EVA BRENEMAN (Dialect Coach) is delighted to be back at Writers. Writers credits include: The Last Match, The Importance of Being Earnest, Arcadia. CHICAGO: Primary Trust (Goodman); Becky Nurse of Salem (Shattered Globe); Dear Elizabeth (Remy Bumppo); Fen (Court Theatre); Murder on the Orient Express (Drury Lane); The Chinese Lady (Timeline). BROADWAY: Airline Highway (Samuel Friedman Theatre). OFF-BROADWAY: Boswell (59E59). REGIONAL: The Chinese Lady (Denver Center); ten seasons -- American Repertory Theater; Romeo and Juliet (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville). EDUCATION: MA, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; BFA, NYU. Ms. Breneman is an associate artist at TimeLine Theatre Company.

[Bio as of April 2025]

Jonathan Weir (Jimmy Jack) returns to Writers for his eleventh production. Writers credits: Into the Woods, Days Like Today, The Liar, A Little Night Music, Bach at Leipzig, Arms and the Man, Misalliance, Doctor’s Dilemma, The Father and Booth. Chicago: Uncle Vanya (The New Theatre Project); Candide, The Visit, A Christmas Carol, 2666 (Goodman Theatre); King Charles III, Twelfth Night, Emperor’s New Clothes (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Stepping Out (Steppenwolf Theatre); The Merry Widow (Lyric Opera Chicago); and productions at Marriott Lincolnshire, Drury Lane Oakbrook Court and Northlight Theatres. Broadway: Scar and Pumbaa in Disney’s the Lion King and Jafar in Aladdin. National tours: Aladdin, Jersey Boys, Lion King, Scrooge the Musical. He is a proud husband, father and grandpa. 

Bobby Kennedy is the Director of Artistic Development at Writers Theatre. He has been the resident dramaturg at the theatre since 2008 and has led the theatre's new work program since 2014. Highlights of his tenure include the world premieres of Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol, Wife of a Salesman by Eleanor Burgess, Dishwasher Dreams by Alauddin Ullah, Witch by Jen Silverman, Trevor by Dan Collins and Julianne Wick-Davis, and Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf by Tim Sniffen; the national premieres of Quixote: On the Conquest of Self by Mónica Hoth, Claudio Valdés Kuri, and Georgina Escobar, and The Dance of Death by Conor McPherson; and the Chicago premieres of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, A Distinct Society, Tiger Style!, Athena, The Last Match, The Niceties, Smart People, and Marjorie Prime. In addition to his dramaturgy work at WT, his credits also include the world premieres of Give It All Back (SideShow Theatre Company), Body and Blood (The Gift Theatre), Ibsen is Dead (Interrobang Theatre Project) and The Peacock (Jackalope Theatre Company), as well as the midwest premiere of The Luck of the Irish (Next Theatre Company). Kennedy co-founded The Spontaneous Theater Project in Boston and has also worked with Huntington Theatre Company and New Repertory Theatre. He is an alumnus of Boston University.