Moby Dick

DAVID CATLIN

Adaptor, Director

DAVID CATLIN (Adaptor, Director) is a founding ensemble member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company, the recipient of the 2011 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater. Regional directing/writing credits include Lookingglass Alice at Lookingglass Theatre, McCarter Theatre, New Victory Theater, Arden Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage (SALT Award, Production), Alliance Theatre (Suzi Bass Award, Best Ensemble), Adrienne Arsht Center and Denver Center and Moby Dick at Lookingglass Theatre (four Jeff Awards including Production, Large, and nominations for direction and adaptation) and Alliance Theatre. Additional Lookingglass credits include The Little Prince, Icarus, The Idiot (Jeff Award, Adaptation), Black Diamond (co-direction), Kafka’s Metamorphosis, The Master and Margarita (co-direction) and West. David teaches theater at Northwestern University.

SYLVIA HERNANDEZ-DISTASI

Aerial / Acrobatic Choreography

SYLVIA HERNANDEZ-DiSTASI (Aerial/Acrobatic Choreography) has been an artistic associate at Lookingglass since 1999, winning three of her four Joseph Jefferson Awards for choreography with the company. Lookingglass credits include Baron in The Trees (Jeff Award), Hard Times (Jeff Award), Lookingglass Alice (Jeff Award), Icarus (Jeff nomination) and Moby Dick (Jeff Award, Best Production). Other theater credits include All Night Strut (Marriott Theatre, Jeff Award,) Steppenwolf and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, among others. Sylvia is a recipient of the 2014 3Arts Award for Design and the Illinois Theatre Associations 2015 Award of Honor for Outstanding Contributions. She was last seen performing on stage in Marney and Phil: A Circus Love Letter (The Actors Gymnasium).

COURTNEY O'NEILL

Set Designer

COURTNEY O’NEILL (Set Designer)’s design credits include Moby Dick and The Little Prince (Lookingglass); Julius Caesar (Writers Theatre); The Burials, Life and Limb, The Compass and Of Mice and Men (Steppenwolf); Waiting for Godot (Court Theatre); The Amish Project and Song Man Dance Man (Milwaukee Repertory); Fetch Clay Make Man (Marin Theatre and Round House); When I Come to Die (Kansas City Repertory); The Mountaintop (Virginia Stage); Our Town, Oedipus, The Bald Soprano and Mud (The Hypocrites); and Good for Otto, Bethany and Dirty (The Gift Theatre); among others. She was the associate designer for Fish in the Dark and This is our Youth on Broadway. Courtney received a Jeff Award for Mud. She holds an M.F.A. from Northwestern and a B.F.A. from DePaul University, and currently teaches at both institutions. www.courtneyoneill.com

SULLY RATKE

Costume Designer

SULLY RATKE (Costume Designer) is grateful to be a part of such an inspiring project. She is a recent graduate from the stage design M.F.A. program at Northwestern University, with a fascination for all peoples and an intuition for connecting them, particularly through their common use of symbols, rituals and spiritual ideas. She has been lucky to work with some fantastic theater companies in Chicago, including Steppenwolf, Drury Lane, Lookingglass, Griffin Theatre, Northwestern University, Chicago Fringe Opera, The Gift Theatre and Two Pence Theatre Company. Gratitude to David and the team for including her in this great work. Enjoy the show! www.sullyratke.com

WILLIAM C. KIRKHAM

Lighting Designer

WILLIAM C. KIRKHAM (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to be setting sail with Moby Dick at Arena Stage. Recent credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Portland Center Stage); Julius Caesar and Murder for Two (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Moby Dick and The Little Prince (Lookingglass, 2014 Jeff Award, Lighting Design); Life and Limb (Steppenwolf); United Flight 232 (House Theatre); Stupid F-king Bird and Antigonick (Sideshow Theatre); Three Sisters and The Tennessee Williams Project (The Hypocrites); Gidion’s Knot and From Prague (Contemporary American Theater Festival); Wonderful Life (ArtsWest Playhouse); Bud, Not Buddy and A Year with Frog and Toad (Chicago Children’s Theatre); and Pete, the Return of Peter Pan and Girls Who Wear Glasses (Childsplay). William earned his M.F.A. in stage design at Northwestern University and is a proud member of USA Local 829. www.wckirkham.com

RICK SIMS

Sound Designer & Original Music

RICK SIMS (Sound Designer & Original Music) has composed and designed sound for numerous Chicago-area theaters, including Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Congo Square, Writers Theatre, Lifeline, Griffin Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, The Hypocrites, House Theatre, Court Theatre, ATC, Victory Gardens, The Raven, Steep, Northlight and About Face. Additional credits include The Getty, Boston Playwrights, Arden Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Portland Playhouse. Rick won a Jeff Award for sound design for Moby Dick and Hepheastus (Lookingglass) and BTAA award for Brothers In the Dust (Congo Square),and has received several nominations for both awards. He is an artistic associate of Lookingglass, artistic affiliate with American Blues Theatre and associate designer with Aria Music Designs (Ray Nardelli and Josh Horvath). Rick also wrote the book, music and lyrics for Hillbilly Antigone (Lookingglass).

ISAAC SCHOEPP

Rigging Designer

ISAAC SCHOEPP (Rigging Designer)’s rigging design credits include Moby Dick (Lookingglass, Alliance Theatre) and Marnie and Phil: A Circus Love Letter, Circuscope and Magical Exploding Boy (The Actors Gymnasium). He serves as rigging designer for next spring’s The Year I Didn’t Go to School (Chicago Children’s Theatre). Assistant rigging design to Lee Brasuell includes Lookingglass Alice, The Little Prince and Peter Pan: A Play (Lookingglass) and Cascabel (Goodman, Lookingglass). Performer rigging for The Little Mermaid (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) and Home of the Brave (Merrimack Repertory Theatre). He received the 2015 Jeff Award for Artistic Specialization for his rigging design for Moby Dick. He also coordinates the Christ College Freshman Drama Workshop at Valparaiso University, where he received his B.A. in theater and humanities. Much love to Claire.

KATHY LOGELIN

Dialect Coach

KATHY LOGELIN (Dialect Coach) is happy to return to coach Moby Dick, having previously coached the 2015 Lookingglass production. Other coaching credits include Treasure Island (Lookingglass), Spinning and Little World of Our Own (Irish Theatre of Chicago), The Mutilated (A Red Orchid Theatre), All the Way (TheatreSquared), Pygmalion (Oak Park Festival Theatre) and Persuasion (Chamber Opera Chicago at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Kathy holds a B.S. in acting from Illinois State University and is a company member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble.

MARY HUNGERFORD

Stage Manager

MARY HUNGERFORD (Stage Manager) is honored to return to The Pequod with this amazing group of artists after working on the original production at Lookingglass in 2015. Other Lookingglass credits include Blood Wedding, Treasure Island, Lookingglass Alice and Ethan Frome. In Chicago, she has worked with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf, TimeLine Theatre and Writers Theatre. Most recently, she collaborated with the Globe Theatre’s international touring production of The Merchant of Venice during their run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Mary is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and an alumna of Northwestern University. Endless thanks to Jeff and Kelley.

MARNE ANDERSON

Assistant Stage Manager

MARNE ANDERSON (Assistant Stage Manager)’s Arena Stage credits include All the Way, Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, King Hedley II, Five Guys Named Moe, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Mountaintop, Metamorphoses, The Arabian Nights and Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies. Additional D.C. credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Folger Theatre); Angels in America: Parts 1 & 2 (Round House); and You for Me for You and Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (Woolly Mammoth). She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. She is thankful to her family for all their love and support.