Adrianne Cury

Adrianne Cury has had the privilege of working in Chicago with Writer's Theatre, Famous Door, Next, First Folio, Chicago Shakespeare, Chicago Shakespeare Project, Drury Lane Evergreen Park, Bailiwick, Strawdog, Apple Tree, National Jewish, Lifeline, and a dozen principal roles with both Organic/Touchstone and ShawChicago, where she is now casting director and associate artist. Her honors include: Jeff Award nomination (Two by Shaw - Writer's Theatre); Jeff Citation (Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Zebra Crossing); and two After Dark Awards (Shrapnel in the Heart - Famous Door and David's Redhaired Death - Bailiwick). Regional theatre credits include: Indiana Repertory, BoarsHead, Human Race, New American and Wisconsin Shakespeare. Some favorite credits include both Masha (Touchstone) and Arkadina (First Folio) in The Seagull; L'il Bit in How I Learned to Drive (Human Race); Angela in Wonderful Tennessee and Alma in Summer & Smoke (Touchstone), and Rosemary in Picnic(Oak Park Festival Theatre-where she is educational outreach director). Most recently Adrianne had the great fortune to travel to Konya, Turkey on a MacArthur Foundation Grant given to Shaw Chicago, where she played Helen Alving in Ibsen's Ghosts. In the last few years, she has directed the experiment for Stockyards Theatre Project, You Never Can Tell for Village Players; adaptations of Scoundrel Time and The Thin Man for City Lit, and Sense & Sensibility for Theatre of Western Springs. Ms. Cury is a proud member of Actor's Equity & SAG, and teaches and coaches both adults and teens here at  Acting Studio.