“Not About Nightingales”

Alumni, faculty, and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative/production team for Not About Nightingales, the rarely-seen early drama by Tennessee Williams that Chicago’s award-winning Raven Theatre is presenting through June 4. Based on real events, the 1938 play concerns a group of prison inmates who fight back against the oppression of an abusive and murderous warden.

Jon Beal

The ensemble includes Columbia College Theatre Department alumnus Jon Beal ’11, a graduate of the Columbia College Theatre Department’s Acting BA program. Also in the cast is Rudy Galvan, a former student in the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program.

David Woolley

Alaina Moore

Conor Clark

Cody Estle (Photo: Joe Mazza at Brave-Lux)

Columbia College Theatre Department faculty member David Woolley, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Stage Combat Minor, is the show’s fight choreographer. Columbia College alum Alaina Moore ’13, a graduate of Columbia College’s art and design program, is the costume designer. Other Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni involved in the production are Conor Clark ’13, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre BA program, and Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program. Clark is Raven Theatre’s technical director, and Estle is Raven’s associate artistic director.

Not About Nightingales opens April 25 and runs through June 4 at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre District. For tickets, call 773-338-2177 or click here.