Kate Fry is happy to return to Writers, where she has performed in A Distinct Society, Wife of a Salesman, Arcadia, Marjorie Prime, Hedda Gabler, The Letters, Oh Coward!, and A Minister’s Wife. Other Chicago credits include work with Northlight Theatre (Birthday Candles, Mother of the Maid, Beauty Queen of Leenane, Outside Mullingar, The Miser), Goodman Theatre (The Cherry Orchard, The Winter’s Tale, Ah Wilderness, A Christmas Carol), Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (Paranormal Activity, Henry V, As You Like It, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labours Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Court Theatre (The Belle of Amherst, Mousetrap, Cymbeline, Pericles, Caroline or Change, Twelfth Night, My Fair Lady), and Victory Gardens (In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play). Elsewhere, she has worked with McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton), Center Theatre Group (LA), American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco), Shakespeare Theatre (Washington DC), Rep Theatre of St. Louis, Royal Shakespeare Company (UK), and Lincoln Center Theatre (NYC). Film/Tv: Chicago PD (NBC), Boss (Starz), Empire (FOX), Monster: The Ed Gein Story. (Netflix). Kate is the recipient of four Joseph Jefferson awards, an After Dark award, the Sarah Siddons award for Chicago’s leading lady, Chicago Magazine’s actress of the year, and Court Theatre’s Nicholas Rudall award. She is married to actor/teacher Timothy Edward Kane. They have two sons.

Erik Hellman returns to Writers Theatre where his credits include Translations, Smart People, Marjorie Prime, andHesperia. Other recent credits include Holiday and Luna Gale (Goodman); Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Lindiwe, and Familiar (Steppenwolf Theatre); Dial M for Murder (Drury Lane); 1776,and The Sound of Music (Marriott Theatre); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Othello, and Arcadia (Court Theatre); Little Women (Northlight Theatre); Eastland (Lookingglass); Let the Right One In (Berkeley Rep). Film/TV work includes The Dark Knight, Walden, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Empire, The Good Fight, Mrs. America, Fargo, 61st Street, and David Fincher’s The Killer.

Kimberly Senior is a freelance director whose award-winning work has been seen in 15 states in over 200 productions. She directed the Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony nominated Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. Kimberly directed the HBO special Chris Gethard: Career Suicide and her work in audio has ranged from Marvel’s The Wastelanders to C13’s Ghostwriter. She is a member of the Goodman Theatre’s Artistic Collective and has taught at a number of universities. She is a proud union member of SDC and even prouder mother of Noah (18) and Delaney (16). She is the author of What Would a Person Do?: Thoughts on Directing and Living, available on Amazon.

[Bio as of October 2024]

Off-Broadway: The Public, Second Stage Theater, Jean Cocteau Repertory, Kids With Guns, Theater at St. Clements. International: Theatre Royal Stratford East (Lond, UK), Town Hall Theatre (Galway, Ireland), Illawarra Performing Arts Centre (Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia). Regional: TheaterWorks Hartford, Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Second City, Lookingglass Theatre Company, A Contemporary Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Alliance Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Drury Lane Theatre, Ravinia Festival, Children’s Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre, Writers Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Circle X Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Opera Omaha, Virginia Opera, Juneau Lyric Opera, Asolo Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Milwaukee Rep, and Madison Repertory Theatre. Film: Marie and Bruce, Holding Out, Stray Dogs, Late for Church, Muppets from Space. Awards: Recipient of multiple awards from the Jeff Awards, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly Theater Award, Back Stage Garland Awards, Gregory Awards, and Ovation Awards. United States representative, the 2011 Prague Quadrennial (The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity).

Bobby Kennedy is the Director of Artistic Development at Writers Theatre. He has been the resident dramaturg at the theatre since 2008 and has led the theatre's new work program since 2014. Highlights of his tenure include the world premieres of Dhaba on Devon Avenue by Madhuri Shekar, Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol, Wife of a Salesman by Eleanor Burgess, Dishwasher Dreams by Alauddin Ullah, Witch by Jen Silverman, Trevor by Dan Collins and Julianne Wick-Davis, The Hunter and the Bear by PigPen Theatre Co., and Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf by Tim Sniffen; the national premieres of Quixote: On the Conquest of Self by Mónica Hoth, Claudio Valdés Kuri, and Georgina Escobar, and The Dance of Death by Conor McPherson; and the Chicago premieres of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, A Distinct Society, Tiger Style!, Athena, The Last Match, The Niceties, Vietgone, Smart People, and Marjorie Prime. His dramaturgy credits also include the world premieres of Give It All Back (SideShow Theatre Company), Body and Blood (The Gift Theatre), Ibsen is Dead (Interrobang Theatre Project) and The Peacock (Jackalope Theatre Company), as well as the midwest premiere of The Luck of the Irish (Next Theatre Company). Kennedy co-founded The Spontaneous Theater Project in Boston and has also worked with Huntington Theatre Company and New Repertory Theatre. He is an alumnus of Boston University.