Dawn Arnold, Artistic Director

Dawn Arnold, is an actress, director, and teaching artist. She is the founder and Artistic Director of The Moving Dock Theatre Company and the Moving Dock Studio in Chicago. With The Moving Dock she has directed/created Unsung Stars, Celestial Mechanics- or the Questionable Attraction of Entities, and Savage/Love, and co-directed/adapted Galway Bay, Einstein’s Dreams, Ocean Sea, and The Quiltmaker’s Gift. As an actress she has performed with The Moving Dock in Galway Bay, Undercurrents, The Lydia Etudes, Ocean Sea, and Eleemosynary, with Alchymia Theatre in Flood, and numerous other roles including Ranyevskaya in Cherry Orchard, Hesione in Heartbreak House, Mae in Mud, and Margaret in Richard the Third. Dawn is a Master Teacher of the Chekhov Technique, trained by the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA). She appears in the documentary, Master Classes in the Michael Chekhov Technique, produced by the Michael Chekhov Association. She was on the faculty of Roosevelt University’s Theatre Conservatory and the Music Institute of Chicago. She currently teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs at Northern Illinois University. She teaches the Michael Chekhov Technique with the Moving Dock Studio on the Move in Chicago and around the country in guest workshops and residencies for colleges, high schools, and theatre companies.

Cindy Henkin, Company Member

Cindy Henkin first wanted to study Chekhov since reading To the Actor while in college so she is thrilled to discover the Moving Dock.  She has played the Quiltmaker thrice, once in the initial workshop of The Quiltmaker’s Gift and in the two subsequent productions.  She developed the character of Antonia Maury through two workshop productions of Unsung Stars. Cindy has also appeared with Moving Dock in Dear…Reply, Forward, Send, and the 365 Days/365 Plays.  She has worked with International Theatre Company of Chicago, Streetsigns Theatre, Circle Theatre and Cleveland Public Theatre, among others.  Originally from Cleveland and a graduate of Penn State, Cindy was also formerly a teacher in the Parenteen Program at Free Street.

Alicia Hall-Flesch, Company Member

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.

Morgan Laurel-Cohen, Company Member

Morgan Laurel Cohen began her career as an actor at six years old in an Oscar Meyer Bologna commercial.   She grew up on the West Coast and attended college at Knox College, receiving a B.A. in Theatre.  She is particularly interested in exploring documentary and site specific theatre.   Morgan began working with Moving Dock in 2008. She appeared in Frugal Love – Poor Theatre for Poor Dates.

Tim Olsen

Tim Olsen, Company Member

Tim Olsen has been studying Michael Chekhov for the past two years at Northern Illinois University where he is a Senior BFA Actor. He didn’t fully recognize his love for Chekhov until last summer while working extensively with Artistic Director Dawn Arnold at Moving Dock. Recently in July 2010, Dawn and Tim attended the International Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA)Workshop and Festival in Windsor, Ontario. It was there he found his calling and faith in Michael Chekhov and his technique. Tim has also studied abroad at the Moscow Art Theatre School where he was Solyony in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters. He has appeared in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead as Hamlet and as Dylan Thomas in Child’s Christmas in Wales at NIU.