GREY GARDENS AT THE NORTHLIGHT THEATRE
 

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SEAN BLAKE (Brooks Sr/Jr)
 

  Sean returns to Northlight, where he was last seen in Everything's Ducky. Broadway/National tours: Showboat(Swing/Dance Captain; Associate Choreographer in Sydney Australia) Locally, he has been seen at Goodman, Court, Drury Lane, Oakbrook and Marriott Lincolnshire. Nationally he has appeared at Seattle Rep(Birdie Blue), Long Warf Theatre(Carousel, Man of La Mancha) and the Kennedy Center(Stephen Sondheim and Hal Prince's Bounce) Sean has been nominated for 2 Jeff Awards and 2 Black Theatre Alliance Awards. He can be heard on the original cast recording of "Bounce"

ARIELLE DAYAN (Lee Bouvier)
 

  Arielle is a 10 year old fifth grader at Ravinia Elementary School in Highland Park. Most recently, she was seen in the Marriott Theatre's production of Les Miserables as Young Eponine. Other favorite roles are Baby June in Highland Players production of Gypsy, Sharpay in Lake Forest Children'ts Theatere's High School Musical, and Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz at Apple Tree Theatre.

GRACE ETZKORN (Jackie Bouvier)
 

  Grace was last seen playing Annie and Kate in the national tour of Annie, directed by Martin Charnin, and has also performed in American Girls Revue, American Girls Holiday Celebration, Children's Letters to God, The Music Man, Cheaper by the Dozen and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Grace is 11 years old.

GEORGE KEATING (George Gould Strong)
 

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  George returns to Northlight where he appeared in The Good War , At Wit's End and Everything's Ducky, Drury Lane: The Boys from Syracuse; Marriott; Les Miserables, Seussical, ,The Producers, Court; Man of La Mancha. National tour: Scrooge The Musical. George Received a BFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University, and is the co-creator of Theatrebam Chicago's Schoohouse Rock Live!

DENNIS KELLY ("Major Bouvier/Norman Vincent Peale)
 

  Dennis has played leading roles on Broadway in INto The Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, and Damn Yankees, and Off Broadway in Suburb and Music in the Air. He's toured the country in Urinetown, Jekyll & Hyde and Damn Yankees, and has performed regionally at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Goodspeed, Old Globe, Pittsburgh Playhouse among others , Chicago area productions include Caroline, or Change, A bench in the Sun, Knute Rockne-All American, and Cymbeline, as well as Phantom. Television appearances include Law & Order, Darrow, The Dollmaker, and Conan O'Brien.

HOLLIS RESNIK(Edith/Edie)


  Hollis is pleased to return to Nortlight after appearing in Enter the Guardsmen and The Immigrant. Recent credits include Dangerous Beauty at Northwestern, Carousel at Court and Long Wharf, and Pen at Appletree. Other Court Theatre appearances include Titus Andronicus, Man of La Mancha, The Little Foxes, Travesties, The Dead, The Chairs, The Cherry Orchard, An Ideal Husband and The Misanthrope. She has appeared at Writers, Marriott Lincolnshire, Apollo, Goodman, Ravinia, Lyric Opera and the CSO in such varied productions as Sweeney Todd, A Soldier's Tale, Rough Crossing, Beard of Avon, A little Night Music, Mame, and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife. National tours include, Les Miserables, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Firty Rotten Scoundrels. She is the recipient of 9 Jeff Awars and the Sarah Siddons Award for Piaf.

PATRICK SARB (Joseph Patrick Kennedy/Jerry
 

  Patrick makes his Northlight debut in Grey Gardens. Most recently, Patrick appeared as Edwin in Unlock'd at Ravinia, Bertram in All's Well That Ends Well, and Lucentio in Taming of the Shrew with Lakeside Shakespeare Theatre. Prior to that, he played Sky in the Vegas company of Mamma Mia after understudying the role as an ensemble of the Broadway company. His Chicago credits include, Charlie in Tintypes at American Theatre Company, Queen's Attendant in The Beard of Avon at The Goodman, Synonymous in Xena Lives The Musical

TEMPE THOMAS ("Little" Edie)
 

  Tempe makes her Northlight debut in Grey Gardens. Favorite roles include Marty in Grease and Estelle in Full Monty(Marriott Lincolnshire) ,Maria Elena in The Buddy Holly Story (Drury Lane Oakbrook and Water Tower), Percy in Spitfire Grill (Proviosn Theatre), and Brooke in Water Coolers(Lakeshore Theatre, Riverfront Theatre.) She has toured with Classical Kids Live in their production of Tchaikovsky Discovers America and appeared in the New York Music Theatre Festival production of River's End (TAM Award Winner). She is a proud member of Actor's Equity and a graduate of Northwestern University.

ANN WHITNEY(Edith Bouvier Beale)
 

  Ann previously appeared at Northlight in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Quilters, and Driving Miss Daisy, for which she received The Sarah Siddons Society Award for her performance in the tile role. She appeared in Little Woman, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect up?, Eleanor, Oklahoma, and Me and My Girl at the Marriott Theatre; Wit at Actors Theatre in Louisville: Fossils in Sacremento as well as at the Apple Tree; American Theatre Company, Court Drury Lane Oakbrook, Goodman, Stepenwolf and Victory Gardens. She is a seven-time Jeff Award nominee and Jeff Award ensemble winnter for her portrayal of Mrs Fraser in Steppenwolf's Stepping Out.

  




 

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