Avery-Slade Fountain is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been working professionally in the Chicago for the past 3 years and across the country for 6. Fountain has performed in four Shakespeare productions and this is his third Forest Park Theatre production.

Anna Ziegler is an award-winning playwright and television writer. In television, Anna is currently writing the pilot GO, TEAM for Paramount+. Prior to that, Anna adapted PREP by Curtis Sittenfeld for Apple TV, and her play ACTUALLY for HBO Max. That same year, she served as a Consulting Producer for the AMC series INVITATION TO A BONFIRE.

Her critically acclaimed plays have been produced at major theaters around the U.S. and in Australia, Japan, Italy, Germany, India, and Sweden. Anna’s widely produced play PHOTOGRAPH 51 starring Nicole Kidman won London’s 2016 WhatsOnStage award for Best New Play. It was selected as a “Best of the Year” play by The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post (twice), and The Telegraph. In 2017, Anna’s play ACTUALLY received the Ovation Award in Los Angeles for Playwriting of an Original Play. Her play THE WANDERERS, which was recently produced at the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York, won the 2018 San Diego Critic’s Circle Award for Outstanding New Play. Inspired by a true story, her play, BOY, was nominated for the 2016 John Gassner Award by the Outer Critics Circle. 

Anna is a graduate of Yale and holds masters degrees in poetry from The University of East Anglia (UK) and dramatic writing from NYU.

McKeely recently graduated from UIC with a BA in theatre performance. She has sang downtown in the theatre district and on Michigan Avenue. Recently, McKeely has focused on filming for Sundance, Coca-Cola, and short films in and outside of Chicago. McKeely is looking forward to expanding her work on the stage and in front of the camera.

Scottish playwright Rona Munro’s history cycle The James Plays, James I, James II, and James III, were first performed by the National Theatre of Scotland in summer 2014 in a co-production with Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre UK. The plays were staged again in early 2016. She followed this up with James IV - The Queen of the Fight in 2022. Other theatre works include plays for the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh (Fugue, Your Turn To Clean The Stair, Strawberries in Januarytranslation), Manchester Royal Exchange (Mary Barton, Scuttlers), Plymouth Drum Theatre and Paines Plough (Long Time Dead), and the Royal Shakespeare Company (The Indian Boy, The Astronaut's Chair).  

Rona Munro currently lives and works in Scotland. Her play The Last Witch was performed at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, directed by Dominic Hill, and in 2011 by Dumbarton People's Theatre. In 2018, a production of her adaptation of My Name Is Lucy Barton starring Laura Linney opened in London, prior to a Broadway run. 

Hannah Eisendrath is happy to be back with the FPT Team! Former credits include Gut (Platform/Avalanche Theatre) Measure for Measure (Forest Park Theatre), Jack Off the Beanstalk (PrideArts) HAIR (Parallel 45 Theatre), and A Doll’s House, Part 2 (IAA Arts Festival). Film and television credits include The Blacklist and various independent film projects. Hannah is represented by Talent X Alexander and has a BA in theatre and political science from Bard College.

Jesús (he/they) is happy to be back again with Forest Park Theatre! Chicago credits: The Mousetrap (Citadel Theatre), Measure for Measure (Forest Park Theatre). Favorite regional credits: Fun Home, A Year with Frog and Toad, The Producers (Farmers Alley Theatre); Forever Plaid (New River Valley Regional Theatre). Thank you for supporting local professional theatre!

Eamon McInerney is a non-union actor, born, raised, and trained in Chicago. His past credits include Macduff in Macbeth, Ronin Farrow in The Shady Lady, and Escalus in Measure for Measure. If his performance of Frankenstein's Monster cannot inspire love, it will cause fear!

Duke

Isabella

Angelo

Marianna/Froth/1st Gentleman

Lucio

Pompey/Friar Peter

Escalus/Friar Thomas/Abhorson

Provost

Claudio

Juliet/Elbow

Overdone/Francisca/Barnardine

Jennie Moreau has worked extensively as an actor on stage, film and television in New York and Chicago.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from North Carolina School of the Arts. In New York she worked at such theatres as Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage and Minetta Lane. In Chicago, Jennie has performed at Steppenwolf, the Goodman, and Victory Gardens theatres.

Her on camera credits include guest star roles on Law and Order, Chicago PD, Chicago Fire and Chicago Med, various soap operas, several independent films, and many commercials. She has taught actors at Act One Studios, at Victory Gardens Theatre, and at Acting Studio Chicago.

Additionally, Jennie uses theatre training to coach executives and create dynamic leadership, team building, and communications workshops

Alex Frisch is thrilled to be working with Forest Park Theatre on this thought-provoking project. A graduate of Northwestern University's Theatre program, she enjoyed time on the stage in productions such as Arcadia (Hannah) and The Language of Angels (Danielle.)

For the last eleven years she has worked in the western suburbs as a Theatre Educator at The Actors Garden and as a Speech Team Coach at OPRFHS. Her most recent production was Don't Be Sad: But Someone Dies at The End with The Actors Garden's New Play Lab.

After acting and directing professionally for several years, Gigi switched gears and turned towards theatre education. Combining her love of theater and her passion for teaching, she created The Actors Garden; a theatre school in Oak Park that offers year-round theatre programming for children and adults.

The Actors Garden focuses on the individual actor, both new and experienced, to help them build confidence and encourage them to grow in a low stress environment.  

Gigi also takes a great deal of pride in directing shows written by her husband Dave, whose plays have been produced and directed all over the world, including one directed by Forest Park Theatre’s very own Rick Corley.

Gigi thanks Rick, for this great opportunity and Thanks Jennie and Alex for their beautiful work.

Sarah Treem’s A FEMININE ENDING premiered at Playwrights Horizons and went on to productions at South Coast Repertory and Portland Center Stage, among others.

Her play THE HOW AND THE WHY premiered at the McCarter Theater starring Mercedes Ruehl (with Emily Mann directing) and went on to productions at Interact Theatre and Trinity Repertory, among others.

In addition to her theater career, Sarah wrote and produced all three seasons of the acclaimed HBO series "In Treatment," for which she won a WGA award and was nominated for a Humanitas award. She was also a writer/producer for the HBO series "How to Make it in America."

Sarah was a lead writer for David Fincher on "House of Cards" for Netflix and the co-creator and showrunner for "The Affair" on Showtime. She has taught playwriting at Yale University, where she earned her B.A. and M.F.A.

Innogen

Cymbeline

Cloten

Posthumous Leonatus

Queen

Cornelius/Belarius

Pisanio/Soothsayer

Guiderius/Philario

Iachimo

First Lord/Aviragus/French Lord

Helen/Captain/Understudy Innogen

Caius Lucius