Columbia College Chicago Theatre alums are in the cast and production team of Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s new production of Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, running October 16 through November 23 at the Edge Theater, located at 5451 N. Broadway in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre District. For tickets, click here.

Kim Fukawa

The show’s cast includes Columbia College alum Kim Fukawa ’07, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting.

Marcus Klein

Line Bower

Rose Hamill

Esau Andaleon

The production team includes Columbia College alums Marcus Klein ’23, Line Bower ’22, Rose Hamill ’16, and Esau Andaleon ’21, all graduates of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre Design and Technology. Klein, Bower, and Hamill are the show’s scenic designer, technical director, production manager, and stage manager respectively.

Babes With Blades Theatre Company uses stage combat to tell stories that elevate the voices of underrepresented communities and dismantle the patriarchy. Through performance, script development, training and outreach, our ensemble creates theatre that explores the wide range of the human experience, and cultivates broader perspectives in the arts community and in society as a whole.