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The Tragedy of Macbeth
company

SARA BENBELLA (they/them/she/her) is currently working towards their MFA graduate degree at Western Illinois University. A Chicago area theater practitioner, prior to their return to academia they performed, directed, and even stage-managed a myriad of productions with The Plagiarist, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Epic 'O' Productions, Pride Films & Play, Cornservatory, Redtwist Theatre, Big Noise Theatre, Three Brothers Theatre, The Drama Group, and Stone Soup Shakespeare.
​DIRECTOR

FELICIA HINOJOSA  recently graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Musical Theater. She is excited to make her Shakespearean debut with Stone Soup! Her credits include Hamlet (CCC), Fractured Fairy Tales (GreatWorks), VANYA AND SONYA... (Dunes Summer Theater), Head Over Heels (CCC). Thank you to my Hamlet director, Jeremy Cohn, for believing in me! Follow her Instagram @feliciarhinojosa
WITCH 2/MALCOLM/ROSS/GENTLEWOMAN/MURDERER

DEVONY HOF  is an actor and playwright from Palo Alto, California, now based in Chicago after graduating from Northwestern in 2023. Recent projects include Ariel in The Tempest with CenterStage Lake Forest, Maksara in The Girls' Guide to Friends and Demons, which she also wrote and produced, and Catherine in Proof at Northwestern. She loves Shakespeare, travel and writing poetry about bugs. Check her out on instagram at @devonyhof or her website, devonyhof.com.
WITCH 3/LADY MACBETH/ANGUS/MURDERER

JULIA STEMPER (she/her) is Stone Soup's Artistic Director and Founder. A Chicago-based actor, and teaching artist, she is a company member with The Plagiarists, teaches yoga for Wildlight Yoga, and is the Grant Writer/Theater & Creative Writing Program Director for FAME Center. Select credits include When You Awake You Will Remember Everything, and I Build Giants (The Plagiarists), Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed (Lifeline), Pericles (Shakespeare Project of Chicago), Romeo and Juliet (First Folio), and Moon Rhymes (Filament) in Chicago. Outside of Chicago she has performed in Heuristics in the Diner (Tron Theatre & Hampstead Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Arches) (UK); New Visions/New Voices Festival (The Kennedy Center), Star Spangled Banner (Smithsonian Museum of American History), The Drunkard (Solas Nua), Romeo and Juliet (Company III.ii), The Emperor Jones (American Century Theater), and Alice in Wonderland (Classika) (DC area). Julia served as a guest artist at Hope College in Holland, MI in their 2016 production of The Tempest. She holds a Masters in Classical and Contemporary Text-Acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a BA from Macalester College.
www.juliastemper.weebly.com
WITCH 1/DUNCAN/LENNOX/DOCTOR/MURDERER

CAROLYN WALDEE (she/her/hers) is a Chicago-based actor, singer, cellist, and cheesemonger. She most recently appeared as Orlando in As You Like It with the fledgling theater company Nonsense Productions, where she is also an ensemble member. Other past credits include Dying For It (The Artistic Home), Henry IV (Wheaton Shakespeare in the Parks), and the midwest premiere of String (Towle Theatre), as well as a myriad of shows for young audiences with GreatWorks Theatre Company. When not on stage, Carolyn works as a singing server at Davenport's Piano Bar and slings artisan cheeses at farmers' markets across Chicagoland with The Cheese People. Love and gratitude to her family and to Daniel, and an especial thank you to the professors and acting coaches who have facilitated and encouraged her love of Shakespeare over the years: Christine Colón-Locascio, Jenn Miller Cribbs, Jeffrey Galbraith, Susan Hart, Mark Lewis, and the late, greatly missed Jeffrey Carlson. 
MACBETH

THEO ZUCKER (any pronouns) is a Chicago-based actor, writer, and all-around artist. She is incredibly excited to be joining the Stone Soup tour for a fourth time! Theo's plays have been featured in multiple readings in Chicago, and their short story "Henry" was recently published in Hominum Journal. Theo holds a deep love for nature, and is happiest outside in the sun. He cannot wait to bring the magic and thrill of Macbeth to life!
BANQUO/MACDUFF

Director - Sara BenBella
Ensemble -Felicia Hinojosa, Devony Hof, Julia Stemper, Carolyn Waldee and Theo Zucker

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Southern Arts Fund, a program of ArtSpace 304, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts