Macbeth

The Performers
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  Jesse J. Perez*
  Macbeth

  Macbeth

  Jesse J. Perez*
  

  STC: Pericles, Argonautika, Candide, Servant of Two Masters. NEW YORK:Off-Broadway: Public Theater: Party People; Theatre for a New Audience: The Father, A Doll's House; Primary Stages: Informed Consent; Second Stage: Triple Happiness; Summer Play Festival: Barrio Grrrl; Playwrights Horizons: Recent Tragic Events; Classic Stage Company: In the Penal Colony; New York Theatre Workshop: Up Against the Wind. OPERA: Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor. REGIONAL: Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Humana Festival; McCarter Theatre Center; Goodman Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: Venice Biennale, Salzburg Festival. OTHER: Numerous television and film credits.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Nikkole Salter*
  Lady Macbeth

  Lady Macbeth

  Nikkole Salter*
  

  NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Primary Stages: In the Continuum; Playwrights’ Horizons: Inked Baby; The Paradise Factory: Tough Titty; Lincoln Center: The Royale. REGIONAL: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Yale Repertory Theatre; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Kirk Douglas Theatre; Goodman Theatre: In the Continuum; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Kansas City Repertory Theatre: Gee's Bend; Luna Stage: The Old Settler; Huntington Theatre Company/Arena Stage: Stick Fly; Huntington Theatre Company: Luck of the Irish (world premiere); Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Head of Passes. INTERNATIONAL: Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Market Theatre (Johannesburg), Baxter Theatre (Cape Town), HIFA (Harare, Zimbabwe): In the Continuum. FILM: The Architect, Pride & Glory, Forgetting the Girl, Last Night. TELEVISION: Moesha, The Unit. AWARDS: Obie Award, Helen Hayes Award (In the Continuum). OTHER: The Continuum Project: Co-founder, Executive Director: theContinuumProject.org; Voice Over: Rockstar Games: Midnight Club: Los Angeles. TRAINING: New York University: MFA; Howard University: BFA. WEB: NikkoleSalter.com.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Petronia Paley*
  Duncan

  Duncan

  Petronia Paley*
  

  STC: Trojan Women, The Oedipus Plays (dir. Michael Kahn). NEW YORK: Broadway: Gin Game, On Golden Pond; Off-Broadway: New Federal Theatre: Most Dangerous Man in America; TWAS Productions: Coriolanus, Hamlet; Classical Theatre of Harlem: Electra, The Cherry Orchard; Ensemble Studio Theatre: On the Way to Timbuktu; Red Bull Theatre: Revenger’s Tragedy. REGIONAL: Berkeley/Yale Repertory: The House That Will Not Stand; Penumbra Theatre: On the Way to Timbuktu; Yale Repertory: King Lear; Crossroads Theatre: Raisin in the Sun, Telltale Hearts, Buses; Oberlin College: Death of a Salesman; Arena Stage: Nothing Sacred, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. INTERNATIONAL: Athens Festival: The Oedipus Plays. FILM: 2 Days in New York, The White Girl. TELEVISION: Billions, Blue Bloods, Guiding Light, Damages, Another World, All My Children, One Life for Live. AWARDS: AUDELCO Awards: On the Way to Timbuktu, Electra, The Trial; Helen Hayes: Trojan Women (nomination). OTHER: Directing: Antony and Cleopatra, Munched, Medea; Playwriting: On the Way to Timbuktu; Founder of I, the Actor Acting Studio; Member of Ensemble Studio, Actor’s Studio. TRAINING: Howard University: BFA.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Corey Allen*
  Malcolm

  Malcolm

  Corey Allen*
  

  STC: Macbeth. REGIONAL: Huntington Theatre Company: A Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Pioneer Theatre Company: Two Dollar Bill, A Few Good Men; Great River Shakespeare Festival: Othello, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Utah Shakespeare Festival:  Cyrano de Bergerac, The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Rep of St. Louis: Alabama Story, The Fall of Heaven; Orlando Shakespeare Theater: The Best of Enemies. FILM: Halston, Proximity. TELEVISION: Happy!, Mindhunter, Manh(a)ttan, Power. OTHER: Audible and Recorded Books Narrator. TRAINING: University of Illinois: MFA in Acting. WEB: Corey-Allen.com.

  *Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers

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  McKinley Belcher III*
  Banquo

  Banquo

  McKinley Belcher III*
  

  NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center: The Royale; Classic Stage Company: Romeo and Juliet; Public Theater: Fidelis. REGIONAL: Hartford Stage: Rear Window, Twelfth Night; Huntington Theatre Company: Smart People, Invisible Man; Studio Theatre: Invisible Man; Two River Theater: Trouble in Mind; Shakespeare Center of LA: As You Like It; Long Wharf Theatre: Macbeth 1969; Bay Street Theater: To Kill a Mockingbird; Shadowland Theatre: Medal for Honor Rag. FILM: Go For Sisters. TELEVISION: Ozark, Mercy Street, Power, Show Me a Hero, Chicago PD, Madam Secretary, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Elementary, Louie, Rizzoli & Isles, Law & Order: LA. TRAINING: USC School of Dramatic Arts: MFA.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Brett Johnson
  Fleance

  Fleance

  Brett Johnson
  

  REGIONAL: Center Stage: Caroline or Change (Joe Thibodeaux, dir. David Schweizer). TRAINING: Morehouse College; Linda Townsend; Dwayne Boyd: Premier Actors Network. WEB: Seachant.co; Coca-Cola series; Instagram: @b.r.e.t.t.y.
  

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  Marcus Naylor*
  Macduff

  Macduff

  Marcus Naylor*
  

  NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: La Mama: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Carnegie Hall: Live the Dream; New Federal Theatre: Cool Blues (Charlie Parker), Waitin 2 End Hell; Joyce Theater: Love Letters on Ripped Paper; Pearl Theatre: The Cave Dwellers (The Duke); Primary Stages: No Dogs. REGIONAL: The Penumbra Theatre: Jitney (Fielding); Five City Regional Tour: Fences (Bono); Shakespeare on the Sound: Julius Caesar (Mark Anthony); North East Shakespeare Company: Othello ; Cincinnati Playhouse: Blues for a Alabama Sky; Arena Stage: Trinidad Sisters; Crossroads Theatre Company: The Meeting. INTERNATIONAL: The State Theatres of Germany: Long Day’s Journey into Night. FILM: The Reunion: A Jazz Fantasy, JUVIE, Hudson Sunset, Soliloquy, Slings and Arrows, Malcolm X, The Color of Love. TELEVISION: Boardwalk Empire, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, Without a Trace, Only in America.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Nilanjana Bose*
  Lady Macduff

  Lady Macduff

  Nilanjana Bose*
  

  NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Theatre For A New Audience: Tamburlaine; Duke on 42nd Street: Cock; The Actors Company Theatre: The Memorandum; Theater For The New City: The Queen. REGIONAL: Dorset Theatre Festival: Way of the World (World Premiere), Noises Off; TheatreWorks: The Lake Effect. TELEVISION: Crossbones (NBC). OTHER: Trained Classical Indian dancer. TRAINING: The Juilliard School.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Tim Getman*
  Witch

  Witch

  Tim Getman*
  

  STC: King Charles III, Merchant of Venice (Solanio), Camino Real (Streetcleaner). REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Death of a Salesman, A View From the Bridge, The Misanthrope, A Streetcar Named Desire; Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elizabeth the Queen; Everyman Theatre: Company Member, Two Rooms, All My Sons, God of Carnage, Outside Mullingar; Olney Theatre Center: Night Must Fall, An Enemy of the People, Somewhere in the Pacific;Rep Stage: A Lie of the Mind, In the Heart of America (Helen Hayes Award nomination); Signature Theatre: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, In the Absence of Spring; Studio Theatre: Hand to God (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Water by the Spoonful, The Real Thing; Theater J: Photograph 51, The Chosen, Our Class, I-Ho, Copenhagen; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Company Member, Kiss, Zombie, The Nether, Detroit, Appropriate, Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Unmentionables. TELEVISION: The District, VEEP, The Men Who Built America. AWARDS: Mary Goldwater Award. TRAINING: Macalester College; Trinity College Dublin.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Naomi Jacobson*
  Witch

  Witch

  Naomi Jacobson*
  

  STC: Affiliated Artist, The Critic, The Real Inspector Hound, Henry IV & V, Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Pericles, The Silent Woman, Camino Real. REGIONAL: Arena Stage; Signature Theatre; The Kennedy Center; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (20-year Company Member); Ford’s Theatre; Folger Theatre; Round House Theatre; Olney Theatre Center; Theater J; Wolf Trap Opera; Guthrie Theater; Goodman Theatre; Arizona Theatre Company; Milwaukee Repertory; Delaware Theatre Company; Center Stage; Berkshire Theatre Festival. FILM: I Fall to Pieces. TELEVISION: A&E’s Her Father’s Eyes, Homicide: Life On the Streets. AWARDS: Lunt Fontanne Fellowship (with Lynn Redgrave); three Helen Hayes Awards (including Richard II directed by Michael Kahn); 14 Helen Hayes nominations; D.C. Arts Commission: Individual Artist Grant. OTHER: Member: Actors Arena.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  David Bishins*
  Witch

  Witch

  David Bishins*
  

  STC: Red Velvet, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Glass House, We Declare You a Terrorist, Incident at Vichy, Catch-22, The Boys in the Band, Sympathetic Magic, The Nest, Tower of Evil. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: All the Way | Studio Theatre: Between Riverside and Crazy | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Appropriate | The Mark Taper Forum: Appropriate | Barrington Stage Company: Much Ado About Nothing | The Old Globe: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Life of Riley | Long Wharf Theatre: A Month in the Country, Rag and Bone | Vermont Stage: True West | Wilma Theater: Arcadia | Pittsburgh Public Theater: The Dybbuk. FILM: A Cure for Wellness; SALT; The Adjustment Bureau; Henry’s Crime; Sorry, Haters!; The War Within; The Magic Helmet. TV: House of Cards, Homeland, Blue Bloods, Fringe, Babylon Fields (pilot), The Law & Order canon. PERSONAL: he/him | Member of AEA since 1989. | Training: The Juilliard School.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Myra Lucretia Taylor*
  Porter/Doctor

  Porter/Doctor

  Myra Lucretia Taylor*
  

  NEW YORK: Broadway: Nine (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical), Macbeth, Electra, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Mule Bone, A Streetcar Named Desire; Off-Broadway: Familiar (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Featured Actress); Informed Consent (dir. Liesel Tommy); Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Fabulation (World Premiere). NATIONAL TOURS: Wicked (First African American Madame Morrible); Love, Loss, and What I Wore. REGIONAL: Long Wharf Theatre: Our Town (Stage Manager); Goodman Theatre: Mary (World Premiere); McCarter Theatre Center/Long Wharf Theatre: The Old Settler (World Premiere). INTERNATIONAL: Royal Shakespeare Company (London/Stratford-upon-Avon): Company Member, The Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Pericles (Dionysa). FILM: The Big Sick (upcoming), Bushwick, Catfight. TELEVISION: Atlanta, Elementary, Girls (recurring). AWARDS: Fox Fellowship. WEB: The Best Thing You’ll Ever Do (8th Annual Indie Series Nominee, Best Supporting Actress).

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Trinity Sky Deabreu
  Girl

  Girl

  Trinity Sky Deabreu
  

  STC: Macbeth. TELEVISION: How It’s Made, No Kid Hungry; Commercials: Good Game, M&T Bank, Port Covington, Capital One Sparkspay, Comcast. TRAINING: Ballet Arts Academy: Classical Ballet (Vagonava); Suzy Estrada: Vocal Training; Linda Townsend Management and Abrams Artist (NY). WEB: Amtrak: Holiday Specials.

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  Horace Rogers*
  Lennox

  Lennox

  Horace Rogers*
  

  NEW YORK: Broadway: Brooklyn, Tarzan; Off-Broadway: City Center Encores: Big River; Public Theater: Party People (Solias). NATIONAL TOURS: Rent (Tom Collins), The Color Purple (Grady), Memphis (Delray), Kinky Boots (Simon Sr.). INTERNATIONAL: Toronto: The Lion King (Mufasa). REGIONAL: National Black Theatre Festival: Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope. TELEVISION: American Masters, Gotham, Orange is the New Black, Boardwalk Empire, Soul Food, Star Search. OTHER: Recordings: Tarzan (“Son of Man” soloist), BeBe & CeCe Winans: Greatest Hits, “$1000 Wedding” (Willie Nelson, Songbird); Impersonation: Dr. Maya Angelou. TRAINING: University of Connecticut: MFA; North Carolina State University: BFA.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  JaBen Early*
  Angus

  Angus

  JaBen Early*
  

  REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater: We Are Proud to Present…; Arena Stage: All the Way, Ruined; Round House Theatre: Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, and 3); Mosaic Theater Company: Unexplored Interior (World Premiere); Marin Theatre Company: The Convert; Folger Theatre: Julius Caesar; Olney Theatre Center: The Piano Lesson; InterAct Theatre: We Are Proud to Present…; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Convert; Studio Theatre: In the Red and Brown Water, F*cking A; Molotov Theatre Group: Titus Andronicus; Baldwin Burroughs Theater: Sula, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oleanna; Warner Theatre: Stop Kiss, Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise, Spell #7, Elektra; Downstage Theatre: Marisol, Big Al; Liberty Free Theatre: The Death of Bessie Smith; Zipper Theatre: After You, Fam and Yam; Hartke Theatre: Ngala Muti. FILM: Money Matters, Sargent Firewall, S.H.A.R.P. TRAINING: Sarah Lawrence College:  MFA in Theatre; Morehouse College; British American Dramatic Academy.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Sophia Ramos*
  Ross

  Ross

  Sophia Ramos*
  

  NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: P.S. 122: Carnival; The Public Theatre: Party People. REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: The Twelve (by Robert Schenkkan); Arizona Theatre Company: Love, Janis; Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Party People. OTHER: Formerly rock singer for the 90's NYC hard rock outfit Sophia’s Toy, signed to Epic/Sony Records; collaborations with Joey Ramone, Rod Stewart, Paul Simon and Big Brother & The Holding Company.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Nicole King
  Donalbain, Ensemble

  Donalbain, Ensemble

  Nicole King
  

  STC: Macbeth. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Theatre Row: Mrs. Warren's Profession. REGIONAL: St. Louis Shakespeare Festival: King Lear | Guthrie Theater: Steel Magnolias | Syracuse Stage: Possessing Harriet | Virginia Stage Company: The Bluest Eye | Folger Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra | Hangar Theater: Shakespeare's R + J. INTERNATIONAL: Shakespeare's Globe: A Midsummer Night's Dream. AWARDS: SALT "Best Leading Actress" Award. PERSONAL: she/her | Training: Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts: BFA, Rutger’s Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe | Nicole-King.com. 

  *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. 

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  Christopher Michael Richardson*
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Christopher Michael Richardson*
  

  STC: Macbeth. TOURS: Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a Play!, National Players Tour 65. REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: A Strange Loop | Arts on the Horizon: Jingle Journey (Co-Creator/Composer), Everyday Magic | Signature: Assassins, Gun and Powder | Kennedy Center TYA: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical! | Olney Theatre Center: Matilda | Ford’s Theatre: The Wiz, Into the Woods | Round House Theatre: The Book of Will | Imagination Stage: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown | Know Theatre of Cincinnati: Andy’s House of [blank]. PERSONAL: he/him/his. Christopher is a director, teaching artist, and proud DCCAH Fellow (FY20–FY22). | Training: The College of William & Mary: BA in English and Theatre | CMRich.me.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Stephen Elrod
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Stephen Elrod
  

  STC: Taming of the Shrew (Walter), Othello (Ensemble). NEW YORK: New Ohio Theatre: The Incredible Fox Sisters; Manhattan Repertory: Heaven Sent; The Barrow Group: Co-Dependence Day. REGIONAL: South Coast Repertory: Songs of Bilitis; Boston Center for American Performance: Good, Monster. TELEVISION: Discovery Channel, A&E, Travel Channel.

  Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow

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  Brayden Simpson
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Brayden Simpson
  

  STC: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Restoration Plaza: Shakespeare in the Plaza. REGIONAL: Everyman Theatre: Fences; Mosaic Theater Company: Promised Land; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Midnight Projects, FAIR Presentations.  INTERNATIONAL: Songtime Theatre Arts (London): Our Town. FILM: LoveDotCom, In Vivo, Goodbye Charm City. AWARDS: DCMetroTheatreArts Nominated “Best Featured Actor in a Play” for Cory in Fences.  TRAINING: NYU Tisch: BFA in Theatre; Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology minor.

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  Anu Yadav*
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Anu Yadav*
  

  STC: On the Eve of Friday Morning (Nassrin). NATIONAL TOURS: Meena’s Dream, ’Capers. REGIONAL: Round House Theatre: The Who and the What; No Rules Theatre:  In Love and Warcraft (Helen Hayes nomination); Forum Theatre: Meena’s Dream, ’Capers; Theatre Alliance: Haroun and the Sea of Stories. INTERNATIONAL: National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (Beijing): A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Studio Safdar (Delhi): Meena’s Dream. AWARDS: Five-time D.C. Artist Fellow; Mayor’s Arts Award; 2016 Creative Change Fellow; Network of Ensemble Theaters Travel Grantee; Catalyst Initiative Grantee. OTHER: Featured in documentaries Chocolate City and Walk with Me; Founder of Classlines storytelling project; Alternate ROOTS member. TRAINING: University of Maryland, College Park: MFA in Performance; Bryn Mawr College: BA in History; Shakespeare & Company Month-Long Intensive. WEB: AnuYadav.com.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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  Scotland Newton
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Scotland Newton
  

  NEW YORK: Manhattan Repertory Theatre: Tybalt & Mercutio Live!. REGIONAL: MaineStage Shakespeare: Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew; Pittsburgh Musical Theater: Hairspray, Jesus Christ Superstar; Bricolage Productions: STRATA. TRAINING: Point Park University: BFA in Acting. WEB: ScotlandNewton.com.

  Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow

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  Kelsey Rainwater*
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Kelsey Rainwater*
  

  STC: Hamlet, Macbeth. REGIONAL: The Folger Theatre: Love’s Labor’s Lost; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: The Three Musketeers, As You Like It; Rutgers Theater Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carlo at the Wedding, Balm in Gilead. INTERNATIONAL: Sam Wanamaker Festival at Shakespeare's Globe; Shakespeare’s Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. TRAINING: Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts and Shakespeare’s Globe: MFA in Acting.

  * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

The Artistic Team
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  Liesl Tommy
  Director

  Director

  Liesl Tommy
  

  NEW YORK: Broadway: Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed (Lucille Lortel Award, Tony Nomination for Best Direction of a Play); Off-Broadway: Vineyard Theatre/Signature Theatre (VA): Kid Victory (John Kander and Greg Pierce); Public Theater: Eclipsed, Party People (UNIVERSES), The Good Negro; Signature Theatre: Appropriate (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Obie Award); Synchronicity Performance Group/New Georges: Angela’s Mixtape; Women’s Project: A Stone’s Throw. REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Appropriate, Eclipsed; Baltimore Centre Stage: American Buffalo; Contemporary American Theatre Festival: A History of Light, Stick Fly, Yankee Tavern; Dallas Theater Center: Les Misérables, The Good Negro; OSF/Berkeley Repertory: Party People, Ruined; Yale Repertory: Eclipsed, The Piano Lesson; California Shakespeare Theater: Hamlet; Huntington Theatre Company: Ruined, A Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; La Jolla Playhouse: Ruined; Trinity Repertory: A Melancholy Play, A Christmas Carol. INTERNATIONAL: DanskDansk Theatre (Denmark): The White Man – A Complex Declaration of Love; Luminato Festival/Canadian Stage (Canada): Peggy Picket Sees the Face of God; Sundance East Africa: He is Here He Says I Say, Book of Life. AFFILIATIONS: Program Associate at Sundance Institute; facilitated the inaugural Sundance East Africa Theater Director’s Lab in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Artist Trustee on Sundance Institute Board; Associate Artist at Berkeley Repertory. DIRECTING AWARDS: Lee Reyenold Award; Pioneer of the Arts Award; Inaugural Susan Stroman Directing Award (Vineyard Theater); Lillian Hellman Award; Alan Schnieder Award (TCG); NEA/TCG Directors Grant. TRAINING: Trinity Repertory Conservatory.  Proud native of Capetown, South Africa.

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  Kathleen Geldard
  Costume Designer

  Costume Designer

  Kathleen Geldard
  

  REGIONAL: Portland Center Stage: Little Shop of Horrors; Arena Stage: The Year of Magical Thinking; Actors Theatre of Louisville: Peter and the Starcatcher, Humana Festival (2015-2017); Cincinnati Playhouse: Little Shop of Horrors, All the Roads Home; Huntington Theatre Company; La Jolla Playhouse; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Center Stage; Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Studio Theatre; Signature Theatre; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Florida Studio Theatre; Everyman Theatre; Round House Theatre; Flashpoint Theatre Company; Folger Theatre; Vineyard Playhouse; Studio Arena Theater; Children’s Theatre of Charlotte; Imagination Stage; Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. OTHER: Artistic Associate for Signature Theatre, 2011; Co-founder of Studio SoHy Gallery. WEB: KathleenGeldard.com.

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  John Coyne
  Set Designer

  Set Designer

  John Coyne
  

  STC: Macbeth. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Public Theater: Hamlet; Juilliard School. REGIONAL: Alliance Theatre: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Dallas Theater Center: Romeo & Juliet, Colossal, Les Misérables, Henry IV, Of Mice and Men, Tartuffe; Guthrie Theater: Charly’s Aunt; Old Globe: Rough Crossing; Goodspeed Musicals; Yale Repertory Theatre; Asolo Repertory Theatre; Onley Theatre Center; Triad Stage; Ford’s Theatre; California Shakespeare Theater; Center Stage; Geva Theatre Centre; Portland Center Stage; Chautauqua Theater Company. OPERA: San Francisco Opera: Die Meistersingers von Nurnburg, The Ballad of Baby Doe, L’Elisir D’Amore; San Diego Opera: Simon Boccenegra, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci; Washington National Opera: Die Fledermaus; New York City Opera; Fletcher Opera Theater; Opera Festival of New Jersey; Merola Opera Program; San Francisco Opera Center. OTHER: Director of Scenic Design: University of North Carolina School of the Arts. TRAINING: Yale University: MFA in Scenic Design.

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  Colin K. Bills
  Lighting Designer

  Lighting Designer

  Colin K. Bills
  

  STC:  King Lear (Free For All), Hamlet (Free For All), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Free For All).  REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Company Member, designing over forty-five productions including Stupid F*cking Bird, Clybourne Park and The Convert; Arena Stage: The Originalist, Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof; Berkshire Theatre Festival; Center Stage; Contemporary American Theater Festival; Dallas Theater Center; Everyman Theatre; Ford’s Theatre; Forum Theatre; Imagination Stage; Intiman Theatre; Kennedy Center; Marin Theatre Company; Metro Stage; Olney Theatre Center; Pasadena Playhouse; Portland Center Stage; Round House Theatre; Smithsonian; Signature Theatre; Studio Theatre; Synetic Theatre; Syracuse Stage; Theater J; Washington Revels; Wilma Theater; Williamstown Theatre Festival. OPERA: Opera Lafayette, Opéra Royal Versailles.  AWARDS: Three Helen Hayes Awards, Princess Grace Fellowship. TRAINING: Dartmouth College.

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  Broken Chord
  Original Music & Sound Design

  Original Music & Sound Design

  Broken Chord
  

  STC: The Amen Corner, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet. NEW YORK: Broadway: Eclipsed, The Parisian Woman. Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company: Scarcity, The Jammer, The Lying Lesson | Incubator Arts Project: OZET | Labyrinth Theater: The Insurgents | LCT3: Bull in a China Shop | Manhattan Theatre Club: Spirit Control, When We Were Young and Unafraid | Primary Stages: A Lifetime Burning, Harrison TX, Informed Consent | Public Theater: The Good Negro, Eclipsed, Party People | Rattlestick Playwrights Theater: Stay, Massacre, Charles Ives Take Me  Home | Second Stage Theater: 10 Things to Do Before I Die, The Other Thing | Signature Theatre: The Dance and the Railroad, Appropriate | WP Theatre: Lascivious Something, Row After Row. REGIONAL: Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Ruined, Party People | Center Stage: American Buffalo, Pride and Prejudice | Cleveland Play House: Fairfield, How I Learned to Drive | Dallas Theater Center: Hair, The Tempest, The Odd Couple, Deferred Action | Hartford Stage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Whipping Man, Gem of the Ocean, Snow Falling on Cedars | Huntington Theatre Company: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, A Raisin in the Sun | La Jolla Playhouse: Ruined | Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Ruined, UniSon | People’s Light: A Wrinkle in Time | Trinity Repertory: The Glass Menagerie | Yale Repertory: These Paper Bullets!. FILM: Fall to Rise. PERSONAL: BrokenChord.us. 

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  Rick Sordelet
  Fight Director/Action Choreographer

  Fight Director/Action Choreographer

  Rick Sordelet
  

  STC: Coriolanus, Wallenstein, The Servant of Two Masters, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Henry V, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Tamburlaine, Edward II, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, Hamlet (Free For All), Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Peer Gynt, As You Like It, Othello. NEW YORK: Broadway: 70 Broadway including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast. NATIONAL TOURS: Beauty and the Beast, Les Misérables. INTERNATIONAL: 52 First Class productions worldwide: The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Ben Hur Live. OPERA: The Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House, La Scala in Milan: Cyrano de Bergerac (starring Placido Domingo); The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo (dir. Nicholas Hytner); San Francisco Opera: Heart of the Soldier (dir. Francesca Zambello). FILM: The Game Plan , Dan in Real Life . TELEVISION: Kevin Can Wait; Stunt Coordinator for Guiding Light (12 years) and One Life to Live. AWARDS: Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence from the Lucille Lortel Foundation. OTHER: Board member for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. TEACHING: Yale School of Drama.

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  Christian Kelly-Sordelet
  Fight Director/Action Choreographer

  Fight Director/Action Choreographer

  Christian Kelly-Sordelet
  

  NEW YORK: Broadway: Picnic, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land, Eclipsed, Sunset Boulevard; Off-Broadway: Masked; Slipping; Unlock’d; The Brother/Sister Plays; Kid Victory. NATIONAL TOURS: Beauty and the Beast. INTERNATIONAL: South Africa/Argentina: Fuerza Bruta; Rome: Ben Hur Live. TELEVISION: Stunt Coordinator: All My Children, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, School Spirits, Kevin Can Wait. OTHER: Santa Fe Opera: Resident Fight Director; Assisted on The Snow Geese, Fuerza Bruta, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, King Lear. TEACHING: Rutgers, New York University, Yale, The New School, Wagner College, HB Studios, The Acting Studio, City College of New York.

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  Laura Stanczyk, CSA
  Casting Director

  Casting Director

  Laura Stanczyk, CSA
  

  STC: Richard III; Camelot; Noura; The Lover and The Collection; Macbeth; The School for Lies; The Secret Garden; Romeo and Juliet; The Taming of the Shrew; Othello; Kiss Me, Kate; Salomé; The Metromaniacs; The Tempest; Man of La Mancha; As You Like It; The Winter’s Tale; Strange Interlude; Old Times. NEW YORK: Broadway/Off-Broadway/Tours: Encores! Off-Center, Side Show, After Midnight, A Night With Janis Joplin, Follies, Cotton Club Parade, Lombardi, Ragtime, Impressionism, The Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram Boy, The Glorious Ones, Flight, Translations,  All Our Children, Fetch Clay Make Man, The Brother Sister Plays, Tryst, Jitney, The Woman in Black, Dirty Dancing, The Cripple of Inishmaan (also national tour), Encores! Summer Stars: Damn Yankees, Urinetown (also national tour). REGIONAL: Alliance Theatre, Alley Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Drury Lane, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre Center, Royal George Theatre, Seattle Rep, Signature Theatre, Wilma Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: Theatre Royal Bath, Hampstead Theatre, London, Druid Theatre Company (Galway), Rough Magic (Dublin); Dublin/West End: The Shawshank Redemption.   

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  Carter Wooddell
  Resident Casting Director

  Resident Casting Director

  Carter Wooddell
  

  STC: Timon of Athens; The Amen Corner; Peter Pan and Wendy; Everybody; Hamlet (2018 and 2019 Free For All); The Oresteia; Vanity Fair (STC/A.C.T.); Richard III; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit; The Comedy of Errors; Romeo and Juliet (2016 and 2018 Free For All); Camelot; Noura; Twelfth Night; The Lover and The Collection; Othello (2016 and 2017 Free For All); The School for Lies; Macbeth; King Charles III; The Secret Garden; The Tempest (2014 and 2016 Free For All); The Taming of the Shrew; The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound; Kiss Me, Kate; Salomé; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015 Free For All); Tartuffe; Man of La Mancha; The Metromaniacs (STC/Old Globe); As You Like It; The Winter’s Tale (2014 Free For All); The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Much Ado About Nothing; The Merchant of Venice. NEW YORK: NYC McCorkle Casting (2008–2012), Casting Assistant and Casting Associate: Broadway: End of the Rainbow, High | Off-Broadway: Tribes, Our Town, The Acting Company, Freud’s Last Session, A Perfect Future, The Irish Curse, An Error of the Moon, et al. | Lincoln Center Institute: Hamlet, Fly, Sheila’s Day. REGIONAL: Alley Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Barrington Stage Company, The Broad Stage, CATF, Crossroads Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, TheaterWorks Hartford. FILM: Premium Rush, Junction. OTHER: BBC Radio: The Piano Lesson. 

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  Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
  Literary Manager/Dramaturg

  Literary Manager/Dramaturg

  Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
  

  STC: 50 productions over ten seasons, including 19 works from the 36-play Shakespeare canon and world premieres by David Ives, Robert Pinsky, Jeffrey Hatcher, Yaël Farber, and Heather Raffo. NEW YORK: Broadway: Roundabout: Time and the Conways (dir. Rebecca Taichman). REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Arsonists (German translation/Text Consultant) | Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Taming of the Shrew (Play on!) | STC/McCarter Theatre Center: The Winter’s Tale | Baltimore Center Stage: Caroline, or Change; Cyrano; Around the World in 80 Days | Yale Repertory Theatre: Lulu (dir. Mark Lamos) | Williamstown Theatre Festival: The Front Page, The Physicists, The Corn Is Green | New York Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth (dir. Moisés Kaufman). EDUCATION: DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama. 

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  Lisa Beley
  Voice and Dialect Coach

  Voice and Dialect Coach

  Lisa Beley
  

  STC: Much Ado About Nothing; Red Velvet; Our Town; Peter Pan and Wendy; Everybody; The Oresteia; Vanity Fair; Richard III; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit; The Comedy of Errors; Romeo and Juliet; Camelot; Noura; Hamlet; Twelfth Night; The Lover and The Collection; Othello (2017 Free For All); The School for Lies; Macbeth; King Charles III | ACA: As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Pericles, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus. INTERNATIONAL: Vancouver, Canada: Rumble Theatre: Indian Arm | Vancouver Playhouse: The Music Man | UBC Theatre: The Glass Menagerie, The Cherry Orchard, The House of Atreus, Arcadia | York University: Our Country’s Good. FILM: Dialect, voice, text: Warcraft, Horns, Firewall, Monster Trucks, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Suckerpunch, The Watchman, Hidden, Apollo 18, The Uninvited, Hot Rod, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Elektra. TELEVISION: Dialect: The Good Doctor, Tin Star, Bates Motel, The 100, Alcatraz, Rogue, Red Widow, The Secret Circle, Heavenly, Human Target, The Good Wife, Inseparable, Just Cause. PERSONAL: Directing: The Bay at Nice, Agamemnon | Teaching: STC’s Academy for Classical Acting: 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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  Mr. Alec Wild
  Text Coach

  Text Coach

  Mr. Alec Wild
  

  STC: Academy for Classical Acting: Directing: The Maid’s Tragedy. REGIONAL: Directing: more than 50 productions nationwide; COCA: Swallows and Amazons; Saint Louis University: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Shakespeare Festival St. Louis: 2013, 2014 Shakespeare in the Streets; Illinois Shakespeare Festival; Chautauqua Theatre Company; American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco); Milwaukee Shakespeare; Great River Shakespeare Festival. FILM: Whisper (St. Louis International Film Festival: Awarded Best Film, Actress, Acting Ensemble, Musical Score, and Screenplay). OTHER: Director of STC’s Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University. TRAINING: Yale School of Drama: MFA in Directing; Goodman School of Drama (Chicago): BFA in Acting. WEB: AlecWild.com.

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  Charlie Marie McGrath
  Assistant Director

  Assistant Director

  Charlie Marie McGrath
  

  STC: Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (Assistant Director), The School for Lies, Macbeth, The Secret Garden, The Tempest (2016 Free For All, Directorial Assistant), STC Fellows Project: God Is Dead and April's Getting Married (Director). NEW YORK: Broadway: SDCF Observer, A Time to Kill (dir. Ethan McSweeny). REGIONAL: Director: Birmingham Children’s Theatre: The Jungle Book; Assistant Director: Goodman Theatre: Smokefall (dir. Anne Kauffman); Court Theatre: A Long Day’s Journey Into Night (dir. David Auburn); Northlight Theatre: Mothers and Sons (dir. Steve Scott); SDCF Observer, SHREW! (dir. Art Manke). OTHER: Pointless Theatre: Imogen; The Side Project: Lysistrata; AstonRep Theatre Company: Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Dead Writers Theatre Collective: Game of Love and Chance (Remount), House of Mirth; Open Door Repertory Company: Game of Love and Chance, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks; Proud Kate Theatre Project: The Ruby Sunrise, November, Dumb Waiter; G&S Opera Company: HMS Pinafore. TRAINING: Northwestern University. WEB: CharlieMarieMcGrath.com.

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  Anna Alison Brenner
  Dramaturgical Assistant

  Dramaturgical Assistant

  Anna Alison Brenner
  

  NEW YORK: Playwriting: Young Playwrights Inc.: Tiger, Tiger. REGIONAL: Playwriting: Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts: Twentyhood, Still Life, The Thirty-Minute Waltz (Ten-Minute Play Festival), Driving with Camellia (Heermans-McCalmon Readings); Dramaturg:  Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts: Titus Andronicus; The Hangar Theatre: Olly-Olly Oxen-Free, 4,000 Miles; Melodramatics Theatre Company: West Side Story. AWARDS: Heermans-McCalmon Dramatic Writing Competition; Young Playwrights Inc. National Playwriting Competition. TRAINING: Cornell University: BA in English and Theatre. WEB: AnnaAlisonBrenner.com.

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  Brandon Prendergast
  Production Stage Manager

  Production Stage Manager

  Brandon Prendergast
  

  STC: more than twenty productions including collaborations with Mary Zimmerman, Keith Baxter, Edwin Sherin, Michael Kahn, Douglas C. Wager, Gerald Freedman and JoAnne Akalaitis. NEW YORK: The Green Bird (dir. Julie Taymor), The Foundling (dir. Liz Swados), Yemayá (dir. Twyla Tharp). REGIONAL: Kennedy Center: 20 productions including Side Show, Follies, Ragtime, Mame; Ford’s Theatre: 20 productions including Virginia Woolf, Come from Away, The Glass Menagerie, Driving Miss Daisy, Parade; Signature Theatre: La Cage Aux Folles. INTERNATIONAL: Manama, Bahrain: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical. TEACHING: University of Mary Washington. TRAINING: Mary Washington College.

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  Maria Tejada
  Assistant Stage Manager

  Assistant Stage Manager

  Maria Tejada
  

  STC: Romeo & Juliet (ASM), Othello (ASM), Kiss Me, Kate (ASM), The Metromaniacs (PA), As You Like It (PA), The Winter’s Tale (Mainstage, Free For All: PA), Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (PA), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (PA), Much Ado About Nothing (Free For All: PA), Hughie (PA), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mainstage, Free For All: PA), All’s Well That Ends Well (Free For All: PA).REGIONAL: Hartford Stage: Comedy of Errors (ASM); Spooky Action Theater: Jarry Inside Out; Sitar Arts Center: Hairspray; Abreact Theatre: La Ronde; Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company: Last of the Boys; Planet Ant Theatre: Salvage, Endangered. INTERNATIONAL: Macao Arts Festival (China): A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ASM). TRAINING: Grand Valley State University: BA in Theatre and Spanish.