RICK BOYNTON is the Creative Producer at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and a Tony Awards Nominating Committee member. CST premieres and credits include: The Notebook (Broadway February 2024), SIX (Broadway, ART, Citadel, Ordway), It Came From Outer Space (TheatreSquared), The Book of Joseph (Everyman, Off Broadway), Ride the Cyclone (MCC, 5th Avenue/ACT, Alliance), Sense and Sensibility (Old Globe), Othello: The Remix (London, Germany, South Korea, UAE, Off Broadway), Funk It Up About Nothin’ (Edinburgh, Australia, London), Cadre – co-director (Johannesburg, Edinburgh, Vancouver), Murder for Two (Off Broadway). Previous roles include artistic director of the Marriott Theatre, casting director at Jane Alderman Casting, board president of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.