​Evelyn Reidy

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS | ARTISTIC STAFF [LEAD]

​Evelyn Reidy recently graduated from Tufts University with a double major in English & Drama. Following a Junior semester abroad studying Shakespeare at the British American Drama Academy in London, Evelyn became involved with the Boston Shakespeare Project as a teaching artist, intern, and member of Lord Barnum's Players, a traveling troupe that writes, directs, and performs Shakespeare for schools across the Greater Boston area. Evelyn's specific research interest is how Shakespeare explores gender identity and mental illness, an interest that resulted in her Senior Honors Thesis in English, Shakespeare’s “Mad Women”: Investigating the Gendered Representations of Mental Illness in III Henry VI, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Evelyn also completed a Senior Capstone in Drama, a production of Macbeth where she served as Dramaturg and portrayed Lady Macbeth. Evelyn also worked at Tufts as an actor, director, and costume designer. Favorite Shakespeare play: a three-way tie between King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet.

​​Jeremy Ohringer

PRINCIPAL GUEST ARTIST
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​Jeremy Ohringer is a director and teaching artist. Recent directing credits include an adaptation of FrankWedekind’s Spring Awakening with Fearless Theatre, Who Rowed Across Oceans by Danielle Littman, which was seen in both Chicago and at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Adapted by Sarah Ruhl, and Salve Regina, which premiered at the Ringwald Theatre before moving to the United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC. His Shakespeare directing includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Skidmore College and Macbeth, As You Like It,Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and Hamlet with high school students. As an educator, Jeremy has worked with the National High School Institute “Cherubs” program at Northwestern University as well as Steppenwolf, Global Voices Initiative, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Actors Training Center, Northlight, Emerald City, Shattered Globe, American Theater Company, CO/LAB and Parker Plus.

​Manon Spadaro

FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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​Before founding Chicago Youth Shakespeare in March of 2013, Manon Spadaro was a theatre educator and director for over fifteen years. She began her training at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts / Circle in the Square, and earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in theatre from Northwestern University. She has served on the drama faculty at Lake Forest Country Day School, Francis W. Parker School, Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development, and Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School.
Favorite Shakespeare play: Hamlet

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