The Resident Company

	*Bill Barclay Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King John (Philip the Bastard), Titus Andronicus (Demetrius), King Lear (Oswald, Sound & Music Design), Hamlet (Sound & Music Design), Julius Caesar (Decius, Lucilius, Music Director), Richard III (Composer/Instrumentalist).  Bill is a company member of Shakespeare & Co. where productions as actor and/or composer include All's Well That Ends Well, Rough Crossing, Antony & Cleopatra, King John, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, Island of Slaves, Turn of the Screw,  and the Goatwoman of Corvis County. Regional credits include the North Shore Music Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Co., 4th Street Theatre, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, The Vineyard Playhouse, Underground Railway Theatre, Catalyst Collaborative at MIT, ALEA III Orchestra & the Aurea  Ensemble. Full length musical works include Call of the Wild (with playwright Jon Lipsky), The Mad Pirate & The Mermaid (with playwright Michael Burnet) and The Hamlet Symphony. TV:  Brotherhood, Season 2  (recurring), Say Brother! and Basic Black on PBS.  MFA Boston University School of Theatre, BA Vassar College.  Graduate of the National Theatre Institute.
	*Jason Bowen  Actor's Shakespeare Project: The Tempest, Love's Labour's Lost (Berowne, Katherine, Holofernes); Hamlet (Marcellus, Fortinbras, Ensemble); The New Repertory Theatre: A House With No Walls (Austin Judge), The Misanthrope (Acaste); Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Demetrius); Aurea Ensemble: War Music (Achilles, Athene); Company One: Six Rounds, Six Lessons (Solo); Shakespeare Now!: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus, Oberon, Quince), Macbeth (Macbeth), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo); Mixed Magic Theater:  Othello (Montano), Taming of The Shrew (Petruchio). He received a B.S. in Theater from Skidmore College.
	*Allyn Burrows With Actors' Shakespeare Project: All's Well That Ends Well, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Richard III, The Tempest Off-Broadway:King Lear, Bug, Killer Joe, Louis Slotin Sonata, Closetland, Flattering Word.     Regional: Hamlet, Athos/Jaques/Director As You Like It (Elm Shakespeare Company),The Pursuit of Happiness, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Homecoming (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); All My Son's (Actors' Theatre of Louisville); Colossus of Rhodes (American Conservatory Theatre); Twelfth Night (Long Wharf Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Denver Center); The Heiress (Walnut St. Theatre), Five by Tenn (Speakeasy Stage).  With Actors' Shakespeare Project: All's Well That Ends Well, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Richard III.  With Shakespeare & Company : Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Henry in Henry V, Oberon in Midsummer Night's Dream, Hal in Henry IV, Part I, Berowne in Love's Labors Lost. Television: Law and Order, Law and Order:CI, Against the Law.  Film: Julie & Julia, The Windigo, .  2006 Eliot Norton Award recipient for King Lear, Five by Tenn, and The Homecoming.
	*Benjamin Evett is the founder of the Actors' Shakespeare Project and directed the company's inaugural production, Richard III, as well as All’s Well That Ends Well and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He played Cassius in Julius Caesar, Edmund in King Lear, and the title role in Hamlet, . In 2005, he won the Elliot Norton Award for performances in Permanent Collection (Paul Barrow) and Quills (Abbe de Coulmier) at the New Rep Theatre and Richard III (Richmond) at Actors' Shakespeare Project. He was a member of the Resident Acting Company at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge from 1983 to 2003, acting in more than 50 productions including Waiting for Godot, The Bacchae, Phaedra, Ivanov, The King Stag and Six Characters in Search of an Author. He has also performed at the Huntington Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Hartford Stage Company, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cleveland Play House and others. He has performed at the Festivale Biennale in Venice, the Festival d'Automne in Paris, at the Taiwan National Theatre and The Moscow Art Theatre. He is a graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Classics. He and Executive Producer Sara Stackhouse were selected to be part of the Executive Leadership Program for Massachusetts arts leaders at the Kennedy School at Harvard University.
	*Jennie Israel Associate Artistic Director. Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Constance in King John, Helena in All's Well That Ends Well, Goneril in King Lear, Calpurnia/Trebonius/Pindarus in Julius Caesar, Elizabeth in Richard III. Other local credits include Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Phoebe in As You Like It for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Tartuffe at New Repertory Theater; Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Huntington Theatre; Living in Exile at the Vineyard Playhouse; Molly Maguire at the Sugan Theatre; Undine's Valediction, Summer, The Scarlet Letter and Macbeth with Shakespeare & Company. Regional credits include Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, The Greenwich Street Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, Theatre Building Chicago, Ohio Theatre Soho, Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival, and Chautauqua Theatre Festival. Film and television credits include Rudy for TriStar Pictures, Guiding Light, and Coming to Litchfield, an independent film. Most recently Jennie directed Romeo and Juliet for The Hyperion Shakespeare Company at Harvard College.  In 1992 Jennie founded Chicago's Eclipse Theatre, still in existence today.  She has taught Shakespearean text, voice and acting at Bowdoin College, Boston College, SUNY/Purchase, The Boston Conservatory, Harvard, and is currently on the faculty of Emerson College. She holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.
	*John Kuntz Actors Shakespeare Project: The Tempest, King John, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale, Lucio/Froth in Measure for Measure, Sebastian in 12th Night, Bertram/The Clown in All’s Well That Ends Well, and the title role in Richard III.  NY credits include Off-Off Broadway as Kurt in Jump/Rope (which he also wrote) with Square Peg Productions at Urban Stages, Mrs. Daigle in The Bad Seed and his one-person show Starfuckers (both at The Ohio Theatre).  Boston credits include Heisenberg in Copenhagen with the American Repertory Theatre, the title role in Mr. Marmalade with Company One, numerous productions of The SantaLand Diaries (IRNE Award), Katurian in the New England premiere of The Pillowman, Estragon in Waiting for Godot, Austin in True West (all with New Repertory Theatre), 20 roles in How I Got That Story with the Nora Theatre Company, 40 roles in Fully Committed with the Lyric Stage, Voice #1 in Betty's Summer Vacation with The Huntington Theatre Company and three seasons with Commonwealth Shakespeare, appearing in Henry V (Fluellen), 12th Night (Sir Andrew) and Hamlet (Guildenstern/Osric).   John received both an Elliot Norton Award and New York International Fringe Festival Award for Starfuckers and his plays Sing Me To Sleep and Freaks! both received Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Fringe Production.  He has received playwriting commissions from SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Theatre Works, The Boston Museum of Science, The New Rep, The Huntington Theatre Company (where he was an inaugural Playwriting Fellow); staged readings at The Publick Theatre (NY) and the Huntington's Breaking Ground Festival; and a ten-day residency at the O'Neill Center.  His latest play, Jasper Lake, received both the Michael Kanin and Paula Vogel National Playwriting Awards, with productions at the Kennedy Center (Washington DC) and the NY Fringe.  Jasper Lake was recently published by Samuel French and his various monologues have been published by Baker's Plays and appear in Best Men's Stage Monologues 2006 (Smith & Kraus).   He teaches Acting and Solo Performance at Emerson College, Suffolk University and The Boston Conservatory.
	*Paula Langton Actors' Shakespeare Project: Founding member - Roles include: ensemble in Henry V, Hermione in The Winter's Tale, Regan in King Lear, Lord II & Mariana, All's Well That Ends Well, Isabella in Measure for Measure; Rivers, Mayor, & 2nd Murderer in Richard III. Other Credits: Rose Darko in Donnie Darko at American Repertory Theatre, Juno in Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Teatro Eos in Stromboli, Italy, and Teatro Nacional at The Great Theatre of The World Festival in Lisbon, Portugal; Galactia in Scenes From an Execution at The Wimberly Theatre with Boston University; Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, Miranda in The Tempest with Shakespeare & Company; Mrs. Noah and Gil in The Mysteries with Shakespeare & Company & Revels; Kate in Taming of the Shrew with Boston Theatre Works; Feste in Twelfth Night with Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company; Maria in Twelfth Night with Counterpoint Theatre; Edgar in King Lear and Bardolph, Westmoreland, Michael Williams and Captain James in Henry V as a member of Kristin Linklater & Carol Gilligan’s Company of Women. Additional credits include: Boston Playwrights Theatre, Nora Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company, Coyote Theatre, Hasty Pudding, New York Theatre Workshop, Charles Playhouse. Film: Summer 2005 Documentary: Giving Voice: An Actor's Journey With Kristin Linklater. Upcoming Projects in 2008-09: Amanda in The Glass Menagerie with Boston Center for American Performance and Hecuba in TrojanBarbie with American Repertory Theatre. Teaching: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Shakespeare & Company, Trinity Rep Conservatory, University of Massachusetts, Wheaton College, Emerson College. Currently Head of Acting at Boston University’s School of Theatre.
	*Doug Lockwood Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Henry V, Saturninus in Titus Andronicus; Clowne in The Winter's Tale; Edgar in King Lear; Claudio and Elbow in Measure for Measure; other local credits include over 40 performances in people’s homes of Wallace Shawn’s one-person show, The Fever; A Midsummer Night's Dream at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Twelfth Night, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and The Waverly Gallery at New Repertory Theatre; Pericles at American Repertory Theatre; Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Pippi Longstocking and Snow White at Wheelock Family Theatre. Regional credits include: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and Consenting Adults Theatre Company in Washington DC. Doug teaches acting at The Boston Conservatory where he has directed productions of Cloud 9, Landscape of the Body, Two Gentlemen of Verona- The Musical, The Beckett Bash and Bent. He received his MFA in Acting from the University of Washington, under the direction of Steve Pearson.
	* Marya Lowry Actors' Shakespeare Project: Macbeth in Macbeth, Gertrude in Hamlet; Olivia in Twelfth Night; Buckingham in Richard III; Portia and Messala in Julius Caesar. Other local credits include Mrs. Whitefield in Man and Superman at American Repertory Theatre, Chorus and Mistress Quickly in Henry V at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Gertrude in Hamlet at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Also, New Repertory Theatre, the Nora Theater Company, original works at Boston Center for the Arts, Mobius Artists Group, and National Public Radio. At Symphony Hall, she has been a featured performer with the Boston Pops and the Handel & Haydn Society (Medea w/ Claire Bloom). Other credits include Emilia in Othello at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Lady Anne, Richard III, Hermione, The Winter's Tale, Portia, Julius Caesar for the Riverside Shakespeare Co. in NYC, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Lyceum Theater, San Diego, and Roy Hart International Centre in France. Voice/text coaching includes: Broadway (Hamlet), Off-Broadway (Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo & Juliet), the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and a French-Danish production of The Bacchae. Teaching: Brandeis MFA Professional Actor Training Program since 1989; Teachers As Scholars, Cambridge. Marya's "Ecstatic Voice & Lamentation" workshops span the US,  and beyond, including France, the UK, and Greece.
	* Sarah Newhouse Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Lady Faulconbridge/Hubert in King John, Macduff and Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Princess/Jacquenetta/Longaville in Love's Labour's Lost, Viola in Twelfth Night; Cordelia in King Lear; Lady Anne in Richard III. Other Boston area credits include Six Characters in Search of an Author, The King Stag, Macbeth, Picasso at the Lapin Agile at the American Repertory Theater, Desdemona—a Play About a Handkerchief at Boston Center for the Arts, King of the Jews at Boston Playwrights' Theatre, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball with Boston Theatre Works, La Vita Claire at Centastage, Shear Madness at the Charles Playhouse, Red Herring, Lost in Yonkers, and The Miracle Worker at the Lyric Stage Company, Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem and The Square Root of Minus One at The Market Theater, Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It at The Publick Theatre, The Sweepers at Stoneham Theatre & Twelfth Night at Worcester Foothills Theatre. Regional & NYC credits include American Stage Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Gloucester Stage Company, Jane Street Theater, Manhattan Punchline Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theater, Synchronicity Space, and The Kraine, Film &TV: As The World Turns, Another World, MTV, Saturday Night Live, The Legend of Lucy Keyes, Dischord, Chain of Desire, Expired, and The Stupid Years. Sarah is a graduate of Hampshire College and the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
	*Paula Plum is the recipient of four IRNE Awards, the 1995 Eliot Norton Award for Best Actress, (Lost in Yonkers) the 2007 Eliot Norton Award for Best Actress (Miss Witherspoon) , the 2004 Eliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, and the 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University. She is an actress, director, writer, and teacher and has created seven one-person shows for the Undadilla Theatre of Vermont, most notably Plum Pudding.  This season she played Lady Macbeth with The Actors’ Shakespeare Project , “B” in Lyric Stage’s Three Tall Women, Lane in the Clean House at the New Repertory Theatre, and Dorothy Lintott in History Boys with Speakeasy Stage. She has appeared with Lyric West in Wit (Vivian Bearing), the Gloucester Stage Company in  Faith Healer (Grace), Molly Sweeney (Molly),Happy Days  (Winnie) and Not I (Mouth); at  the American Repertory Theatre in  No Exit ( Inez ), Ivanov (Babakina), Mother Courage (Yvette), Lysistrata (Belphragia), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Soot), and Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Germaine), the Lyric Stage Company in The Goat (Stevie), Private Lives (Amanda) , Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Kath), Sideman (Terry),  The Heiress (title role) and Mercy Seat (Abby) and the title role in Miss Witherspoon.   In 1998 she was directed by Eric Engel in the award-winning production Sing Me to Sleep by John Kuntz and again in 1999 in Kuntz’s Miss Price.  Film credits include: Mermaids, Malice, and Next Stop Wonderland. Television: Science Court (three seasons ABC)  and co-creator and star of The Dick & Paula Celebrity Special  for FX.   In January 2005, she premiered her new work "Wigged OUT! " with Leslie Dillen's "Dressed UP!" directed by Karen MacDonald for which she  received the IRNE for Best Solo Performance 2005.   Ms Plum is a cum laude graduate of Boston University.  She is  married to actor Richard Snee.
	*Richard Snee Actors' Shakespeare Project: The Tempest, Antigonus/Shepherd in The Winter's Tale, Lord Stanley/Murderer 1 in Richard III. Most recently, Richard appeared in Present Laughter with Victor Garber at The Huntington Theater, in the 2006 Christmas Revels (Sankt Nikolaus); at the American Repertory Theatre in Othello (Duke/Montano); Lyric Stage in The Goat, or Who's Sylvia (with his wife Paula Plum), Epic Proportions (Jack), Lend Me A Tenor (Saunders), Communicating Doors (Reece); the Nickerson Theatre in Hay Fever (Richard) and How the Other Half Loves (Frank); the New Ehrlich Theatre in Lady and the Clarinet (George) and Cloud Nine (Clive, Cathy, Bill), and many others. He has been a long time member of the cast of Shear Madness (Tony, Nick, Eddy, Mike). Numerous television credits include Unsolved Mysteries, Spencer for Hire, Against the Law and Dr. Katz.
	* Bobbie Steinbach has been a longtime member of Boston’s very special theatre community as an actor, cabaret performer, teacher and most recently, a director. Ms. Steinbach is the recipient of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress and two Independent Reviewers Best Supporting Actress awards. Founding Member/Resident Company Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Richard III,Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well,The Winter’s Tale,  Macbeth. Her regional credits include: Boston Pops at Boston Symphony Hall & Tanglewood-Keith Lockhart conductor: A Little Night Music (Madame Armfeldt), Huntington Theatre Company: Rose Tattoo (Peppina) with Andrea Martin, and Dead End (Governess), both directed by Nicholas Martin,  Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet (Nurse) and Much Ado AboutNothing, (Dogberry), Lyric Stage Company of Boston: The Importance of Being Ernest (Lady Bracknell), Arms and the Man, A Little NightMusic, (Madame Armfeldt) Spitfire Grill, Assassins, (all directed by Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos), Lend Me a Tenor, Beyond Belief, Present Laughter, New Repertory Theatre: The Clean House ( 2008 Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Design) Romeo and Juliet, A Girl’s War, The Waverly Gallery, (all directed by Artistic Director Rick Lombardo) and Stonewall Jackson’s House.  Speakeasy Stage Company: Anna in the Tropics, Cherry County Playhouse:  The Music Man (Eulalie Shinn) directed by Bill Castellino, Wheelock Family Theatre:  The Tempest, A Little Princess, Boston TheatreWorks: Our Town, Coyote on a Fence, Overture Productions: Follies, Vineyard Playhouse and Jewish Theatre of NE: The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Woman on Top Festival: Sailing Down the Amazon. Directing credits: New Rep's The Diary of Anne Frank, Third and Oak: The Laundromat,  The Red and the Blue, Boston Theatre Marathon. Cabaret credits include her one-woman show A Woman Alone Onstage With A Piano, A Stool, A Lamp, An Attractive Piano Player, A Few Cheap Theatrical Props  and a Very Big Mouth, with pianist Ron Roy, and Holidaze: A Christian, A Jew and a Ho-Ho-Ho-Mo Too, with Kathy St. George, Robert Saoud and Jonathan Goldberg. Ms. Steinbach will be appearing as Charlotta in the Lyric Stage Company’s production of Follies opening September 2008, and in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Coriolanus, as Volumnia—the mother from hell—opening in April 2009. She lives in Newton with her dear husband  Bob. They have two lovely daughters Tracy and Jaime, and two delightful granddaughters, Olivia and Phoebe.
	Adele Nadine Traub Actors' Shakespeare Project: Stage Manager for The Tempest, Henry V, Love's Labour's Lost (both productions), The Winter's Tale, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, King Lear (both in Boston and at LaMama in NYC), Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure and Richard III. Other stage manager credits include It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany; Man of LaMancha and 1776, Lyric Stage; La Clemenza di Tito, Opera Boston: Seven Rabbits on a Pole. Stoneham Theater; Living Room in Africa and Dinner With Friends, Gloucester Stage Company; Life x 3. The Vineyard Playhouse; a summer with Pioneer Valley Summer Theater; The Order of Things, CentaStage; Point of Departure, Huntington Theatre Company; Kindertransport, New Repertory Theatre (Assistant Stage Manager) During her four years as Production Stage Manager at The Boston Conservatory, she worked on over 40 productions with the Musical Theater, Dance, Opera and Orchestra Departments. She received her B.A. from Brandeis University.
	*Michael Forden Walker Actors' Shakespeare Project: King John in King John, King/Maria/Nathaniel in Love's Labour's Lost, Lucius Andronicus in Titus Andronicus, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Cornwall in King Lear, Pompey/Friar Peter in Measure for Measure, and Brakenbury/Ratcliff in Richard III.  Local appearances with Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Boston Theatre Works, Molasses Tank Productions, The Bridge, Company One, and Willing Suspension Productions; in Charlotte, NC with Innovative Theatre.  Past credits include Comp; Antony and Cleopatra; Ionesco, Not Ionesco; Troilus and Cressida; Native Speech; Love's Fire; The Roaring Girl; The Borderers; James IV; The Spanish Tragedy; The Dwarfs; The Alchemist; A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; The Rover; Tales of the Lost Formicans; Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Sleeping Beauty or Coma; and The Metamorphosis.  Michael studied acting while an undergraduate English major at UNC-Charlotte, and he holds an M.A. in English literature from Boston University.  He fronts and plays guitar for Boston-based rock band Pink Mantis.
	*Robert Walsh Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Tempest (Stephano), Titus Andronicus (Titus), Hamlet (Polonius), Julius Caesar (Brutus), Twelfth Night (director), and Measure For Measure (director).  Producing Artistic Director: American Stage Festival (Table Manners, Bus Stop, Jacques Brel); director: Merrimack Rep (Norman Conquests, Later Life, Holiday Memories); Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Othello); New Repertory Theatre (True West); Shakespeare & Company (The Goatwoman of Corvis County, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes), among others. Other acting credits include the Huntington Theatre (Hamlet and Ah, Wilderness!); Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. (Macbeth, Henry V); Portland Stage Company (Romeo & Juliet); StageWest (Anna Christie); Douglas Fairbanks Theatre/NYC (Big Maggie).  Films: Evening, State and Main, Amistad, The Spanish Prisoner, Eight Men Out, and Turk 182!, among others. TV: One Life To Live, Guiding Light & Another World.  Guest faculty: American Repertory Theatre and Brandeis University.

*member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States