Resident Artist Company

LYDIA BARNETT-MULLIGAN* (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Lady Teazle/Snake (The School for Scandal); Anya (The Cherry Orchard); Ann Paige/Dr. Caius (The Merry Wives of Windsor); MacDuff’s Child/Witch (Macbeth); Pompey/Juliet (Measure for Measure). Lydia most recently played Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well at Tennessee Shakespeare Company. Other regional credits include Twelfth Night (Viola), and Pericles (Thaisa) at Elm Shakespeare Company in New Haven, CT; Saving Kitty (Kitty) at The Nora Theatre Company; A Measure of Normalcy at Gloucester Stage Company; The Physicists (w. Roger Rees) at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Romeo & Juliet (Juliet) at the Putney Gardens in Stratford, CT; Steel Magnolias and Miracle on 34th Street at Stoneham Theatre; 123 and Outlaw Jean with Fresh Ink Theatre; Shakespeare On Love (Juliet) at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Hamlet at Bay Colony Shakespeare; Hideous Progeny with Holland Productions; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth with Shakespeare Now. Lydia had the great fortune to grow up acting at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, where credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Ice Glen (both directed by Tina Packer), The Servant of Two Masters, The Tamer Tamed, Dibbledance, Twelfth Night, and countless young company plays beneath the stars. Lydia is a graduate of Williams College, where her directing credits King John, The Tempest, and Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me. lydiabarnettmulligan.com (she/her)

MARIANNA BASSHAM* (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Julius Caesar, The Cherry Orchard, God’s Ear, The Winter’s Tale, Middletown, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, The Hotel Nepenthe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Hamlet. Her directing credits include Romeo and Juliet (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Heroes of the Fourth Turning, and Every Brilliant Thing (SpeakEasy Stage Company). She has won Elliot Norton Awards for her work in Blackbird and People, Places and Things, also both at SpeakEasy, and has acted all over town since 2001, where highlights include The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night (Commonwealth Shakespeare), Our Town (The Huntington, directed by David Cromer) and Constellations (Central Square Theater). She teaches acting at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and coaches privately. www.MariannaBassham.com (she/her)

ALLYN BURROWS* (Founding Member, Artistic Director 2010-2016). Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Directing: Romeo & Juliet, Pericles and Jon Lipsky’s Living in Exile. Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Acting: The title role in Henry VIII, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Hotspur in Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Timon in Timon of Athens, Parolles in All’s Well that Ends Well, Kent in King Lear, Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure, and the Duke of Clarence in Richard III. He is the current Artistic Director at Shakespeare & Company and has acted in numerous productions there, including King John, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Recently in the Boston area, he has performed in productions of Breaking the Code at Underground Railway Theatre, Shipwrecked! at The Lyric Stage, Oceanside, The Seafarer, Pursuit of Happiness, and The Homecoming at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and Five by Tenn, at SpeakEasy Stage. He was the 2006 Elliot Norton Award recipient for The Homecoming, King Lear, and Five by Tenn and a 2011 IRNE Award Winner for Breaking the Code. Off-Broadway credits include Bug, Killer Joe, Louis Slotin Sonata, Closetland, and The Windowing of Mrs. Holroyd. He has worked at a number of theaters around the country, including Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, The American Conservatory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Denver Center, and The Walnut St. Theatre. Television credits include The Broad Squad, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Against the Law, and he can be seen in the films The Company Men and Julie & Julia. (he/him)

PAIGE CLARK* (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo & Juliet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Troilus & Cressida. Regional: Saint Joan, Iphigenia Among the Taurians (Newton Theatre Company), Three Musketeers (Greater Boston Stage Company), Allegiance (Speakeasy Stage Company), She Kills Monsters (Company One), Arabian Nights (Central Square Theater). Education: BFA from Boston University, Semester Abroad at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). Paige teaches and directs at Newton South High School and sings with her band Poor Yorick. (she/her)

JADE GUERRA* (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Macbeth, Julius Caesar. Regional: Miracle on 34th St., Calendar Girls, Legend of Georgia McBride (Greater Boston Stage), Well (Wellesley Rep), Shakespeare in Love (SpeakEasy Stage), Hamlet (Brown Box Theater), The Real Inspector Hound, How Soft the Lining (Bad Habit Productions), Orlando (Stonington Opera House), A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes (Apollinaire), Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Lyric Stage). Education: BFA in Acting from Ithaca College. (she/her)

BROOKE HARDMAN (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: As You Like It [2023] (Associate Director/Music Director), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), As You Like It [] (Rosalind), Troilus and Cressida (Cressida), Cymbeline (Imogen),Othello (Desdemona), Pericles (Associate Director/Music Director), Henry VIII (Associate Director). Boston area credits include: The Last Hurrah (Alice) and Mary Stuart (Margaret Curle) with 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 with 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 & Co. and holds a BFA in acting from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. Brooke is the Co-Founder and Co-Producer of “New Writers/New Plays”, a residency and festival of new plays at Vineyard Arts Project on Martha’s Vineyard, where such acclaimed plays as Disgraced (2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama), Witness Uganda, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, and PigPen Theatre Company’s The Old Man and the Old Moon where originally developed. She is also the proud mother of Isla Reay Ditchfield. www.VineyardArts.org

JESSE HINSON* (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Merchant of Venice, Exit the King, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Henry VI, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Pericles, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra. Regional: A Case for the Existence of God, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Shakespeare in Love (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Macbeth, Cymbeline (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); The Thanksgiving Play (Lyric Stage Company); Incels and Other Myths (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); and Photograph 51 (Central Square Theater). Jesse is a Teaching Professor and the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Department of Theatre at Northeastern University. (he/him)

JENNIE ISRAEL* (Founding Member, Associate Artistic Director 2004-2009). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Volumnia in Coriolanus, Maria in Twelfth Night, Margaret et al. in Richard III, Queen Isabella in Edward II, Margaret in Henry VI Part II, Emilia in Othello, title role in Medea, Jaques in As You Like It, The Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 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. Select Regional Credits: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (The Huntington); Dancing at Lughnasa, Table Manners, Living Together (Gloucester Stage Company); Boston Marriage, Tartuffe, Dollhouse (New Repertory Theater); Living in Exile and The Heidi Chronicles at the Vineyard Playhouse; Molly Maguire (Sugan Theatre); Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Phoebe in As You Like It (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Undine’s Valediction, Summer, The Scarlet Letter, and Macbeth (Shakespeare & Company). Regional credits include Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Lincoln Center Theatre, Theatre Building Chicago, The Greenwich Street Theatre, 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. Directing credits include Measure for Measure, Romeo and Juliet, Harvard College; Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dancing at Lughnasa at UMass Lowell; Chicago, Macbeth, The Beaux Stratagem, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and co-directed Volta with David R. Gammons for The Concord Academy Performing Arts Department. In 1992 Jennie founded Chicago’s Eclipse Theatre, still in existence today. In 2011 Jennie was a guest presenter at the 9th World Shakespeare Congress in Prague, Czech Republic,  She has taught Shakespearean text, voice, and acting at Bowdoin College, SUNY/Purchase, Concord Academy, Harvard University, Ecole International de Boston, Emerson College, UMass Lowell and is currently an Associate Professor of Theatre at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Jennie was a lead teacher with incarcerated girls through ASP’s Incarcerated Youth at Play project for five years. Jennie holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. (she/her)

DOUG LOCKWOOD* (Founding Member). ASP Acting Credits: Pride and Prejudice, Richard II, Twelfth Night, Antony & Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and Richard III. ASP Directing Credits: King Lear, Hamlet, Middletown, Cymbeline. Local Acting: Beckett’s Texts for Nothing (Nervous Theatre); Art, The Waverly Gallery, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Twelfth Night (New Repertory Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (The Nora Theatre Company); Carnival (Gloucester Stage Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Pericles (A.R.T.); Lilli’s Purple Plastic Purse, Snow White, Pippi Longstocking (Wheelock Family Theatre). Regional: Wallace Shawn’s The Fever under the direction of Ken Rus Schmoll (performed in over 50 living rooms); Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edmonton Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Directing: Auld Lang Syne (Gloucester Stage Company); Chesapeake, Cyrano (New Repertory Theatre); The Cradle Will Rock, Coolsville, Machinal, Bent, Cloud 9, Landscape of the Body, Two Gentleman of Verona: The Musical, The Beckett Bash, Twelfth Night (The Boston Conservatory at Berklee). Education: MFA, University of Washington under the direction of Steve Pearson. Teaching: The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Associate Professor of Theater 2004-Present. (he/him)

JOHNNIE MACK* (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Seven Guitars, Othello, Pericles, Henry VIII, As You Like It. Regional: The Brother/Sister Plays, You For Me For You (Company One); Race [u/s], The Kite Runner (New Rep); Romeo & Juliet (Happy Medium Theatre). Directing: Romeo and Juliet (Boston Arts Academy) and Much Ado About Nothing (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). Film/TV: “Double Cross” (UPN), “No Good Nick” (Netflix), “School of Rock” (Nickelodeon), Joy directed by David O. Russell, Stars Fell on Alabama directed by VW Sheich. Education: BA Alabama State University, MFA Brandeis University. www.JohnnieMack.com (he/him)

JAKE MARIÑO* (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King Hedley II, Coriolanus (Production Stage Manager), The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Nat Turner in Jerusalem (Assistant Stage Manager), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stage Management Intern). Select Local Credits: Yellow Face (Lyric Stage Company of Boston); Revolution’s Edge (Plays in Place); Black Super Hero Magic Mama, Wolf Play, Greater Good (Company One); The Seagull, and Waiting for Godot (Deadword Theatre Company). Jake is a graduate of Suffolk University with his BA in Theatre. Jake is also a Founding Member and Managing Director of Deadword Theatre Company. Find him on all social media for any and all DJing/Bartending needs and more: @jakefromoregon. (he/him)

NAEL NACER* (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth; Equivocation. Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (Manhattan Theatre Club). Off-Broadway: The Orchard (Arlekin Players/B.A.C). Regional: Prayer for the French Republic, A Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, Awake and Sing!, David Cromer’s Our Town (The Huntington); The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, The Tempest (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Bedlam/CST); People, Places & Things, Small Mouth Sounds,Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage); The Return (Israeli Stage); The Seagull (Arlekin Players Theatre); The Ding Dongs, Tiny Beautiful Things, True West, The Flick (Gloucester Stage); Intimate Apparel (Lyric Stage); The Kite Runner, A Number, Lungs (New Rep); Shear Madness (Charles Playhouse). Nael is the recipient of Elliot Norton and IRNE awards. (he/him)

SARAH NEWHOUSE* (Founding Member). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Over 30 productions including How I Learned To Drive, Let The Right One In, Exit The King, School for Scandal, Macbeth, The Cherry Orchard, The Comedy of Errors, Medea, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Richard III. Off-Off-Broadway: King Lear (La MaMa ETC). Regional: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Six Characters in Search of an Author, King Stag (American Repertory Theatre); King of the Jews, The River Was Whiskey (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Shear Madness (Charles Playhouse); The Women Who Mapped the Stars (Central Square Theater); The Apple Family Plays, La Salonnières, Picnic (Greater Boston Stage Company); Mr. Fullerton, Between The Sheets, The Norman Conquests (Gloucester Stage Company); We All Fall Down, The Art of Burning (The Huntington); The Book of Will, Legacy of Light, Lost in Yonkers (Lyric Stage Company). Film: “I Feel Pretty”,“Beneath Contempt”, “Bleed For This”, “Dischord”. Education: Hampshire College, A.R.T. Institute / Harvard University. Sarah is also a sometime director/producer/teacher, and currently serves on the Board of the Theater Community Benevolent Fund. (she/her)

MAURICE EMMANUEL PARENT* (Resident Artist, Interim Artistic Director 2017). Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Acting): Equivocation, Macbeth, Edward II, Measure for Measure, Romeo & Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, and King John. Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Directing): Seven Guitars [2023 Elliot Norton Award — Outstanding Director of a Play]. Maurice is an award-winning actor, director, educator and mentor with twenty years of professional experience. He has over forty acting credits at theaters across the nation and abroad, having performed with some of Boston’s oldest and most respected companies such as the Huntington Theatre Company, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Lyric Stage Company, New Repertory Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theater and Central Square Theater.

Parent’s history as an educator extends back over a decade. He has taught for Northeastern University, MIT, The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and spent six years as a Performing Arts Specialist in the Boston Public School System. Currently, Parent is a full time Professor of the Practice in the Tufts Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. 

Parent is the co-founder of The Front Porch Arts Collective, a Black theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in Boston through theater. In its sixth season, The Porch has quickly become a well-respected voice in the Boston theatrical landscape. In residence at the Huntington Theatre Company, Parent serves as both Co-Producing Artistic Director of The Porch and Consulting Producer for The Huntington. (he/him)

PAULA PLUM* (Founding Member, Interim Artistic Director 2017). Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Acting): Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard II, Phèdre, As You Like It, Pericles, Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Richard III. Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Directing): Twelfth Night, The School for Scandal, Macbeth. Selected Regional: Grand Horizons, Barefoot in the Park (Gloucester Stage Company); The Inheritance, The Children [2020 Elliot Norton Award — Outstanding Actress] (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Last Night at Bowl-Mor Lanes (Greater Boston Stage Company); The Roommate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [2017 Elliot Norton Award — Outstanding Actress], Miss Witherspoon [2007 Elliot Norton Award — Outstanding Actress] (Lyric Stage Company); Top Girls, Tartuffe (The Huntington). Film: “Mermaids”, “Malice”, “Next Stop Wonderland”, and “Irrational Man”. Television: Science Court (three seasons ABC) and co-creator and star of The Dick & Paula Celebrity Special for FX. She is the recipient of the 2004 Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, and the 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston UniversityFrom 2003 through 2019, Paula served as Artistic Director of WGBH’s A Christmas Celtic Sojourn featuring Brian O’Donovan.She has been published in American Theatre magazine and is married to actor and fellow ASP Founding Member Richard Snee. (she/her)

OMAR ROBINSON* (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Seven Guitars, Pride and Prejudice, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, The School for Scandal, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Romeo & Juliet, Pericles, Twelfth Night. Regional: Huntington Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, Trinity Repertory Company, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Dorset Theatre Festival, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Lyric Stage Company, Central Square Theater, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Theatre Espresso. Education: BA, Emerson College. (he/him)

JON SAVAGE (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King Hedley II, Seven Guitars [2023 Elliot Norton Award – Outstanding Scenic Design], Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, and Equivocation. Broadway: Hot Feet (Assoc. Scenic Design). Boston: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Black Odyssey Boston (Front Porch Arts Collective/Central Square Theater); A Disappearing Number (Central Square Theater); Sweet Charity, Lucky Stiff, Miracle on 34th Street (Greater Boston Stage Company); Reparations, To Kill a Mockingbird, True West, The Bank Job (Gloucester Stage Company); Imagining Madoff, Broken Glass, Cardboard Piano (New Repertory Theatre); Old Money, Comedy of Errors [Elliot Norton Award — Outstanding Design], All’s Well That Ends Well [Elliot Norton Award — Outstanding Production] (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Laughing Wild and Ryan Landry’s M (Huntington Theatre Company). Regional: State Fair (The Walnut Street Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof, King of the Jews (Olney Theatre Center); A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park (Lyric Repertory Company – UT). Jon is currently serving on faculty within the Design, Production and Management programs at Boston University. He is a member of United Scenic Artists. (he/him)

MARA SIDMORE* (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Mrs Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Lady Anne/Duchess of York/Catesby in Richard III, Alonso/Trinculo in The Tempest, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Celia in As You Like It, Aricia in Phedre, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Charmian in Antony and Cleopatra, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Miranda in The Tempest. Other Boston area credits include: Donnie Darko and Romeo and Juliet at the American Repertory Theatre; Burn This and Butley (u/s) at the Huntington Theatre Company; Macbeth with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Antony and Cleopatra at Boston Theatre Works; The Cherry Orchard, Van Gogh in Japan, and Smelling a Rat at The Nora Theatre Company.

Mara is currently a Visiting Associate Teaching Professor and Arts Administration and Cultural Entrepreneurship Graduate Program Coordinator at Northeastern University. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Gordon College and an MFA in Acting from Harvard University’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre School. She also studied theatre and/or education at Northwestern University, Shakespeare & Company, and Yale University. (she/her)

The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night (co-production with Lyric Stage), Much Ado About Nothing, Titus Andronicus. Recent Boston area credits include Between Riverside and Crazy (IRNE Best Supporting Actor), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Grand Concourse, and The Motherf**ker with the Hat (IRNE Best Supporting Actor, SpeakEasy Stage), Peter and the Starcatcher, Light up the Sky, and One Man Two Guvnors (Lyric Stage), The Gift Horse (New Repertory Theatre), Marjorie Prime (Central Square Theatre), as well as productions with Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Shakespeare & Co., A.R.T., New Exhibition Room, Whistler in the Dark, and The Publick Theatre. He trained at Shakespeare & Company and Northeastern University. (he/him)

RICHARD SNEE* (Founding Member). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Let The Right One In, Twelfth Night, Exit the King, Hamlet, School for Scandal, The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, The Cherry Orchard, Macbeth, Richard III, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Antony & Cleopatra, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. He was in American Repertory Theatre’s Othello and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’sTaming 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 Lyric Stage Company, Hysteria at The Nora Theatre, Body Awareness at Speakeasy Stage Company, and Round and Round the Garden, Table Manners, and Living Together at Gloucester Stage Company. He was in GSC’s production of Auld Lang Syne this summer. 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”. (he/him)

BOBBIE STEINBACH* (Founding Member). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Sixteen productions, most recently as Jaques in As You Like It. Favorite ASP roles include Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Volumnia in Coriolanus, Paulina in A Winter’s Tale, and Cassius in Julius Caesar. Bobbie recently made her debut in Moonbox Theatre’s critically acclaimed Torch Song, as Ma Beckoff. She has worked at Huntington Theatre Company, New Rep, Lyric Stage Company, SpeakEasy Stage, Greater Boston Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and Boston Symphony. Bobbie is the recipient of an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress, and in 2016 she was awarded a prestigious two-year Resident Actor Fox Fellowship. In May 2023, Bobbie was awarded the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. Learn more at her website. (she/her)

ADELE NADINE TRAUB* (Founding Member) has stage managed for over twenty productions at ASP, from Richard III and Measure for Measure in Season 1 to How I Learned to Drive in Season 20. Other stage management credits include I Was Most Alive With You at The Huntington Theatre Company, R. Buckminster Fuller at the A.R.T.; It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues with Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, NY; appropriate, A Future Perfect, Tribes, and Clybourne Park with Speakeasy Stage Co.; Ulysses on Bottles and Oh God with Israeli Stage; db and Small Mouth Sounds with Vineyard Arts Project; Deported/a dream play, Two Wives in India, and The Salt Girl with Boston Playwrights’ Theater; Man of La Mancha and 1776 with Lyric Stage Company, and has spent several years stage managing for BU’s Dance Theater Group. This season, Adele will also stage manage Central Square Theater and Israeli Stage. During her four years as Production Stage Manager at The Boston Conservatory, Adele worked on over 40 productions with the Musical Theater, Dance, Opera, and Orchestra Departments. She received her B.A. from Brandeis University and is a professional quilter. www.TheQuiltedChuppah.com (she/her)

LISETTE VAN DEN BOOGAARD (Resident Artist). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Taming of the Shrew, How I Learned to Drive, Romeo and Juliet. Boston-Area Credits: The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Machine Learning (Central Square Theatre); Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Marry Me A Little (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre); and Metamorphoses (Suffolk University). (she/they)

SHANELLE CHLOE VILLEGAS* (Resident Artist) is a Black, Queer, Non-binary writer, actor, director, deviser visual artist, and arts educator who was most recently awarded a Fulbright to study in the United Kingdom. In March of this year, Shanelle ended her residency at The Boston Center for the Arts where she has been developing a devised memoir play about intergenerational trauma that she will continue developing throughout her Fulbright period. In addition to receiving a Fulbright, Shanelle was recognized, in September 2022, as one of fifteen artists of color leaving an imprint on Massachusetts in WBUR’S “The Makers”.When she is not creating her own work, Shanelle can be seen performing all around Boston with companies such as The Huntington Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and American Repertory Theatre. Shanelle is a proud inaugural graduate of The Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s BFA Contemporary Theatre program. (she/they)

MARYA LOWRY* (Founding Member). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Marya has played over 24 roles for ASP, from kings and queens to peasants and clowns. Credits include King
Lear (Cordelia/Fool), all-female Julius Caesar (Brutus), The Tempest (Prospero), The Cherry Orchard (Ranevskaya), all-female Macbeth (title role), Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Olivia), Richard III (Buckingham), Richard II, Henry VI Part 2, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cymbeline, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, and others. Local area credits: The Gamm Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Vineyard Playhouse, American Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Featured Narrator: Boston Pops and the Handel & Haydn Society at Symphony Hall and Cantata Singers at Jordan Hall. International and Regional: Concert Theatre Works (Peer Gynt), Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Barter Theatre, Riverside Shakespeare Company, Luminato Festival, Toronto; Roy Hart International Arts Centre, France, and Bulgarian singing tour with Divi Zheni. Her voice/text coaching spans the classics to the experimental including Broadway (Hamlet), Off-Broadway (Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo & Juliet), Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, and The Bacchae in France/Denmark. Teaching: Brandeis University 1989-2020, MFA Actor Training Program 1989-2014. Marya is a pioneer in the arts of vocal lamentation for professional and personal use. Her popular workshops, “Unboundaried Voice: Laughter to Lamentation” and “Shakespeare: Flesh Blood and Bones” have delighted and inspired participants in the UK and Europe, including France, Greece, Germany, Amsterdam, Italy, Poland, and across the U.S. Marya is a certified Roy Hart Centre Voice Teacher and spiritual mentor to incarcerated women. (she/her)

ROBERT WALSH* (Founding Member, RAC Emerita). Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King Lear (Lear); Richard III (director); Richard II (York); Phèdre (Theseus); As You Like It (director); Henry VIII (Wolsey); Two Gentlemen of Verona (director); Troilus and Cressida (Aggie/Pandarus); Living In Exile (multiple roles); Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 (Falstaff); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom); 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). Robert was the Artistic Director of the Gloucester Stage Company from 2014-21, where he directed several world and regional premieres including Think of Me Tuesday, My Station in Life, The New Electric Ballroom, and Bank Job. Other area theaters for whom he has either acted, directed, or staged fight sequences include: the Huntington Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater, Merrimack Rep, New Rep, Speakeasy Stage Company, Lyric Stage, Shakespeare and Company, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Two River Theater and the American Stage Festival, where he also served several seasons as the Producing Artistic Director. Recent films include “Fourth of July”, “Black Mass”, “Dead Reckoning”, and “The Spirit of Christmas”. He has served on the faculty at Brandeis University since 1990 and is a member of SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA and The Society of American Fight Directors. (he/him)