Resident Artist Company

ESME ALLEN*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Much Ado About NothingThe Cherry Orchard, Middletown and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Esme is a Boston-based actor, educator and designer. Boston-area acting credits include Muckrakers, Elephant Man and Amadeus (New Repertory Theatre), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Greater Boston Stage Co.  IRNE Nomination); Gloucester Blue, North Shore Fish (Gloucester Stage Company); Dog Paddle (Bridge Repertory Theater  IRNE Nomination) and Coriolanus (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Television credits include The Devil You Know (HBO); The Good Wife (CBS). Scenic design credits include Bridge Repertory Theater’s production of Mud Blue Sky, Julius Caesar and Gidion’s Knot. She earned her MFA in Acting from The California Institute of the Arts. She is a Founding Artistic Associate of The Bridge Repertory Theater and teaches acting at Salem State University.

LYDIA BARNETT-MULLIGAN*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project roles include: 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

MARIANNA BASSHAM*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Cherry Orchard, Middletown, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and The Hotel Nepenthe. Boston-area credits include Our Town, Luck of the Irish, and Becoming Cuba (Huntington Theatre Company); Othello (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Blackbird, Reckless, and In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (SpeakEasy Stage); Quills, Tartuffe, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Silence (New Repertory Theatre); Talley’s Folly, Miss Witherspoon (Lyric Stage Company); Gaslight, The Rimers of Eldritchand I Capture the Castle (Stoneham Theatre); Not Enough Air (The Nora Theatre Company); Matt & Ben (Central Square Theatre); and Little Black Dress and The Company We Keep (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre). She has also appeared with The Gamm Theatre, Gloucester Stage, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Wellfleet Harbor Actors’ Theater, Elm Shakespeare Company, and many others. She received Elliot Norton awards for Blackbird and The Hotel Nepenthe, and an IRNE Award for Little Black Dress, Reckless and Blackbird. Film/TV: Louisa May Alcott, the Woman Behind Little Women (PBS), Rubberneck, and Moonrise Kingdom. She holds an MFA from Brandeis University. (she/her)

JASON BOWEN*

Resident Artist Company Member

Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, The Duchess of Malfi, The Tempest, Hamlet (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), My Mañana Comes (Playwrights Realm), June Moon (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Black Odyssey (Denver Center Theatre Co.), A Raisin In The Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (IRNE Award, Elliot Norton Award nom.), Ruined, Prelude To A Kiss, A Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre Co.), Groundswell (Lyric Stage Company), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Jason was voted Best Actor by Boston Magazine in its Best Of Boston 2012 issue.

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 inRichard III. He was an artistic associate at Shakespeare & Company for many years and 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.

PAIGE CLARK*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo & Juliet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Troilus & Cressida. Regional: The Lowell Offering (Merrimack Repertory Theatre). Boston Area: The Three Musketeers (Greater Boston Stage),  Allegiance (Speakeasy Stage), She Kills Monsters (Company One), The Kite Runner (New Repertory Theatre), and Arabian Nights (Central Square Theatre – IRNE Award). Paige is a theatre teacher and director at Newton South High School. She holds a BFA from Boston University’s School of Theatre and has studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Paige also regularly performs with her band, Poor Yorick, in Boston and Cambridge. Many thanks to her husband, Dave, without whose love and support none of this would be possible!

JADE GUERRA*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King Lear, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar. She is a Boston born and based actor. Recent credits include Fabulation (Lyric Stage), Well (Wellesley Rep),  Shakespeare in Love (SpeakEasy), The Legend of Georgia McBride (Greater Boston Stage), Calendar Girls (Greater Boston Stage),  and Hamlet (Brown Box Theatre Project).  Jade is a company member of Theatre Espresso, an educational theatre company that brings history to life for students through a social justice lens.  Jade is delighted to join ASP as an acting company member. Thanks to her family for the constant support with love to Layla and James.

BROOKE HARDMAN*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: 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 Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: As You Like It, Pericles, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra. New Repertory Theater: Holiday Memories, The Whipping Man. Stoneham Theater: Seminar, Miracle on 34th Street. Berkshire Theatre Group: The Puppetmaster of Lodz, 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 in Atlanta, GA. He teaches at Brandeis University and at Boston University’s Summer Theatre Intensive. He studies the Suzuki Method of actor training with The Pacific Performance Project and is joyfully married to ASP RAC member Marianna Bassham.

JENNIE ISRAEL*

Founding Member, Associate Artistic Director (2004-2009)

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Margaret + 8 roles 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. Other local credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Huntington Theatre; Dancing at Lughnasa, Table Manners and Living Together at Gloucester Stage Company; Boston Marriage, Tartuffe, and Dollhouse at New Repertory Theater; Living in Exile and The Heidi Chronicles at the Vineyard Playhouse; Molly Maguire at the Sugan Theatre; Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Phoebe in As You Like It for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Undine’s Valediction, Summer, The Scarlet Letter, and Macbeth with 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; 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 Assistant Professor of Theatre at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Jennie is the lead teacher for ASP’s yearly teacher’s institute at Salem State University and was also 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.

DOUG LOCKWOOD*

Founding Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Directing: Middletown, Cymbeline (ASP); Auld Lang Syne (Gloucester Stage Company); Chesapeake (New Rep); Escape from Happiness (Brandeis University); Cyrano (two different productions for New Rep on Tour); For Dillon by Carol Lockwood (The Piano Factory); Twelfth Night, Machinal, Cloud 9, Bent, Two Gentleman of Verona: The Musical, The Beckett Bash, Landscape of the Body, and Coolsville (April 2015) (The Boston Conservatory). Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Acting: Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Merchant of Venice, Henry V, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, The Winter’s Tale and Measure for Measure. Other local acting credits include: Art, Twelfth Night, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Waverly Gallery (New Rep); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Pippi Longstocking, Snow White (Wheelock Family Theatre); Pericles (A.R.T.); The Cherry Orchard (Nora Theatre); Carnival (Gloucester Stage Company). Upcoming film: The Chain. Faculty member at The Boston Conservatory. MFA in Acting from University of Washington under the direction of Steve Pearson.

MARYA LOWRY*

Founding Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Henry VI, Part 2, The Cherry Orchard, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cymbeline, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Duchess of Malfi, Macbeth (title role), Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Olivia), Julius Caesar, Richard III (Buckingham). Other area credits: SpeakEasy Stage Company, (The Wrestling Patient), Vineyard Playhouse (Walking the Volcano), American Repertory Theatre (Man and Superman), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Henry V), Merrimack Repertory Theatre (Hamlet, Racing Demon). Featured Narrator: Boston Pops and the Handel & Haydn Society at Symphony Hall and Cantata Singers at Jordan Hall. International and Regional: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Barter Theatre, Riverside Shakespeare Co. NYC, Luminato Festival, Toronto; Roy Hart International Arts Centre, France and Bulgarian singing tour with Divi Zheni. 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 (Song of the Dodo), and The Bacchae in France/Denmark. Teaching: Brandeis MFA Actor Training Program since 1989. Marya is a pioneer in the area of Vocal Lamentation. Her popular workshops “Voice & Lamentation” and “Shakespeare: Flesh, Blood and Bones” have delighted participants in France, the UK, Greece, and across the US. Marya is a certified Roy Hart Theatre Voice Teacher and spiritual mentor to incarcerated women.

JOHNNIE MCQUARLEY*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: As You Like It (Oliver); Henry VIII (Cromwell); Pericles (Lysimachus); Antony and Cleopatra (Ensemble) and Troilus and Cressida (Ajax, Paris). Company One: You For Me For You (Wade); The Brother Sister Plays (Ogun). New Repertory Theatre: The Kite Runner (Ali); Race (Henry Brown). Titanic Theatre: Wonder of the World (Kip). Fort Point Channel Theatre: Hidden Faces of Courage (Men). Happy Medium Theatre: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo). He was also featured in the Berkshire Theatre Festival (Lenox) in Macbeth, and New Century Theatre’s production of Superior Donuts (Franco Wicks).

NAEL NACER*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth; Equivocation. Area Credits include: The Seagull (Arlekin Players Theatre), Romeo and Juliet; A Doll’s House; Bedroom Farce; Come Back, Little Sheba; Awake and Sing!; The Seagull; Our Town (Huntington Theatre), The Return (Israeli Stage), Tiny Beautiful Things; 45 Plays for 45 Presidents; It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Merrimack Rep), Small Mouth Sounds; A Future Perfect; Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage), True West; Bank Job; The Flick (Gloucester Stage), Calendar Girls (Greater Boston Stage Company), Constellations; Sila; Distracted (Central Square Theatre), Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play; Intimate Apparel; Animal Crackers (Lyric Stage), A Number; Lungs; The Kite Runner; Pattern of Life (New Repertory Theatre), Rhinoceros; Windowmen (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), and Shear Madness (Charles Playhouse). Nael is the recipient of Elliot Norton and IRNE awards for his work, and is a resident acting company member of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, as well as a monologue coach with My College Audition.

SARAH NEWHOUSE*

Founding Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Charlotta in The Cherry Orchard, 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, Banquo, 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, 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, Distant Music, Picnic andMiracle on 34th Street at Stoneham Theatre, Distracted at Underground Railway Theater, Twelfth Night at Worcester Foothills Theatre, The Norman Conquests trilogy 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 TurnsAnother World, MTV, Saturday Night Live, The Legend of Lucy Keyes, Dischord, Chain of Desire, Expired, The Stupid Years, andBeneath Contempt. 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 the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund.

MAURICE EMMANUEL PARENT*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: King John (Lewis the Dauphin), Coriolanus (Junius Brutus), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio), Edward II (Edward II). Other local companies: SpeakEasy Stage, New Repertory Theatre, Underground Railway Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Wheelock Family Theatre, Lyric Stage, Huntington Theatre Co., Boston Theatre Works, Barrington Stage, Cape Playhouse. He is the winner of a 2008 Elliot Norton Award winner for Some Men (SpeakEasy), Angels in America (Boston Theatre Works) and The Wild Party (New Rep); a 2015 Irne Award for The Color Purple (SpeakEasy) and a 2016 IRNE Award for The Snow Queen (New Rep).

PAULA PLUM*

Founding Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Phedre, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, Beatrice, Mistress Overdone. She has been Artistic Director of WGBH’s A Christmas Celtic Sojourn since its inception in 2003, touring concerts throughout New England during the Christmas holiday season. Other directing credits include Macbeth and The School for Scandal (ASP), Steel Magnolias (Stoneham Theatre), Jake’s Women (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Baltimore Waltz (Lyric Stage), I’m Not Rappaport (Gloucester Stage), The Lady and the Clarinet (New Ehrlich Theatre), Tell Me On A Sunday (Stuart St. Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Happy Medium Theatre). As the 2009 recipient of the Fox Actor Fellowship, Paula conducted a workshop at her host theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, entitled “Handling the Hot Moments,” exploring the ways actors negotiate intimacy on stage. Her article of the same title was published in American Theatre Magazine (October 2011). While she is best known to Boston audiences as an actress, Paula is also a playwright, teacher and acting coach. Her most recent play, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, explores the passions and peccadilloes of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Paula is the recipient of the Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, five IRNE awards, two Elliot Norton Awards for Best Actress, and was the 2003 Distinguished Alumna of Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. She is married to actor Richard Snee. (she/her)

OMAR ROBINSON*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Henry VIII (Chamberlain), Romeo & Juliet (Tybalt), Pericles (Thaliard/Leonine), Twelfth Night (Antonio). Other local credits include Superior Donuts (Elliot Norton Award Nominee – Outstanding Performance), Death of a Salesman (Lyric Stage Company), Hamlet (Bay Colony Shakespeare Company), Fire on Earth (Fresh Ink Theatre), Zombie Double Feature (New Exhibition Room), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Summer Festival Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Macbeth (Shakespeare NOW!), Art (Parish Players Theatre), and Robin Hood (Emerson Stage). He received a B.A. in Acting and Television/Video Production from Emerson College. Omar is also a member of Theatre Espresso, an educational theatre company in residence at Wheelock Family Theatre.

MARA SIDMORE*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Celia in As You Like It, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Charmian in Antony and Cleopatra, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Miranda in The Tempest, Emilia/Mopsa in The Winter’s Tale. 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 trained at Shakespeare & Company and has an MFA in Acting from the Moscow Art Theatre School/American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. She has served on the theatre faculty of The Boston Conservatory, Boston Arts Academy, Bentley University, and The Winsor School and currently works as a Senior Facilitator and Design Manager at The Ariel Group, an international training and coaching firm using applied theatre for leadership development.

ALEJANDRO SIMOES*

Resident Artist Company Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: 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.

RICHARD SNEE*

Founding Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: As You Like it, The Cherry Orchard, MacbethRichard III, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Much Ado About NothingAntony & 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 AirBoy Gets GirlUncle 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 CourtHey, 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”.

BOBBIE STEINBACH*

Founding Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project:  The School for Scandal (Mrs. Candour, Moses), Phedre (Oenone), Richard III (Duchess of York), Julius Caesar (Casca), Twelfth Night (Maria), All’s Well That Ends Well (Lord Laefew/Widow), The Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Macbeth(King Duncan/Porter/Witch), Much Ado About Nothing (Margaret/Antonio), Coriolanus (Volumnia), Othello (Brabantia), Timon of Athens (Flavius), Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 (Mistress Quickly), Troilus & Cressida (Nestor/Priam), Pericles (the Bawd/Lychorida). Regional credits include: A Little Night Music (Madame Armfeldt), Huntington Theatre Company; Boston Pops at Boston Symphony Hall; Tanglewood; Lyric Stage Company; Huntington Theatre Company: Rose TattooDead End, and The Corn is Green; Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry); New Repertory Theatre: Collected Stories (Ruth Steiner–Elliot Norton Nomination, IRNE Award, Best Actress), The Clean House (Ana–Elliot Norton Award Best Production), Romeo and JulietA Girl’s WarThe Waverly GalleryStonewall Jackson’s House; Lyric Stage Company: Follies (Carlotta Campion), The Importance of Being Earnest (Lady Bracknell), Arms and the ManSpitfire GrillOver the River and Through the WoodsAssassins; Boston Playwrights’ Theatre: Deported/a dream playA Girl’s War (IRNE Award Best Actress); Centastage: The Fakus – A Noir (IRNE Award, Best New Play); Stoneham Theatre: It’s A Wonderful LifeRimers of Eldritch; Speakeasy Stage Company: Anna in the Tropics (Ophelia); Christmas Revels at Sanders Theatre. Directing credits: Shakespeare Now!: Romeo and JulietA Midsummer Night’s DreamMacbeth; Boston Conservatory: Our Town; New Repertory Theatre Touring Company: Diary of Anne Frank.

Bobbie received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress for Stonewall Jackson’s HouseOver the River and Through the Woods, and Sailing Down the Amazon. Her work was recognized in Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston. In 2015 Bobbie was awarded a prestigious two-year Resident Actor Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement. She is also the 2016 Huntington Theatre Company’s Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. www.BobbieSteinbach.com

ADELE NADINE TRAUB*

Founding Member

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Stage Manager for Richard III, Measure for Measure (season 1), Julius Caesar, King Lear (both productions), Twelfth Night (season 2), All’s Well That Ends Well, A Winter’s Tale, Love’s Labour’s Lost (both productions), Henry V, The Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Duchess of Malfi, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Cherry Orchard, Phedre, and this season’s Hamlet. 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

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


PAULA LANGTON*

Founding Member, RAC Emerita

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Founding member – With ASP – Nurse in Romeo & Juliet, Maria in Twelfth Night, Emilia in Othello, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Regan in King Lear, Isabella in Measure for Measure, ensemble in Henry V, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Richard III. Recent Credits: Beatrice in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds with Boston Center for American Performance (BCAP) Helen in Good with BCAP, Justine & Mother in Monster and Doctor Chapman in A Question of Mercy with BCAP and at The Atlantic in NYC with The Potomac Theatre Project, Amanda in The Glass Menagerie with BCAP and at The Olney Theatre Center, Hecuba in Trojan Barbie and Rose Darko in Donnie Darko at American Repertory Theatre, Multiple Roles in Walking the Volcano, Lucy in Howard Zinn’s Daughter of Venus at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Juno in Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Teatro Eos in Stromboli, Italy, and Teatro Nacional in Lisbon, Portugal; Galactia in Scenes From an Execution at The Wimberly Theatre with Boston University; Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Miranda in The Tempest with Shakespeare & Company; Kate in The Taming of the Shrew with Boston Theatre Works; Feste in Twelfth Night with Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company. Paula was a member of The Company of Women, Kristin Linklater & Carol Gilligan’s all-female Shakespeare Company, and was the director of The Company of Girls – the company’s educational/community outreach program. Additional credits include: The Charles Playhouse, La Mama e.t.c. Nora Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company, Coyote Theatre, Hasty Pudding, New York Theatre Workshop. Film: Documentary: Giving Voice: An Actor’s Journey with Kristin Linklater.

ROBERT WALSH*

Founding Member, RAC Emeritus

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Founding Member, Richard III (Director); Richard II (York); Phedre (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). Producing Artistic Director: American Stage Festival (Table Manners, Bus Stop, Intimate Exchanges, among others); Director: Merrimack Rep (Norman Conquests, Later Life, Holiday Memories, K2); Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Othello); New Repertory Theatre (Rancho Mirage, Race, Speed the Plow, and True West); Shakespeare & Company (The Goatwoman of Corvis County, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes), among others. Other acting credits include the Huntington Theatre (Hamlet and Ah, Wilderness!); Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. (Coriolanus, Macbeth, Henry V); Portland Stage Company (Romeo and Juliet); StageWest (Anna Christie); Gloucester Stage Company (Gloucester Blue, Sins of the Mother, The Subject Was Roses); Douglas Fairbanks Theatre/NYC (Big Maggie). Films: Patriot’s Day, Black Mass, The Spirit of Christmas, Evening, State and Main, Amistad, The Spanish Prisoner, and Eight Men Out, among others. TV: Body of Proof (ABC), One Life to Live, Guiding Light, and Another World. Faculty: Brandeis University. He also serves as Artistic Director of Gloucester Stage Company.