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WHEN:
August 13 – September 29, 2024
WHERE:
Windy City Playhouse
3014 W. Irving Park Road
Chicago
CAST:
John Chambers (Harry Hunter), Joe Feliciano (Nelson Chaney), Fred Wellisch (Edward Ruddy), James Lewis (Director), Whitney Minarik (Floor Manager), Colin K. Jones (Continuity Announcer), Tom Shea (Ensemble, Jack Snowden, Warm-up Guy), Patrick Blashill (Ensemble, Technician, Arthur Jansen), Jeff award winner Keisha Yelton-Hunter (Ensemble, Louise), Ophelia Harkness (Ensemble, Schlesinger), Layke Fowler (Ensemble, Technician), and Liam Ryan (Ensemble, Technician).
CREATIVE TEAM:
Jeff award-winners Kevin Rolfs (Technical Director / Scenic Designer) and Petter Wahlbäck (Sound Design); Rachel Livingston (Scenic Dresser / Props Designer, Jeff award nominated Jessie Gowens (Costume Designer / Wardrobe Supervisor), Chad Lussier (Lighting Designer / Technical Consultant), Jay Donley (Fight/ Intimacy Designer), Also on the production team are Todd Henry Faulstich (Executive Producer), Rooney G. (Production Manager), Becca Holloway (Assistant Director, Casting Director), Hanna Smaglis (Stage Manager), Sam Flipp (Associate Stage Manager), Karina Osbourne (Master Electrician), Jeff award nominated DJ Douglass (Projectionist / Technical Consultant), Craig Duff (Journalism/ Broadcasting Consultant, Dramaturg), and Ana Schedler (Graphic Designer).
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...The story concerns Howard Beale, a network television anchorman who is fired for his declining ratings but becomes embraced by the public as a symbol of their collective angst. Chayefsky’s 1976 screenplay, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, was prescient in its foretelling of television’s adoption of reality-based programming and exploitation of grievances. Invictus Theatre Company Artistic Director Charles Askenaizer is directing the immersive staging, which will use a combination of live feed and pre-recorded video and projections to bring the audience into the world of the play, as if they were a studio audience for the Howard Beale Show. ..”
