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BARBARA GAINESArtistic DirectorCarl and Marilynn Thoma Chair
CRISS HENDERSON Executive Director
Annual support perennially provided by The Davee Foundation WorldStage Fund
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson, Chicago Shakespeare has redefined what a great American Shakespeare theater can be—a company that defies theatrical category. This Regional Tony Award-winning theater’s year-round season features as many as twenty productions and
650 performances—including plays, musicals, world premieres, family programming, and presentations from around the globe. The work is enjoyed by 225,000 audience members annually, with one in four under the age of eighteen. Chicago Shakespeare is the city’s leading producer of international work, and touring its own productions across five continents has garnered multiple accolades, including the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award. Emblematic of its role as a global theater, the company spearheaded Shakespeare 400 Chicago, celebrating Shakespeare’s legacy in a citywide, yearlong international arts and culture festival, which engaged 1.1 million people. The Theater’s nationally acclaimed arts in literacy programs support the work of English and drama teachers, and bring Shakespeare to life on stage for tens of thousands of their students each school year. Over the summer, the company tours a professional production of Shakespeare’s work, free for all, to neighborhood parks across the city. In 2017 the Theater unveiled The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare—with its innovative design that has changed the shape of theater architecture. Together with the Jentes Family Courtyard Theater and the Thoma Theater Upstairs, The Yard positions Chicago Shakespeare as the city’s most versatile performing arts center.
ARTISTICRICK BOYNTON Creative Producer
BOB MASON Artistic Associate/ Casting Director
AISLINN FRANTZ Associate Producer
DOREEN SAYEGH Manager of International and Special Projects
ROSIE BROSS Producing Assistant
ALEXIS TAYLOR Casting Assistant
MIKEY GRAY Assistant to the Creative Producer
YIWEN WU Casting Intern
MANAGEMENTDEBORAH VANDERGRIFT General Manager
DANIEL J. HESS Company Manager
KEVIN SPELLMAN Associate General Manager
SAMANTHA BRAZILLER Executive Assistant
BEN GATES-UTTER Associate Company Manager
EDWARD McCREARY KRISSI McEACHERN PAIGE WHITSON-MARTINI Arts Leadership Fellows
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTMARILYN J. HALPERIN Director of Education and Communications Ray and Judy McCaskey Chair
JASON HARRINGTON Education Outreach Manager
MAGGIE SUGGETT Learning Programs Manager
SARA B.T. THIEL, PH.D Public Humanities Manager
MOLLIE GREENBERG Education Intern
FINANCELINDA ORELLANA Director of Finance
DAN GRYCZA Human Resources Manager/ Finance Associate
ALANA RYBAK Assistant Director of Finance
ALYSSE HUNTER Accounting Manager
BECKY TRAISMAN Accounting Associate
ADVANCEMENTE. BROOKE FLANAGAN Managing Director for Advancement and External Affairs
DOTTIE BRIS-BOIS Associate Director of Development
JENNY SEIDELMAN Director of Partnerships
KRISTEN CARUSO Senior Advancement Manager/Board Liaison
GRACE SCHNECK Advancement Manager
SARA BENBELLA Donor Records and Data Coordinator
EMILY McCLANATHAN Advancement Communications Coordinator
AMANDA NAGY Individual Giving Coordinator
KARL SISSMAN VIP Concierge and Stewardship Coordinator
ALISÉE CATTEBEKE CRAWFORD McKENZIE Advancement Interns
MARKETINGJULIE STANTON Director of Marketing and Sales
HANNAH KENNEDY Public Relations Director
CATHY TAYLOR Public Relations Consultant
AMANDA CANTLIN Senior Marketing Manager
MARGARET McCALL Marketing Manager, Ticketing Services
ABIGAIL TOTH Digital Marketing Manager
JESSICA CONNOR Marketing and Communications Associate
DANIEL WALTERS Marketing and Communications Designer
MIKAYLA SHAW Marketing Assistant
ERIN HUNTER AARON ROBERTS FORREST WILLIAMS Box Office Supervisors
BESSIE BESS ANEYA COBBS BLAKE CORDELL CATHERINE HEALEY RICHARD KALLUS ZOE ROSENFELD STEVE TAPAS Box Office Associates
PRODUCTIONCHRIS PLEVIN Director of Production
JEFF WILLIAMS Associate Director of Production
EMMALINE KEDDY-HECTOR Production Coordinator
ALEXA BERKOWITZ Production Office Manager
STAGE MANAGEMENTDEBORAH ACKER Production Stage Manager/Associate Producer
LIZ LARSEN CST A Man of Good Hope Stage Manager
SCENERYROBERT L. WILSON Scenery Supervisor
CALEB McANDREW Technical Coordinator
PETER REGALBUTO Stage Crew Head
BRADLEY BURI Stage Carpenter Head
DELANEY STEWART Stage Crew Apprentice
JACK BIRDWELL TYLER GUYNES ADAM HELD MICHAEL JANSSENS ADAM TODD House Carpenters
COSTUMESRYAN MAGNUSON Costume Shop Manager
CATHY TANTILLO Costume Design Assistant
REBECCA DOROSHUK Wardrobe Supervisor
ALLISON MILLAR Laundry
ELECTRICSJEFF GLASS Lighting Supervisor
ALEC THORNE Assistant Lighting Supervisor
JOAN E. CLAUSSEN Lighting Crew Head
BRIAN ELSTON Lighting Technician
KRYSTAL MARTINEZ ART ZARKO Electricians
SOUNDJOSEPH DISBROW Sound Crew Head
DAN SCHRECK House Sound Technician
BLAKE HARDIN Sound Crew
WIGS AND MAKE-UPRICHARD JARVIE Wig and Make-up Supervisor
MIGUEL ARMSTRONG Wig and Make-up Assistant
MEGAN PIRTLE Wig and Make-up Apprentice
PROPERTIES CASSANDRA WESTOVER Properties Supervisor
PERSEPHONE LAWRENCE-WESCOTT Assistant Properties Supervisor
LISA GRIEBEL Properties Carpenter
DAN NURCZYK Properties Crew Head
OPERATIONS/FACILITIESSUSAN KNILL Facilities and Operations Director
JEANNE DEVORE Technology Manager
DANIEL LOPEZ Assistant Facilities Manager
FELIX ROSS Custodial Supervisor
DWAYNE BREWER FLOYD CONWAY MARIBEL CUEVAS ORLANDO FOX TAMAL STEVENS SHENISE THOMAS BENNY VANZANT Custodial Assistants
TICKETING, GUEST SERVICES AND EVENTSMAKEDA COHRAN Events Director
NICK CUELLAR VICTORIA GILBERT JEFFREY GOUGIS PHILLIP LEWIS JENN OSWALD House Managers
MICHAEL RUSSELL Assistant Concessions Manager
KATE LASS JACQUELINE POJASEK Concessions Leads
DANIEL BALSAMO PATRICIA BROOKS TYRA BULLOCK BYRON COOLIE ANGELA COTEY SCOTT COWAN SARA CROUNSE JORDAN FIGUEROA BERNARD GILBERT AMBER GOUGIS TIFFANY GOUGIS BRITTNEY GRANT MICAH HAZEL JASON KRAUSE ALLIE LYKE TANYA MCMORRIS ALEX MEYER T MURPHY ESSENCE NICHOLS ZACHARY PARKHURST DARA PRENTISS MAYA PRENTISS THOMAS RUSSELL EMIL SUECK SIOBHAN TOWNSEND NICOLE TINI SHONDA WILLIAMS TYREE WILLIAMS ANASTASIA WRENN Guest Services Associates
MAJOR SEASON SUPPORTERS
Ken Griffin
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Carl and Marilynn
Thoma
The Donna Van Eekeren
Charitable Fund
Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg
Timothy R. Schwertfeger
and Gail Waller
Rhoades Foundation Fund
at the Chicago Community Foundation
Ray and Judy McCaskey
HOPEGOOD
OFMAN
A
Based on the book by
JONNY STEINBERG Adapted & directed by
MARK DORNFORD-MAY
FROM SOUTH AFRICA: ISANGO ENSEMBLE’S
Isango Ensemble is a South African theater company that draws its artists mainly from the townships surrounding Cape Town. Founded in 2000, Isango’s stage productions and films have played to sold-out audiences across the globe, receiving numerous international awards, including Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear Award
for Best Film, Paris’ Best Opera Globes de Cristal, London’s Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, and San Francisco Black Film Festival’s Best World Cinema title, among others. Isango Ensemble reimagines classics from the Western theater canon and creates new work and adaptations within a South African context. The company’s structure embraces artists at all stages of their creative development, allowing senior artists to lead and contribute towards the growth of rising talents. Outside of South Africa, Isango Ensemble has performed in Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and across the United States. Their 2012 production, co-produced by Shakespeare’s Globe in London, opened the Globe to Globe Festival in 2012 and was invited back for an encore run in 2013. The group has partnered with The Global Fund, raising funds to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria as epidemics—directly impacting programs in countries most in need.
photos by Keith Pattinson
#MANOFGOODHOPE
ENSEMBLEJonny MANDISI DYANTYIS
Company THOBILE JIM DYASI
Company NOMBONGO FATYI
Company THANDOKAZI FUMBA
Rooda ZAMILE GANTANA
Asad as a boy SIPHOSETHU HINTSHO
Yindy/Death NONTSUSA LOUW Company ZIMKHITHA MATHOMANE
Asad’s mother ZANELE MBATHA
Madoda SINETHEMBA MDENA
Yindy/Death ZOLEKA MPOTSHA
Asad II THANDOLWETHU MZEMBE
Company SIYANDA NCOBO Company SONWABO NTSHATA
Visa Clerk, etc. MELIKHAYA NTSHUNTSHE
Foosiya CIKIZWA ROLOMANA
Company MASAKANA SOTAYISI
SA Man LUVO TAMBA
Asad I AYANDA TIKOLO
SA Man PHILANI XHAGA
TECHNICAL TEAMCo-production Manager ANDREAS AYLING Relighter JACK HATHAWAY
Company Manager MARIS SHARP
Co-production Manager SANDILE MGUGUNYEKA
Stage Manager VALENCIA MGUGUNYEKA
Chaperone DOREEN NONDIBANO HINTSHO
Tour Direction COLUMBIA ARTISTS MANAGEMENT LLC TIM FOX/ALISON AHART WILLIAMS
E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Managing Director for
Advancement and External Affairs
RICK BOYNTON Creative Producer
BARBARA GAINESArtistic Director
Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair
CRISS HENDERSON Executive Director
presents a
A MAN OF GOOD HOPE
co-production by Isango Ensemble and Young Vic in association with the Royal Opera, Repons Foundation, X and Y
based on the book by JONNY STEINBERG adapted & directed by MARK DORNFORD-MAY
JONNY STEINBERG (Author) Mr. Steinberg is an award-winning South African author. His books include: Midlands, The Number (both of which won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award), Three-Letter Plague (Sizwe’s Test in the US, where it was named one of Washington Post’s Books of the Year and shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize), Thin Blue, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York, and A Man of Good Hope. In 2013 Steinberg was among the inaugural winners of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes, awarded by Yale University. He currently teaches African studies at the University of Oxford.
MARK DORNFORD-MAY (Adapter/Director) Born in Yorkshire and brought up in Chester, he has worked in South Africa with members of the company since 2000. Mr. Dornford-May has directed all of Isango Ensemble’s stage productions: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Snow Queen, Der Silbersee, The Beggar’s Opera (Ibali Loo Tsotsi), uCarmen, The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, La Boheme (Abanxaxhi), The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Izigwili Ezidlakazelayo), Venus and Adonis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Man of Good Hope. He has also produced and directed all of Isango Ensemble’s films: uCarmen eKhayelitsha, Son of Man, Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde), and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
MANDISI DYANTYIS (Music Director/Jonny) Mr. Dyantyis has been with the company since 2006. He has been co-music director and arranger/composer for all Isango Ensemble productions since 2006, including: The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), Venus and Adonis, The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), Aesop’s Fables, and The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Izigwili Ezidlakazelayo). Mr. Dyantyis traveled to New York to work with graduate acting students from New York University’s Tisch School of Acting, exploring relationships between South African and American theater methods. In 2012 he was the musical director and composer for Isango’s Venus & Adonis, which opened the Globe to Globe season at Shakespeare’s Globe in London and subsequently returned to the Globe in 2013. Mr. Dyantyis arranged and directed the music for the films Unogumbe and Breathe (Umphefumlo). In 2015 he adapted Bizet’s uCarmen and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Isango Ensemble’s US tour. In 2016 Mr. Dyantyis composed and conducted the music for A Man of Good Hope, which ran at the Young Vic, New York’s BAM, and London’s Royal Opera House. 2017 saw the creation of Isango Ensemble’s production of SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, based on Fred Khumalo’s book, Dancing the Death Drill, for which Mr. Dyantyis created new music and incorporated World War I songs. In 2019 he arranged Bach’s St. Matthew Passion for marimbas and created new music for the show.
LUNGELO NGAMLANA (Choreographer) Mr. Ngamlana is an associate artist of Isango Ensemble. He joined the company in 2007 and has been the choreographer for all subsequent Isango Ensemble productions. Prior to joining Isango, he was hosted by the Royal Opera House for the International Dance Fellowship in 2007. His theater credits include: The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Izigwili Ezidlakazelayo), Venus & Adonis, La Bohème, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, uCarmen, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion. He currently teaches at NYU annually and, before joining Isango Ensemble, he worked as a teacher, performer, and choreographer with many dance and theater groups both at home in South Africa and internationally.
MANUEL MANIM (Lighting Designer) Mr. Manim is the co-founder of the Market Theatre and has previously been the director of Performing Arts Administration at the University of the Witwatersrand and director of the Baxter Theatre Centre. His career in theater lighting and producing spans over fifty years, and he has worked with lsango Ensemble since its first production more than ten years ago. His accolades include: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government, Naledi Life Achievement Award, Fleur du Cap Lifetime Achievement Award, Arts and Culture Trust Lifetime Achievement Award, and The National Order of lkhamanga, Silver.
LESLEY NOTT MANIM (Speech and Dialogue Coach) Ms. Manim has worked in professional theater, film, and television since 1975 as a performer, director, and vocal, acting, dialogue, text interpretation and accent coach for both South African and international productions. She has designed and taught workshops and master classes in voice and acting, as well as adjudicating drama festivals. She has been a dialogue coach and casting assistant for television, film, and commercials. Ms. Manim has taught text interpretation at the Market Theatre Laboratory, voice classes and tutorials at the University of Witwatersrand, and text interpretation, accent, and performance skills at AFDA Cape Town. She has a private practice teaching individuals communication skills. She has worked with lsango Ensemble since 2007 as a speech, dialogue, and text interpretation coach.
THOBILE JIM DYASI (Company) Mr. Dyasi was born in Pampierstad, Northern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), uCarmen, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, St. Matthew Passion. Other credits include L’elisir d’amore, The Marriage of Figaro, II viaggio a Reims, Adriana Lecouvreur and La rondine (University of Cape Town), where he received a performer’s diploma in opera.
NOMBONGO FATYI (Company) Ms. Fatyi was born in Cape Town, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2013. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Man of Good Hope, and St. Matthew Passion.
THANDOKAZI FUMBA (Company) Ms. Fumba was born in Cape Town, Western Cape, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2016. Her theater and opera credits include Isango Ensemble’s A Man of Good Hope. Ms. Fumba also played Paulina in the Siyaya Traditional Group.
ZAMILE GANTANA (Rooda) Mr. Gantana was born in Kimberley, Northern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2000. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (ikrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili Ezidlakazelayo), The Silver Lake, The Beggar’s Opera (lbali Loo Tsotsi), The Rocky Horror Show, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion (lsango Ensemble). His film credits include: uCarmen eKhayelitsha, Son of Man, Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde), and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
SIPHOSETHU HINTSHO (Asad as a boy) Mr. Siphosethu was born in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, in 2004. He attends Rhodes High School and joined Isango Ensemble in 2016. His theater credits include A Man of Good Hope.
PROFILES NONTSUSA LOUW (Yindy/Death) Ms. Louw was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion.
ZIMKHITHA MATHOMANE (Company) Ms. Mathomane was born in Cape Town, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2017. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include A Man of Good Hope.
ZANELE MBATHA (Asad’s mother) Ms. Mbatha was born in Daveyton, Johannesburg, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2000. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (ikrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili Ezidlakazelayo), The Beggar’s Opera (lbali Lotsosi), West Side Story, The Rocky Horror Show, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, and SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill. Other credits with Sibikwa Theater include: Qhamka Man of Men, Five Past Two, and Women Abuse. Her film credits include: uCarmen eKhayelitsha, Son of Man, Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde), and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
SINETHEMBA MDENA (Madoda) Mr. Mdena was born in Bisho, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute, La Bohème (Abanxhaxi), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, A Man of Good Hope, and St. Matthew Passion. His film credits include Unogumbe and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
ZOLEKA MPOTSHA (Yindy/Death) Ms. Mpotsha was born in Cape Town, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2009. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili Ezidlakazelayo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion. Her film credits include Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde) and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
THANDOLWETHU MZEMBE (Asad II) Mr. Mzembe was born in Cape Town, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2017. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion.
SIYANDA NCOBO (Company) Ms. Ncobo was born in Willowvale, Eastern Cape, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2013. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion. Her film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
SONWABO NTSHATA (Company) Mr. Ntshata was born in Umtata, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2007. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili ezidlakazelayo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion.
MELIKHAYA NTSHUNTSHE (Visa Clerk, etc.) Mr. Ntshuntshe was born in Cape Town and joined lsango Ensemble in 2017. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include A Man of Good Hope.
CIKIZWA ROLOMANA (Foosiya) Ms. Rolomana was born in Umtata, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxhaxi), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, St. Matthew Passion, and a concert for Bryn Terfel (Cape Town Opera). Her film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
MASAKANA SOTAYISI (Company) Mr. Sotayisi was born in Cape Town, Western Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2013. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, Venus and Adonis, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and St. Matthew Passion. His film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
LUVO TAMBA (SA Man) Mr. Tamba was born in Cape Town, Western Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), Venus and Adonis, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Man of Good Hope. His film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
AYANDA TIKOLO (Asad I) Mr. Tikolo was born in King William’s Town, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2013. His theater and opera credits include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), Venus and Adonis, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion (lsango Ensemble); Porgy and Bess, II barbiere di Siviglia, Beethoven, Opera Extravaganza, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann. His film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
PHILANI XHAGA (SA Man) Mr. Philani was born in Cape Town, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2017. His theater and opera credits include A Man of Good Hope (Isango Ensemble).
Choreography LUNGELO NGAMLANA
Music Arrangements and Music Direction MANDISI DYANTYIS
Lighting Design MANUEL MANIM
Speech and Dialogue Coaching LESLEY NOTT MANIM
Run Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes (including intermission)
ENSEMBLEJonny MANDISI DYANTYIS
Company THOBILE JIM DYASI
Company NOMBONGO FATYI
Company THANDOKAZI FUMBA
Rooda ZAMILE GANTANA
Asad as a boy SIPHOSETHU HINTSHO
Yindy/Death NONTSUSA LOUW Company ZIMKHITHA MATHOMANE
Asad’s mother ZANELE MBATHA
Madoda SINETHEMBA MDENA
Yindy/Death ZOLEKA MPOTSHA
Asad II THANDOLWETHU MZEMBE
Company SIYANDA NCOBO Company SONWABO NTSHATA
Visa Clerk, etc. MELIKHAYA NTSHUNTSHE
Foosiya CIKIZWA ROLOMANA
Company MASAKANA SOTAYISI
SA Man LUVO TAMBA
Asad I AYANDA TIKOLO
SA Man PHILANI XHAGA
TECHNICAL TEAMCo-production Manager ANDREAS AYLING Relighter JACK HATHAWAY
Company Manager MARIS SHARP
Co-production Manager SANDILE MGUGUNYEKA
Stage Manager VALENCIA MGUGUNYEKA
Chaperone DOREEN NONDIBANO HINTSHO
Tour Direction COLUMBIA ARTISTS MANAGEMENT LLC TIM FOX/ALISON AHART WILLIAMS
E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Managing Director for
Advancement and External Affairs
RICK BOYNTON Creative Producer
BARBARA GAINESArtistic Director
Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair
CRISS HENDERSON Executive Director
presents a
A MAN OF GOOD HOPE
co-production by Isango Ensemble and Young Vic in association with the Royal Opera, Repons Foundation, X and Y
based on the book by JONNY STEINBERG adapted & directed by MARK DORNFORD-MAY
JONNY STEINBERG (Author) Mr. Steinberg is an award-winning South African author. His books include: Midlands, The Number (both of which won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award), Three-Letter Plague (Sizwe’s Test in the US, where it was named one of Washington Post’s Books of the Year and shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize), Thin Blue, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York, and A Man of Good Hope. In 2013 Steinberg was among the inaugural winners of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes, awarded by Yale University. He currently teaches African studies at the University of Oxford.
MARK DORNFORD-MAY (Adapter/Director) Born in Yorkshire and brought up in Chester, he has worked in South Africa with members of the company since 2000. Mr. Dornford-May has directed all of Isango Ensemble’s stage productions: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Snow Queen, Der Silbersee, The Beggar’s Opera (Ibali Loo Tsotsi), uCarmen, The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, La Boheme (Abanxaxhi), The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Izigwili Ezidlakazelayo), Venus and Adonis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Man of Good Hope. He has also produced and directed all of Isango Ensemble’s films: uCarmen eKhayelitsha, Son of Man, Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde), and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
MANDISI DYANTYIS (Music Director/Jonny) Mr. Dyantyis has been with the company since 2006. He has been co-music director and arranger/composer for all Isango Ensemble productions since 2006, including: The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), Venus and Adonis, The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), Aesop’s Fables, and The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Izigwili Ezidlakazelayo). Mr. Dyantyis traveled to New York to work with graduate acting students from New York University’s Tisch School of Acting, exploring relationships between South African and American theater methods. In 2012 he was the musical director and composer for Isango’s Venus & Adonis, which opened the Globe to Globe season at Shakespeare’s Globe in London and subsequently returned to the Globe in 2013. Mr. Dyantyis arranged and directed the music for the films Unogumbe and Breathe (Umphefumlo). In 2015 he adapted Bizet’s uCarmen and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Isango Ensemble’s US tour. In 2016 Mr. Dyantyis composed and conducted the music for A Man of Good Hope, which ran at the Young Vic, New York’s BAM, and London’s Royal Opera House. 2017 saw the creation of Isango Ensemble’s production of SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, based on Fred Khumalo’s book, Dancing the Death Drill, for which Mr. Dyantyis created new music and incorporated World War I songs. In 2019 he arranged Bach’s St. Matthew Passion for marimbas and created new music for the show.
LUNGELO NGAMLANA (Choreographer) Mr. Ngamlana is an associate artist of Isango Ensemble. He joined the company in 2007 and has been the choreographer for all subsequent Isango Ensemble productions. Prior to joining Isango, he was hosted by the Royal Opera House for the International Dance Fellowship in 2007. His theater credits include: The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Izigwili Ezidlakazelayo), Venus & Adonis, La Bohème, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, uCarmen, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion. He currently teaches at NYU annually and, before joining Isango Ensemble, he worked as a teacher, performer, and choreographer with many dance and theater groups both at home in South Africa and internationally.
MANUEL MANIM (Lighting Designer) Mr. Manim is the co-founder of the Market Theatre and has previously been the director of Performing Arts Administration at the University of the Witwatersrand and director of the Baxter Theatre Centre. His career in theater lighting and producing spans over fifty years, and he has worked with lsango Ensemble since its first production more than ten years ago. His accolades include: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government, Naledi Life Achievement Award, Fleur du Cap Lifetime Achievement Award, Arts and Culture Trust Lifetime Achievement Award, and The National Order of lkhamanga, Silver.
LESLEY NOTT MANIM (Speech and Dialogue Coach) Ms. Manim has worked in professional theater, film, and television since 1975 as a performer, director, and vocal, acting, dialogue, text interpretation and accent coach for both South African and international productions. She has designed and taught workshops and master classes in voice and acting, as well as adjudicating drama festivals. She has been a dialogue coach and casting assistant for television, film, and commercials. Ms. Manim has taught text interpretation at the Market Theatre Laboratory, voice classes and tutorials at the University of Witwatersrand, and text interpretation, accent, and performance skills at AFDA Cape Town. She has a private practice teaching individuals communication skills. She has worked with lsango Ensemble since 2007 as a speech, dialogue, and text interpretation coach.
THOBILE JIM DYASI (Company) Mr. Dyasi was born in Pampierstad, Northern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), uCarmen, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, St. Matthew Passion. Other credits include L’elisir d’amore, The Marriage of Figaro, II viaggio a Reims, Adriana Lecouvreur and La rondine (University of Cape Town), where he received a performer’s diploma in opera.
NOMBONGO FATYI (Company) Ms. Fatyi was born in Cape Town, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2013. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Man of Good Hope, and St. Matthew Passion.
THANDOKAZI FUMBA (Company) Ms. Fumba was born in Cape Town, Western Cape, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2016. Her theater and opera credits include Isango Ensemble’s A Man of Good Hope. Ms. Fumba also played Paulina in the Siyaya Traditional Group.
ZAMILE GANTANA (Rooda) Mr. Gantana was born in Kimberley, Northern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2000. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (ikrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili Ezidlakazelayo), The Silver Lake, The Beggar’s Opera (lbali Loo Tsotsi), The Rocky Horror Show, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion (lsango Ensemble). His film credits include: uCarmen eKhayelitsha, Son of Man, Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde), and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
SIPHOSETHU HINTSHO (Asad as a boy) Mr. Siphosethu was born in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, in 2004. He attends Rhodes High School and joined Isango Ensemble in 2016. His theater credits include A Man of Good Hope.
PROFILES NONTSUSA LOUW (Yindy/Death) Ms. Louw was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion.
ZIMKHITHA MATHOMANE (Company) Ms. Mathomane was born in Cape Town, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2017. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include A Man of Good Hope.
ZANELE MBATHA (Asad’s mother) Ms. Mbatha was born in Daveyton, Johannesburg, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2000. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (ikrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili Ezidlakazelayo), The Beggar’s Opera (lbali Lotsosi), West Side Story, The Rocky Horror Show, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, and SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill. Other credits with Sibikwa Theater include: Qhamka Man of Men, Five Past Two, and Women Abuse. Her film credits include: uCarmen eKhayelitsha, Son of Man, Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde), and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
SINETHEMBA MDENA (Madoda) Mr. Mdena was born in Bisho, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute, La Bohème (Abanxhaxi), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, A Man of Good Hope, and St. Matthew Passion. His film credits include Unogumbe and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
ZOLEKA MPOTSHA (Yindy/Death) Ms. Mpotsha was born in Cape Town, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2009. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili Ezidlakazelayo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion. Her film credits include Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde) and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
THANDOLWETHU MZEMBE (Asad II) Mr. Mzembe was born in Cape Town, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2017. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion.
SIYANDA NCOBO (Company) Ms. Ncobo was born in Willowvale, Eastern Cape, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2013. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion. Her film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
SONWABO NTSHATA (Company) Mr. Ntshata was born in Umtata, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2007. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili ezidlakazelayo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion.
MELIKHAYA NTSHUNTSHE (Visa Clerk, etc.) Mr. Ntshuntshe was born in Cape Town and joined lsango Ensemble in 2017. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include A Man of Good Hope.
CIKIZWA ROLOMANA (Foosiya) Ms. Rolomana was born in Umtata, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxhaxi), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, St. Matthew Passion, and a concert for Bryn Terfel (Cape Town Opera). Her film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
MASAKANA SOTAYISI (Company) Mr. Sotayisi was born in Cape Town, Western Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2013. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, Venus and Adonis, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and St. Matthew Passion. His film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
LUVO TAMBA (SA Man) Mr. Tamba was born in Cape Town, Western Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), Venus and Adonis, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Man of Good Hope. His film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
AYANDA TIKOLO (Asad I) Mr. Tikolo was born in King William’s Town, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2013. His theater and opera credits include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), Venus and Adonis, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion (lsango Ensemble); Porgy and Bess, II barbiere di Siviglia, Beethoven, Opera Extravaganza, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann. His film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
PHILANI XHAGA (SA Man) Mr. Philani was born in Cape Town, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2017. His theater and opera credits include A Man of Good Hope (Isango Ensemble).
Choreography LUNGELO NGAMLANA
Music Arrangements and Music Direction MANDISI DYANTYIS
Lighting Design MANUEL MANIM
Speech and Dialogue Coaching LESLEY NOTT MANIM
Run Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes (including intermission)
ENSEMBLEJonny MANDISI DYANTYIS
Company THOBILE JIM DYASI
Company NOMBONGO FATYI
Company THANDOKAZI FUMBA
Rooda ZAMILE GANTANA
Asad as a boy SIPHOSETHU HINTSHO
Yindy/Death NONTSUSA LOUW Company ZIMKHITHA MATHOMANE
Asad’s mother ZANELE MBATHA
Madoda SINETHEMBA MDENA
Yindy/Death ZOLEKA MPOTSHA
Asad II THANDOLWETHU MZEMBE
Company SIYANDA NCOBO Company SONWABO NTSHATA
Visa Clerk, etc. MELIKHAYA NTSHUNTSHE
Foosiya CIKIZWA ROLOMANA
Company MASAKANA SOTAYISI
SA Man LUVO TAMBA
Asad I AYANDA TIKOLO
SA Man PHILANI XHAGA
TECHNICAL TEAMCo-production Manager ANDREAS AYLING Relighter JACK HATHAWAY
Company Manager MARIS SHARP
Co-production Manager SANDILE MGUGUNYEKA
Stage Manager VALENCIA MGUGUNYEKA
Chaperone DOREEN NONDIBANO HINTSHO
Tour Direction COLUMBIA ARTISTS MANAGEMENT LLC TIM FOX/ALISON AHART WILLIAMS
E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Managing Director for
Advancement and External Affairs
RICK BOYNTON Creative Producer
BARBARA GAINESArtistic Director
Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chair
CRISS HENDERSON Executive Director
presents a
A MAN OF GOOD HOPE
co-production by Isango Ensemble and Young Vic in association with the Royal Opera, Repons Foundation, X and Y
based on the book by JONNY STEINBERG adapted & directed by MARK DORNFORD-MAY
JONNY STEINBERG (Author) Mr. Steinberg is an award-winning South African author. His books include: Midlands, The Number (both of which won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award), Three-Letter Plague (Sizwe’s Test in the US, where it was named one of Washington Post’s Books of the Year and shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize), Thin Blue, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York, and A Man of Good Hope. In 2013 Steinberg was among the inaugural winners of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes, awarded by Yale University. He currently teaches African studies at the University of Oxford.
MARK DORNFORD-MAY (Adapter/Director) Born in Yorkshire and brought up in Chester, he has worked in South Africa with members of the company since 2000. Mr. Dornford-May has directed all of Isango Ensemble’s stage productions: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Snow Queen, Der Silbersee, The Beggar’s Opera (Ibali Loo Tsotsi), uCarmen, The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, La Boheme (Abanxaxhi), The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Izigwili Ezidlakazelayo), Venus and Adonis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Man of Good Hope. He has also produced and directed all of Isango Ensemble’s films: uCarmen eKhayelitsha, Son of Man, Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde), and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
MANDISI DYANTYIS (Music Director/Jonny) Mr. Dyantyis has been with the company since 2006. He has been co-music director and arranger/composer for all Isango Ensemble productions since 2006, including: The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), Venus and Adonis, The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), Aesop’s Fables, and The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Izigwili Ezidlakazelayo). Mr. Dyantyis traveled to New York to work with graduate acting students from New York University’s Tisch School of Acting, exploring relationships between South African and American theater methods. In 2012 he was the musical director and composer for Isango’s Venus & Adonis, which opened the Globe to Globe season at Shakespeare’s Globe in London and subsequently returned to the Globe in 2013. Mr. Dyantyis arranged and directed the music for the films Unogumbe and Breathe (Umphefumlo). In 2015 he adapted Bizet’s uCarmen and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Isango Ensemble’s US tour. In 2016 Mr. Dyantyis composed and conducted the music for A Man of Good Hope, which ran at the Young Vic, New York’s BAM, and London’s Royal Opera House. 2017 saw the creation of Isango Ensemble’s production of SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, based on Fred Khumalo’s book, Dancing the Death Drill, for which Mr. Dyantyis created new music and incorporated World War I songs. In 2019 he arranged Bach’s St. Matthew Passion for marimbas and created new music for the show.
LUNGELO NGAMLANA (Choreographer) Mr. Ngamlana is an associate artist of Isango Ensemble. He joined the company in 2007 and has been the choreographer for all subsequent Isango Ensemble productions. Prior to joining Isango, he was hosted by the Royal Opera House for the International Dance Fellowship in 2007. His theater credits include: The Magic Flute (Impempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (Izigwili Ezidlakazelayo), Venus & Adonis, La Bohème, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, uCarmen, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion. He currently teaches at NYU annually and, before joining Isango Ensemble, he worked as a teacher, performer, and choreographer with many dance and theater groups both at home in South Africa and internationally.
MANUEL MANIM (Lighting Designer) Mr. Manim is the co-founder of the Market Theatre and has previously been the director of Performing Arts Administration at the University of the Witwatersrand and director of the Baxter Theatre Centre. His career in theater lighting and producing spans over fifty years, and he has worked with lsango Ensemble since its first production more than ten years ago. His accolades include: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government, Naledi Life Achievement Award, Fleur du Cap Lifetime Achievement Award, Arts and Culture Trust Lifetime Achievement Award, and The National Order of lkhamanga, Silver.
LESLEY NOTT MANIM (Speech and Dialogue Coach) Ms. Manim has worked in professional theater, film, and television since 1975 as a performer, director, and vocal, acting, dialogue, text interpretation and accent coach for both South African and international productions. She has designed and taught workshops and master classes in voice and acting, as well as adjudicating drama festivals. She has been a dialogue coach and casting assistant for television, film, and commercials. Ms. Manim has taught text interpretation at the Market Theatre Laboratory, voice classes and tutorials at the University of Witwatersrand, and text interpretation, accent, and performance skills at AFDA Cape Town. She has a private practice teaching individuals communication skills. She has worked with lsango Ensemble since 2007 as a speech, dialogue, and text interpretation coach.
THOBILE JIM DYASI (Company) Mr. Dyasi was born in Pampierstad, Northern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), uCarmen, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, St. Matthew Passion. Other credits include L’elisir d’amore, The Marriage of Figaro, II viaggio a Reims, Adriana Lecouvreur and La rondine (University of Cape Town), where he received a performer’s diploma in opera.
NOMBONGO FATYI (Company) Ms. Fatyi was born in Cape Town, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2013. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Man of Good Hope, and St. Matthew Passion.
THANDOKAZI FUMBA (Company) Ms. Fumba was born in Cape Town, Western Cape, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2016. Her theater and opera credits include Isango Ensemble’s A Man of Good Hope. Ms. Fumba also played Paulina in the Siyaya Traditional Group.
ZAMILE GANTANA (Rooda) Mr. Gantana was born in Kimberley, Northern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2000. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (ikrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili Ezidlakazelayo), The Silver Lake, The Beggar’s Opera (lbali Loo Tsotsi), The Rocky Horror Show, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion (lsango Ensemble). His film credits include: uCarmen eKhayelitsha, Son of Man, Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde), and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
SIPHOSETHU HINTSHO (Asad as a boy) Mr. Siphosethu was born in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, in 2004. He attends Rhodes High School and joined Isango Ensemble in 2016. His theater credits include A Man of Good Hope.
PROFILES NONTSUSA LOUW (Yindy/Death) Ms. Louw was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion.
ZIMKHITHA MATHOMANE (Company) Ms. Mathomane was born in Cape Town, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2017. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include A Man of Good Hope.
ZANELE MBATHA (Asad’s mother) Ms. Mbatha was born in Daveyton, Johannesburg, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2000. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (ikrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili Ezidlakazelayo), The Beggar’s Opera (lbali Lotsosi), West Side Story, The Rocky Horror Show, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, and SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill. Other credits with Sibikwa Theater include: Qhamka Man of Men, Five Past Two, and Women Abuse. Her film credits include: uCarmen eKhayelitsha, Son of Man, Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde), and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
SINETHEMBA MDENA (Madoda) Mr. Mdena was born in Bisho, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute, La Bohème (Abanxhaxi), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, A Man of Good Hope, and St. Matthew Passion. His film credits include Unogumbe and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
ZOLEKA MPOTSHA (Yindy/Death) Ms. Mpotsha was born in Cape Town, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2009. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili Ezidlakazelayo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion. Her film credits include Unogumbe (Noye’s Fludde) and Breathe (Umphefumlo).
THANDOLWETHU MZEMBE (Asad II) Mr. Mzembe was born in Cape Town, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2017. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion.
SIYANDA NCOBO (Company) Ms. Ncobo was born in Willowvale, Eastern Cape, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2013. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion. Her film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
SONWABO NTSHATA (Company) Mr. Ntshata was born in Umtata, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2007. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Mysteries (Yiimimangaliso), The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), A Christmas Carol (iKrismas Kherol), Aesop’s Fables, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (lzigwili ezidlakazelayo), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion.
MELIKHAYA NTSHUNTSHE (Visa Clerk, etc.) Mr. Ntshuntshe was born in Cape Town and joined lsango Ensemble in 2017. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include A Man of Good Hope.
CIKIZWA ROLOMANA (Foosiya) Ms. Rolomana was born in Umtata, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. Her theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxhaxi), uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, St. Matthew Passion, and a concert for Bryn Terfel (Cape Town Opera). Her film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
MASAKANA SOTAYISI (Company) Mr. Sotayisi was born in Cape Town, Western Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2013. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, Venus and Adonis, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and St. Matthew Passion. His film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
LUVO TAMBA (SA Man) Mr. Tamba was born in Cape Town, Western Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2011. His theater and opera credits with Isango Ensemble include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), Venus and Adonis, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Man of Good Hope. His film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
AYANDA TIKOLO (Asad I) Mr. Tikolo was born in King William’s Town, Eastern Cape, and joined lsango Ensemble in 2013. His theater and opera credits include: The Magic Flute (lmpempe Yomlingo), La Bohème (Abanxaxhi), Venus and Adonis, uCarmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Man of Good Hope, SS Mendi – Dancing the Death Drill, and St. Matthew Passion (lsango Ensemble); Porgy and Bess, II barbiere di Siviglia, Beethoven, Opera Extravaganza, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann. His film credits include Breathe (Umphefumlo).
PHILANI XHAGA (SA Man) Mr. Philani was born in Cape Town, and joined Isango Ensemble in 2017. His theater and opera credits include A Man of Good Hope (Isango Ensemble).
Choreography LUNGELO NGAMLANA
Music Arrangements and Music Direction MANDISI DYANTYIS
Lighting Design MANUEL MANIM
Speech and Dialogue Coaching LESLEY NOTT MANIM
Run Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes (including intermission)
BARBARA GAINESArtistic DirectorCarl and Marilynn Thoma Chair
CRISS HENDERSON Executive Director
Annual support perennially provided by The Davee Foundation WorldStage Fund
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson, Chicago Shakespeare has redefined what a great American Shakespeare theater can be—a company that defies theatrical category. This Regional Tony Award-winning theater’s year-round season features as many as twenty productions and
650 performances—including plays, musicals, world premieres, family programming, and presentations from around the globe. The work is enjoyed by 225,000 audience members annually, with one in four under the age of eighteen. Chicago Shakespeare is the city’s leading producer of international work, and touring its own productions across five continents has garnered multiple accolades, including the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award. Emblematic of its role as a global theater, the company spearheaded Shakespeare 400 Chicago, celebrating Shakespeare’s legacy in a citywide, yearlong international arts and culture festival, which engaged 1.1 million people. The Theater’s nationally acclaimed arts in literacy programs support the work of English and drama teachers, and bring Shakespeare to life on stage for tens of thousands of their students each school year. Over the summer, the company tours a professional production of Shakespeare’s work, free for all, to neighborhood parks across the city. In 2017 the Theater unveiled The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare—with its innovative design that has changed the shape of theater architecture. Together with the Jentes Family Courtyard Theater and the Thoma Theater Upstairs, The Yard positions Chicago Shakespeare as the city’s most versatile performing arts center.
ARTISTICRICK BOYNTON Creative Producer
BOB MASON Artistic Associate/ Casting Director
AISLINN FRANTZ Associate Producer
DOREEN SAYEGH Manager of International and Special Projects
ROSIE BROSS Producing Assistant
ALEXIS TAYLOR Casting Assistant
MIKEY GRAY Assistant to the Creative Producer
YIWEN WU Casting Intern
MANAGEMENTDEBORAH VANDERGRIFT General Manager
DANIEL J. HESS Company Manager
KEVIN SPELLMAN Associate General Manager
SAMANTHA BRAZILLER Executive Assistant
BEN GATES-UTTER Associate Company Manager
EDWARD McCREARY KRISSI McEACHERN PAIGE WHITSON-MARTINI Arts Leadership Fellows
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTMARILYN J. HALPERIN Director of Education and Communications Ray and Judy McCaskey Chair
JASON HARRINGTON Education Outreach Manager
MAGGIE SUGGETT Learning Programs Manager
SARA B.T. THIEL, PH.D Public Humanities Manager
MOLLIE GREENBERG Education Intern
FINANCELINDA ORELLANA Director of Finance
DAN GRYCZA Human Resources Manager/ Finance Associate
ALANA RYBAK Assistant Director of Finance
ALYSSE HUNTER Accounting Manager
BECKY TRAISMAN Accounting Associate
ADVANCEMENTE. BROOKE FLANAGAN Managing Director for Advancement and External Affairs
DOTTIE BRIS-BOIS Associate Director of Development
JENNY SEIDELMAN Director of Partnerships
KRISTEN CARUSO Senior Advancement Manager/Board Liaison
GRACE SCHNECK Advancement Manager
SARA BENBELLA Donor Records and Data Coordinator
EMILY McCLANATHAN Advancement Communications Coordinator
AMANDA NAGY Individual Giving Coordinator
KARL SISSMAN VIP Concierge and Stewardship Coordinator
ALISÉE CATTEBEKE CRAWFORD McKENZIE Advancement Interns
MARKETINGJULIE STANTON Director of Marketing and Sales
HANNAH KENNEDY Public Relations Director
CATHY TAYLOR Public Relations Consultant
AMANDA CANTLIN Senior Marketing Manager
MARGARET McCALL Marketing Manager, Ticketing Services
ABIGAIL TOTH Digital Marketing Manager
JESSICA CONNOR Marketing and Communications Associate
DANIEL WALTERS Marketing and Communications Designer
MIKAYLA SHAW Marketing Assistant
ERIN HUNTER AARON ROBERTS FORREST WILLIAMS Box Office Supervisors
BESSIE BESS ANEYA COBBS BLAKE CORDELL CATHERINE HEALEY RICHARD KALLUS ZOE ROSENFELD STEVE TAPAS Box Office Associates
PRODUCTIONCHRIS PLEVIN Director of Production
JEFF WILLIAMS Associate Director of Production
EMMALINE KEDDY-HECTOR Production Coordinator
ALEXA BERKOWITZ Production Office Manager
STAGE MANAGEMENTDEBORAH ACKER Production Stage Manager/Associate Producer
LIZ LARSEN CST A Man of Good Hope Stage Manager
SCENERYROBERT L. WILSON Scenery Supervisor
CALEB McANDREW Technical Coordinator
PETER REGALBUTO Stage Crew Head
BRADLEY BURI Stage Carpenter Head
DELANEY STEWART Stage Crew Apprentice
JACK BIRDWELL TYLER GUYNES ADAM HELD MICHAEL JANSSENS ADAM TODD House Carpenters
COSTUMESRYAN MAGNUSON Costume Shop Manager
CATHY TANTILLO Costume Design Assistant
REBECCA DOROSHUK Wardrobe Supervisor
ALLISON MILLAR Laundry
ELECTRICSJEFF GLASS Lighting Supervisor
ALEC THORNE Assistant Lighting Supervisor
JOAN E. CLAUSSEN Lighting Crew Head
BRIAN ELSTON Lighting Technician
KRYSTAL MARTINEZ ART ZARKO Electricians
SOUNDJOSEPH DISBROW Sound Crew Head
DAN SCHRECK House Sound Technician
BLAKE HARDIN Sound Crew
WIGS AND MAKE-UPRICHARD JARVIE Wig and Make-up Supervisor
MIGUEL ARMSTRONG Wig and Make-up Assistant
MEGAN PIRTLE Wig and Make-up Apprentice
PROPERTIES CASSANDRA WESTOVER Properties Supervisor
PERSEPHONE LAWRENCE-WESCOTT Assistant Properties Supervisor
LISA GRIEBEL Properties Carpenter
DAN NURCZYK Properties Crew Head
OPERATIONS/FACILITIESSUSAN KNILL Facilities and Operations Director
JEANNE DEVORE Technology Manager
DANIEL LOPEZ Assistant Facilities Manager
FELIX ROSS Custodial Supervisor
DWAYNE BREWER FLOYD CONWAY MARIBEL CUEVAS ORLANDO FOX TAMAL STEVENS SHENISE THOMAS BENNY VANZANT Custodial Assistants
TICKETING, GUEST SERVICES AND EVENTSMAKEDA COHRAN Events Director
NICK CUELLAR VICTORIA GILBERT JEFFREY GOUGIS PHILLIP LEWIS JENN OSWALD House Managers
MICHAEL RUSSELL Assistant Concessions Manager
KATE LASS JACQUELINE POJASEK Concessions Leads
DANIEL BALSAMO PATRICIA BROOKS TYRA BULLOCK BYRON COOLIE ANGELA COTEY SCOTT COWAN SARA CROUNSE JORDAN FIGUEROA BERNARD GILBERT AMBER GOUGIS TIFFANY GOUGIS BRITTNEY GRANT MICAH HAZEL JASON KRAUSE ALLIE LYKE TANYA MCMORRIS ALEX MEYER T MURPHY ESSENCE NICHOLS ZACHARY PARKHURST DARA PRENTISS MAYA PRENTISS THOMAS RUSSELL EMIL SUECK SIOBHAN TOWNSEND NICOLE TINI SHONDA WILLIAMS TYREE WILLIAMS ANASTASIA WRENN Guest Services Associates
MAJOR SEASON SUPPORTERS
Ken Griffin
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Carl and Marilynn
Thoma
The Donna Van Eekeren
Charitable Fund
Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg
Timothy R. Schwertfeger
and Gail Waller
Rhoades Foundation Fund
at the Chicago Community Foundation
Ray and Judy McCaskey
HOPEGOOD
OFMAN
A
Based on the book by
JONNY STEINBERG Adapted & directed by
MARK DORNFORD-MAY
FROM SOUTH AFRICA: ISANGO ENSEMBLE’S
Isango Ensemble is a South African theater company that draws its artists mainly from the townships surrounding Cape Town. Founded in 2000, Isango’s stage productions and films have played to sold-out audiences across the globe, receiving numerous international awards, including Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear Award
for Best Film, Paris’ Best Opera Globes de Cristal, London’s Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, and San Francisco Black Film Festival’s Best World Cinema title, among others. Isango Ensemble reimagines classics from the Western theater canon and creates new work and adaptations within a South African context. The company’s structure embraces artists at all stages of their creative development, allowing senior artists to lead and contribute towards the growth of rising talents. Outside of South Africa, Isango Ensemble has performed in Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and across the United States. Their 2012 production, co-produced by Shakespeare’s Globe in London, opened the Globe to Globe Festival in 2012 and was invited back for an encore run in 2013. The group has partnered with The Global Fund, raising funds to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria as epidemics—directly impacting programs in countries most in need.
photos by Keith Pattinson
#MANOFGOODHOPE
BARBARA GAINESArtistic DirectorCarl and Marilynn Thoma Chair
CRISS HENDERSON Executive Director
Annual support perennially provided by The Davee Foundation WorldStage Fund
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson, Chicago Shakespeare has redefined what a great American Shakespeare theater can be—a company that defies theatrical category. This Regional Tony Award-winning theater’s year-round season features as many as twenty productions and
650 performances—including plays, musicals, world premieres, family programming, and presentations from around the globe. The work is enjoyed by 225,000 audience members annually, with one in four under the age of eighteen. Chicago Shakespeare is the city’s leading producer of international work, and touring its own productions across five continents has garnered multiple accolades, including the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award. Emblematic of its role as a global theater, the company spearheaded Shakespeare 400 Chicago, celebrating Shakespeare’s legacy in a citywide, yearlong international arts and culture festival, which engaged 1.1 million people. The Theater’s nationally acclaimed arts in literacy programs support the work of English and drama teachers, and bring Shakespeare to life on stage for tens of thousands of their students each school year. Over the summer, the company tours a professional production of Shakespeare’s work, free for all, to neighborhood parks across the city. In 2017 the Theater unveiled The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare—with its innovative design that has changed the shape of theater architecture. Together with the Jentes Family Courtyard Theater and the Thoma Theater Upstairs, The Yard positions Chicago Shakespeare as the city’s most versatile performing arts center.
ARTISTICRICK BOYNTON Creative Producer
BOB MASON Artistic Associate/ Casting Director
AISLINN FRANTZ Associate Producer
DOREEN SAYEGH Manager of International and Special Projects
ROSIE BROSS Producing Assistant
ALEXIS TAYLOR Casting Assistant
MIKEY GRAY Assistant to the Creative Producer
YIWEN WU Casting Intern
MANAGEMENTDEBORAH VANDERGRIFT General Manager
DANIEL J. HESS Company Manager
KEVIN SPELLMAN Associate General Manager
SAMANTHA BRAZILLER Executive Assistant
BEN GATES-UTTER Associate Company Manager
EDWARD McCREARY KRISSI McEACHERN PAIGE WHITSON-MARTINI Arts Leadership Fellows
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTMARILYN J. HALPERIN Director of Education and Communications Ray and Judy McCaskey Chair
JASON HARRINGTON Education Outreach Manager
MAGGIE SUGGETT Learning Programs Manager
SARA B.T. THIEL, PH.D Public Humanities Manager
MOLLIE GREENBERG Education Intern
FINANCELINDA ORELLANA Director of Finance
DAN GRYCZA Human Resources Manager/ Finance Associate
ALANA RYBAK Assistant Director of Finance
ALYSSE HUNTER Accounting Manager
BECKY TRAISMAN Accounting Associate
ADVANCEMENTE. BROOKE FLANAGAN Managing Director for Advancement and External Affairs
DOTTIE BRIS-BOIS Associate Director of Development
JENNY SEIDELMAN Director of Partnerships
KRISTEN CARUSO Senior Advancement Manager/Board Liaison
GRACE SCHNECK Advancement Manager
SARA BENBELLA Donor Records and Data Coordinator
EMILY McCLANATHAN Advancement Communications Coordinator
AMANDA NAGY Individual Giving Coordinator
KARL SISSMAN VIP Concierge and Stewardship Coordinator
ALISÉE CATTEBEKE CRAWFORD McKENZIE Advancement Interns
MARKETINGJULIE STANTON Director of Marketing and Sales
HANNAH KENNEDY Public Relations Director
CATHY TAYLOR Public Relations Consultant
AMANDA CANTLIN Senior Marketing Manager
MARGARET McCALL Marketing Manager, Ticketing Services
ABIGAIL TOTH Digital Marketing Manager
JESSICA CONNOR Marketing and Communications Associate
DANIEL WALTERS Marketing and Communications Designer
MIKAYLA SHAW Marketing Assistant
ERIN HUNTER AARON ROBERTS FORREST WILLIAMS Box Office Supervisors
BESSIE BESS ANEYA COBBS BLAKE CORDELL CATHERINE HEALEY RICHARD KALLUS ZOE ROSENFELD STEVE TAPAS Box Office Associates
PRODUCTIONCHRIS PLEVIN Director of Production
JEFF WILLIAMS Associate Director of Production
EMMALINE KEDDY-HECTOR Production Coordinator
ALEXA BERKOWITZ Production Office Manager
STAGE MANAGEMENTDEBORAH ACKER Production Stage Manager/Associate Producer
LIZ LARSEN CST A Man of Good Hope Stage Manager
SCENERYROBERT L. WILSON Scenery Supervisor
CALEB McANDREW Technical Coordinator
PETER REGALBUTO Stage Crew Head
BRADLEY BURI Stage Carpenter Head
DELANEY STEWART Stage Crew Apprentice
JACK BIRDWELL TYLER GUYNES ADAM HELD MICHAEL JANSSENS ADAM TODD House Carpenters
COSTUMESRYAN MAGNUSON Costume Shop Manager
CATHY TANTILLO Costume Design Assistant
REBECCA DOROSHUK Wardrobe Supervisor
ALLISON MILLAR Laundry
ELECTRICSJEFF GLASS Lighting Supervisor
ALEC THORNE Assistant Lighting Supervisor
JOAN E. CLAUSSEN Lighting Crew Head
BRIAN ELSTON Lighting Technician
KRYSTAL MARTINEZ ART ZARKO Electricians
SOUNDJOSEPH DISBROW Sound Crew Head
DAN SCHRECK House Sound Technician
BLAKE HARDIN Sound Crew
WIGS AND MAKE-UPRICHARD JARVIE Wig and Make-up Supervisor
MIGUEL ARMSTRONG Wig and Make-up Assistant
MEGAN PIRTLE Wig and Make-up Apprentice
PROPERTIES CASSANDRA WESTOVER Properties Supervisor
PERSEPHONE LAWRENCE-WESCOTT Assistant Properties Supervisor
LISA GRIEBEL Properties Carpenter
DAN NURCZYK Properties Crew Head
OPERATIONS/FACILITIESSUSAN KNILL Facilities and Operations Director
JEANNE DEVORE Technology Manager
DANIEL LOPEZ Assistant Facilities Manager
FELIX ROSS Custodial Supervisor
DWAYNE BREWER FLOYD CONWAY MARIBEL CUEVAS ORLANDO FOX TAMAL STEVENS SHENISE THOMAS BENNY VANZANT Custodial Assistants
TICKETING, GUEST SERVICES AND EVENTSMAKEDA COHRAN Events Director
NICK CUELLAR VICTORIA GILBERT JEFFREY GOUGIS PHILLIP LEWIS JENN OSWALD House Managers
MICHAEL RUSSELL Assistant Concessions Manager
KATE LASS JACQUELINE POJASEK Concessions Leads
DANIEL BALSAMO PATRICIA BROOKS TYRA BULLOCK BYRON COOLIE ANGELA COTEY SCOTT COWAN SARA CROUNSE JORDAN FIGUEROA BERNARD GILBERT AMBER GOUGIS TIFFANY GOUGIS BRITTNEY GRANT MICAH HAZEL JASON KRAUSE ALLIE LYKE TANYA MCMORRIS ALEX MEYER T MURPHY ESSENCE NICHOLS ZACHARY PARKHURST DARA PRENTISS MAYA PRENTISS THOMAS RUSSELL EMIL SUECK SIOBHAN TOWNSEND NICOLE TINI SHONDA WILLIAMS TYREE WILLIAMS ANASTASIA WRENN Guest Services Associates
MAJOR SEASON SUPPORTERS
Ken Griffin
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Carl and Marilynn
Thoma
The Donna Van Eekeren
Charitable Fund
Burton X. and Sheli Z. Rosenberg
Timothy R. Schwertfeger
and Gail Waller
Rhoades Foundation Fund
at the Chicago Community Foundation
Ray and Judy McCaskey
HOPEGOOD
OFMAN
A
Based on the book by
JONNY STEINBERG Adapted & directed by
MARK DORNFORD-MAY
FROM SOUTH AFRICA: ISANGO ENSEMBLE’S
Isango Ensemble is a South African theater company that draws its artists mainly from the townships surrounding Cape Town. Founded in 2000, Isango’s stage productions and films have played to sold-out audiences across the globe, receiving numerous international awards, including Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear Award
for Best Film, Paris’ Best Opera Globes de Cristal, London’s Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, and San Francisco Black Film Festival’s Best World Cinema title, among others. Isango Ensemble reimagines classics from the Western theater canon and creates new work and adaptations within a South African context. The company’s structure embraces artists at all stages of their creative development, allowing senior artists to lead and contribute towards the growth of rising talents. Outside of South Africa, Isango Ensemble has performed in Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and across the United States. Their 2012 production, co-produced by Shakespeare’s Globe in London, opened the Globe to Globe Festival in 2012 and was invited back for an encore run in 2013. The group has partnered with The Global Fund, raising funds to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria as epidemics—directly impacting programs in countries most in need.
photos by Keith Pattinson
#MANOFGOODHOPE