Chekhov studio chicago MOVING DOCK THEATRE COMPANY

Company Members

Dawn Arnold

Alicia Hall-Flesch

Artistic Director

Alicia Hall-Flesch

Alicia Hall-Flesch has been studying and practicing the Michael Chekhov Technique for about ten years. She was first introduced to the technique by another MICHA Master Teacher, Scott Fielding and worked as an actor for him on Flood and several other productions at Alchymia Theatre. She has worked with Shakespeare on the Green, Shattered Globe, The Journeymen, Next Theatre, as well as many others throughout Chicagoland. She holds an MFA from the Theatre School of DePaul Univ. and a BA from Barat College. She has ben involved with Moving Dock for several years. She was in Moving Dock’s first workshop project for Unsung Stars, originating the role of Annie Jump Cannon and performed that role at the Adler Planetarium. She appeared in Moving Dock’s Shakespeare’s Notebook.

Christa Macbeth

Christa Macbeth comes to the Chekhov Technique and Moving Dock Theatre by way of the spoken word. She spent many years with Eurythmy Spring Valley in NY State, where she taught creative speech and was the ‘voice’ for performances. She also collaborated with like-minded artists on independent recitals. In 2002 she moved to Chicago, where she seeks to light a flame teaching English as a second language. Her latest program is A Man Called Dante which has been performed in Chicago and in Spring Valley. She is enjoying growing in new directions as she works her way into the richness of Chekhov’s Technique with the Moving Dock Acting Ensemble. She appeared in Moving Dock’s Shakespeare’s Notebook.

Ginger Schmidt

Christa Macbeth

Ginger Schmidt returns to The Moving Dock Theatre Company Ensemble with the production of The Anton Chekhov Book Club Returns. She was with us for our production of Ocean Sea, playing Dira. Some of her favorite past credits include B in Three Tall Women and Stella in Streetcar Named Desire at the Bay St. Louis Little Theatre. Ginger also loves directing and teaching. In 2014 she was named the State Director of the Year for Secondary Theatre by the Mississippi Theatre Association, and in 2015, her drama competition team was chosen to perform at the South Eastern Theatre Association’s convention in Chattanooga, TN, for Lady White Snake, a play she wrote and directed. Ginger received her M.F.A. in theatre from Roosevelt University.