My Fair Lady

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Lively’s feature film credits include The Opera Lover and Contagion .

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.

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-

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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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

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.

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

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

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 .

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).

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/

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

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 ),

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.

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

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