STUFF THAT HAPPENS

Before the Play

• Caesar wins great victories in Gaul. His spoils of war enrich him and the city of Rome, making him wildly popular with the common people.
• With accusations of waging illegal war, Pompey’s political faction demands that Caesar return to Rome to face trial.
• Caesar returns—with an army. He defeats Pompey, who is murdered after fleeing to Egypt.

During the Play

• Caesar arrives in Rome to great fanfare from the common people, much to the horror of Pompey’s surviving supporters. A soothsayer warns him to “beware the ides of March.”
• Caesar’s growing popularity spurs a conspiracy among the late Pompey’s followers, senators, and others who fear the people will make Caesar a king, overturning the republic.
• On a stormy night, Cassius and the other conspirators convince Brutus to join their cause. They resolve to kill Caesar when the senate meets at the Capitol the next day.
• In the Capitol, one of the conspirators distracts Mark Antony, a steadfast Caesar supporter, while the rest of the faction stab Caesar.
• Antony, claiming not to seek revenge on the conspirators, asks for permission to speak at Caesar’s funeral. Despite protests from Cassius, Brutus agrees.
• After Brutus defends the conspirators’ actions to the common people, Antony incites the crowd against them all. The conspirators flee Rome.
• Antony joins forces with Octavius Caesar (Caesar’s nephew and acknowledged heir) to battle Brutus and Cassius.
• Civil war, ghostly visitations, and a really bad birthday ensue.

STUFF THAT HAPPENS

• Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters—Jane, Elizabeth (aka Lizzie), Mary, Kitty, and Lydia—and Mrs. Bennet is frantic to see them all married well.
• The neighborhood of Meryton buzzes with excitement as wealthy bachelor Mr. Bingley arrives, catching the eye of Mrs. Bennet.
• Mr. Bingley is clearly besotted with Jane Bennet immediately but his haughty companions, his sister Caroline and the reserved Mr. Darcy, disapprove of the attachment and contrive to separate them.
• Lizzy instantly dislikes Darcy’s seeming arrogance, while he is secretly enchanted by her wit.
• The militia arrives in Meryton bringing with it the handsome Mr. Wickham, who relates his fraught history with Mr. Darcy to Lizzie.
• Mr. Bennet’s cousin, Mr. Collins, a bumbling, obsequious vicar, visits the family and offers Lizzie his hand in marriage. She politely but firmly refuses, causing an uproar in the Bennet home.
• To Mrs. Bennet’s horror, Mr. Collins immediately proposes to Lizzie’s best friend, Charlotte Lucas, and she accepts. Charlotte begs Lizzie to visit her after the wedding, which she does.
• While visiting with Charlotte, Mr. Darcy passionately proposes to Lizzie. During the heated exchange, he manages to upset her thoroughly enough to cause her to say he is “the last man on earth whom I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.”
• Lizzie decides to tour the countryside with her aunt, thinking it will rid her whirling thoughts of Darcy from her mind. However, her plans go awry when their trip takes her directly to Mr. Darcy’s doorstep at his massive estate called Pemberley.
• Darcy happens upon Lizzie and her aunt while they tour his home. His demeanor is entirely different, causing Lizzie to reevaluate her assessment of his true nature and her own feelings.
• Scandal, revelations, and “the deepest love” ensue…

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STUFF THAT HAPPENS

• Theseus, Duke of Athens, is looking forward to marrying Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons.
• Egeus, an Athenian nobleman, was looking forward to marrying his daughter Hermia to Demetrius, but Hermia is in love with Lysander and refuses to wed another.
• Egeus appeals to Theseus, who orders Hermia to obey her father and marry Demetrius; otherwise, she will be killed or sent to a nunnery.
• Hermia and Lysander plan to escape through the woods to Lysander’s rich aunt, who will support their marriage. They share their plan with Hermia’s friend Helena, who loves Demetrius, and reveals the plan to him.
• Hermia and Lysander flee into the woods, pursued by Demetrius, pursued by Helena.
• In the woods, Oberon, the fairy king, demands Titania, the fairy queen, grant him custody of her changeling child. Titania refuses.
• As revenge, Oberon sends the mischievous sprite Puck to charm Titania’s eyes with the juice of a magic plant while she sleeps, causing her to fall in love with the first creature she sees when she awakes.
• While plotting this revenge, Oberon witnesses Demetrius reject Helena as she professes her love for him in the woods. Oberon commands Puck to charm Demetrius so that he will fall in love with Helena; Puck, however, mistakes Lysander for Demetrius.
• Meanwhile, Nick Bottom and his fellow workmen (“rude mechanicals”) journey into the woods to rehearse a play for Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding celebration.
• Puck, having charmed the nearby Titania’s sleeping eyes, stumbles on the rehearsal and places an ass’s head upon Bottom. Titania wakes, sees Bottom’s ass, and promptly falls in love.
• Confusion, chaos, catfights, and eventual conciliation ensue.

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Sound Designer for Pride and Prejudice is Thomas J. Coppola.

Spring 2024 Stage Management Fellows are Grayson Fulp and Jess Snellings.

Understudies do not substitute for a listed performer without notification of the audience.

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

MUSIC DIRECTOR & DANCE CAPTAIN

THIS SEASON: Decius Brutus, Titinius in Julius Caesar; Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice; Titania, Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PREVIOUSLY AT ASC: Belle, Martha in A Christmas Carol 2023; Choreographer, 1st Fundraiser, Mrs. Fezziwig, Mrs. Fred, Little Cratchit in A Christmas Carol 2022; Boatswain, Adrian, Ceres, Ensemble in The Tempest; Lychorida, Bawd, Ensemble in Pericles; Assistant Choreographer, Assistant Music Director, Understudy in Twelfth Night and Thrive, Or What You Will; u/s for Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, u/s for Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Angus, Lord, Murderer in Macbeth; Jamy, Grandpre, Attendant in Henry V, Understudy in All’s Well that Ends Well; Music Director and Choreographer for Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and Coriolanus

OTHER THEATRE: Gertrude in Hamlet; Regan in King Lear; Thaisa/Dionyza/Lysimachus in Pericles; Titania/Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Clarinda in The Sea Voyage (Mary Baldwin University, MFA)

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

THIS SEASON:

Mark Antony in Julius Caesar; Mrs. Bennet, Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice; Egeus, Flute, Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PREVIOUSLY AT ASC:

Over 115 roles in 76 productions, including Prospero in The Tempest; Dionyza in Pericles; Antonio in Une Tempête; King Richard in Richard II; Tamora in Titus Andronicus; Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra; Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Paulina in The Winter’s Tale; Lady Macbeth in Macbeth; Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing; Beatrice Joanna in The Changeling; Margaret in Henry VI, Parts 1-3 and Richard III; Cassius in Julius Caesar; Katherine in Henry VIII; Dido in Dido, Queen of Carthage; Rosalind in As You Like It; Portia in The Merchant of Venice; Ophelia in Hamlet; Queen Isabella in Edward II; Celia in As You Like It; Tragedian, Player Poisoner, Ambassador in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Foible, Betty in The Way of the World; Forobosco and Senator in Antonio’s Revenge.

OTHER THEATRES:

Katherine in Henry V (Delaware Theatre Company, Wilmington DE); Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Portia in Julius Caesar, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Rosalind in As You Like It, Regan in King Lear, Ophelia in Hamlet (Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Boulder, CO).

EDUCATION:

MFA in Acting, University of Delaware Professional Theatre Training Program; BA in Theatre, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX.

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

THIS SEASON: Portia, Publius, Lepidus, Cobbler in Julius Caesar; Lydia Bennet, Charlotte Lucus in Pride and Prejudice; Helena, Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PREVIOUSLY AT ASC: Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing; Horatio in Hamlet; Valeria in Coriolanus; Belle and Belinda in A Christmas Carol; Ariel in The Tempest; Antiochus’s Daughter, Marina, Ensemble in Pericles; Ariel in Une Tempête; Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet; Angelo (u/s Adriana, Luciana) in Comedy of Errors; Bianca in Taming of the Shrew; Juliet/Froth in Measure For Measure

OTHER THEATRE: Miranda in The Tempest (Firebrand Theatre Co), Juliet in the touring production of Romeo and Juliet, Luciana in Comedy or Errors, and Perdita in The Winter’s Tale (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre); Ellison in Crying on Television and Emmy in A Doll’s House pt.2 (Nashville Repertory Theatre).

EDUCATION: University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Theatre Arts and Dance program with a B.A in Theatre Arts

PRONOUNS: she/her

Corrie dedicates these performances to her late grandmother, Willie Ruth Green. She is the spirit that empowers this work into our world.

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

THIS SEASON: Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar; Mr. Bennet, Sir William Lucas in Pride and Prejudice; Peter Quince, Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PREVIOUSLY AT ASC: Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol 2023; ASC on Tour roles including Egeus, Snout, Mustardseed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; King Cymbeline in Imogen; Pa Joad, Ensemble in The Grapes of Wrath; King Polixines in The Winter’s Tale; The Messenger, Guard, Chorus in Antigone; Duke Solinus, Luce in The Comedy of Errors; King Pol in 16 Winters, or The Bear’s Tale

OTHER THEATER: Dr. Larabee in Akeelah and The Bee (Flint City Repertory Theatre); Prince of Morocco, The Duke in The Merchant of Venice (Houston Shakespeare Festival); James Armistead in The Hated Spy (Colonial Williamsburg)

FILM: Stop the Threat (various episodes)

EDUCATION: BFA from the University of Michigan, MFA from the University of Houston

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

THIS SEASON: Cinna+ and Octavius+ in Julius Caesar; Mr. Collins^ and Mr. Wickham^ in Pride and Prejudice; Oberon^ and Theseus^ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PREVIOUSLY AT ASC: Swing for As You Like It, Eurydice, The Tempest, Pericles, Une Tempête, Twelfth Night, Thrive, and Pass Over

OTHER THEATRE: Citizen George in Knight of the Burning Pestle, Achilles/Agamemnon in Troilus & Cressida (Meadowlark Shakespeare Players); George Badger in Treasure Island (Endstation Theatre Company); Iachimo/Belarius in Cymbeline, Piero/Officer in The Revenger’s Tragedy (Polaris Shakespeare Company); Frederick in The Rover, Grisolan/Executioner in The Duchess of Malfi (Hidden Room Theatre); Parolles in All’s Well that Ends Well (Past is Prologue Productions); Malcolm in Macbeth (Rosedale Shakespeare); Pericles in Pericles (MBU S&P) Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, Antony in Antony & Cleopatra, Oliver in As You Like It (Shakespeare at Winedale)

EDUCATION: MLitt and MFA in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University; BFA in Acting with Honors from NYU Tisch School of the Arts

PRONOUNS: he/they

+ Role originated by Joe Mucciolo

^ Role originated by Aidan O’Reilly

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

THIS SEASON: Brutus^ in Julius Caesar; Kitty Bennet, Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice; Puck, Philostrate in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PREVIOUSLY AT ASC: Cinna, Octavius in Julius Caesar; Young Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Future in A Christmas Carol 2023; Conrade, Balthazar in Much Ado About Nothing; Guildenstern in Hamlet; Aufidius in Coriolanus; Vincentio in Taming of the Shrew; Mistress Overdone, Friar Peter in Measure for Measure

OTHER THEATRE: Duchess of York’s Voice/ASL Interpreter, Richard III (Shakespeare in the Park/The Public Theater); Ensemble, Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Peter/Ensemble, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Giles, The Mousetrap (Judson Theatre Company); Horatio, Hamlet (Grassroots Shakespeare DC); Prep, columbinus (1st Stage); Romeo’s Shadow/Voice, Romeo and Juliet (Endangered Species Theatre Project); Pavel Vasilyevich/Shelestov, The Sneeze (Compass Rose Theater); Thomas, Venus in Fur (Compass Rose Theater); Perchik, Fiddler on the Roof (Compass Rose Theater); Mayor/Radio Man, Inherit the Wind (Compass Rose Theater); Ferdinand, The Tempest (Toms River Shakespeare Festival); Lysander, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Toms River Shakespeare Festival); 2nd Gentleman/Abhorson/Friar Peter, Measure for Measure (Toms River Shakespeare Festival)

EDUCATION: Loyola University Maryland

PRONOUNS: he/him

WEBSITE: joemucciolo.com

^ Role originated by Aidan O’Reilly

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

Fight CHOREOGRAPHER

THIS SEASON: Cassius in Julius Caesar; Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice; Demetrius, Starveling, Mustardseed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PREVIOUSLY AT ASC: Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing; Laertes in Hamlet; Cominius in Coriolanus; Christopher Sly in Taming of the Shrew; Angelo in Measure for Measure

OTHER THEATRE:

Edmund, King Lear (Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre); Bertram, All’s Well That Ends Well (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre); Slender, Merry Wives of Windsor (Texas Shakespeare Festival); Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet (Queer Classics Theater); Algernon, The Importance of Being Earnest (Queer Classics Theater); Richard, Ah Wilderness! (Artist Repertory Theater); Boy, The Play About the Baby (Road Theater Company); Sam, A Delicate Ship (Road Theater Company); Truffaldino, Servant of Two Masters (Nomadic Theater Company)

EDUCATION:

INSTAGRAM: @philiporazio

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

PREVIOUSLY AT ASC:

More than 50 roles in 30 productions including: Brutus in Julius Caesar; Mr. Collins, Mr. Wickham in Pride and Prejudice; Oberon, Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Lucio in Measure for Measure, Player King in Hamlet, Menenius in Coriolanus, Friar Francis in Much Ado About Nothing; Jaques in As You Like It, Bertram in All’s Well That Ends Well, Foresight in Love for Love, Don John/Verges in Much Ado About Nothing, Malcolm in Macbeth, Fred in A Christmas Carol, Claudio/Froth in Measure for Measure, Pharamond in Philaster, Horatio in Hamlet, Merrythought in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Esculus/Barnardine in Measure for Measure, Trinculo in The Tempest, Franville in The Sea Voyage, Iarbus in Dido Queen of Carthage, Angelo in The Comedy of Errors, Gunwater in A Mad World, My Masters, Fabritio in Women Beware Women, Paris/Gregory in Romeo and Juliet, Horatio in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Clarence/Ratcliffe in Richard III; Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew; Lucio in Measure for Measure

OTHER THEATRES:

Nick Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Prague Shakespeare Company), Mysterious Man, Into the Woods (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Richard in Richard III, Fool in King Lear, Caliban in The Tempest, Angelo in The Comedy of Errors, Third Fisherman/Cerimon in Pericles (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Feste in Twelfth Night (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Prince Hal in Henry IV. Macbeth in Macbeth (Renegade Players) Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (City Lights Theatre Company), Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar, Jaques in As You Like It, Lucifer in Doctor Faustus (Sonoma Valley Shakespeare Company) Billy in The Cripple of Irishmaan. Bertolt Brecht in The Kurt Weill Cabaret, Marcellus in Fortinbras (Actor’s Theatre of Santa Rosa), Macbeth in Macbeth (Arkansas Studio Theatre) Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (CAPS Productions) Richard in Richard III (Marin Shakespeare Company) Hamlet in Hamlet, Feste in Twelfth Night, Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew, Prince Conti in La Bete, Leslie in The Hostage, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Avalon Players)

O’Reilly served as the Artistic Director of the Renegade Players from 2007-2011 and the Sonoma Valley Shakespeare Company from 2012-2015.

FILM:

Writer/Producer, Last Call (Manchester European Short Film Festival, London Independent Film Festival).

AWARDS:

Nomination, Outstanding Performance by an Actor, Principal: Antonio Salieri in Amadeus, City Lights Theatre Company.

EDUCATION:

BA in Acting with Honors, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London, UK.

WEBSITE:

www.aidan-oreilly.com

INSTAGRAM:

@cycloptic_wolfman

PRONOUNS:

he/him

INTIMACY CHOREOGRAPHER

THIS SEASON: Calpurnia, Lucius in Julius Caesar; Lizzie Bennet in Pride and Prejudice; Hermia, Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PREVIOUSLY AT ASC: First Witch in Macbeth; Mariana in All’s Well that Ends Well; Ensemble in Henry V; Tiny Tim, Beggar Boy, Fan in A Christmas Carol. Resident Intimacy Choreographer for A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Thrive, Or What You Will, Pass Over, The Tempest, Pericles, Une Tempête, As You Like It, and Eurydice.

OTHER THEATRE: Mistress Quickly with Richmond Shakespeare Festival; Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati’s 2017-2018 season

EDUCATION: Natasia graduated with her MFA from Mary Baldwin University where she had the joy of performing the roles of Mercutio, Oberon, and King Lear.

PRONOUNS: Any

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

FIGHT CAPTAIN

THIS SEASON: Caska, Pindarus in Julius Caesar; Mary Bennet, Mrs. Gardiner in Pride and Prejudice; Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PREVIOUSLY WITH ASC:

Jaques, Silvius, William, Charles in As You Like It; Father in Eurydice; Trinculo in The Tempest; Chorus in Pericles; Trinculo in Une Tempête; Decius Brutus, Flavius in Julius Caesar; Alexas, Eros, Proculeius in Antony and Cleopatra; Achillas in Caesar and Cleopatra, 2 seasons and over 10 roles on National Tour including Paulina, Time in The Winter’s Tale; Eurydice, Chorus in Antigone; Dromio in The Comedy of Errors; Kate in The Taming of the Shrew; Mrs. Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility; Witch, Lady Macduff, Angus, Murderer in Macbeth

OTHER THEATRE:

Rosalind in As You Like It, Countess Andreyni in Murder on the Orient Express (Gateway Playhouse),Margaret in Richard III, Countess in All’s Well that Ends Well (Mainestage Shakespeare, Kennebunk, ME); Audrey in As You Like It (Barefoot Shakespeare, New York, NY); Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar (PA Shakespeare Festival, Center Valley, PA).

EDUCATION:

MFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts; BFA University of California Santa Barbara

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

MUSIC CAPTAIN

THIS SEASON: Soothsayer, Trebonius, Lucilius in Julius Caesar; Mr. Bingley in Pride and Prejudice; Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

PREVIOUSLY WITH ASC: Christmas Present/Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol; Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing; Rosencrantz in Hamlet; Sicinius in Coriolanus; Duncan, Porter, Old Man, Lord, Siward in Macbeth; Grey, French King, Gower, York in Henry V; Clown (Lavatch), Soldier in All’s Well That Ends Well, Cover/Swing in Twelfth Night; First Gentleman/Cover/Swing in Othello; Lucentio in Taming of the Shrew; Provost in Measure for Measure

OTHER THEATRE: Toby in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the ‘Burg); Falstaff in Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 (Gallatin); Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare-to-Go); Matt, Burns in Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Gallatin); Josh in These and Those (New York Theatre Festival); Officer in Comedy of Errors (Smith Street Stage); Lucio, Froth, Barnadine in Measure for Measure (Smith Street Stage).

EDUCATION: BA in Individualized Study, Gallatin at New York University

PRONOUNS: He/Him

ACTING FELLOW

THIS SEASON: Swing for Julius Caesar, Pride and Prejudice, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

OTHER THEATRE: Librarian/others in KRAGTAR: The American Monster Musical (Alleyway Theatre); Bottom in Where There’s a Will There’s a Play (Shakespeare in Delaware Park)

EDUCATION: BFA in Theatre Performance from University at Buffalo; current MLitt student with Mary Baldwin University’s Shakespeare and Performance program

PRONOUNS: Any

ACTING FELLOW

THIS SEASON: 

Swing for Julius Caesar, Pride and Prejudice, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

THIS SEASON: 

Swing for A Christmas Carol

OTHER THEATRE: Oliver Rivers in Puffs or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic (Silver Line Theatre Exchange); Tranio in Taming of the Shrew (Knoxville Shakespeare); Aumerle in Richard II (Shakespeare on the Hill) Silvius in As You Like It

EDUCATION:

ACTING FELLOW

THIS SEASON: Swing for Julius Caesar, Pride and Prejudice, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

OTHER THEATRE: Doo-Wop Girl in 12 Dates of Christmas (Silverline Theatre Exchange); Psyche in Cupid and Psyche (MBU Undergrad Theatre)

EDUCATION: BA in Theatre from Mary Baldwin University, current MLitt student with MBU’s Shakespeare and Performance Program

PRONOUNS: She/her

ACTING FELLOW

THIS SEASON: Swing for Julius Caesar, Pride and Prejudice, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

OTHER THEATRE: Gallathea (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory) and Macbeth (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory)

EDUCATION: BFA in Acting from University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Currently pursuing an MLITT and MFA in Shakespeare & Performance at Mary Baldwin University

PRONOUNS: He/him

ACTING FELLOW

THIS SEASON: Swing for Julius Caesar, Pride and Prejudice, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

OTHER THEATRE: Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Huntsville Shakespeare); Olympe de Gouges in The Revolutionists (UAH Theatre); Daniel/Fight Captain for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged][Revised] (UAH Theatre); Actor/Combatant in Unto These Hills (Unto These Hills Outdoor Drama); Diane in Hurricane Diane (UAH Theatre); Curio/Valentine/Others in Twelfth Night (Huntsville Shakespeare)

EDUCATION:Current MLitt/MFA Shakespeare and Performance Student at Mary Baldwin University; BA in Theatre, Performance from the University of Alabama in Huntsville

PRONOUNS: She/they

WEBSITE: beccalynnwest.wixsite.com/acting

INSTAGRAM: @beccalwest

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)

THIS SEASON: Stage Manager

BIO: Brendan M. Cullen* is happy to be back for Spring at ASC. Over the years Brendan has worked as a Stage Manager in Colorado, New York, Tennessee, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Virginia. Past and favorite credits include Twelfth Night, Hamlet (ASC); In The Middle (LARK Play Development Center); Rock of Ages (Lake Dillon Theatre Company); and {my lingerie play} at Joe’s Pub. When not on the road, Brendan resides in Astoria, Queens, NYC and has a BFA from Syracuse University.

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

THIS SEASON: Assistant Stage Manager

BIO: Madison Lindy has a double masters in Shakespeare and Performance. She worked with the ASC in multiple capacities for several years before joining them as the Assistant Stage Manager after finishing her second masters degree. When not at the Playhouse, she spends her time making art and walking the streets of Staunton with her beautiful dog, Benny.

PRONOUNS: She/Her

@madslindytheartist

THIS SEASON:

Costume Shop Manager

PREVIOUS ASC CREDITS:

Costume Shop Manager for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] (again), As You Like It, Eurydice, and 2022’s A Christmas Carol; Cutter/Draper, Wardrobe Manager, and Assistant Costume Shop Manager for Une Tempête, The Tempest, Pericles, Pass Over, Thrive or What You Will, and Twelfth Night (2022).

OTHER CREDITS:

Costume Designer for She Kills Monsters (John Tyler University) and Ripcord (CAT Theatre). Stitcher for The Wiz, The Addams Family Musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Mary Poppins, The King and I, Monty Python’s Spamalot (Shenandoah Summer Music Theater). Assistant Costume Designer for The Music Man and The Man of La Mancha (Shenandoah Summer Music Theater).

EDUCATION:

MFA in Costume Technology from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (2022), BFA in Technical Theatre from Longwood University (2015).

BIO:

A resident of Virginia (and briefly North Carolina), Marie enjoys life as a cat mom, is an avid listener of Podcasts, and part-time archer with her LARP group.

https://www.marielupia.com/

THIS SEASON: Choreographer

PREVIOUSLY WITH ASC: Hermione in The Winter’s Tale; Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Olivia in Twelfth Night; Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing; King Henry in Henry VI, Part 1; the Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi; and Mary in The Twelve Dates of Christmas

PREVIOUSLY DIRECTED WITH ASC: ASC directing credits include the 2022 production of Every Brilliant Thing, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023 productions of A Christmas Carol, the 2017/18 Wicked Folly Tour/Spring Season production of Sense and Sensibility by Emma Whipday, the 2018 Summer/Fall production of Jane Austen’s Emma by Emma Whipday, and Amy E. Whiting’s Anne Page Hates Fun (the first production in ASC’s Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries series).

OTHER THEATRE: The Barter Theatre, Main Street Theatre Houston, Endstation Theatre Company, and The Farm Theatre

EDUCATION: Greensboro College (BA); The University of Houston PATP (MFA)

ACADEMIC WORK: Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre at Randolph College in Lynchburg

PRONOUNS: she/her

THIS SEASON: Movement Coach

BIO: Doreen joined the ASC as an actor and choreographer in 2002 with the first Resident Troupe and then served as Director of Youth Programs, where she ran summer camps and educational programming for several years. She famously descended from the “heavens” in a circus hoop as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and previous ASC roles include Calphurnia in Julius Caesar, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Queen Margaret in Richard III, Christmas Present/Martha/Movement in A Christmas Carol 2002, Goneril in King Lear, Boy / Circus Choreographer in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Margaret / Dance Choreographer in Much Ado About Nothing, and Marianne in Tartuffe.

Doreen is Co-Program Director of the Shakespeare and Performance MLitt / MFA program at Mary Baldwin University, where she also manages the MFA company and oversees training.  As a director and movement practitioner, she enjoys both working in classical theatre and devising original work. Most recently, she directed Macbeth for Hoosier Shakespeare Festival, Romeo and Juliet for MBU’s undergrad drama department, co-directed Pericles for the MLitt program, and co-directed the devised show C.Q.D. with the MFA company Treehouse Shakespeare Ensemble, and directed Chapatti for the Virginia Theatre Festival. Doreen is also a founding member of the Performers Exchange Project, a company dedicated to developing and performing original works.

THIS SEASON: Voice & Speech Coach

PREVIOUSLY WITH ASC: Director of Measure for Measure (2023), The Comedy of Errors (2022), Twelfth Night (2022), Richard III (2018), Much Ado About Nothing (2017), The Fall of King Henry/Henry VI, Part 3 (2017), King Lear (2016), The Winter’s Tale (2015)

BIO: Jenny has a 1st Class Certificate in the Phonetics of English from the International Phonetic Association. In addition to the sheer joy of the science of speech, she applies it to support actors and other speakers in their goals. She’s on Voice Production & Speech faculty at AMDA NY. Jenny’s a chicken-fried New Yorker, where her directing includes The Three Musketeers and Henry V off-Broadway with The Classical Theatre of Harlem. In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Jenny founded a theatre company and collaborated with international artists for seven years. Taiwan directing includes Macbeth, Dangerous Liaisons/Weixian Guanxi, Romeo & Juliet, Into the Woods, and As You Like It! (a musical she co-wrote). A former SDC/ Kurt Weill Foundation Fellow, she is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society (SDC), a national theatrical labor union, and is in process to complete certification as a Consent Forward Artist from IDC.

AWARDS: AUDELCO nominee for Best Director for The Three Musketeers. Jenny’s production of Much Ado About Nothing at HSRT won the 2022 BroadwayWorld Michigan Award for Best Play

EDUCATION: SCEP (IPA Strand), University College London. MFA, University of Delaware. BA, University of Virginia (wahoowa)

WEBSITE: www.bennyjennett.nyc

INSTAGRAM: @jb_JennyB

PRONOUNS: she/her

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS

THIS SEASON: Dramaturg

BIO: Aubrey is the Director of Education Programs at ASC, which affords her the opportunity to combine her two great loves: Shakespeare and pedagogy. Aubrey hails from California’s Central Valley and has a BA in Theatre Arts from UC Santa Cruz (Go Slugs!), an MA in Teaching from Chapman University, and an MLitt and MFA in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University. She was a full-time English and Drama teacher in middle and high schools for many years, as well as an actor, stage manager, director, and dramaturg at various points in her career. She is also the co-creator of the internationally-recognized hit podcast, The Hurly Burly Shakespeare Show!. Aubrey began working in ASC’s box office in 2013 while still a graduate student, and joined Team Education in 2018 under previous Director Sarah Enloe. A vehement proponent of accessible public scholarship, Aubrey has established programs like Friday Night Lights On and the No Kidding Drama Club to make Shakespeare and the Blackfriars Playhouse more accessible to all.

THIS SEASON: Wardrobe Supervisor / Stitcher

BIO: Tori Wright is a graduate of Longwood University, holding a BFA specializing in costume design. This is her seventh season with the American Shakespeare Center. Previous show credits include Henry V, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, and The Tempest, as well as No Exit, Chicago, and A Masterpiece of Comic… Timing! When not in the costume shop, she creates artistic paper dolls, and enjoys gourmet coffee.

THIS SEASON: Wardrobe Supervisor / Stitcher

Amy Wert is a new Wardrobe Manager at ASC, and enjoys working on all things costumes. Most recently she worked on West Side Story, Mamma Mía, and Blood Knot at the Flat Rock Playhouse in NC. She studied at both Anderson and Clemson University and graduated in 2020. Amy is also a swing dancing enthusiast and loves her cat, Theo. Follow along with my theatre and sewing pursuits @amys.clothesline on Instagram!

THIS SEASON: Wardrobe Assistant/Stitcher

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

THIS SEASON: Production Manager

ASC STAGE MANAGEMENT:  Acting as the Tour Manager from 2015-Covid, Thomas has been the resident SM for the last two years. Previously at the ASC: Production Manager: Twelfth Night, Thrive, Or What You Will. Stage Management: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Winter’s Tale, Comedy of Errors (x2), Macbeth (x2), Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet (x2), Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V (x2), Julius Caesar, Othello, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That End’s Well. Additional ASC SM credits: Every Brilliant Thing, The Grapes of Wrath, Our Town, The Importance of Being Earnest, Antigone, Equivocation, Goodnight Desdemona, Arms and The Man, the World Premier of Emma Whipday’s Sense and Sensibility and seven productions of A Christmas Carol! Thomas is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Love to M&D, & KRM. www.thomasjcoppola.com #BLM Proud Member of Actor’s Equity.

REGIONAL CREDITS: Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz (American Family Theatre, National Tour) The Fall of The House of Usher, The Most Dangerous Game (Chamber Theatre Productions, National Tour)Spamalot, Les Miserables, They’re Playing Our Song, Falsettos, and Next Thing You Know (Sharon Playhouse); CATS, Hairspray, Crazy For You, HAIR, Once on This Island, Sunset Boulevard (Cohoes Music Hall); Into The Woods, All Shook Up, Seussical, Laramie Project: Epilogue (Barrington Stage Company)

PRONOUNS: He/Him

THIS SEASON: Props Artisan

THIS SEASON: Props Artisan

BIO: Alaina Smith (she/her) is a theatre artist hailing from Nashville, TN. After completing a dual Bachelor’s in Theater Performance and Art at Freed-Hardeman University, she has worked for companies such as Stages St. Louis, Sacramento Theatre Company, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Crane River Theatre, Act 1, Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre, Nashville Children’s Theatre, and Nashville Rep as a performer and scenic painter. Beginning in the fall of 2021, Smith began studying at Mary Baldwin’s Shakespeare and Performance Program to earn an MLitt and MFA in Shakespeare and Performance.

THIS SEASON: Props Artisan

PREVIOUS ASC CREDITS: Props Artisan for Twelfth Night, Thrive or What You Will, Pass Over, The Tempest, Pericles, Une Tempête, A Christmas Carol 2022, As You Like It, Eurydice, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] (again) (2023)

BIO: A “storyteller of all-mediums”, Sarah White is a third year in Mary Baldwin University’s MFA Shakespeare & Performance program with a focus on acting (under the stage name Sarah Scarborough – catch her onstage with the MFA company, Meadowlark Shakespeare Players for their 2023-2024 season). She holds a BA in English and Theater Studies from Anderson University, and an MFA in Scenic Design at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her work as an Actor, Scenic Designer, Painter and/or Properties Artisan has been seen regionally throughout the U.S. at companies such as Duende Productions, Hollins University, Earlham College, Dragon Productions, Wisdom Tooth Theatre Project, The Coterie Theatre, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Crane River Theater Company, New Harmony Theater, The Berkshire Theatre Group, The Unicorn Theatre, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, and The Lied Center for Performing Arts.

WEBSITES: http://sarahwhitescenicdesign.com and http://sarahscarborough.com

PRONOUNS: she/her

THIS SEASON: Stage Management Fellow

OTHER THEATRE: Asst. Stage Manager for Let The Right One In (Theatre In The Park); Stage Manager for A Case of Salt (NC State University Theatre); Asst. Stage Manager for Static (NC State University Theatre)

EDUCATION: NC State University, BA in Arts Studies, 2019-2022; Mary Baldwin University, MLitt in Shakespeare and Performance, 2023-2025

AWARDS: The Bitzer Award for Achievement in Theatre – 2022, NC State University; Spirit of the Theatre Award – 2021, NC State University

PRONOUNS: He/him

THIS SEASON: Stage Management Fellow

PREVIOUSLY WITH ASC: Stage Management Fellow (2022)

OTHER THEATRE: Stage Manager/Dramaturg for A King and No King (Mary Baldwin University); Stage Manager for It’s a Wonderful Life (Silver Line Theatre Exchange); Stage Manager and Leanne in Puffs (Silver Line Theatre Exchange)

EDUCATION: Master of Letters in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University

PRONOUNS: She/Her

WEBSITE: www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-snellings-208a906b

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