The Resident Company

	Bill Barclay*  (Director, Timon of Athens; Artistic Associate), Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Duchess of Malfi (Bosola), 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 an actor, composer, and director at Shakespeare & Company where productions include Wordplay, Twelfth Night, 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, among others. Regional credits include the North Shore Music Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Co., The Olney Theatre Center, WHAT, Vineyard Playhouse, Connecticut Rep, Underground Railway Theatre, ALEA III Orchestra, Aurea, The Mercury Theatre (UK), Dell'Arte (in Bali), and the 4th St Theatre and Theatre Row, NYC.  Bill is a recipient of a Meet the Composer grant for his Spherical Sounds Series of concerts and lectures, and winner of a Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, the nation's largest grant for actors. Artist residencies include Columbia University, Purdue University, University of Virginia, and the University of Iowa.  Full length musical works: Call of the Wild (with playwright Jon Lipsky), The Mad Pirate & The Mermaid (with playwright Michael Burnet), and The Hamlet Symphony. TV:  “Brotherhood” (Showtime), “Say Brother!”, and “Basic Black” (PBS). MFA Boston University School of Theatre; graduate of the National Theatre Institute.
	Jason Bowen*  (Othello, Othello) 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* (Timon, Timon of Athens, Acting Artistic Director) Actors' Shakespeare Project: All's Well That Ends Well, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Richard III, The Tempest. Off-Broadway: Bug, Killer Joe, King Lear, Louis Slotin Sonata, Closetland, Flattering Word, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd.  Regional:   All My Sons (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), Hamlet , As You  Like It (Elm Shakespeare Company). , The Pursuit of Happiness, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Homecoming (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), 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. Director for Elm Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Imaginary Invalid.  Television: “Law and Order”, “Law and Order: CI”, and “Against the Law”.  Film: The Company Men, Julie & Julia, and The Windigo. Allyn is the 2006 Eliot Norton Award recipient for King Lear, Five by Tenn, and The Homecoming.
	Jennie Israel* (Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi, 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, and Associate Artistic Director from 2004-2009. 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, which is still in existence today.  She has taught Shakespearean text, voice, and acting at Bowdoin College, Boston College, SUNY/Purchase, The Boston Conservatory, Harvard University, and Emerson College. She holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.
	John Kuntz* (Peter Quince, A Midsummer Night's Dream) Actors' Shakespeare Project: founding company member,  Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, Trinculo in The Tempest, Pandaulf in 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 Mrs. Daigle in The Bad Seed (Ohio Theatre), Kurt in Jump/Rope (which he also wrote) with Square Peg Productions at Urban Stages, and his one-person shows Starfuckers (Ohio Theatre and NY Fringe) and Freaks! (Solo Arts Group).  Recent Boston credits include Heisenberg in Copenhagen and multiple roles in the world premiere of The Communist Dracula Pageant (ART); Janet and Frick in After School Special (which he also wrote) and the title role in Mr. Marmalade (Company One); numerous productions of The SantaLand Diaries (IRNE Award – Best Solo Performance); Katurian in the New England premiere of The Pillowman, Estragon in Waiting for Godot, the title role in Scapin, Austin in True West and the Emcee in Cabaret (New Repertory Theatre); Aston in The Caretaker, 20 roles in How I Got That Story and multiple roles in Mere Mortals (The Nora Theatre Company); Jane/Lord Edgar in The Mystery of Irma Vep, Carl in The Baltimore Waltz, Nathan Leopold in Never the Sinner, and 40 roles in Fully Committed (The Lyric Stage); Voice #1 in Betty's Summer Vacation (The Huntington Theatre Company) and three seasons with Commonwealth Shakespeare, appearing in Henry V (Fluellen), 12th Night (Sir Andrew) and Hamlet (Guildenstern/Osric).   Film: The Red Right Hand (Roger), Anathema (Neil; Best Actor Award - Festival Du Cinema du Bruxelles).  John is the author of 14 full-length plays, including The Superheroine Monlogues (co-written with Rick Park), Sing Me to Sleep, Freaks, Starfuckers, After School Special, My Life with the Kringle Kult, Miss Price, The Hotel Nepenthe, Glitterati, Emerald City, Jasper Lake, Jump/Rope and Actorz with a Z.  He received both an Elliot Norton Award and New York International Fringe Festival Award for his solo show Starfuckers and both of his plays Sing Me To Sleep and Freaks! received Elliot Norton Awards for "Outstanding Fringe Production".  He was an inaugural Playwrighting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company and a Fellow at the O’Neill Center 2007.  His play Jasper Lake received both the Michael Kanin and Paula Vogel National Playwrighting Awards, with productions at the Kennedy Center (Washington DC) and the New York Fringe Festival.  His newest solo show, The Salt Girl, will be performed at the Boston Playwrights Theatre in autumn 2009, directed and designed by David Gammons.  He teaches at Suffolk University and is on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory.
	Paula Langton* (Emilia, Othello) Actors' Shakespeare Project: Founding member - Hermione in The Winter's Tale, Regan in King Lear, Isabella in Measure for Measure; ensemble in Henry V, All's Well That Ends Well, &Richard III. Other Credits: Hecuba in Trojan Barbie and Rose Darko in Donnie Darko at American Repertory Theatre, Amanda in The Glass Menagerie at The Olney Theatre Center and Boston Center for American Performance, Lucy in Howard Zinn's Daughter of Venus at Boston Playwrights' 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 The 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. Paula was a member of The Company of Women, Kristin Linklater & Carol Gilligan’s all female Shakespeare Company where she played Edgar in King Lear and several roles in Henry V and was the director of The Company of Girls - the company's educational/community outreach program. Additional credits include: La Mama e.t.c. Nora Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company, Coyote Theatre, Hasty Pudding, New York Theatre Workshop, Charles Playhouse. Film: Documentary: Giving Voice: An Actor's Journey With Kristin Linklater 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 and the 2009 recipient of  BU's College of Fine Arts Distinguished Faculty Award.
	Doug Lockwood* (Roderigo, Othello) Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Don John and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing; Lancelot and Prince of Aragon in The Merchant of Venice; 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 50 performances in people’s homes of Wallace Shawn’s one-person show, The Fever, also performed at the Unadilla Theatre in Vermont; The Cherry Orchard at Nora Theatre; 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 Machinal (November of 2009); 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: Julia/Cariola in Duchess of Malfi, Macbeth in Macbeth, Gertrude in Hamlet; Olivia in Twelfth Night; Buckingham in Richard III; Portia and Messala in Julius Caesar. Other local credits include the recent premiers of The Wrestling Patient (Riva Hillesum) at the Calderwood Pavillion/BCA and Walking the Volcano at the Vineyard Playhouse (multiple roles); 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, the Mobius 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) and a narrator for Cantata Singers at Jordan Hall. Other credits include Emilia in Othello at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Lady Anne in Richard III, Hermione in The Winter's Tale, and Portia in Julius Caesar for the Riverside Shakespeare Co. in NYC, The Lyceum Theater in 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. She is a teacher and mentor to incarcerated women and girls.
	Sarah Newhouse* (Kate, The Taming of the Shrew) Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Portia in The Merchant of Venice, 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, and 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, Picnic and The Sweepers at Stoneham Theatre, and Twelfth Night at Worcester Foothills Theatre. Regional and 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 credits include: “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.  WIth ASP she has played Beatrice (Much Ado), Lady Macbeth,  and The Countess (All's Well). Past seasons include Frances in Breath of Life at Gloucester Stage,  “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. Founding Member/Resident Company Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Richard III, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well,The Winter’s Tale,  Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing,  Coriolanus (Volumnia). She is presently an ASP Artistic Associate. Regional credits include: Michigan Opera Theatre,  Boston Pops at Boston Symphony Hall & Tanglewood: A Little Night Music (Madame Armfeldt); Huntington Theatre Company: Rose Tattoo, Dead End,The Corn is Green; Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), Much Ado About Nothing, (Dogberry), Lyric Stage Company of Boston: Follies (Carlotta Campion),The Importance of Being Ernest (Lady Bracknell), Arms and the Man, A Little Night Music,Spitfire Grill, Assassins, Lend Me a Tenor, Beyond Belief, Present Laughter; New Repertory Theatre: The Clean House  (Elliot Norton Award for Best Production) Romeo and Juliet, A Girl’s War, The Waverly Gallery, Stonewall Jackson’s House.;  Speakeasy Stage Company: Anna in the Tropics; Christmas Revels at Sanders Theatre; Boston TheatreWorks: Our Town, Coyote on a Fence, Merrimack Rep: A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, ChristmasCarol, Ring Round the Moon: Vineyard Playhouse and Jewish Theatre of NE: The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Directing credits: New Rep's The Diary of Anne Frank, Third and Oak: The Laundromat, The Red and the Blue, Boston Theatre Marathon and Our Town at Boston Conservatory. She is the recipient of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress and the Independent Reviewers Best Supporting Actress Award.
	Adele Nadine Traub* Actors' Shakespeare Project: Stage Manager for The Duchess of Malfi, Merchant of Venice, 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. Upcoming this season she will stage manage The Salt Girl with Boston Playwright's Theater. 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*  (Grumio, The Taming of the Shrew, Cassio, Othello) Actors' Shakespeare Project: Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing, Ferdinand in Duchess of Malfi, Graziano in Merchant of Venice, 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 Centastage, 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 The Random Caruso; 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* (Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Coriolanus (Director), The Merchant of Venice (Antonio), The Tempest (Stephano), Titus Andronicus (Titus), Hamlet (Polonius), Twelfth Night (Director), Julius Caesar (Brutus), and Measure For Measure (Director).  Producing Artistic Director: American Stage Festival (Table Manners, Bus Stop, Intimate Exchanges, among others); Director: Merrimack Rep (Norman Conquests, Later Life, Holiday Memories, K2); Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Othello); New Repertory Theatre (Speed the Plow and 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); Gloucester Stage Company (Sins of the Mother, The Subject Was Roses); Douglas Fairbanks Theatre/NYC (Big Maggie).  Films: Evening, State and Main, Amistad, The Spanish Prisoner, Eight Men Out, and Turk 182!, among others. TV: “Madso's War”, “One Life To Live”, “Guiding Light”, and “Another World”.  Guest faculty: American Repertory Theatre and Brandeis University. Member of SDC.

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