The Victim, by Lawrence Goodman

Lawrence Goodman is a playwright living in Washington, D.C. His plays include The Serpent's Tooth, Heresy, The Disappearance of the Jews, The Zionist Conspiracy, The Heshie Kantankowitz Chronicles, and Keep Your Distance. His work has been produced at the Wilbury Theatre Group, the Brick Playhouse, the HERE Arts Center, and the New York International Fringe Festival. He was a Playwriting Fellow at the Huntington Theater in Boston from 2011 to 2013 and received the 2018 Rhode Island Fellowship Award in Play and Screenwriting.

S&Co: Directed Golda’s Balcony (Lenox and Boston), Master Class, Full Gallop, Sotto Voce. He was born in Israel, earned Fulbright and Wien Scholarships, and received his MFA from Brandeis University. Daniel has taught at Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Brandeis. He currently teaches at UMass Boston. In Israel he has directed for Habimah National Theatre, Haifa Municipal Theatre, Al Midan Arab Theatre (Accidental Death of an Anarchist), and Beersheva Municipal Theatre (Beauty Queen of Leenane). Directing credits in the USA include Peterborough Players, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Gloucester Stage, Merrimack Repertory, Opera Boston, New Repertory Theatre, Odyssey Opera, and Nora Theatre Company, where he served as Associate Director for over twenty years. Recent productions include Groundswell, Or, The Chosen (Lyric Stage), Hysteria, Photograph 51, The How and the Why, Absurd Person Singular, Insignificance (Nora). His production of Arabian Nights (a co-production of Nora and Underground Railway Theater) which won 2012 IRNE award for Best Direction was revived for five seasons.

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

Yvette King is proud to be working with Shakespeare & Company! She has previously performed in Elektra: The Opera at NYC’s DiMenna Center, Rabbit Hole at Atlantic Theater Company, Vatican Falls at Theatre for a New City, Houseless in Paradise and The Unsaleable Thing as part of NYC’s Fringe Festival, and The Taming of the Shrew at Riverbank State Park. Yvette was also a company member of The Bats of The Flea Theater under the artistic direction of Jim Simpson. She holds a BA in Theatre from SUNY Albany.

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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S&Co: King Lear, The Chairs, Time Stands Still, Merry Wives, The Children, HIR, Creditors, 4000 Miles, Or, Red Velvet, and others. NYC: Eureka Day, Joan, Cal in Camo, Dry Land, Seven Minutes in Heaven, (Colt Coeur), American Daughter, Glengarry Glen Ross (NYU Tisch). Regional: All’s Well That Ends Well (OSF), 10x10 (BSC), Dear Elizabeth (Dorset Theatre Festival), Julius Caesar (Actors Shakespeare Project), How I Learned to Drive (Round House), Our Town (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Death of a Salesman, Fences (Virginia Stage Company), Peter and the Starcatcher, Skin of Our Teeth (Perseverance Theater). She is the Undergraduate Program Director for UMass Theater. amyaltadonnasounddesign.com Thank you to my incredible daughter...life is most joyous with you.

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Erika is excited to return to S&Co for a fourth summer season. Before relocating to the Berkshires, Erika was based in New York City lighting for television, theater, and dance. She had the pleasure of designing shows for everything from Red Bull Music to Animal Planet; and spent full seasons with some truly fabulous institutions such as San Francisco Opera, New York City Ballet, Broadway, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Erika spent her summers before S&Co as the production manager/ head electrician for Adirondack Theatre Festival, putting on Broadway-bound productions like Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat, Loch Ness, Calling All Kates, and Beau. Erika has spent the last seven years traveling the world as the lighting supervisor for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a company of folks very close to her heart. She is happy to finally put down roots and call Shakespeare & Company her artistic home.

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Now retired as Costume Director, Govane is in her 44th year with Shakespeare & Company and enjoying costume design as her primary commitment. Selected credits at S&Co: Comedy of Errors, Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Golda’s Balcony, 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, The Ladies Man, Enchanted April, Ice Glen, Lettice and Lovage, House of Mirth, Glimpses of the Moon and many years of the Holiday productions and costumed, staged readings and the Education Department’s Fall Festival and Tour productions. Selected Regional credits: 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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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.

John Musall has been working in theater, dance, and performance for over fifty years. He has designed sets, lighting, and costumes for over four hundred concert, dance, theater and performance events around the US and Europe. As a performing artist he has written and directed some thirty performance works and he has exhibited paintings and installation works though out the USA. He spent thirteen years with the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, and has taught lighting and set design within the Bard College system under JoAnne Akalaitis, Karen Beaumont, Aimee Michel, James Warwick, and others for the past twenty-five years. He is the recipient of four project grants from the NEA, and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and Art Matters in New York City. Recent production credits include scenic designs and/or lighting for Almost Maine, by John Cariani; Thornton Wilder’s Skin Of Our Teeth; Gogol’s The Inspector General; Breakwater by Jim Frangione; Dad, by Mark St Germain; Brecht/Weill’s Three Penny Opera; Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Henry V, Much Ado; The Christopher Boy’s Communion; by David Mamet, Ionesco’s The Chairs; Riot by The Wardrobe Ensemble; and Lunar Eclipse; by Donald Margulies. Recently retired from Bard College at Simon’s Rock, he continues to light dance concerts for Berkshire Pulse, and create scenic designs for area theaters. In September he will light an original production in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Josh is thrilled to be back at Shakespeare & Company having last been seen assisting in 2022’s Much Ado About Nothing! A Proud AEA Member and Massachusetts Native, they have worked around the country with some favorite credits including (School of Rock, Escape to Margaritaville) Little Theatre On the Square, (The Play That Goes Wrong) Lyric Stage, (Murder for Two) Greenbrier Valley Theatre, (The Underpants). Lake Dillon Theatre Company.