Seasonal Acting Company

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Antony,  Antony & Cleopatra. Mr. Andreassi is the founder and Artistic Director of The Elm Shakespeare Company in New Haven, CT. He has performed at theatres across the United States, including the Long Wharf Theatre, the American Repertory Theatre, the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, the Cleveland Playhouse, the Rep. of St. Louis, the Three River Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare & Co., the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and the Pioneer Theatre Co. among many others.  Mr. Andreassi has played such roles as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Bazarov in Brian Friel's adaptation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Iago in Othello, Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Claudius in Hamlet, Athos in The Three Musketeers, Rocco in Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Touchstone in As You Like It, Argan in The Imaginary Invalid and the title roles in Macbeth, Richard III and Robin Hood. For the Elm Shakespeare Company, Mr. Andreassi has directed Henry IV, Part 1, The Tempest, Macbeth, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet, The Matchmaker, Twelfth Night, The Three Musketeers, Robin Hood, Holiday and The Winter’s Tale. At Southern Connecticut State University, he has directed Neil Simon's Rumors, Romeo and Juliet and Shaw’s Misalliance. In 1993/94, Mr. Andreassi was the first American to appear with a Chinese theatre troupe when he performed all over the People's Republic of China, and at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, in the Shanghai People's Art Theatre/Long Wharf Theatre co-production of The Joy Luck Club, directed by Arvin Brown. In New York City, he has appeared at the Mint Theater, the New York Theatre Workshop, and on ABC's One Life to Live. He has taught and lectured on acting, Shakespeare and the theatre at Yale University, Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University, the Yale Center for British Art and at the Hopkins School. Mr. Andreassi is an Associate Fellow of Calhoun College at Yale, and he was the recipient of the 2004 Greater New Haven Arts Council award. In 2007 The Wilderness Medicine Institute of the National Outdoor Leadership School certified him as a Wilderness First Responder.

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Ensemble, Antony & Cleopatra; Siobhan is from Roxbury and holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in performing arts and African American studies from Emerson College, and is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Performance credits include Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play at the American Repertory Theater, The Emancipation of Valet de Chambre (premiere) at Cleveland Play House, Studs Terkel’s American Dreams: Lost and Found (premiere) with the Acting Company, Funnyhouse of a Negro at Brandeis Theatre Co., and several seasons with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company on Boston Common. She is the associate director of education at Citi Performing Arts Center. Siobhan began her work there as a teaching artist, and has also taught with the Strand Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and nationally with the Acting Company.

Paige is thrilled to be making her ASP debut this season. She is an actress and teaching artist with Riverside Theatre Works, Theatre Espresso, and Shakespeare Now. Paige received her training at Boston University's school of theater and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Shakespeare Now: Romeo & Juliet (Benvolio), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia), Macbeth (Ross/Fleance), Julius Caesar (Lucius). Holland Productions: The Mistakes Madeleine Made (Edna). Summer Theatre at Salem: Lend Me a Tenor (Maria). BU/LAMDA: My Sister's Keeper (Sarah), Deported (Varter), Tartuffe (Dorine), Call of the Wild (Spitz), Othello (Cassio), The Country Wife (Sparkish). TV: Totally Patriots (Chef Paige - Cookbook Coach segment). Special thanks to Dave for always believing in me!

Steven James DeMarco (Aeneas/ Menelaus) is making his debut with Actor's Shakespeare Project.  Other regional credits include Superior Donuts (The Lyric Stage Company), The Donkey Show (American Repertory Theater), Bug (Flat Earth Theatre), Mrs. Smith Presents... (Emerging American Festival 2010), and Bent (Hovey Players).  He received his B.A. with a field of study in Dramatic Arts, from the Harvard University Extension School.  He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.   Television: Body of Proof (ABC), Gilded Lilly's "Pilot" (ABC), Film: Perkins 28 (Fabular Films), Commercial: Dunkin' Donuts (Hill Holiday).  

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Living in Exile, Macbeth. Ruby is thrilled to be apart of the Actor’s Shakespeare Project this season. Recent productions include 1001 (Company One), Not Enough Air (Nora), and Spring Awakening (Zeitgeist Stage). She is currently recording her first solo album titled Old-Fashioned. She has performed two one-woman shows titled Little Legacy for the palliative care unit at Children’s Hospital and The Other Woman with The Boston Experimental Theater. She’d like to thank her Mom.

Gabriel is a recent graduate of Emerson College. Performance credits include the workshop of Death and the Powers directed by Diane Paulus, The Theater Offensive's Come As You Are play festival, Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? at Manbites Dog Theatre, and Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night at Emerson College. Gabriel can also be seen in the forthcoming independent film, About Time.

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King John, The Merchant of Venice, and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. He recently toured with Shakespeare Now!, performing in Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth. John also toured with Momentum Theater Troupe in a production of The Tempest. In addition to acting, John records music and writes fiction.

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Antony and Cleopatra. Berkshire Theatre Festival: Moonchildren, Macbeth, The Einstein Project, A Christmas Carol. Brandeis Theatre Company: Three Sisters, Love's Labour's Lost, The Game of Love and Chance, Hecuba, Siddhartha, Funnyhouse of a Negro, Little Monsters. Georgia Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Coriolanus, Cymbeline. Jesse earned an MFA in acting at Brandeis University and a BA in theatre at Oglethorpe University. Jesse is thrilled to work with Actors' Shakespeare Project once again. 

Gabriel Kuttner is delighted to be making his ASP debut! Recent work includes: Love Song (Orfeo Group) Walking the Volcano (Boston Playwrights’), DollHouse (New Rep) On An Average Day, Fully Committed (IRNE Award – Solo Performance), A Christmas Carol and the U.S. premiere of Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad (Stoneham), Charlie Fox in Speed-the-Plow (New Rep – IRNE Award, Best Supporting Actor). For Orfeo Group, other credits include two Elliot Norton Award-winning productions: The Complete WOWSA and Look Back in Anger. For the Publick Theatre, roles include: The Real Inspector Hound, Faith Healer (IRNE Nom.), Travesties, Romeo and Juliet, Misalliance, Copenhagen, the Beard of Avon and Design for Living. Other regional theatre includes: Pugilist Specialist and Bug (WHAT), Talking to Terrorists (Súgán Theatre Company) as well as originating the role of Henry Kohl in the world premiere of Permanent Whole Life (IRNE Award - Best New Play) at Boston Playwrights Theatre. London theatre includes: Greek by Steven Berkoff (Riverside Studios), the European premiere of In the Boom-Boom Room, by David Rabe (Courtyard Theatre), Rents, by Michael Wilcox (Courtyard Theatre), the European premiere of Shaved Splits, by Sam Shepard (Edinburgh Fringe and Riverside Studios) and Death of a Salesman for the English Theatre, Frankfurt. Gabriel is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Ross started working in the Boston area in 2008. He was last seen as Guildenstern (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) with The Summer Festival Theater Company. He has worked with The New Rep a number of times playing Arthur Dimmesdale, The Scarlet Letter and Bob Cratchitt, A Christmas Carol on the New Rep on Tour program, on the main stage he has played Brendan, Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Playwright, Exits and Entrances, and Chief Jonson, Mister Roberts. He has also worked with the Publick Theatre of Boston as Yakov, The Seagull and Simon Bliss, Hayfever. Back in his native UK, Ross worked with a number of companies, playing Faustus, Doctor Faustus, Malcolm, Macbeth, Lucentio, Taming of the Shrew, Spurio, Revengers Tragedy, Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, and Aston, The Caretaker. He also spent two summers working with The Oxford Shakespeare Company, with roles including Benedick, Much Ado about Nothing, Fenton and Pistol, Merry Wives of Windsor, and Macbeth, Macbeth. Ross trained at The London Academy of Performing Arts. He is absolutely delighted to be working with ASP this season.

Craig Mathers (Ulysses, Troilus & Cressida) Actors' Shakespeare Project: The Taming of the Shrew. Other recent Boston appearances include Not Enough Air  at the Nora Theater, The Three Sisters for Brandies Stage Company, Picnic at Stoneham Theatre and The Light in the Piazza  at Speakeasy Stage. New York credits include the solo performance I MIGHT BE EDGAR ALLAN POE at the 2012 N.Y. International Fringe Festival, Tea and Sympathy with the Keen Company, Pera Palas at Second Stage, Poor Folk's Pleasure  at The Flea, Salt at the Actors' Studio and The Love of the Nightingale at Soho Rep. Regional appearances include The Grapes of Wrath at Syracuse Stage, Edward II and Hamlet at Yale Rep, Travels with my Aunt and Macbeth at Baltimore Center Stage, All My Sons at Indiana Rep, the Adding Machine at Sacred Fools Theater, and Mass Appeal at Worcester Foothills. TV and film work includes: Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Spin City, As The World Turns, and the CBS pilot, House Rule as well as the feature films, The Funeral Kings, The Last Harbor and The Company Men. Craig is currently Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Emerson College.