The Twenty-Seventh McElroy Shakespeare Celebration:
"Upstart Crowds: Incitement and Control on Shakespeare's Stage"
Pictures from the 2018 Celebration
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Media and Program
Click on the button below to listen to a podcast from WLUW 88.7FM with Loyola's own Professor Ross Lehman, Professor Verna Foster, Professor Virginia Strain, and Professor Mark Lococo discuss the McElroy Celebration's history, present, and beyond!
Dr. Sarah Neville
SARAH NEVILLE is an assistant professor of English at the Ohio State University who also holds an appointment in Theatre. At OSU she founded Lord Denney’s Players, a theatre company designed to give students an opportunity to investigate intersections among Renaissance texts, literary criticism, and theatrical performance.
Dr. Neville has edited five plays for the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016) and serves as a general textual editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions. Her scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as Shakespeare, Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, and Shakespearean International Yearbook, while her nonfiction writing about Shakespeare and editing has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, New Orleans Review, and The Walrus.
She is currently at work on a book about the effects of early printed artifacts on the construction of scientific authority.
The Participants
MARK E. LOCOCO (Director of Scenes) has served as Director of Theatre at Loyola Chicago since 2007, during which time he has directed Spring Awakening, Lost in Yonkers, Urinetown, Measure for Measure, Pippin, As You Like It and Mnemonic on Loyola's stages. He has directed many plays at theatres in Illinois and Wisconsin, including at The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Until 2007, Dr. Lococo was Associate Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of Wisconsin in Waukesha, where he directed several plays including The Comedy of Errors. In July of 2007, he participated in a Roundtable at Oxford University on the divide between the humanities and sciences. Dr. Lococo was Vice President for Conference Planning 2012 for theAssociation of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Professor Lococo is a 2013 graduate of the SITI Company Theatre Intensive in Saratoga Springs, NY.
ROSS LEHMAN (Brutus) teaches in Loyola's Theatre
Department. Ross’s Broadway credits include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Tempest, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Jacques/As You Like It, Feste/Twelfth Night, Dudley Marsh and Dromio of Syracuse/The Comedy of Errors, the Fool/King Lear, Thersites/Troilus and Cressida, and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (at CST and on tour to the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon). Goodman Theatre: Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike, The Rover, Stage Kiss. Steppenwolf Theatre: The Man Who Came to Dinner, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks. He has received five Jeff Awards and two After Dark awards. His appearance as Koko in The Hot Mikado in London’s West End earned him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination.
JESS THIGPEN (Marc Antony) teaches in Loyola's Theatre Department. She recently played the role of Maria/Feste in Twelfth Night with Montana Shakespeare in the School’s 2017 fall tour. Chicago credits include the title role in Educating Rita at Citadel Theatre and work with Timeline, Provision, and Shattered Globe Theatre. Jess is a proud graduate with distinction from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Internationally, she completed a performance residency at Shakespeare’s Globe in London and performed the role of Liz Morden in Our Country’s Good at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. She is a part time theatre professor at Loyola University and represented by Paonessa Talent, LLC.
STUDENT CAST (in order of appearance)
Sarah McCanna..............................................FIRST COMMONER Katherine Ziobro......................................SECOND COMMONER John Drea..............................................................................FLAVIUS Natalie Fantoro.............................................................MARULLUS Katherine Fennessey.........................................................CITIZEN Mark Rosales........................................................................CITIZEN Lizzie Williams....................................................................CITIZEN Craig Wischmeyer..............................................................CITIZEN Brian Warner..........................................................................CINNA *Various Loyola students and Community members