PRODUCTION
Mark E. Lococo (Director)
Tim Morrison (Set Design)
Diane Fairchild (Lighting Design)
Rachel Anne Healy (Costume Design)
Lindsay Jones (Sound Design)
Meghan Beals McCarthy (Dramaturg)
Rita Vreeland (Production Stage Manager)  

Patrick Clear (S. Anselme/M. Simon/Dame Claude) is delighted to return to Northlight where he appeared as Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.  This season he celebrates thirty years in professional theatre.  During the past twenty years here in Chicago his appearances have included: Oedipus Complex, King Lear, The Clean House, The Goat, Hollywood Arms, Arcadia, Dancing at Lughnasa, Miss Evers’ Boys and A Christmas Carol (Goodman); Uncle Vanya and A Man of No Importance (Apple Tree); Measure for Measure, As You Like It, All’s Well and King Lear (Chicago Shakespeare); Song of Jacob Zulu and The Secret Rapture (Steppenwolf); Tartuffe (Remy Bumppo) and Richard III (First Folio).  Regional credits include Indiana Rep, Arena Stage, Guthrie, American Shakespeare, Center Stage, Folger Shakespeare and Cincinnati Playhouse.  He appeared on Broadway in Hollywood Arms and Noises Off.  Film/TV credits include The Dark Knight, Losing Isaiah, The Babe, Prison Break, The Untouchables, Early Edition, and In the Best Interests of the Children.

Lea Coco (Cleante) is very happy to make his debut at Northlight with The Miser.  He has worked with such companies as Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, Humana Festival at Actors Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, City Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Blue Man Group (as a Blue Man) and the New York Shakepeare Festival.  He has been seen on CBS, NBC and Fox.  Look for his latest movie The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell in theatres this spring.  Lea is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon.

Bob Fairbrook (Maitre Jacques) is thrilled to be making his Chicago acting debut at Northlight Theatre.  A recent transplant from Seattle, in the past year Bob has worked locally as an understudy for both Northlight and Writers’ Theatre.  National credits include As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Grass), Twelfth Night (Long Theatre), You Can’t Take It With You, Frankenstein, Ten Little Indians (Fallon House Theatre Company).  Bob is also a financial planner for Wise Planning Inc, in Winnetka.

Kate Fry (Elise) is pleased to be working at Northlight for the first time. Other credits include productions at Chicago Shakespeare (Henry IV, The Merchant of Venice, The Molière Comedies, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labor’s Lost, As You Like It, The Two Gentlemen of Verona); Court Theatre (Arcadia, The Romance Cycle, My Fair Lady, Twelfth Night, Piano, Tartuffe, The Cherry Orchard, The Philadelphia Story); as well as work with Apple Tree Theatre, Marriott Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Mark Taper Forum, and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.  She is the recipient of the Joseph Jefferson award, the After Dark Award, the Sarah Siddons Chicago’s Leading Lady award, and Chicago Magazine’s 2002 actress of the year.  Kate is married to actor Timothy Edward Kane.

Dieterich Gray (La Fleche/La Merluche/Commissioner) is excited to make his Northlight Theatre debut with The Miser.  Other Chicago credits include: King Lear with Stacy Keach at Goodman Theatre; The Royal Family, Mother Courage and I Just Stopped By To See The Man at Steppenwolf Theatre; Short Shakespeare! Taming of the Shrew at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Eurydice, Great Expectations, Our Country's Good, Lady Chaplin and Her Tramp and The Mad Dancers at Piven Theatre (ensemble member); Mr. Marmalade, Crumble, Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake and Osama the Hero for Dog & Pony (Artistic Associate).  Film credits include: DogJack, Realization, Hold Me Off, and the soon to be released 8 of Diamonds with Eric Roberts.

Timothy Edward Kane (Valere) is pleased to return to Northlight having last appeared as Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer, for which he won an After Dark Award.  Chicago credits include:  Uncle Vanya, The Romance Cycle: Cymbeline & Pericles, Hamlet (Court Theatre); Arms and the Man (Writers’ Theatre); Hamlet, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 (also performed at the R.S.C., Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK), A Flea In Her Ear, Merchant of Venice, King John, The Molière Comedies, Love’s Labors Lost, The Tempest, King Lear, All’s Well That Ends Well (Chicago Shakespeare); The Underpants (Noble Fool Theatricals); Hushabye Mountain, Early and Often, Hellcab (Famous Door); Cyrano de Bergerac, The Clink (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble).  Regional credits include: School for Scandal (Mark Taper Forum), Broadway Bound, Fools, Souffle Surprise (Peninsula Players) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing (Illinois Shakespeare Festival).  Mr. Kane is married to actress Kate Fry.

Mark Mysliwiec (Brindavoine) most recently served as an understudy at Northlight for The Chalk Garden, Grace and Permanent Collection.  He appeared in Apple Tree Theatre’s productions of Uncle Vanya and A Man of No Importance.  Mark spent three years at the original Organic Theatre developing scripts through improvisation.  He has performed with Splinter Group, Lifeline Theatre, NOWtheatre, Terrapin Theatre and Irish Rep (where he has also directed), among others.  His artistic work has been seen regionally for the past 27 years in media ranging from traditional theatre to performance art, galleries, design, and multimedia productions.  DuPage Children’s Museum has called upon his design skills for educational children’s costumes (Wings and Fish Out of Water exhibits), praxinoscopes (Wheels Works of Art and Fish Out of Water exhibits), and masks.

Erica Peregrine (Mariane) The Miser marks Mrs. Peregrine’s debut at Northlight Theatre.  She has worked with other notable Chicago companies including Infamous Commonwealth Theatre (where she is a proud company member), Collaboraction, Defiant Theatre, the Vittum Theater, and About Face Theatre Collective.  She has also appeared in several short films and national commercials.  She recently married the love of her life and would like to thank her husband, Seth, for all of his love and support.

Gene Weygandt (Harpagon) is a three-time Jefferson Award recipient.  Over the past two years you’ve likely seen him as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in Wicked either here in Chicago or on Broadway.  Also on Broadway, he created the role of Paul, the bad boyfriend, in big: the Musical.   Regional credits include: The Music Man, My Old Lady, Taming of the Shrew, Me and My Girl, Little Me,  Lend Me a Tenor, Little Shop of Horrors, and A Day in Hollywood, among others.  Film: The Birdcage, The Babe, The Pager.  Television:  Murphy Brown, Home Improvement, Cybill, The Drew Carey Show, Ellen, Coach, University Hospital.  He’s also a voice-over actor you’ve heard hundreds of times.  The happy owner of a 30 year-old motorcycle, he is a proud graduate of The Seymour Goldberg BMW Tech Yeshiva.  Obsessions: Toni and Graham.

Jacqueline Williams (Frosine) happily returns to Northlight after 18 years since Born in the R.S.A. (with Market Theatre of Johannesburg) and Jonathan Wilson’s production of From the Mississippi Delta, with which she toured for over two years.  Other Tours: Regina Taylor's Crowns. Her Goodman credits (almost 20 years) include The Story, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Amen Corner, Oo-Bla Dee.  Her many Chicago credits include: Fences, Electra (Court); Shoes, Waiting to be Invited (Victory Gardens); Fabulation, Yellowman (Next); plus appearances at Steppenwolf, Congo Square, Apollo and Chicago Shakespeare, among others.  Regional: LaJolla, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Portland Stage, Berkeley Rep.  Broadway: Young Man from Atlanta.  Off-Broadway: From the Mississippi Delta, The Talented Tenth, Mill Fire (with BJ Jones).  TV/Film: Turks, Prison Break, The Break Up, The Lake House and the upcoming Merry Gentleman (with Michael Keaton) and Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns.  Awards/nominations include Jeff, After Dark, Black Theatre Alliance, Helen Hayes, American Arts Council.  Greatest Blessing: daughter Kara.

Mark E. Lococo (Director) most recently directed Mountain for the Apple Tree Theatre in Chicago.  Previous productions there include the Midwest premiere of Dessa Rose (for which he received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Best Director), Uncle Vanya, the Chicago premiere of A Man of No Importance (winner of the 2004 After Dark Chicago Award for Best Production of a Musical), The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Indian Ink, Syncopation, The Dresser, The Swan, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Waiting for Godot, and Sugar.  Other recent credits include The Elephant Man at Peninsula Playhouse in Wisconsin; Shaw’s Misalliance at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; a new musical version of The Princess and the Pea at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; and Trumbo, featuring noted author and Chicago personality Studs Terkel for Steppenwolf Theatre’s Traffic Series.  He has directed at Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre (Jeff nomination for The Taffetas), Theatre On the Bay in Marinette, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Econo-Art Theatre, Pegasus Players, City Lit Theatre, and he assisted David Bell on the London production of Hot Mikado.  This fall, he joined the faculty of Loyola University as Director of Theatre in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts.   Tim Morrison (Scenic Design) The Miser is Tim's first design at Northlight Theatre.  Tim has worked at theatres throughout Chicago including Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Theatre and Apple Tree Theatre.  Rachel Anne Healy (Costume Design) is honored to create again with the talented artists and staff at Northlight Theatre.  Previous Northlight productions include She Stoops to Conquer, The Gamester, A Skull in Connemara, Rounding Third, Talley’s Folly, Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and The Chalk Garden.  Chicago credits include designs for productions at The Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Writers’ Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Remy Bumppo, Strawdog, Apple Tree, Naked Eye, Organic, and American Theatre Company.  Ms. Healy has also designed with Milwaukee Rep, American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, Peninsula Players in Door County, Wisconsin and The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.  Ms. Healy’s designs were recently seen on stage in Another Part of the Forest at Writers’ Theatre.  Ms. Healy is also an adjunct professor at DePaul University where she teaches drawing and painting techniques to theatre artists.  Diane D. Fairchild (Lighting Design) Design credits include: Chicago: Court Theatre, Redmoon, Noble Fool, Neo-Futurists (at Northlight), Infamous Commonwealth, Next Theatre;  NYC: The Juilliard School, Dixon Place, The Kitchen, Joyce Soho, HERE, New Georges;  Regional: INTIMAN Theatre, Trinity Repertory, Syracuse Stage.  Ms. Fairchild holds an MFA in theater design from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and she earned her BFA in design and technology for the theater from Wright State University in her hometown, Dayton, Ohio.  Much thanks and love to F.L. and Baby Xan.  Lindsay Jones (Sound Design) is very glad to be back at Northlight where he has previously designed Lady, Sky Girls and Rounding Third, among others.  His work has been heard in theatres across the country including Center Stage, American Conservatory Theatre, Hartford Stage, South Coast Repertory, Alliance, Goodman, Arena Stage, Yale Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Old Globe, Chicago Shakespeare, Steppenwolf and Lookingglass.  Internationally, he has had productions in Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Scotland and The Royal Shakespeare Company of England.  Mr. Jones has received four Jeff Awards and twelve nominations, an Ovation Award, two ASCAP Plus Awards, nominations for a Barrymore Award, Connecticut Critics Award, NAACP Theatre Award and Austin Critics Table Award, and was the first sound designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award.  His most recent film score was for A Note Of Triumph: The Golden Age Of Norman Corwin (2006 Academy Award winner, Best Documentary, Short Subject) for HBO Films.  Rita Vreeland (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working on her first production with Northlight Theatre.  Rita’s recent stage management credits include 18 productions for Apple Tree Theatre, including Bubbly Black Girl, A Man of No Importance and Uncle Vanya, all directed by Mark Lococo; Cats, Grease, Oklahoma and The Sound of Music at Theatre at the Center; the world premiere of Court Martial at Fort Devens, among others, for the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre; Once Upon a Time in New Jersey and Into the Woods at Marriott Lincolnshire.  Rita is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, and a proud member of Actors Equity Association.