MIKE McSHANE is a Chicago-based theatrician with an MFA (Lighting Design) from the University of Florida School of Theatre and Dance. He has been facilitating theatre works in Chicago since 2018.
He recently designed, understudied and stage managed T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" at the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture.
Acting: Count Ugolino (DANTE360), Sidney Bruhl (Deathtrap), Bobby (American Buffalo), Pastor Manders (Ghosts), Austin (True West), The Dauphin (Saint Joan), Boolie Werthan (Driving Miss Daisy).
Followspot Operator: Jim Henson's: Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas (Studebaker Theater), SIX (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
Lighting Design: “Make Sense” 2023 (Hot Crowd Modern Dance), Malpert Love (Artistic Home), H.M.S. Pinafore (G&S Opera Company), The Rocky Horror Show (The Barn Theater). A Man of No Importance (PFP), The Layover, Dead Man's Cell Phone (The Comrades).
Master Electrician: Aztec Human Sacrifice, The Innocence of Seduction (City Lit Theater)
Run Crew: Dishwasher Dreams (Writers' Theater), The Polar Express Train Ride (Union Station Chicago, IL), Evil Dead: The Musical HD (Greenhouse Theater Center Chicago, IL)
A2: ILLINOISE (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
Sound Design: Issac's Eye (Redtwist), Stop Kiss (PFP), Oedipus the King, Noises Off!, The Mousetrap, The Gem of the Ocean, An Inspector Calls, Hobson’s Choice, Angels in America: Perestroika, The House of Atreus (University of Florida).
He recently designed, understudied and stage managed T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" at the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture.
Acting: Count Ugolino (DANTE360), Sidney Bruhl (Deathtrap), Bobby (American Buffalo), Pastor Manders (Ghosts), Austin (True West), The Dauphin (Saint Joan), Boolie Werthan (Driving Miss Daisy).
Followspot Operator: Jim Henson's: Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas (Studebaker Theater), SIX (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
Lighting Design: “Make Sense” 2023 (Hot Crowd Modern Dance), Malpert Love (Artistic Home), H.M.S. Pinafore (G&S Opera Company), The Rocky Horror Show (The Barn Theater). A Man of No Importance (PFP), The Layover, Dead Man's Cell Phone (The Comrades).
Master Electrician: Aztec Human Sacrifice, The Innocence of Seduction (City Lit Theater)
Run Crew: Dishwasher Dreams (Writers' Theater), The Polar Express Train Ride (Union Station Chicago, IL), Evil Dead: The Musical HD (Greenhouse Theater Center Chicago, IL)
A2: ILLINOISE (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
Sound Design: Issac's Eye (Redtwist), Stop Kiss (PFP), Oedipus the King, Noises Off!, The Mousetrap, The Gem of the Ocean, An Inspector Calls, Hobson’s Choice, Angels in America: Perestroika, The House of Atreus (University of Florida).