Shakespeare Theatre Company| King Charles III 16-17

The Performers
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Michelle Beck*
Jessica
Jessica
Michelle Beck*
STC: Hamlet (Ophelia). NEW YORK: Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun; Off-Broadway: BAM/The Old Vic: As You Like It, The Tempest (The Bridge Project); LCT3: A Kid Like Jake; Public Theater: Richard III, Love's Labor's Lost; Theatre for a New Audience: Much Ado About Nothing; Pearl Theatre: Uncle Vanya; Epic Theatre: Measure for Measure; Red Bull: The Changeling; 59e59: The Sentinels. REGIONAL: Chicago Shakespeare Theatre: Twelfth Night; McCarter/ Yale Rep: Tartuffe; TheaterWorks Silicon Valley: Proof; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Winter's Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac. FILM: Sam & Julia, Spinning into Butter, The Third Option, Ambition’s Debt, Death of a Prince, Fish. TV: Homeland, Madam Secretary. AWARDS: Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nomination for Proof. TRAINING: SUNY Purchase. WEB: ThisIsMichelleBeck.com

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Jefferson Farber*
Cootsy, Sir Michael, Others
Cootsy, Sir Michael, Others
Jefferson Farber*
STC: All’s Well That Ends Well. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Signature Theatre: Shakespeare’s R&J; Sierra Repertory Theatre: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike ; Barrington Stage Company: Breaking the Code; Constellation Theatre Company: Metamorphoses; Synetic Theater: Genesis Reboot. TV: House of Cards, Killing Kennedy. TRAINING: STC’s Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University: MFA; Millikin University: BFA.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Bradford Farwell*
Mr. Stevens
Mr. Stevens
Bradford Farwell*
NEW YORK: Broadway: Much Ado About Nothing, The Miser. REGIONAL: Nebraska Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, Cymbeline; American Player’s Theatre: She Stoops to Conquer, Henry V, The Misanthrope; A Contemporary Theatre: Worse than Tigers, Seven Ways to Get There Christmas Carol, Mary Stuart, Jekyll and Hyde; Seattle Repertory Theatre: Photograph 51, You Can’t Take it With You, The Imaginary Invalid, Twelfth Night, Noises Off, The Great Gatsby; Intiman Theatre: John Baxter, All My Sons,Grapes of Wrath, Richard III, A Thousand Clowns; Strawshop: Breaking the Code; Seattle Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, Cymbeline; New Century Theatre Company: company member, Festen, My Name is Asher Lev; 5th Avenue Theatre: Guys and Dolls. INTERNATIONAL: Stratford Festival: company member for three years. TV: Grimm, Leverage. TRAINING: Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts, London. WEB: BradfordFarwell.com.

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

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Dan Hiatt*
James Reiss
James Reiss
Dan Hiatt*
STC: King Charles III (James Reiss); REGIONAL: American Conservatory Theater: The Birthday Party; Hamlet; Ah, Wilderness!; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; The Cherry Orchard; The Rivals; Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Dinner With Friends; Yale Repertory Theatre: Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3); Huntington Theatre: The Way of the World, Mary Stuart; California Shakespeare Theater: As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Man and Superman, Nicholas Nickleby; Arizona Theatre Company: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Dirty Blonde; San Jose Repertory Theatre: A Flea in Her Ear, This Wonderful Life; Marin Theatre Company: Othello, Anne Boleyn; TheatreWorks: Upright Grand, The Twentieth Century, The 39 Steps; Ford’s Theatre: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Helen Hayes Award Nomination).
Rafael Jordan*
Spencer, Others, Kebab Seller
Spencer, Others, Kebab Seller
Rafael Jordan*
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Resonance Theatre: Caesar and Cleopatra (Harold Clurman Theatre); Metropolitan Playhouse: Uncle Tom's Cabin (OBIE Award, Outstanding Season Achievement); Performa NYC Commission: I Feel Your Pain (with multiple OBIE Award-winner Kathryn Grody); Second Generation: Thunder Above, Deeps Below (World Premiere by Lark Fellow A. Rey Pamatmat); 2050 Legacy: Co-creator/co-director of CATALYST (NYC Fringe). REGIONAL: American Conservatory Theater: King Charles III, Love and Information, A Christmas Carol; Actors Theatre of Louisville: 365 Days/365 Plays and The Open Road Anthology; Aurora Theatre Company: American Buffalo (Theatre Bay Area Award, Best Ensemble Acting; Theatre Critics Circle Award, Best Production); California Shakespeare Theater: King Lear, The Tempest; Magic Theatre: Dogeaters, runboyrun (World Premiere by Mfoniso Udofia); Livermore Shakespeare: The Liar. FILM: Me, You, & the Road (C&I Studios), The Best Laid Plans (Messyhouse Moving Productions), Othello the Web Series (Ready Set Go Theatre Company). TRAINING: American Conservatory Theater: MFA in Acting.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Robert Joy*
King Charles III
King Charles III
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.
Matthew Aldwin McGee*
Ensemble
Ensemble
Matthew Aldwin McGee*
STC: King Charles III; Henry IV, Part 1 and 2; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Much Ado About Nothing. REGIONAL: Studio Theatre: Translations; The Rocky Horror Show; Constellation Theatre Company: Arabian Nights, Urinetown, Scapin, Taking Steps (Helen Hayes Award, Best Supporting Actor); Imagination Stage: The BFG (Helen Hayes Award Nominee, Best Supporting Actor), Wonderland: Alice’s Rock & Roll Adventure; Adventure Theatre: Frosty the Snowman; WSC Avant Bard: The Good Devil, In Spite of Himself; Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; LiveArtDC: The Merry Death of Robin Hood; Flying V: The Pirate Laureate and the King of the Sea; Edge of the Universe: Entertaining Mr. Sloane. TEACHING: Previous instructor at the National Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in Georgetown; Instructor for Smithsonian Summer Camps. OTHER: Award-winning puppet designer. TRAINING: Fresno State University: BA in Theatre; STC Acting Fellow (2011). WEB: MattaMagical.com.
Yesenia Iglesias*
Ensemble
Ensemble
Yesenia Iglesias*
REGIONAL: Ford's Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Source Festival: Buried Cities; Seattle Children's Theatre: Mwindo (Gregory Nominee); Seattle Shakespeare Company/Wooden O: Henry V; Theatre 22: Water by the Spoonful; Sidecountry Theatre: Passing Strange; Annex Theatre: Is She Dead Yet? (Gregory Award). TRAINING: University of Washington (Professional Actor Training Program) WEB: YeseniaIglesias.com.
Christopher McLinden*
Prince William
Prince William
Christopher McLinden*
NEW YORK: LaMaMa: Tempest; Compagnia de Colombari: Everything That Rises Must Converge; New York Fringe: Nicholas, Maeve, Marianne. REGIONAL: Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Last of the Boys, Diary of Anne Frank; Writer’s Theatre: The Lion in Winter, The Seagull, Duchess of Malfi; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Taming of the Shrew; Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night, Cymbeline; City Theatre of Pittsburgh: Speak American; American Theatre Company: Celebrity Row; Appletree Theatre: Vincent in Brixton; First Folio Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Greasy Joan & Co.: The Lady From the Sea. FILM: Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight (HBO), 5-25-77 (Moonwatcher Films). TELEVISION: Boardwalk Empire (HBO), Alpha House (Amazon Studios). OTHER: Proud member of The Actors Center in New York City.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Chiara Motley*
Ghost, Others, Newspaper Woman
Ghost, Others, Newspaper Woman
Chiara Motley*
REGIONAL: Virginia Stage Company: All My Sons (Ann Deever); Gulfshore Playhouse: The Butcher (Jane); Center Stage: It’s a Wonderful Life (Mary Hatch); Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: King Lear (Goneril); Denver Center for the Performing Arts: Three Musketeers (Madame Chevreuse); Seattle Shakespeare Company/Wooden O: Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors; A Contemporary Theatre: Persuasion (Anne Elliot). FILM: And, Apart. TRAINING: Stanford University: BA; National Theatre Conservatory: MFA.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Jeanne Paulsen*
Camilla
Camilla
Jeanne Paulsen*
NEW YORK: Broadway: Robert Schenkkan’s The Kentucky Cycle (dir. Warner Shook, starring Stacy Keach); The Crucible (Ann Putnam, dir. Richard Eyre, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney). REGIONAL: McCarter Theatre Center: The Figaro Plays (Marceline, dir. Stephen Wadsworth); Denver Center for the Performing Arts: Richard III (Margaret), Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), Doubt (Sister Aloysius), All My Sons (Kate Keller), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Mrs. Warren), You Can’t Take It with You (Penny Sycamore), Side Man (Terry), Molly Sweeney (Molly); A Contemporary Theatre: A Moon for the Misbegotten (Josie); Intiman Theatre: Our Town (Mrs. Webb, dir. Bartlett Sher), The Little Foxes (Birdie), Faith Healer (Grace); South Coast Repertory: Holy Days (Rosie). AWARDS: Tony® nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in The Kentucky Cycle; Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Lead Performance in Holy Days.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Ian Merrill Peakes*
Prime Minister Evans
Prime Minister Evans
Ian Merrill Peakes*
STC: The Taming of the Shrew. REGIONAL: Arden Theatre: Equivocation, Something Intangible (Barrymore Award), All My Sons (Barrymore Award), Three Days of Rain; Wilma Theater: Body of an American, The Invention of Love; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Sideman (Barrymore Award); Theatre Exile: Invisible Hand (Barrymore Award nomination), Red Light Winter (Barrymore Award nomination); Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Walnut Street Theatre: Peter and the Starcatcher; People’s Light & Theatre; Folger Theatre: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Helen Hayes Award), Othello, Henry VIII (Helen Hayes nomination), Macbeth (Helen Hayes nomination), The Game of Love and Chance (Helen Hayes nomination); Denver Center for the Performing Arts: The Catch, Glengarry Glen Ross, When Tang Met Laika; Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Crucible, Twelfth Night; Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Much Ado About Nothing; Pittsburg Irish & Classical Theatre: The False Servant. TELEVISION: Still Standing, Hack, Homicide. FILM: Lebanon, PA, Gentleman’s Game.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Harry Smith*
Prince Harry
Prince Harry
Harry Smith*
BROADWAY: King Charles III. REGIONAL: Wilma Theater: Body of an American, Rapture, Blister, Burn, The Real Thing; Walnut Street Theatre: And Then There Were None, The Mousetrap, An Ideal Husband; Delaware Theatre Company: The Explorers Club; Inis Nua Theatre Company: Pumpgirl, Walworth Farce, Hand of Gaul; Lantern Theater Company: Photograph 51, Emma; People's Light & Theatre: Pride and Prejudice; INTERNATIONAL: Edinburgh Royal Lycum: The Merchant of Venice; Bristol Old Vic: Twelfth Night, Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Cambridge Arts Theatre: Serious Money; Old Fire Station (Oxford): Arcadia; Shakespeare's Globe: Gorboduc (Read, Not Dead series). FILM: Freedom. TELEVISION: The Good Wife, Crossbones. TRAINING: Cambridge University; Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. WEB: HarrySmith.info.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Allison Jean White*
Kate
Kate
Allison Jean White*
NEW YORK: Broadway: Man and Boy. Off-Broadway: Irish Repertory Theatre: The Shaughraun. NATIONAL TOUR: The 39 Steps. REGIONAL: American Conservatory Theater: King Charles III, The Realistic Joneses, The Imaginary Invalid, The Circle, Travesties, The Real Thing, A Christmas Carol; Seattle Repertory Theatre: King Charles III; Arizona Theatre Company: Disgraced; Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Heartbreak House; Northern Stage: Orwell in America; San Francisco Playhouse: Abigail’s Party; Virginia Stage Company: The Odd Couple; Living Room Theatre: Uncle Vanya; Magic Theatre: The Crowd You’re In With, Tir na nOg; Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater: Red Light Winter. FILM: The Family Fang, We’re All Gonna Die. TELEVISION: The Blacklist, The Slap, High Maintenance, I Love You…But I Lied, As The World Turns. TRAINING: American Conservatory Theater: MFA in Acting; Brown University: BA in Theater.

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

The Artistic Team
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David Muse
Director
Director
David Muse
STC: Affiliated Artist; Associate Artistic Director, 2005–2010; Director: King Charles III (co-production with A.C.T. and Seattle Repertory Theatre), Coriolanus, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew (Free For All), Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, On the Eve of Friday Morning, Pericles (Free For All); Assistant Director: Othello, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Tempest, Pericles, Macbeth; director of numerous readings, galas and special events; Master Acting Class instructor. REGIONAL: The Studio Theatre: Artistic Director since 2010; Director: 20 productions including The Effect, The Father, Tribes, The Habit of Art, Frozen, Blackbird, Cock; Arena Stage: Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune; Theatre Alliance: The Bluest Eye; New York Summer Play Festival: Patrick Page’s Swansong. TEACHING: Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting; Georgetown University; Yale University. OTHER: New play development at numerous theatres including New York Theatre Workshop, Arena Stage, New Dramatists, Geva Theatre, Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre. AWARDS: Eight-time Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Direction; D.C. Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist. TRAINING: Yale University: BA; Yale School of Drama: MFA in Directing.
Daniel Ostling
Scenic Designer
Scenic Designer
Daniel Ostling
STC: Candide, Argonautika, Pericles. NEW YORK: Broadway: Clybourne Park (Walter Kerr Theatre, 2012 Tony Award® nomination), Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square Theatre, 2003 Tony Award® nomination); Off-Broadway: Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Theater, Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons. REGIONAL: American Conservatory Theater: Let There Be Love, The Orphan of Zhao, Major Barbara, Stuck Elevator, Endgame and Play, Once in a Lifetime, The Homecoming, Brainpeople; Lookingglass Theatre Company: Blood Wedding (directing and set design), ensemble member; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Timon of Athens, Guys and Dolls; McCarter Theatre Center: All the Days; Long Wharf Theatre; Steppenwolf Theatre Company; La Jolla Playhouse; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Goodman Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: K-Ballet Company, Tokyo, Japan: Carmen. OPERA: Teatro alla Scala, Milan/Metropolitan Opera, New York/Tokyo: Lucia di Lammermoor; Metropolitan Opera: La sonnambula; Lyric Opera of Chicago: The Merry Widow; New York/London/Chicago: Philip Glass’s Galileo Galilei. TEACHING: Northwestern University.
Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
Literary Manager
Literary Manager
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
Jennifer Moeller
Costume Designer
Costume Designer
Jennifer Moeller
STC: Affiliated Artist; Twelfth Night, King Charles III, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Tamburlaine, Richard III. NEW YORK: Broadway: Sweat. Off-Broadway: Shakespeare in the Park: Love’s Labour’s Lost; Public Theater: Mlima’s Tale, Sweat, Tiny Beautiful Things; Playwrights Horizons: Aubergine; Second Stage Theater: Cardinal; Signature Theatre: Dance and the Railroad. REGIONAL: Washington National Opera: Candide, La Bohème; Studio Theatre: Bachelorette, Venus in Fur; Guthrie Theater: Romeo and Juliet, King Lear; Old Globe: The Last Goodbye; McCarter Theatre Center: The How and the Why; Williamstown Theatre Festival: Six Degrees of Separation; Yale Repertory Theatre: The Winter’s Tale. TRAINING: Yale School of Drama: MFA.
Lap Chi Chu
Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Lap Chi Chu
STC: King Charles III, Romeo and Juliet. NEW YORK: Public Theater; New York Theatre Workshop; Signature Theatre; Second Stage Theatre; Performance Space 122; Kitchen Theatre Company. REGIONAL: Mark Taper Forum; Geffen Playhouse; South Coast Repertory; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; La Jolla Playhouse; Old Globe; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Goodman Theatre; Arena Stage; Hartford Stage; Dallas Theater Center. AWARDS: 2018 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, recognition from Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design, multiple San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, a Drammy Award for Best Lighting. TEACHING: Lighting design faculty, California Institute of the Arts.
Janet Foster, CSA
Casting Director
Casting Director
Janet Foster, CSA
NEW YORK: Broadway: The Light in the Piazza (Artios Award Nomination), Lennon, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Taking Sides (co-cast). Off-Broadway: True Love, Floyd Collins, The Monogamist, A Cheever Evening, Later Life. REGIONAL: American Conservatory Theater: Men on Boats, Sweat, Hamlet, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Hard Problem, King Charles III, John, Arcadia, Stuck Elevator, The Orphan of Zhao, Napoli!, Endgame, Play; Intiman Theatre; Seattle Repertory Theatre; California Shakespeare Theater; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Yale Repertory Theatre; Goodman Theatre; Steppenwolf Theatre Company; The Old Globe; American Repertory Theater. FILM: The Deal, Advice from a Caterpillar. TELEVISION: Cosby, Tracey Takes on New York. OTHER: Radio: The Day That Lehman Died (Peabody, SONY, Wincott Awards), “T” Is for Tom (Tom Stoppard Radio Plays, WNYC, WQXR), LifeAfter (GE Theater podcast).
Carter Wooddell
Resident Casting Director
Resident Casting Director
Carter Wooddell
STC: Timon of Athens; The Amen Corner; Peter Pan and Wendy; Everybody; Hamlet (2018 and 2019 Free For All); The Oresteia; Vanity Fair (STC/A.C.T.); Richard III; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit; The Comedy of Errors; Romeo and Juliet (2016 and 2018 Free For All); Camelot; Noura; Twelfth Night; The Lover and The Collection; Othello (2016 and 2017 Free For All); The School for Lies; Macbeth; King Charles III; The Secret Garden; The Tempest (2014 and 2016 Free For All); The Taming of the Shrew; The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound; Kiss Me, Kate; Salomé; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015 Free For All); Tartuffe; Man of La Mancha; The Metromaniacs (STC/Old Globe); As You Like It; The Winter’s Tale (2014 Free For All); The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Much Ado About Nothing; The Merchant of Venice. NEW YORK: NYC McCorkle Casting (2008–2012), Casting Assistant and Casting Associate: Broadway: End of the Rainbow, High | Off-Broadway: Tribes, Our Town, The Acting Company, Freud’s Last Session, A Perfect Future, The Irish Curse, An Error of the Moon, et al. | Lincoln Center Institute: Hamlet, Fly, Sheila’s Day. REGIONAL: Alley Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Barrington Stage Company, The Broad Stage, CATF, Crossroads Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, TheaterWorks Hartford. FILM: Premium Rush, Junction. OTHER: BBC Radio: The Piano Lesson.
Lisa Beley
Head of Voice and Text
Head of Voice and Text
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.
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.
Elizabeth Clewley
Assistant Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Elizabeth Clewley
STC: Stage Manager: The Metromaniacs, The Importance of Being Earnest; Assistant Stage Manager: The Secret Garden, The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound, Salomé, Tartuffe, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale (Mainstage and Free For All), Private Lives, Wallenstein, The Government Inspector, The Servant of Two Masters, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar (Free For All), Old Times, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night (Free For All), The Liar. REGIONAL: Hartford Stage: Stage Manager: Hartford Stage 50th Anniversary Gala; Assistant Stage Manager: Macbeth, La Dispute; Theater of the American South: Stage Manager: Driving Miss Daisy; Cape Fear Regional Theatre: Stage Manager: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Tuesdays with Morrie. INTERNATIONAL: International Festival of Arts and Ideas; Kennedy Center - International VSA Festival. TRAINING: East Carolina University: BFA in Stage Management.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Manager
Sivan Battat
Associate Director
Associate Director
Sivan Battat
REGIONAL: American Conservatory Theater/Seattle Repertory Theatre: King Charles III; Studio Theatre: Chimerica, The Apple Family Cycle, Between Riverside and Crazy, Moment, Hedda Gabler; Mosaic Theater Company: Hkeelee (Talk to Me); Cape Cod Theatre Project; Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa; Jerusalem Stories; Elm Shakespeare Company. OTHER: New Work Development: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Building Bridges Grant at Wesleyan University: In/Between with the Muslim Women’s Voices Series; Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services and Collective Consciousness Theatre: Stories of a New America; Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center: SeaChanges. TRAINING: Wesleyan University; Moscow Art Theatre School.
Mark Bennett
Sound Designer/Composer
Sound Designer/Composer
Mark Bennett
STC: Salomé, Coriolanus. NEW YORK: Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Driving Miss Daisy, A Steady Rain, The Coast of Utopia (2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play), Henry IV, Golda’s Balcony, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, Lily Tomlin’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; Off-Broadway: Brooklyn Academy of Music/The Old Vic Bridge Project productions from 2009 to 2012 (Sam Mendes, director), An Iliad (OBIE Award), Mad Forest; New York Theatre Workshop: My Children! My Africa!; Public Theater: original scores for eight Shakespeare in the Park productions. REGIONAL: Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Our Town, An Iliad, Mad Forest; La Jolla Playhouse: JUNK, His Girl Friday, Most Wanted, Dogeaters (world premiere), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Sound Design); Old Globe: Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, Twelfth Night; AWARDS: 1998 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Sound Design, the 1998 Bessie Award, an Ovation Award, two Garland Awards, and 14 Drama Desk Award nominations.
Lisa Townsend
Movement Director
Movement Director
Lisa Townsend
NEW YORK: The Wooster Group: Early Shaker Spirituals (The Performing Garage). FILM: Townsend makes dance films in collaboration with photographer/bassist Piro Patton and is currently creating a new film, FitsAndStarts. AWARDS: Support from Creative Capital, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Theater Bay Area (CA$H), and YBCAway. OTHER: Lisa Townsend Company/ Dance FraCas: original performance works combining dance, music, and theater, venues including: NYC: St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, Movement Research at Judson Church, P.S. 122, LA: Los Angeles Theater Center, SF: Dance Mission Theater, ODC Theater, Cowell Theater; Resident Artist: The Joyce Theater in SoHo, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the CounterPulse Artist Residency Commissioning Program, Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange, The Garage (San Francisco), ODC. TEACHING: Director of theater program for youth ages 8 through 14; American Conservatory Theater M.F.A. Program: adjunct faculty member, movement director: Crazy for the Country (dir.Stephen Buescher), The Rocky Horror Show (dir. John Carrafa).