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He was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. His works, including some collaborations, consist of about 37 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Davis is an actor, educator, and emerging director based in Baltimore, Md. She received her BS in Drama from Frostburg State University and her MFA in Acting from Catholic University. She is a long-time member of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theater, where she has played such roles as Juliet, Rosalind, the Princess of France, and Bianca, and is also a member of their Black Classical Actors Ensemble, for whom she recently directed Macbeth.

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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.

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Theresa Lang, Ph.D. is a theatre historian who specializes in American popular entertainment and 19th century performance. She is a dramaturg who is committed to the power of story, the creation of new work, and the amplification of under-represented voices. She is a theatre maker who is dedicated to the creation of ensemble and sustainable and equitable practice. She is a teacher who believes in the power of transformative art.

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Raphael Massie is an award-winning director, actor, and educator focused on how social and cultural factors can impact and enhance performance of western classical theatre. He is a Drama League of NY Classical Directing Fellow, OSF Killian Fellowship finalist, and has also worked abroad. Directing Credits include: Shakespeare & Company (Associate, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, AD Mother Courage), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Emilia [reading], Associate & Dramaturg, The Cymbeline Project), Elm Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet), Connecticut Repertory Theatre (Pericles), Advice to the Players (Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing), Starling Shakespeare (As You Like It), Southern CT State U (Julius Caesar, Polaroid Stories, Stop Kiss, Lysistrata), UC Riverside (Dr. Faustus), Trinity College (Measure for Measure). Acting credits include Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Elm Shakespeare, and more. Raphael holds an MFA with Distinction in Staging Shakespeare from the University of Exeter (UK), as well as a BA in Theatre and a BS Education from Southern CT State U.

Javier David is a California-born-and-raised actor based in New York City. Credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare & Company) Clyde’s (The Huntington Theatre), Do You Feel Anger? (Kitchen Theater Company), Witch (The Huntington Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Classical Theatre of Harlem), A Dollzes House (Signature Theatre), Cold Read Festival (Syracuse Stage), The Rocky Horror Show (Artist Repertory Theatre), Almost, Maine (L.A. Theatre Center), Commedia (Atelier Teatro Fisico), In The Red And Brown Water (Columbia University), A Street Car Named Desire (Columbia University), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Columbia University). Film: The Changeling (Apple TV). Javier received his M.F.A in Acting from Columbia University (2019) and his B.A. in Performance from San Diego State University (2016). He dedicates his performance to his Nana.

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Emma is delighted to be back at S&C! Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (MTC). Off Broadway: World premiere of Prayer for the French Republic (MTC); NYC premiere of Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage); Arden of Faversham (Redbull); World premiere of How To Transcend a Happy Marriage (Lincoln Center Theater); Hindle Wakes and The Price of Thomas Scott (Mint Theater Company). Regional: Dracula (Berkshire Theater Group); Hamlet and Macbeth (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Florida Rep); 4,000 Miles (Shakespeare & Company). Film & TV: In The Treetops (LA Film Festival); “Elementary”; “The Good Fight”; “Inside Amy Schumer”. UNCSA.

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TV/Film: The Girls on the Bus (HBO), Chrissy Judy (Apple TV), The Good Fight (CBS), Madam Secretary (CBS), Jon Glaser Loves Gear (truTV), The Savant (Apple TV), Candice (Austin Film Festival). NY THEATER: Burning Leaves (Duke Theater), Chokehold (14th St Y), What I First Desired (Soho Playhouse), Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone (Workshop Theater), Bleach (Wilson’s Lounge), Decky Does a Bronco (Royal Family Productions). REGIONAL: Measure for Measure, Mothers & Sons, Waverly Gallery, Dear Jack Dear Louise, Hamlet (Shakespeare & Company), Sweat (Capital Rep), Pirira, Giant Void in My Soul (Luna Stages), Sense & Sensibility (4th Wall Theater), Why Do you Stand There In The Rain (Edinburgh Fringe), Scooter Thomas Makes It To The Top Of The World (Hollywood Fringe). David holds a BFA from University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Love to Kennedy.

Rory just earned her MFA and Linklater Designation in London, at the Rose Bruford College of Music and Drama. During her London studies, in addition to her concentration on the Linklater Method, she was immersed in the work of Augusto Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed, as well as Trish Arnold’s Pure Movement, and the Michael Chekhov technique. Throughout these studies there was an emphasis on devising, working to create one’s own performance pieces through the art of theatrical storytelling. In addition to her studies at Rose Bruford, Rory has also been focused these past few years on directing and teaching Shakespeare to kids from ages 7-18. Directing Credits: Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and Macbeth, all for the Fall Festival of Shakespeare at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. New York acting credits include: Pericles, directed by Edward Berkeley, produced by Animus Theatre Company at SoHo Rep; Measure for Measure, also directed by Edward Berkeley, at Circle in the Square Theatre School; Bachelorette, directed by Lesley Headland, produced by Animus Theatre Company at Circle in the Square; John Patrick Shanley's Where's My Money, produced by Animus Theatre Company at the Cherry Lane Theatre; Shakespeare & Company credits include: Measure for Measure, Duke Vincentio, directed by Alice Reagan; Love’s Labour’s Lost, Princess of France, directed by Kelly Galvin; Christmas at Pemberley, directed by Ariel Bock; Ugly Lies the Bone and Taming of the Shrew, both directed by Daniela Varone; King John, Richard III,The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, all directed by Tina Packer. The Wharton Salon at the Mount: Autres Temp, Xingu, and Summer, all directed by Catherine Taylor Williams. TV credits include: Dr. Pepper commercials circa 1998. Rory received much of her early training at Shakespeare & Company, starting with Young Company and ending as a member of the Summer Performing Institute (SPI). Rory is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City, and is a founding member of Animus Theatre Company in New York City.

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S&Co Art. TV/Film Credits include: Law & Order, Zombie Wedding, FBI, The Mooch. Theater Credits: Fences, Backwards Forwards KCAB, The Agitators, Sender, Intimate Apparel, Hamlet, Sweat, The MotherF@cker with the Hat, ThreePenny Opera, and Angels in America.

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S&Co: Hippolyta/Snout, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Don John, Much Ado About Nothing; Robert Shallow/Bardolph: Merry Wives; Longaville/Jaquenetta, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Ensemble: Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World; Elizabeth Bennet, Pride & Prejudice; Marianne Dashwood, Sense & Sensibility; Cassie, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley; Elizabeth Darcy, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley; S&Co Regional Tour: Lady Capulet/ Benvolio, Romeo & Juliet; The Majestic: Lana, The Ladyslipper; The Humanist Project: “Bubbles”, Mad Mad Mad! (A Devised Clown Play); Lavinia, Titus Andronicus. Madeleine attended the two-year professional course at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, studied at The Second City in Chicago and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Ashley McCauley Moore is an actor originally from North Carolina, by way of Los Angeles CA. She is currently a third year graduate student at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, obtaining her MFA. Ashley has performed in a variety of stage plays and television shows. She has recently appeared in Romeo & Juliet as Juliet, Lynn Nottage Clyde’s as Letitia, and Chekov’s Three Sister’s as Masha. Ashley is no stranger to the Shake & Co. family. This is her second season with the theatre, returning from her debut of last year’s production of August Wilson’s Fences. She has worked for television networks such as Disney, ABC, and Netflix. Ashley is committed to the craft of acting and truthful storytelling. Her mission with every role is to have a human experience that gives the viewer a chance to live a different life.

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Naire Poole is fresh off of her performance in Barrington Stage Company's 10x10 Festival! 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, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, George. MFA 2021 (FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training). When she isn’t tackling work that explores challenging societal structures, she is directing and teaching, ablaze to adjust theaters into inclusive, healing, and transcendent spaces. She’s grounded by family and lifted by friends. salu. blm.

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Evan is thrilled to be making his Shakespeare & Company debut performance! Hailing from Boise, he began his professional training as an Idaho Shakespeare Festival (ISF) apprentice and subsequently performed in three back-to-back (ISF) touring productions: As You Like It (Orlando), Julius Caesar (Casca), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck). A graduate of Boise State University (BA Acting/Dance Minor), Evan continued performing, choreographing, and teaching with professional dance companies to include LED Boise, Idaho Dance Theatre, and Project Flux. Following selection to the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, he completed his MFA and SDFD Stage Combat Certification. His most recent credits Include Christopher in The Sound Inside at the Urbanite Theatre Sarasota and D’Artagnan in Asolo Rep’s production of Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers. Evan would like to thank Shakespeare & Company for this amazing opportunity, his Father for his continued unconditional support, and our audience for supporting Live theater!

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Dennis is an actor, writer, director, and teacher making his Shakespeare & Company debut. Recent acting credits include How I Learned To Drive, Let The Right One In, and The Merchant of Venice (Actors' Shakespeare Project) and The Inheritance (Speakeasy Stage). Additionally, has appeared at New Rep, Gloucester Stage, Company One, Lyric Stage, Soho Rep, The Flea, The Kraine, and others. As a playwright, his plays include Manifest Destiny's Child (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Plug, and I Coulda Been a Kennedy (Rude Mechanicals). Directing credits include Antigone or And Still She Must Rise Up (Boston Conservatory), The Trojan Women: A Love Story (Stonehill College), Plug, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Rude Mechanicals). He Produced and Directed the documentaries American Autumn and Legalize Democracy. Dennis was the founding co-artistic director of the NYC-based Rude Mechanicals Theater Company. Currently, he serves an Associate Professor of Theater at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

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Kristofer Wilson is stoked to be making his professional debut at Shakespeare & Company! Kristofer is an actor and poet with a flair for classical text, dedicated to giving voice to the black experience and making space for black voices in classical material. He is currently pursuing his BFA in Acting from NYU Tisch through Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Previous credits include: Lenny in In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, Prospero in The Tempest, George in Intimate Apparel (NYU/Stella Adler); Moorey in Vegetarian (Original Work; Citizen Arts). Thanks to God, my family and all my teachers as well as Shakespeare & Company’s Summer Shakespeare Intensive faculty.

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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).

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Christina Beam is a New England based costume designer whose work spans theater, opera, dance and film. Christina holds an MFA in costume design from UMass Amherst, having completed an assistantship that included rigorous work in costume construction. Her designs for The Lily’s Revenge at UMass Amherst were included in the 2019 USITT/USA Prague Quadrennial Emerging Artist Exhibit and the 2022 World Stage Design Emerging Artist Exhibit, and her costumes for the “In the Woods” photography series were recently featured as part of the 2023 USITT/USA Prague Quadrennial Emerging Artist Exhibit. Christina is also currently working as the Costume Shop Supervisor at Western Connecticut State University.

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Dennis Ebert Jr. is one of two goodly ASMs —one so like the other as could not be distinguished but by names. Dennis is a New York-based Stage Manager and graduate of Pace University, having received a BA in Stage Management. He is stoked to be returning to Shakespeare & Company for another season! Previous S&Co credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Contention, Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues, hang, Coriolanus, The Waverly Gallery and more. Special thanks to Diane and Kathleen!

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S&Co: (just a few) King Lear, Merry Wives, As You Like It, The Tempest, Red Velvet, Women of Will, Satchmo at the Waldorf, Hound of the Baskervilles, All’s Well That Ends Well. Most recently in NY: The Night of the Iguana, directed by Emily Mann. Diane is a NY based SM who has worked (extensively) with BEDLAM: Fall River Fishing, The Winter’s Tale, Hedda Gabler, Persuasion, The Crucible, Sense & Sensibility, Saint Joan, Hamlet, Pygmalion, Peter Pan, Cry Havoc!, Twelfth Night/What You Will. Also in NY with: TFANA, NAATCO, Clubbed Thumb, Radical Evolution/WP Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Mabou Mines; Primary Stages; Playwrights Realm; Barrow Street Theatre; Atlantic Theatre Co., LCT3, LaMama, The Civilians. Regionally: Everyman Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Folger Theatre, Oldcastle Theatre Company, Princeton University, Bard College and East Tennessee State.

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Selected credits at S&Co: Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise, The Approach, An Iliad, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Martha Mitchell Calling play and film, Twelfth Night, As You Like It; The Tempest, Ugly Lies the Bone, Or..., It’s a Wonderful Life, Henry V, Mother of the Maid, Shakespeare’s Will, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Private Lives, Loves Labor’s Lost, Kaufman’s Barbershop, The Learned Ladies, Women of Will, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Taster, Mengelberg and Mahler, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Shirley Valentine, Golda’s Balcony, The Ladies Man, Rough Crossing, Enchanted April, Ice Glen, Lettice and Lovage, House of Mirth, Glimpses of the Moon and many years of the Education Department’s Fall Festival and Tour productions including Shakespeare & the Language That Shaped a World film for Shakespeare’s 2021 Birthday. Selected Regional: Grant & Twain, Emilie..., The Long Run, In Darfur, Arabian Nights, Red Noses, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Metamorphosis, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Alice in Wonderland, Our Country’s Good.

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Kathleen H. Soltan is one of two goodly ASMs —one so like the other as could not be distinguished but by names. 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 Diane, Dennis, the cast and crew, and to SPF 50!

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Liz is a multifaceted theatre artist. She is an actor, singer, sound designer, composer, and teacher. She creates award-winning devised theatre pieces, composes music for theatrical sound scores, and an opera based on The Bacchae. Recent sound designs include: This Is It (Shakespeare & Company), Medusa Volution (Fringe Arts Philly), The Man in the Newspaper Hat (Pandemic Films), Off the Wall: The Zany Plays (52nd St Project), The Yellow Wallpaper (Cleveland Public Theatre), Antigonick (Whitman College Theatre), Distant Shores (A Dance Film), Murrow (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), Refracting Miss Julie (OneArmRed), Fracked or Friction (Naropa University). Liz received her MFA in Theatre: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. She teaches psycho physical acting and physically embodied and extended voice for graduate and undergraduate students. She has taught at NYU/ETW, Naropa University (BFA and MFA), Denison University, Salem State University, CUNY Staten Island. She is an Associate Professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

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Theron Wineinger is an NYC-based scenic and production designer. Scenic Design: Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues (Shakespeare & Company), My First Nutcracker and The Giant Hoax (Theatre Row, NYC), The Great Hunger (The Tank, NYC), Playdate (Dixon Place, NYC), The 39 Steps (Summer Rep Theatre, CA), A Man’s World (Williamstown Theatre Festival, MA). Television: The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Kids Tonight Show (NBC, Asst. Art Director), 2 Joysticks & A Couch (Twitch, Production Designer). Event Design: Netflix Upfront Presentation 2024, LEGOLAND New York Brick-or-Treat 2022, Lost Canyon Christmas at Big Cedar Lodge 2023, 60+ Trade Shows for Proctor & Gamble. Associate Design: Aerosmith Peace Out Tour 2023, Ringling Circus Tour 2023, The Rose Tattoo (Broadway), Anastasia 2nd U.S. National Tour. BFA in Scenic Design from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Winner, USITT’s Oren Parker Undergraduate Scene Design Award. Proud Member, USA 829.

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Christine studied at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, where she graduated with a degree in theatre, with a stage management concentration, and a dance minor. Some of her previous credits include The Threepenny Opera (PSM), Mary Poppins Jr. (co-technical director + lighting designer), Adult Child/Dead Child (director), The Saint Plays (DSM + choreographer), The Sound of Music (show caller), Spring Awakening (choreographer), and Into the Woods (ASM). Christine has previously worked with Shakespeare & Company on their production of Golda’s Balcony as a rehearsal ASM, and she is thrilled to be back with the company!