THE ENSEMBLE HISTORY THE SHOWS DONATE GET INVOLVED
One of the most awarded companies in Chicago theatre, the Shattered Globe ensemble is best known for its intimate, character-driven interpretations of contemporary classics and classics-to-be. Since its founding in 1991, Shattered Globe has produced nearly 60 plays. Shattered Globe performs it's plays at The Greenhouse Theater Center on Lincoln Avenue in the heart of Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. The company produces three shows each season and serves thousands of patrons annually. In its first decade, Shattered Globe was honored with 58 Jeff Award Nominations and 34 Non-Equity Jeff Awards for productions like The Manchurian Candidate and Coyote on a Fence, making it the most awarded company in Non-Equity history. A professional Actors’ Equity-affiliated company since 2002, the company has received Equity Jeff Awards for Best Production (Judgment at Nuremberg) and Actor in a Principal Role (Maury Cooper, The Price). In total, the company has garnered 93 Jeff Award nominations and 42 Jeff Awards over the past 17 years.
As An Equity Company


2008-2009
Suddenly, Last Summer
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Kevin Hagan

Suddenly Last Summer

Jeff Award Nominations:
Best Scenic Design, Kevin Hagan
Best Sound Design, Mike Tutaj
Best Costume Design, Cybele Moon

 

 
Requiem for a Heavyweight
by Rod Serling
Directed by Lou Contey

requiem

Jeff Awards:
Best Lighting Design, Mike Durst
Best Fight Choreography, Nick Sandys

Jeff Award Nominations:
Best Production
Best Director,
Lou Contey
Best Actor in a Principal Role,
Sean Sullivan
Best Scenic Design
, Kevin Hagan
Best Sound Design, Mike Tutaj

 

 
A Taste of Honey
by Shelagh Delaney
Directed by Jeremy Wechsler

taste of honey

Currently nominated for After Dark Award
Outstanding Set Design, Kevin Hagan



Come Back, Little Sheba

by William Inge
Directed by David Cromer

Come Back, Little Sheba

After Dark Awards:
Best Production
Best Director, David Cromer
Best Actress Linda Reiter
Best Actor, John Judd
Best Scenic Design, Kevin Hagan

Jeff Award Nominations:
Best Production
Best Director, David Cromer
Best Actress in a Principal Role, Linda Reiter
Best Actor in a Principal Role, John Judd
Best Scenic Design, Kevin Hagan

 

2006-07

The Price
by Arthur Miller
Directed by Todd Schmidt

The Price

AfterDark Awards:
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Linda Reiter
Best Scenic Design, Kevin Hagan

Jeff Awards:
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Maury Cooper
Jeff Award Nominations:
Best Actress in a supporting Role, Linda Reiter
Best Scenic Design, Kevin Hagan

 

 


Hyde in Hollywood
by Peter Parnell
Directed by Andrea J. Dymond


Hyde in Hollywood
2005-06

The House of Blue Leaves
By John Guare
Directed by Ann Filmer

House of Blue Leaves

Jeff Award Nomination

Best Supporting Actress
, Eileen Niccola

Dealer's Choice
By Patrick Marber
Directed by Steve Scott


Dealers Choice

After Dark Award
Best Ensemble Performance

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eff Award Nominations
Best Production, Best Ensemble,
Best Director, Steve Scott
Best Scenic Design, Kevin Hagan


2004-05
Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck
Directed by Eileen Niccolai

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2003-04
Judgment at Nuremberg
(re-mounted)

By Abby Mann
Directed by Louis Contey

Meet John Doe
Adapted by Louis Contey and Dorrie Robinson
Directed by Louis Contey
2002-03
Time of the Cuckoo
By Arthur Laurents
Directed by Nick Bowling

Judgment at Nuremberg
By Abby Mann
Directed by Louis Contey

judgement
Jeff Award, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Brian McCaskil

Nominations
: Best Production, Best Director

   

As A Non-Equity Company

2001-02
Coyote On A Fence
by Bruce Graham
Directed by Dado

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
Directed by Louis Contey

Jeff Awards:
Actress in a Principle Role, Linda Reiter
Actress in a Supporting Role, Jennifer Kern
Direction, Louis Contey
Best Ensemble

Nominations
Best Production
Scenic Design, Kevin Hagan

High Life
by Lee MacDougal
Directed by Dado

After Dark Award
Best Ensemble

Jeff Award Nominations
Best Ensemble
Best Supporting Actor

 


 

2000-01

The Batting Cage
Chicago Premiere
by Joan Ackermann
Directed by Rachel Silverman

Jeff Award Nomination

Actress in a Leading Role, Eileen Niccolai

Coyote On A Fence
Chicago Premiere
by Bruce Graham
Directed by Dado

Jeff Awards
Best Actor in a Principal Role, Steve Key
Best Sound Design, Bob Rokos, Dave Bell

Jeff Award Nominations
Best Productin
Best Director, Dado Jeff Citation recipient '01
Actor in a Principal Role
Sound Design
Invitation To A March
Chicago Premiere
by Arthur Laurents
Directed by Shade Murray
Chicago Premiere

Jeff Award
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Linda Reiter

Jeff Award Nomination
Lighting Design, Lynne Koscielniak

 


 

1999-2000
Real Classy Affair
U.S. Premiere
by Nick Grosso
Directed by Louis Contey
Escape from Happiness
by George F. Walker
Directed by Louis Contey
The Lower Depths
by Maxim Gorky
Directed by Louis Contey

Jeff Awards:
Best Set Design, Kevin Hagan
Best Costume Design, Karen Kawa

Jeff Award Nomination,
Best Ensemble

 


 

1998-99
Rocket To The Moon
By Clifford Odets
directed by Louis Contey

Jeff Award Nomination
:
Best Set Design, Kevin Hagan
Frozen Assets
by Barrie Keefe
directed by Nick Bowling

Jeff Award:

Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Rebecca Jordan

Jeff Award Nominations:
Best Actor in a Principal Role, Joe Sikora
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Steve Key

frozen assets
Frozen Assets

 


 

1997-98

All My Sons
By Arthur Miller
directed by Louis Contey

Jeff Awards:

Best Production
Best Direction, Louis Contey
Best Actress in a Principal Role, Linda Reiter
Best Actor in a Principal Role, Steve Key
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Rich Baker

Jeff Award Nomination
Set Design, Louis Contey

All My Sons

Anna Karenina
U.S. Premiere
by Helen Edmundson
directed by Louis Contey

Jeff Award Nomination

Actress in a Principal Role, Rebecca Jordan

WarHawks & Lindberghs
World Premiere
by Jim McDermott
directed by Louis Contey

Jeff Awards:
Best New Work, Louis Contey and Jim McDermott
Best Sound Design, Michael Weber and Brian Johnson

Jeff Award Nomination:

Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Doug McDade
Best Costume Design, Karen Kawa

warhawks

 


 

1996-97
In A Pig's Valise
Chicago Premiere
by Eric Overmeyer
directed by Roger Smart

Jeff Award
Best Actress in a Supporting
Role, Eileen Niccolai
Bondagers
U.S. Premiere
by Sue Glover
directed by Lynn Ann Bernatowicz

Jeff Awards:
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Linda Reiter
Best Ensemble

Jeff Award Nomination
Best Direction, Lynn Ann Bernatowicz
 
Beckett
by Jean Anouilh
directed by Joe Forbrich

becket

 


 

1995-96
And a Nightingale Sang
by C.P. Taylor
directed by Susan Leigh

Jeff Award:
Best Actress in a Principal Role, Eileen Niccolai

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Christopher Hampton
directed by Louis Contey

Jeff Awards:
Best Actress in a Principal Role, Linda Reiter
Best Costume Design, Ann Kessler

les liaisons
Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Black Pajamas
World Premiere
by Steven S. Taylor
directed by Mark Alexander Clover
part of our satellite series
Peter Pan
by Trevor Nunn & John Caird
directed by Louis Contey
Brilliant Traces
by Cindi Lou Johnson
directed by Louis Contey
part of our satellite series

 


 

1993-94
God's Country
By Steven Dietz
directed by Roger Smart

Jeff Award Nominations:
Best Production
Best Ensemble
 
Skeleton
World Premiere
by Will Kern
directed by Wilson Milam
part of satellite series
Road to Mecca
By Athol Fugard
directed by Roger Smart

Jeff Award:

Best Actress in a Principal Role, Ann Wakefield
A View From the Bridge
By Arthur Miller
directed by Louis Contey

Jeff Awards:
Best Production,
Best Direction, Louis Contey
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Steve Key

Jeff Award Nomination
Best Actor in a Principal role, Doug McDade
 
Loot
by Joe Orton
directed by Roger Smart

The Manchurian Candidate
Chicago Premiere
by John Lahr
directed by Louis Contey

Jeff Awards:

Best Ensemble
Best Direction, Louis Contey
Best Actress in a Principal Role, Linda Reiter
Best Actor in a Supporting role, Doug McDade
Best Sound Design, JJ Porterfield

Jeff Award Nomination
Best Production

manchurian
The Manchurian Candidate

 


 

1994-95

A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams
directed by Louis Contey

Jeff Awards
:
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Rebecca Jordan
Best Scenic Design, Louis Contey and Joe Forbrich

Jeff Award Nominations

Direction, Louis Contey
Costume Design


The Lesson
by Eugene Ionesco
directed by Leigh Horsley
part of satellite series
The Love of A Good Man
Chicago Premiere
by Howard Barker
directed by John Swanbeck and Nancy Scanlon love
The Love of a Good Man
desire
A Streetcar Named Desire
Whisper into my Good Ear
by William Handley
directed by Doug McDade
Harvestide
World Premiere
By Stephen Serpas
Directed by Ric Murphy

 


 

1992-93
The Dresser
By Ronald Harwood
directed by Roger Smart

Jeff Awards
Best Actor in a Principal Role, Tim Decker
Best Set Design, Roger Smart

Holy Ghosts
By Romulus Linney
directed by Louis Contey

holy ghosts
Holy Ghosts

The Children's Hour
by Lillian Hellman
directed by Shira Piven

Jeff Award Nomination:
Best Actress in a Supporting Role

 

childrenshour
The Children's Hour

The Ritual Room
World Premiere
By ensemble member Joe Forbrich
Directed by Lisa Gingerich
part of satellite series
 

 


 

1991-92
Backstage Pass
World Premiere
by Adam Langer
directed by Adam Langer
In The Shadow Of A Smile
World Premiere
by Adam Langer
directed by Adam Langer
Count Oderland
Chicago Premiere
by Max Frisch
directed by Adam Langer
Frozen Assets
by Barri Keefe
directed by Dan Torbica
Ground Zero Club
by Charles Schulman
directed by Joe Forbrich
part of satellite series
Talk Radio
by Eric Bogosian
directed by Roger Smart

Jeff Awards:
Best Actor in a Principal Role, Ben Werling
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Steve Key

Jeff Award Nominations
Best Direction, Roger Smart
Best Production
See The Pretty Lights
by Alan Plater
directed by Roger Smart
part of our satellite series
Big Al
by Bryan Goluboff
directed by Stephen Serpas
part of our satellite series