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Kaia Calhoun is a director, educator and writer. She has worked in such theaters as Shakespeare & Company (founding member), Yale Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Great Lakes Festival, Portland Stage Company, New York Theater Workshop, Round House Theater Company, New York Shakespeare Festival, Joe’s Pub, Great Lakes Festival, and Triad Stage. Kaia has been a guest artist/teacher at Yale University Summer Program, Juilliard, New York University, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Awards and achievements include the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship for Classical Directors (first recipient), the NEA/TCG Directors’ Grant, Drama League Directing Fellowship, and the Helen Hayes Award. She holds a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.

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Jim Frangione’s play Breakwater, set on Cape Cod, premiered at Great Barrington Public Theater in 2019 (Berkshire Theater Critics Association nomination for Best New Play). Flight of the Monarch was first presented at Gloucester Stage and received its Berkshire premiere last summer at Shakespeare & Company. The Shallows is the final play in the Trilogy. Jim directed Romance at WHAT; Seriously Funny: An Evening of Short Plays by Mamet, Silverstein and Pinter at Harvard/ART; and Private Life at HERE. For GB Public Theater: Public Speaking 101 and Dad, by Mark St. Germain; the east coast premiere of David Mamet’s The Christopher Boy’s Communion and Will LeBow’s The Bard The Beat The Blues. Jim’s acted in many plays with NYC’s Atlantic Theater, in National Tours, on Broadway, at the Alley Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theatre, the Humana Festival, in American Buffalo at Berkshire Theatre Festival and in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Shakespeare & Company. Jim is Artistic Director of Great Barrington Public Theater and would like to thank Allyn Burrows and everyone at Shakespeare & Company for bringing Flight of the Monarch—and now, The Shallows— to life.

Ken Ludwig has had six shows on Broadway, seven in London’s West End, and many of his works have become a standard part of the American repertoire. His 32 plays and musicals have been performed in more than 30 countries in more than 20 languages and are produced throughout the U.S. every night of the year. Lend Me a Tenor won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century by The Washington Post. Crazy For You was on Broadway for five years and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical. In addition, Ludwig has won the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, and the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theater. His plays have starred Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Tony Shaloub, Joan Collins, and Hal Holbrook, among others.

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.

Born in England, Tina was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, performed in regional theater, was an Associate Artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company, played in television series for the BBC and ITV, and arrived in the U.S. in 1974. She had a Ford Foundation Travel and Study Grant to research the visceral roots of Shakespeare’s plays, and travelled to India, Israel, Italy and the U.S. She co-founded Shakespeare & Company in 1978, and has worked for the Company ever since! She has directed all of Shakespeare’s plays (some of them several times), acted in eight of them (never when directing) and taught the whole canon at more than 30 colleges, including Harvard, M.I.T., and NYU. At Columbia University, she taught in the MBA program for four years, resulting in the publication of Power Plays: Shakespeare’s Lessons in Leadership and Management with Deming Center for Quality Management at Columbia Business School Professor John O. Whitney for Simon and Schuster. For Scholastic, she wrote Tales from Shakespeare, a children’s book and recipient of the Parent’s Gold Medal Award. Tina was the subject of WGBH documentary Sex, Violence and Poetry: A Portrait of Tina Packer. Tina’s book Women of Will was published by Knopf, and she has performed Women of Will with Nigel Gore in New York, Mexico, England, The Hague, China, and across the U.S. Charlie Rose interviewed Tina about her book Women of Will and she spoke at a TEDx talk about Women’s Voices. Her directing work is currently being written about in a work entitled Shakespeare in the Theatre: Tina Packer by Katharine Goodland, and will be published by Bloomsbury-Arden for their Shakespeare in the Theatre Series. S&Co acting credits include: Shirley Valentine, Molly Ivins, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Mother of the Maid; Volumnia, Gertrude, Cleopatra, and Edith Wharton several times. She’s the recipient of numerous awards and six honorary degrees, including the Commonwealth Award.

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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Glenn has been performing on stages throughout the Berkshires, New York, Connecticut and abroad since 1969. In New York at La Mama ETC., The Manhattan Theater Club, and in the New York Shakespeare Festival Tony Award winning revival of Threepenny Opera. Regionally with Longwharf Theatre, Riggs Theatre 37, Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park, Great Barrington Public Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Walking the Dog Theatre, Mixed Company and Barrington Stage. Finally, way back in 1985 with Shakespeare & Co. in their Salon Plays In One Door and Out the Other, Songs from the Heart, 2019’s production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, and last season in Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues for which he was nominated for a Berkshire Critics Award.

Christopher Brophy is very pleased to be back at Shakespeare & Company. An alumnus of the 2015 Winter Intensive, Chris has appeared in many shows in Boston and countless shows on Martha's Vineyard before returning home to the Berkshires. Since then he has worked with Shakespeare & Company, appeared in Good People for the Theater Barn, cofounded the Whitdiots Comedy Improv Troupe, and has performed with Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park since its inception and served on the board of directors for the company. Three summers ago Christopher made his singing debut with the Berkshire Lyric Chorus in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. This winter, he's working on a one-man show. Many thanks to Allyn and Ariel for their support. Thank you all for coming, enjoy the show!

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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). Co-creator / Director: Circus & The Bard (2025). 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.

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.

Dana M. Harrison is a Berkshires-based theatre artist, educator and coach, and a company member since 2007– having performed such roles as Gertrude (Hamlet, a Staged Reading, with Christopher Lloyd and Finn Wittrock), Amanda (Private Lives), Philaminte (The Learned Ladies), Isabelle/Sabine (The Liar), Phoebe (As You Like It), Lady Cynthia (The Real Inspector Hound), Emilia/Mopsa (The Winter’s Tale), Nerine (Scapin), u/s-performed Desdemona (Othello, with John Douglas Thompson), and directed for the Fall Festival of Shakespeare many times. Her most recent roles include Vanessa (Joan Ackermann’s This Place, These Hills) with Mixed Company, Bottom/Egeus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Prospero (The Tempest) and The Nurse/Lord Mont (R&J) with The Rooted Voyageurs. Other credits with area companies such as Great Barrington Public Theatre, WAM, Ghostlit Rep, Barrington Stage, New York’s Shakespeare on the Fly and Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park include: Edith Wharton (Mr. Fullerton), Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Lucio/Froth (Measure for Measure), Alonzo (The Tempest), Ursula/Verges (Much Ado about Nothing), Grace Duncan (Pterodactyls). She received the Berkshire Theatre Award (or “Berkie”) for Best Supporting Actress as Esther/Myra (Holy Laughter) at WAM Theater, and has been named to Berkshire Eagle’s Notable Performances multiple times. Dana holds a Master’s from Emerson College, is the Founding Director of Drama at MSB, and has coached students to acceptance at BFA, MFA programs and national professional acting contracts alike.

Mae Hedges is a Berkshire-based actor originally from Boston. Most recently, Mae appeared at The Mount in a reading of Edith Wharton’s The Reckoning and at Mixed Company in Joan Ackermann’s, This place. These hills. Mae is currently working on a play about the life of the mystic Julian of Norwich. When she is not on stage Mae works as an energy therapist, guiding clients with presence and prayer. This year her energywork received recognition in The New Yorker Magazine. Mae studied theatre at Cornell University and is a graduate of Shakespeare & Company’s January Month-Long Intensive (2011).

David Joseph has been touring as Mozart with Concert Theatre Works production of The Chavalier for the past five years and performing with The London Philharmonic, Chicago philharmonic, Cleveland Philharmonic and many others. David performed in the World Premiere of Letters to a Young Poet with The Brodski quartet at the Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings in The UK and recently with The Parker Quartet at Tanglewood (2025). David has performed twice with The Boston Symphony Orchestra as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Mozart in The Chevalier. He has been with Shakespeare & Company for 15 seasons. Joseph earned a Best Leading Actor nomination for playing Charlie Chaplin in the World Premiere of The Consul, The Tramp and Americas Sweetheart at Old Castle Theatre. Feature films include: Penny Land (Manhattan Film Festival) and Damsel by Douglas Burgdorf (Spain International Film Festival).

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Sarah is a theatre artist, producer, and educator based in the Berkshires. She is thrilled to be making her Shakespeare & Company debut with this incredible ensemble. Recent credits include: Alien Girls (WAM Fresh Takes); Survival of the Unfit (GBPT; Berkie Nominated for "Best Supporting Actress"); Amchitka (GBPT Benefit Reading); 10x10 (u/s Barrington Stage Company); Everybody (Williams College); The Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA); Sense & Sensibility, Ragtime, Native Son, Life of Galileo, Constellations (PlayMakers Rep); The Mysteries (The Flea); Usual Girls (EST Bloodworks); Horse Girls (Ars Nova Ant Fest); Film: In Transit, Bears, Tell That to the Winter Sea, Good Grief, Invisible Girl. BA Fordham University Lincoln Center; MFA University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Acting).

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Stephanie is an NYC based actor, voiceover artist and teaching artist, originally from NY's Capital District. Favorite regional credits: Romeo and Juliet (The Folger Shakespeare Theatre), the world premieres of Midsummer Night (Greenbrier Valley Theatre) and Zorro (Constellation Theatre Co), and Around the World in 80 Days (Lost Nation Theatre). Stephanie is a resident acting company member of NYC's Hamlet Isn't Dead, where she has played Olivia (Twelfth Night), Emilia (Othello), Lady MacDuff (MacBeth), and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the NY Botanical Garden. TV: Law and Order SVU, House of Cards. Stephanie is on the faculty of the Waterwell Drama Program, and also currently teaches at the Playgroup Theatre. BFA: NYU/Tisch, MFA: The Academy for Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theatre Company and GW University.

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Raya Malcolm is an actor and musician based in the Capital Region. Select credits include: Shakespeare & Company (Shake It Up: A Shakespeare Cabaret). Barrington Stage Company (10x10 Play Festival, 2025). Capital Repertory Theatre: Hermia (Midsummer Night’s Dream). Great Barrington Public Theatre: Rosie (Things I Know To Be True), Bobby (Breakwater). Central Square Theater: Match Girl/Swallow (Matchless & The Happy Prince). Saratoga Shakespeare Company: Juliet (Romeo & Juliet), Poins (Henry IV: Parts I & II). Raya is a frequent collaborator with Troy Foundry Theatre and also makes up one-third of local, award winning, indie-folk trio, Hold On Honeys.

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S&CO. 30+ productions including Flight of the Monarch, Morning After Grace, The Memory of Water, Roman Fever, A Winter’s Tale, Enchanted April, Jack and Jill, Betrayal, Fortune and Misfortune, House of Mirth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet. BTF/BTG: Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Copenhagen, Seascape, Shirley Valentine (“Berkie” Award), The Importance of Being Earnest, Benefactors, Same Time Next Year, Homestead Crossing, Two-headed. Great Barrington Public Theatre: Things I Know To Be True (“Berkie” award) Wharton Salon: The Long Run, Autre Temps. National Tour: The Graduate with Linda Gray/Lorraine Bracco/Morgan Fairchild. Regional (selected): Portland Stage Co., Merrimack Rep., Syracuse Stage, Rep. Theater of St. Louis, Capitol Rep. Film: Split Ends (starring); Speck’s Last. TV: “House of Cards”, “Unforgettable”, “Law & Order”, “PBS: Evening at the Pops”. Playwright: Dancing with the Czar. Designated Linklater Voice teacher. Feldenkrais practitioner. Shakespeare/ text/acting teacher. Theatrical Intimacy professional. Faculty: Columbia University’s School of The Arts/Theatre/Acting MFA; Shakespeare & Company's Center for Actor Training. Proud to be a union member: SAG-AFTRA, AEA, Dramatists Guild, UAFP.

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Joslyn is delighted to make her debut with Shakespeare & Company! A native and resident of Connecticut, she received her B.A. in Performing Arts with a concentration in Theatre at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Recent credits include Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew and Marcellus and a player in Hamlet (Capital Classics Theatre Company), Rosalind in As You Like It (Times Fool Company), Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (Capital Classics), and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park).

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.

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.

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Ariel Phillips Regional: The Piano Lesson (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). Film: “My Friend Marvi (Boston University); Lucid (Boston Arts Academy). Education: The Colored Museum (Boston Arts Academy); The Crucible (Boston Arts Academy); Death Of A Salesman (emShakes); Emerson College Theatre & Performance (BFA).

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Naire Poole is fresh off of her performance in WAM’s reading of Alien Girls. Her selected credits include: Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet, The Wickams: Christmas at Pemberly, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare & Company); 10x10 Ten Minute Play Festival (Barrington Stage Company); Way Beyond Water (St. Pete Opera); hang, The Crucible, The Cake (Asolo Rep); Glengarry Glenross, Clybourne Park, Mud, A Chip on Her Shoulder, Oh the Humanity (Virginia Tech Theater); Hamlet #inpieces, Tuk in the Arctic, The Outsider, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (ODU REP). Film and television: Wet Things (FSUFilm), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (AsoloREP). MFA 2021 (FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training). Alongside tackling work that explores challenging societal structures, they are directing and teaching, ablaze to adjust theaters into inclusive, healing, and transcendent spaces. She’s grounded by family and lifted by friends. salu. blm.

Rocco Sisto is a founding member of Shakespeare & Company. Film and television roles can be accessed through IMDB.

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.

Actor, director and choreographer Kristin Wold is a Berkshire resident and artist. Last summer she played Elizabeth in Elm Shakespeare Company’s Richard III in New Haven, CT. She has worked with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA since 1987.Roles include Creditors (Tekla), God of Carnage (Annette), Shakespeare’s Will (Anne Hathaway), Julius Caesar (Calpurnia, Portia, Lucius), The Tempest (Ariel), King Lear (Regan, Cordelia), Sea Marks (Timothea Stiles), Othello (Emilia), Ice Glen (Sarah Harding), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet).Kristin teaches Text and Movement for the Actor in Shakespeare & Company’s renowned professional actor training programs and has been the Movement Director and Choreographer for many productions (The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, Red Velvet). She heads the Acting Programs at the University of Connecticut and is a resident director for Connecticut Repertory Theatre, UConn’s professional performance wing. Productions directed for CRT include Metamorphoses, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility, Punk Rock, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party, Thin Air: Tales from a Revolution, North Shore Fish and Judevine. Kristin created a dance theatre performance, Thetis: Immortal Fire, performed by Shakespeare & Company members and students from UConn. She studied acting at the Burt Reynolds Jupiter Theatre, Florida State University and with Tadashi Suzuki in Japan.

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Sharmarke Yusuf is a Brooklyn-based actor, poet, playwright, and photographer. He was born & raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee with a BFA in Contemporary Theater and a minor in Creative Writing. Regional: K-I-S-S-I-N-G (The Huntington, Elliot Norton Award Nomination for Outstanding Leading Performance), Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Lyric Stage Company), BLKS (SpeakEasy Stage Company, Elliot Norton Award Winner for Oustanding Performance by an Actor), People, Places & Things (SpeakEasy Stage Company). TV: Castle Rock (Hulu).

Em English is so honored to join Shakespeare & Company this season! Based in Buffalo, NY, Em is a freelance Stage Manager and is the Founder and Artistic Producer of Drunk Theatre Buffalo. Favorite credits include: Romeo & Juliet (Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival), The Complete Works…Abridged (Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare in Delaware Park), Assassins (Capital City Theatre), Drunk Peter Pan (Drunk Theatre Buffalo), The Marvelous Wonderettes (Mountain Theatre Company), The Color Purple (Shea's 710 Theatre), The Last 5 Years (The Kenan Center), and Hedwig & The Angry Inch (2nd Generation Theatre). So much love to her family and support system back home.

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Kathleen H. Soltan is one of two ASMs, both alike in dignity. Kathleen 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 Hope, Dennis, the cast and crew, the cows at High Lawn, and to SPF 50!