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previous TV credits include The Good Wife and
Person of Interest.
CINDY GOLD (Mrs.
Pearce) is an active per-
former in the Chicago
area and across the United
States, and is a professor
of theater at Northwestern
University. She has worked
off-Broadway in New York
and regionally at The Ken-
nedy Center (Washington National Opera),
Glimmerglass Festival, Cape Rep Theatre
(Cape Cod), Madison Repertory Theatre,
Peninsula Players (Wisconsin), Shakespeare
Sedona (Arizona), Alabama Shakespeare
Festival, and Boston Shakespeare Company. In
the Chicago area she has performed with Drury
Lane, Lookingglass, Northlight, the Goodman,
About Face, and Broadway in Chicago. Gold
has directed at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
(Chicago), Coconut Grove Playhouse Summer
Conservatory (Miami), Lyric Stage (Boston),
Festival of Southern Theatre (Mississippi), and
13th Street Theatre (New York). As a dialect
coach, she has worked with many area theaters,
such as Griffin Theatre, the Court, and at
Lyric, where she worked with Robert Altman
and William Bolcom on their adaptation of
Altman’s A Wedding. In 2006 Gold received a
Jeff Award for best actress in Loving Repeating.
HELEN CAREY* (Mrs.
Higgins) previously por-
trayed this character in
Pygmalion on Broadway,
where she has also been
seen in The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the
Night Time and London
Assurance (for which
Carey earned a Tony nomination, a Theatre
World Award, and a Callaway Award). She
has performed at Canada’s Stratford Festival
(The School for Scandal, Arms and the Man);
Dublin’s Abbey Theatre (Kate Keller/All My
Sons); in many major roles at the Guthrie
Theater; and on the East Coast at Arena
Stage (Mary Tyrone/Long Day’s Journey Into
Night), Signature Theatre (Phyllis/Follies), and
Shakespeare Theater Company, where she is a
longstanding company member. The actress
holds three Helen Hayes Awards for her
Washington appearances. Film credits include
Julie & Julia, The Next Three Days , and Black
Knight. Carey has appeared in several popular
television series, among them The Good Wife,
Brotherhood, Seinfeld, and Law & Order.
MICHAEL JOSEPH
MITCHELL* (Zoltan Kar-
pathy, u/s Bartender, u/s
Lord Boxington, u/s Butler)
is an active performer in
the Chicago area, having
appeared with Russell Land
Productions (Assassination
Theater), Provision Theater
(Old Wicked Songs), Mercury Theater
(Freud’s Last Session), First Folio Theatre ( A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale,
The Merchant of Venice), City Lit Theater
Company (Underneath the Lintel, Jeff Award
nomination for best solo performance), and
recently appeared in the films Falsely Accused
and Scrooge & Marley.
CARMENROMAN*(Mrs.
Eynsford-Hill) has received
the Sarah Siddons Award,
Florence Herscher Award
(UCLA), Jeff Awards for
Master Class and Wit, and
was a 2002 Fox Fellow. She
toured nationally in Angels
in America and has worked
extensively with the Peninsula Players Theatre,
Theatre for a New Audience from Chicago’s
Court Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Gary
Allen Productions, Steppenwolf Theatre
Company, and Walnut Street Theater. Film
and television credits include appearances in
The Falcon, Marilyn, All My Children, Law &
Order, and Savages.
BILL MCGOUGH* (George
the Bartender, Lord Box-
ington)’s Chicago theater
credits include Scratch
and Santa/Rock and Roll
Christmas Tale (Broadway
Playhouse), Morty/Old Jews
Telling Jokes (Royal George
Theatre), andWilly Loman/
Death of a Salesman (The Hypocrites, Jeff
Award nomination for actor in a principal role).
He has been seen on episodes of Sirens (USA),
Chicago Fire (NBC), Shameless (Showtime),
and The Chicago Code (FOX). Film appearances
include roles in The Christmas, In Memoriam,
and Let’s Go to Prison.
P EGGY ROEDE R *
(Lady Boxington, Angry
Woman, u/s Mrs. Higgins)
has worked extensively
at Steppenwolf Theatre,
Goodman Theatre, Asolo
Repertory Theatre, The
Muny (St. Louis), Chicago
Shakespeare Theater, About Face, and
Peninsula Players. Her work has earned her
four Jeff Awards. Roeder can be seen in
the films Groundhog Day, Road to Perdition,
Stranger Than Fiction, In Memoriam , and Were
the World Mine , and her television appearances
include Law & Order, Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine, and Chicago Justice.
JACKSONEVANS* (Har-
ry, Charles, u/s Zoltan Kar-
pathy) is an Iowa native
who received his bachelor’s
degree in theater from
Northwestern University.
An active performer in the
Chicagoland area, he
has worked with such
companies as Mercury Theater ( Avenue
Q ), Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Ride the
Cyclone , SS! Taming of the Shrew), Second
City Theatricals (The Realish Housewives),
Drury Lane Oakbrook (Spamalot , Hairspray),
Lincolnshire Marriott (Singin’ in the Rain,
High School Musical ), Victory Gardens (The
Snow Queen ), Light Opera Works (Oklahoma!,
Kiss Me Kate ), Blank Theatre Los Angeles (Peter
Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers ), and First
Stage Children’s Theatre Milwaukee (Big: The
Musical, Seussical, The Wiz).
JAMES ROMNEY (Jamie)
received his training at
the Roosevelt University
Chicago College of Per-
forming Arts, where he
earned a bachelor of fine arts
in acting. At Lyric, he was a
member of the ensemble in
Carousel (2014/15). At the
Texas Shakespeare Festival, Romney performed
many roles, which include Sebastian/ Twelfth
Night, Puck/A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and
Juan/ Man of La Mancha. He most recently
appeared in Fly By Night (Theo Ubique).
DAVID LIVELY (Butler,
u/s Colonel Pickering) pre-
viously performed at
Lyric as David Bascombe/
Carousel. In addition to
theMarriottTheatre,Drury
Lane Theatre, and Round-
about Theatre Company,
he has performed exten-
sively with Chicago Shakespeare Theater in
23 productions, including King Charles III,
Othello , King Lear, Henry V, and The Madness of
George III. His television appearances include
Empire , The Chicago Code, Prison Break, What
About Joan, Cupid, and George Washington.
*Lyric debut