Lead Sponsor
Production Sponsors
Barbara Harman and William Cain
The Harman Family Foundation
Emily Lenzner and Vivek Jain
The Vos Foundation
Additional Support
This project is part of Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Pearl Theatre Company: Don Juan | Signature Theatre Company, Stage 42, The Acting Company, The Drama League's DirectorFest, HERE Studios, 13th Street Repertory Theatre, Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, Storm Theatre Company, 4th Street Theatre (writer/producer). REGIONAL: PlayMakers Repertory Company: Nicholas Nickleby, Parts 1 and 2 | Northern Stage: Amadeus | Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet | Westport Country Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Alliance Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Folger Theatre, Portland Stage, Clarence Brown Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Texas Shakespeare Festival, Vineyard Arts Project. FILM: The Cask, Independence: Beyond What She Expects, Ascension (writer/director), Radio Cape Cod, Angels in East Texas (in development, writer/producer). TV: Elementary, The Affair, Unforgettable, Blue Bloods. PERSONAL: he/him | Training: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art | JustinCAdams.com.
NEW YORK: Broadway: Sweat. Off-Broadway: Public Theatre: Sweat, Romeo y Julieta (radio play), References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot | Theatre For a New Audience: Tamburlaine | LAByrinth Theater Company: A Small, Melodramatic Story; Intríngulis | Rattlestick Theater: A Summer Day | INTAR Theatre: Pinkolandia | Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company: Living Dead in Denmark. INTERNATIONAL: The Royal Court Theatre (London): Rare Earth Mettle. REGIONAL: La Jolla Playhouse: Fandango for Butterflies and Coyotes | Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Sweat, The River Bride, Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens | Center Theatre Group: A Parallelogram, Lydia | Guthrie Theater: Night of the Iguana | Dallas Theater Center: Dreamlandia. FILM: Mile 22, Hurricane Streets, Hi-Life, Strangers with Candy, Life Support, 21 Grams, Whip It, Margaret. TV: Sesame Street, Law & Order, Oz, Thicker Than Blood, Prison Break, Girls, The Night Of, Madam Secretary, Black Bird. AWARDS: 2017 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut (Sweat). PERSONAL: he/him | Member of LAByrinth Theater Company.
*Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
STC: Red Velvet, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Glass House, We Declare You a Terrorist, Incident at Vichy, Catch-22, The Boys in the Band, Sympathetic Magic, The Nest, Tower of Evil. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: All the Way | Studio Theatre: Between Riverside and Crazy | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Appropriate | The Mark Taper Forum: Appropriate | Barrington Stage Company: Much Ado About Nothing | The Old Globe: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Life of Riley | Long Wharf Theatre: A Month in the Country, Rag and Bone | Vermont Stage: True West | Wilma Theater: Arcadia | Pittsburgh Public Theater: The Dybbuk. FILM: A Cure for Wellness; SALT; The Adjustment Bureau; Henry’s Crime; Sorry, Haters!; The War Within; The Magic Helmet. TV: House of Cards, Homeland, Blue Bloods, Fringe, Babylon Fields (pilot), The Law & Order canon. PERSONAL: he/him | Member of AEA since 1989. | Training: The Juilliard School.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Little Foxes, Stupid F*cking Bird. REGIONAL: Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream | Washington Improv Theater: (y)Our Town, And Scene! | Her Majesty & Sons: Richard II. FILM: Missing Persons. OTHER: Doin' Great, Reality Sets In, It's Good to be a Girl. PERSONEL: she/her | Training: STC Academy: MFA in Classical Acting, Rose Bruford College (London): MA in Acting | Middle Eastern-Italian American | Instagram: @sarawithacee | CerraCardwell.com.
STC: Much Ado About Nothing. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: A Letter to Harvey Milk, Love & Real Estate, Illyria. INTERNATIONAL TOURS: Prospect Theater Company: Death For Five Voices. SELECTED REGIONAL: The Huntington: Leopoldstadt, The Band's Visit | Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Much Ado About Nothing | Alabama Shakespeare Festival: In the Book Of | Theater J: Nathan the Wise, Love Sick, The Chameleon | Gamm Theatre: Bad Jews | Gulfshore Playhouse: The Refugees | Tantrum Theater: Rhinoceros | TheatreSquared: A Christmas Carol | Olney Theatre Center: Oil | Arena Stage: A Thousand Splendid Suns | The Public Theater: Beau Jest, Love/Sick | Rep Stage: Songs for a New World, Falsettos | SpeakEasy Stage: Caroline, or Change | New Repertory Theatre: Lippa's The Wild Party (IRNE Award, Best Supporting Actress) | Barnstormers: Educating Rita, Nunsense. TV: Swagger, Lady in the Lake, We Own This City. PERSONAL: She/her. Training: Princeton University (AB), LAMDA, Shakespeare & Company. | Instagram: sscoreyny | Website: Sarah-Corey.weebly.com.
REGIONAL: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Jitney | Chautauqua Theater Company: One Man, Two Guvnors | Ford's Theatre: Jefferson's Garden, A Christmas Carol | Round House Theatre: Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, and 3) | Studio Theatre: Animal, Wig Out!, The Hot Wing King | Theater J: Yentl | Mosaic Theater Company: Ulysses on Bottles | MetroStage: The Sand Storm, Savage in Limbo | Constellation Theatre Company: Metamorphoses, The Fire and the Rain, Journey to the West | RhinoLeap Productions: The 39 Steps. TV: The Wire. AWARDS: Five Helen Hayes Award nominations. PERSONAL: he/him | Company Member at The Hub Theatre in Fairfax, VA | Entangled Artist at Spooky Action Theater in Washington, D.C. | Training: SUNY Purchase: BFA in Acting.
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Soho Repertory Theatre: Is God Is | La MaMa: SEAGULLMACHINE. TOURS: COCo Dance Theatre’s Rigidigidim De Bamba De. REGIONAL: Cleveland Play House: The Three Musketeers, Sweat | Studio Theatre: Kings | Shakespeare & Company: Measure for Measure; Intimate Apparel; Or, | Florida Studio Theatre: My Lord, What A Night | Arena Stage: Gorn Galaxy (Flash Acts Festival) | Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Our Town, Romeo and Juliet | WAM Theatre: The Last Wife | Chicago Shakespeare Theater: King Lear | Underground Railway Theater: The Convert. INTERNATIONAL: Stratford Festival: Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice | Theatre Aquarius: Never Not Once, Sweat | Theatre Passe Muraille: Brave New World | Driftwood Theatre: Hamlet. FILM: Equal Standard. AWARDS: Berkshire Theatre Critics Award (Nell Gwynne/Maria/Lady Davenant in Or,). PERSONAL: she/her | An award-winning poet, Nehassaiu’s book Music for Exile is available in bookstores and online. | Teaching: Princeton University | Training: Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company: MFA in Acting | Instagram: @nehassaiu | Nehassaiu.com.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
STC: Hamlet (2019 Free For All), Romeo and Juliet (2018 Free For All), Twelfth Night. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Public Theater: Troilus and Cressida. REGIONAL: McCarter Theatre Center: A Christmas Carol | Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Hamlet | Baltimore Center Stage: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. PERSONAL: he/him | New York University Tisch School of the Arts: MFA in Acting, Wesleyan University: BFA in Acting.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
STC: King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing. REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Incendiary | Keegan Theatre: Shakespeare in Love | Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Alice in Wonderland, Dracula, Macbeth, Henry V, Measure for Measure | Her Majesty and Sons: Twelfth Night, Richard III | BSF: Hamlet | Baltimore Center Stage: Dream Girls | Artscentic: The Wiz, Aida, Memphis, Little Shop of Horrors. FILM: Very Rare, The Infection, Rehearsal. PERSONAL: he/him | Teaching: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Teaching Artist, Young Artists of America | Training: University of Southern Mississippi, BFA | Instagram: @teeerrance.
STC: Founding member. Over 80 productions, including Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; Henry IV, Part 1 and 2; Richard II; Henry V; Henry VI; Richard III; Macbeth. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: 59E59 Theatres: The Originalist | Lincoln Center Theater: Bull Durham lab | Classic Stage Company, South Street Theatre. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Angels in America, Disney's Newsies, Junk: The Golden Age of Debt, The Pajama Game, The Originalist, The Little Foxes, RED | Goodman Theatre: RED, King Lear | Asolo Repertory Theatre/ Pasadena Playhouse/Court Theatre: The Originalist | Ford’s Theatre: Born Yesterday; A Christmas Carol; Hello, Dolly! | Folger Theatre: Henry IV | Round House Theatre: The Night Alive, Nixon’s Nixon, Amadeus | Studio Theatre: American Buffalo, Shining City | Signature Theatre: Sweeney Todd. FILM: Die Hard 2, Striking Distance. TV: House of Cards, TURN: Washington’s Spies. AWARDS: Four Helen Hayes Awards, 16 nominations; Jeff Award nomination; Lunt-Fontanne Fellow; 2024 Inductee College of Fellows of the American Theater. PERSONAL: Teaching: Professor of Theater, Performance Head: George Mason University, STC Academy.
NEW YORK: Broadway: Noises Off, The Country House, The Lyons, Guys and Dolls, Proof (dir. Daniel Sullivan), An American Daughter. Off-Broadway: Mother of the Maid, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, The Beard of Avon (dir. Doug Hughes), Radiant Baby (dir. George C. Wolfe), Between Us, Summer of ’42. TOURS: Finian’s Rainbow, Applause. FILM: Custody (dir. James Lapine), Love and Other Drugs (dir. Ed Zwick), United 93 (dir. Paul Greengrass), Frost/Nixon (dir. Ron Howard), When a Stranger Calls, Kinsey (dir. Bill Condon), Forgiven. TV: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, We Crashed, Russian Doll, Notorious, Billions, Madame Secretary, The Good Wife, Alpha House, Damages, Parenthood, Pan Am. AWARDS: BendFilm Festival Best Supporting Actress (Forgiven). PERSONAL: she/her | Training: The Juilliard School: Drama Division graduate, University of Pennsylvania: BA in English and Music Composition.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
NEW YORK: Broadway: Junk: The Golden Age of Debt, The Visit, Matilda the Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Pillowman, Cabaret, Major Barbara, The Deep Blue Sea, The Government Inspector, Timon of Athens. TOURS: Spamalot First National Tour, Cabaret, Angels in America. REGIONAL: Signature Theatre, Arena Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Atlantic Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, The Old Globe, Hartford Stage. FILM: The Post, The Stepford Wives. TV: Modern Family, Dead to Me, Atlanta, All My Children, Law & Order, The Punisher. OTHER: Rick has narrated several books that can be found on Audible.com. PERSONAL: he/him | Training: New York University: MFA in Acting, Gettysburg College: BA.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
STC: Our Town, The Merchant of Venice. REGIONAL: Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, RED, The Glass Menagerie, An Enemy of the People. INTERNATIONAL: Mother Courage and Her Children, The Changeling, The Bacchae, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. PERSONAL: he/him | Training: STC Academy: MFA in Classical Acting, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art: MA in Acting.
STC: Macbeth. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Theatre Row: Mrs. Warren's Profession. REGIONAL: St. Louis Shakespeare Festival: King Lear | Guthrie Theater: Steel Magnolias | Syracuse Stage: Possessing Harriet | Virginia Stage Company: The Bluest Eye | Folger Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra | Hangar Theater: Shakespeare's R + J. INTERNATIONAL: Shakespeare's Globe: A Midsummer Night's Dream. AWARDS: SALT "Best Leading Actress" Award. PERSONAL: she/her | Training: Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts: BFA, Rutger’s Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe | Nicole-King.com.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
STC: Much Ado About Nothing | NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Little Island Theatre: The Tale of Chef Kale. TOURS: The National Theatre for Children, Hampstead Stage Company, Virginia Rep on Tour. REGIONAL: Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences: How to Catch a Star | Virginia Repertory Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Synetic Theater: Treasure Island, Hansel & Gretel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quill Theatre, The Conciliation Project, TheatreLAB, Firehouse Theatre Project, Convergence Theatre, LiveArtDC. FILM: SHANIDAR. AWARDS: Two Richmond Theatre Critics Circle Nominations. OTHER: 4615 Theatre Company: Dark City (Video Game) | Only Make Believe DC: Sherlock in Wonderland (Short) | Uniformed Services University: Standardized Patient. Directing: Arts on the Horizon, Bowie State University, Educational Theatre Company. PERSONAL: she/her | Raven is a company member with Only Make Believe and The Conciliation Project. For Karen Lorelle. | Training: Virginia Commonwealth University: BFA Theatre Performance | Instagram: @ravenlorraine and @thatssorealestate.
STC: Much Ado About Nothing, Our Town, The Merchant of Venice. NEW YORK: L+F: Hamlet | Secret Theater: Romeo and Juliet. INTERNATIONAL: Shakespeare’s Globe: Twelfth Night. REGIONAL: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Wyoming Theatre Festival: East of Heart Mountain (dir: Giovanna Sardelli) | RTC: House For Sale (dir: Daniel Fish) TV: One Life to Live, Monumental Mysteries, A Day Late & Ten Pounds Overweight. PERSONAL: he/him | Training: STC Academy: MFA in Classical Acting, Rutgers University: BFA in Acting | RyanMichaelNeely.com.
STC: Timon of Athens, The Tempest. NEW YORK: The Public Theater: The Low Road (NY Premiere), Socrates (World Premiere) | Classic Stage Company: The Heir Apparent (NY Premiere) | Theatre for a New Audience: Timon of Athens | Mint Theater Company: Donogoo. REGIONAL: Dorset Theatre Festival: Pride and Prejudice, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery | Alliance Theatre: Eurydice, Tennis in Nablus | Georgia Shakespeare: Richard III, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Pericles, All’s Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet | Synchronicity Theatre: Icarus’s Mother | Out of Hand Theater: Alcestis, Hominid. TV: House of Cards, Gotham, Royal Pains, Forever, Unforgettable, Blindspot, Bull, Looming Tower, Blue Bloods. OTHER: Big Apple Circus, voices for Ken Burns’ Hemingway and Benjamin Franklin. PERSONAL: he/him | Teaching: New York University, New York Film Academy | Training: Emory University: BA, New York University: MFA.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
STC: The Metromaniacs. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Red Bull Theater: The Metromaniacs | Westside Theatre: Clever Little Lies | Barrow Street Theatre: Tribes. REGIONAL: Studio Theatre: 2.5 Minute Ride, Cry It Out | Theater J: The Wanderers | Contemporary American Theater Festival: Everything You Touch | The Old Globe: The Metromaniacs | La Jolla Playhouse: Tribes | Barrington Stage Company: See How They Run, 10x10. PERSONAL: she/her | Training: University of Missouri-Kansas City: MFA in Acting, Binghamton University: BA in Theater | Instagram: @tinydthomas and @dbtrealtor.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
STC: The Academy: Julius Caesar, The Cherry Orchard, The Winter’s Tale. INTERNATIONAL: Beijing: The Bald Soprano. REGIONAL: Her Majesty & Sons: Richard II. FILM: The Sweet East (dir. Sean Prince Williams). PERSONAL: she/they | Ring is an international multidisciplinary queer artist | Training: STC Academy: MFA in Classical Acting, Syracuse University: BS in Psychology | Instagram: @ringyyang.
Simon Godwin joined Shakespeare Theatre Company as Artistic Director in September 2019. He has served as Associate Director of National Theatre of London, Royal Court Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, and Royal & Derngate Theatre. STC: Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens. INTERNATIONAL: UK: Royal Court Theatre: Routes; If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep; NSFW; The Witness; Goodbye to All That; The Acid Test; Wanderlust | National Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing (ft. Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan), Romeo & Juliet (ft. Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley and filmed for Sky Arts/PBS), Antony and Cleopatra (ft. Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo), Twelfth Night, Sunset at the Villa Thalia,The Beaux’ Stratagem, Man and Superman, Strange Interlude | Royal Shakespeare Company: Timon of Athens (ft. Kathryn Hunter and reimagined in 2020 for Theatre for a New Audience and STC) Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. JAPAN: Theatre Cocoon: Hamlet. AWARDS: Evening Standard/Burberry Award for an Emerging Director (2012).
STC: Vanity Fair; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit; The School for Lies; Henry IV, Part 1 and 2; Measure for Measure; The Heir Apparent; The Liar; The Dog in the Manger. NEW YORK: Broadway: Anastasia, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Present Laughter, Old Acquaintance, Butley, Hedda Gabler. Off-Broadway: Signature Theatre: When Playwrights Kill | Vineyard Theatre/Minetta Lane Theatre: Harry Clarke | Manhattan Theatre Club: Ripcord | Second Stage: Lips Together, Teeth Apart | Playwrights Horizons: Rapture, Blister, Burn | Roundabout Theatre Company: The Understudy | Public Theater: Measure for Pleasure | Lincoln Center Theater: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme, Chaucer in Rome. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: Catch Me If You Can | Alley Theatre: Noir (World Premiere) | INTERNATIONAL: La Jolla Playhouse/Paper Mill Playhouse/Japan/Germany/Austria: Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame | London West End/Manchester/Glasgow: All New People. OPERA: Metropolitan Opera: Samson et Dalila | Santa Fe Opera: The 13th Child | LA Opera: The Ghosts of Versailles | Minnesota Opera: Dinner at Eight, Cosi Fan Tutti | Deutsche Oper Berlin: Il trittico | Hungarian State Opera-Budapest: Lohengrin. AWARDS: Lucille Lortel Award (Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme), Tony Award nomination (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Present Laughter), Outer Critics Circle Award nomination (Anastasia, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder). PERSONAL: Training: Yale School of Drama.
INTERNATIONAL: National Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing, Antony & Cleopatra | The Old Vic: The 47th | Almeida Theatre: The Hunt | Dramaten (The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden): Måsen / The Seagull. AWARDS: The Stage Debut Award (Best Designer). PERSONAL: she/her | Before becoming a costume designer, Evie spent a decade working in the luxury fashion industry for brands including Ralph Lauren and Alexander McQueen. | Training: Royal College of Art, London: MA in Curating Contemporary Art, Central Saint Martins, London: BA in Fashion | Instagram: @evieonfire | EvieGurney.com.
STC: Salome, Timon of Athens. NEW YORK: Broadway: 59 productions, including Paradise Square; Tootsie; Kiss Me, Kate; My Fair Lady; Anastasia; Oslo; She Loves Me; Fiddler on the Roof; The King and I; On the Twentieth Century; The Bridges of Madison County; Golden Boy; Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark; Ragtime; Movin’ Out; Thoroughly Modern Millie. OPERA: New York Metropolitan Opera: Champion, Rigoletto, Otello, Two Boys, The Magic Flute, Samson et Delilah, Porgy and Bess. FILM: Ocean’s Eight, Spirited. TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Seasons Four and Five), Gossip Girl, Smash (Seasons One and Two). AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award (Salome), Obie Award (He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box), two Tony Awards (The Lion King, South Pacific), and fourteen Tony Award nominations. PERSONAL: Mr. Holder is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and Head of Lighting Design at Rutgers University.
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater: At the Wedding | Classic Stage Company: Snow in Midsummer | Origin Theatre Company: A Kid Like Rishi | Atlantic Theater Company: Paris | 59E59 Theatres: On That Day in Amsterdam, Golden Age | Second Stage Theater: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord | Irish Repertory Theatre: Pumpgirl | Ma-Yi Theater Company/American Repertory Theater: Suicide Forest | Ensemble Studio Theatre: Behind the Sheet | Transport Group: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine | Cherry Lane Theatre: three girls never learnt the way home | The Flea Theater: Tania in the Gateway Van. REGIONAL: Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington | Berkeley Repertory Theatre/Arena Stage: Sanctuary City | Portland Center Stage: The Great Leap | Studio Theatre: White Noise | Yale Repertory Theatre: Seven Guitars | Cincinatti Ballet: Redeem | Pittsburgh City Theatre: Revolutionist | Capital Repertory Theatre: Red Maple. PERSONAL: Training: Yale School of Drama: MFA in Sound Design | FanZhangSound.com.
STC: Much Ado About Nothing, Strange Interlude. NEW YORK: Broadway: for colored girls…, The Sound Inside, Anastasia, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Bonnie and Clyde. Off-Broadway: Audible Theater: The Way She Spoke | Atlantic Theater Company: This Ain’t No Disco | Westside Theatre: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey | Playwrights Horizons: Bootycandy | Signature Theatre Company: Appropriate | 59E59 Theatres: Working | Second Stage Theater: Water by the Spoonful; Lonely, I’m Not; The Blue Flower; All New People | Public Theater: Wild With Happy | Lincoln Center Theater: Graceland. TOURS: Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester, Septime Webre’s The Wizard of Oz. OPERA: Santa Fe Opera: The Thirteenth Child | LA Opera: The Ghosts of Versailles | Wolf Trap Opera: La Traviata | Florida Grand Opera/Opera Colorado: Florencia en el Amazonas. AWARDS: Outer Critics Circle Award (The Sound Inside, Anastasia), Drama Desk Award (Anastasia, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder), Drama Desk Award nomination (Wild With Happy). PERSONAL: Instagram: @aaronrhynedesigns | AaronRhyne.com.
STC: King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens. NEW YORK: Broadway (select): Booth Theatre: Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Roundabout Theatre Company: The Winslow Boy | The Public Theater: Privacy. INTERNATIONAL: London: Composer-in-residence at the Donmar Warehouse from 2012 to 2019. He has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and in the West End. PERSONAL: Michael is a Scottish composer and lyricist. Publications include Writing Music for the Stage: A Practical Guide for Theatremakers.
NEW YORK: Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, The Band's Visit. Off-Broadway: Sing Street, On That Day in Amsterdam, Seeing You, Sleep No More. FILM: Anna Karenina; Muppets Most Wanted; After Yang; tick, tick... BOOM!. TV: Harlem, Up Here, Orange Is the New Black. PERSONAL: he/him | Jesse is an NYC based movement director and dance artist working all over the world. He recently finished doing movement on an upcoming feature film Our Son that is aimed to open at Sundance, and you’ll see him dancing in A24’s upcoming film F*ing Identical Twins.
STC: Man of La Mancha (Orchestrations). NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: New Victory Theatre: Caps for Sale (Music and Lyrics). TOURS: Caps for Sale. REGIONAL: Adventure Theatre MTC: Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal (Music and Lyrics) | Ford’s Theatre: Into the Woods | Arena Stage: Snow Child | Signature Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Last Five Years | Round House Theatre: Ordinary Days | OTHER: Music and lyrics for Little Thinker Adventures podcast; Choral piece “The Astronomer” recorded by The Capital Hearings. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award (Outstanding Music Direction, Into the Woods). PERSONAL: Upcoming: music and lyrics for Vanishing Girl (Flying V Theatre) | williamyanesh.squarespace.com.
STC: Our Town, The Silent Woman. REGIONAL: Baltimore Center Stage: The Garden, How to Catch Creation | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Describe the Night; BLKS; Botticelli in the Fire; Oedipus el Rey; Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; House of Gold | Round House Theatre: Spring Awakening | 1st Stage: The Phlebotomist, Secret Things, Three Days of Rain, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | Taffety Punk: Pram Kicker, Riot Grrrls Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar | Signature Theatre: Pacific Overtures | Imagination Stage: Merlin and the Cave of Dreams, Perseus’ Bayou. PERSONAL: Lorraine is an Intimacy, Fight, and Movement Director in the D.C. Metro area. She is the Intimacy and Fight Director for the summer season at The Theatre at Monmouth. | Training: Virginia Commonwealth University: MFA.
INTERNATIONAL: National Theatre (London): Jack Absolute (Director), Romeo and Juliet (Adapter), The Comeback (Director), Hansard (Associate Director), Antony and Cleopatra (Associate Director) | Bridge Theatre (London): A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Associate Director), Julius Caesar (Associate Director). PERSONAL: she/her | Emily is the Resident Director of the National Theatre. | emily-burns.com.
STC: Senior member of artistic staff, dramaturg in residence since 2011-12, working on over 60 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: guest essays in The New York Times, Lincoln Center Review, and many theatre journals. He is the author of 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 in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama.
STC: Babbitt, Comedy of Errors, The Matchbox Magic Flute, Macbeth, The Lehman Trilogy, As You Like It, Macbeth In Stride, Evita, Here There Are Blueberries, King Lear, Jane Anger, Much Ado About Nothing, Red Velvet, Our Town, The Merchant of Venice. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: cullud wattah*, Romeo y Julieta, Soft Power, for colored girls..., Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park), Mojada, Ain't No Mo'*. REGIONAL: Folger Theatre: Our Verse in Time to Come | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes*, Incendiary | The Kennedy Center: The Day You Begin | JAG Productions: Next to Normal | The Civilians: El Condor Magico, and others. AWARDS: Theatre Communications Group 2021 Rising Leader of Color. PERSONAL: she/her | Founding Trainer with Broadway for Racial Justice Casting Directive | Training: Dartmouth College: BA in Film & Media Studies | Instagram: @danicarodriguezcasting | DanicaRodriguez.com | *World Premiere
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STC (selected): Comedy of Errors, The Lehman Trilogy, 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: Romeo and Juliet, The Rover, 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.
STC: Much Ado About Nothing. REGIONAL (Assistant Director): Round House Theatre: Nine Night (US Premiere), We Declare You A Terrorist… (World Premiere), The Great Leap | Director: The Amish Project, MOJO, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Undiscovered Country, Elbow. | PERSONAL: she/her | Upcoming: Peerless (director), Jane Anger (assistant director) | Training: East 15 Acting School: MFA in Theatre Directing, High Point University: BA in Performance Theatre.
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.
REGIONAL: The Kennedy Center: 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert | Signature Theatre: No Place to Go, The Upstairs Department, Rent, Escaped Alone, Gun & Powder, Assassins, Blackbeard, Billy Elliot, Passion, The Scottsboro Boys, Light Years, A Little Night Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Titanic, The Fix | Olney Theatre Center: A.D. 16 | Theater J: The Jewish Queen Lear, The How and the Why, The Last Schwartz, Body of an American, Sons of the Prophet. PERSONAL: he/him | Training: Georgetown University: BA in Theater and Performance Studies.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
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