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Joshua Harmon's plays include Bad Jews, Significant Other, Admissions, Skintight, and Prayer for the French Republic. He and Sarah Silverman co-wrote the libretto for The Bedwetter based on her memoir. His plays have been produced on Broadway and the West End; off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theater Club and Atlantic Theater Company; across the country at Geffen Playhouse, Speakeasy, Studio Theatre, Theater Wit, About Face, Actor's Express, and The Magic, among others; and internationally in a dozen countries. He is a two-time MacDowell fellow and an Associate Artist at Roundabout. Graduate of Juilliard.

Amy Herzog’s plays include After the Revolution (Williamstown Theater Festival; Playwrights Horizons; Lilly Award), 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center; Obie Award for the Best New American Play, Pulitzer Prize Finalist), The Great God Pan, and Belleville. Amy is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity, and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award. She is a Usual Suspect at NYTW and an alumna of Youngblood, Play Group at Ars Nova, and the SoHo Rep Writer/ Director Lab. She has taught at Bryn Mawr and Yale. MFA, Yale School of Drama.

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.

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Ashlyn Frank is a writer and director based in New York City. She writes plays for the stage and screen as well as short tales of speculative fiction and horror. Currently she serves as Director of Production for CM Performing Arts center. Recent collaborations & publications include: Shakespeare & Company, Chamber Theatre Productions, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Chango Films, The Iris Theatre, Theatre Right Now, The Road Theatre, Ellipses Magazine, Rooted Literary Magazine, Spectral Film Journal, and Apricity Magazine.

S&Co: Directed The Victim, 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, Brandeis University and Umass Boston. 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.

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S&Co: Henry VI: The Contention, King Lear, Emma, The Waverly Gallery, Sense & Sensibility, Julius Caesar, Pride & Prejudice, Love's Labor's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet. Off Broadway: The Comedy of Errors (Fiasco Theatre). Regional: Pride and Prejudice 2 (Westport Country Playhouse); The Comedy of Errors (Actors' Theatre of Louisville); Execution of Justice, All the Little Boxes (Chautauqua Theatre Company); La Broa, The Inheritance (Trinity Repertory Company); REALLY (WAM Theatre). Education: Brown/Trinity Rep MFA.

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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. stephanieclayman.com Shakespeare & Company January Month-long Intensive – 1989, Teacher Trainee – 2017

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Zach Harris just wrapped up his MFA at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training in Sarasota FL. His recent work involves the Wizard of Oz in which he played seven roles and the US Premiere of The Unfriend at the Asolo Repertory Theatre Since graduating, Zach has relocated to NYC to begin auditioning and chasing work on-Stage as well as on-Screen. He is thrilled to be participating in the Jewish Play Festival for the reading of Bad Jews!

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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 seen in the well-received new play by Lawrence Goodman The Victim. In 2024, she was awarded a Special Citation at the 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: a Theatrical Collage on the Pleasures and Perils of our Third Chapter.

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Max Vogler (AEA, SAG, AFTRA) is a Berkshire-based actor, producer and teacher. He holds an MFA from Trinity Rep in Providence.

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Mark Zeisler has just completed his fourth season at Shakespeare & Company with The Norwegians-his previous credits here include Time Stands Still, As You Like it, Macbeth and The Tempest. Earlier this summer he appeared in Job at The Voice Theatre in Kingston, NY and he previously played the role of Ben in a production of After the Revolution at Baltimore Center Stage, directed by Lila Neugebauer. On Broadway, Mark’s 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, the original production of eurydice, The Accomplices, and Piece of My Heart. Regional credits include Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure at The Folger Shakespeare Theatre (Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Actor), the original production of Big Love by Chuck Mee, which played at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf, Berkeley Rep, The Goodman Theatre and BAM Next Wave. Other appearances include productions at The Alley, Seattle Rep, City Theatre, The Maltz, Asolo Rep and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He has been involved in two productions at Yale Rep, five productions at Merrimack Rep, four seasons at Elm Shakespeare, seven productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and at American Repertory Theatre, where he was a company member for three seasons. Mark has appeared in over 20 television series, including recurring roles on Bull and House of Cards; Rescue Me, Castle Rock, The Blacklist, FBI: Most Wanted, The Americans, Bluebloods, six appearances on the Law and Order franchise, and the upcoming Cupertino. He narrated the documentaries GI Jews and Cinema and Sanctuary, and his film appearances include the critically acclaimed The Cathedral, as well as Afterschool, Random Hearts, Two Week Notice, Shaft, Head of State, The Thomas Crown Affair and Irrational Man. As a director: American Buffalo for Elm Shakespeare and Deathtrap for Legacy Theatre in Connecticut. Mark is a native New Yorker and a graduate of SUNY Purchase.

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S&Co (22 seasons!): Romeo & Juliet (2025), Taming of the Shrew, The Islanders, The Contention, Golda’s Balcony, Lunar Eclipse, An Iliad, Measure for Measure, The Chairs, King Lear (w/ Christopher Lloyd), Topdog/Underdog, Macbeth (2018), Heisenberg, Cymbeline, God of Carnage, Or, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Comedy of Errors (2015), Richard II, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry IV, Rough Crossing, Blue/Orange, The Ladies Man, Othello, Richard III, The Taster, As You Like It (2011), The Hound of the Baskervilles, The War of the Worlds, Santaland Diaries. Regional: TheatreSquared, Central Square Theatre, WAM Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Group, Majestic Theater, American Stage Company, Hartford Stage Company, Montana Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Wilma, Wallis Center, The Public Theatre, McCarter Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Hangar Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Stonington Opera House Arts, CLOC. Based in Pittsfield, MA, Hope Rose is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, Stage Managers’ Association where she serves as the International Cohort Chair, and OISTAT.