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Jenniffer J. Thusing

Directing Experience:

Position

Production

Group

Year

Director
3/22/72
Women's Theatre Alliance New Plays Development
June 2010

Director

South Pacific,
Once Upon a Mattress,
Go Ask Alice,
Music Man,
Oklahoma,
Anything Goes,
Fiddler on the Roof,
42nd Street,
West Side Story
Brigadoon

Lemont High School

May 2000 to May 2009

Director

Baswell’s Dreams

Chicago Her-RAH!  ICWP & Around the Coyote

June 2007

Director

Story Book Theater

SGM Players

August 2005

Assistant Director

Mikado version 2.005

Noble Fool Theatricals

July 2005

Director

A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking

TAXI

March 2005

Director

Emma

In the works…theatre company

February 2005

Director/Adaptor

Brush Up Your Shakespeare

In the works…theatre company

December 2004

Director

Bald Grace, Pirate Queen

Stockyards Theatre Project

September 2004

Director

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

SGM Players

August 2004

Resident Director

Various

Spoken Word Theatre

February 2004 to June 2005

Director

WTA and Stockyards Salon Series: Love me Slender; The Sins of Sor Juana, No sense saying Gooodnight

WTA and Stockyards Theatre Project (at the Bailiwick, Teatro Luna, and Storefront Theater)

Sept 2003 to March 2004

Director

Our Town

SGM Players

June 2003

Director

Buddha Jack, Backstage at the Goodman

Bailiwick Director’s Festival

February 2003

Director

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

SGM Players

September 2002

Director

Godspell

SGM Players

April 2002

Director

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Southwest Theatre & Arts Resources (S.T.A.R.)

April 2001

Director

Lone Star

S.T.A.R.

November 2000

Director

Follies

Oak Lawn Park District

June 2000

Director

La Cage Aux Folles

Oak Lawn Park District

Summer 1999

Director

Harvey

S.T.A.R.

Spring 1998

Stage management experience (AEA):

SM
Season: Invasion of Skokie, Bordello, Hickory Dickory
Chicago Dramatists
2010- 2011 season
SM
Jade Heart
Chicago Dramatists
May 2010
SM
Lucinda's Bed
Chicago Dramatists
Oct 2009-Nov 2009
SM
My Fair Lady
Light Opera Works
August 2009

SM

Iolanthe

Light Opera Works

August 2008

SM

Gigi

Light Opera Works

June 2008

SM

Late Nite Catechism
Put the Nuns in Charge

At Noble Fool Theatricals

April 2008- May 2008
Oct 2008-Jan 2009

SM

Little Mermaid, Charlotte’s Web, Narnia, Stuart Little , Velveteen Rabbit, Princes and the Pea, Jack & the Beanstalk, Winnie the Pooh, Alexander and the no good terrible very bad day, Aladdin

Northbrook Theatre for Young Audiences

2004-2005 season
2005-2006 season
2006-2007 Season

2007-2008 Season
2008-2009 Season
2009-2010 Season

SM

Flanagan’s Wake

 
Noble Fool
Noble Fool Theatricals 

January 2003 to April 2004,
November 2004 to March 2009

SM

Bitter Sweet

Light Opera Works

August 2007

SM

High School Musical

Noble Fool Theatricals Youth Ensemble

December 2006

Assistant Stage Manager

Western Civilization, The Complete Musical (Abridged)

Noble Fool Theatricals (dir. John Gawlick)

September to November 2005

SM

Little Mermaid, Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderella, Fantastic Toy Shop, Glass Menagerie, Babes in Toyland, The Odyssey

Theater For Young Audiences at Moraine Valley
(dir. Tim Rezash, dir. Bill Osetek,
dir. Beth Peters. dir James Zager, dir Greg Kolack)

2000-2001 Season
2001-2002 Season
2002-2003 Season
2003-2004 Season

SM

Lunacy

Stockyards Theater Project
(dir. Katie Carey Govier)

December 2002

SM

The Rape of Nanking According to Minnie

Stockyards Theater Project
(dir. Cat Gleason)

January-February 2002

Props Design Experience:

 
Resident Designer:
Ten Cent Nights, How I Became an Interesting Person, Hope VI, Lucinda's Bed, Jade Heart
Chicago Dramatists
2008 to present

Resident Designer:
Oliver, The Wiz, Winnie the Pooh, Alexander and the no good terrible very bad day, Aladdin

Northbrook Theatre

Aug 2007 to present


Busman’s Honeymoon

Lifeline Theatre

May 2009


A Christmas Story

Noble Fool Theatricals

November 2008


Picture of Dorian Gray

Lifeline Theatre

August 2008


American Dream Songbook

Next Theatre

February 2008


Drood

Noble Fool Theatricals

February 2008


Hephastus

Lookingglass Theatre

January 2008


Goodbye Girl

Drury Lane Oakbrook

January 2008


Defiance

Next Theatre

November 2007


Half Magic

LifeLine Theatre

September 2007


Savannah Disputation

Writer’s Theatre

September 2007


Mid-Life The Crisis Musical

Noble Fool Theatricals

September 2007


Kiss Me Kate

Light Opera Works

June 2007


Orange Lemon Egg Canary

Uma Productions

April 2007


Annie Jr

Noble Fool Theatricals Youth Ensemble

March 2007


Musical of Musicals The Musical

Noble Fool Theatricals

February 2007


A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Noble Fool Theatricals

September 2006


Ten Little Indians

Drury Lane Oakbrook

August 2006


Pull Toy

Collaboraction

June 2006


Half and Half

Victory Gardens Theatre

June 2006


Heritage

American Theater Company

May 2006


Cradle of Man

Victory Gardens Theatre

April 2006


Fabulation

Next Theatre Company

April 2006


St. Scarlet

American Theater Company

February 2006