Judith Ivey (Ann Landers/Eppie Lederer) was a resident actress at Northlight Theatre (then the Evanston Theatre Company) for the 1977-78 season.  She was nominated for a Jeff Award for her performance in The Goodbye People, co-starring BJ Jones.  Since then Judith has received the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her portrayals in Steaming and Hurlyburly, the Obie Award for The Moonshot Tape, and countless other awards for her stage and film work.  Most recently she was honored with the 2007 Texas Medal for the Arts in Theatre.  She has also been inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame.  Some film credits include Devil’s Advocate, Washington Square, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Love Hurts, What Alice Found, and Flags of our Fathers.  Judith has starred in four television series, most memorably Designing Women, and was Emmy-nominated for her performance in Hallmark’s What the Deaf Man Heard.  As a director, Ms. Ivey’s most recent credits are Secrets of a Soccer Mom, Southern Comforts, The Butcher of Baraboo, and Fugue, all off-Broadway productions.  She also directed Bad Dates with Beth Broderick here at Northight and at the Laguna Playhouse, Steel Magnolias at the Alley Theatre, and More at the off-Broadway Union Square Theatre and the Falcon Theatre in Los Angeles.  Ms. Ivey is married to Tim Braine, and is the proud mother of Maggie and Tom.  She has been a member of AEA for 34 years, and SSDC for 6 years.

David Rambo (Playwright) David Rambo’s plays include God’s Man in Texas, The Ice-Breaker, The Lady with all the Answers, The Spin Cycle, Babbitt and an all-new book for the classic Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon.  His plays have been widely produced throughout the country at theatres including Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Geffen Playhouse, the Old Globe, the Huntington Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Northlight Theatre, the Magic Theatre and the Florida Stage.  He has adapted several classic screenplays for live performance, including All About Eve, Sunset Boulevard, Casablanca and Adam’s Rib.  For television, he has spent several seasons on the writing staff of the hit show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

BJ Jones(Director/Northlight Artistic Director) is in his 10th season as Artistic Director of Northlight Theatre.  He has directed, within the past year, at Northlight, Alliance Theatre (Atlanta), the Utah Shakespearean Festival, and Actors Theatre of Louisville.  Past directorial work includes Glengarry Glen Ross, A Number, The Retreat From Moscow, A Skull in Connemara, The Cripple of Inishmaan,  Pygmalion, Experiment with an Airpump, and 100 Saints You Should Know, among others.  At Northlight he has piloted the world premieres of Lady, Rounding Third, Sky Girls, and Cat Feet, and as a producer has guided the world premieres of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, The Gamester, and Studs Terkel’s ‘The Good War.’  A two time Jeff Award winner, he has performed at virtually every major theatre in Chicago, including the Goodman in House and Garden and The Guys, Steppenwolf in The Royal Family and Playboy of the Western World, and Court in Candide and Comedy of Errors.  He has appeared in dozens of productions at Northlight throughout its 33-year history.

Tom Burch (Scenic Design) is thrilled to return to Northlight following Bad Dates, Red Herring and The Good War.  Other Chicago credits: Talking Pictures and The Horton Foote Festival (Goodman); The Little Dog Laughed (About Face); A Steady Rain (Chicago Dramatists and Royal George); touring productions of Romeo And Juliet, Taming Of The Shrew, Macbeth and Comedy Of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare); the pool-bound The Frogs (Pegasus Players); as well as shows for House, ATC, Apple Tree, Piven, Timeline, Lifeline, Chicago Dramatists, greasy joan, and a number of others.  Regional work includes shows for Peninsula Players, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and others.  He is the recipient of 2 After Dark Awards (including one for Northlight's Red Herring), a Jeff Citation, and the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award.  Upcoming projects include Gas For Less (Goodman), Golda’s Balcony (Pegasus Players), and shows for Peninsula Players, Chicago Childrens Theatre, Madison Rep, and Cleveland Playhouse.  He teaches at University of Chicago.

Tatjana Radisic (Costume Design) is thrilled to return to Northlight Theatre where she previously designed Inherit the Wind.  Her costume design credits include Drury Lane Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Redmoon Theater, Court Theatre, Blair Thomas and Co., 500 Clown, Hedwig Dances, Live Bait Theatre, American Theater Company, Apple Tree Theatre, and Creede Repertory Theatre Company.  Costume Design for Film: Up on the Rope (Opal Pictures) and Gray in White and Black (Life is a Dream Productions).  She is an Artistic Associate at Redmoon Theater.  Tatjana is a member of the Costume Society of America and the Association of Applied Arts in Serbia.  She has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the U.S. and received numerous professional awards.

Todd Hensley (Lighting Design) is delighted to return to Northlight, where he previously designed A Marvelous Party, Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie and The Good War.  Recent designs include Go, Dog. Go! (Chicago Children's Theatre) and Boris Godunov (San Diego Opera).  As a past resident lighting designer with Victory Gardens Theater, he designed such productions as the premieres of Fossils, Cahoots, and Flyovers, working with such performers as Julie Harris, William Peterson and Sharon Gless.  Other credits include The Hobbit (Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis), Ron Hawking’s His Way (San Francisco and Chicago productions), and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill starring Eartha Kitt. He has designed operas for companies including Minnesota Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Chicago Opera Theatre, and Chicago’s Lyric Opera Center.  Mr. Hensley is a partner with Schuler Shook Theater Planners, with projects including Peninsula Players, Victory Gardens Theater at the Biograph, Chicago's Pritzker Pavilion and the recent renovation of the Sarasota Opera House.

Kevin O’Donnell (Sound Design) is pleased to return to Northlight after House Theatre’s The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz.  As a composer and music director he has been nominated for 6 Jeff Citations  (receiving 2), and 2 Chicago Music and Dance Alliance awards; he also recently received a 2005-2006 After Dark Award for his entire season of work.  He has composed, music directed and/or sound designed for The House Theatre (company member), The Hypocrites, Redmoon Theater, ATC,  Collaboraction, Trap Door, Vitalist, The Building Stage, Strawdog, and The Mirror Rep (NYC), amongst others.  For Lookingglass he collaborated with Andre Pleuss on Hepheastus.