Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative team of the musical Grey Gardens, running January 12 through 28 at Prairie Lakes Theatre, located at 515 E. Thacker in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines. For tickets, click here.

Produced by Big Noise Theatre, the show features Columbia College alum Mackenzie Maples ’22, who graduated with an Interdisciplinary BA in Cinema Arts & Science and Theatre.

Barry Irving

The production team includes Columbia College alum Barry Irving ’19, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, who is the show’s dialect coach. And Columbia College alum Matthew Klinger ’07, who graduated from the Columbia College Chicago Art | Design Department‘s BFA Program in Graphic Design, is the production’s technical director.