Resident Acting Company

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Merry Wives of Windsor(Director), Twelfth Night (Feste & Music Director), Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 (Glendower/Bardolph), The Taming of the Shrew (Baptista/Tailor/Servant/Lord), Timon of Athens (The Painter), Love’s Labour's Lost (Don Armado, Boyet, Dull).  Other theater: The Book of Grace (Company One); A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre/Boston Children’s Theatre); Table Manners, Living Together, The Woman in Black (Gloucester Stage Company); Indulgences, The Pillowman, The Misanthrope (New Repertory Theatre); Galileo, Einstein’s Dreams, Alice’s Adventures Underground (Underground Railway Theatre); A Year with Frog and Toad, The Dino Musical (Stoneham Theatre), Book of Days (Lyric Stage Company); Spin, Blue/Orange (Zeitgeist Stage Company).  Recent film work includes The Fighter (director: David O. Russell).  Directing credits include Fully Committed, The Completeat Works of William Shakespeare, and Troilus and Cressida.  Recipient: IRNE award for Best Supporting Actor; Cauble Award for Best Short Play of 2009 from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival; Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Playwriting. Author of "Time Was," a collection of original songs available at www.cdbaby.com

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night, Othello in Othello, Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi, Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice, Ferdinand in The Tempest, Berowne/Katherine/Holofernes in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Fortinbras/ Marcellus in Hamlet; Fortune in Ruined (La Jolla Playhouse/Berkley Rep./Huntington Theatre); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Tom in Prelude To A Kiss, Walker Lewis in A Civil War Christmas (The Huntington Theatre); Thami in Groundswell (Lyric Stage Co.); Little Monk in Life of Galileo (Underground Railway Theatre); and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.). Jason received a B.S. in theatre from Skidmore College. 

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Desdemona, Othello, Imogen, Cymbeline. Boston area credits include: The Last Hurrah (Alice) and Mary Stuart (Margaret Curle) with The Huntington Theatre Company, and A Christmas Carol (Ghost of Christmas Past, Elizabeth) with New Repertory Theatre. Chicago credits include: Man From Nebraska with Steppenwolf, The Romance Cycle; Pericles and Cymbeline with Court Theatre, The Doctor’s Dilemma with Writer’s Theatre, Voices From Jerusalem with The Next Theatre, and The Vow (Stage Left) among many others.  Regional credits include: Julius Caesar (Portia) with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Two Rooms (Lainie Wells) with Vineyard Playhouse, and three seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival where she appeared in over a dozen productions including The Winter’s Tale, Street Scene, Up Ubu, and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Annabella). While based in Chicago, Brooke was an artist in residence with the Court Theatre, teaching Shakespeare to high school students on the city’s south side.  She was also a regular performer with Redmoon Theatre Company. Brooke has trained with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and Shakespeare & Company and holds a BFA in acting from Boston University’s school for the arts. She is currently the artistic director of ArtFarm, a sustainable arts organization on Martha’s Vineyard.

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Founding Member, Thersites  in Troilus & Cressida, Actor #4 in The Hotel Nepenthe (2011 Elliot Norton Award winner for Best Ensemble & Best New Script), Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, The Poet/Ventidius/Varro in Timon of Athens, Trinculo in The Tempest, Pandaulf in King John, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, Autolycus in The Winters 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. Other 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, 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 Pillowman, Estragon in Waiting for Godot, the title role in Scapin, Austin in True West and the Emcee in Cabaret (New Repertory Theatre); Salvador Dali in Hysteria, Aston in The Caretaker, (The Nora Theatre Company); Jane/Lord Edgar in The Mystery of Irma Vep, 40 roles in Fully Committed (The Lyric Stage); Voice #1 in Betty's Summer Vacation (The Huntington Theatre Company). John is the author of 14 full-length plays, including The Superheroine Monologues (co-written with Rick Park), Sing Me to Sleep, Freaks, Starfuckers (Elliot Norton Award & New York International Fringe Festival Award Winner), After School Special, My Life with the Kringle Kult, Miss Price, Glitterati, Emerald City, Jasper Lake, Jump/Rope and Actorz with a Z. His play Jasper Lake received both the Michael Kanin and Paula Vogel National Playwrighting Awards. His solo show, The Salt Girl, was honored with the 2009 Elliot Norton Award for "Best New Play".

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Founding Member, Director, Cymbeline;  Sir Andrew Aguecheek, in Twelfth Night, Octavius/Soothsayer in Antony & Cleopatra, Roderigo in Othello; Don John/Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing; Lancelot/ 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/ Elbowin Measure for Measure. Other credits include: A Tale of Two Cities (dir. Will Pomerantz, NYC); over 50 performances in people’s homes of Wallace Shawn’s one-person show, The Fever (dir. Ken Rus Schmoll) 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: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and Consenting Adults Theatre Company in Washington DC. Directing credits: Cyrano for New Rep on Tour, for Dillon for the Dragonfly Festival and Sing me to Sleep at Galapagos in Brooklyn. Doug teaches acting at The Boston Conservatory where he has directed Zara Spook and Other Lures, Independence, Twelfth Night, After Hours, Machinal, Cloud 9, Landscape of the Body, Two Gentlemen of Verona- The Musical, The Beckett Bash and Bent and is developing a new musical based on the music of Rickie Lee Jones and the writing of Eduardo Galeano which will show in Spring, 2012. He received his MFA in Acting from the University of Washington, under the direction of Steve Pearson.

Actors’ Shakespeare Project:  Founding Member, Artistic Associate (2011-2012 Season), Chorus in Medea, Lady Percy/York in Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, 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, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile at the A.R.T., Desdemona—a Play About a Handkerchief at Boston Center for the Arts, The River was Whiskey and 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, Legacy of Light, Red Herring, Lost in Yonkers, and The Miracle Worker at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 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, Twelfth Night at Worcester Foothills Theatre, Table Manners and Living Together at Gloucester Stage Company, and Nora in DollHouse at New Repertory Theatre. Regional and NYC credits include: American Stage Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, 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”. Her most recent film, Beneath Contempt has been playing at various film festivals around the country; Slamdance, Brooklyn Film Festival, and the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Sarah is a graduate of Hampshire College and the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. She currently serves on the Board of Directors at both ASP and StageSource.

Paula Plum is the recipient of four IRNE Awards, the 1995 Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress (Lost in Yonkers), the 2007 Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress (Miss Witherspoon), the 2004 Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, and the 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University. In 2009 she was one of five actors nation-wide to receive the Fox Actor Fellowship in association with SpeakEasy Theatre Co. She is an actress, director, writer, and teacher and has created seven one-person shows for the Unadilla Theatre of Vermont, most notably Plum Pudding. Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Founding Company Member, Cleopatra (Antony & Cleopatra), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), and The Countess (All’s Well That Ends Well). She has appeared with Lyric West in Wit (Vivian Bearing); at SpeakEasy Stage as Sister Acacius (The Divine Sister)Helene (New Century), Margaret (The Savannah Disputation), Dorothy (History Boys) and Joyce (Body Awareness); the Gloucester Stage Company in Faith Healer (Grace), Molly Sweeney (Molly), Happy Days (Winnie) and Not I (Mouth); at the American Repertory Theater 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. Mr.  Plum recently had an article published in the American Theater  Magazine entitled Handling the Hot Moments.  She is a cum laude graduate of Boston University and is married to actor Richard Snee.

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Richard III, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Antony & Cleopatra, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. He was in The American Repertory Theatre’s Othello and Commonwealth Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. He has also performed at The Merrimack Repertory Theatre (Something in the Air; Boy Gets Girl; Uncle Vanya), The Huntington Theatre (Present Laughter; The Sisters Rosensweig). Recent work includes Blithe Spirit at The Lyric Stage, Hysteria at The Nora Theatre, Body Awareness at The Speakeasy Stage, and Table Manners and Living Together at The Gloucester Stage Company. Film credits include Gone, Baby, Gone: The Company Men: and Treading Water. He has voiced characters for several animated television series including Science Court, Hey, Monie!, Home Movies, and Dr. Katz. He and his wife, Paula Plum, “starred” in the animated FX series, The Dick and Paula Celebrity Special. She was “Paula”. He was “The Dick”.

Actors' Shakespeare Project: Founding Company Member, Stage Manager for The Merry Wives of Windsor, Antony & Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 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 La Mama in NYC), Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure and Richard III. Other stage manager credits include R. Buckminster Fuller at the A.R.T.; It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany; Deported, Two Wives in India and The Salt Girl with Boston Playwrights' Theater; Man of La Mancha 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; 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.