Terry McCabe - Artistic Director

Terry has been City Lit's artistic director since February 2005.  This is his 26th year directing plays professionally in Chicago.  He was artistic director of Stormfield Theatre for four years, resident director at Wisdom Bridge Theatre for five years, and worked at the Body Politic Theatre three different times in three different capacities over a span of 14 years.  He won two Jeff Citations for directing at Stormfield,and has been nominated for the Jeff Award for Best Director three times, for shows at Wisdom Bridge, Victory Gardens, and Court Theatre.  He has directed at many Chicago theatres either long gone or still with us, as well as off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre, at the Edinburgh Festival, and at Vienna's English Theatre.  His book Mis-Directing the Play has been denounced at length in the pages of American Theatre magazine and from the podium at The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas national convention, but is nonetheless used in directing classes from coast to coast.  He is an artistic associate of BoarsHead Theatre in Lansing, Michigan, under its artistic director Kristine Thatcher, and a member of the theatre faculty at Columbia College.

Brian Pastor - Managing Director

Brian was promoted to Managing Director in June, 2006 after serving as City Lit's Business Manager since February, 2005. Brian's producing experience dates back to his days at Northwestern University where he was a founder and staff producer for Lovers and Madmen, an all-Shakespeare performance troupe. Brian is also a founder and the current Executive Director of Promethean Theatre Ensemble. He is on the Board of Directors of The Mime Company and is an Artistic Associate with Chicago dell'Arte. As an actor, Brian has appeared in shows with City Lit, Promethean Theatre, Bailiwick Repertory, Strawdog Theatre, Arts/Lane, Authentic Theatre, Chicago dell'Arte and The Mime Company. City Lit audiences will remember his on-stage work in The Play's the Thing, the Jeff-Recommended production of The Rivals, Doctor Knock, Beautiful Soup, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Jeff-Recommended Gidget, and most recently as Dr. Miles Bennell in The Body Snatchers. Brian also served as Assistant Director on the Jeff-Recommended production of Holmes and Watson and co-adapted Pudd'nhead Wilson with Terry McCabe. Brian can be seen this fall in City Lit's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which he also co-adapted.

Shawna Tucker- Casting Director

Shawna is an actress, playwright and producer. She has worked on stages in St. Louis, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, Georgia and Chicago. She has been seen on the City Lit stage in Pudd'nhead Wilson, Dashiell Hamlet, Private Lives, Thin Man, Macbeth and The Body Snatchers. She produced in St. Louis by initiating a theater program for the Lafayette Square Arts Council, presenting plays of Shakespeare, Moliere and Horton Foote in and around that historic neighborhood. In Decatur, Georgia, she produced in conjunction with Neighborhood Playhouse, and in Chicago has worked in the casting department for Chicago ScriptWorks. She trained in Chicago at St. Nicholas Theater School.