Eric Wegener is a theatre artist based in the mythical kingdom of Chicago-land where he lives and raises two sons with his wife Martha.  He has directed for several theatres in that realm, including:  Piccolo, Strawdog, Playhouse, Tight & Shiny Productions, Interplay and Stage Two.  Some of the notable productions along the way have been the Jeff nominated “Impossible Marriage” at Strawdog Theatre, a production of Michael Healy’s “The Drawer Boy” at South Bend Civic Theatre that was cited as “best directed play of the year” by the South Bend Tribune and directing the theatrical elements of “Peter vs. the Wolf” in collaboration with Maestro Tsung Yeh for the South Bend Symphony Orchestra.  Eric served as Producing Artistic Director of Shawnee Theatre of Greene County (IN) as well as Stage Two Theatre (Vernon Hills, IL).  Altogether Eric has directed nearly thirty plays in venue’s varying from the grand scale of a two thousand seat proscenium house to the interior of a museum to the great outdoors, with several small storefront studios in any configuration imagined peppered in as well.  There have also been lighting and set designs along with some teaching, a little acting, a little writing, countless odd jobs and tons of backstage work and deep in the past he attended college just down the road at Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington somehow graduating with honors, so the memory serves.  For The November Ten Eric has directed the Civil War inspired version of “Much Ado about Nothing” and the classical rendition of “Romeo and Juliet”.  Both were performed in Soldiers and Sailors park outdoors in the daylight, in the tradition that Shakespeare’s company originally produced them.