Mike Mroch

Claire Chrzan

Justine C. Turner Smith

Michaela Petro

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and on the design team of Strawdog Theatre Company‘s closing production of the 2016-17 season — The Night Season, running May 12-June 24 at the Factory Theatre, 1623 W. Howard, in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. Columbia College alum Mike Mroch ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is the show’s scenic designer, and alum Claire Chrzan ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design program, is the show’s lighting designer. The cast includes Columbia alum Justine C. Turner Smith ’02, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, as well as Michaela Petro, a former student in the Theatre Department’s Acting program.

This melancholy comedy by Rebecca Lenkiewicz concerns an Irish family whose lives are disrupted when an English film crew descends on their tiny seaside village to make a biopic about poet W.B. Yeats. For tickets, call 866-811-4111 or click here.