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April - May, 2017
Lively’s feature film credits include
The Opera
Lover
and
Contagion
.
SARA SEVIGNY*
(
Mrs.
Hopkins, u/s Mrs. Pearce, u/s
Lady Boxington, u/s Angry
Woman
) is a Chicago-
based performer who has
worked with the Broadway
Playhouse, Chicago Chil-
dren’s Theatre, About Face
Theatre, TimeLine, and
The Hypocrites. She received a Jeff Award
for best supporting actress in a musical in
Porchlight Music Theatre’s production of
Assassins
and was a part of Strawdog Theatre
Company’s best ensemble award-winning
Marathon ’33
. Television credits include
Empire, The Gabriels,
and
Mindgames
. Sevigny
trained at Curry College, the American
Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and
Second City’s Conservatory.
Ensemble
SKYLER ADAMS
(
u/s
Harry, u/s Jamie, u/s
Charles
) returns to the
Lyric stage after debuting
in the ensemble of
Oklahoma!
(2012/13). He
has performed with Drury
Lane (
Next to Normal
,
Les
Misérables
,
Saturday Night
Fever
), Mercury Theater (
The Bardy Bunch
),
Musical Theater Wichita (
Catch Me If You Can
,
Big Fish
,
Legally Blonde
), Chicago Shakespeare
Theater (
The Adventures of Pinocchio
, world
premiere), and Paramount Theatre (
Hair
,
Grease
,
Fiddler on the Roof
). Additionally,
Adams appeared in the national tour of
Pippin
.
HOSS BROCK
(
Selsey
Man
,
Cockney Quartet
),
a Lyric Opera Chorus
member, has been seen
at Lyric Opera as Ike
S k i dmo r e /
Ok l a h oma !
and Baron Elberfeld/
The
Sound
of Music.
The tenor
has portrayed Almaviva/
The Barber of Seville
with Lyric Unlimited’s
Opera in the Neighborhoods program and
recently appeared as Alfredo/
La traviata
with
the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra. Brock
has performed on San Francisco Opera’s
mainstage (
Der Rosenkavalier
) and with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Peninsula
Music Festival, Northwest Indiana Symphony,
and Grant Park Music Festival.
MATTHEW CARROLL
(
Servant
,
Footman
), has
been a member of the Lyric
Opera Chorus for 11 years
and has been seen in many
of Lyric’s productions,
including
Carousel
,
Okla-
homa!
,
The Merry Widow
,
and
La traviata
. In addi-
tion, he has performed roles with Michigan
Opera Theatre, Opera Colorado, Central City
Opera, Toledo Opera, Opera Omaha, Ohio
Light Opera, and Chicago Folks Operetta.
He was a Pittsburgh regional winner of
the Metropolitan Opera National Council
Auditions.
SHARON GARVEY
COHEN
(
Queen of Tran-
sylvania
) is a member of
the Lyric Opera Chorus
and has been seen onstage
in Lyric productions of
The Merry Widow
,
Die
Fledermaus
,
The Pirates of
Penzance
,
Candide
,
The
Sound of Music
,
Suor Angelica
,
Turandot
,
Fedora
, and
The Ghosts of Versailles
. An alumna
of Northwestern University and Simpson
College, Cohen is the recipient of the Louis
Sudler Excellence in the Art of Oratorio
Award and is a past member of the Chicago
Symphony Chorus.
JANET MARIE FARR
(
Mrs. Higgins’s Maid
),
currently in her 30th year
with the Lyric Opera
Chorus, received her musi-
cal training at Mills College
(Oakland, California) and
the University of Texas-
Austin, where she received
her D.M.A. in voice. Farr has performed
Schoenberg’s
Pierrot Lunaire
with New Music
Ensemble at UT, Cherubino/
The Marriage of
Figaro
(Austin Lyric Opera), sang the North
American premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s
Ring a Dumb Carillon
, and was seen in Chicago
Opera Theater’s production of
Così fan tutte
.
MATTHEW KEFFER*
(
Servant, u/s Freddy
Eynsford-Hill, u/s Cockney
Quartet
) is an active
performer in the Chicago
area. He received a Jeff
Award as actor in a
principal role-musical for
his portrayal of Burrs/
The
Wild Party
(Bailiwick Chicago) and has been
seen in productions at several area theaters,
including Porchlight Music Theatre (
Sideshow
,
Sondheim on Sondheim
), First Folio Theatre
(
Cymbeline
), The Mercury Theater (
The Man
Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes
), and Theo
Ubique (
Aspects of Love
). Keffer received his B.
F. A. in music theater at Elon University.
AMY
KUCKELMAN
(
Servant
) debuted at
Lyric in
The King and I
and portrayed the Female
Narrator in the Lyric
Unlimited world-premiere
production of
Jason and
the Argonauts
. She trained
at the Manhattan School
of Music, where she received her bachelor’s
degree in voice. While studying, she also
sang Mozart’s Pamina, Massenet’s Manon,
Vincenette/Gounod’s
Mireille
, Antonia/
Offenbach’s
Les contes d’Hoffmann
, and Lisa/
Lehár’s
The Land of Smiles
. Kuckelman was a
young artist at the ISING Beijing Festival and
in Italy at the International Lyric Academy.
KATELYN LEE
(
Servant
)
is a member of the Lyric
Opera Chorus, Grant Park
Symphony Chorus, and the
Chicago SymphonyChorus.
She received her vocal
training at the University
of Cincinnati College-
Conservatory and Indiana
University. Most recently, she was a part of
Lyric Unlimited’s Opera in the Neighborhoods
tour and was a featured soloist with Music of the
Baroque. She has performed as Antonia/
Man of
La Mancha
(Cedar Rapids), Mizzi/
Ball at the
Savoy
(Chicago Folks Operetta), and Rosina/
The
Barber of Seville
(Springfield Regional Opera).
WILL MOBLEY*
received
his training from the
Savannah College of Art
and Design, where he
earned a bachelor’s degree
in theater. He has numerous
theater credits, including
Chicago
Shakespeare
Theater (
SS! Twelfth Night
),
Writers Theatre (
Days Like Today
,
Antony
and Cleopatra
), Cardinal Stage Company in
Bloomington, Indiana (
The Legend of Georgia
McBride
), Indiana Repertory Theater (
The
Hound of the Baskervilles
,
A Christmas Carol
,
Other Desert Cities
), and Wisconsin’s American
Players Theatre (
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
,
Hamlet
,
Twelfth Night
).
*Lyric debut