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Remy Bumppo Theatre Company is a theaterinChicago known for productions from playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw and Tom Stoppard.[1] Marti Lyons serves as the company's Artistic Director.
Remy Bumppo was founded in 1996 by Artistic Director Emeritus James Bohnen, Carol Loewenstern, and John Stoddard as Remy Bumppo LLC. The company was named after two of the founders' pets – Bohnen's dog Natty Bumppo (named after the James Fenimore Cooper character, Natty Bumppo) and Loewenstern's cat Remy (named after Rémy Martin cognac). In their first year, the company produced two plays, Night and DaybyTom Stoppard and The SeagullbyAnton Chekhov.
On June 20, 2001, Remy Bumppo incorporated as a not-for-profit company under the name Remy Bumppo Theatre Company. At that time, they added five artistic associates: Annabel Armour, David Darlow, Shawn Douglass, Linda Gillum, and Nick Sandys. Artistic associates added since that time include Joe Van Slyke (added in 2005) and Gregory Anderson (2007). On August 13, 2007, at the age of 55, artistic associate Joe Van Slyke died after a lengthy struggle with cancer. Remy Bumppo dedicated their 2007–08 season to his memory.
In 2006, as part of the 10th year, Remy Bumppo was named a resident theatre company at the Tony Award winning Victory Gardens Theater. The space is now under different ownership and is known as the Greenhouse Theater Center. In 2018 the company moved out of the Greenhouse Theater Center and into Theater Wit, with an administrative offices in a separate location.[2]
In April 2009, founder and artistic director James Bohnen announced his retirement from the company, to be effective at the end of the 2010–11 Season.[citation needed][3]
In October 2010, the company announced that Timothy Douglas would take over the artistic directorship beginning with the 2011–12 Season. Douglas resigned as artistic director effective January 31, 2012.[4]
On February 1, 2012, Remy Bumppo's board of directors appointed artistic associate Nick Sandys as artistic director and he served in this position until 2021.
On July 12, 2021, Remy Bumppo's board of directors appointed Marti Lyons as artistic director.[5]
1996 Season:
Night and Day by Tom Stoppard; The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
1998 Season:
Waiting for GodotbySamuel Beckett; Rockabye by Samuel Beckett; Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
1999 Season:
Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard
2000–01 Season:
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw; Hapgood by Tom Stoppard
2001–02 Season:
No Man's LandbyHarold Pinter; Top GirlsbyCaryl Churchill
2002–03 Season:
The Secret RapturebyDavid Hare; Holiday by Philip Barry; Money by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
2003–04 Season:
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw; Some Americans Abroad by Richard Nelson; Hidden Laughter by Simon Grey
2004–05 Season: Chaos Theory... and Other Family Gatherings:
A Delicate BalancebyEdward Albee; Arcadia by Tom Stoppard; Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones
2005–06 Season: Temptation:
Aren't We All by Frederick Lonsdale; TartuffebyMolière; Power by Nick Dear
2006–07 Season: Lost Innocence:
The Best ManbyGore Vidal; The Real ThingbyTom Stoppard; Mrs. Warren's ProfessionbyGeorge Bernard Shaw; A Child's Christmas in WalesbyDylan Thomas; Remy Bumppo's thinkTank
2007–08 Season: Life, Love & Other Inventions:
FictionbySteven Dietz; The Philadelphia StorybyPhilip Barry; Bronte by Polly Teale; On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning by Eric Overmyer; Remy Bumppo's thinkTank; Dickens in AmericabyJames DeVita
2008–09 Season: The Perils of Possession:
The Voysey InheritancebyHarley Granville-Barker, adapted by David Mamet; The Marriage of FigarobyBeaumarchais, adapted by Ranjit Bolt; thinkTank: American EthnicbyUsman Ally, Idris Goodwin, and Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai; Old TimesbyHarold Pinter
2009–10 Season: Friendships Tested:
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Choderlos de Laclos; The IslandbyAthol Fugard; Heroes by Gerald Sibleyras, translated by Tom Stoppard
2010–11 Season: Secret Lives, Public Lies:
The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?byEdward Albee; The Importance of Being EarnestbyOscar Wilde; Night and DaybyTom Stoppard
2011–12 Season: The American Evolution:
Mourning Becomes ElectrabyEugene O'Neill, adapted by Gordon Edelstein; Changes of HeartbyMarivaux, translated by Stephen Wadsworth; ChesapeakebyLee Blessing
2012–13 Season: The Marriage Game:
CreditorsbyAugust Strindberg, adapted by David Greig; The Chimes adapted by Nick Sandys from the novel by Charles Dickens; You Never Can TellbyGeorge Bernard Shaw; SeascapebyEdward Albee
2013–14 Season: The Human Puzzle:
Our ClassbyTadeusz Słobodzianek, English version by Ryan Craig; An Inspector CallsbyJ.B. Priestley, translated by Stephen Wadsworth; Northanger AbbeybyJane Austen, adapted by Tim Luscombe
2014–15 Season: Welcome to the Fun House:
Both Your HousesbyMaxwell Anderson; The Clean HousebySarah Ruhl; TravestiesbyTom Stoppard
2015–16 Season: Biting the Apple:
Love and InformationbyCarol Churchill; Fallen AngelsbyNoël Coward; The Life of GalileobyBertold Brecht, translated by David Hare
2016–17 Season: An Age of Enlightenment:
Pirandello's Henry IVbyTom Stoppard; PygmalionbyGeorge Bernard Shaw; Born YesterdaybyGarson Kanin; Great ExpectationsbyCharles Dickens, adapted by Tanika Gupta
