a Chicago-based Costume Designer. She is an Adjunct Professor and manages the Costume Shop at Dominican University in River Forest. Recent design credits include: Songs for a New World, The Addams Family (Dominican University); The Last Five Years, The Drowsy Chaperone (Metropolis PAC); Scarcity, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Elling (Redtwist); At Home at the Zoo, Confederates in the Attic, Peyton Place (City Lit). She has also served as a designer and faculty member with the National High School Institute at Northwestern University (Cherubs). kClare.com

Ray Nardelli

(Associate Sound Designer) is co-owner of Aria Music Designs, LLC which provides music and sound for theatre, film, and owns a sound rental company (ariarental.com). Off-Broadway credits include Lookingglass Alice at The New Victory Theatre. Regional theatres include The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Gutherie Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, more(Associate Sound Designer) is co-owner of Aria Music Designs, LLC which provides music and sound for theatre, film, and owns a sound rental company (ariarental.com). Off-Broadway credits include Lookingglass Alice at The New Victory Theatre. Regional theatres include The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Gutherie Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, The Arsht Theatre in Miami, Indiana Rep. Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Oregon Shakespeare Theatre, The Auditorium Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Rep Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, The Court Theatre, Hartford Stage, The Alliance Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Congo Square, Buffalo Arena Stage, The Alley Theatre, American Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Northlight Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, AppleTree Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, The Gift Theatre, Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare, American Girl Theatre (New York, Chicago), and Skylight Opera. He has recorded, mixed and produced CD’s for the musicals Sense & Sensibility, Eastland, Oh Coward, The Sound Of One, La Luna Muda, and Hillbilly Antigone. Over 400 Film, TV, DVD, and computer game credits worldwide. Mr. Nardelli has received nominations for a Column award for Cabaret in Dallas, A Elliot Norton nomination for Jungle Book in Boston, A nomination for a Suzi Bass award for Lookingglass Alice in Atlanta, four Chicago Jeff Awards and eight nominations. Production work: The Last Ship, Bring It On, Ann, The Addams Family, Light In The Piazza, All Shook Up, Death of a Salesman, Moonlight and Magnolias, to name a few. Pre-Broadway: The Last Ship, Bring It On, Ann, The Addams Family, Light in the Piazza (asst. designer), All Shook Up, Death of a Salesman, Moonlight and Magnolias. Mr. Nardelli’s memberships include USA #829, ASCAP, and IATSE #2. Ray lives in Chicago with his wife Lynn and two children Elliot and Olivia.

Gareth Owen

(Sound Designer) Gareth is the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Tony Award for Sound Design for his work on Trevor Nunn’s Broadway production of A Little Night Music, starring Angela Lansbury and Catherina Zeta-Jones. Gareth is also the youngest person to be nominated for the Olivier more(Sound Designer) Gareth is the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Tony Award for Sound Design for his work on Trevor Nunn’s Broadway production of A Little Night Music, starring Angela Lansbury and Catherina Zeta-Jones. Gareth is also the youngest person to be nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Sound Design for his work on Terry Johnson’s End of the Rainbow, starring Tracie Bennett. International designs : Disney’s The Little Mermaid (worldwide), Let It Be (St. James, Broadway), A Little Night Music (Walter Kerr, Broadway), Sister Act (UK, Milan, Paris, Korea & Holland), Disney’s Beauty & The Beast (Paris), Jesus Christ Superstar (US & European Arena Tours), Glee Live (Worldwide Arena Tour), Hairspray (Malaysia & Singapore), End Of The Rainbow (Belasco, Broadway & Ahmanson, Los Angeles), The Sound Of Music (Malaysia), Spring Break (Encore, Las Vegas), Hair (Slovenia), A Chorus Line (Israel), Buddy (international arena tour), Evita (Bellagio, Las Vegas), Fame (International Arena Tour), Excalibur (Excalibur, Las Vegas), Expert At The Card Table (MGM, Las Vegas), Footloose (South Africa), Time Travel (Mirage, Las Vegas), Saturday Night Fever (Korea & Taiwan), Return To The Forbidden Planet (Korea), Thoroughly Modern Millie (South Africa), Chicago (Montreux), The Blues Brothers (Austria), Grease (Cyprus & Slovenia), Without You (Worldwide), Evita (Beirut), and Cats (International Arena Tour). West End musical designs: X-Factor – I Can’t Sing, Merrily We Roll Along, Let It Be, Top Hat, Pippin, Midnight Tango, Road Show, End of the Rainbow, Aspects of Love, Sweet Charity, A Little Night Music, Carousel, Shout!, Fiddler on the Roof, Footloose, Paradise Found, Little Shop of Horrors, Dickens Unplugged!, Follies, Dame, The Rocky Horror Show, Camelot, High Society, Calamity Jane, Side by Side by Sindheim, The Big Life, tick, tick…BOOM!, The Next Big Thing, The Last 5 Years, Romeo and Juliet, and La Cage aux Folles. West End play designs: Barking In Essex, Uncle Vanya, A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Torch Song Trilogy, An Ideal Husband, Sign of the Times, Smash, The Invisible Man, The Woman In Black, Prick Up Your Ears, Dealer’s Choice, RSC winter season, Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, Epitaph for George Dillon, Hamlet, Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson, and Secret Rapture. UK Tour designs: Sister Act, Strictly Come Dancing, High School Musical Two, Ready Steady Cook, End Of The Rainbow, Corrie, The Woman In Black, Little Shop of Horrors, Midnight Tango, Hairspray, Nine To Five, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy arena tour, Top Hat, Tell Me on a Sunday, High School Musical 2, Flashdance, Can’t Smile Without You, The Wedding Singer, Fame, Footloose, Rocky Horror Show, Godspell, Singin’ In The Rain, Calamity Jane, Anything Goes, Godspell, Singin’ In The Rain, Annie Get Your Gun, Summer Holiday, The Tempest, Jesus Christ Superstar, Children of Eden, Slamdunk, and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

PW Productions

(Producer) PW Productions is responsible for producing some of the most successful productions in British theatre over the past 30 years. As well as being prolific producers, they have acted as General Managers, Bookkeepers and Accountants to more than 500 productions in London, throughout the UK and around the more(Producer) PW Productions is responsible for producing some of the most successful productions in British theatre over the past 30 years. As well as being prolific producers, they have acted as General Managers, Bookkeepers and Accountants to more than 500 productions in London, throughout the UK and around the world. Notable productions and co-productions include: As well as producing the multi-award-winning J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls in the West End, on tour in the UK and internationally, in 1989 they brought Stephen Mallatratt’s The Woman in Black to the West End which after nearly 30 years still plays at the Fortune Theatre, and tours the UK and the world. With the National Theatre: Broken Glass (UK Premiere); The Wind In The Willows; Oh What A Lovely War! With Matthew Bourne: Nutcracker!; Play Without Words (UK & US Tours, Tokyo and Moscow). With the Roundhouse: Michael Clarke; Stomp; De La Guarda. With the RSC: Krapp’s Last Tape with Edward Petherbridge. With Mobil Touring Theatre: The Philanthropist; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Habeas Corpus; Charley’s Aunt; The Crucifer Of Blood; Absurd Person Singular; Noises Off; Dial M For Murder; Forty Years On with Tony Robinson; Tartuffe with Stephen Tompkinson; Sleuth with Peter Bowles; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Deathtrap with David Soul; The Sunshine Boys with Ron Moody. Other productions and co-productions: Edmund Kean with Ben Kingsley; Rowan Atkinson at the Atkinson on Broadway; Julian Glover’s Beowulf in New York and the UK; A Betrothal with Ben Kingsley and Geraldine James; Dickens’ Women with Miriam Margoyles; Kings with Alan Howard; Dylan Thomas: Return Journey, directed by Anthony Hopkins and co-produced with Eric Clapton; The Father with Edward Fox and Stephanie Beacham; Boyband at the Gielgud; Amadeus at the Old Vic and on Broadway with David Suchet and Michael Sheen and Lenny with Eddie Izzard at the Queen’s, both directed by Sir Peter Hall; Old Wicked Songs with Bob Hoskins; The Madness Of George Dubya and Bombshells starring Caroline O’Connor, both at The Arts Theatre; What The Butler Saw at the Criterion Theatre; Honour with Diana Rigg at the Wyndham’s Theatre; Aspects Of Love with David Essex; Sign Of The Times with Stephen Tompkinson; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and at the O2; The Railway Children at Waterloo Station; Broken Glass with Sir Antony Sher and Tara Fitzgerald at the Vaudeville Theatre; Maurice’s Jubilee at The Pleasance; Spot’s Birthday Party; This Is Ceilidh in Edinburgh and London; The Nightmares Of Carlos Fuentes at Arcola, directed by Nicolas Kent; Adrian Mole The Musical at Leicester Curve; This Is Living at Trafalgar Studios; Vault Festival; Chinglish at Park Theatre. PW Productions has a number of new projects in development and continues its commitment in creating exceptional theatre.

Pemberley Productions

(Producer) is a company founded and run by Andrew D. Hamingson and Tim Smith. They are dedicated to bringing European drama to North America and North American drama to Europe. Next season, as well as co-producing the US tour of Private Peaceful, Pemberley is producing US tours of PW more(Producer) is a company founded and run by Andrew D. Hamingson and Tim Smith. They are dedicated to bringing European drama to North America and North American drama to Europe. Next season, as well as co-producing the US tour of Private Peaceful, Pemberley is producing US tours of PW Productions’ tour of the National Theatre of Great Britain’s production of An Inspector Calls directed by Stephen Daldry and the first US tour of the long-running West-End production of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, directed by Robin Herford. Previous projects include a US national tour of the Royal Shakespeare Company / Filter Theatre production of Twelfth Night, a European tour of The Public Theater’s Apple Family Plays and an Irish Tour of the American Players Theatre’s production of James DeVita’s In Acting Shakespeare. Pemberley also co-produced the US tour of Ensemble Basiani from the Republic of Georgia in 2016 and general managed the US tour of Druid Theatre’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane. This past season Pemberley Productions is producing the second US national tour of Sancho by and with Paterson Joseph, and have general managed the national tour of Theatre De La Ville’s State of Siege and the NY premiere of Some Old Black Man at 59E59

Kevin Sleep

(Lighting Designer) Kevin graduated with a degree in geography and then put it to good use by working in theatre lighting. He went freelance in 1987 and some of his West End credits include: The House of Bernarda Alba, Up on the Roof, The Foreigner, Eartha Kitt in more(Lighting Designer) Kevin graduated with a degree in geography and then put it to good use by working in theatre lighting. He went freelance in 1987 and some of his West End credits include: The House of Bernarda Alba, Up on the Roof, The Foreigner, Eartha Kitt in Concert, Blues in the Night, Other People’s Money and the original production of Death and the Maiden. He was lucky enough to have lit shows around the country in many of the major repertory theatres including The Royal Exchange Manchester, The Crucible Sheffield, West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Lyceum Edinburgh, the Royal Court Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith as well as favorites such as Greenwich Theatre, The Bush, Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Kevin is currently Head of Lighting for English National Opera. His opera design credits include the premiere of Greek in Munich and Edinburgh and then at the Coliseum for the ENO; Wexford Opera Festival; Rigoletto (Welsh National Opera small-scale tour); Eugene Onegin (Scottish Opera Go Round); the premiere of 63 Dream Palace in Munich; and Pilgrim’s Progress for the Royal Northern College of Music Manchester. More recently he has been the revival lighting designer for Manon (Barcelona, Chicago, Buenos Aires, Dallas),La Boheme (ENO & Barcelona), Tosca, Cosi fan Tutti & Rigoletto (ENO), Satyagraha (ENO & The Met, New York), La Clemenza de Tito (Copenhagen & ENO).

Magdalene Spanuello

(Associate Director) Chicago: Macbeth and The Tempest with Posner and Teller, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The 39 Steps (BrightSide Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare 400 Chicago/Civic Orchestra of Chicago); The Valkyries (Gorilla Tango Theatre). Regional: The Tempest (The Smith Center; South Coast Repertory); A Christmas more(Associate Director) Chicago: Macbeth and The Tempest with Posner and Teller, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The 39 Steps (BrightSide Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare 400 Chicago/Civic Orchestra of Chicago); The Valkyries (Gorilla Tango Theatre). Regional: The Tempest (The Smith Center; South Coast Repertory); A Christmas Carol, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Forever Plaid (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Completely Hollywood Abridged (Old Creamery Theatre). International: Next to Normal, Seussical!, Blooming Season (Shanghai Conservatory of Music). Education: MFA in Directing,Western Illinois University. Ms. Spanuello is an adjunct assistant professor of music theatre at Carthage College.

Laura Stanczyk

(Casting) is an independent Casting Director and Producer. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1986. She is a member of the Casting Society of America, Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. She has been nominated six times for Artios more(Casting) is an independent Casting Director and Producer. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1986. She is a member of the Casting Society of America, Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. She has been nominated six times for Artios Awards for Excellence in Casting and won for the Broadway revival of Follies. She has cast dozens of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and International plays and musicals including the hailed revivals of Side Show and Ragtime, as well as the universally acclaimed Duke Ellington revue, After Midnight. She has worked on multiple independent films, including the upcoming Fourth Wall Down. She was a member of the Senior Artistic Staff of the McCarter Theatre for four years and was their Resident Casting Director for six. She works with countless regional theatres across the country including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington D.C, the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, the Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Center Theatre Group, La Jolla Playhouse, and The Alliance Theatre to name a few. She began her career with Jay Binder casting where she was an associate for eight years and cast Judgement at Nuremberg, Urinetown, Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Sweet Charity, and Chicago among countless other readings, workshops and productions.

Annie Zaruba-Walker

(Assistant Stage Manager) Annie graduated from Boston University with a BFA in Stage Management. She is thrilled to be part of this journey with the cast and crew of The Woman in Black, and to tell a chilling story that has stood the test of time. Some of her more(Assistant Stage Manager) Annie graduated from Boston University with a BFA in Stage Management. She is thrilled to be part of this journey with the cast and crew of The Woman in Black, and to tell a chilling story that has stood the test of time. Some of her recent theatre work includes Sleep No More (Punchdrunk NYC), Top Girls (Huntington Theatre Company, Directed by Liesl Tommy), Mary Poppins (Zach Theatre, Directed by Dave Steakley), and The Tempest (Arts After Hours, Directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue).

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