Sense and Sensibility

Kate Hamill is an actor and playwright. Kate has been one of the most-produced playwrights nationwide for the last seven years, from 2017-current season. Wall Street Journal Playwright of the Year, 2017; Einhorn Award, 2023. Plays include Pride & Prejudice - Primary Stages / HVSF (originated role of Lizzy; nominee, Off-Broadway Alliance Award), Sense & Sensibility at Bedlam (originated role of Marianne; winner, Off-Broadway Alliance Award; nominee, Drama League Award); Vanity Fair at the Pearl (originated Becky; nominee, Off-Broadway Alliance Award), Mansfield Park at Northlight, Little Women at Primary Stages & the Jungle, Dracula at Classic Stage Company, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, Apt. #2B at KCRep, The Little Fellow at Cygnet Theatre, Emma at the Guthrie. Other plays include Scrooge for Senate; The Piper (O’Neill Finalist, PlayPenn Fellowship), In the Mines (Sundance Finalist); and The Odyssey. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at A.R.T., the Guthrie, Seattle Rep, The Alley, Folger, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Dorset Theatre Festival, Shakespeare Theatre of DC, Dallas Theater Center, Kansas City Rep, Long Wharf, A.C.T., Actors Theater of Louisville, Denver Center, and many others. World Premieres in 2024: The Scarlet Letter at Two River, The Light & The Dark at Chautauqua Theater Company and more TBA.

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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: Paula Vogel’s MOTHER PLAY: a play in five evictions, 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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Lochlan is based in Asheville, North Carolina, but works for Shakespeare & Company as an Education Artist for the Fall Festival and Riotous Youth programs, and was an understudy for the summer’s Romeo and Juliet (Peter/Montague) and Mother Play (Carl). He is an alum of the S&Co Center for Actor Training’s Summer Shakespeare Intensive (2018). Some favorite acting work in Asheville includes Hamlet (Horatio/Player King) and Twelfth Night (Feste/Fabian) with Venture Shakespeare; and WVL Radio Theatre: It’s A Wonderful Life (George Bailey, others) touring with the Immediate Theatre Project. He is so grateful to get to celebrate Jane Austen and share in this story this winter season, and sends his love to all his family, friends, and especially to his fiancée.

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Lydia is a theatre artist based in Western Massachusetts. She was introduced to theatre through Shakespeare & Company's education programs, and continued on to study in programs at Carnegie Mellon University, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. She earned her bachelor's degree from Bennington College, and then returned to Shakespeare & Company to take the Month-Long Intensive. This is her third year with the company, having performed in Circus and the Bard (2025), the staged readings of Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (2023) and Emma (2024), and stepped in as understudy to perform in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2023) and A Body of Water (2024).

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S&Co: Peter/Lord Montague (Romeo & Juliet), Mr. Elton/Mrs. Bates (Jane Austen’s Emma), Theseus/Oberon, (A Midsummer Night's Dream), George Wickham, (The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley) Costard, (Love’s Labor’s Lost), Lysander/Flute, (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Paris/Prince/Gregory, (Romeo & Juliet), Hamlet/Decius Brutus (I Have Had a Most Rare Vision), Roles elsewhere: Rooted Voyageurs: Benvolio/Friar Lawrence, (Romeo & Juliet). Advice to the Players (NH): Duke Vincentio, (Measure for Measure), Lucentio (The Taming of the Shrew). UMass Theater Department: Dwight (Dead Man’s Cell Phone), Roland (Constellations), Van (Dog Sees God), Stephano/Ensemble/Musician (The Merchant of Venice). In 2019, he was nominated for Best Actor in a Play by the New Hampshire Theater Alliance, for his portrayal of the Duke in Measure for Measure. He has worked for the Education department at Shakespeare & Company since 2016. Month-Long Intensive Alumni, 2018.

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Tapaynga Hill is beyond excited to be part of her first reading here at Shakespeare & Company! Born and raised in Wyoming, she is loving her first time in the North East. Some of her favorite roles have been Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Snoopy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and #14 in the Wolves. Tapaynga wants to thank her friends and family for their continued support, and Caleb for always believing in her!

Princess Jacob is thrilled to be a part of Shakespeare & Company’s winter show reading of Sense and Sensibility! Her stage highlights include The Essentialisn’t (HERE Arts Center), The Christians (Baltimore Center Stage), and Home Is Where the Fund Is (Elevate Theatre Company). Television credits include Before (Apple TV+) and Bull (CBS). She is a proud alumna of Shakespeare & Company’s 2024 Lenox Signature Workshop and thanks her family and friends for their love and support.

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For the last decade, Marcus has been in and out of NYC where he was staying busy as a props carpenter for Broadway, production manager for everything from Redbull to Rhianna, and performing whenever he had the chance. He moved back to the Berkshires in 2021 and worked as Director of Production & Operations for Barrington Stage Company until 2024 when he left to be a full time Dad. He's currently working with Majestic Theater in West Springfield as a Production Manager. He'd like to thank his wife Erika for her love, his son Porter for being such an amazing person, and his daughter Lumen for being his ray of Sunshine.

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S&Co: Nurse, Romeo & Juliet, Adriana, The Comedy of Errors; 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; Elizabeth Bennet, Pride & Prejudice; Marianne Dashwood, Sense & Sensibility; Elizabeth Darcy, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley; S&Co Regional Tour: Lady Capulet/ Benvolio, Romeo & Juliet; The Majestic: Lana, The Ladyslipper; The Humanist Project: “Dorkus Hoare”, A Crucible: A Puritanical Celebration of Witches and Turkeys; “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, is an alumni of the Shakespeare & Co. Winter Intensive ’18, studied at The Second City in Chicago and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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.

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Recent credits include Off B'way: Neavh, The 2 Queers a Lesbian Meets at the Home Depot (A.R.T. New York); Nurse, Romeo and Juliet, Brutus, Julius Caesar, Touchstone, As You Like It (Catskill Mountain Shakespeare); S&Co: Conrad / Friar, Much Ado About Nothing, Burgundy, King Lear (starring Christopher Lloyd), Lucentio, The Taming of the Shrew, Dumaine, Love's Labor's Lost, Theseus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ensemble, Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped the World; Brian, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (reading), Mr. Woodhouse, Emma (reading), Ronald Drayton, Autumn (reading), Roger Peterson, Kernel of Sanity (reading); S&Co Regional Tour: Angelo, The Comedy of Errors, Duncan, Macbeth. With a deep interest in classical work and the voice, they are also a teacher and Education Artist with S&Co and have been a devoted student of the Linklater Voice Method for the past five years in the hopes of one day becoming a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher.

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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Grace Goosman is a Stage Manager and Technician from Binghamton, NY. Shake & Co. Credits: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson (Asst. Stage Manager), 2024 Season (Asst. Production Manager), Flight of the Monarch (Board Op.), A Midsummer Night’s Dream Regional Tour (Accessibility Coordinator). Off-Broadway: Mind Mangler (Spotlight, New World Stages). Regional: Newsies, Wizard of Oz, The Little Mermaid (Spotlight, Tuacahn), Cyrano de Bergerac (Spotlight, KC Rep), Doubt, Rent, Beautiful (Electrician/Operator, Theatre Aspen). Design Credits: Fall Festival of Shakespeare (Production, Shakespeare & Co.), PMP Festival (Lighting, Barrington Stage), The Full Monty (Sound, Tiahwaga Players). Education: BA in Design Technology & Performance from Western Connecticut State University.

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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: The Victim, The Taming of The Shrew, 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.