2007-08 ACTING COMPANY

	*Bill Barclay Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King John, 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 include Rough Crossing (Adam Adam, Music Director), Antony & Cleopatra (Composer), King John (title role, '01), Turn of the Screw (Composer), King John (Melun, Music Director, '05), Midsummer Night's Dream, Bankside Lectures '06 and '07, and The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (Sound Design).  Recent regional credits include the North Shore Music Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Co., 4th Street Theatre, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, The Vineyard Playhouse, ALEA III Orchestra & the Aurea Ensemble. Full length musical works include Call of the Wild (with playwright Jon Lipsky, currently on a US tour with the National Players) and The Hamlet Symphony; TV:  Brotherhood, Season 2 (recurring), Say Brother! and Basic Black.  MFA Boston University School of Theatre, BA Vassar College.
	*Marianna Bassham Actor's Shakespeare Project: The Tempest, Hamlet (Ophelia), Love's Labor's Lost (Costard, Rosaline and Dumaine). Other Boston-area credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, Silence, Tartuffe and Quills at the New Repertory Theatre, Miss Witherspoon and Talley's Folly at The Lyric Stage Company, Antigone at The Nora Theatre Company, Heart of Jade for CentaStage and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, The Heidi Chronicles at Gloucester Stage, and Cooking With Elvis and Professional Skepticism (W.H.A.T.). Regional credits:  Richard III directed by Bartlett Sher at The Great Lakes Theater Festival and Private Lives at St. Michael's Playhouse. She recently made her film debut in American Masters: Louisa May Alcott for PBS.  She graduated from the MFA acting program at Brandeis University.
	Daniel Berger-Jones (Boatswain, Adrian, u/s Stephano) is pleased to work with ASP again after last year's hilarity as Bassianus in Titus Andronicus. He has appeared in Boston as Bradley in Company One's Mr. Marmalade, a Waiter in John King's Waiting, Man with Scar Tissue et. al in Orfeo Group's Marisol, and most recently as Horatio in Shakespeare Now's Hamlet. He is a founding member of Orfeo Group, with whom he'll next be playing Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger at The Factory Theatre.
	Jason Bowen Actor's Shakespeare Project: The Tempest, Love's Labour's Lost (Berowne, Katherine, Holofernes); Hamlet (Marcellus, Fortinbras, Ensemble); 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); Some previous credits are Othello (Montano), Taming of The Shrew (Petruchio), and A Kwanzaa Song (Azu) all with Mixed Magic Theater in Rhode Island. He received a B.S. in Theater from Skidmore College.
	*Candice Brown  Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Macbeth (Ross, Doctor). New York Theatre Workshop and American Repertory Theatre: Nocturne (Mother); Utah Shakespearean Festival: As You Like It (Phoebe), Richard III (Duchess of York), Love's Labour's Lost (Katharine); Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival: Ophelia (Ophelia), Much Ado About Nothing (Hero), Twelfth Night (Olivia), King Lear (Cordelia); Stephen Foster Memorial Theatre: The Rover (Florinda), After The Fall (Louise); Cap in Hand Productions: Translations (Maura), The Wedding (The Bride),Burn This (Anna), On The Verge (Alexandra).  Film:  Session Nine by Brad Anderson; Mary Hobbs, Backstreet Justice.
	Victoria Bucknell Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Macbeth (Angus, Fleance, Son to Macduff, Young Siward). Victoria is a senior BFA acting student at Boston University and has completed a semester of training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA).  She has performed in Stop Kiss, Aurora Borealis, The Stranger, Playing for Time, and The Shakespeare Project at BU, and The Man of Mode and Antony and Cleopatra at LAMDA.
	*Joel Colodner Actor's Shakespeare Project: King John, Titus Andronicus (Marcus Andronicus) and The Winter’s Tale (Polixenes). He most recently appeared as Egeus in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Joel replaced David Morse in the role of Uncle Peck in How I Learned to Drive off-Broadway. He was Starbuck in The Rainmaker for The Guthrie Theater, Richie in Streamers, Mick in Comedians and Horatio in Hamlet at the Arena Stage and Konstantin in The Seagull at Pittsburgh Public Theatre. He was in the original cast of the musical Is There Life After High School? at Hartford Stage and did another Starbuck, this time in Moby Dick...Rehearsed at the Mark Taper Forum. During a seven year stint in LA he guest starred in numerous series including LA Law, Moonlighting, St. Elsewhere, Cabney and Lacey, and played a host of doctors and lawyers (mostly) in TV movies. He played a psychocardiointernogynecologist on the daytime serial Texas.
	*Denise Cormier Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Macbeth (Witch One, Bloody Captain, Murderer One, Seyton). National tour: The Graduate.  Regional credits: Intimate Apparel (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Play House); After Ashley (Kitchen Theatre); Hunter Gatherers (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); Spinning into Butter  (Gloucester Stage Company); Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare Theatre ACA); A Man For All Seasons, The Mousetrap (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Who’s Afraid of VirginiaWoolf? (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Fuddy Meers (Shadowland Theatre); Proof, A ShaynaMaidel (The Vineyard Playhouse); The Miser (Lyric Stage); Hedda Gabler (The Public Theatre, Lewiston, ME). Film & TV: Six Degrees, Law & Order: CI, In Dreams, Mermaids. MFA: Shakespeare Theatre Academy for Classical Acting.
	Khalil Flemming Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King John, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Moth), Richard III (Richard of York/Page), Julius Caesar (Lucius). Khalil recently performed in States of Grace, produced by Underground Railway Theatre. Other local credits include The Memory of Salt for Animus Ensemble; 103 Within the Veil for Company One; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Beanstalk, Giant, and Jack at the Wheelock Family Theatre. Khalil recently presented the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have a Dream speech at the Cambridge City Hall for the Mayor of Cambridge at the city’s Black History Month celebration. Film: The Bronx is Burning. Television: commercials and PBS children’s programming; voiceovers.
	Ruby Rose Fox Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Lennox/Gentlewoman in Macbeth. She is a recent BFA acting graduate of Emerson College and has performed Undiscovered Country (Genia), A Movie Star has to Star in Black and White (Bette Davis), The Shadow (Margo Lane), The Marriage of Figaro (Marceline). Her solo show, Legacy, directed by Jennie Israel, debuted at Emerson last Spring.
	John Greene Actor's Shakespeare Project: King John. Previously he appeared in Romeo and Juliet with Hyperion Theater Company and Macbeth with The Salem Theater Company. He is involved with Flaming Awesome, a local Improv Comedy Troupe. He can be seen at local music venues as the front man of the punk rock group The Slurred Murrays and the indie rock project Pyotr. John received his education at Johnson State College and attended the British American Dramatic Academy's Summer in Oxford program.
	David Gullette Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Tempest, Measure for Measure (Escalus), All’s Well That Ends Well (King of France). Other Boston area credits include Cadmus in Kathryn Walker’s The Bacchae (Harvard Office on the Arts), Vincentio in Andre Serban’s The Taming of the Shrew (American Repertory Theatre), Macbeth in Emily Mann’s Macbeth (Harvard Radcliffe Drama Club), Jonathan Wild in Laurence Senelick’s production of Anything You Say Will Be Twisted (Harpo Productions). Radio: The Spider’s Web (NPR). David teaches English at Simmons College in Boston.
	*Tom Helmer  Actors’ Shakespeare Project:  Macbeth and Titus Andronicus (stage manager). Actor/stage manager and AEA member since 1990, Tom comes from South Jersey near Philadelphia. Other stage management credits include Hershey Felder’s George Gershwin Alone, Delaware Theatre Company, Prince Music Theatre, Oldcastle Theatre Company and The Barnstormers Theatre. Acting credits: John Adams, 1776, Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre; Louis Howe/Bert Healy, Annie, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia; Howie Newsome/Sam Craig, Our Town and Bob Cratchit, A Christmas Carol, Delaware Theatre Company. Tom is a member of the Philadelphia AEA Liaison Committee and an elected Eastern Regional Councilor of Actors Equity Association.
	Jessica Kochu Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Macbeth (Witch Three, Donalbain, Murderer Two). She is a senior majoring in acting at Boston University.  At BU, she was in The Pinter Project, A History of American Film, and Playing for Time.  At the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, she was Mrs. Loveit in The Man of Mode and Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra.
	Walter Locke Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Tempest (Gonzalo).  Roxbury Repertory Theatre: Deputy Governor Danforth in The Crucible; Revels Repertory Company: Whaling Captain in Summer [Sea] Revels 2007; P.T. Barnum in There’s a Meetin’ Here Tonight; Christmas Revels 2004: King Henry VIII; various roles as Revels chorus member from 1989-2003; Savoyard Light Opera Company: Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore; several community theatre and playwright showcase productions in the 1990s.
	Derrick Martin Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Assistant Stage Manager, Macbeth
	Janet Morrison* Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King John. Janet has performed at Hartford Stage, the Walnut Street Theatre, La Mama ETC, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, and Off-Broadway originated the role of Rita in Last Summer at Bluefish Cove for which she was awarded a Dramalogue Critics Award for Acting. Most recently she played Lane in The Clean House at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre.  She appeared in Scenes from an Execution at Brandeis University under the direction of Adrianne Krstansky. Janet is Director of Performance Studies at Brandeis.  Local directing credits include the New England area premieres of Stop Kiss and Dublin Carol for the Nora Theatre and Public Domain for the New Opera and Musical Theatre Initiative. She is a member of the Michael Chekhov Association.
	Antonio Ocampo-Guzman Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Tempest, King John, and voice/text coach for Macbeth. Recent roles: Galvin Playhouse: Haroun & The Sea of Stories (Rashid); The Annex: Benedick; Conradi Studio: Hamlet (Claudius). Shakespeare & Company: Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale (Antigonus), Henry VI (Duke of Gloucester), Comedy of Errors (Luce). In his native Colombia, at Teatro Libre: Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), Othello (Iago), The Bacchae (Pentheus), Divinas Palabras (Pedro Gailo), People are Living There (Don). At the Teatro Nacional, Colombe (Surette). Antonio directed The One Exception for the 2007 Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival. A designated Linklater teacher, Antonio has been adapting this popular practice into Spanish and has offered both bilingual and Spanish-only training and coaching here in the US, as well as in Ireland, Greece, Sweden, Colombia, Panamá, Mexico and Spain. He serves on the faculty of Northeastern University, having previously taught at Arizona State University, Florida State University, Boston College and Emerson College. MFA in Directing: York University, Toronto. BFA in Acting: Teatro Libre School, Colombia.
	Maurice Emmanuel Parent Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King John. Boston area: Lyric Stage: Man of La Mancha (Duke/Doctor Carrasco); New Repertory Theatre: Ragtime (Coalhouse Walker Jr.) and The Wild Party (Black). Regional credits include The Rink starring Leslie Uggams at Cape Playhouse, Guys and Dolls at Northern Stage, Hair  at Barrington Stage, and Ragtime at Fulton Opera House and Music Theater of Wichita. New York credits include The Good War with musical direction by Craig Carnelia (York Theater). Originally from Washington D.C., he earned his M.A. in music from New York University.
	*Jacqui Parker Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Macbeth (Banquo). She is the Artistic Director of Our Place Theatre Project and the founder of Boston’s Annual African American Theatre Festival. She is an Elliot Norton Award Winning Actor, a six-time recipient of the Independent Reviewers of New England Award, and received the Boston Theatre Hero Award given by StageSource. Recent local credits: Lyric Stage Company: Miss Witherspoon and Crowns; SpeakEasy Stage Company: Caroline or Change (Caroline). Other area credits include Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Hamlet (The Player Queen) and Much Ado About Nothing; Our Place Theatre Project: Blues for an Alabama Sky, Ascension, Spunk and From The Mississippi Delta; Huntington Theatre Company: August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (understudy for Phylicia Rashad and Lisa Gay Hamilton) and Breath Boom; SpeakEasy Stage Company: Our Lady of 121st Street (Inez); Boston Playwright’s Theatre: Haymarket (Lucy Parsons); New Repertory Theatre: A Lesson Before Dying (Vivian) and Having Our Say (Dr. Bessie Delaney); ACT Roxbury: City Preacher; The Lyric Stage Company: The Old Settler, and A….My Name Will Always Be Alice. She also won an IRNE award for her play, Dark As A Thousand Midnights. Directing credits include Short-Sighted Black Woman vs Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae at Roxbury Crossroads Theatre; The Meeting in Harlem, New York City and at Lyric West Theatre Company in Wellesley; The Miracle Worker, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Sorry Don’t Fix It, Goin’ to the Promised Land, Wine in the Wilderness, From Africa We Arose, and Can We Talk.  Film: Turntable, Lift, and this past summer, Company Retreat (dir. Campbell Scott).
	Seth Powers* Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Henry V. New York: Agamemnon at the Vortex Theater (Aegistus/Messenger), Earth in Trance at LaMama (The Swan), The Brothers Karamazov at the Connelly Theater (Dmitri Karamazov), The Seagull with Theatre Askew (Trigorin), Love is in the Air with Pig Brooch (Boffo Mysterioso); also, Dixon Place New Music Theater Festival and NYIFF. Regional: Enchanted April and Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare & Company (Antony Wilding; Pistol). International: Do You Like Me Europe? in Berlin. At Columbia University: Macbeth (Macbeth), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander), The Cherry Orchard (Yepikhodov), and Thyestes (Atreus) at the Riverside Theater. MFA, Columbia University.
	Molly Schreiber Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Henry V. Huntington Theatre Company: Brendan (Rose u/s). The Contemporary Theatre of Boston: The Maids (Claire). NYC: The Stella Adler Studio of Acting: Camille (Olympe), A Lie of the Mind (Lorraine), Alki (Peer Gynt), an all female production of Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch), and the U.S. premiere of Been So Long (Simone).  Regional: The NOLA Project in New Orleans: Cloud 9 (Edward/Victoria), The Theater at Monmouth: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Starveling/Moth), Tom Jones (Molly Seagrim). Television: PBS American Masters Series Lousia May Alcott (Teen Louisa). She was an original member of NYC's The Back of the Line sketch comedy troupe directed by Joey Manderino of joeyanddavid.com and performs on house teams at the Improv Asylum in the North End. B.F.A from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
	*Katherine Shea Actor’s Shakespeare Project: Stage Manager for King John. Highlights from four years at the American Repertory Theatre include: Stage Manager for Donnie Darko; Assistant Stage Manager for Oliver Twist (also at Theatre for a New Audience in New York, NY), World Premiere of The Onion Cellar (featuring The Dresden Dolls), Island of Slaves, Desire Under the Elms; A.R.T. Institute Stage Manager for Zoya's Apartment, Arabian Night, A Bright Room Called Day, Spring Awakening, Donnie Darko. Katherine supervised four young Stage Managers at Lyric First Stages in the Summer of 2007. B.A. in Theater Arts from Brandeis University.
	Mara Sidmore Actor's Shakespeare Project: The Tempest and The Winter's Tale (Emilia/Mopsa).  Other Boston area credits include American Repertory Theatre: Donnie Darko and Romeo and Juliet; Huntington Theatre Company: Burn This and Butley (u/s); Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Macbeth; Boston Theatre Works: Antony and Cleopatra; The Nora Theatre Company: Van Gogh in Japan and Smelling a Rat. Mara trained at Shakespeare & Company and has a MFA in Acting from the Moscow Art Theatre School/American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training in residence at Harvard University.
	Robin JaVonne Smith Actors' Shakespeare Project: King John, Macbeth (Malcolm) and Hamlet (Francisco/2nd Gravedigger). Other Boston area credits include Samurai 7.0 (Beau Jest), RACE (Theatre on Fire), Macbeth (Shakespeare Now!), and Romeo and Juliet (Publick Theatre). Robin holds a B.A. in English and Theatre from Bowdoin College and trained for a semester at the British America Drama Academy in London.
	Katie Toohil Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Tempest (Assistant Stage Manager), Henry V (Assistant Stage Manager)and Titus Andronicus (Assistant Stage Manager).

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