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The Performers
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Kathryn Hunter
Timon of Athens
Timon of Athens
Kathryn Hunter
NEW YORK: Theatre For A New Audience: Why?, The Valley of Astonishment, Fragments (CICT/Bouffes du Nord), Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kafka’s Monkey, The Emperor (co-production with Young Vic). INTERNATIONAL: U.K.: Royal Shakespeare Company: Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, A Tender Thing | Shakespeare’s Globe: Richard III | National Theatre: The Skriker | Ex Machina: Hearts | Manchester Royal Exchange: The House of Bernarda Alba | Noda Map: The Diver, The Bee | Epidaurus (Greece): Prometheus Bound. FILM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mike Leigh’s All or Nothing, Tale of Tales, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. TELEVISION: Black Earth Rising, Les Misérables, Flowers, Rome, Manhunt, Silent Witness, Grushko. OTHER: Directing: National Theatre: The Birds | Shakespeare’s Globe: The Comedy of Errors, Pericles | Duke of York’s Theatre: Mr. Puntila… | Royal Court Theatre: The Glory of Living | Royal Shakespeare Company/NYC: Everyman. AWARDS: Olivier Award for Best Actress in The Visit (National Theatre). PERSONAL: Award-winning actress and director, Kathryn Hunter, was born in New York and grew up in England. Training: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Bristol University (French and Drama).

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Elia Monte-Brown
Alcibiades
Alcibiades
Elia Monte-Brown
REGIONAL (select): Guthrie Theater: Blithe Spirit | Huntington Theatre Company: Top Girls | American Conservatory Theater: Between Riverside and Crazy | Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Humana Festival. FILM: Fort Tilden. TELEVISION: FBI, The Deuce, The Resident, Shades of Blue, The Affair, Search Party, The Following, Person of Interest, Madam Secretary, Elementary, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. PERSONAL: Training: Yale School of Drama.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Arnie Burton
Apemantus
Apemantus
Arnie Burton
NEW YORK: Broadway: Machinal, Peter and the Starcatcher, The 39 Steps, A Free Man of Color, Amadeus | Off-Broadway: Select: Lewiston/Clarkston (Drama Desk nomination), The Government Inspector (Callaway Award), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Drama League nomination), The Temperamentals (Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble), The New Yorkers, The Explorers Club, The Winter’s Tale, Lives of the Saints, Mere Mortals, Tail! Spin!, The Jew of Malta/The Merchant of Venice, Lonely Planet | New York Theatre Workshop: Peter and the Starcatcher. FILM: Select: The Greatest Showman, The Invention of Lying, Igby Goes Down, Game 6. TELEVISION: Select: Murphy Brown, The Good Fight, Search Party, Blacklist, Jessica Jones, Flesh and Bone (recurring), Elementary, Frasier, Blue Bloods, White Collar, Law & Order, Law & Order: CI. OTHER: Recordings: The New Yorkers Original Cast Recording (Ghostlist Records).

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
John Rothman
Flavius
Flavius
John Rothman
NEW YORK: Broadway: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Relatively Speaking, Prelude to a Kiss, Some Americans Abroad, Social Security | Off-Broadway: The American Place: The Impossible H.L. Mencken (which he wrote) | The Buddy System, Death Defying Acts | Theatre for a New Audience: Pericles (dir. Trevor Nunn) | Classic Stage Company, New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre. REGIONAL: Compagnia de’ Colombari: The Merchant of Venice (dir. Karin Coonrod) | Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Portland Center Stage, Yale Rep. FILM: 100 plus. The Report, Bombshell, Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Ghostbusters, The Devil Wears Prada, United 93, Gettysburg, Copycat. TELEVISION: Series Regular: One Mississippi (Amazon Prime), Birdland | Recurring: Law & Order: SVU (Judge Kofax) | Many guest stars. AWARDS: Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble for Separate But Equal. PERSONAL: Training: Yale School of Drama: MFA, The Actors' Studio lifetime member, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Actors' Center | Instagram: @johnnyrothman | JohnRothmanActor.com.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Shirine Babb
Lucia
Lucia
Shirine Babb
NEW YORK: Select: Broadway: Lincoln Center: Macbeth | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Original Broadway Cast) | Off-Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company: Napoli, Brooklyn | Bedlam Company: The Crucible | WP Theatre: Aliens with Extraordinary Skills. REGIONAL: Select: Kennedy Center: Measure+Dido | Round House Theatre: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play (2020 Helen Hayes nomination) | Shakespeare Festival St. Louis: Antony and Cleopatra (St. Louis Theater Circle Award nomination) | Folger Theatre: Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra | Huntington Theatre Company/Long Wharf Theatre: Disgraced (2015 Connecticut Critics Circle Award nomination) | Old Globe Shakespeare Festival: 2010/2011 seasons. INTERNATIONAL: Arcola Theatre (London): Widows. TELEVISION: Iron Fist, I Love You...But I Lied, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary. PERSONAL: Training: East 15 Acting Conservatory (U.K.): MA, USD/Old Globe PTAP: MFA.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Dave Quay
Lucullus
Lucullus
Dave Quay
STC: The Tempest. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Public Theater: Socrates, The Low Road | Classic Stage Company: The Heir Apparent | Mint Theater Company: Donogoo. REGIONAL: Dorset Theatre Festival: Pride and Prejudice, Baskerville | New Jersey Symphony: Lelio | Georgia Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Richard III, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Pericles | Alliance Theatre: Eurydice, Tennis in Nablus | Synchronicity Theatre: Icarus’s Mother | Chautauqua Theater Company: Three Sisters, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Philadelphia Story. FILM: Catcher was a Spy. TELEVISION: Bull, House of Cards, Looming Tower, Gotham, Blindspot, Unforgettable, Royal Pains, Forever, Drop Dead Diva. OTHER: Big Apple Circus. PERSONAL: Training: NYU Grad Acting: MFA.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Daniel Pearce
Sempronis
Sempronis
Daniel Pearce
NEW YORK: Broadway: Machinal, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | Off-Broadway (select): Public Theater: Mother of the Maid, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Ping Pong, Henry V, Henry VI, Measure for Measure, Loves' Fire | WP Theatre: The Most Deserving | Minetta Lane Theatre: Falling | Epic Theatre Ensemble: Passion Play | Irish Rep: The Picture of Dorian Gray. FILM: The Last Thing Mary Saw (upcoming), Salt, Clowns, Godzilla. TELEVISION: Murder of a President, Bull, Damages, Chapelle's Show, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, CI. AWARDS: 2017 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. PERSONAL: Training: New York University: MFA.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Helen Cespedes
Flaminia
Flaminia
Helen Cespedes
NEW YORK: Broadway: The Cripple of Inishmaan | Off-Broadway: Theatre for a New Audience: Fefu and Her Friends | The Civilians: Paul Swan Is Dead and Gone | Red Bull Theatre: The School for Scandal | Mint Theater Company: A Picture of Autumn. REGIONAL: McCarter Theatre Center/Hartford Stage: The Age of Innocence | Old Globe: The Importance of Being Earnest | Barrington Stage Company: Taking Steps | Williamstown Theatre Festival: The Importance of Being Earnest | Goodman Theatre/New York Stage and Film: Another Word for Beauty | Studio Theatre: Tribes, Laugh. FILM: The Way I Remember It. TELEVISION: The Knick. PERSONAL: she/her/hers. Training: The Juilliard School.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Adam Langdon
Lucilius
Lucilius
Adam Langdon
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The New Englanders. TOURS: Christopher in the Broadway tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Helen Hayes Award nomination). REGIONAL: Barrington Stage Company: Kimberly Akimbo | Berkshire Theatre Group: I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn’t Even Smile | Williamstown Theatre Festival: Hapgood, Robin Hood. TELEVISION: Midnight, Texas; Masters of Doom; The Good Wife; Red Oaks; The Path; Difficult People; Peter Has to Go to the Doctor; Three Dates. OTHER: Co-wrote and co-starred in the web series Moe and Jerryweather. PERSONAL: Training: The Juilliard School.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Liam Craig
Demetrius
Demetrius
Liam Craig
STC: The School for Lies, The Tempest (Trinculo), The Government Inspector (Osip), The Servant of Two Masters (Brighella/Porter). NEW YORK: Broadway: Boeing-Boeing (u/s, appeared) | Off-Broadway: Theatre for a New Audience: Julius Caesar, The Servant of Two Masters, The Killer | Vineyard Theatre: The Internationalist | The New Group: Aunt Dan and Lemon | Public Theater: Two Noble Kinsmen | Roundabout Theatre Company: Juno and the Paycock. REGIONAL: Hartford Stage: Henry V | Denver Center: The Book of Will (World Premiere) | Yale Repertory Theatre: A Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Servant of Two Masters, Accidental Death of an Anarchist | Berkeley Repertory Theatre: A Doctor in Spite of Himself, Accidental Death of an Anarchist. FILM: The Royal Tenenbaums. TELEVISION: Madame Secretary, Mozart in the Jungle, Unforgettable, Mercy, Rescue Me, Boston Legal, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU. TRAINING: New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program: MFA.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Zachary Fine
Painter
Painter
Zachary Fine
NEW YORK: Broadway: China Doll with Al Pacino | Off-Broadway: Acting Company, Mint Theater Company, Pearl Theatre, Red Bull Theater, Fiasco Theater, Theatre for a New Audience. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater, Folger Theatre, PlayMakers Rep | Original Work: Walled In, Manifest Destiny (with Aitor Basauri and Lucas Rooney) | Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: So Please You, The Sea-Maid's Music, Bewilderness. AWARDS: 2015 Helen Hayes Award for Fiasco’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 2020 Helen Hayes nomination for Love's Labor's Lost at Folger Theatre. PERSONAL: Zack teaches clown and games at NYU, Fiasco Conservatory, and more.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Yonatan Gebeyehu
Poet/Caphis
Poet/Caphis
Yonatan Gebeyehu
STC: Everybody. NEW YORK: Off-Off Broadway: New Georges/The Tank: I thought I would die, but I didn’t. REGIONAL: Montana Rep: Go. Please. Go. | Shakespeare on the Manor: The Tempest | Chautauqua Theater Company: Noises Off, Romeo and Juliet | Portland Stage Company: A Christmas Carol | UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse: Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., Strange Men, Streamers, Native Son, How to Use a Knife, The Venetian Twins. TELEVISION: Elementary, Madam Secretary (CBS). WEB: Series: 86’d (Bric Arts). PERSONAL: Teaching: Has served on the acting faculty of Playwrights Horizons Studio/NYU Tisch School of the Arts and University of California San Diego | Training: University of California San Diego: MFA in Acting, Columbia University: BA in English Literature | Yonatan-Gebeyehu.com.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Kristen Misthopoulos
Singer
Singer
Kristen Misthopoulos
REGIONAL: A Midsummer Night's Dream, R+J4EVR. INTERNATIONAL: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. FILM: Wild Nights With Emily. PERSONAL: she/her/hers | Training: Shakespeare’s Globe (London), The Freeman Studio, Syracuse University: BFA | Instagram: @kristmis.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Julia Ogilvie
Jeweller
Jeweller
Julia Ogilvie
STC: A Midsummer Night's Dream in Macao. NEW YORK: La MaMa: That Beautiful Laugh | Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre: Maude Night. REGIONAL: Dorset Theatre Festival: The Mousetrap | Chautauqua Theatre Company: You Can't Take It With You, Macbeth. INTERNATIONAL: Macao Arts Festival: STC's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. AWARDS: Presidential Scholar in the Arts. PERSONAL: Julia is also a writer, comedian, and poet with two original solo shows: Freckle and Burn and Everybody's Got Something | Training: The Maggie Flanigan Studio, The Juilliard School | Instagram: @Julia_ogilvie | JuliaOgilvie.com.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

The Artistic Team
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Simon Godwin
Director
Director
Simon Godwin
Simon joined Shakespeare Theatre Company as Artistic Director in September 2019. He has served as Associate Director of the National Theatre of London, the Royal Court Theatre, and Bristol Old Vic. He made his debut at the National Theatre with Strange Interlude followed by Man and Superman, and went on to direct The Beaux’ Stratagem, Twelfth Night, an acclaimed production of Antony and Cleopatra with Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo, and the world premiere of Simon Woods' play Hansard. Simon has also directed at the Royal Shakespeare Company, including an acclaimed Hamlet, which toured to the Kennedy Center, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Simon recently made his Tokyo debut, directing a Japanese cast in Hamlet for Theatre Cocoon. In 2012 Simon was awarded the inaugural Evening Standard/Burberry Award for an Emerging Director.
Emily Burns
Editor
Editor
Emily Burns
INTERNATIONAL: Emily is the Resident Director of the National Theatre (London). Work as an associate director includes: National Theatre: Hansard, Antony & Cleopatra (both dir. Simon Godwin) | Bridge Theatre (London): A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar (both dir. Nicholas Hytner).
Soutra Gilmour
Scenic and Costume Designer
Scenic and Costume Designer
Soutra Gilmour
NEW YORK: Broadway: Betrayal | Roundabout Theatre Company: Cyrano de Bergerac. INTERNATIONAL: London: West End: Pinter at the Pinter, From Here to Eternity, The Commitments | National Theatre: Twelfth Night, My Brilliant Friend, Shadow of a Boy | West Yorkshire Playhouse/Toronto/West End: Strictly Ballroom | Young Vic: Bull, When the World Was Green | Royal Shakespeare Company: Hecuba, Candide, The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes | Trafalgar Transformed: Macbeth | Old Vic: The Crucible, The Duchess of Malfi, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Almeida Theatre: reasons to be pretty.
Donald Holder
Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Donald Holder
NEW YORK: Broadway: 58 productions, two Tony Awards (The Lion King and South Pacific) and 13 Tony Award nominations. Recent projects include: Kiss Me, Kate; Tootsie; My Fair Lady; Oslo; M. Butterfly; Anastasia; She Loves Me; Fiddler on the Roof; The King and I; The Bridges of Madison County | Theatre for a New Audience (select): He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box (OBIE Award), A Midsummer Night’s Dream. TELEVISION: Smash Seasons 1 and 2 (NBC-Dreamworks). FILM: Oceans 8 (Warner Brothers Pictures).
Christopher Shutt
Sound Designer
Sound Designer
Christopher Shutt
NEW YORK: Broadway: War Horse (Tony Award), Coram Boy, All My Sons, Not About Nightingales (Drama Desk Award), Moon for the Misbegotten, Privacy | Off-Broadway: Mnemonic (Drama Desk Award), Macbeth (at the Park Avenue Armory), Love & Information, Arturo Ui (with Al Pacino). INTERNATIONAL: London: Antony and Cleopatra, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Disappearing Number, The Elephant Vanishes, Street of Crocodiles, The Father, Twilight Zone, Oppenheimer, Glass Kill Bluebeard Imp, ear for eye, All About My Mother.
Michael Bruce
Composer
Composer
Michael Bruce
NEW YORK: Broadway (select): Booth Theatre: Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Roundabout Theatre Company: The Winslow Boy | Off-Broadway: Public Theater: Privacy. INTERNATIONAL: London: Composer-in-residence at the Donmar Warehouse from 2012 to 2019. He has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company and in the West End. PERSONAL: Michael is a Scottish composer and lyricist. Publications include Writing Music for the Stage: A Practical Guide for Theatremakers.
Jonathan Goddard
Choreographer
Choreographer
Jonathan Goddard
NEW YORK: Broadway: Roundabout Theatre: The Cherry Orchard (Movement Director, dir. Simon Godwin). INTERNATIONAL: Movement Direction/Choreography: National Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra, Strange Interlude, Man and Superman, The Beaux' Stratagem, As You Like It, Sunset at the Villa Thalia | Donmar Warehouse: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Royal Shakespeare Company: Timon of Athens, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. AWARDS: Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Best Male Dancer (2008, 2014) and for Outstanding Male Performance (Modern) (2014). Nominations: Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough Award (2007), Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance (2008), Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Best Male Dancer (2011, 2012, 2019). PERSONAL: As a dancer Jonathan has worked for many major British dance companies including Rambert, most recently dancing The Mother, a full evening duet with Royal Ballet principle Natalia Osipova by the choreographer Arthur Pita, which premiered in Edinburgh (2018) and was shown in Moscow (2019) and at the Southbank Centre London (2019) | JonathanGoddard.com.
Lisa Kopitsky
Fight Director
Fight Director
Lisa Kopitsky
NEW YORK: Broadway: The Iceman Cometh, The Children, The Father | Off-Broadway (select): Public Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Hamilton, Venice, Detroit ’67, Neighbors | Lincoln Center: Marys Seacole, Power Strip, Greater Clements | Roundabout Theatre Company: Bobbie Clearly. REGIONAL (select): American Repertory Theater: Fingersmith | Berkshire Theatre Festival: Extremities | Williamstown Theatre Festival: Dracula, WhaddaBloodclot!, The Valley of Fear. PERSONAL: Creative director of Vixens En Garde all-female fight troupe. Member: IDI.
Carter Wooddell
Resident Casting Director
Resident Casting Director
Carter Wooddell
STC: Timon of Athens; The Amen Corner; Peter Pan and Wendy; Everybody; Hamlet (2018 and 2019 Free For All); The Oresteia; Vanity Fair (STC/A.C.T.); Richard III; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit; The Comedy of Errors; Romeo and Juliet (2016 and 2018 Free For All); Camelot; Noura; Twelfth Night; The Lover and The Collection; Othello (2016 and 2017 Free For All); The School for Lies; Macbeth; King Charles III; The Secret Garden; The Tempest (2014 and 2016 Free For All); The Taming of the Shrew; The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound; Kiss Me, Kate; Salomé; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015 Free For All); Tartuffe; Man of La Mancha; The Metromaniacs (STC/Old Globe); As You Like It; The Winter’s Tale (2014 Free For All); The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Much Ado About Nothing; The Merchant of Venice. NEW YORK: NYC McCorkle Casting (2008–2012), Casting Assistant and Casting Associate: Broadway: End of the Rainbow, High | Off-Broadway: Tribes, Our Town, The Acting Company, Freud’s Last Session, A Perfect Future, The Irish Curse, An Error of the Moon, et al. | Lincoln Center Institute: Hamlet, Fly, Sheila’s Day. REGIONAL: Alley Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Barrington Stage Company, The Broad Stage, CATF, Crossroads Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, TheaterWorks Hartford. FILM: Premium Rush, Junction. OTHER: BBC Radio: The Piano Lesson.
Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
Dramaturg
Dramaturg
Dr. Drew Lichtenberg
STC: 50 productions over ten seasons, including 19 works from the 36-play Shakespeare canon and world premieres by David Ives, Robert Pinsky, Jeffrey Hatcher, Yaël Farber, and Heather Raffo. NEW YORK: Broadway: Roundabout: Time and the Conways (dir. Rebecca Taichman). REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Arsonists (German translation/Text Consultant) | Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Taming of the Shrew (Play on!) | STC/McCarter Theatre Center: The Winter’s Tale | Baltimore Center Stage: Caroline, or Change; Cyrano; Around the World in 80 Days | Yale Repertory Theatre: Lulu (dir. Mark Lamos) | Williamstown Theatre Festival: The Front Page, The Physicists, The Corn Is Green | New York Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth (dir. Moisés Kaufman). EDUCATION: DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama.
Jonathan Kalb
Dramaturg
Dramaturg
Jonathan Kalb
Professor of theatre at Hunter College and CUNY and TFANA’s Resident Dramaturg. The author of five books on theatre, he has worked for more than three decades as a theatre scholar, critic, journalist, and dramaturg. He curates and hosts the theatre review-panel series TheaterMatters at HERE Arts Center and has twice won The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He has also won the George Freedley Award for an outstanding theatre book from the Theatre Library Association. He often writes about theatre on his TheaterMatters blog. JonathanKalb.com.
Andrew Wade
Voice Director
Voice Director
Andrew Wade
NEW YORK: Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (U.S. Head of Voice and Dialect), A Christmas Carol (Voice and Dialect Director), King Lear with Glenda Jackson (Voice Coach), Matilda (Director of Voice, also for national tour), A Bronx Tale the Musical | Public Theater: Director of Voice and Speech (Delacorte, Astor Place, and tours) | The Acting Company/Guthrie Theater: Julius Caesar | Theatre for a New Audience: Resident Director of Voice | New York Theatre Workshop: Othello with Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater: since 2002. INTERNATIONAL: West End: Lord of the Rings | Royal Shakespeare Company: Head of Voice (1990–2003). FILM: Shakespeare in Love. PERSONAL: Teaching: The Juilliard School (adjunct faculty Drama Division), Stella Adler Studio (master teacher voice and speech), NYU, BADA in Oxford, University of MN/Guthrie BFA and A Guthrie Experience for Actors-in-Training program. Fellow: Rose Bruford College. Workshops and lectures: worldwide.
Allison Benko
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Allison Benko
NEW YORK: Broadway: Oslo (dir. Bartlett Sher, Tony Award for Best Play) | Off-Broadway: Oslo (OBIE Award for Best Play), The Shed’s Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise (workshop; chor. Akram Kahn and original music by Sia). OTHER: Director for world premieres A Doll’s House: A New Opera (also co-lyricist), The End of Mermaids, What Happened That Night, Single Rider, and others. REGIONAL: Gloucester Stage Company: Every Christmas Story Ever Told, The Arthur Miller Centennial (also adapter) | Fairfield Museum: Rebels v. Tories (also adapter). PERSONAL: Allison is a director, writer, and educator who loves fresh interpretations of classic texts, and has extensive experience in the development of new work. She is currently developing her new play Another Mikado and writing the libretto for a new children’s opera. | Teaching: LearningLeaders Dramatic Interpretation in Shanghai, Weston Playhouse Young Playwrights Program in Vermont, extensive audition coaching | Residencies: Tholpavakoothu Puppet Centre in Kerala, India, member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab | Training: London Theatre Program at BADA and Tufts University: BA in Drama, magna cum laude | AllisonBenko.com.
Joseph Smelser
Production Stage Manager
Production Stage Manager
Joseph Smelser
STC Resident Stage Manager: 32 productions including The Oresteia; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit; The Comedy of Errors; Camelot; Hamlet; The School for Lies; The Secret Garden (also at 5th Avenue Theatre and Theater Under the Stars); The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound (also at Guthrie Theater); Kiss Me, Kate; Man of La Mancha; The Tempest; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Strange Interlude; All’s Well That Ends Well. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: The Heiress, Let Me Down Easy | Seattle Repertory Theatre: Eight seasons including An Ideal Husband, Play On!, Golden Child, Don Juan, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (with Lily Tomlin) | American Conservatory Theater: The Rivals, The Circle, The Government Inspector, Vigil | Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Journey to the West, An Almost Holy Picture, Having Our Say | Regional Tour: Let Me Down Easy and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (both with Anna Deavere Smith). TRAINING: Oberlin College: BA.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
Josie R. Felt
Assistant Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Josie R. Felt
STC: Vanity Fair; The Panties, The Partner and The Profit. REGIONAL: Baltimore Center Stage: Men on Boats, Miss You Like Hell | Rep Stage: The 39 Steps | Studio Theatre: If I Forget, Vietgone, Wig Out! | Theatre J: Becoming Dr. Ruth | The Second City: Twist Your Dickens | Mosaic Theater Company: Satchmo at the Waldorf | American Conservatory Theater: A Christmas Carol; Love and Information; Mr. Burns, a post-electric play. PERSONAL: she/her/hers | Training: University of Maryland, College Park: BA in Theatre.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.