WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST

this inaugural season of the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival! You can also find Christopher in the Festival’s Merely Players Troupe this summer. His previous credits include: Dominique Morisseau’s Blood at the Root (De’Andre), George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum (Guy, Waiter, Narrator, Flo’rance) and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (Joseph Asagai). Chris would like to thank the amazing cast and crew of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for giving him this amazing opportunity! To keep up with Christopher you can follow him on Instagram @brian_christophe.r.

TIM WOLLMAN (Egeus/Snug) grew up locally in Chippewa Falls before going to the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire for college. He recently graduated this past January with a degree in Theatre Arts, having performed and worked on numerous productions including The Tempest, House of Blue Leaves, and Waiting for Godot. Tim is honored and excited to be performing in this inaugural season of the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival for his first production outside of college, and hopes it’s the first step of many for the future. Otherwise, Tim can usually be seen at the box office desk or watching over the lobby of Pablo Center or strolling the paths through Eau Claire. He hopes you all enjoy the show!

CAITLIN LOPEZ (Director) is the Co-founder and former Associate Artistic Director of Ophelia’s Jump Productions (OJP) in Southern California. She is thrilled to be directing the inaugural production of the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, and has been so grateful for the wonderful cast and crew that have brought this show to life. As a lifelong improvisor, she has performed and taught regularly at OJP and as a former company member with Spectacles Improv Engine. She specializes in improvised narrative genre work with teams such as Community Theater 3000 and The Blankety Blank. A graduate of California State University San Bernardino, she is currently pursuing her MFA in Directing at Ohio University (OU). Select directing credits include The Secretaries (OU), Pericles (OJP), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (OJP), Stop Kiss (7th Street) The Compleat Wrks of Wilm Shkspr Abridged (OJP), Much Ado About Nothing (OJP), and 33 Variations (OJP).

AMANDA PROFAZIER (Costume Designer) is currently a Professor of Costume Design in the Department of Music and Theatre Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She received her MFA in Costume Design from Utah State University in 2006. Amanda is excited to be a part of the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival’s debut season. She has designed costumes for the Utah Festival Opera, the Old Lyric Repertory Company, and The Grand Theatre. She has also worked as a costume shop technician for the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Pioneer Theatre Company, and served as a design assistant with NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Some of Amanda’s favorite designs include: The Pirates of Penzance, Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, Don Giovanni, James and the Giant Peach, King Lear, Seussical the Musical, and Medea. Amanda and her husband, Landon, have two beautiful daughters; Ruby, who is sixteen, and Pearl, who is 12. Other members of the Profaizer family are a 90-pound goldendoodle named Penny and two kittens named Mittens and Fish. Amanda would like to thank her husband, Landon, for his endless love and encouragement over the past 22 years and her family, friends, and colleagues for their incredible support. #LivingTheDream

ERIN HISEY (Lighting Designer) is the Associate Professor of Scenic and Lighting Design at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. In addition to teaching she designs scenery and lighting for theatre companies and schools around the US. Recent credits include lighting for the opera Orpheus in the Underworld and the musical Mamma Mia!, scenic and lighting design for The Wolves and The Bald Soprano, and scenic design for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She is excited to be a part of the inaugural season of the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival here at Pablo Center at the Confluence.

CHRISTOPHER KURTZ (Sound Designer) is an Eau Claire-based designer originally from Bolingbrook, Illinois. He most recently designed lights for Confluence Dance right here in the JAMF theatre. In 2021 he worked on CVTG’S Godspell as sound engineer also in the JAMF. He designed lights, sound, and projections for the Eau Claire Children’s Theatre for the 29th and 30th (anniversary) seasons. Before coming to Eau Claire he received a Master of the Arts in Postproduction with Sound Design from the University of York in England. Earlier theatre credits include Sound Designer/Composer for Salome with Scena in Washington D.C., and Sound Designer for Red Hot Patriot with Lyric Stage in Boston, MA. His voice was featured in 2021 SciFi Film Deus. He works full time in the production department at Pablo Center.

KATHY VOECKS (Scenic Designer) has been designing for over 25 years, with sets for theatres including The Black Hills Playhouse, The Blue Barn Theatre, Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse, The Omaha Theatre Company, and The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Theatre. She is also an educator and will be joining the faculty of the Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance at Southeast Missouri State University in the fall; previously she was a faculty member in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at Kansas State University. She’s also a scenic artist, props artisan and sometime projection designer. Kathy holds an MFA in scenic design from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

GEOFFREY GLOVER (Projection Designer) has previously designed projections for the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra and is currently a production crew chief at Pablo Center. He is excited to enter the world of theatrical projection design with the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival. He would like to thank everyone involved in the production for their hard work and inspiration.