Raphael Massie is a director, actor, and educator, focused on how social and cultural factors can impact and enhance the performance of Western classical theater.

He has worked at Shakespeare & Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), Elm Shakespeare, and numerous other theaters and universities in the U.S. and abroad. He is a Drama League of New York Classical Directing Fellow, an OSF Killian Fellowship finalist, and was the Associate Director on critically acclaimed productions of The Cymbeline Project at OSF and The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare & Company. Raphael holds an MFA with Distinction in Staging Shakespeare from the University of Exeter (UK), as well as undergraduate degrees in both Theatre and Education from Southern Connecticut State University.