Equivocation
Steven Barkhimer*
SHAG
Resident Acting Company member. Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Middletown, Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale, Henry VI, Part 2, Phedre, The Coveted Crown (Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), Taming of the Shrew, Timon of Athens, Love’s Labour’s Lost. Recent theatre includes Morning After Grace (Shakespeare and Company): Tartuffe (Huntington Theatre Company), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Films includee The Fighter; American Hustle; and Purge 3: Election Day. Author of Windowmen (Boston Playwrights Theatre; Elliot Norton, IRNE, and Kennedy Center Awards); Luther 2017; and most recently a libretto for an operetta of Tristram Shandy.
Maurice Parent*
NATE, ROBERT CECIL, ENSEMBLE
Resident Acting Company member. (Macbeth: Banquo, Ensemble) Other ASP: Edward II (Edward II), Measure for Measure (Angelo), Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio / Apothecary), Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Midsummer…(Puck), Coriolanus (Junius Brutus), King John (Lewis the Dauphin) Other local credits include The Huntington Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Lyric Stage, Off The Grid Theatre Company, Wheelock Family Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Boston Theatre Works, Underground Railway Theatre and Nora Theatre Company. 2017 (The Convert), 2016 (The Snow Queen), 2015 (The Color Purple) IRNE Awards; 2017 (Edward II) and 2008 (Some Men, Angels in America, and The Wild Party) Elliot Norton Award. Maurice is an adjunct faculty member of Boston University, Tufts and Boston College. Co-founder and Executive Director of The Front Porch Arts Collective, in residence at Central Square Theater. www.MauriceParent.com / www.FrontPorchArts.org
Nael Nacer*
RICHARD BURBAGE, HENRY GARNET, ENSEMBLE
Nael Nacer* is excited to make his Actors’ Shakespeare Project debut. Select area credits include: Constellations (Centr
Ed Hoopman*
SHARPE, THOMAS WINTOUR, KING JAMES, ENSEMBLE
Ed Hoopman* is excited to be working with ASP. He has recently been seen in Dancing at Lughnasa with Gloucester Stage, Old Money for Commonwealth Shakespeare, Ideation at New Rep Theatre, and as King Arthur in Camelot at Lyric Stage. Other regional credits: Finish Line (Boston Theater Co./Boch Center); King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Taming of the Shrew (Comm Shakes); Peter and the Starcatcher, City of Angels, Dear Elizabeth, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers (Lyric Stage); Mister Roberts and Indulgences (New Rep); A Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre Company); Dog Paddle (Bridge Rep); and Shear Madness (Charles Playhouse). NYC: Interior: Panic (NY Fringe Festival) and World’s Fastest Hamlet both with Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre; Jester’s Dead (The Outfit); Foreign Wars (Random Access Theater). Mr. Hoopman is also an accomplished voiceover actor whose work can be heard both locally and nationally. www.edhoopman.com
Kai Tshikosi
ARMIN, SIR EDWARD COKE, ROBERT CATESBY, ENSEMBLE
Kai Tshikosi is delighted to be returning to ASP after previously appearing in The Tempest. Recent credits include Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare & Company, Northeast Regional Tour), Romeo and Juliet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Franklin (Boston Playwrights Theatre) Cymbeline (Brown Box Theatre Project), Julius Caesar (New Repertory Theatre, Classic Repertory Company), Colossal (Company One).
Kimberly Gaughan
JUDITH
Kimberly is thrilled to make her Actors’ Shakespeare Project debut in Equivocation. Recent credits include Nina in The Seagull, Sophie in Flight, Henrietta Leavitt in Silent Sky (Center for Performance Experiment) and Mary Warren in The Crucible (Theatre South Carolina). She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she acted with the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, and is currently an MFA Acting Candidate at the University of South Carolina. Kimberly trains in Suzuki and Slow Tempo with the Pacific Performance Project/East and in Noh with Theatre Nohgaku and the Kita School. www.kimberlygaughan.com