Hamlet

The Performers
(Tap for bio)

• 
  Michael Urie*
  Hamlet

  Hamlet

  Michael Urie*
  

  STC: Hamlet, Will on the Hill (2022). NEW YORK: Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits, Grand Horizons, Torch Song, How To Succeed in Business... Off-Broadway: Performer: Buyer & Cellar, The Government Inspector, Angels in America, The Temperamentals, A Bright Room Called Day, The Cherry Orchard. Director: Bright Colors and Bold Patterns. Producer: Happy Birthday Doug (both written and performed by Drew Droege and both available on BroadwayHD). Co-Founder/Co-Producer: Pride Plays, an LGBTQIA theater festival. TV: Ugly Betty, Younger, Modern Family, Good Wife/Fight, Hot in Cleveland. FILM: Single All The Way, Swan Song, Lavender, Decoy Bride, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, He’s Way More Famous Than You (also directed). UPCOMING: TV: Shrinking, Krapopolis. FILM: Jerseys Boys Live. PERSONAL: he/him.

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

• 
  Alan Cox*
  Claudius

  Claudius

  Alan Cox*
  

  STC: Hamlet. NEW YORK: Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Translations. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Festival: Opening Skinner's Box; Culture Project: The Seagull; 59E59: City Stories, Playing With Grown Ups, Cornelius; BAM: The Caretaker. REGIONAL: Huntington Theatre Company: Betrayal; Cincinnati Playhouse: Behind the Eye; U.S. Tour: Frost/Nixon; Goodman Theatre: Passion Play. INTERNATIONAL: U.K.: Hampstead: Uncle Vanya; Chichester Festival Theatre: Forty Years On; Hampstead: Longing; Barbican: The Tempest; Chester: Much Ado About Nothing; Lyric Belfast: John Bull’s Other Island; Jermyn Street: Barefoot in the Park; Theatre Royal Haymarket: The Importance of Being Earnest; Salisbury: Duchess of Malfi; Birmingham Rep: Three Sisters; National Theatre: Wild Oats, Absolute Hell, Enemy of the People, The Seagull; Royal Shakespeare Company; Ken Campbell’s School of Night and The Wrestling School with Howard Barker. FILM: The Dictator, Contagion, August, Mrs. Dalloway, Young Sherlock Holmes. TELEVISION: The Good Wife, Lucan, John Adams, Margaret, Housewife 49.

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

• 
  Madeleine Potter*
  Gertrude

  Gertrude

  Madeleine Potter*
  

  STC: Hamlet. NEW YORK: Broadway: An Ideal Husband, The Master Builder, A Little Hotel on the Side, The Crucible, Metamorphosis, Coastal Disturbances, Slab Boys, Plenty; Getting Married. Off-Broadway: Pygmalion; Abingdon Square; Richard III; Twelfth Night; The Playboy of the Western World; Same Old Moon; Philadelphia, Here I Come; Sea Marks; Lydie Breeze; Dead, a Love Story; The Silver Fox. REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre: The Glass Menagerie; Portland Playhouse: Hedda Gabler; Williamstown Theatre Festival: As You Like It. INTERNATIONAL: U.K.: Just completed a West End run of True West; Royal Court Theatre: The Kid Stays in the Picture, 4:48 Psychosis; Edinburgh Festival: Tejas Verdes; West End: After Mrs. Rochester, Madame Melville, An Ideal Husband; National Theatre: All My Sons, Southwark Fair; Other London: Electra, Broken Glass, The Water’s Edge, The Internationalist, Mother of Him, The Plough and the Stars. FILM: The White Countess, The Golden Bowl, Slaves of New York, The Bostonians, Chosyu Five, Red Lights, Love and Road Kill, Bloodhounds of Broadway, Two Evil Eyes, The Suicide Club, Hello Again. TELEVISION: Mr. Selfridge, Foyles War, Houdini, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Dark Matters, Caught in the Act, The Girl in the Cafe, State of Play, The Whistleblower, Crime Story, The Equalizer, Svengali. AWARDS: Silver Peacock for Best Actress with Vanessa Redgrave (The Bostonians).TEACHING: British American Drama Academy (London, Oxford), Rose Bruford, Manchester School of Theatre, FSU London.

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

• 
  Federico Rodriguez*
  Horatio

  Horatio

  Federico Rodriguez*
  

  STC: Hamlet. NEW YORK: New York Theatre Workshop: Bonnie’s Last Flight; Public Theater: The Record; Classic Stage Company: A Four-Letter Word; The Bushwick Starr: The Hotel Colors;  The Wild Project: SELKIE.  REGIONAL: Two River Theater: The Importance of Being Earnest (Jack); Williamstown Theatre Festival: Pygmalion (Freddy, dir. Nicholas Martin); Pittsburgh City Theatre: Hope and Gravity. TELEVISION: The Path (Hulu), BULL (CBS), Madam Secretary (CBS).TRAINING: Brown University: BA.

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

• 
  Oyin Oladejo
  Ophelia

  Ophelia

  Oyin Oladejo
  

  INTERNATIONAL: Toronto: Outside the March: Tomorrowlove (Various); Soulpepper: Noises Off (Poppy), A Doll’s House (Kristine Linde), Spoon River (Various), Happy Place (Samira), Eurydice (Loud Stone), Tartuffe (Dorine), Crucible (Tituba); Roseneath Theatre: In This World (Neyssa); Young People’s Theatre: The Power of Harriet T (Harriet Tubman). FILM: Lucky Day. TELEVISION: Star Trek Discovery. AWARDS: Dora Mavor Moore Award (2013). OTHER: Humber College: Metamorphosis (Gregor Samsa), Twelfth Night (Feste), Summerfolk (Vavara); Trey Anthony Studios: ‘Da Kink In My Hair (Sherelle). TRAINING: Humber College: Theatre Performance Diploma.

  *Member of the Canadian Actors' Equity Association.

• 
  Robert Joy*
  Polonius

  Polonius

  Robert Joy*
  

  STC: Hamlet, King Charles III. NEW YORK: Broadway: Side Show, The Nerd, Hay Fever, Shimada, Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Off-Broadway: New York Shakespeare Festival: Socrates, Girl From the North Country, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Head of Passes, As You Like It, Found a Peanut, The Taming of the Shrew; Playwrights Horizons: Life and Limb, Hyde in Hollywood, Lydie Breeze; Classic Stage Company: Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet); Drama Dept.: June Moon; Ensemble Studio Theatre: Pigeon. REGIONAL: National Arts Centre (Canada): Tartuffe; Kennedy Center: Side Show; Old Globe: Twelfth Night (Malvolio); McCarter Theatre: Baby Doll; Kirk Douglas Theatre: The Nether (world premiere); American Repertory Theater: Big River (Huck, world premiere); Long Wharf Theatre: Privates on Parade; New York Stage and Film: My Andy; Theatre by the Bay: The Tempest (Prospero); La Jolla Playhouse: Side Show, Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio, Drama-Logue Award). FILM: The Goldfinch (upcoming), Crown and Anchor, Atlantic City, Ragtime, Desperately Seeking Susan, Fallen, Resurrection, Land of the Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, The Shipping News, Harriet the Spy, Waterworld, Radio Days, among others. TELEVISION: The Blacklist, Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Wife, The Mentalist, Masters of Sex, Hand of God, Everybody Loves Raymond, and 8 seasons as Sid Hammerback the medical examiner on CSI:NY.

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

• 
  Paul Cooper*
  Laertes

  Laertes

  Paul Cooper*
  

  NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: American Theatre of Actors: Seph. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater: Concrete Orange; Berkshire Theatre Festival: Design for Living (dir. Tom Story); Arena Stage: The Play About the Baby (Edward Albee Festival); St. Louis Actor’s Studio: Good, King Lear, Blood Brothers (Labute New Theatre Festival); Black Repertory of St. Louis: Julius Caesar, Facing the Shadow; Stray Dog Theatre: Psycho Beach Party; Yale School of Drama: Macbeth (Macbeth), Knives in Hens, The Merchant of Venice, Women Beware Women, Paradise Lost, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings (Skank). TELEVISION: The Gifted (Fox). TRAINING: Yale School of Drama: MFA. WEB: PaulStillmanCooper.com.

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

• 
  Keith Baxter*
  Ghost/Gravedigger/Player King

  Ghost/Gravedigger/Player King

  Keith Baxter*
  

  STC: Hamlet, Measure for Measure (Angelo), The Merchant of Venice (Antonio), Henry IV. Director: The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Imaginary Invalid, Lady Windemere’s Fan, The Rivals, The Country Wife. NEW YORK: Broadway: A Man for All Seasons, The Affair, Avanti, Sleuth, A Meeting by the River, Corpse. INTERNATIONAL: Stratford, Ontario: Antony and Cleopatra (with Maggie Smith); Vershinin; Hamlet. London: Tea and Sympathy; Change of Tune; Where Angels Fear to Tread; You Never Can Tell; The Rivals; Sleuth; Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign (which Williams dedicated to him); Corpse; Barnaby and the Old Boys (playwright); Private Lives; Dangerous Corner. FILM: Prince Hal in Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight. TELEVISION: Hawaii Five-0 (starring role).AWARDS: Bronze Medal, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1956); Theatre World Award (1961); Drama Desk Award and Outer Circle Critics Award (Sleuth, 1971).OTHER: Playwright: Cavell, presented at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Director: Rope, Dangerous Corner, Gaslight. Author: My Sentiments Exactly (1998).

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

• 
  Ryan Spahn*
  Rosencrantz

  Rosencrantz

  Ryan Spahn*
  

  STC: Hamlet. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Good Enemy;Jane Anger;Lessons in Survival;Mr. Toole;How To Load aMusket;Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow; Daniel’s Husband; Summer & Smoke; Still at Risk; Exit Strategy; Gloria. REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Philadelphia Theatre Company. FILM: September 17th, The Raging Heart of Maggie Acker, Shirley, Abducted, Nora Highland (writer/director), He’s Way More Famous Than You (co-writer), Grantham & Rose (writer), Woven (co-writer). TV: Chicago P.D., Modern Love, The Bite, The Blacklist. PERSONAL: he/him | Ryan’s writing has been published by Rotten Tomatoes, Talkhouse, USA Today, and D.C.’s Metro Weekly. | Training: The Juilliard School.

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

• 
  Kelsey Rainwater*
  Guildenstern

  Guildenstern

  Kelsey Rainwater*
  

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

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

• 
  Avery Glymph*
  Fortinbras/Marcellus

  Fortinbras/Marcellus

  Avery Glymph*
  

  STC: The Tempest (Mainstage and 2016 Free For All), Coriolanus, Wallenstein. NEW YORK: Broadway: The Tempest. Off-Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company: McReele; New York Shakespeare Festival: Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida; The Drama Dept.: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers; Lincoln Center Directors Lab: 'Maid. REGIONAL: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park/Baltimore Center Stage: Shakespeare in Love; Northern Stage: Macbeth; Cleveland Play House/The Old Globe: The Whipping Man; TheaterWorks Hartford: Race; PlayMakers Rep/Syracuse Stage: Angels in America; Actors Theatre of Louisville: Spunk; Crossroads: Lost Creek Township (Regional Tony Season); Cape Fear Regional Theatre: Fences. FILM: Against the Current, Last Ball, He Got Game, 13 Conversations About One Thing, I’m With Lucy. TELEVISION: Madam Secretary, Forever, Ugly Betty, Oz, Law & Order (original and CI), The Electric Company, The X-Files. AWARDS: San Diego Critics Circle “Craig Noel” Award Nominee, NAACP Theatre Award Nominee for The Whipping Man. TEACHING: UNCSA: Summer Acting Intensive. TRAINING: STC's Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University: MFA; The North Carolina School of the Arts: BFA. WEB: AveryGlymph.com.

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

• 
  Gregory Wooddell*
  Osric

  Osric

  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.

• 
  Chris Genebach*
  Barnardo/Lucianus

  Barnardo/Lucianus

  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.

• 
  Lise Bruneau*
  Player Queen/Cornelia

  Player Queen/Cornelia

  Lise Bruneau*
  

  STC: Hamlet, Othello (Emilia, 2005), The Winter’s Tale (Hermione, 2002), Coriolanus, Ion, An Ideal Husband. BROADWAY: The Cherry Orchard (with Diane Lane). REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Junk, Watch on the Rhine (with Marsha Mason), Mother Courage (with Kathleen Turner), Legacy of Light; Round House Theatre: This, My Name is Asher Lev, The Book Club Play; Theater J: Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Broken Glass (Sylvia), Brighton Beach Memoirs; Denver Center: Heartbreak House (Hesione); Cleveland Playhouse: Diary of Anne Frank; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: The Revolutionists (Olympe); Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Wars of the Roses (Margaret of Anjou); Baltimore Center Stage: Mary Stuart, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Blithe Spirit; Old Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; American Conservatory Theater: Sweat, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Angels in America; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Merry Wives of Windsor. AWARDS: Henry Award, BATCC 3 Outstanding Lead Awards. OTHER: Member of D.C.’s Taffety Punk Theatre Co. and director: Riot Grrrl Shakespeares (Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet), Oxygen, Bloody Poetry, The Devil in His Own Words. Director: MetroStage: Savage in Limbo; Clarence Brown Theatre: 4000 Miles; Nebraska Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet. TRAINING: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

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

• 
  David Bryan Jackson*
  Voltemand/Priest

  Voltemand/Priest

  David Bryan Jackson*
  

  STC: Hamlet, Henry IV (Gower/Ensemble), Henry V (Westmoreland), The Merchant of Venice (Solanio), Timon of Athens (Jeweler), Hamlet (Osric). REGIONAL: New Repertory Theatre: Via Dolorosa; Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre: House and Garden; Folger Theatre: Henry IV Part 1, All’s Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Martha, Josie, and the Chinese Elvis; Studio Theatre: The Invention of Love, Privates on Parade, Guantanamo; Olney Theatre Center: Racing Demon, Amadeus, Peter Pan; Signature Theatre: Our Country’s Good; Washington Stage Guild: The Old Masters, Magic, The Best of Friends, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime; Scena Theatre: Julius Caesar, Someone Is Going to Come, Greek, The Chairs, The Seafarer, The Persians; Washington Shakespeare Company: Jumpers; Actors’ Theatre of Washington: My Night With Reg; Spooky Action Theater: The Two-Character Play. FILM: Dinner With the Alchemist, Her Tango. TELEVISION: The Day Lincoln Was Shot, TURN: Washington’s Spies.

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

• 
  Chelsea Mayo
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Chelsea Mayo
  

  STC: Twelfth Night, King Charles III (u/s), Tartuffe (u/s), The Importance of Being Earnest (u/s). REGIONAL: Prince George’s Shakespeare in the Parks: As You Like It; Quotidian Theatre Company: Doubt; Colonial Williamsburg: Twelfth Night; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Richard II, The Merchant of Venice. TRAINING: Vanderbilt University: BA in Theatre and French. WEB: ChelseaMayo.com.
  
  + Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow

• 
  Brendan McMahon
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Brendan McMahon
  

  REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival: June Moon; Pallas Theatre Collective: Assassins; Toby's Dinner Theatre: 1776; Brave Spirits Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra, Maid's Tragedy; 4615 Theatre: Lion in Winter, King John, The Pillowman, The Changeling; Annapolis Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. TRAINING: Catholic University: BA in Drama.

• 
  Kamau Mitchell
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Kamau Mitchell
  

  REGIONAL: Longacre Lea: Whipping, or the Football Hamlet; Arena Stage: A Raisin in the Sun; Constellation Theatre Company: Peter and the Starcatcher; Imagination Stage: Looking for Roberto Clemente; Monumental Theatre Company: Urinetown. TRAINING: Howard University: BFA in Musical Theatre.

• 
  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.

• 
  Jack Henry Doyle
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Jack Henry Doyle
  

  STC: Twelfth Night. REGIONAL: First Person: How to Field Dress an Android; For Love & Duty Players: The Winter’s Tale; Cradle Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labor’s Lost. TRAINING: Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts: BFA in Acting.
  
  + Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow.

• 
  Maggie Thompson
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Maggie Thompson
  

  STC: Twelfth Night. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: HERE Arts Center: Hedda; REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar; Theater at Monmouth: Othello, The Learned Ladies, Red Velvet. FILM: Broad Shoulders. TRAINING: Ithaca College: BFA in Acting. WEB: MaggiePeckThompson.com.
  
  + Shakespeare Theatre Company Acting Fellow.

• 
  Jeff Allen Young
  Ensemble

  Ensemble

  Jeff Allen Young
  

  STC: Hamlet (Rosencrantz U/S, Ensemble); Twelfth Night* (Ensemble). REGIONAL: Okoboji Summer Theatre: There Goes the Bride, The Diary of Anne Frank; South Dakota Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew. FILM: Sacco; Emergency Services Consulting International; U.S.A.I.D. Educational; Spirit of the Age; Sorry, Larry. AWARDS: *Helen Hayes Award for Best Ensemble Twelfth Night; College of Fellows Jane Alexander Award for Acting; DC 48hr Film Festival Best Actor 2018; Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Recipient. OTHER: I Am: The Play (staged reader) Hudson Theatre; The Jewish King Lear (staged reader) STC and Theatre J; STC's Family Week: Mini Summer Nights Dream; Tiny Tempest. TEACHING: Western Illinois University; STC Teaching Artist: Camp Shakespeare, Artist in the Classroom. TRAINING: Western Illinois University: MFA in Acting; Acting for the Camera (Brenna McDonough).

The Artistic Team
(Tap for bio)

• 
  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.

• 
  John Coyne
  Scenic Designer

  Scenic Designer

  John Coyne
  

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

• 
  Jess Goldstein
  Costume Designer

  Costume Designer

  Jess Goldstein
  

  STC: Othello (2007), The Persians. NEW YORK: Jersey Boys; Disney’s Newsies; On the Town; The Rivals (2005 Tony Award); The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino (Tony nomination); Plenty  with Rachel Weisz; Henry IV with Kevin Kline (Tony nomination); Proof; Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington; Love! Valor! Compassion!; Take Me Out; Tintypes; The Most Happy Fella; Buried Child; How I Learned to Drive; Stuff Happens; Dinner With Friends; The Uneasy Chair (Lortel Award); The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). OPERA: Metropolitan Opera: Il Trittico; New York City Opera: Dead Man Walking; San Francisco Opera: Two Women, Heart of a Soldier (world premieres); Washington National Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata. FILM: A Walk on the Moon (dir. Tony Goldwyn), The Substance of Fire (with Sarah Jessica Parker). TELEVISION: PBS Great Performances: Talking With, Far East. AWARDS: Recipient of the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award. TEACHING: Professor in the design department of Yale School of Drama since 1990. TRAINING:  Yale School of Drama. WEB: Jess-Goldstein.com.

• 
  Yi Zhao
  Lighting Designer

  Lighting Designer

  Yi Zhao
  

  STC: Hamlet (2018). NEW YORK: Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony nomination), I Need That | Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater, Signature Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep., Manhattan Theatre Club. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Dallas Theater Center, Wilma Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center. OPERA: Norwegian National Opera, Opera Colorado, Detroit Opera, Opera Omaha. DANCE: Sasha Waltz & Guests (Germany), Ballet de Lorraine (France). UPCOMING: Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Opera Philadelphia. AWARDS: Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, Henry Hewes Design Award. www.yi-zhao.com

• 
  Broken Chord
  Original Music & Sound Design

  Original Music & Sound Design

  Broken Chord
  

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

• 
  Patrick W. Lord
  Projections/Video Designer

  Projections/Video Designer

  Patrick W. Lord
  

  STC: Twelfth Night. REGIONAL:  John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts: Where Words Once Were; Forum Theatre: Love and Information, Building the Wall, Blackberry Winter; Theater Alliance: Mnemonic; The Keegan Theatre: Big Fish, Outside Mullingar, American Idiot, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, How to Catch a Leprechaun, An Irish Carol, The Magic Tree; Adventure Theatre: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical, Jumanji; Mosaic Theater Company: A Human Being Died That Night; The Hub Theatre: The Happiest Place On Earth, Redder Blood, Leto Legend; The University of Texas at Austin: Fame, Esperanza Rising, Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Shrewd Productions: Still Now; Croswell Opera: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Beauty and the Beast; Ohana Arts: Peace On Your Wings (original production and national tour). OTHER:  Event projection designer/art director for NBA teams including the Chicago Bulls, Atlanta Hawks and Cleveland Cavaliers with Quince Imaging. TRAINING:  The University of Texas at Austin: MFA in Integrated Media Design for Live Performance; Emerson College: BFA in Theatrical Design/Technology. WEB: PatrickWLord.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.

• 
  Jack Doulin
  Casting Director

  Casting Director

  Jack Doulin
  

  Bio forthcoming.

• 
  Taylor Williams
  Casting Director

  Casting Director

  Taylor Williams
  

  STC: The Amen Corner, Hamlet (dir. Michael Kahn), Twelfth Night. NEW YORK: Broadway: Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me (also national tour), Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play | New York Theatre Workshop and Page 73 Productions: Resident Casting Director. Select credits: Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane, The House That Will Not Stand (dir. Lileana Blain Cruz), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (dir. Rachel Chavkin), Sam Gold’s Three Sisters (upcoming) | Soho Rep: Aleshea Harris’ Is God Is | Page 73: Clare Barron’s You Got Older. REGIONAL: Fisher Center at Bard: Oklahoma! (dir. Daniel Fish) | Actors Theatre of Louisville: Lucas Hnath’s The Thin Place | Taylor has cast numerous productions in NYC and around the country. PERSONAL: she/her/hers.

• 
  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. 

• 
  Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
  Dramaturg

  Dramaturg

  Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
  

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

• 
  Lisa Beley
  Voice and Text Coach

  Voice and Text Coach

  Lisa Beley
  

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

• 
  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.

• 
  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.

• 
  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.