The Resident Company

	*Allyn Burrows Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Kent in King Lear; Clarence/Catesby in Richard III; Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure. Recent Work: King John at Shakespeare & Company, The Homecoming at Merrimack Repertory Theater; Stephano in The Tempest with Boston Theatre Works. Off-Broadway in Bug, Killer Joe, Bonnie, Louis Slotin Sonata, Closetland, Flattering Word. Regional: Heartbreak House, Berkshire Theatre Festival; All My Sons, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville; Colossus of Rhodes, American Conservatory Theatre; Twelfth Night, Long Wharf Theatre; The Tempest, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; Hay Fever, Pioneer Theatre; Pericles, King’s County Shakespeare; as well as work with the American Repertory Theatre, East Carolina Theatre, and Lyric Stage. Artistic Associate with Shakespeare & Company where other roles include Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Henry in Henry V, Oberon in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hal in Henry IV Part 1, Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Angelo in Measure for Measure, Jack in Jack and Jill, and Jerry in Betrayal. Television: Law and Order, Against the Law, As the World Turns, All My Children. Film: The Windigo, Blown Up in Love.
	*Ken Cheeseman Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Henry V, Ghost/Gravedigger in Hamlet, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, The Fool in King Lear, Angelo in Measure for Measure, Lord Hastings in Richard III. Ken has performed in regional theatres around the country including Trinity Repertory Company, American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre and Baltimore’s Center Stage. In New York he has performed at Classic Stage Company and the New York Shakespeare Festival. Locally he has appeared at New Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company, Shakespeare & Company and the Charles Playhouse. His film and television credits include Mystic River, The Crucible, Housesitter, The Blue Diner, Next Stop Wonderland, State and Main, Malice and The Legend of Lucy Keyes. Television appearances include Monk, Law and Order, L&O:Criminal Intent, L&O:Trial by Jury. He is currently on the faculty at Emerson College.
	*Benjamin Evett, Artistic Director (bio on Staff page)
	*Jennie Israel, Associate Artistic Director (bio on Staff page)
	*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: 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: 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  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; 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 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). Regional credits include Emilia in Othello at New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; 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 New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and a French-Danish production of The Bacchae. Her Ecstatic Voice & Lamentation workshops span the US to Europe, including France, United Kingdom, and Greece.
	*Sarah Newhouse Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Macduff and Lady Macduff in Macbeth, King John, 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 at 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 Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, The Countess in All’s Well That Ends Well, Margaret in Richard III and Mistress Overdone in Measure for Measure. Ms. Plum is the recipient of three 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 enjoyed (so far) thirty years on virtually all of Boston's stages. She has created seven one person shows for the Undadilla Theatre of Vermont, most notably Plum Pudding (IRNE for Best Actress 1993). With the Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. she played Portia in Julius Caesar and Trinculo in The Tempest. 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), and The Heiress (title role) and Mercy Seat (Abby). 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.  Directing Credits include:  Lone Star,Laundry & Bourbon (Alley Theatre,)  Lady and the Clarinet (New Ehrlich), I’m Not Rappaport ( Gloucester Stage  Co.), Jake’s Women (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), and Right You Are If You Think You Are (U of Illinois). Teaching credits: UNCA, U of Illinois,  Adjunct Professor of Acting U Mass Lowell and Boston Conservatory, and  Actors’ Shakespeare Project Teachers’ Institute.  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  Actors' Shakespeare Project: Duncan, Porter & Witch in Macbeth, Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, Lafeu and the Widow in All’s Well That Ends Well, Maria in Twelfth Night; Duchess of York in Richard III, Casca in Julius Caesar. Other local credits include: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet; Huntington Theatre Company: Rose Tattoo, Dead End; New Repertory Theatre: Romeo and Juliet, A Girl’s War, The Waverly Gallery, Stonewall Jackson’s House; Lyric Stage Company: Arms and the Man,A Little Night Music,  Beyond Belief (The Porch), Spitfire Grill, Over the River and Through the Woods, Assassins; Speakeasy Stage Co: Anna in the Tropics; Wheelock Family Theatre: The Tempest, A Little Princess; Boston Theatreworks: Our Town, Coyote on a Fence; Overture Productions: Follies. She is the recipient of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress and two Independent Reviewers of New England awards for Best Supporting Actress. Bobbie taught for many years at various venues including Suffolk University, Huntington Theatre Company and Wheelock Family Theatre. She currently coaches actors and singers privately. Directing credits include TheDiary of Anne Frank for New Rep’s School Tour Program and Marsha Norman’s 3rd and Oak: The Laundromat.
	*Michael Forden Walker Actors' Shakespeare Project: King John, King/Maria/Nathaniel in Love's Labour's Lost, Lucius 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 Theatre Works, Molasses Tank Productions, The Bridge, Company One, and Willing Suspension Productions; in Charlotte, NC with Innovative Theatre.  Past credits include 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, 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 Secret of Sherlock Holmes), among others. Other acting credits include the Huntington Theatre (Hamlet and Ah, Wilderness!); 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. Guest faculty: American Repertory Theatre and Brandeis University.

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