Shakespeare Theatre Company| Peter Pan and Wendy

The Performers
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Sinclair Daniel*
Wendy Darling
Wendy Darling
Sinclair Daniel*
REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Taiga in the Berkshires. TELEVISION: Madam Secretary. PERSONAL: she/her/hers | An avid traveler and New York transplant, Sinclair is very excited to be returning to her hometown of D.C. for this production | Training: NYU Tisch School of the Arts: BFA in Acting.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Justin Mark*
Peter Pan
Peter Pan
Justin Mark*
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Cherry Lane Theater: in a word (playwright Lauren Yee). REGIONAL: Bay Street Theater: The Forgotten Women | Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: Antony and Cleopatra (Octavius Caesar). FILM: Coin Heist (Netflix). TV: Law & Order: SVU, Madame Secretary, Charles Van Dalh on Gotham. OTHER: Newt in the video game Red Dead Redemption II. Justin has collaborated with playwright Jen Silverman on new play development at The Lark, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. PERSONAL: Training: The Juilliard School.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Isabella Star LaBlanc*
Tiger Lily
Tiger Lily
Isabella Star LaBlanc*
REGIONAL: Jungle Theater: The Wolves, Little Women | Mixed Blood Theatre: Autonomy | Guthrie Theater: Water Is Sacred | Cincinnati Shakespeare Company: August: Osage County | Children’s Theatre Company: Peter Pan. FILM: The Coyote Way (Sundance Film Festival Native Film Lab). OTHER: 2017 CBS Drama Diversity Casting Initiative Participant. PERSONAL: Instagram: @isabella_lablanc.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Jenni Barber*
Mrs. Darling/Tinkerbell
Mrs. Darling/Tinkerbell
Jenni Barber*
NEW YORK: Broadway: All My Sons, Sunday in the Park with George, Wicked, The Nance, Annie, The Performers, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | Off-Broadway: Signature Theatre: By The Way, Meet Vera Stark | Sam Mendes' The Bridge Project: As You Like It, The Tempest | Manhattan Theatre Club: From Up Here | Encores!: Paint Your Wagon, A New Brain. REGIONAL: Huntington Theatre Company: Sunday in the Park with George (Elliot Norton Award) | Hartford Stage: Private Lives. TELEVISION: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Master of None, Elementary, Smash, Law & Order: SVU. PERSONAL: Training: University of Michigan.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Derek Smith*
Mr. Darling/Captain Hook
Mr. Darling/Captain Hook
Derek Smith*
STC: Affiliated Artist; Twelfth Night; As You Like It; The Government Inspector; Much Ado About Nothing; The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; The Doctor’s Dilemma; Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; The School for Scandal; The Witch of Edmonton. NEW YORK: Broadway: The Green Bird (Tony nomination), The Government Inspector, Timon of Athens, Jackie, Ring Round the Moon, Getting and Spending, several years as Scar in The Lion King | Off-Broadway: The White Devil, Heartbreak House, The School for Scandal, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Incident at Vichy, Dance of Death, Sylvia (Drama League, Los Angeles Ovation awards), King John (Derwint Award), Dark Rapture, Cruise Control, Ten by Tennessee, The Green Bird (Obie Award), The Witch of Edmonton (Calloway Award). REGIONAL: McCarter Theatre Center, American Repertory Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, Pittsburgh Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, Portland Stage Company. FILM: Advice from a Caterpillar, The Stand-In, Jungle 2 Jungle, Internal Affairs, The Jew of Malta. TELEVISION: The Good Wife, The Equalizer, Another World, Ryan’s Hope. OTHER: Member, Acting Company. PERSONAL: Training: The Juilliard School.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Christopher Flaim*
John Darling
John Darling
Christopher Flaim*
NEW YORK: Broadway: Mary Poppins. TOURS: U.S.: Mary Poppins (first national tour); TV: Law & Order: SVU. PERSONAL: Training: Northwestern University | @christopherflaim.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Chauncey Chestnut
Michael Darling
Michael Darling
Chauncey Chestnut
REGIONAL: D.C. Black Arts Festival: Preacher Woman. TELEVISION: Wu-Tang: An American Saga (Hulu). OTHER: Montgomery County Recycling: Mobile App Game | Commercials and Web Videos: Fisher Price (radio voiceover), U.S. Postal Service, Kroger Web Video, National Park Service, National Aquarium, Erickson Senior Living | Print Modeling: Destination DC, Union Plus, MedStar Health Systems. PERSONAL: he/him/his | Chauncey Chestnut is a Washington, D.C. resident. He has appeared in TV commercials and mini-series, Off-Broadway plays, dance productions, and modeling | Training: Linda Townsend Management, Divine Dance Institute | Social Media: @allaboutchauncey.
Tom Story*
Smee
Smee
Tom Story*
STC: Affiliated Artist; 17 productions including The Comedy of Errors, The School for Lies, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter’s Tale, ...Forum, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Henry V, Design for Living, Major Barbara. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: The Book Club Play, Oliver! | Ford’s Theatre: Our Town, 1776, The Glass Menagerie | Round House Theatre/Olney Theatre Center: Angels in America | Mosaic Theater Company: Blood Knot | Berkshire Theatre Festival: The Book Club Play, The Glass Menagerie, Amadeus, The Heidi Chronicles, The Misanthrope, Moby Dick–Rehearsed, Life’s a Dream, Design for Living (director) | Studio Theatre: POP!, The Wolfe Twins, The Invention of Love, The York Realist, A Number, The Pillowman, The Rocky Horror Show, Moth (director), Terminus (director), Silence! The Musical | Folger Theatre: As You Like It; Henry IV, Part 1 | Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, McCarter Theatre Center, Kansas City Rep, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Seattle Rep. AWARDS: Seven Helen Hayes Award nominations; Fox Foundation Fellowship. PERSONAL: Training: Duke University; The Juilliard School.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Joriah Kwame*
Slightly
Slightly
Joriah Kwame*
REGIONAL: Dunes Summer Theatre: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Charlotte’s Web | Farmers Alley Theater: Avenue Q. PERSONAL: he/him/his | Joriah is also an up-and-coming composer/playwright and recently won the Write Out Loud writing competition and had his original song “Little Miss Perfect” performed by Taylor Louderman | Training: Western Michigan University: BFA in Music Theatre Performance | Instagram: @JoriahKwame | JoriahKwame.com.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Francisco Gonzalez*
Tootles
Tootles
Francisco Gonzalez*
NEW YORK: Weston Playhouse: The Fantasticks | Eugene O’Neill Theatre: Superhero | NYU Grad Acting: The Fortress of Solitude | New York Stage & Film: Head Over Heels | The Mollyhouse | Sister Act. PERSONAL: Francisco produces and performs in concerts throughout NYC—most recently a benefit for Bring Change to Mind. His work has been showcased at Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, and the National Opera Center | Training: NYU Tisch | @franciscogonzalezarts.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Ronen Lewis
Curly
Curly
Ronen Lewis
REGIONAL: Mosaic Theater Company: Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies | Kansas City Rep: A Christmas Carol | The Coterie Theatre: Seussical!, Frindle | The Living Room Theatre, Starlight Theatre. FILM: Maxine (Afrikana Independent Film Festival). TELEVISION: Thou Shalt Not. PERSONAL: Training: Elon University | RonenLewis.com.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Tendo Nsubuga
Twin
Twin
Tendo Nsubuga
REGIONAL: Avant Bard Theatre: A Misanthrope | Mosaic Theater Company: Native Son | 1st Stage: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Farnsworth Invention | Imagination Stage: Looking for Roberto Clemente | Red Branch Theatre Company: Sweeney Todd, Heathers: The Musical. PERSONAL: Training: University of Maryland: BA in Theatre | Upcoming: Kill Move Paradise at Rep Stage.
Darren Alford
Twin
Twin
Darren Alford
REGIONAL: Purple September Productions: Is This the Wiz, The Greatest Showman. FILM: The Darkest Minds. TV: House of Cards, Turn: Washington’s Spies, Chicago Fire. PERSONAL: Darren likes to play basketball, dance, do flips, and practice Parkour | Training: Coach Mark McKinnon at Mark McKinnon Acting Studio | Instagram: @darren_alford_ .
Michael Glenn*
Jukes
Jukes
Michael Glenn*
STC: Peter Pan and Wendy, The School for Lies. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Junk, Sovereignty, Good People, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery | Folger Theatre: Nell Gwynn, Sense and Sensibility, Arcadia | Round House Theatre: Gem of the Ocean, Small Mouth Sounds, Stage Kiss | Studio Theatre: Jumpers for Goalposts | Olney Theatre Center: Tiger Style!, Marjorie Prime | Theater J: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Photograph 51 | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Clybourne Park | Signature Theatre: The Lieutenant of Inishmore. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble (Folger Theatre’s Sense and Sensibility). OTHER: Hundreds of characters in dozens of audiobook recordings for Graphic Audio. PERSONAL: he/him/his.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Calvin McCullough*
Noodler
Noodler
Calvin McCullough*
REGIONAL: Baltimore Center Stage: Miss You Like Hell | Arena Stage: Snow Child | Signature Theatre: Freaky Friday, Jesus Christ Superstar | Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol | Olney Theatre Center: Elf, South Pacific, Carmen, Godspell | Everyman Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun | Imagination Stage: Looking for Roberto Clemente, When She Had Wings, Peter and the Wolf, The Freshest Snow Whyte | Adventure Theatre MTC: Mirandy and Brother Wind, BIG, Miss Nelson Is Missing, Snowy Day | Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Shrek, In the Heights. AWARDS: Irene Ryan Nominee. PERSONAL: Training: Virginia Commonwealth University: BFA in Theatre Performance.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Gregory Wooddell*
Starkey
Starkey
Gregory Wooddell*
STC: Affiliated Artist; Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors (2018), Othello (2017), The School for Lies (Helen Hayes nomination, Outstanding Lead Actor), Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, The Merchant of Venice, Cyrano, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Othello (2005), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Country Wife, Don Carlos, Richard II, The Comedy of Errors (2006). NEW YORK: Broadway: The Lyons, Cymbeline. REGIONAL (select): Arena Stage/McCarter Theatre Center: Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Sherlock Holmes; world premiere) | Philadelphia Theatre Company: Terrence McNally’s Some Men (world premiere) | Huntington Theatre Company: David Grimm’s Miracle at Naples (world premiere) | Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Henry VIII (Henry VIII) | Mark Taper Forum: School of Night (American premiere) | Signature Theatre: Cabaret | Round House Theatre: Stage Kiss, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Oslo | Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis: Much Ado About Nothing (Kevin Kline nomination, Outstanding Lead Actor). TELEVISION: Person of Interest, 30 Rock, The Good Wife, Third Watch. PERSONAL: Training: The Juilliard School.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Oliver Archibald
Ensemble
Ensemble
Oliver Archibald
NEW YORK: Park Avenue Armory: The Lehman Trilogy; New York Classical Theatre: Macbeth. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: Titus Andronicus | Arkansas Rep: Macbeth | Theatre at Monmouth: The Tempest.
+Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow
Megan Huynh
Ensemble
Ensemble
Megan Huynh
STC: Hamlet (2019 Free For All, Ensemble). REGIONAL: Sylvia Center: Mr. Burns, a post-electric play. AWARDS: Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival: Irene Ryan Region 7 National Finalist, Certificate of Merit for Performance. OTHER: Western Summer Theatre Company: I Began Anyway (devised with Blessed Unrest). PERSONAL: Training: Western Washington University: BA in Acting.
+Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow
Joseph Respicio
Ensemble
Ensemble
Joseph Respicio
NEW YORK: Zerospace (zerospace.co). PERSONAL: he/him/his | Training: Montclair State University: BFA in Acting | Instagram: @respiciojoseph. +Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow
Bailey
Nana
Nana
Bailey
Bailey was rescued by Bill Berloni in 2017 as an energetic teenager. After training, he toured the country for a year as the understudy in Finding Neverland for Porthos, the dog that inspired J.M. Barrie to write the role of Nana. In the fall of 2018, he alternated in the role until it was decided that he should be the understudy in Because of Winn Dixie at The Goodspeed Opera House. He has also appeared as Schnoodle’s brother Floodle in Elmo’s World on Sesame Street. He is excited to create a role of his own.

The Artistic Team
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Lauren Gunderson
Playwright
Playwright
Lauren Gunderson
Lauren Gunderson was named the most produced playwright in America of 2017 and 2019. Her work has been commissioned, produced, and developed at companies across the U.S. and U.K. and she is the Playwright in Residence at Marin Theatre Company. Her newest play The Half-Life of Marie Curie just premiered at Audible Theatre in NYC this November. Her work had been seen at South Coast Rep, The Kennedy Center (Earthrise, The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog!), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Denver Center, Hampstead Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Northlight, Synchronicity Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire and more. Silent Sky is coming to Ford’s Theatre in January. She also co-authored Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and The Wickhams with Margot Melcon. Her work is published at Playscripts, Dramatists, and Samuel French. She has won the Lanford Wilson Award, two Steinberg/ATCA New Play Awards (I and You and The Book of Will), and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award. She was also a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s 3-Year Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School, where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her picture book Dr. Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon! is available now Two Lions/Amazon. | LaurenGunderson.com | @LalaTellsAStory.
Alan Paul
Director
Director
Alan Paul
STC: Associate Artistic Director; All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain; Peter Pan and Wendy; The Comedy of Errors (Helen Hayes Award Nomination, Best Director); Romeo and Juliet (mainstage and 2018 Free For All); Camelot; Kiss Me, Kate; Man of La Mancha (Helen Hayes Award Nomination, Best Director); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Helen Hayes Award, Best Director); The Boys from Syracuse; The Winter’s Tale (2014 Free For All); Twelfth Night (2010 Free For All); As You Like It (Associate Director); Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Associate Director); numerous galas, readings, and special events; Assistant Director: 13 shows. THEATRE DIRECTING: 5th Avenue Theatre: Kiss Me, Kate | Arena Stage: The Pajama Game | Signature Theatre: I Am My Own Wife | Studio Theatre 2ndStage: Silence! The Musical (Helen Hayes Nomination, Best Director), The Rocky Horror Show | MetroStage: Fully Committed | University of Maryland: The Matchmaker | Apex Theatre Company: Richard II. OPERA DIRECTING: Palm Beach Opera: The Pirates of Penzance (with Stephanie Blythe) | Portland Opera: Man of La Mancha | Washington National Opera: Penny (premiere) | numerous works for Urban Arias, The In Series, Strathmore Concert Hall, Wolf Trap Opera and the National Symphony Orchestra. PERSONAL: Finalist for the 2013 European Opera Directing Prize (Vienna, Austria) | AlanPaulDirector.com.
Jenny Giering
Composer
Composer
Jenny Giering
STC: The Tempest. NEW YORK: Playwrights Horizons: Alice Bliss (book by Karen Hartman, lyrics by Adam Gwon; 2019 Weston Award; 2019 Orchard Project Residency recipient) | New York Musical Theatre Festival/Apple Tree Theatre: The Mistress Cycle (Jeff Award nomination). REGIONAL: Commissions: Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Summerland (book & lyrics by Sean Barry) | Boston Music Theater Project/The Transport Group: Crossing Brooklyn (Kleban Award for best libretto) | Zipper Theater/Premieres, Inc.: Alice Unwrapped (with Jennifer Damiano) | Weston Playhouse: Saint-Ex (world premiere). Incidental Scores: Barrington Stage Company: Gertrude & Claudius | Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Red Velvet, As You Like It (Jeff Award nomination), Elizabeth Rex (Jeff Award nomination) | Weston Playhouse: Long Day’s Journey Into Night | TheatreWorks: Silent Sky. AWARDS: The Jonathan Larson Prize, The Constance Klinsky Prize from Second Stage Theater, The National Art Song Award, New Dramatists’ Frederick Loewe Award, several NEA and NAMT production grants. She is the only artist to receive Chicago Shakespeare’s Tilles Music Chair twice. She and Adam Gwon are the only artists to win the Weston New Musical Award multiple times as well. PERSONAL: Jenny is also working on a one-woman musical What We Leave Behind about her journey through chronic illness, which just had its first public performances as part of Theatre Aspen’s Solo Flights Festival starring Kate Baldwin | JennyGiering.com.
Jason Sherwood
Scenic Designer
Scenic Designer
Jason Sherwood
STC: Peter Pan and Wendy; The Taming of the Shrew. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: New York Theatre Workshop: Endlings; Sojourners; Her Portmanteau | Atlantic Theater Company: This Ain’t No Disco | Playwrights Realm: Sojourners | 59E59: Songbird | Invisible Wall Productions: The View UpStairs. REGIONAL: The Old Globe, Signature Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Alliance Theatre, The Guthrie Theater. TV: The Oscars (2020); Rent: Live. OTHER: Tours for Sam Smith, the Spice Girls, and Sara Bareilles; Performances for Camila Cabello, Elton John, Eminem, Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monae. AWARDS: Two Emmy Awards; Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Henry Hewes Design Award nominations. PERSONAL: he/him | Training: New York University | Instagram: JasonSherwoodDesign.
Loren Shaw
Costume Designer
Costume Designer
Loren Shaw
STC: The Taming of the Shrew. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company: Nomad Motel | The Chase Brock Dance Experience: Girl with the Alkaline Eyes | New York Theatre Workshop: Sojourners, Her Portmanteau | Playwrights Realm: Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth (Voyager) | National Asian American Theatre Company: Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery | Flea Theater: The Mysteries, Restoration Comedy, These Seven Sicknesses | The Play Company: Ludic Proxy, The Golden Dragon. REGIONAL: Glimmerglass Opera: Queen of Spades | Asolo Rep: The Sound of Music, The Tempest | Geva Theatre Center: Revival | Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Head Over Heels | Children’s Theatre Company: Busytown the Musical | George Street Playhouse: Last Days of Summer | Pig Iron Theatre Company: A Period of Animate Existence | Portland Stage: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, String Around My Finger. INTERNATIONAL: Singapore Repertory Theatre: Venus In Fur. AWARDS: 2013 and 2014 Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Costume Design. FILM: Viral (Feature, Big Block Entertainment); Game Lands; A Girl, a Cat, a Bomb (Short). PERSONAL: Founding member and the Resident Costume Designer of Exit, Pursued by a Bear. Worked as an assistant to Eiko Ishioka on her last project Mirror Mirror (Relativity Media) | Training: Carnegie Mellon University: MFA in Costume Design, University of South Florida: BFA in Theater Design.
Isabella Byrd
Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Isabella Byrd
NEW YORK: Playwrights Horizons: Heroes of the Fourth Turning | New York Theatre Workshop: The Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (2019 Obie Award) | Vineyard/New Group: “Daddy”: A Melodrama | Manhattan Theatre Club: Continuity | Clubbed Thumb: Plano | Prospect/59E59: The Hello Girls | Performance Space: The Slow Room (Annie Dorsen) | Ars Nova/WP: Sundown Yellow Moon. REGIONAL: Northern Stage: Jordan | Westport Country Playhouse: Mlima's Tale | Old Globe: The Tale of Despereaux | American Conservatory Theater: Seascape | Williamstown Theatre Festival: Tell Me I'm Not Crazy, Member of the Wedding, Artney Jackson | Actors Theatre of Louisville: Angels in America (co-design), Humana Festival 2018: Do You Feel Anger, God Said This. FILM: Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach/Netflix). AWARDS: Multiple Henry Hewes Award nominations, Barrymore Award nomination. PERSONAL: Isabella is a Brooklyn-based designer focused on new work development | Upcoming: Hartford Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Almeida (London), Alley Theatre, Signature Theatre NYC. | Instagram: @isabelllaa | IsabellaByrd.design.
John Gromada
Sound Designer
Sound Designer
John Gromada
STC: Peter Pan and Wendy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing. NEW YORK: Broadway: Composed music and/or designed sound for more than 40 Broadway productions, including All My Sons, The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper, The Trip to Bountiful with Cicely Tyson (Tony Award nomination), The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Torch Song, All My Sons, Clybourne Park, Seminar, Man and Boy, The Columnist, Next Fall, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, Sight Unseen, Well, Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, A Few Good Men. Off-Broadway: Delacorte Theater: Measure for Measure | The Young Man from Atlanta, The Cake, Amy and the Orphans, Twelfth Night, Shadowlands, The Incident at Vichy, Ripcord, Old Hats, My Name is Asher Lev, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Drama Desk and Henry Hewes Awards), The Screwtape Letters (including the national tour), Shipwrecked! (Lucille Lortel Award), The Singing Forest, Julius Caesar, The Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal (OBIE Award). REGIONAL: More than 300 productions at major regional theatres | Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol (radio drama on WAMU), Born Yesterday, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, Fly, et al. TELEVISION: Score for the Emmy Award-nominated film version of The Trip to Bountiful and Showing Roots. AWARDS: NEA Opera/Music Theatre Fellowship, Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, Eddy Awards, grants from the NJ State Council on the Arts and Meet the Composer. PERSONAL: JohnGromada.net.
Jared Mezzocchi
Projection Designer
Projection Designer
Jared Mezzocchi
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Poor Yella Rednecks (world premiere), Vietgone (world premiere; Obie, Lucille Lortel, and Henry Hewes Awards) | 3-Legged Dog: The Downtown Loop | HERE Arts Center: You Are Dead. You Are Here. REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Company Member), Arena Stage, Milwaukee Rep, South Coast Rep, Playmakers Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Round House Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Wilma Theater, Company ONE, New Rep Theater. AWARDS: Macdowell Colony: Theater Fellow (2016), Princess Grace Award (2012). OTHER: Producing Artistic Director of Andy’s Summer Playhouse (multimedia children’s theatre in Wilton, NH). PERSONAL: Teaching: Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, created MFA program in Projection and Multimedia Design | Training: Brooklyn College: MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Art | JaredMezzocchi.com.
James Ortiz
Puppet Designer
Puppet Designer
James Ortiz
STC: The Tempest. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Public Theater: Disney’s Hercules, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale | New World Stages: The Woodsman | Theatre for a New Audience: King Lear | Ars Nova: The Woodsman | 59E59: On the Head of a Pin, The Woodsman, Bernie and Mikey | Soho Rep: Ludic Proxy | Naked Angels: The Sea Wife. REGIONAL: Dallas Theatre Center: Hood | Yale Rep: el Huracan | Opera Saratoga/Skylight Music Theatre/Carnegie Melon University: Zemire Et Azor. AWARDS: 2016 OBIE Award for Puppet Design, 2017 Eugene O'Neill Residency recipient, 2015 and 2019 Jim Henson Foundation Grant awardee. PERSONAL: Co-Founder of the devised theatre group, Strangemen & Co. | Instagram: @jortface.
Paul Rubin
Flying Choreographer
Flying Choreographer
Paul Rubin
NEW YORK: Broadway: Wicked; Doctor Zhivago; Curtains with David Hyde Pierce; The Pirate Queen; Cathy Rigby Is Peter Pan; Kiss Me, Kate; Frozen; The Green Bird; Dance of the Vampires; Fiddler on the Roof; Bombay Dreams; Saturday Night Fever. INTERNATIONAL: He has created flying sequences for productions in over 30 countries including: Singapore, Spain, Macau, South Africa, Malaysia, England, Australia, Korea, Turkey, Columbia, China, Norway, and Japan | Franco Dragone’s Flying Director for his new open-ended production La Perle (Dubai, August 2017) | Holland/Moscow/Tokyo/U.S.: Disney’s The Little Mermaid | National Theatre (London): Tori Amos' The Light Princess | Evolution (touring China) | Aladdin | Carrie the Musical (West Coast Premiere). TOURS: 9 to 5 the Musical, Spamalot, Dora the Explorer Live!, SpongeBob SquarePants LIVE, Seussical, Scooby-Doo Live. TELEVISION: Kevin Can Wait, The Tony Awards, CNN, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, A&E’s Peter Pan. OTHER: Some celebrities Paul has given wings to include Kevin James, Tony Danza, John Rhys Davies, Adam Lambert, Paula Abdul, and Howie Mandel. PERSONAL: Proud member of The Academy of Magical Arts at The Magic Castle in Hollywood, CA | Twitter: @TheFlyGuy | Instagram: @TheFlyGuyNY | TheFlyGuy.com.
David Leong
Fight Choreographer
Fight Choreographer
David Leong
STC: The Comedy of Errors; Camelot; Romeo and Juliet (1986, 2002, 2016, 2018 productions); Kiss Me, Kate; Man of La Mancha; Cyrano de Bergerac; Richard III (1990, 2007); King John; Macbeth; Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus; Troilus and Cressida; Henry V; Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; King Lear; The Witch of Edmonton; Hamlet (1992, 2007, 2018, 2019); Julius Caesar; and many more. NEW YORK: Metropolitan Opera: Porgy and Bess | Broadway: Fool for Love, Amazing Grace the Musical, A Time to Kill, Billy Elliot, Carousel, Company, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Civil War, The Rainmaker, King Hedley II, Picnic, Hamlet, Macbeth, Solitary Confinement, Sex and Longing, Conversations With My Father, A Delicate Balance, In the Summer House | Off-Broadway: over 50 plays and musicals. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, American Repertory Theater, Geva Theatre Center, American Contemporary Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Denver Theatre Center, Alley Theatre, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and many more. INTERNATIONAL: London: West End: Napoleon; National Theatre: Jitney. FILM: Titus, Alien: Resurrection. PERSONAL: DavidSLeong.com.
Katie Spelman
Choreographer
Choreographer
Katie Spelman
NEW YORK: Broadway: Moulin Rouge! (Associate/Resident Choreographer), Associate: Once, American Psycho, Amélie | Off-Broadway (Associate): 32 New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, Public Theater. REGIONAL: Denver Center: The Who’s Tommy | Goodspeed Opera House: Oklahoma! (Connecticut Critics nomination for Best Choreography) | Olney Theatre Center: Cabaret | Lookingglass Theatre Company, Paramount Theatre, Court Theatre, The Hypocrites, Asolo Repertory, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Timeline Theatre, Sideshow Theatre Company, The New Colony, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Northwestern University, The Inconvenience. INTERNATIONAL: Menier Chocolate Factory/West End (London): Close to You (Associate Director). TELEVISION: Rent: Live (Fox, Associate Choreographer). PERSONAL: Katie was one of five choreographers awarded the SDCF Agnes de Mille commission in 2019 for a new short work, and her piece simone premiered in NYC in March | Proud graduate of Northwestern University.
Jeremy Chernick
Special Effects
Special Effects
Jeremy Chernick
STC: Peter Pan & Wendy. NEW YORK: Broadway: Over 50 productions, including Macbeth with Daniel Craig, Disney's Frozen and Aladdin, Beetlejuice, Hadestown. INTERNATIONAL: West End (London): Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Let the Right One In. AWARDS: 2021 Los Angeles Critics Circle award, 2018 Emmy Award honoree for NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. PERSONAL: Jeremy's work on spectacles spans the globe, as well as among prominent performing and visual arts institutions like the Museum of Art & Design in New York. He serves as Head Designer for J&M Special Effects in Brooklyn| jmfx.net.
William Berloni
Animal Trainer
Animal Trainer
William Berloni
STC: The Two Gentlemen of Verona. NEW YORK: Broadway: Annie (Original Company, 20th, 30th and 35th revivals), The Ferryman, The Crucible, Living on Love, The Audience, Bullets Over Broadway, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, A Christmas Story, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Legally Blonde, Camelot, Frankenstein, The First, Alice in Wonderland, Oliver!, Anything Goes, Nick and Nora, La Bête, The Wiz, The Wizard of Oz, Dinner at Eight, Double Feature (NYCB), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Woman in White, Awake and Sing, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. REGIONAL: Goodspeed Opera House: Animal Director for Because of Winn Dixie the Musical (summer 2019). FILM: Currently: Ben is Back (w/ Julia Roberts), After the Wedding (w/ Julianne Moore). TELEVISION: Currently: The Village, From Wags to Riches with Bill Berloni, The Leftovers, Mr. Robot, Billions, Power, Difficult People, Sesame Street, Modern Love, Mrs. Fletcher, The Sinner, High Maintenance, Almost Family. AWARDS: 2011 Tony Honoree for Excellence in Theatre, 2014 Outer Critics Circle Special Achievement Award, 2017 Drama League Award for Unique Contribution to the Theater. PERSONAL: Author of Broadway Tails | Facebook and Instagram: @berlonitheatricalanimals | TheatricalAnimals.com.
Laura Stanczyk, CSA
New York Casting
New York Casting
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.
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.
Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
Dramaturg
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.
Lisa Beley
Voice and Text Coach
Voice and Text 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.
Madeleine Smith
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Madeleine Smith
STC: Director’s Studio 2016. OTHER: Silver Spring Stage: Equivocation | Victorian Lyric Opera Company: The Merry Widow, La Perichole. PERSONAL: she/her/hers | Upcoming: Silver Spring Stage: Pride and Prejudice | Training: University of the Arts: BFA Acting, Vocal Mastery, Inc | Instagram: @Midgeleine_.
Joseph Smelser*
Production Stage Manager
Production Stage Manager
Joseph Smelser*
STC: Resident Stage Manager; 40 productions including King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing; Our Town; Once Upon a One More Time; The Amen Corner (2021 remount); The Oresteia; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit; The Comedy of Errors; Camelot; Hamlet; The School for Lies; The Secret Garden (also at 5th Avenue Theatre and Theater Under the Stars); The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound (also at Guthrie Theater); Kiss Me, Kate; Man of La Mancha; The Tempest; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Strange Interlude; All’s Well That Ends Well. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: The Heiress, Let Me Down Easy | Seattle Repertory Theatre: Eight seasons including An Ideal Husband, Play On!, Golden Child, Don Juan, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (with Lily Tomlin) | American Conservatory Theater: The Rivals, The Circle, The Government Inspector, Vigil | Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Journey to the West, An Almost Holy Picture, Having Our Say | Regional Tour: Let Me Down Easy, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (both with Anna Deavere Smith). PERSONAL: Training: Oberlin College: BA.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Christopher Michael Borg
Stage Manager
Stage Manager
Christopher Michael Borg
STC: The Amen Corner, Peter Pan and Wendy, Everybody, The Oresteia, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet (2018 Free For All), Camelot, Noura, Twelfth Night. NEW YORK: Broadway: Sister Act (PA) | Off-Broadway: Public Theater: Paper Dolls (ASM), Titus Andronicus (PA). REGIONAL: Delaware Resident Ensemble Players: You Can’t Take It With You, Tartuffe, The Elephant Man, The Bells, Clybourne Park, Waiting for Godot, Things We Do for Love, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wait Until Dark, Heartbreak House, The Patsy, The 39 Steps, Juno and the Paycock, The Millionairess, Macbeth | Trinity Repertory Company: Intimate Apparel, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, House and Garden | Baltimore Center Stage: The Container (SM), The Wiz, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (ASM) | Everyman Theatre: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Heroes. PERSONAL: Training: University of Maryland, Baltimore County: BA in Theatre.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Rebecca Shipman
Assistant Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Rebecca Shipman
STC: Peter Pan and Wendy, Hamlet (2018 and 2019 Free For All), The Oresteia, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet (2016 and 2018 Free For All), Camelot, The Lover and The Collection, Othello (2017 Free For All) | Production Assistant: Macbeth; King Charles III; The Secret Garden; The Taming of the Shrew; Othello; Kiss Me, Kate; Salomé; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015 Free For All) | Stage Management Fellow (2014-2015). REGIONAL: Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Henry V, Honk!, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors | Jewel Theatre Company: One for the Road, The Lover. TRAINING: University of California, Santa Cruz: BA in Theater Arts.

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