Artist Profiles
Kareem Bandealy
Chicago credits include Rock ’n’ Roll, Gas for Less, King Lear (Goodman Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Edward II, Romeo and Juliet(Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The Illusion (Court Theatre); Hamlet, The Caretaker, Heartbreak House (Writers’ Theatre); Big Lake Big City, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Last Act of Lilka Kadison, Peter Pan (Lookingglass Theatre Company); and Blood and Gifts (TimeLine Theatre Company). Regional: The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Three Musketeers, The Tempest (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare Festival); Stuff Happens, Julius Caesar (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre); and four seasons at Orlando Shakespeare Theater. He has appeared in several films including The Merry Gentleman directed by Michael Keaton. He is a 2011 recipient of a 3Arts Artist Award.