Twelfth Night

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.

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Kate is an award-winning director and multi-hyphenate theater maker. Some favorite directing/devising credits include: Shakespeare & Company: Comedy of Errors, 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); F***ing A, 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). Co-Founder (with Tamara Hickey) MetaGirl Productions, Artistic Director, 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. Acting and other credits can be found at katekohleramory.com.

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S&Co: Director: The Tempest (2017), As You Like It (2018), Twelfth Night (2019) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2023), Shake It Up (2024,2025), Circus & the Bard (2025). Shakespeare & Company performances: Flight of the Monarch, Henry VI, Part 2, A Walk in the Woods, King Lear, God of Carnage, Or, King John, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, Part 1, among others. As Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Allyn directed and acted in numerous productions. Other Boston area performances include Can You Forgive Her (Huntington Theatre), Breaking the Code (Underground Railway Theatre), Shipwrecked (The Lyric Stage), The Seafarer and The Homecoming (Merrimack Repertory Theater), Five by Tenn (Speakeasy Stage). Elliot Norton Award for The Homecoming, King Lear, Five by Tenn; IRNE Award for Breaking the Code. Off-Broadway: Bug, Killer Joe, Louis Slotin Sonata, Closetland. Regionally: Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Theatre, Long Wharf, Denver Center, Walnut St. Television: Julia,The Broad Squad, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Against the Law. Films include The Company Men, Julie & Julia, Manchester by the Sea, Don’t Look Up, Tony, and the forthcoming Enemy of the People.

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This is Rory’s 37th season with us. Her latest credits include: The Tracy Letts Festival (reading series with Animus Theatre Company) at Circle in the Square in August: Osage County as Karen Weston. Last Summer she played Lady Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, and Bianca in Taming of the Shrew. She played Angelo in The Comedy of Errors which won the Broadwayworld.com award for Best Ensemble. She is currently teaching Voice for the Actor at the University of Hartford (UHart Conservatory). 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. Directing Credits: Macbeth at the Roberts Theatre (mainstage), and Do You Feel Anger, at the University of Hartford. Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and Macbeth, all for the Fall Festival of Shakespeare at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. 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 Varon; 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. www.animustheatre.org. This performance is dedicated to Alan Langdon, my beloved acting teacher, mentor, and friend.

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S&Co: Mother Play, The Contention (Henry VI, Part II), Much Ado About Nothing, Time Stands Still, Heisenberg, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona; Regional: Appropriate, God’s Ear (Elliot Norton Award Best Actress & Best Production), Henry VIII, Pericles, Living In Exile, Cabaret; Film/TV: An Enemy of the People, Sheepdog, Mother/Android, John And The Hole, The Equalizer 2, The Judge; Defending Jacob; Bull; The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe; Olive Kitteridge; Chasing Life; Canadian TV: Blue Murder (Series Lead), The Associates (Series Lead); MFA American Repertory Theatre. Tamara is a ’03 alumna of the January Intensive (formerly the January Month-long Intensive).

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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! Trailer and more info at CosmicMirth.com.

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West End: The Bomb-itty of Errors (Ambassadors Theatre). Regional: The Piano Lesson, The Islanders, Fences, Hymn, Art (Shakespeare & Company); The Piano Lesson (Actors Shakespeare Project); The Counter (Umbrella Stage Company ); How I Learned What I Learned, Sweat (Ensemble Theatre Company); A Soldier’s Play, The Amen Corner, Hamlet, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, All the Way, Fences (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); Jitney, Radio Golf, Two Trains Running, The Piano Lesson, Gem of the Ocean, Crowns, The Bomb-itty of Errors (American Stage Theatre Company); Scarlet, The Piano Lesson (Portland Playhouse Theatre); Water By the Spoonful, Seven Guitars (Nevada Conservatory Theatre); Zora Neale Hurston, The Piano Lesson (Center Theatre Company), Topdog/Underdog, Race, The Boys Next Door (Jobsite Theater Company) Solo: Cufflinks and Jolly Ranchers for Dummies (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); And the Horse You Rode In On (Projects Arts Center, Dublin); Glossolalia: “ranney” is Speaking in Tongues, Whatever (Peoples Improv Theatre); Incendiary, The Break of Dawn: Tracing the Origins of Speech, Pardon Me: I Promise to Do My Best; “ranney” in Surround Zound (Straz Center for the Performing Arts); The Chicken or the Egg (American Stage Theatre Company). www.itsranney.com

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S&Co.: The Piano Lesson. Regional: Macbeth, King Hedley II, Seven Guitars, Pride and Prejudice, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, The School for Scandal, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Pericles (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Toni Stone, Common Ground Revisited, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Romeo and Juliet, Tartuffe (Huntington Theatre Company); Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Winter’s Tale (Hartford Stage); Radio Golf, black odyssey, The Hunchback of Seville (Trinity Repertory Company); Dorset Theatre Festival, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Lyric Stage Company, Central Square Theater, Boston Playwrights' Theatre. Film: The Finest Hours. Education: BA, Emerson College. Training: Shakespeare & Company’s Summer Shakespeare Intensive, 2016.

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Shakespeare & Company: Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, Henry VI Part II: The Contention. Select Regional: Twelfth Night (People’s Light Theatre Company); The Inheritance Parts I & II (Trinity Repertory Theatre Company); The Tempest (Oak Park Festival Theatre); How To Defend Yourself (Victory Gardens Theatre); Cold War Choir Practice, Is Cry You Cry’n?, Ironbound, One Flea Spare, [The Taming of] Hamlet, Fugitive Songs (Brown/Trinity Rep). Education: MFA in Acting, Brown/Trinity Rep.; BA in Sociology & Drama, Tufts University. www.austynwilliamson.com @mr.austyntatious

Ryan has been a company member of Shakespeare & Company since 2006 and some of the productions he has been in include: The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Henry V, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Creditors, Hound of the Baskervilles, The Learned Ladies, Mother Courage, The Mystery of Irma Vep, and It's a Wonderful Life. Regional Credits include: Great Barrington Public Theater: Madame Mozart, The Stones, Breakwater; WAM Theatre: ROE, The Old Mezzo; Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: The Winter's Tale, Universe Rushing Apart; Gloucester Stage: Mr. Fulllerton: Between the Sheets; The Huntington Theatre Company: Joy and Pandemic. Film: The Boston Strangler (Hulu). TV: Time Traveling Bong (Comedy Central). Ryan has a BA from FSU, an MFA from UW-Madison, and he is a proud member of Actors' Equity and SAG.

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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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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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This is Sean’s seventh year at Shakespeare & Company, his third as the Technical Director, and second year he’s helped design a set for the Arthur S. Waldstein Amphitheater. A recent graduate of the MFA program at Boston University, Sean is happy to return to his home away from home in Lenox, Mass.

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Now retired as Costume Director, Govane is in her 45th 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.

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Liz is thrilled to be back at Shakespeare & Company and working with Kate Kohler Amory. Liz is a multifaceted theatre artist — an actor, singer, sound designer, composer, and teacher. She creates award-winning devised theatre pieces, composes music for theatrical sound scores, and an opera: The Bacchae-in Song and Vocal Extreme. Recent sound designs include: Comedy of Errors and 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 and at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She offers private instruction in NYC and over zoom and specializes in reinvigorating the aging voice. She is currently working on a theatrical song cycle titled Periwinkle’s Heart: the Pulse of Grief and Joy. www.LizStanton.com

S&Co: 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. Follow @doctorstgmgr on Instagram.