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The Performers
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Patrick Ball*
John/Bill
John/Bill
Patrick Ball*
REGIONAL: Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: All My Sons; Triad Stage: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Illusion, Dial M for Murder, Fashionistas: A Narcissistic Love Story; Theatre Aspen: Sex with Strangers; Barrington Stage Company: Shining City; TheatreWorks Hartford: Sex with Strangers; Dangerous Grounds Productions: The Most Important Thing, Love, Solaris; Theatre Masters: The Logic, Celebration of Life, The House that Blew Down. TELEVISION: The Leftovers. FILM: Sugar!, Penelope, Cheerleader. TRAINING: University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Lisa Dwan*
Sarah/Stella
Sarah/Stella
Lisa Dwan*
NEW YORK: Irish Repertory Theatre: Shining City (starring opposite Matthew Broderick); Lincoln Center: Beckett’s Text for Nothing (world premiere; original one-woman adaptation); Brooklyn Academy of Music: Beckett Trilogy: Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby. INTERNATIONAL: The Old Vic (London) / Abbey Theatre (Dublin): No’s Knife (world premiere; original one-woman adaptation); Abbey Theatre (Dublin):Anna Karenina (title role); London: Royal Court Theatre / West End / Barbican: Beckett Trilogy: Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby (also sold-out international tour); South Bank Centre: Beside the Sea (original one-woman adaptation); Barbican Theatre: Goran Bregovic’s Margot, Diary of an Unhappy Queen; Southwark Playhouse: The Journey Between Us; Bush Theatre: Ivan Viripaev’s Illusions (dir. Ramin Gray); Royal Court Theatre / South Bank / BAC: Not I; Hay Festival / West End: Dear Bessie: Letters Live with Benedict Cumberbatch; Hay Festival (Wales): The Soldier’s Tale; Town Hall Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest (Irish tour); Andrews Lane Theatre (Dublin): The History of the World at 3am; Galway Arts Festival: As You Like It. FILM: Trust by Danny Boyle (currently filming), An Afterthought, Walt Disney’s Oliver Twist, The Tailor of Panama, Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain. TELEVISION: Ovid (BBC), Rock Rival’s (ITV), Big Bow Wow (RTÉ), Fair City (RTÉ), Mystic Knights (Fox). OTHER: An internationally celebrated performer of Beckett’s work, she writes and presents regularly on Beckett, theatre and culture; created and presented documentaries on Beckett and Dante for Sky Arts and the BBC. TEACHING: 2017–2018 Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University; Fellow at New York University; has taught at Princeton, Oxford and Reading Universities.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Jack Koenig*
Harry
Harry
Jack Koenig*
STC: Mandragola. NEW YORK: Broadway: Oslo, The Lion King, The Pitmen Painters, Accent on Youth; Off-Broadway: Tabletop (Drama Desk Award), Incident at Vichy, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, The Cocktail Party, The Grand Manner, Big Bill, Everett Beekin, Three Days of Rain, The American Plan, Not About Heroes. REGIONAL: Old Globe: A Doll’s House; Pioneer Theatre Company: Laughing Stock, A Christmas Story; Westport Country Playhouse: Rough Crossing, Battle of Angels; Virginia Stage: A Moon for the Misbegotten, Macbeth, The Importance of Being Earnest, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Geva Theatre Center; Peterborough Players; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; others. FILM: National Treasure, I.Q., others. TELEVISION: Boardwalk Empire, Gotham, The Blacklist, Madoff, Forever, Unforgettable, Law & Order, Sex and the City, others. OTHER: Member of TACT.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Patrick Kennedy
James/Richard
James/Richard
Patrick Kennedy
INTERNATIONAL: Almeida Theatre: Oil; Noël Coward Theatre: Photograph 51; Royal Court Theatre: No Quarter; Shared Experience Tour: The Glass Menagerie; Plymouth Theatre Royal and Tour: Measure for Measure; National Theatre: Therese Raquin; Hampstead Theatre: Everything is Illuminated; Sheffield Lyceum / Albany Theatre: Suddenly Last Summer; Bristol Old Vic: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Southwark Playhouse: Maps of Desire. FILM: The Human Voice (wrote and directed), Peterloo, London Has Fallen, Mr. Holmes, November Man, War Horse, The Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Ourhouse, The Last Station, Me and Orson Welles, Atonement, In Transit, A Good Year, Munich, The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Nine Lives. TELEVISION: The Collection, Churchill’s Secret, The Money, Downton Abbey, Murder on the Home Front, Boardwalk Empire, Peep Show, Parade’s End, Black Mirror, Married, Single, Other, The 39 Steps, Consuming Passions, Einstein and Eddington, The Somme, Bleak House, Inspector Linley Mysteries, Cambridge Spies.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

The Artistic Team
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Michael Kahn
Director
Director
Michael Kahn
Since the start of his tenure as Artistic Director in 1986, Michael Kahn has directed 65 productions at STC, received 28 awards for his artistry and leadership and steered the Company to the 2012 Regional Theatre Tony Award. In 1991 he inaugurated the Free For All, which brings an STC production to audiences completely free of charge each year and has reached 690,000 patrons. He also created the Academy for Classical Acting, an MFA program in partnership with The George Washington University. Since the 1960s Kahn's work has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in theatres around the United States, in addition to Athens, Cairo, Stratford upon-Avon and Adelaide. He has directed productions for the Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Washington National and New York City Center Opera companies. Previously Artistic Director of the McCarter Theatre Center, the American Shakespeare Festival, The Acting Company and Chautauqua Theatre and Conservatory, he was a founding faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School and served as the Richard Rodgers Director of Drama for 15 years. He has also been on the faculties of New York University and the Circle in the Square Theatre School. Honored by numerous awards, including a Tony Award Nomination for Show Boat, Kahn was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame and was recognized as an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 2013.
Debra Booth
Scenic Designer
Scenic Designer
Debra Booth
STC: The Lover and The Collection. REGIONAL: Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville: This Beautiful City; Children’s Theater Company: Lost Boys of the Sudan; Milwaukee Repertory Theater: I Just Stopped By to See the Man; Studio Theatre: Hambone, Privates on Parade, The Shape of Things, Far Away, A Number, Caroline or Change, Fat Pig, Russian National Postal Service, This Beautiful City, Road to Mecca, Blackbird, Afterplay, Moonlight, Adding Machine: A Musical, Reasons to Be Pretty, Circle Mirror Transformation, Translations, Hard Problem, The Father; Geva Theatre Center: Rough Crossing, Famous Orpheus; WPA Theatre: Spread Eagle; Hartford Stage: Marisol; New York Shakespeare Festival: Marisol; Portland Stage: The Illusion, The Baltimore Waltz, Happy Days, My Children! My Africa!; The Juilliard School: Angels in America, Part 1; Berkshire Theatre Festival: Game of Love and Chance; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Broken Glass; Yale Repertory Theatre: Moon for the Misbegotten; Actors Studio: Salomé, Oedipus. OPERA: Marco Polo (World Premiere, comp. Tan Dun, dir. Martha Clarke, commissioned by the Edinburgh Festival and international tour); The Hindenburg (World Premiere, comp. Steve Reich, dir. Roman Paska, European and U.S. tour); Skylight Opera Theatre: Pelléas and Mélisande. AWARDS: Recipient of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts / Theatre Communications Group Set Design Fellowship; Helen Hayes Nomination; Barrymore Award Nomination. OTHER: Director of Design at Studio Theatre. TRAINING: Yale School of Drama.
Jane Greenwood
Costume Designer
Costume Designer
Jane Greenwood
STC: Strange Interlude, The Way of the World, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Winter’s Tale. NEW YORK: Broadway: Over 125 productions including The Little Foxes; Tartuffe; Sylvia; Old Money; Mourning Becomes Electra; The Ballad of the Sad Café. FILM: Arthur, Glengarry Glen Ross, Can’t Stop the Music. AWARDS: 21 Tony nominations; Lifetime Achievement Tony; Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design of a Play (The Little Foxes, 2017); Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award; Lucille Lortel Award (Sylvia and Old Money); Maharam/Henry Hewes Design Award (Tartuffe); Helen Hayes Award (Mourning Becomes Electra); inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2003. TEACHING: Yale School of Drama: Professor of Design. TRAINING: Central School of Arts and Crafts (London, England); began her career at Oxford Playhouse.
Mary Louise Geiger
Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Mary Louise Geiger
NEW YORK: Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company / American Airlines Theatre: The Constant Wife; Off-Broadway: The Acting Company tour / New Victory Theatre: X and Julius Caesar; Classic Stage Company: The Liar; New York Theatre Workshop: Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Forever, Oedipus at Palm Springs; Duke Theatre: My Mother Has 4 Noses; 59E59: Bauer; Primary Stages: The Morini Strad, Olive and the Bitter Herbs, Buffalo Gal; Atlantic Theatre Company: Good Television, The New York Idea; Playwrights Horizons: Kindness, Blue Door, The Busy World Is Hushed; Mabou Mines: Finn, Mabou Mine’s Dollhouse, RedBeads; BAM Next Wave Festival: Violet Fire. REGIONAL: Studio Theatre: Chimerica, Invisible Man, Time Stands Still; ACT Theatre; Alley Theatre; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Asolo Repertory Theatre; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Center Theatre Group; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Geva Theatre Center; Guthrie Theatre; Indiana Repertory Theatre; Intiman Theatre; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Portland Center Stage; Portland Stage Company; Virginia Stage Company; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Pioneer Theatre; Playmakers Repertory Company; Seattle Repertory Theatre; L.A. Opera; Philadelphia Orchestra. Upcoming: Cleveland Playhouse: Diary of Anne Frank; Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre / Milwaukee Rep / Goodman Theatre: Until the Flood; Arizona Theatre Company: Man of La Mancha. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design (Invisible Man). TEACHING: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. TRAINING: Yale School of Drama.
Veronica Lancaster
Sound Designer
Sound Designer
Veronica Lancaster
REGIONAL: Baltimore Center Stage: That Face; Metro Stage: Uprising, Anne & Emmett (original production and tour); Theater J: Boged: An Enemy of the People; Georgetown University: Noura: A Reimagining of Ibsen's A Doll's House, Slow Falling Bird, On the Origin of Species, A Civil War Christmas, Far Away; Rorschach Theatre: Neverwhere, Glassheart, Kit Marlowe; WSC Avant Bard: Friendship Betrayed, Orlando, Night & Day; University of Maryland: Love and Information, The Schooling of Bento Bonchev; Celebration Theatre: Take Me Out, [title of show], Women Behind Bars, F*cking Men (asst. sound designer); Studio Theatre: Sucker Punch (asst. sound designer); Pasadena Playhouse: The Lady With All The Answers (asst. sound designer); Kirk Douglas Theatre: Venice (asst. projection designer). TRAINING: University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film, and Television: MFA in Entertainment Sound. Design. OTHER: Rorschach Theatre company member. WEB: RoniLancaster.com.
Carter Wooddell
Casting Director
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.
Lisa Beley
Head of Voice and Text
Head of Voice and Text
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.
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.
Kristy Matero
Stage Manager
Stage Manager
Kristy Matero
STC: The Lover and The Collection, The Secret Garden, The Tempest. REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Women Laughing Alone with Salad, Marie Antoinette, Stupid F***ing Bird, Appropriate, The Convert, K of D, Full Circle, Antebellum, Boom, Maria/Stuart, How Theatre Failed America and If You See Something Say Something (with Mike Daisey), Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (with The Neofuturists); Signature Theatre: God Of Carnage, And The Curtain Rises; Kennedy Center: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Seven Guitars, Jitney, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg; Pig Iron Theatre Company: Hell Meets Henry Halfway, Welcome to Yuba City; Milwaukee Repertory Theater: To Kill A Mockingbird, Lombardi; Scena Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest; Theatre Alliance: Ambition Facing West, White Rabbit Red Rabbit; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Two Gentlemen of Verona. OPERA: Washington National Opera: The Ring Cycle, Champion, Madame Butterfly, La Cenerentola, Dialogues of the Carmelites, The Magic Flute, Moby Dick, Anna Bolena; Bard Summerscape: Dimitrij, Iris, The Wreckers; Spoleto Festival USA: Flora or Hob in The Well, Louise, Amistad, Faustus, The Last Night, Don Giovanni. OTHER: Member of American Guild of Musical Artists.
* 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.
Craig Baldwin
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Craig Baldwin
STC: Richard the Third; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit; Camelot; Hamlet; The Lover and The Collection; The School for Lies; The Tempest (2016 Free For All); The Taming of the Shrew; Othello (mainstage and 2017 Free For All); The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound; Tartuffe; The Metromaniacs; The Tempest. NEW YORK: 59E59: C.O.A.L. (Confessions of a Liar); New York International Fringe Festival: Magic Kingdom, The More Loving One (FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award: Best Overall Production/Play); Marymount Manhattan College: columbinus; August Strindberg Rep Theatre: Mr. Bengt’s Wife; Atlantic Acting School: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; HERE Arts Center: Ingmar Bergman’s Persona; Classic Stage Company: MacB**h (workshop); Outhouse Theatre Co: Mercy Thieves (U.S. Premiere), The Boys (U.S. Premiere); Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab: MacB**h (workshop). REGIONAL: 5th Avenue Theatre: The Secret Garden; Opera House Arts: Antony and Cleopatra; SUNY Purchase College: The Miser. INTERNATIONAL: The Flick by Annie Baker (Sydney Premiere); The Aliens by Annie Baker (Sydney Premiere); 4 Minutes, 12 Seconds (Australian Premiere). OTHER: Producer, Red Bull Theater, Short New Play Festival; Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab (member). TRAINING: The Juilliard School. WEB: CraigBaldwin.net.
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.