The Performers
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  Ro Boddie*
  Balthasar, Understudy Antipholus of Syracuse, Understudy Antipholus of Ephesus

  Balthasar, Understudy Antipholus of Syracuse, Understudy Antipholus of Ephesus

  Ro Boddie*
  

  NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Socrates (dir. Doug Hughes) | Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Seize The King (dir. Carl Cofield). REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements | Round House Theatre: Topdog/Underdog, The Mountaintop, Radio Golf, The Tempest | Studio Theatre: Pipeline, Three Sisters, No Sisters | Baltimore Center Stage: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | Mark Taper Forum: A Play is a Poem | La Jolla Playhouse: Blueprints to Freedom | Bay Street Theater: Windfall (dir. Jason Alexander); The Old Globe: Skeleton Crew | Cleveland Playhouse: The Mountaintop | Cygnet Theatre: Seven Guitars, King Hedley II. TV: Godfather of Harlem, Run the World, The Good Wife, Elementary, Unforgettable, Person of Interest. AWARDS: Craig Noel Award for Actor of the Year 2016. PERSONAL: he/him. Teaching: American University and Middlebury College. Training: University of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Instagram: @roboddieart 

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  Jacob Brandt*
  Roderigo, Understudy Dromio of Syracuse, Understudy Dromio of Ephesus

  Roderigo, Understudy Dromio of Syracuse, Understudy Dromio of Ephesus

  Jacob Brandt*
  

  STC: As You Like It. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop: 1969: The Second Man (composer/performer). REGIONAL: Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bucks County Playhouse, Weston Theatre Company, Speakeasy Stage, Company One, New Repertory Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, ArtisTree Music Theatre Festival. FILM: Pinsky. TV: Dear Edward (Apple TV+). PERSONAL: Jacob is an actor, musician, writer, and composer. His music has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, and his work as a writer and composer has been supported by and/or performed at Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop, New York City Center, Joe’s Pub, The Civilians, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The 24 Hour Plays, Pipeline Theatre Company, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, and others. He is an alum of The Civilians R&D Writers Group. Training: Harvard University: B.A. in Dramatic Theory and Practice. Instagram: @baconjacob. Website: jacobbrandt.com. 

   

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  Alex Brightman*
  Dromio of Syracuse

  Dromio of Syracuse

  Alex Brightman*
  

  NEW YORK: Broadway: Spamalot, The Shark is Broken, Beetlejuice (Tony Award nomination), School of Rock (Tony Award nomination), Matilda, Big Fish, Wicked, Glory Days. FILM: Here Today. TV: The Blacklist, Law & Order: SVU, Documentary Now!, The Good Fight, Impractical Jokers, Blue Bloods, SMILF, Important Things w/ Demetri Martin. OTHER: Voiceover: Helluva Boss, Dead End: Paranormal Park, Hazbin Hotel. Writing: Everything is Fine (developed by Manhattan Theatre Club, industry reading directed by Cynthia Nixon); It's Kind of a Funny Story (book for musical adaptation, with composer/lyricist Drew Gasparini). PERSONAL: Brightman is currently developing an animated series, Cleaners, with Warner Brothers and co-creator Nik Walker as well as a single-cam rom-com, Singular, with 20th Century Studios.

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  Kimberly Dodson*
  Thaisa, Understudy Adriana, Understudy Luciana

  Thaisa, Understudy Adriana, Understudy Luciana

  Kimberly Dodson*
  

  NEW YORK: Broadway: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Sensational Sea Minkettes | Baltimore Center Stage: Our Town | La Jolla Playhouse: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical | Paper Mill Playhouse: A Bronx Tale: The Musical | McCarter Theatre Center: A Christmas Carol. TV: The Life List (Netflix), Special Ops: Lioness, FBI: Most Wanted, Law and Order: Organized Crime, That Damn Michael Che. PERSONAL: she/her/hers. Kimberly is a theatre worker excited by new works and transformative spaces. She hopes to see the entire theatre community continue to push the American theatre industry forward toward safety, sustainability, and equity. Training: BA in Theatre with double concentration in Acting and Performance Studies and double minor in Dance and Sociology. Instagram: @kdotsdotcom 

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  David Fynn*
  Dromio of Ephesus

  Dromio of Ephesus

  David Fynn*
  

  INTERNATIONAL: UK: National Theatre London: Much Ado About Nothing, She Stoops to Conquer, Romeo and Juliet | West End: School of Rock, After The Party. FILM: Here, Near Miss, The Mauritanian, The Look of Love, Leap Year. TV: Lazarus; Daddy Issues; Am I Being Unreasonable; Belgravia; Game of Thrones; Sherlock; Doctor Who; The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe; Avenue 5; Trolls; The Pembrokeshire Murders; Whisky Cavalier; Vanity Fair; Undateable; Black Mirror; Life’s Too Short; Peep Show; The Inbewteeners. AWARDS: Olivier Nomination (Best Actor in a Musical–School of Rock), Evening Standard Nomination (Best Newcomer–She Stoops to Conquer). 

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  Eric Hissom*
  Duke Solinus, Pinch, Understudy Egeon

  Duke Solinus, Pinch, Understudy Egeon

  Eric Hissom*
  

  STC: Our Town. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: China: The Whole Enchilada. TOURS: US: The 39 Steps. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, JQA | Ford’s Theatre: Born Yesterday, Twelve Angry Men | Folger Theatre: Arcadia (Helen Hayes award), Cyrano, Macbeth | Studio Theatre: The Effect | Theater J: The Chameleon, Life Sucks, Body of an American | Round House Theatre: The Tempest, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Vibrator Play | La Jolla Playhouse: The 39 Steps | Milwaukee Rep: Eurydice | Seattle Rep: The 39 Steps | Asolo Repertory Theatre: Glengarry Glen Ross | Syracuse Stage: Around the World in Eighty Days | Cleveland Playhouse: The Game’s Afoot. FILM: Out of Time. TV: One Tree Hill, Xena, Mortal Kombat. PERSONAL: Training: MFA from Florida State University’s Asolo Conservatory. Website: erichissom.com 

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  Cloteal L. Horne*
  Luciana

  Luciana

  Cloteal L. Horne*
  

  NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Red Bull Theater: The Convent of Pleasure | Marcus Garvey Amphitheater: Cross that River | Slant Theatre Project: The Steadfast | Billie Holiday Theatre: Dirty Blood. Other: New York Theatre Workshop: She A Gem. REGIONAL: Long Wharf/Baltimore Center Stage: Fires in the Mirror | The Huntington: The Bluest Eye, BlueShift | Trinity Repertory Company: Black Odyssey | Shakespeare & Company: Hang | Lyric Stage Boston: Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Elliot Norton Nominee). FILM: Stay Here with Me (Tuli Media), The Promotion (C1 Media), What We Owe Each Other (RISDI), Driving While Black Magic. TV: Grey’s Anatomy, Recurring Guest Star, Season 19 and 20. PERSONAL: I am a product of my grandmother’s prayers and my ancestors’ wildest dreams. Glory be. Holds a BFA in Acting from Boston University and an MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep.  www.cloteallhorne.com 

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  Ralph Adriel Johnson*
  Antipholus of Ephesus

  Antipholus of Ephesus

  Ralph Adriel Johnson*
  

  STC: A Midsummer Night's Dream. REGIONAL: 2 Seasons at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. FILM: Like Father (Netflix), TV: Fleishman is in Trouble (FX), American Horror Story (FX), Friends from College (Netflix), Constance (TNT), Bull (CBS), Madam Secretary (CBS), Blue Bloods (CBS), The Blacklist (NBC), Law and Order (NBC). PERSONAL: He/Him/His. Ralph Adriel Johnson is a New York based actor from Montgomery, Alabama. Training: Brown/Trinity Rep: MFA in Acting; Oberlin College: BA in Theatre. 

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  Camilo Linares
  Sergeant/Officer

  Sergeant/Officer

  Camilo Linares
  

  REGIONAL (selected): GALA Hispanic Theatre (company member): Las Hermanas Palacios, Picasso, Tia Julia y el escribidor, La vida es sueño | The Kennedy Center: The Day You Begin | Spooky Action Theater: Frontières Sans Frontières | 1st Stage: Mojada | Studio Theatre: Fun Home. PERSONAL: IG: @ezkatons. Camilolinares.com. Linda Townsend Management. 

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  Ms. Amanda Naughton*
  Emilia

  Emilia

  Ms. Amanda Naughton*
  

  NEW YORK: Broadway: The Secret Garden, Into the Woods (2002). Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: Romance in Hard Times | Circle Repertory Company: 3Postcards | WPA Theatre: Hundreds of Hats | Douglas Fairbanks Theatre: Mr. President. TOURS: The Secret Garden, Fun Home. REGIONAL: La Jolla Playhouse: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Come From Away | The Old Globe: Paramour, Loves and Hours, The Constant Wife, The Women, Emma, A Doll’s House, Grinch...Christmas, Lost in Yonkers, Bethany | San Diego Repertory Theatre: Fun Home | South Coast Repertory: A Little Night Music, Pacific Playwright’s Festival (2019, 2022) | Goodspeed Musicals: A Little Night Music, Amour, O.Henry’s Lovers | Geva Theatre, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, George Street Playhouse, Walnut Street Theatre, The Hangar Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, La Mirada Theatre, The Forestburgh Playhouse. FILM: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Mexico City. TV: Remember WENN, Payne, Chappelle’s Show, Law and Order, All My Children. PERSONAL: she/her/hers. BFA Ithaca College. Instagram: @instanaught 

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  Paige Rammelkamp
  Marina

  Marina

  Paige Rammelkamp
  

  REGIONAL: The Kennedy Center TYA: FINN (reading) | NextStop Theatre Company: Reefer Madness | Workhouse Arts Center: Urinetown (Helen Hayes nomination), The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Monumental Theatre Company: Bonnie & Clyde | Red Branch Theatre Company: The Bridges of Madison County. PERSONAL: she/her. Training: American University: BA in Vocal Performance, BA in Musical Theatre. Instagram: @PARfortheChords 

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  Pearl Rhein*
  Angela

  Angela

  Pearl Rhein*
  

  NEW YORK: Broadway: Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park: Taming of The Shrew (Dir. Phyllida Lloyd) | Mint Theater Company: Becomes a Woman | Ars Nova: The Lucky Ones | Irish Repertory Theatre: Transport | Red Bull Theater: Volpone. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Ah, Wilderness! (Dir. Kyle Donnelly) | Hartford Stage: The Winter’s Tale (dir. Melia Bensussen) | Dallas Theater Center: Little Women | Mile Square Theater: Funny, Like An Abortion | American Repertory Theater: Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 | La Jolla Playhouse: Memphis! TV: Succession, The Blacklist, Younger, Bull. OTHER: Proud member of Ring of Keys & Maestra. PERSONAL: she/her. Pearl is a multi-instrumentalist, composer-lyricist, and singer-songwriter who records under the name Mostly Bees. Training: UC San Diego: MFA in Acting; Ball State University: BA in Theatre. Instagram, BlueSky: @pearlrhein. PearlRhein.com 

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  Timothy D. Stickney*
  Egeon

  Egeon

  Timothy D. Stickney*
  

  STC: Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Achilles, Troilus and Cressida. NEW YORK: Broadway: Public Theater: King Lear. Off-Broadway: Theatre for a New Audience: King Lear | NYSF/Central Park's Delacorte: Romeo and Juliet. Other New York: New York State Theatre Institute: Macbeth | Take Wing and Soar Productions: Hamlet (AUDELCO-nominated), Richard III | Africa Arts: Othello. REGIONAL: Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Macbeth, Shakespeare in Love | Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Macbeth | Seattle Rep: Twelfth Night | The Old Globe: Macbeth | Hartford Stage: Merchant of Venice. INTERNATIONAL: Stratford Shakespeare Festival: The Tempest, Caesar and Cleopatra, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet. TV: One Life to Live. AWARDS: 4 nominations for NAACP Image Awards. Soap Opera Digests Best Villain 2001. PERSONAL: Mr. Stickney instructs, directs, writes, and is on faculty at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. 

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  Christian Thompson*
  Antipholus of Syracuse

  Antipholus of Syracuse

  Christian Thompson*
  

  NEW YORK: Broadway: Wicked (Fiyero), Thoughts of a Colored Man (Passion), Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (OBC Smokey Robinson/Damon Harris, Paul u/s). TOURS: US: Wicked, Ain’t Too Proud, Rent. International: Rent, Blood at the Root. REGIONAL: St. Louis Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It (Orlando) | Arena Stage: Catch Me If You Can (Frank Jr.) | Marin Theatre Company/TheatreWorks: Skeleton Crew (Dez). PERSONAL: he/him. Christian is a multi-hyphenated artist originally from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Writing: Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove (2024) Commissioned Playwright: Penn State (2022), Catalyst Film Festival Finalist (2021), Foster’s Residency (2021). Training: Penn State University: BFA in Musical Theatre; Roosevelt University: Current MFA Candidate in Performing Arts Administration. Instagram: @itschristianthompson 

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  Shayvawn Webster*
  Adriana

  Adriana

  Shayvawn Webster*
  

  NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Bedlam: Julius Caesar/Caesar & Cleopatra (Brutus/Cleopatra) | Soho Rep: for all the women who thought they were Mad | The New Ohio Theatre: Beginning Days of True Jubilation, The Strangers Came Today, soot & spit. REGIONAL: McCarter Theatre Center/The Old Globe: The Gods of Comedy. INTERNATIONAL: One Year Lease Theater Company Apprentice (Greece): The Birds. FILM: Netflix: Happiness For Beginners; Indie: Flying Lessons (Winner Best Supporting Actress Golden Door Intl. Film Festival). TV: NBC: Law & Order; CBS: F.B.I., Blue Bloods, Instinct; FX: Devs. OTHER: Member of SOCIETY Theatre Company. PERSONAL: Shayvawn (she/her) is a minister of Earthseed, a Dorothy Dandridge devotee, and RPG-obsessed (currently playing: The Legend of Zelda T.O.T.K.) Training: NYU Tisch School of the Arts: MFA in Acting. 

   

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  Cheryl Aiello
  Understudy

  Understudy

  Cheryl Aiello
  

  STCA: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Odyssey. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Italian American Reconciliation, Orpheus Descending, A Touch of the Poet, Titus Andronicus, Methane, Scenes from the Dakota. REGIONAL: Humana Festival of New American Plays: Ten Minute Plays | Publick Playhouse: Vanities (nominated for tour of The USO). INTERNATIONAL: National Presidential Orchestra of Ukraine: Soprano soloist, United States Embassies: Reception soloist. FILM: Prince Harming, 3 Iron, When in Rome, Working It Out. TV: Another World, Law and Order, The Good Wife. OTHER: USS Intrepid Museum (Chelsea Piers): Narrator. PERSONAL: She, Her, Hers. Cheryl is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and a classically trained lyric soprano. Training: University of Maryland: BA Theatre; The George Washington University: MFA in Classical Acting, Class of 2024. Website: www.CherylAiello.com 

   

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  Ari Post
  Understudy

  Understudy

  Ari Post
  

  STC Academy: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Odyssey. PERSONAL: Ari Post has been working in the fine arts in Washington, D.C. for the past fifteen years. He was a longtime art critic for The Georgetowner and a project manager at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. He started his career as an illustrator and cartoonist and has had gallery shows throughout Washington. He is thrilled to be “shifting mediums” into the world of performance at the Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy. 

   

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  Lauren Jeanne Thomas*
  Understudy

  Understudy

  Lauren Jeanne Thomas*
  

  NEW YORK: Off Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (dir. Joel Grey, Drama Desk Best Revival); The Goree All-Girl String Band (NYMF); IRT Theater. TOURS: Once (National Tour). REGIONAL (select): Theater J: Hester Street (world premiere); Writer’s Theatre: Once. OTHER: Member of an all-women multi-instrumentalist country/folk show, Americana Women, which will tour Spring 2025 (americanawomen.com). PERSONAL: she/her. Lauren is a multi-instrumentalist, one-woman band (Fiddler on the Loop), and murder mystery game writer. Training: Boston University: BFA Acting; LAMDA. Instagram: @taurenlhomas. LaurenJThomas.com

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  Katrina Clark
  Understudy

  Understudy

  Katrina Clark
  

  STCA: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Odyssey. Regional: 1st Stage: Proof | Synetic Theater: Dante’s Inferno, Beauty and the Beast, A Trip to the Moon |  Source Festival: Sign Language | Zeitgeist Festival: mercimax and Shakespeare Theatre Company: Coffee & Prejudice | Alabama Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Our Town, Winnie the Pooh | PlayPenn: Another Kind of Silence. TV: House of Cards. Pronouns: she/they. Katrina is a proud Deaf community member and an advocate for accessibility in theatre, specializing in open captioning. Teaching: Maryland Theatre Interpreter Training. Training: Gallaudet University: BA in Theatrical Translation; George Washington University/Shakespeare Theatre Company: MFA Candidate in Classical Acting. katrinaclark.net  

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  Alexandria Grigsby
  Understudy

  Understudy

  Alexandria Grigsby
  

  STCA: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Odyssey. FILM: The Freedom Quest of Oney Judge. TV: A Haunting - “Child’s Play.” Pronouns: she/her/hers. Alexandria Grigsby is an actor, singer, and writer. Pace University, BA in Film and Screen Studies/English Language and Literature - Creative Writing; HB Studio Instagram: @alexandriagrigsby, alexandriagrigsby.com 

   

The Artistic Team
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  Simon Godwin
  Director

  Director

  Simon Godwin
  

  Simon Godwin joined Shakespeare Theatre Company as Artistic Director in September 2019. He has served as Associate Director of National Theatre of London, Royal Court Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, and Royal & Derngate Theatre. STC: Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Royal Court Theatre: Routes; If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep; NSFW; The Witness; Goodbye to All That; The Acid Test; Wanderlust | National Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing (ft. Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan), Romeo & Juliet (ft. Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley and filmed for Sky Arts/PBS), Antony and Cleopatra (ft. Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo), Twelfth Night, Sunset at the Villa Thalia,The Beaux’ Stratagem, Man and Superman, Strange Interlude | Royal Shakespeare Company: Timon of Athens (ft. Kathryn Hunter and reimagined in 2020 for Theatre for a New Audience and STC) Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. JAPAN: Theatre Cocoon: Hamlet. AWARDS: Evening Standard/Burberry Award for an Emerging Director (2012). 

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  Nancy Renee Braun
  Choreographer

  Choreographer

  Nancy Renee Braun
  

  NEW YORK: Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical! (Tony nominated for Best Revival), Moulin Rouge, The Musical! (Resident Choreographer, 10 Tony Awards including Best Choreography), Beetlejuice, The Musical (Original Associate Choreographer), Gypsy (performer, starring Patti LuPone), Leopoldstadt (mom to original cast member in the role of Heine, Max Burach) | Off Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company: Robber Bridegroom. TOURS: Elf (Original Associate Choreographer). REGIONAL: George Street Playhouse: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Sharon Playhouse: Altar Boyz. INTERNATIONAL: Disney Cruise Lines: Beauty and the Beast, Tangled. FILM: Spinning Gold, The Week Of, Rebel In The Rye. TV: Only Murders In The Building, The Gilded Age, Blue Bloods, Succession, Dead to Me, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Westworld. PERSONAL: Nancy is a New York-based choreographer and director, and the proudest wife to husband Todd and obsessed mom to my Max and Shaina. TRAINING: Northwestern University Instagram: @nancyreneebraun www.nancyreneebraun.com 

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  Ceci Calf
  Scenic Designer

  Scenic Designer

  Ceci Calf
  

  INTERNATIONAL: Jermyn Street/Theatre Royal Bath/UK Tour/West End: Farm Hall | Park Theatre, London: HIR starring Felicity Huffman | Waterperry Festival Opera, Oxford: The Barber of Seville | Watermill Theatre, Newbury: Much Ado About Nothing |  Dailes Teatris Riga, Latvia: The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas, A Skull in Connemara | Kings Head Theatre, London: Breeding | Sadler’s Wells: Warrior Queens | Barn Theatre, Cirencester: Waiting For Anya, The Mozart Question | Finborough: Not Now, Yes So I Said Yes, How to Survive An Apocalypse, Not Quite Jerusalem and The Wind of Heaven | Southwark Playhouse: Associate credits: Macbeth starring Ralph Fiennes, Anything Is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough. PERSONAL: Ceci is a set and costume designer based in London. She trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating in 2018 and has since worked across the UK and Europe. This is her debut for STC. https://www.cecicalf.com/ 

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  Alejo Vietti
  Costume Designer

  Costume Designer

  Alejo Vietti
  

  STC: Evita, Kiss Me Kate. NEW YORK: Broadway: Allegiance (Drama Desk Nomination), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (also West End - Olivier Nomination, National Tour, Australia and Japan), Holiday Inn | Off-Broadway: currently: Titanique(Lucille Lortel Award, also Australia), Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, Radio City Rockettes, NY City Center Encores!, Atlantic Theatre Company, NYC Opera, New York Theatre Workshop and MCC, among others. REGIONAL: Vietti has extensively designed for regional Theatres across the US. INTERNATIONAL: Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Japan, Germany, Austria), West Side Story World Tour 2022/2024, Donetsk Opera (Ukraine), Edinburgh Fringe Festival. OTHER: Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Opera,Colorado Ballet, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. AWARDS: Recipient of two Helen Hayes Awards, Lucille Lortel Award and 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award among others. Personal: Based in NYC, Alejo is Argentine native, who immigrated to the US in the late 1990s. @alejo_vietti_costume_design

   

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  Stacey Derosier
  Lighting Designer

  Lighting Designer

  Stacey Derosier
  

  NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Daryl Roth Theatre: All the Devils are Here | Atlantic Theater Company: The Welkin, Cornelia Street | Playwrights Horizons: Teeth; Regretfully, So The Birds Are | Roundabout Theatre Company: The Refuge Plays | The Connelly Theater: Animal Kingdom | New York Theatre Workshop: The Half-God of Rainfall, How to Defend Yourself | Public Theater & National Black Theater: Fat Ham | Theatre for a New Audience: Wedding Band | Vineyard Theatre/Women’s Project Theater: sandblasted | Other New York: Oliver Roth Productions: Uncle Vanya. REGIONAL: A.C.T: Wizard of Oz. AWARDS: 2018 Lilly Award Dary Roth Prize recipient. PERSONAL: Stacey Derosier is a New York-based lighting designer.   

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  Christopher Shutt
  Sound Designer

  Sound Designer

  Christopher Shutt
  

  STC: King Lear, Timon of Athens. NEW YORK: Broadway:?War Horse?(Tony Award),?Coram Boy,?All My Sons,?Not About Nightingales?(Drama Desk Award),?Moon for the Misbegotten,?Privacy.?Off-Broadway:?Mnemonic?(Drama Desk Award),?Macbeth?(at the Park Avenue Armory),?Love & Information,?Arturo Ui?(with Al Pacino). INTERNATIONAL: London:?London Tide, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of the Dead, Much Ado, Murder on the Orient Express, The Corn Is Green, Paradise, The Twilight Zone, Antony and Cleopatra,?Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Disappearing Number, The Elephant Vanishes,?Street of Crocodiles,?The Father,?Twilight Zone,?Oppenheimer,??All About My Mother. 

   

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  Michael Bruce
  Composer

  Composer

  Michael Bruce
  

  STC: King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens. NEW YORK: Broadway (select): Booth Theatre: Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Roundabout Theatre Company: The Winslow Boy | The Public Theater: Privacy. INTERNATIONAL: London: Composer-in-residence at the Donmar Warehouse from 2012 to 2019. He has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and in the West End. PERSONAL: Michael is a Scottish composer and lyricist. Publications include Writing Music for the Stage: A Practical Guide for Theatremakers. 

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  Charles G. LaPointe
  Wig & Hair Designer

  Wig & Hair Designer

  Charles G. LaPointe
  

  STC: Comedy of Errors, The Matchbox Magic Flute. NEW YORK: Broadway/Touring/West End: Death Becomes Her, Hamilton, MJ, Suffs, Tommy, The Wiz, The Great Gatsby, Doubt, Jersey Boys, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Ain’t Too Proud, Beetlejuice, The Cher Show (Drama Desk Award), Anastasia, The Band’s Visit, SpongeBob SquarePants (Drama Desk Award), The Lifespan of a Fact, Amélie, Motown the Musical, Memphis: The Musical, On Your Feet, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Color Purple, Of Mice and Men, Violet, Sideshow, The Elephant Man, Cymbeline, After Midnight, Newsies, The Mountaintop, Superior Donuts, In the Heights. REGIONAL: Goodman Theatre: The Who’s Tommy. TV: The Wiz Live! (Emmy Award nomination), Hairspray Live!, Jesus Christ Superstar Live! (Emmy Award nomination, Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award), Bluebloods, American Crime, Maddoff, In a Man’s World. PERSONAL: LaPointe is an award-winning designer who maintains a highly successful career on stages throughout the United States and abroad. 

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  Robb Hunter
  Fight Choreographer

  Fight Choreographer

  Robb Hunter
  

  STC: King Lear, Richard III, Othello, The Oresteia, Salomé, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, The Alchemist. REGIONAL: Cape Playhouse: Camelot, Baskerville | Huntington Theatre: Teenage Dick, Invisible Man | Arena Stage: Holiday, Ruined, Noises Off | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Teenage Dick, Gloria, HIR, An Octoroon | Studio Theatre: Heroes of the Fourth Turning, White Noise | Olney Theatre Center: Lend Me a Soprano, Beauty and the Beast, Singin’ in the Rain | Signature Theatre: Masterpieces, 4380 Nights | Ford’s Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, 110 in the Shade. TV: Spin City (stunt double, Michael J. Fox). AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award (HIR); Nominations (King Lear, Richard III, An Octoroon, Red Speedo, The Walworth Farce); ACTF Award, Fight Direction (Ubu Roi); Likhachev Foundation Cultural Fellowship to Russia. PERSONAL: Teaching: STC Academy; American University (Artist in Residence). Training: VCU, MFA Theatre Pedagogy; Fight Master/Instructor for Society of American Fight Directors. 

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  Lisa Beley
  Voice and Text Coach

  Voice and Text Coach

  Lisa Beley
  

  STC (selected): Macbeth, King Lear, Jane Anger, Much Ado About Nothing, Red Velvet, Our Town, Peter Pan and Wendy, Everybody, The Oresteia, Vanity Fair, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Camelot, Noura, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The School for Lies | STC Academy: As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Pericles, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. INTERNATIONAL: Canada: Rumble Theatre: Indian Arm | Vancouver Playhouse: The Music Man | UBC Theatre: The Glass Menagerie, Arcadia. FILM: Horns, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Suckerpunch, Apollo 18, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Elektra. TV: The Good Doctor, Bates Motel, The 100, Alcatraz, The Good Wife. PERSONAL: Directing: The Bay at Nice, Agamemnon | Teaching: STC Academy: Voice, Speech, and Text Instructor; Canada’s National Voice Intensive: Voice and Text Instructor | Training: York University: MFA in Acting, Voice Teacher’s Diploma, University of British Columbia: BFA in Acting.  

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  Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
  Resident Dramaturg

  Resident Dramaturg

  Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
  

  STC: Senior member of artistic staff, dramaturg in residence since 2011-12, working on over 55 productions. Selected dramaturgy credits: NEW YORK: Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company; Off-Broadway: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Public Theater, La Mama. REGIONAL: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, ACT, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: Royal National Theatre. OTHER: Writing: featured guest columnist in The New York Times, Lincoln Center Review, and many theatre journals. He is the author of two scholarly monographs, The Piscatorbühne Century (Routledge, 2021) and Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company (Arden/Bloomsbury, 2024, with Deborah C. Payne). PERSONAL: Proud husband of Rebecca Ende Lichtenberg, father of Dylan and Noah. Teaching: Catholic University of America, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, Eugene Lang College of the Liberal Arts at the New School. Training: Doctor of Fine Arts, Yale School of Drama. drewlichtenberg.com 

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  Danica Rodriguez
  Resident Casting Director

  Resident Casting Director

  Danica Rodriguez
  

  STC: Comedy of Errors, The Matchbox Magic Flute, Macbeth, The Lehman Trilogy, As You Like It, Macbeth In Stride, Evita, Here There Are Blueberries, King Lear, Jane Anger, Much Ado About Nothing, Red Velvet, Our Town, The Merchant of Venice. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: cullud wattah*, Romeo y Julieta, Soft Power, for colored girls..., Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park), Mojada, Ain't No Mo'*. REGIONAL: Folger Theatre: Our Verse in Time to Come I Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes*, Incendiary I The Kennedy Center: The Day You Begin I JAG Productions: Next to Normal I The Civilians: El Condor Magico, and others. AWARDS: Theatre Communications Group 2021 Rising Leader of Color. PERSONAL: she/her I Founding Trainer with Broadway for Racial Justice Casting Directive I Training: Dartmouth College: BA in Film & Media Studies I Instagram: @danicarodriguezcasting I DanicaRodriguez.com | *World Premiere 

   

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  Julia Marks
  Assistant Director

  Assistant Director

  Julia Marks
  

  Coming soon.

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  Laura Smith*
  Production Stage Manager

  Production Stage Manager

  Laura Smith*
  

  STC: Salome. NEW YORK: Broadway: The Thanksgiving Play | Off Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company: Infinite Life, Shhhh, The Great Leap, Tell Hector I Miss Him | Manhattan Theatre Club: Morning Sun, Bella Bella | Signature Theatre: Hot Wing King, The Antipodes | Playwrights Horizons: Downstate, Noura | Second Stage Theater: Dying City | The Public Theater: The Low Road | Theatre for a New Audience: Remember This | Play Company: Intractable Woman | Julliard: Appropriate. REGIONAL: Eugene O’Neill Theater Center: National Playwrights Conference | Baltimore Center Stage: Detroit ’67, As You Like It, 4000 Miles, After the Revolution, Wild with Happy, Twelfth Night, Fabulation, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Woolly Mammoth Theatre: House of Gold, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Unmentionables.

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  Stephen Bubniak*
  Assistant Stage Manager

  Assistant Stage Manager

  Stephen Bubniak*
  

  REGIONAL: The Kennedy Center: RENT in Concert, Leonard Bernstein’s MASS, 36th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards (PBS), Songs for Hope, REACH Opening Parade, National Symphony Orchestra Pops concerts featuring Norm Lewis and CeCe Winans | Arena Stage: American Prophet, Step Afrika! Holiday Step Show, Change Agent, Celia and Fidel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Newsies, Jitney | Studio Theatre: John Proctor is the Villain; The Colored Museum; People, Places & Things; Queen of Basel; Kings; The Effect | Signature Theatre: Pacific Overtures | Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences: Through The Sunken Lands, A Wind in the Door, Jacqueline Woodson’s Block Party, The Ice Cream Truck is Broken, Because, We Are All Connected. OPERA: Washington National Opera: Romeo and Juliet. PERSONAL: he/him. Assistant Production Manager at the Kennedy Center. Corporate show-caller at Architex Inc. Double major in Computer Science and Theatre (Design/Production) from American University. 

   

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  Becky Reed*
  Assistant Stage Manager

  Assistant Stage Manager

  Becky Reed*
  

  TOUR: US: Kennedy Center TYA:?Elephant & Piggie's We Are In A Play! REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Sanctuary City | Baltimore Center Stage: American Buffalo, The Whipping Man, A Skull in Connemara | Folger Theatre: Macbeth, King John | Imagination Stage: P.Nokio | Kennedy Center TYA:?The Cerulean Time Capsule | Olney Theatre Center:?Marjorie Prime,?I And You,?Ain't Misbehavin' | Resident Ensemble Players: August: Osage County, Murder on the Orient Express, The Crucible | Rorschach Theatre:?A Maze,?She Kills Monsters | Signature Theatre: Penelope, Ain't Misbehavin', Simply Sondheim | Studio Theatre:?Clyde's, P.Y.G., The Effect,?No Sisters |?Theater J:?How To Be A Korean Woman, Becoming Dr. Ruth,?Everything Is Illuminated,?Copenhagen, and others | Weathervane Playhouse: Alice in Wonderland | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: My Mama & the Full-Scale Invasion, Stupid F*cking Bird. PERSONAL: she/her/hers. Training: Auburn University: BFA in Theatre Production and Management.