My Fair Lady

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previous TV credits include The Good Wife and Person of Interest .

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 .

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

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-

( 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 .

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

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 .

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

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 ).

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 .

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

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

BILL M C GOUGH* ( 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/

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).

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 .

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.

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-

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

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 .

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*Lyric debut