Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni are helping the Savoyaires musical theatre troupe bring Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance to the stage October 6-15.

Amy Uhl

Lauren Griffith

Chas Z. Mathieu

Amy Uhl, a coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre Performance BFA and Musical Theatre BA programs, is directing and choreographing the production. Her assistant choreographer is Theatre Department alum Lauren Griffith ’15, a graduate of the Musical Theatre Performance BFA program and marketing coordinator of the new Columbia College Chicago Online program. And alumnus Chas Z. Mathieu ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design BA program, is the show’s set designer.

Performances take place at Chute Auditorium, 1400 Oakton, in the northern Chicago suburb of Evanston. For tickets and more information, call 847-563-0155 or click here.