Midsummer Dreamers

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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. His training includes earning a BFA from the University of Connecticut. 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. Be sure to catch their production of Midsummer Dreamers September 1–3 in the Tina Packer Playhouse!

Kirsten Peacock has appeared in several Shakespeare & Company productions, including as Kate, The Taming of the Shrew; Emma, EMMA; 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; Titania, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Desdemona, Othello. Kirsten is an actor/theater-maker of British/American parentage, but grew up in Norway. 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 Nick Nudler create and perform bold, physical reimaginings of classics and folklore with their company Cosmic Mirth. Be sure to catch their thrilling production of Midsummer Dreamers September 1–3 in the Tina Packer Playhouse!

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Maura Hanlon is the Associate Artistic Director at Cape Rep Theatre, where she has directed many, many plays, sound designed many more, acted in some and even written a few. Mo is delighted to be here at Shakespeare and Company fresh off of directing/choreographing the sold out Cape Cod premiere of Girl from the North Country. Mo’s other recent directorial credits include She Loves Me, Midsummer Dreamers, Our Town and Trish LaRose’s musical memoir, Come On-A My House. Favorite directing credits include the world premiere musical, Archibald Avery written by her three sons Paddo, Seamus and Macklin Devine, Midsummer Dreamers, Come On-A My House, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Indecent, Men on Boats, Failure: A Love Story, Jerusalem, Eurydice, Wintertime, The Rose Tattoo (Cape Rep) and Peter Pan and Wendy (HJT). Mo is currently hard at work collaborating with her three sons again on Cape Rep’s upcoming production of the world premiere musical, The Hundred Aker Wood, for which she is a co-writer and the director, running from November 12 through December 13, 2026. Mo is the founder and director of Cape Rep’s Young Company (YoCo) which performed its 10th production, A Monster Calls, in February. A Holy Cross grad, Mo studied acting and directing at Trinity Rep Conservatory and received her MFA in directing from UCSD. Extra-special thanks to her incredibly supportive family, Paddo, Seamus, Macklin and Art.

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Grace Goosman is a Stage Manager, Designer, and Technician from Binghamton, NY. Shake & Co. Credits: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson (Asst. Stage Manager), Sense and Sensibility (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 Amphitheater), Cyrano de Bergerac (Spotlight, KC Rep), Doubt, Rent, Beautiful (Electrician/Operator, Theatre Aspen). Design Credits: Fall Festival of Shakespeare (Production, Shakespeare & Co.), Children’s Acting Academy of NY (Scenic Designer & Props Master), 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.

Ryan McGettigan is a scenic designer for theatre, opera, and dance. Previous credits with Shakespeare & Company: Julius Caesar directed by Tina Packer (2014). He is a Core Artist with Catastrophic Theatre, the resident designer at Cape Rep Theatre, and has been a company artist with Prague Shakespeare Company and the Classical Theatre Company. Houston: TUTS, Stages Repertory, Catastrophic, Main Street Theater, A.D. Players, 4th Wall Theatre. Awards for Best Scenic Design from Houston Press in 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2025. Regional: 100a Productions (San Antonio), Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Cape Rep, Abilene Shakespeare Festival, Prague Shakespeare. Opera and Dance: Glimmerglass Festival, Florentine Opera, New Orleans Opera, Opera San Antonio, Opera San Jose, HGOco, Rice’s Shepherd School and Moody Center for the Arts, Asia Society in collaboration with Houston Ballet, Open Dance Project.