JACK DeCESARE (Robbie) is thrilled to work with Remy Bumppo for the first time. Chicago credits include understudying Short Shakes: Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare) and Rembrandt (Steppenwolf). Television credits include Chicago Justice(NBC). Big shout outs to Stewart Talent and my family. I’m incredibly grateful for their continual love and support.

SHAWN DOUGLASS (Robert) is a Remy Bumppo Core Ensemble member where he has appeared in Born Yesterday, The Life of Galileo, The Clean House, Changes of Heart, Night and Day, Aren’t We All?, Humble Boy, Major Barbara, Holiday, and Man and Superman. Chicago credits include Private Lives (Writers); Lady Windemere’s Fan (Northlight); Henry IV (Court); The Birthday Party, and Uncle Vanya (Apple Tree), and Season’s Greetings (Candlelight’s Forum). Other credits include Cyrano de Bergerac, Antony and Cleopatra, Love’s Labour’s Lost,Comedy of Errors, Macbeth (American Players Theater); Henry V (Milwaukee Shakespeare); As Bees in Honey Drown (Madison Rep); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Next Act);Julius Caesar, and You Never Can Tell (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks).

BRYCE GANGEL (Caithleen) is excited to work with Remy Bumppo again having understudied You Never Can Tell. Chicago credits include Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Court); 1980 (Or Why I’m Voting…)(Jackalope); Dry Land (Rivendell); Posh (Steep); Between You, Me, & the Lampshade (Teatro Vista); All American (Redtwist); Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Filament). Film/TV Credits include Chicago Fire, Crisis (NBC); The Exorcist (FOX); Embeds (Go90); and the feature films, Princess Cydand Dreaming Grand Avenue. Bryce is a graduate of Loyola University and the School at Steppenwolf. She is represented by Paonessa Talent.

J.R. SULLIVAN (Director) is a director, producer, and writer, having worked in theaters nationwide as well as heading companies as artistic director. The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout hailed his 2018 Off-Broadway revival at the Mint Theatre of Lillian Hellman’s Days to Comeas one of the top productions of the year. From 2009-2013, Jim was the Artistic Director of New York’s Pearl Theatre Company, presented with a Drama Desk Award in 2011, where he directed productions of Hard Times, Playboy of the Western World, Widowers’ Houses, Biography, The Importance of Being Earnest, Richard II,A Moon for the Misbegotten, and the New York premiere of Wittenberg. Sullivan was the founder and producing director of the New American Theater in northern Illinois, a company that thrived under his direction before he moved on to a free-lance career and then to his stint as associate artistic director with the Utah Shakespeare Festival from 2002-2009, staging productions ranging from Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams, including Henry IV, Part One,Amadeus, Hamlet, Henry V, The Glass Menagerie, and Romeo and Juliet. His work has also been seen in regional theaters nationwide, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Theatre X, Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre, the Studio Theatre in Washington DC, the Delaware Theatre Company, and the Resident Ensemble Players at the University of Delaware. In Chicago Sullivan has directed for Northlight Theatre, American Theatre Company, Turnaround, A Red Orchid Theatre, Live Bait Theatre, Prop Theatre, and the Onyx Theatre. His adaptations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, in collaboration with Joseph Hanreddy,have been produced at regional houses nationwide, including Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Oregon, Utah, and Idaho Shakespeare Festivals, Great Lakes Shakespeare, South Coast Repertory, Round House Theatre, People’s Light & Theater Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Connecticut Rep. www.jrsullivan.net