Barbara Zahora (Associate Artistic Director) joined The Project's artistic staff in 2010; she has performed with The Project since 2005. Last season she adapted and directed The Merry Wives of Windsor. This season, she will direct Troilus and Cressida.  As an actor, her favorite roles in Project stagings include Queen Elizabeth I in last season's Mary Stuart, Margaret in Jeff Christian’s adaptation of Henry VI Parts 1, 2, and 3, and Constance Middleton in The Constant Wife. Barbara has been performing in Chicago for more than ten years; her credits include roles at Writers' Theatre, ShawChicago, Chicago Shakespeare, First Folio, Goodman, Illinois Theatre Center, Oak Park Festival, Northlight, Lookingglass and many others. She has also performed at a many respected regional and international venues, including the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, where she was part of the International Artistic Residency in 2004. Barbara is also an adjunct faculty member in Roosevelt University’s Theatre Conservatory, a voiceover artist, a dialect coach, and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Associaton.