Meet the Cast
Steven Barkhimer*
(Gloucester, Albany, Ensemble) Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Macbeth, Equivocation, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Middletown, Twelfth Night, Winter’s Tale, Henry VI 2, Phedre, The Coveted Crown (Henry IV 1 & 2), Taming of the Shrew, Timon of Athens, Love’s Labour’s Lost. Recent theatre includes: Twelfth Night and Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare and Company); Tartuffe (Huntington Theatre Company); and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Lyric Stage). Films include 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.
Lydia Barnett-Mulligan*
(Regan, Oswald, Ensemble) Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Pride and Prejudice; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; The School for Scandal; The Cherry Orchard; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Macbeth; Measure for Measure. Other regional credits include: The Wolves at Lyric Stage Company; All’s Well That Ends Well at Tennessee Shakespeare Company; Twelfth Night and Pericles at Elm Shakespeare Company; Elemeno Pea at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; Saving Kitty at The Nora Theatre Company; The Physicists (w. Roger Rees) at Williamstown Theatre Festival; and plays at Gloucester Stage Company, Fresh Ink Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Greater Boston Stage Company, and Stratford Center for the Arts. Lydia has had the great fortune to spend more than half her life 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 an honors graduate of Williams College, where her directing credits include King John, The Tempest, and Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me. Film/TV: CASTLE ROCK (Hulu). She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. www.lydiabarnettmulligan.com
Jade Guerra*
(Goneril, France, Albany, Ensemble) is excited to take part in her third production with Actors’ Shakespeare Project and her first as a member of the Resident Acting Company. She is a Boston born and based actor. Recent credits include “Well” (Wellesley Rep), Macbeth (ASP), Shakespeare in Love (SpeakEasy), The Legend of Georgia McBride (Greater Boston Stage), Calendar Girls (Greater Boston Stage), Julius Caesar (ASP), 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.
Malcolm Ingram*
(Kent, Ensemble) Actors’ Shakespeare Project: John of Gaunt in Richard II. Most recent: The Christians (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Broadway: The Rivals (Lincoln Center), Match (Plymouth Theatre). London: Half Life (National Theatre and Duke of York’s); Dirty Linen, New-Found-Land (Arts Theatre); Total Eclipse, The Fool, Trixie and Baba, The Enoch Show (Royal Court Theatre). Extensive UK Regional work. US Regional: Heisenberg, Comedy of Errors, Henry IV, Heroes, Red Velvet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kaufman’s Barbershop, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare & Company). Sherlock’s Last Case, Bedroom Farce (Huntington Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Virginia Arts Festival); Hamlet (North Shore Music Theatre); Third (Hangar Theatre); All My Sons (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Hay Fever, Rat in the Skull (Berkshire Theatre Group); Someone to Watch Over Me (Stage West;) The Crucible, My Fair Lady (Syracuse Stage). TV and Film: Chappelle’s Show (Comedy Central); The Camerons, The Story of Ruth, Beloved Enemy, Clapperclaw, Dr. Finlay’s Casebook (BBC); Fraulein Doktor (Paramount). Associate Professor, Syracuse University Drama Department, 1985 – 2016.
Marya Lowry*
(Cordelia, Fool, Ensemble) Actors’ Shakespeare Project: founding member and resident actor (over 17 roles in 11 productions including, Lyubov Ranevskaya, The Cherry Orchard; Brutus, Julius Caesar; Prospero, The Tempest; Olivia, 12th Night, and the title role in Macbeth). Other Theaters: Gloucester Stage Co. (Lettice and Lovage, The New Electric Ballroom –Elliot Norton Award, Best Ensemble–, True West); Gamm Theatre (Escaped Alone, Hedda Gabler); American Repertory Theatre; Vineyard Playhouse, Merrimack Rep, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Othello), SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Henry V). Other: Marya has performed as a narrator with The Boston Pops, Handel & Haydn Society and Cantata Singers. She toured Bulgaria with Divi Zheni, performing traditional Bulgarian songs and played the title role in Ariadne Auf Naxos with Musicians of the Old Post Road. Original theatre work includes Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada and the International Arts Centre, in Malerargues, France. Her Voice and Lamentation workshops span France, Italy, Poland, Greece, Cyprus, the UK and the USA. Marya is a mentor to incarcerated women in Massachusetts and has served on the Brandeis U. theatre faculty since 1989.
Louis Reyes McWilliams*
(Edmund, Edgar, Ensemble) appeared in Pride & Prejudice with ASP this past spring. Off-Broadway: Coriolanus (The Public Theater / NYSF). Regional: A Christmas Carol, An Iliad (Trinity Rep); Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Macbeth (Berkeley Rep); A Tale of Two Cities (Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble); Prowess (Pyramid Theatre, Cloris Leachman Award); At The Table (On The Verge Festival); Slaughter City, Waiting for Lefty, Moby-Dick: Rehearsed (Stanford Repertory Theater). Education: Stanford University (BA), Brown University/Trinity Rep (MFA). As a writer, Louis’ play Brotherhood premiered last year at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Robert Walsh*
(King Lear) is a founding member of Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Roles at ASP include: Richard II (York), Phedre (Theseus), Henry VIII (Wolsey), Troilus and Cressida (Aggie/ Pandarus), Living In Exile (multiple roles), Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 (Falstaff), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), The Merchant of Venice (Antonio), The Tempest (Stephano), Titus Andronicus (Titus); Hamlet (Polonius), and Julius Caesar (Brutus). ASP directing credits include: Richard III, As You Like It, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night, and Measure For Measure. Robert is the Artistic Director of the Gloucester Stage Company, where he has acted in and directed many productions including, most recently, The 39 Steps, My Station in Life, Cyrano, The New Electric Ballroom, The Rainmaker, Songs for a New World, and Bank Job. Other area theaters for whom he has either acted, directed, or sequenced staged fights include: Huntington Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Shakespeare and Company, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Portland Stage Company and the American Stage Festival, where he also served several seasons as the Producing Artistic Director. Recent films include A Ring for Christmas, Patriot’s Day, Black Mass, Altar Rock and The Spirit of Christmas. He is on the faculty at Brandeis University and is a member of SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA and The Society of American Fight Directors.