Macbeth
Nael Nacer*
MACBETH
Nael Nacer* is excited to make his Actors’ Shakespeare Project debut. Select area credits include: Constellations (Central Square Theater), A Doll’s House; Bedroom Farce; Come Back, Little Sheba; Awake and Sing!; Our Town (IRNE Award); The Seagull (Huntington Theatre Company), A Future Perfect; Tribes (Speakeasy Stage), Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play; Intimate Apparel (Elliot Norton Award, Lyric Stage Company), A Number; Pattern of Life; Lungs; The Kite Runner (New Repertory Theatre), True West; Bank Job; The Flick (Gloucester Stage Company, IRNE Award), Calendar Girls (Greater Boston Stage Company); It’s a Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Shear Madness (Charles Playhouse), Rhinoceros; Windowmen (Boston Playwrights Theatre), The Aliens (Company One). Nael is also a monologue coach with My College Audition. mycollegeaudition.com
Paige Clark*
LADY MACBETH
Paige Clark* is thrilled to be returning to Actors’ Shakespeare Project this season! Previous ASP credits include Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Benvolia in Romeo & Juliet, Helen/Cassandra in Troilus & Cressida, and Emilia/Ensemble in Comedy of Errors. Other area credits include Arabian Nights with Central Square Theatre (IRNE Award), She Kills Monsters with Company One, and The Kite Runner at New Repertory Theatre. Most recently Paige has performed in Allegiance at SpeakEasy Stage Company, and with her band Poor Yorick. Many thanks to her husband, Dave, without whose support none of this would have been possible!
Ed Hoopman*
MACDUFF, 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
Maurice Parent*
BANQUO, ENSEMBLE
Resident Acting Company member. (Equivocation: NATE/ CECIL/ 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
Kai Tshikosi
MALCOLM, 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).
Jade Guerra
LADY MACDUFF, ENSEMBLE
Jade Guerra is excited to be returning to work with Actors’ Shakespeare Project after having previously appeared in Julius Caesar. Some recent credits include Calendar Girls (Greater Boston Stage), The Legend of Georgia McBride (Greater Boston Stage), Shakespeare in Love (SpeakEasy Stage Co.). She is a member of Theatre Espresso an educational theatre company that tours around New England bringing stories of social justice through history to schools and communities alike. She is a graduate of Ithaca College and a Boston native.
Alex Casillas
ROSS, ENSEMBLE
Alex Casillas is thrilled to be making her Actors’ Shakespeare Project debut! Her recent credits include Heritage Hill Naturals (Fresh Ink Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, The Scarlett Letter (Classic Repertory Company), Love of the Nightingale, Big Love, Henry IV Part I, The Serpent (Boston University) and Antony and Cleopatra (LAMDA). Alex earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from Boston University and has also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
Steven Barkhimer*
DUNCAN, PORTER, ENSEMBLE
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.
Trinidad Ramkissoon
LENNOX, ENSEMBLE
Trinidad Ramkissoon is thrilled to be making his debut with Actors’ Shakespeare Project in their production of Macbeth. He floated through the doors of Central Sq Theater (CST) at the tender age of 13. The journey that began at CST propelled Trinidad to Boston and beyond— including Broadway where he represented the area as a finalist in the August Wilson Monologue Competition. Locally, he was last seen in Company One’s production of Wig Out. In addition to acting, you will find him collaborating with The Huntington Theatre Company, Company One, and ArtsEmerson as a Teaching Artist serving Boston Public School students. Shoutout to all my babies!!!!
Shanelle Villegas
FLEANCE, ENSEMBLE
Shanelle is ecstatic to be a part of the cast of Macbeth! This is her first time working with Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Recent roles include Margaret from King Henry VI Part 2 (Shakespeare & Company), Cassandra from Troilus & Cressida (Boston Center for the Arts- directed by Tina Packer), and Valerie in Colorism (Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center- directed by Jacqui Parker). Shanelle is a Senior at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, majoring in Contemporary and Devised Theater.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States