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| ALISON C. VESELY (Artistic Director) is currently assisting Bill Pullinsi as a Shakespeare Reference Coach for "Leading Ladies at Theatre at the Center. She is Co-Founder (with her husband David Rice) of First Folio Theatre where she is directing Design for Living this winter and will direct A Moon for the Misbegotten in Spring, 2009. Earlier this season she directed The Passion of Dracula for the company. Last season, she directed Driving Miss Daisy, Jeeves Intervenes and a remount of First Folio’s critically acclaimed original piece, The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe. Together these shows earned a combined five Jeff Nominations. Other First Folio credits include Richard III, Angel Street, The Tempest (1997 & 2006), Private Lives, A Connecticut Yankee, The Taming of the Shrew (1999 & 2005), The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Antigone, As You Like It, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1998). Before founding First Folio, Alison was the Classics Project Director for Footsteps Theatre, a women’s theater company specializing in all-female productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Alison worked as the Folio Director and Dramaturge on many productions at Footsteps, including Romeo and Juliet, A Midsommer Night’s Dreame, and Macbeth. She also performed in these productions, earning an After Dark Award for the title role in their production of Macbeth. Additionally, Alison directed Richard III for both Footsteps and Shakespeare’s Herd at the Chicago Cultural Center. Other directing credits include Real Human Dialogue, Riders to the Sea, Kiss Me Kate, and Scrooge. As an actress, Alison’s work includes Richard II at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Exeter in Henry VI: Blood of a Nation (Bailiwick). Alison has also served as an adjudicator for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and the Irene Ryan Awards and currently serves on the Theater Program Grants Panel for the Illinois Arts Council, as well as the AT Team of the Jeff Committee. For more information, visit their website: http://www.firstfolio.org
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