10/28/2026
🏠 IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO BUILD A HOUSE.
Especially when that house has to fit inside a 64-seat theater.
Meet the remarkable team behind the world of The Roommate—four people with very different professional backgrounds who bring their creativity, craftsmanship, and considerable talents to the Parker Players stage.
📐 TORY HANNAN | Scenic Designer
A retired architect, Tory has begun volunteering his professional expertise to design our sets. His detailed architectural renderings and construction plans transform the demands of a script into a fully imagined world—one that must function within the unique dimensions of our intimate theater.
🔨 DAN McHUGH | Lead Scenic Builder
A retired CBOE options trader with Optiver, Dan now puts his problem-solving skills to work in a very different arena. As our lead builder, he’s the person on-site figuring out how to turn ambitious designs into physical reality. When something doesn’t quite fit, work, or go according to plan, Dan finds a way.
🪚 TIM O’REILLY | Scenic Construction
A retired high school history teacher with considerable carpentry skills, Tim works alongside Dan to bring the designs to life. Together, they transform piles of lumber into the walls, doorways, kitchens, and living spaces that become the worlds of our productions.
🏡 EMILY DOUVILLE | Scenic Construction & Detailing
By day, Emily is Foundation Director, Data & Information Management at Ascension Illinois. In her spare time, she brings an extraordinary eye for detail and a talent for craftsmanship to our stage. That beautiful screened-in porch in The Roommate? Emily built it.
FROM DRAWING BOARD TO OPENING NIGHT.
Swipe through to see how Tory’s original designs became Sharon’s Iowa home—through countless hours of measuring, cutting, building, painting, problem-solving, and a tremendous amount of care.
It’s easy to forget, when you’re sitting just feet away from the action, that none of this existed a few weeks before opening night.
That’s the magic of live theater.
And these are some of the people who make it happen.
❤️ Thank you, Tory, Dan, Tim, and Emily.
🎭 The Roommate by Jen Silverman
Onstage through November 8
Parker Players Theater Company | Barrington, IL
