Collaboraction is pleased to announce the first mainstage production of their ’07 season, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, an instant message with excitable music by Rolin Jones. This hilarious and heartfelt new play centers on 22-year-old Jennifer Marcus, an obsessive-compulsive agoraphobic young woman with a genius-level IQ and a remarkable love of technology. She spends her entire life in her bedroom, in front of her computer screen, with only her adoptive parents, her online friends, and an occasional visit from the pizza guy for company. In a quest to learn more about her biological parents, she builds a fully functioning robotic replica of herself, “Jenny Chow”, who helps Jennifer make the “virtual” connections she needs to discover her Chinese birth mother and eventually her own sense of self.

“We are delighted to being this premiere to Chicago! The synergy of Rolin Jones’ complex contemporary themes and dialogue, Cecile Keenan’s passionate direction and Collaboraction’s mad scientist design team will make this production of this amazing play something incredibly special.” says Anthony Moseley, Collaboraction’s Executive Artistic Director. Collaboraction’s production will feature “excitable music” performed live, flying robots, and theatrical instant messaging.

Production Team
Producer		Joel Moorman**
Set Design		Lee Keenan
Lighting Design		Jeremy Getz*
Costume Design		Laura Brookshire Kollar
Sound Design / Original Composition		Mikhail “Misha” Fiksel**
Dramaturg		Becky Perlman**
Casting		Sarah Gitenstein*
Properties Master		Theresa Gibbons
Production Manager		Erica L. Sandvig
Technical Director		Ben Caracello
Stage Manager		Jenny Price
Cast
Mrs. Adele Marcus		Laura T. Fisher//Aea
Mr. Marcus		Ron Butts
Jennifer Marcus		Jennifer Shin
Jenny Chow		Mia Park
Dr. Yakunin / Preston / Terrence / Col. Hubbard		Scott Kennedy**
Todd		Ian Forrester**
Adele Understudy		Annie Slivinski
Todd Understudy		Ross Travis
Jenny Chow / Jennifer Marcus Understudy		Jennifer Liu
Additional Production Team
Assistant Director		Illknur “River” Ozgur
Assistant Director		Sarah Gitenstein*
Assistant Technical Director		Tim Hollingsworth
Assist. Scenic Design/ Sound Board Operator		Carolina Avalos
Master Electrician		Scott Pilsbury
Dialect Coach		Jessica Cai
Light Board Operator		Jennifer Price
Graphic Design		Jon Meitus, Bagby&Co Eamon Madigon
Press Photographer		Saverio Truglia
Aea Denotes Member Of Actors Equity Association
* Colaboraction Company Member
** Collaboraction Company Associate

Rolin Jones (Playwright) - The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. It received the 2006 Obie Award for Excellence in Playwriting, the Elizabeth Osborne Award for an Emerging Artist (American Theatre Critic’s Association) and OC Weekly's 2004 "Best New Play" Award. Productions of Jenny Chow include: South Coast Repertory (World Premiere), Yale Rep (East Coast Premiere), Atlantic Theater Company (New York Premiere), among others. His full-length play, The Jammer, received a Fringe First Award for Best New Writing at 2004's Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was also produced at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. His ten-minute play, Sovereignty, was produced at the Actor's Theater of Louisville's 2006 Humana Festival. He has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory, was one of four American playwrights chosen to participate in the 2004 Old Vic/New Voices Festival in London, and was an NEA/TCG playwright-in-residence at Yale Repertory Theatre. Currently writing on his second season for Showtime's award-winning series, Weeds, Mr. Jones graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2004.

Cecilie D. Keenan (Director) - Cecilie most recently directed Another Part of the House for Teatro Vista, Sextet for Eclipse Theater and Living Out for Teatro Vista/ ATC . Currently Cecilie is Resident Director for Teatro Vista and their Development Consultant. She has been a frequent director at ATC where she was a company member some years ago and directed Toys in the Attic and Bus Stop. Cecilie also directs in Minneapolis for Theater Mu where she directed 99 Histories and Falling Flowers. Other recent work includes adapting the novel The Messenger by Mayra Montero for Teatro Vista presented at the International Latino Festival at the Goodman Theater. Cecilie has worked on staff with many theaters in Chicago including Producing Director at Chicago’s Apple Tree Theater where she directed Anna Christie, The Birthday Party and Private Eyes and as Assistant Artistic Director for Northlight Theater. At Bailiwick she served as Artistic Director and she started the Director’s Festival, 11 Minutes Max, and with David Zak, the Deaf Artists Program. In the past Cecilie has received many awards for directing and ensemble work as well as a TCG Observership to Mexico and several NEA & Foundation Grants to develop or produce new plays.