Shakespeare Theatre Company| Romeo and Juliet 16-17

The Performers
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Andrew Veenstra
Romeo
Romeo
Andrew Veenstra
STC: Affiliated Artist, As You Like It (Orlando), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine), David Ives's The Heir Apparent (Eraste, World Premiere, dir. Michael Kahn). NEW YORK: Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater: Hamlet (Hamlet). Off-Broadway: An Error of the Moon (John Wilkes Booth). NATIONAL TOURS: War Horse, First National Tour (Albert Narracott). REGIONAL: Lion in Winter (King Philip), Measure for Measure (Claudio), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander/Nick Bottom), Tartuffe (Tartuffe), Dial "M" For Murder (Max Halliday), The Seagull (Medvedenko), Parade (Frankie Epps), The Tempest (Ferdinand), Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), A Christmas Carol (Young Scrooge). FILM: Blue Door, Rabbits Foot, Kingdom of Hills (Short, Festival Award for Best Acting). TELEVISION: Unveiled, Bones, Law and Order: SVU. AWARDS: Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Winner. OTHER: Radio City Music Hall (with Linda Haberman and the Rockettes), North Carolina Ballet Company. TRAINING: Eastman School of Music: Piano; Brigham Young University: BFA in Acting. WEB: AndrewVeenstra.com.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Ayana Workman*
Juliet
Juliet
Ayana Workman*
STC: Romeo and Juliet. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Redbull Theater Company: Macbeth; The Mint Theater Company: The Price of Thomas Scott; The Public Theater: Romeo and Juliet; Off-Off Broadway: Masterfool Theatre Company: Macbeth. REGIONAL: Cincinnati Playhouse In the Park: Miss Bennet Christmas at Pemberley. INTERNATIONAL: Globe Theatre (London): Julius Caesar; SNG Maribor (Maribor, Slovenia): Guernica Continuum; Bunker Stara Elektrarna (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Virtual Truth. FILM: Ophelia. TELEVISION: Jessica Jones, Person of Interest. TRAINING: Rutgers University: BFA in Acting. WEB: AyanaWorkman.com.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Jeffrey Carlson*
Mercutio
Mercutio
Jeffrey Carlson*
STC: Romeo & Juliet (Emery Battis Award Winner), Hamlet (2007), Lorenzaccio (title roles). NEW YORK: Broadway: The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Taboo (Drama Desk Award nomination); Roundabout Theatre Company: Tartuffe; Off-Broadway: Cherry Lane Theatre: Psycho Therapy; Theatre for a New Audience: Antony and Cleopatra; New York Theatre Workshop: Bach at Leipzig; Daryl Roth Theatre: Manuscript; MCC Theater: Last Easter; Signature Theatre Company: Thief River. REGIONAL: Yale Repertory Theatre: Cymbeline (Iachimo), Richard II (title role); Goodman Theatre: Measure for Measure (Lucio), Stage Kiss; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Edward II (title role), Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Prince Hal, also at the Royal Shakespeare Company); McCarter Theatre Center: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Candida; Charlotte Repertory Theatre: The Miracle Worker; Paper Mill Playhouse: The Importance of Being Earnest; Philadelphia Theatre Company/Kennedy Center: Golden Age; Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference and the Cape Cod Theatre Project. FILM: Hitch, The Killing Floor, Backseat. TELEVISION: All My Children (ABC, contract role as Zoe), Plainsong (CBS, Hallmark Hall of Fame), Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC), The View (ABC). AWARDS: Recipient of the 2004 Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Fellowship, and a Beinecke Fellow in 2007 and 2016. TRAINING: The Juilliard School; the University of California, Davis; Guthrie Theater.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Jimmy jj Jeter*
Benvolio
Benvolio
Jimmy jj Jeter*
FILM: Lullaby. AWARDS: 2016 Artist As Citizen Award, 2016 Career Advancement Fellow. TRAINING: The Juilliard School.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Nathan Hinton
Friar Laurence
Friar Laurence
Nathan Hinton
STC: The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: New York Shakespeare Festival: The Tempest; The Public Theater: Macbeth, Insurrection; The Working Theater: The Block; Lincoln Center Theater: A Fair Country; American Place Theater: Living in the Wind; Rattlestick Playwrights Theater: Pitbulls; Clubbed Thumb: Our Lot. NATIONAL TOURS: Angels in America. REGIONAL: Yale Repertory Theatre: Twelfth Night; Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Pentecost; Dallas Theater Center: A Raisin in the Sun; Delaware Theatre Company: The Piano Lesson; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Take Me Out; Huntington Theatre Company: Nomathemba; TELEVISION:
Madam Secretary, Elementary, The Good Wife, One Life to Live. AWARDS: Barrymore Award; AUDELCO Award; Drama-Logue Award. OTHER: Member of The Actors Center. TRAINING: Southern Methodist University: BFA; Yale School of Drama: MFA.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Ron Menzel*
Friar Laurence
Friar Laurence
Ron Menzel*
STC: Romeo & Juliet. NEW YORK: Broadway: Booth Theatre: Les Liaisons Dangereuse; Hudson Theatre: Parisian Woman. REGIONAL: Ten Thousand Things: Forget Me Not When Far Away, The Furies, Antigone, The Tempest, Red Noses; Jungle Theatre: Macbeth, Orson Welles Rehearses Moby Dick, Constellations; Guthrie Theatre: The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide...(World Premiere), Pericles, A View from the Bridge, Merchant of Venice, Edgardo Mine, Hamlet, Othello; Geva Theatre Center: Freud's Last Session, A Midsummer Night's Dream; City Theatre: Fair Game, Outside Mullingar; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Baskerville; Mixed Blood Theatre: Elemeno Pea, Poetry of Pizza; South Coast Rep: In the Next Room; Huldufolk Theatre: W.A.S.P. FILM: Imprisoned, #Trending, Crypto, Vernie, New World Symphony. TELEVISION: Blindspot, Elementary, Forever, Numbers.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Inga Ballard
Nurse
Nurse
Inga Ballard
STC: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta). NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: York Theatre: Blind Lemon Blues; Storm Theatre Company: Antigone. NATIONAL TOURS: Ragtime (first and second). REGIONAL: Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Houston's Theatre Under the Stars, Cape Playhouse: Hairspray; North Shore Music Theatre: Les Misérables, Hairspray, Fame, Nine; Sacramento Music Circus: Hairspray, Smokey Joe's Café, Ragtime, Show Boat; Crossroads Theatre Company: The Colored Museum; Arizona Theatre Company: Ella; Pittsburgh Public Theater: Yellowman; City Theatre: Crowns; Actors Theatre of Louisville: All My Sons; Syracuse Stage: The Crucible; Arts Center of Coastal Carolina: Chicago; Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma: Hairspray, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Westchester Broadway Theatre: Hairspray, Show Boat, Gypsy; California Musical Theatre: Gypsy; Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center: Abyssinia; Goodspeed Opera House: Finian's Rainbow. INTERNATIONAL: Palladium Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates University: Panoramajazz; Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Ballad of the Sad Café, A Piece of My Heart, House of Flowers. TELEVISION: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, All My Children, 30 Rock, commercials and voiceovers. OTHER: Member of Quicksilver Theatre Company; SAG-AFTRA. TRAINING: University of Southern California: MFA in Acting; University of California, Davis: BA in Drama; The Manhattan School of Music: Professional Musical Theatre Workshop.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Gregory Wooddell*
Paris
Paris
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.
James Konicek*
Escalus
Escalus
James Konicek*
STC: Man of La Mancha, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, Edward II, Tamburlaine, Cyrano. REGIONAL: Ford's Theatre: A Christmas Carol, Our Town, 1776, Parade, Liberty Smith; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: An Octoroon, Marie Antoniette, In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play; Forum Theatre: The Pillowman; Olney Theatre Center: Dial M for Murder, Rancho Mirage, Annie, King of the Jews, Democracy, The Elephant Man; Round House Theatre: Pride and Prejudice, Around the World in 80 Days; Studio Theatre: The Internationalist, Autobahn, Terrorism, Ivanov; Kennedy Center: Oliverio, Unleashed, Blues Journey; Folger Theatre: Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet; Arena Stage: Mother Courage and Her Children, Born Yesterday; American Shakespeare Center: The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, Knight of the Burning Pestle. TRAINING: University of San Diego/Old Globe Theatre: MFA.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Judith Lightfoot Clarke*
Lady Capulet
Lady Capulet
Judith Lightfoot Clarke*
STC: Romeo & Juliet. NEW YORK: Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Linda, Casa Valentina; Off-Broadway: St. Clement’s: Three Travelers; Public Theatre: The Normal Heart; Carnegie Hall: Anyone Can Whistle; Cherry Lane Theatre: Eve-olution; Variety Arts: Communicating Doors; York Theatre: Sacrifice to Eros. REGIONAL: Arden Theatre Company: Macbeth; Shakespeare in Clark Park: Coriolanus; Merrimack Repertory Theatre: God of Carnage, The Homecoming, Boston Marriage, Three Days of Rain; Old Globe: Hayfever; Alley Theater: Misalliance; Ivoryton Playhouse: The Graduate; Wilma Theater: Cloud 9; Interact: Three Christs of Manhattan; Cincinnati Playhouse: Closer, ToKill A Mockingbird. FILM: How to Be Single, Killer. TELEVISION: Madame Secretary, Unforgettable, Forever, Outlaw, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, What Goes On. TRAINING: The College of William & Mary, Virginia.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Keith Hamilton Cobb*
Capulet
Capulet
Keith Hamilton Cobb*
STC: Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt), Julius Caesar (Octavius), Coriolanus (Tullus Aufidius). NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Red Bull Theatre Company: The Duchess of Malfi. REGIONAL: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: Julius Caesar (Caesar); Denver Center Theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oberon), Ruined (Osembenga); Orlando Shakespeare Theatre: Race; Pioneer Theater Company: Find & Sign (world premiere); Northern Stage: Twelve Angry Men; Huntington Theatre Company: Cymbeline; Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Beaux Strategem. TELEVISION: All My Children, Gene Rodenberry's Andromeda, The Young and The Restless, Noah's Arc. AWARDS: 2015 AUDELCO Award recipient/Outstanding Solo Performance for original play, American Moor. TRAINING: NYU Tisch School of the Arts: BFA. WEB: keithhamiltoncobb.com; AmericanMoor.com; facebook.com/KeithHamiltonCobb; Twitter and Instagram: @KeithHamCobb.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Timothy Carter*
Montague
Montague
Timothy Carter*
NATIONAL TOURS: The Lion King (Scar). REGIONAL: Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oberon); Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Henry VIII (title role); The Acting Company: The Three Musketeers, Macbeth (national tours); Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Nebraska Shakespeare Festival; Westport Country Playhouse; Northern Stage; New Repertory Theatre; Fulton Opera House. TELEVISION: Orange is the New Black, The Blacklist.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Lady Capulet
Judith Lightfoot Clarke
NEW YORK: Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Casa Valentina; Off-Broadway: St. Clement's: Three Travelers; Public Theatre: The Normal Heart; Carnegie Hall: Anyone Can Whistle; Cherry Lane Theatre: Eve-olution; Variety Arts: Communicating Doors; York Theatre: Sacrifice to Eros. REGIONAL: Arden Theatre Company: Macbeth; Merrimack Repertory Theatre: God of Carnage, The Homecoming, Boston Marriage, Three Days of Rain; Old Globe: Hayfever; Alley Theater: Misalliance; Ivoryton Playhouse: The Graduate; Wilma Theater: Cloud 9; Interact: Three Christs of Manhattan; Cincinnati Playhouse: Closer, To Kill A Mockingbird. FILM: How to Be Single, Killer. TELEVISION: Unforgettable, Forever, Outlaw, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, What Goes On. TRAINING: The College of William & Mary, Virginia.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Emily Townley*
Lady Montague
Lady Montague
Emily Townley*
REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: HIR , The Arsonists, The Totalitarians, A Bright New Boise, Detroit, The House of Gold, Maria/Stuart, Spain, Wonder of the World, Fuddy Meers, Watbanaland; Studio Theatre: Between Riverside and Crazy, Laugh, Rock n' Roll, Skin Tight, The Bright and Bold Design; Folger Theatre: The Tempest, The Gaming Table; Olney Theatre: Bad Dog; Signature Theatre: The Mystery of Love and Sex; Gulfshore Playhouse: The Game's Afoot, All My Sons; Rep Stage: The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Washington Stage Guild: Pen, Tryst. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Outstanding Lead Actress Nominee for The Totalitarians, Helen Hayes Best Ensemble Nominee for Bad Dog. OTHER: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Company Member.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Alex Mickiewicz*
Tybalt
Tybalt
Alex Mickiewicz*
NEW YORK: Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Therese Raquin. REGIONAL: Old Globe: Anna Ziegler's The Last Match (World Premiere); Williamstown Theatre Festival: Robin Hood, Becoming Sylvia, Tripolitania, The Comedy of Errors. TRAINING: Graduate of the William Esper Studio; Boston University: BFA in Acting.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Chris Genebach*
Friar John
Friar John
Chris Genebach*
STC: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet; Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; Measure for Measure (Pompey); The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Julius Caesar (2011 Free For All); Cymbeline; King Lear (Duke of Cornwall); Titus Andronicus (Lucius).NEW YORK: Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Shining City; Off-Broadway: The Duke: Rose Rage: Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3; Manhattan Theatre Club: The Other Side. REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: Billy Elliot; Olney Theatre Center: The Mary Stuart Project, Oil, The Crucible, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Awake and Sing!; Folger Theatre: Davenant’s Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, Henry V, Othello, Cyrano, Orestes: A Tragic Romp; Mosaic Theater Company: A Human Being Died that Night, Ulysses on Bottles; Everyman Theatre: Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, An Inspector Calls; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play; Studio Theatre: The Big Meal, Superior Donuts, Shining City; Goodman Theatre: King Lear; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Short Shakespeare! Macbeth, Rose Rage: Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3, King John, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet; TheaterWorks Hartford: The Seafarer.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Ryan Sellers
Ensemble
Ensemble
Ryan Sellers
STC: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2015 Free For All). REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: West Side Story, The Threepenny Opera, Miss Saigon; Studio Theatre: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Imagination Stage: The Night Fairy, Anime Momotaro, P. Nokio, The Wind In The Willows; Synetic Theater: The Taming of the Shrew, The Three Musketeers, The Man In the Iron Mask, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helen Hayes Award, Best Ensemble), Macbeth, Host and Guest, The Master and Margarita, Antony and Cleopatra, Don Quixote, Dante, Romeo and Juliet (Helen Hayes Award, Best Ensemble), Carmen, Othello, The Magic Balloon, The Music Box.
Elan Zafir*
Ensemble
Ensemble
Elan Zafir*
STC: Romeo & Juliet (FFA and Mainstage), Othello, Salomé (Helen Hayes Award: Ensemble, Best Play). NEW YORK: Looking Glass Theatre: Cardboard Moon; Wings Theatre: Raft of the Medusa. NATIONAL TOUR: Peter Pan. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Junk; Folger Theatre: King John, Way of the World (w/Kristine Nielsen); Roundhouse Theatre: (Upcoming) Big Love; Ford Theatre: Twelve Angry Men, Ragtime (Helen Hayes Award, Ensemble); Mosaic Theatre: (upcoming) Eureka Day, The Vagrant Trilogy, Paper Dolls. Signature Theatre: Tender Napalm; The Welders: Happiness and Other Reasons to Die; Adventure Theatre: JUMANJI (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Production); Rep Stage: Venus in Fur; Capital Fringe: The Unaccompanied Minor and Ben & Lucille (Written by Mr. Zafir). INTERNATIONAL: Edinburgh Fringe: The Unaccompanied Minor (written by Mr. Zafir). TELEVISION: House of Cards, King of Crimes, Making of the Mob, Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall, Student Bodies, Big Wolf on Campus. TEACHING: Shakespeare Theatre Company. TRAINING: Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting: MFA. Dome Professional Theatre Program: BA. WEB: www.elanzafir.net

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Shravan Amin
Ensemble
Ensemble
Shravan Amin
REGIONAL: Mosaic Theater Company of DC: When January Feels Like Summer; Wilma Theater: The Hard Problem; Kennedy Center: If All The Sky Were Paper; Rorschach Theatre: Very Still and Hard to See; Adventure Theatre: The Jungle Book; Studio Theatre 2nd Stage: Edgar and Annabel. TRAINING: Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory; Washington Improv Theater.
Ross Destiche
Ensemble
Ensemble
Ross Destiche
STC: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2015 Free For All), Tartuffe, The Metromaniacs, The Tempest. REGIONAL: Constellation Theatre: Equus; Folger Theatre: District Merchants (u/s); Walking Shadow Theatre Company: Gabriel, The Three Musketeers; Back Room Shakespeare Project: Julius Caesar; CTC: Fashion 47. INTERNATIONAL: 27th Macao Arts Festival (China): A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Egg Theatre: How I Became a Pirate. FILM: Dear White People, The Control Group, Evil Stepmothers. TRAINING: University of Minnesota/Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program. WEB: RossDestiche.com.
Elise Kowalick
Ensemble
Ensemble
Elise Kowalick
NATIONAL TOURS: 42nd Street (upcoming). REGIONAL: Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma: Oklahoma!; Adventure Theatre MTC: Oliver!. TRAINING: Oklahoma City University: BFA.
Rafael Sebastian*
Ensemble
Ensemble
Rafael Sebastian*
REGIONAL: Sierra Repertory Theatre: State Fair; Marin Shakespeare Company: Cymbeline, Richard III; Sacramento Theatre Company: Cinderella; San Francisco Movement Arts Festival; Local: Adventure Theatre MTC; Imagination Stage; Forum Theatre; Hub Theatre; Constellation; Kennedy Center. OTHER: Teaching artist with Educational Theatre Company. TRAINING: George Mason University: BA; Regent University. WEB: RafaelSebastian.com.

* Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow.
Rakeem Lawrence
Ensemble
Ensemble
Rakeem Lawrence
REGIONAL: The Little Theatre on the Square: Shrek, Sister Act; Virginia Stage Company: Peter and the Starcatcher; Egyptian Theatre Company: A Chorus Line; Winnipesaukee Playhouse: Jesus Christ Superstar; Roanoke Island Festival Park: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged); Gilbert Theatre: Headsets. TRAINING: Regent University: MFA in Acting. WEB: RakeemLawrence.net.

* Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow.
Jasmine Alexis
Ensemble
Ensemble
Jasmine Alexis
REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: West Side Story; The Kennedy Center: OMAN O'Man (dir. Debbie Allen), Pepito's Story (dir. Debbie Allen). FILM: How Do You Know (2010), Step Up (2006). TELEVISION: MADE, Miss Teen USA (2007), The Today Show. OTHER: Music Videos: Chuck Brown, "The Party Roll"; Busta Rhymes, "Get Out". AWARDS: International Latin Dancesport Champion (Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania), Miss Black USA Talented Teen 2009, Miss District of Columbia's Outstanding Teen 2008, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA 2007. EDUCATION: Concordia College New York: BA in International Studies.
Jordan Aragon
Ensemble
Ensemble
Jordan Aragon
NATIONAL TOURS: Beauty and the Beast (Lefou). REGIONAL: Getty Villa: The Trackers; Moonlight Amphitheatre: Sweeney Todd. INTERNATIONAL: Beauty and the Beast, Art Monastery Project (Italy). OPERA: San Francisco Opera: Carmen, The Magic Flute. TRAINING: UCLA, Ray Bolger Musical Theatre Program: BA in Theatre. WEB: JordanAragon.com.

* Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow.
Calley Luman
Ensemble
Ensemble
Calley Luman
REGIONAL: Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park: Twelfth Night, Pericles. FILM: Cowgirls 'N Angels, Pearl, The Gray Man. AWARDS: Molly Risso Alumni Classical Acting Award of Excellence at Region IV of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. TRAINING: The University of Oklahoma: BFA in Acting.

* Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow.
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.

The Artistic Team
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Director
Alan Paul
STC: Associate Artistic Director; Kiss Me, Kate, Man of La Mancha (Helen Hayes nominee, Best Director), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (2014 Helen Hayes Award for Best Director), The Boys from Syracuse, The Winter’s Tale (Free For All), Twelfth Night (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: Signature Theatre: I Am My Own Wife; Studio Theatre 2ndStage: Silence! The Musical (Helen Hayes nominee, Best Director), The Rocky Horror Show; Catholic University: Man of La Mancha; University of Maryland: The Matchmaker; Apex Theatre Company: Richard II; readings for Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The National Academy of Sciences, The Phillips Collection, The Goethe Institut, Georgetown University. OPERA DIRECTING: Washington National Opera: Penny; Urban Arias: numerous; The In Series: Dido and Aeneas, El Amor Brujo; Strathmore Concert Hall: Butterfly/Saigon, Blind Dates. Finalist for the 2013 European Opera Directing Prize (Vienna, Austria). WEB: AlanPaulDirector.com.
Scenic Designer
Dane Laffrey
NEW YORK: Broadway: Brooks Atkinson: Set/Costumes for Deaf West’s Spring Awakening; MTC at the Friedman Theatre: Set for Fool For Love; Off-Broadway: Set and/or Costumes: Playwrights Horizons: Indian Summer, The Christians, Iowa; Manhattan Theatre Club: Sell.Buy.Date; Lincoln Center Theatre: The Harvest, Disgraced (2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner); Roundabout Theatre Company: Bad Jews, Tigers Be Still; Atlantic Theatre Company: Cloud Nine; Brooklyn Academy of Music: Charles L. Mee's The Glory of the World; Second Stage Theatre: King Liz, American Hero, The Talls; Vineyard Theatre: Arlington. REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Boops; Mark Taper Forum; The Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Huntington Theatre Company; Old Globe; Denver Center Theatre Company; Baltimore Center Stage; Dallas Theatre Center; Studio Theatre; Signature Theatre; Wallis Annenberg Center for the Arts; New York Stage and Film. INTERNATIONAL: Parco Theatre (Tokyo & Osaka, Japan): The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone; Sydney Opera House & Det Apne Theatre (Oslo, Norway): The Colour of Panic; many other Australian credits. TELEVISION: The Roast (Australia’s ABC2 Network). AWARDS: Drama Desk Award nominations, 4 Henry Hewes Design Award nominations and numerous regional accolades. TEACHING: Purchase College: Head of Set Design. TRAINING: Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). WEB: DaneLaffrey.com.
Costume Designer
Kaye Voyce
STC: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night. NEW YORK: Broadway: The RealThing, The Realistic Joneses, Shining City. Off-Broadway: Soho Rep: Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again; Signature Theatre: Signature Plays, The Wayside Motor Inn; Playwrights Horizons: Indian Summer; Roundabout Theatre Company: Significant Other; Lincoln Center Theater: The Mystery of Love and Sex, 4000 Miles; Trisha Brown's final two dances: Rogues and Toss; Richard Maxwell's Isolde, The Evening Part 1, The Evening Part 2, Neutral Hero. INTERNATIONAL: Festival d'Aix-en-Provence/Opera Dijon/Teatro Regio Torino (France/Italy): Il Turco in Italia. AWARDS: Recipient of 2016 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Design. TRAINING: New York University.
Lighting Designer
Jen Schriever
NEW YORK: Broadway: Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed starring Lupita N’yongo; John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown; Off- Broadway: Public Theater: Eclipsed, ToasT, A Second Chance; 2econd Stage Theatre: Engagements, Mala Hierba, American Hero; Signature Theatre: Night Is A Room; Abrons Arts Center: I’m Looking For Helen TweleveTrees; Women’s Project Theater: Bright Half Life; Clubbed Thumb: Tumacho; Labyrinth Theater Company: Sunset Baby; SoHo Playhouse: Triassic Parq. REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Poster Boy, American Hero; American Repertory Theater: Eve Ensler’s In the Body of the World; Goodman Theatre: Rapture Blister Burn; Studio Theatre: Between Riverside and Crazy; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Guards at the Taj, Marie Antoinette; Center Stage: Detroit ’67, Stones in His Pockets; Signature Theatre: Sunday in the Park with George, A Second Chance; Goodspeed Opera House: Theory of Relativity; Paper Mill Playhouse: The Other Josh Cohen; Cleveland Playhouse: Steel Magnolias; Asolo Repertory Theatre: Disgraced, Our Betters, Clybourne Park. OPERA: Metropolitan Opera: Pearl Fishers, Die Fledermaus; English National Opera: Pearl Fishers. INTERNATIONAL: Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia): La Traviata, Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Golden Mask Award Nominee). OTHER: Dance: Liz Lerman: Healing Wars. TEACHING: Adjunct Professor, Purchase College. WEB: JenSchriever.com.
Sound Designer/Composer
Daniel Kluger
NEW YORK: Playwrights Horizons: Antlia Pneumatica, Marjorie Prime, Iowa; Barrow Street Theatre: The Effect, Hit the Wall; Lincoln Center Theatre: The Mystery of Love and Sex, Nikolai and the Others; Roundabout Theatre Company: Significant Other, The Common Pursuit; MCC Theater: Lost Girls, The Nether; Atlantic Theater Company: I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, Women or Nothing; PAGE73: You Got Older; Vineyard Theatre: Somewhere Fun, The North Pool. REGIONAL: Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Pig Iron, Two River Theater, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. WEB: DanielKluger.com.
Choreographer
Eric Sean Fogel
NEW YORK: Broadway: (Associate) Everyday Rapture; Off-Broadway: City Center Encores: Bells Are Ringing (Associate); Atlantic Theatre Stage II: Marriage of Figaro; PS 122: Roost. REGIONAL: Glimmerglass Festival: Odyssey, Wilde Tales; Kennedy Center: The Lion, Unicorn and Me. INTERNATIONAL: Theatre St. Gallen (Switzerland): Artus-Exclibur; XSBN China: Princess. OPERA: Chicago Lyric Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera Kansas City, Opera Philadelphia, Washington National Opera. WEB: EricSeanFogel.com.
Fight Choreographer
David Leong
STC: Kiss Me, Kate, Man of La Mancha, Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard III, King John, Romeo and Juliet (1986 and 2002 productions), Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, Henry V, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, King Lear, The Witch of Edmonton, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and many more. NEW YORK: 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, 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. TEACHING: Virginia Commonwealth University, professor of theatre.
Casting Director
Laura Stanczyk, CSA
STC: 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, National Tours: 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, Tryst, Dirty Dancing; Atlantic Theater Company: The Cripple of Inishmaan (also national tour); Encores! Summer Stars: Damn Yankees, Urinetown (also national tour); Lincoln Center Festival: Gate/Beckett. REGIONAL: Alliance Theatre: Bull Durham; Center Theatre Group: Harps and Angels; Alley Theatre: Gruesome Playground Injuries, The Monster at the Door; Kennedy Center: Side Show, The Guardsman, Follies, Master Class, The Lisbon Traviata, Ragtime, Broadway: Three Generations; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Golden Age; Royal George Theatre: Don’t Dress for Dinner; seven seasons of casting for McCarter Theatre Center. INTERNATIONAL: Druid Theatre Company: My Brilliant Divorce; Gaiety Theatre, Dublin/West End: The Shawshank Redemption; Druid Theatre Company/Dublin Theatre Festival: Long Day’s Journey into Night; Has consulted for the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, Rough MagicTheatre Company in Dublin, the Gate Theatre in Dublin, the Druid Theatre in Galway.
Resident Casting Director
Carter C. Wooddell
STC: The Taming of the Shrew, 1984 (children), Othello, The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound, Kiss Me, Kate, Salomé, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Free For All), Tartuffe, Dunsinane (supernumerary), Man of La Mancha, The Metromaniacs (STC and The Old Globe), The Tempest, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale (Free For All), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, the ReDiscovery Reading Series. Other Casting Experience (McCorkle Casting, Ltd.): NEW YORK: Broadway: Belasco Theatre: End of the Rainbow (dir. Terry Johnson), Booth Theatre: High (dir. Rob Ruggiero); Off-Broadway (partial): Barrow Street Theatre: Tribes (dir. David Cromer), Our Town (dir. David Cromer), The Acting Company, Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater: Freud’s Last Session (dir. Tyler Marchant), Cherry Lane Theatre: A Perfect Future (dir. Wilson Milam), SoHo Playhouse: The Irish Curse (dir. Matt Lenz), Beckett Theatre: An Error of the Moon (dir. Kim Weild); NYC Other: Lincoln Center Institute: Hamlet, Fly, Sheila’s Day. NATIONAL TOURS: The Acting Company, Riverdance. REGIONAL: Alley Theatre, Center Stage, Barrington Stage Company, The Broad Stage, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Crossroads Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, The Guthrie Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, TheaterWorks Hartford. RADIO: BBC Radio: The Piano Lesson (dir. Claire Grove). TELEVISION: Sesame Workshop: The Electric Company,Pilot: 27 East. FILM: Columbia Pictures: Premium Rush (dir. David Koepp), Choice Films: Junction (dir. Tony Glazer). TEACHING: Guest Lecturer, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, BFA and MFA acting students.
Literary Manager/Dramaturg
Drew Lichtenberg
STC: The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound, Kiss Me, Kate, Salomé, Tartuffe, Man of La Mancha, The Metromaniacs, The Tempest, As You Like It, Private Lives, Henry IV, Part 1 and 2, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus, Wallenstein, Hughie, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Government Inspector, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Servant of Two Masters, Strange Interlude, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, The Heir Apparent. REGIONAL: STC/McCarter Theatre Center: The Winter’s Tale; 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). INTERNATIONAL: National Theatre: Les Blancs (dir. Yaël Farber). OTHER: Yale School of Drama: Tarell McCraney’s In the Red and Brown Water (U.S. premiere); TEACHING: Catholic University of America; Eugene Lang College at the New School. TRAINING: Yale School of Drama: MFA in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism.
Head of Voice and Text
Ellen O’Brien
STC: More than 70 productions over 16 seasons. ACADEMY FOR CLASSICAL ACTING: 22 productions of Shakespeare and Jacobean plays. REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre, Arena Stage, Virginia Opera, Charlotte Repertory Company, Aurora/Magic Theaters; People’s Light and Theatre Company; Shakespeare Santa Cruz; North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. PUBLICATIONS: Articles in The Voice and Speech Review, Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century, Shakespearean Illuminations, Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare and the Arts, The Voice and Speech Review: Associate Editor for Heightened Text, Verse and Scansion. TRAINING: Yale University: MA, MPhil, PhD (English); Central School of Speech and Drama/The Open University (London): Advanced and Post-Graduate Diplomas in Voice Studies. TEACHING: Academy for Classical Acting; University of California, Santa Cruz; Guilford College; Kirkland College.
Assistant Director
Charlie Marie McGrath
STC: The Tempest (Directorial Assistant 2016 Free For All). BROADWAY: SDCF Observer, A Time to Kill (dir. Ethan McSweeny). REGIONAL: 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). OTHER: Director, Piccolo Theatre: Private Eyes; 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.
Production Stage Manager
Michael B. Paul
STC: The Merchant of Venice. NEW YORK: Manhattan Theatre Club; Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon of One Act Plays. REGIONAL: Seattle Repertory Theatre; Intiman Theatre; ACT Theatre; Seattle Children’s Theatre; The 5th Avenue Theatre; Alaska Repertory Theatre; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; La Jolla Playhouse; Cleveland Playhouse; Arena Stage; Guthrie Theatre; Alliance Theatre; Center Stage. OTHER: Jay Binder Casting: casting associate for Jerome Robbin’s Broadway, Rumors, Meet Me in St. Louis. TEACHING: University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival: instructor of stage management. TRAINING: University of Evansville, Evansville Indiana: BS in Theatre and Communications.
Assistant Stage Manager
Maria Tejada
STC: Assistant Stage Manager: Othello, Kiss Me, Kate; Production Assistant: The Metromaniacs, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale (Mainstage and 2014 Free For All), Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Much Ado About Nothing (2013 Free For All), Hughie, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mainstage and 2015 Free For All), All’s Well That Ends Well (2012 Free For All). REGIONAL: 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. TRAINING: Grand Valley State University: BA in Theatre and Spanish.