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Kate is an award-winning director and multi-hyphenate theater maker. Some favorite directing/devising credits include: Shakespeare & Company: Henry VI, Pt. II (Associate to Tina Packer), This Is It: Plays in Process; Midsummer Nights - Dream Love Escape, The Birds, Romeo and Juliet: A Space Oddity (The Ridiculous Project Boston); D.arc Water, Dog Act, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, The Mermaid Hour: Remixed, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Boston Conservatory Berklee); Macbeth, Big Love, Ghosts of Troy, The Wolves, Comedy of Errors (Salem State University) and Hamlet (Brandeis University, co-directed). Founding Artistic Director of The Ridiculous Project, Professor of Movement and Acting for Boston Conservatory Berklee. MFA Naropa University, MA RADA/ Kings College, BFA Goldsmiths College London. Teacher of Acrobat of the Heart psychophysical actor training, Trish Arnold Pure Movement, DE-SMTT: Somatic Movement Educator and CYT.

Amanda Gronich is an Emmy-nominated documentary scriptwriter who has devoted her career to bringing true stories to the stage and screen.

Born and raised in New York City, Amanda received a BA in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Soon after, she joined Tectonic Theater Project as a charter member and became captivated by interview-based storytelling. Amanda was one of the group of artists who traveled to Laramie, Wyoming to co-create (based on 200+ interviews) The Laramie Project, later made into an HBO film. She directed the company's Toronto production of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Most recently at Tectonic, Amanda co-authored Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre Company DC, New York Theatre Workshop 2024).

In addition to her work in theater, Amanda pursued a prolific, decade-long career in documentary television. She joined the award-winning production team at National Geographic Television as a lead series writer. Prior to that, Amanda was the Supervising Senior Writer at Hoff Productions, where for many seasons she oversaw the company’s entire staff of writers and all scripting. In this role, Amanda created, wrote and story-consulted on top-rated series and specials for diverse national broadcast networks, including National Geographic, Animal Planet, WeTV, Travel Channel and TLC. Her work has also been seen internationally, with her programs receiving some of the highest ratings in their timeslots overseas.

Throughout, Amanda committed herself to inspiring new generations of playwrights to create groundbreaking documentary storytelling, bringing unheard voices to the stage. While teaching as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Graduate Program in Educational Theatre at the City College of New York, Amanda developed a unique method for generating interview- and research-based dramas. She is at work founding a documentary theater development institute to expand these techniques. In addition, a book about her original play-devising methods will be released by Southern Illinois University Press.

Amanda currently works as a playwright and script consultant. She is developing a new documentary musical about a family coping with a rare genetic condition. She plans to continue working in the under-explored field of interview-based musicals.

Karen Hartman is a finalist for the 2023 international Susan Smith Blackburn prize. In 2022, her work launched VOLT at 59e59 Theaters, an unprecedented festival of three simultaneous off-Broadway premieres by a single author: New Golden Age (Primary Stages); The Lucky Star (The Directors Company); and Goldie, Max & Milk (MBL Productions). Also in 2022, Rattlesnake Kate, book by Hartman, score by Neyla Pekarek, won eight Henry Awards, including Best New Work, in its world premiere at Denver Theater Center. Some of Hartman’s many plays include: Good Faith: Four Chats about Race and the New Haven Fire Department (Yale Repertory Theater), Roz and Ray (McKnight Fellowship, Edgerton New Play Prize, Kilroy’s List), Project Dawn (NEA Art Works Grant, NNPN Rolling World Premiere, currently in development for television), Leah’s Train (National Asian American Theater Company, Weissberger Award Finalist), Girl Under Grain (Best Drama in NY Fringe) and Gum. Her plays are published by Theater Communications Group, Dramatists Play Service, Concord Theatricals and more.

Her prose has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post. A recent Guggenheim Fellow and former Fulbright Scholar, Hodder Fellow, and New Dramatist, Hartman served as Senior Artist-in-Residence at University of Washington School of Drama for five years, and lives in Brooklyn with her family. She wrote the book for Alice Bliss (music: Jenny Giering, lyrics: Adam Gwon, based on Laura Harrington's novel), which won the 2019 Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award and will premiere at TheatreWorks in 2023.

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S&Co: The Contention (Henry VI, Part II), Much Ado About Nothing, Time Stands Still, Heisenberg, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona; Regional: Appropriate, God’s Ear (Elliot Norton Award Best Actress & Best Production), Henry VIII, Pericles, Living In Exile, Cabaret; Film/TV: Sheepdog, Mother/Android, John And The Hole, The Equalizer 2, The Judge; Defending Jacob; Bull; The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe; Olive Kitteridge; Chasing Life” Canadian TV: Blue Murder (Series Lead), The Associates (Series Lead); MFA American Repertory Theatre. Tamara is part of MetaGirl Productions with Kate Kohler Amory. Their solo play This Is It has been performed in Boston and New York. They are currently adapting the novel The Weight of Ink to the stage. Alumni: January Month-long Intensive 2003.

Rachel Kadish is the award-winning author of the novels The Weight of Ink, From a Sealed Room, and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story, as well as the novella I Was Here. Her work has appeared on NPR and in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Paris Review, Slate, and Tin House, and has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and elsewhere. Her novels have won the National Jewish Book Award, the John Gardner Fiction Award, the Boston Authors Club’s Julia Ward Howe Fiction Award, and the American Jewish Libraries Fiction Award. She was the Koret writer-in-residence at Stanford University, and has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Harvard/Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute, and the New York Public Library / Fordham University. She has been granted residencies at the Yaddo and MacDowell colonies, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Bellagio Center (Rockefeller Foundation). She lives outside Boston.

Tony- and Emmy-nominated director and playwright, and recipient of the National Medal of Arts from President Obama, Moisés Kaufman has led Tectonic Theater Project since its founding in 1991. Broadway credits include Paradise Square (10 Tony Award nominations), the revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams, the revival of The Heiress starring Jessica Chastain, 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), and Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (Obie Award and Tony, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominations). West End: Gross Indecency, I Am My Own Wife, This Is How It Goes. Off-Broadway / Regional: Here There Are Blueberries (Tectonic Theater Project/La Jolla Playhouse), Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, Tectonic Theater Project/Madison Wells Live), One Arm by Tennessee Williams (Tectonic Theater Project/The New Group); The Laramie Project (writer/director; Theater in the Square, Drama Desk nomination); The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (writer/director; Alice Tully Hall); Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (writer/director; Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play and the Joe A. Callaway Award for Direction); Macbeth with Liev Schreiber (Delacorte Theater); Master Class with Rita Moreno (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). Opera: El Gato Con Botas (New Victory Theater). Film/TV: The Laramie Project (HBO; two Emmy nominations for writing and directing, Opening Night Selection at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, National Board of Review Award, the Humanitas Prize); The L Word. Kaufman is the Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project, a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting, and an Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award winner.

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include The Man Who had All the Luck (1944), All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977), The American Clock (1980) And Playing for Time. Later plays include The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), Mr. Peters’ Connections (1998), Resurrection Blues (2002), and Finishing the Picture (2004). Other works include Focus, a novel (1945), The Misfits, a screenplay (1960), and the texts for In Russia (1969), In the Country (1977), and Chinese Encounters (1979), three books in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath. Memoirs include Salesman in Beijing (1984) and Timebends, an autobiography (1988). Short fiction includes the collection I Don’t Need You Anymore (1967), the novella Homely Girl, a Life (1995) and Presence: Stories (2007). He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwriting at University of Michigan in 1936. He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He also won an Obie award, a BBC Best Play Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Algur Meadows Award. He was named Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001. He was awarded the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and the 2003 Jerusalem Prize. He received honorary degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University and was awarded the Prix Moliere of the French theatre, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Wendy Wasserstein’s play The Heidi Chronicles won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; the New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards; and earned her a grant from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. For The Sisters Rosensweig she received the 1993 Outer Critics Circle Award, a Tony Award nomination, and the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in American Theatre. Other plays include Old Money and An American Daughter and Third (Lincoln Center); Uncommon Women and Others (Phoenix Theater); Isn’t it Romantic (Playwrights Horizons); a musical, Miami (with Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman); Waiting for Philip Glass, included in Love’s Fire (The Acting Company). Wasserstein’s screenplays include The Object of My Affection, produced as a major motion picture starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd. For PBS Great Performances she wrote Kiss, Kiss Darling; Drive, She Said; and adaptations of John Cheever’s The Sorrows of Gin and her own Uncommon Women and Others. She adapted The Heidi Chronicles for TNT (1996 Emmy Award nomination for Best Television Movie) and An American Daughter for Lifetime Television. Her adaptation of The Nutcracker was performed at The American Ballet Theatre at The Met, and her adaptation of The Merry Widow premiered at San Francisco Opera. She was the librettist for the original opera Festival of Regrets: Central Park, which had runs at Glimmerglass Opera and New York City Opera. She wrote Pamela’s First Musical, a children’s book, which adapted with Cy Coleman into a musical which premiered in Spring 2006. Her other books include the essay collections Shiksa Goddess and Bachelor Girls. She contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Woman, and Harper’s Bazaar, among many other publications. She was the recipient of an NEA Grant, Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. She served on the Council of the Dramatists Guild, on the Board of the British American Arts Association, School of American Ballet, WNET/Thirteen, and The Educational Foundation of America. She taught at Columbia University, New York University, Juilliard School, and Princeton University, and held an Honorary Doctorate from Mount Holyoke College. Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan. She was a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the Yale School of Drama.

Judy Braha has been a director, teacher and arts activist for over four decades. Long-time Head of the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University College of Fine Arts, her credits include theaters and universities throughout New England. She proudly works with the BU Prison Arts Project and Race Prison Justice Arts. Judy is currently Associate Artistic Director at Great Barrington Public Theater in the beautiful Berkshires. Recent Directing: Things I Know To Be True, Mr. Fullerton, Dog People (GBPT), Representation and How To Get It (Revolutionary Spaces), The Exonerated, Our Class (BU), Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets (Gloucester Stage), Golda’s Balcony (New Rep), Flight of the Monarch (Shake&Co). Upcoming: Madame Mozart, The Lacrimosa at GBPT.

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Amy Marie Seidel is thrilled to bring Here There Are Blueberries to Shakespeare & Company. Amy is a NYC-based theater artist who specializes in interview-based, archival-based, and otherwise historically inspired storytelling. She is a member of Tectonic Theater Project where she has developed numerous plays, including Here There Are Blueberries (2025 Lortel winner and 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk winner), primarily through the practice of devising. Most recently as director, Amy premiered a tap dance and practical foley-driven production of Machinal at New York City Center. Select AD credits: Broadway - The Great Gatsby, Paradise Square. Regional - Billie Jean (Chicago Shakespeare Theater).

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S&Co: Director, Coriolanus, Intimate Apparel, Ugly Lies The Bone, Red Velvet, Shakespeare’s Will, Romeo and Juliet, Sea Marks, Martha Mitchell Calling, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Love Letters, Collected Stories, The Winter’s Tale, Wit, A Room of One’s Own, The Turn of the Screw. New York: Abingdon; Culture Project; EST; HERE; Joe’s Pub; Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab; Mud/Bone; New Dramatists; the Public; Shakespeare Society; Symphony Space; 78th St. Theater Lab; Upstart Creatures; Vineyard Theatre. Regional: Boston Playwrights’; Connecticut Repertory; LA Women’s Shakespeare; the Modern; Northern Stage; Sun Valley Shakespeare; Tygre’s Heart Shakespeare; Vineyard Playhouse; VoxFest; Wharton Salon. Co–founder, The Company of Women; co–creator, Conversations with Shakespeare; Drama League Fellow; NYTW Usual Suspect. Faculty/Guest Artist: The Linklater Center, Barnard, Bennington, Columbia, Dartmouth, David Geffen School of Drama, Emerson, NYU, Purchase, Smith, U. Conn., Yale University. International theater exchange projects: Sfumato Theatre Laboratory, Sofia, Bulgaria; Pro Rodopi Art Centre, Bostina, Bulgaria. Artistic Research Fellow, The Folger Institute, 2025-2026. CAT alumna: January Month-long Intensive 1988,1990; SSI (formerly STI) 1988.

James Warwick has worked on and off Broadway as a leading actor and director and appeared in over 100 episodes of various TV series, both in the US and in his native England. He acted in UK regional theatre for several years after leaving the Royal Central School and subsequently played many leading parts in London’s West End. James became an American citizen 25 years ago and has since lived and worked in Los Angeles and in NYC as an actor and director. He is now based in the Berkshires MA and has directed productions at Shakespeare & Company, Chester Theatre, Great Barrington Public Theatre, Berkshire Theater Group and The Majestic Theatre in West Springfield. He is the recipient of awards from The Spotlight, BAFTA, Showcase Magazine LA, Ovations LA, The Berkshire Eagle, Audiophile Magazine and the Berkshire Theater Critics Association.

Whitney Andrews is a Haitian American actor. Off Broadway: Sex Variants of 1941 (Skirball). Regional: The Inspector (Yale Rep). TV: Manifest (NBC), Wu Tang: An American Saga (Hulu), Happy! (Syfy), Gotham (FOX). B.F.A. University of Connecticut, M.F.A. Yale School of Drama.

S&Co: Over 40 plays: The Winter’s Tale (Paulina), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania), The Approach, The Waverly Gallery, HIR, God of Carnage; Mother of the Maid (pre–Broadway, originated Lady of the Court); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Parasite Drag; Merry Wives of Windsor; The Winter’s Tale; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Bad Dates (Elliot Norton Award Best Solo Performance); Rough Crossing; King Lear; Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia, final performance at The Mount). Regional: Silverthorne Theatre: The Cake; Great Barrington Public Theatre; Simon’s Rock: The House of Bernarda Alba; Oldcastle: The Consul, The Tramp & America’s Sweetheart, The Lion in Winter; Barrington Stage: 10X10 Play Fest; Merrimack Rep: Bad Dates; Boston Theatre Works: Angels in America, Othello. Directing: Merchant of Venice (Assistant Dir, Tina Packer Dir.). Indy Films Actor: Trigger Finger; Seriously Twisted. Voice Over actor/producer/audiobooks: Choosing Joy: Alzheimer’s -- a Book of Hope); Peregrine Island. Producer Feature films: Unfinished Song (Doc 2025 in production); Thickly Settled (2025 post prod w/ Naheem Garcia), Cold Wallet (Amazon Prime w/ Joshua Brener, Tony Cavalero, SXSW, BIFF); Onyx The Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls (Sundance, BIFF Amazon Prime/ Sling); The Secret Art of Human Flight (Amazon Prime/AppleTV w/ Lucy DeVito, Paul Raci); Skelly (Netflix w/ Brian Cox, Torrey DeVitto, John Palladino); I’m Not Him (Amazon Prime w/ John Palladino); Stroke of Luck (Netflix w/ John Popper). Theatre Producer: Rhinoceros (w/ Chris Noth at The Cutting Room NYC), Living the Dream (by Mark Roberts, 52nd Street Project). Lizzy’s performance is dedicated to her mother Faye whose spirit and light walks with her every day.

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Company member of Tectonic Theater Project where he has been a devisor on Here There are Blueberries from the first residency at Miami New Drama to NYTW, the recent North American tour and upcoming in London. Scott is a contributing author of the company’s book: Moment Work, a teacher of devising, and was part of the creative team on Broadway's Tony award-winning 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda, as well as Uncommon Sense, and the Laramie Project Epilogue; Ten years Later. Scott's performed at Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare, New Jersey Shakespeare, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, The Geva, The Wilma, The Arden, Trinity Rep and many more. Scott is the Artistic Director of Stages on the Sound where he champions unconventional classrooms and unpredictable productions. Scott is a proud Alumnus of Shakespeare and Company’s Summer Training Institute, The Fall Festival and a Romeo and Juliet schools tour.

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S&Co: Acting: Duke (Measure for Measure), Rose (The Children), Mom (Ugly Lies the Bone); Mistress Quickly (Henry IV Pts. 1 & 2); Goneril (King Lear); Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing); Elizabeth (Richard III); Audrey (As You Like It); Hippolyta (Midsummer Night’s Dream); The Nurse (Romeo and Juliet); Mistress Quickly (Merry Wives of Windsor); Paulina (The Winter’s Tale), Ruth (Private Eyes), The Woman (Laughing Wild); Arlene (Off the Map) Directing: Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Miss Bennet, Christmas at Pemberley; The Wickhams, Christmas at Pemberley; Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility. At Mixed Company: Ramona (Zara Spook and Other Lures) and Eileen (The Cripple of Inishmaan). With the Ensemble for the Romantic Century in NYC: Nadezhda VonMeck (None But the Lonely Heart), as well as Fanny Mendelsohn, Emily Dickinson, Sonia Tolstoy, and Anna Akhmatova (in multiple shows). Ariel is a Designated Linklater Teacher.

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Gregory Boover S&Co: Claudio (Much Ado), Feste (Twelfth Night), Fenton/Slender (Merry Wives), Silvius/Amiens (As You Like It), Leo (4000 Miles), Iago (Othello ed. tour), Bottom/Demetrius (Midsummer ed. tour), Scaramouch (The Emperor of the Moon), Polonius/Horatio (Hamlet ed. tour), Nurse/Friar (R&J ed. tour), Damis (Tartuffe). Regional: The Majestic Theater, Hanover Theater, Catskill Mountain Shakespeare, Urbanite Theatre, The Theater at Woodshill, The Umbrella Stage Company, WAM Theatre, Emergent Ensemble Theater, The Theatre at Monmouth, Looking Glass Theater (NY), and more. Greg serves on the faculty at Community Access To The Arts, and produces independent music and artwork. His short film Notification is an official selection for the 2025 Berkshire International Film Festival. Training: S&Co January Month-long Intensive (2017); (BA) UMass Amherst.

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S&Co: Director: The Tempest (2017), As You Like It (2018), Twelfth Night (2019) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2023), Shake It Up (2024). Shakespeare & Company performances: Flight of the Monarch, Henry VI, Part 2, A Walk in the Woods, King Lear, God of Carnage, Or, King John, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, Part 1, among others. As Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Allyn directed and acted in numerous productions. Other Boston area performances include Can You Forgive Her (Huntington Theatre), Breaking the Code (Underground Railway Theatre), Shipwrecked (The Lyric Stage), The Seafarer and The Homecoming (Merrimack Repertory Theater), Five by Tenn (Speakeasy Stage). Elliot Norton Award for The Homecoming, King Lear, Five by Tenn; IRNE Award for Breaking the Code. Off-Broadway: Bug, Killer Joe, Louis Slotin Sonata, Closetland. Regionally: Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Theatre, Long Wharf, Denver Center, Walnut St. Television: The Broad Squad, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Against the Law. Films include The Company Men, Julie & Julia, Manchester by the Sea, Don’t Look Up, and the upcoming Tony.

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S&Co: The Taming of the Shrew, An Iliad (Berkshire Theatre Award, Outstanding Solo Performance), King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, Intimate Apparel, Fringe Festival producer (2017-2019). NEW YORK: Ensemble Studio Theatre, York Shakespeare. REGIONAL: Front Porch Arts Collective, SpeakEasy Stage, Lyric Stage, Franklin Stage, Elm Shakespeare, Hanover Theatre Repertory, Notre Dame Shakespeare, WAM Theatre, Ancram Center for the Arts, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Kennedy Center, NJ Rep (company member), Theater Alliance, Tennessee Shakespeare, Advice to the Players, African Continuum Theatre, & Totem Pole Playhouse. FILM/TV: The Shape of Destiny (Official selection, 2018 Women in Comedy Festival), Ghosts of Hamilton Street (Mike Flanagan, dir.), HBO’s “The Wire.” EDUCATION: S&Co (Center for Actor Training alum, 2016 Month-long Intensive), National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Alcorn State University. For my mom Dorothy D. Scott Chesser, and my friend Dennis Krausnick.

Off-Broadway: The Women’s Project, Vineyard Theatre. Regional: Kennedy Center, Trinity Rep. Boston area: Huntington Theatre, Gloucester Stage, Merrimack Rep, New Rep, Lyric Stage, Central Square Theater. Favorite roles: Clive/Betty (Cloud Nine), Flora (Humble Boy), Irene (Beyond Words), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Gertrude (The Underpants), Ann Landers (The Lady With All the Answers). Film: The Women, Orphan, A Simple Question. She can be seen putting her Deaf Studies degree to good use in What’s the Worst That Could Happen? as her character gleefully interprets a string of invective into American Sign Language. Shakespeare & Company January Month-long Intensive – 1989, Teacher Trainee – 2017

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Samuel “Mooly” Dinnar is an actor, director, and teacher based in Boston. Dinnar trained with Kevin Coleman at the Education Department, and went on to teach and direct Shakespeare in the schools. As a big believer in human relationships and the use of experiential learning to help people deal with conflict, Mooly uses role-play when he teaches negotiation and leadership to university students, lawyers and professionals. He has been training, teaching and assisting at the Training Department for over a decade, including developing and teaching with Tina Packer the Public Speaking Workshops. Mooly supported Shakespeare & Company’s rehearsals and public talkbacks of A Walk in the Woods in 2022 with James Warwick, Jonathan Epstein and Allyn Burrows, and was Assistant Director to Tina Packer in the 2024 production of The Winter’s Tale.

Sam Eisenbaum is an actor, director and creator currently based in Wappingers Falls, NY. He recently appeared in an international production of the musical Scooby-Doo in Saudi Arabia (as Shaggy); regional productions include playing Jim Stark (Rebel Without a Cause), Frederick Frankenstein (Young Frankenstein), Laertes (Hamlet) and Harker (Dracula). Sam fondly directed You're a Good Man Charlie Brown at Beacon High School. He is currently performing in short films and will be venturing to Turkey in the fall to play Willy Wonka. He is a Hudson Valley Magazine "Best Live Actor" honoree and is enlivened to join Shakespeare & Company for this production.

Deborah Grausman is an actor, singer, voice actor, and producer. Currently, she can be heard as the voice of Smartie, Elmo’s friend, on Sesame Street, and you might catch her voice on a couple of NY Lotto spots that are running! Select theater credits include: Chava in the National Tour of Fiddler on the Roof with Topol and Harvey Fierstein, Little Red Ridinghood in Into the Woods (Charlottesville Opera), Sharon in Master Class (Shakespeare & Company), Wendy in Peter Pan (Media Theatre), Freddie in The Club (Berkshire Theatre Group). Deborah has voiced many national commercials for Subway, Geico, Liberty Mutual, and IKEA, among others, recorded promos for Food Network, and narrated the award-winning novel, What the Night Sings (Penguin Random House). She has produced four incarnations of Broadway in the Berkshires (two for Shakespeare & Company and two for The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center), with hosts Richard Kind, Dick Cavett, John Douglas Thompson, and Chip Zien. Deborah is passionate about her philanthropic work and sits on the board of directors of the national nonprofit Culinary Careers Program (C-CAP) and the Edna Y. Schwartz Scholarship Fund at Belvoir Terrace, a performing arts camp for girls, in Lenox. She is a native New Yorker and a graduate of Duke University.

Michael Hammond is an actor, director, playwright and teacher. He was a member of Boston University’s School of Theatre faculty for many years, and prior to Boston University, worked for many years at Shakespeare & Company, finally serving there as associate artistic director. He is currently a member of Shakespeare & Company’s faculty. He has appeared as an actor on Broadway, and at various regional theaters. Two of his more recent live performances: a collaboration entitled The Cattle, presented at Douglas Dunn’s studio in New York City; and a presentation of his tribute to late friend and collaborator Steve Haferbier, entitled Gone Before, Cont’d, at the Becket Arts Center in Becket, MA. Michael’s podcast, entitled Ezra Speaks, is currently available on major podcast platforms.

BROADWAY: Act One. OFF-BROADWAY: Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, Nocturne NYTW Drama Desk Nomination. REGIONAL: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Sonia Flew, The Rivals, The Cherry Orchard, The Corn is Green, Love's Labour's Lost (Huntington); The Merchant of Venice, The Birthday Party, Full Circle, We Won't Pay We Won't Pay, Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Ubu Rock, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Uncle Vanya, Animals and Plants, Romance, Duck Variations, Marvelous Party, (ART); Once in a Lifetime (ACT); Glengarry Glen Ross, Twelfth Night (MRT); Abduction From the Seraglio, Ariadne Aux Naxos, (Boston Lyric Opera); Porgy and Bess, (BSO); Polar Express, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, (Boston Pops); Film/TV: What Doesn't Kill You, Next Stop Wonderland, Home Movies, Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist.

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Zoya Martin is so grateful to be returning to Shakespeare & Company this summer and fall. She just closed Mother Play as Martha Herman, directed by Ariel Bock. During her first season in 2023, she played Louise Rabiner in Dear Jack, Dear Louise directed by Ariel Bock and later in the season the role of Ophelia in Kevin Coleman’s “Enhanced Reading” of Hamlet. She received her MFA degree from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training in Sarasota, Florida. Her Asolo Repertory Theatre credits include Margaret Leavitt in Silent Sky and Penelope in Looking for Ithaca. Other credits include Malvolia in Twelfth Night, The Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol, Henrietta in The Learned Ladies, Abby in Belleville, and Harriet Smith in Emma: The Musical. She received her BFA from Azusa Pacific University.

Annette Miller has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in Boston, in Regional Theaters, and in Film and Television. She has been a leading actor at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. for 25 seasons. Annette was awarded a Special Citation at the 2024 Elliott Norton awards ceremony, for her body of work and her recent sold-out reprisal of Golda’s Balcony at Shakespeare & Company and at Boston’s Emerson Paramount Theater, February and March 2024. She was acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as the best actor of the 2020 season in regional theater for her performance as Gladys Green in The Waverly Gallery. She received the 2018 Berkshire Theater Critics Association Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Katherine in Mothers and Sons. Annette originated the role of Golda Meir in Golda’s Balcony before it went to Broadway for which she received both Boston’s Elliot Norton Best Actor Award and the Independent Reviewers of New England Best Actor Award. In Florida, she received the Carbonell Best Actor Award nomination for her portrayal of Vi in August Osage County and the Elliot Norton Best Actor Nomination for her role as Martha Mitchell in Martha Mitchell Calling. Other favorite roles include Maria Callas in Master Class, Madam Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, Vera in 4,000 Miles, Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop, Duchess of York in Richard III, and Maria in Twelfth Night. Film role credits include: Mrs. Tanken in Don’t Look Up with Leonardo DiCaprio, You Will Not Play Wagner (featuring Annette, which has been successfully seen at the New Plaza Cinema in NY and the Miami, Sarasota, Boca, Chicago, and Vancouver Jewish film Festivals and this June at the prestigious Berkshire International Film Festival.), Company Men, Autumn Heart, The Imported Bride Groom, The Next Karate Kid, The Eye Has to Travel (documentary on Diana Vreeland), and See How She Runs. On TV, Annette had recurring roles on As The World Turns and Ryan’s Hope. Other awards include the Boston Jewish Film Festival Award and the Zev Cohen Leadership Award. Annette studied with Stella Adler and holds a BA and MFA from Brandeis University. She is currently an Alumni Scholar at Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center where she wrote and continues to perform for organizations and colleges. Now is Our Time: for a Theatrical Collage on the Pleasures and Perils of our Third Chapter.

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Kenia Munguia is a Honduran Nicaraguan actress based in New York City whose work spans stage, film, and voiceover. She has brought to life ‘Bruna’ in Arístides Vargas’s Our Lady of Clouds, ‘Edit’ in Eisa Davis’s Mushroom, ‘Hermia’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and ‘Ana’ in Rockstar’s highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI. She has trained at Shakespeare & Company’s prestigious Winter Intensive and Teatro Círculo’s Classical Texts program, fostering a blend that links classical texts and contemporary storytelling. Represented by Stewart Talent Agency and Worldwide Talent Management, Kenia is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. Her work is driven by a fascination with resilience, identity, and the contradictions that define human lives, always seeking roles that challenge and transform.

Nick Nudler has appeared at Shakespeare & Company as Petruchio, The Taming of the Shrew, and Ensemble, I HAVE HAD A MOST RARE VISION. As part of the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare, he’s played Macbeth, Macbeth; Antipholus of Ephesus, The Comedy of Errors, and Claudius, Hamlet. He is half of the collaborative theatre duo Cosmic Mirth with his partner, Kirsten Peacock. They build highly physical interpretations of classic and folk stories. His training includes earning a BFA from the University of Connecticut.

Kevin O’Rourke has performed on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Spoils of War, and Alone Together, as well as The City of Conversation at Lincoln Center, Outside Mullingar at The White Heron, The Night Alive at John Drew, A Body of Water at Shakespeare & Company and productions at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Arena Stage, Roundabout, Long Wharf, Primary Stages and Baltimore’s Centerstage. Locally, Kevin has both directed and performed with Williamstown Theatre Festival and has appeared at Barrington Stage, Berkshire Playwrights Lab and Great Barrington Public. Television roles include Madam Secretary, Law and Order, The Sopranos, and VEEP. He won a SAG Award for his role as Edward Bader on Boardwalk Empire and was nominated for his role on AMC’s Remember Wenn. Films include The Irishman, The Aviator, American Pickle, Vice Versa, and Freeheld. In 2005 he founded the Williams College Summer Theatre Lab and for 10 years served as its Artistic Director. Kevin and his wife live in Williamstown.

Kirsten Peacock has appeared in several Shakespeare & Company productions, including as Kate, The Taming of the Shrew; Emma, EMMA; Titania, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Ensemble, I HAVE HAD A MOST RARE VISION. As part of Shakespeare & Company’s Northeast Regional Tour, she played Lady Macbeth, Macbeth; Antipholus of Syracuse, The Comedy of Errors; Ophelia, Hamlet, and Desdemona, Othello. Kirsten is an actor/theater-maker of British/American parentage, but grew up in Norway. She studied at the University of Kent and UC Berkeley. Outside of Shakespeare, some of her favorite acting credits include Halina in Indecent (Playhouse on Park), Brooke in Noises Off (Cape Rep Theatre) and Adelle Ratignolle in The Awakening (Breadbox Theatre). She and her partner Nick Nudler create and perform new works of ancient stories with their company Cosmic Mirth. Their plays From the Heart of the Wreck, Jason & Medea and Midsummer Dreamers premiered at Cape Rep Theatre on Cape Cod.

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Barb is co-author of MOMENT WORK: Tectonic Theater Project’s Process of Devising Theater. She is currently playing Judy Cohen in the tour of Tectonic’s Here There Are Blueberries. Barb is an original actor/co-creator of The Laramie Project (BAM, Lincoln Center and Union Square Theatre, LaJolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep) and appears in HBO’s film adaption (shared Emmy Nomination, Best Adapted Screenplay). Recent/favorite theater: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Mona Pinot’s Baseball It Is, Chris O’Connor’s The Gentleman from Philly (Mile Square Theatre, NJ), and Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire (Triad Stage, NC). TV: Person of Interest, Forever, Kidnapped, 30 Rock, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, Law & Order, L&O: SVU, and Comedy Central’s Pulp Comics.

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Alli Ross is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. Her training spans many approaches to devising and choreographing for theater and dance. Recent work includes Where I End & You Begin, an immersive audio experience, built through a long term performing arts residency at Mass MoCA. Other performance credits include the development and touring of Healing Wars with Liz Lerman and the U.S. premiere of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, originating the role of Lady Macduff /American Repertory Theater/Emursive's NYC. Ross is an Associate Professor of Theater at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee where her research focuses on movement for actors, ensemble building, and immersive theater.

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Off-broadway credits include Garside’s Career (drama desk nom, outstanding revival), Partnership, and Becomes a Woman (The Mint). Regional credits include Love, Love, Love (Studio Theatre D.C.); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Christians (Chautauqua). She can be seen on screen in the TV shows Elsbeth and A League of Their Own. BA: William’s College. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Michael makes his Shakespeare and Co. debut with this reading of The Sisters! Thanks to Judy Braha for bringing me along, and to my whole pack here in the Berkshires. Television: The Brands that built America (History Channel) Theatre: Buddy in The Buddy Holly Story (Theatre by the Sea, Forestburgh Playhouse) Million Dollar Quartet (Stages St. Louis, St. Michaels' Playhouse, Fireside Dinner Theatre, John Engeman theatre) Saturday Night Fever (Ogunquit Playhouse, Gateway Playhouse) Rock and Roll Man! (Bucks County Playhouse) Cal in Camo (Denizen theatre). Arts Education: BSO’s DARTS program at Tanglewood, The Flying Cloud Institute, Falls Village Children’s Theatre, Soundry Music Studio. Michael plays bass for Pittsfield’s original rock band Sample the Cat, and is a graduate of the American Music and Dramatic Academy.

Abigail Rose Solomon recently shot the indie films Pointing Fingers (dir. Michael Bergmann) and Mouse opposite CBE Sophie Okonedo (dirs. Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan). She appeared as “Senator Lisa Murkowski” in Lilly opposite Patricia Clarkson, which played in movie theaters nationally this past spring. Her other feature film and TV credits include: Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mercy, Childless, Three Women, Odd Mom Out, Sex & the City, Law & Order, NYPD Blue and Days of Our Lives. On stage, she has worked with Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Shadowland Stages, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, WP Theater and New Georges. She toured nationally with a one-woman show for eight years. Abigail has her B.A. in Theater from Williams College and her M.F.A. from the N.Y.U. Graduate Acting Program. She lives in N.Y.C. and Egremont.

John Douglas Thompson Broadway credits: Jitney (Tony Award nomination), King Lear, Carousel, A Time to Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, International: Othello at RSC, The Merchant of Venice at Royal Lyceum Theater. Off-Broadway: Irish Rep: Endgame (Obie Award), Public Theatre : Hamlet (Audelco Award) Julius Caesar, Troilus & Cressida, King Lear; BAM: The Iceman Cometh (Obie Award, Drama Desk Award), TFNA: The Merchant of Venice, A Doll’s House, The Father, Macbeth, Othello (Obie, Lucille Lortel Award), Tamburlaine the Great (Obie, Drama Desk); Westside Theatre: Satchmo at the Waldorf (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, NAACP Theatre Award); NYTW: Hedda Gabler; Irish Rep: Regional: Huntington Theatre: Man in The Ring (Elliott Norton Award), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: The Tempest (Elliott Norton Award), ART: Othello, Richard II, Antigone, Henry V, Mother Courage, ACT: Hamlet; Mark Taper: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Ovation Award); Shakespeare & Company: Red Velvet, Othello, King Lear, Richard III; Wilma Theater: Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Barrymore Award); Film: Highest 2 Lowest, Till, The Bourne Legacy, Glass Chin, Michael Clayton, and Wolves. Television: The Gilded Age, Bull, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Law & Order: SVU, Madam Secretary, Person of Interest. Additional Awards: Matador Award, Robert Brustein Award, Samuel H. Scripps Award, Eugene O’Neill Award, AAFCA Distinguished Achievement Award, Elliott Norton Sustained Excellence, and the Earle Hyman Award. John is an alumnus of Shakespeare & Company's Center for Actor Training.

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Kristofer Ryan Wilson is a North Carolina born-and-raised actor based in Brooklyn. Credits: Where The Mountain Meets the Sea (Ancram Center for the Arts); Confederates (PlayMakers Repertory Company); The Comedy of Errors, The Winter's Tale, OAK (Shakespeare & Company); Vegetarian (Citizen Arts & Education); Romeo & Juliet: An Exploratory Lab (Lucien Theatre Company, Founding Member). Thanks to God, my family, my friends and every teacher on the journey. NYU Tisch - Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

Ryan has been a company member of Shakespeare & Company since 2006 and some of the productions he has been in include: The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Henry V, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Creditors, Hound of the Baskervilles, The Learned Ladies, Mother Courage, The Mystery of Irma Vep, and It's a Wonderful Life. Regional Credits include: Great Barrington Public Theater: Madame Mozart, The Stones, Breakwater; WAM Theatre: ROE, The Old Mezzo; Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: The Winter's Tale, Universe Rushing Apart; Gloucester Stage: Mr. Fulllerton: Between the Sheets; The Huntington Theatre Company: Joy and Pandemic. Film: The Boston Strangler (Hulu). TV: Time Traveling Bong (Comedy Central). Ryan has a BA from FSU, an MFA from UW-Madison, and he is a proud member of Actors' Equity and SAG.

Mark Zeisler has been working as an actor in theatre, film, television, recorded books and voiceover since 1983. Shakespeare & Company credits include The Tempest, Macbeth, As You Like It, and Time Stands Still. His Broadway credits include A View from the Bridge (Tony winner for Best Revival), Brooklyn Boy and The Big Knife. Off Broadway he has been seen in Rancho Viejo, Measure for Measure, the original production of eurydice, The Accomplices, and Piece of My Heart. He has performed at many resident theatres around the country including The Wilma, The Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Long Wharf, The Folger, Baltimore Center Stage, The Asolo, Actors Theatre of Louisville and American Repertory Theatre where he was a company member for three seasons. His television credits include The First Lady, Bull, House of Cards, Rescue Me, The Blacklist, FBI: Most Wanted and The Americans. On film he was a part of the award winning The Cathedral, as well as Random Hearts, Two Week Notice, The Thomas Crown Affair and Irrational Man. Mark is a native New Yorker and a graduate of SUNY Purchase.

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Kathleen H. Soltan is a Philadelphia based Stage Manager and Creator. Selected Theatre Credits: King Lear, The Waverly Gallery, Macbeth with Shakespeare & Company, I Do! I Do! with Purple Crayon Productions, Cadillac Crew, Kamloopa with WAM Theater Company, Noises Off!, Othello, The Birds, The Handmaid’s Tale with CurioTheatre Company. Selected Training: BA Theater Temple University. Creative Inspiration: Kathleen is dedicated to providing and promoting safe spaces for all Performers, Designers, and Artistic Creators. Special thanks to the directors, the cast and crew, the cows at High Lawn, and to apple cider donuts!

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Alex is thrilled to be returning to Shakespeare & Company for the 2025 season. Favorite credits include the world premiere of Millions (The Alliance Theatre), Les Misérables, Dreamgirls, The Little Mermaid, Fiddler on the Roof and Waitress (The Muny), Dear Evan Hansen (Second National Tour), and Salome (Heartbeat Opera). UNCSA Stage Management, Class of 2024. Lots of love to my family, friends, and my cat.

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Kulia is excited for her first production with Shakespeare & Company as an Assistant Stage Manager. She is a rising junior at Tufts University, majoring in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies with a minor in Music. Her previous stage management credits at Tufts include The Furies with the Theatre Department and The Enchanted Pig with the Music Department, among other productions. Originally from Sherwood Oregon, Kulia began her stage management journey with the Sherwood Foundation for the Arts and is delighted to continue pursuing her passion as a summer Stage Management Intern at Shakespeare & Company.

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Luke Willson is a NYC-based lighting designer with a passion for capturing the puzzles at the heart of stories. He is thrilled to be back at Shakespeare & Company for the 2025 Summer Season as the staff Assistant Production Manager and Head Electrician, as well as designing both Shake It Up and the premiere of Circus & the Bard. Luke recently graduated from Fordham University after working on more than 40 productions, including his thesis: the world premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s Horoscope, directed by May Adrales. Luke has worked on productions at The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, The Tank, The Flea, La MaMa, Atlantic Acting School, Theatre for a New Audience, NYC Fringe, Target Margin Theatre, and many more.