Henry V – Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw

Rebecca Bradshaw is a Boston-based director, casting director, and producer. Directing credits include: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Off the Grid), Luna Gale (Greater Boston Stage Company), Bad Jews (SpeakEasy Stage), Familiar (A.R.T. Institute), Both/And (MIT/Central Square Theater), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Emerson Stage), Big Love (Brandeis University), Speech and Debate (Bad Habit Productions), Oleanna and Red (The Umbrella), The Tempest and The Secret In The Wings (Weston Drama Workshop), Fufu & Oreos and Not Jenny (Bridge Rep of Boston), The Love of the Nightingale (Hub Theatre of Boston), among others. Bradshaw is the Associate Producer at the Huntington Theatre Company and a proud alum of Emerson College. Up next: Anna Ziegler’s Photography 51 (The Nora) and Marge Buckley’s The Earth Room (Fresh Ink) rebeccalynnbradshaw.com

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) – Directed by Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards is excited to direct again after Pride and Prejudice this past June.  As a director some of his favorite shows include: Pride and Prejudice, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, Around the World in 80 Days, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Winter’s Tale, Water by the Spoonful, The Bomb-itty of Errors, How to Break, Venus in Fur, and  A Raisin in the Sun.  He has worked in London’s West End, Off-Broadway, The National Theatre of Oslo in Norway, The Helix in Ireland, The Fringe in Edinburgh, John Houseman’s The Acting Company, HERE Arts Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Penumbra Theatre, The Flea Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Hip-Hop Theatre Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, SOHO Rep, the Guthrie Theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and Dorset Theater Festival to name a few.  Chris received an M.F.A. from the U. of MN in Association with the Guthrie Theatre. Prior to becoming the Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, he spent three years at Nevada Conservatory Theatre as the Artistic Director and on the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and fourteen years with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, NY as the Associate Artistic Director, the Director of Education and Apprentice Training. He lives in JP with his wife, Jen and daughter, Anya.

The Merchant of Venice – Directed by Igor Golyak

Igor Golyak joined the Boston Conservatory in 2017 and is an associate professor of theater. Golyak has taught the art of theater for over a decade and is the founder of the Igor Golyak Acting Studio and artistic director of Arlekin Players Theatre, which has won numerous awards in the United States and internationally—most recently an Elliot Norton Award for his production of Dead Man’s Diary at Arts Emerson. Arlekin Players Theatre is a multicultural and multinational collaborative that is consistently growing in the number of audience members, company actors, and volunteers. The company has been invited to perform on famous stages and at renowned festivals all over the world, including Moscow Art Theatre and festivals in Yerevan, Armenia; New York City; Chicago; Lviv, Ukraine; Monaco; and many others. The foundation of his approach as a teacher is to inspire creativity and depth through the work and methods of Konstantin Stanislavsky, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, and Michael Chekhov. Golyak’s students have garnered praise and awards at the International Michael Chekhov Theatre Festival, Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres (EMACT) Festival, and the New England Theatre Festival. They have also represented the United States at the International Theatre Festival in Monaco, hosted every four years by Prince Albert.

King Lear – Directed by Doug Lockwood

Bright Half Life – Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian

Megan Sandberg-Zakian is a freelance theater director based in Jamaica Plain, MA, and a co-founder of Maia Directors, a consulting group for artists and organizations engaging with stories from the Middle East and beyond. Recent directing projects include the world premiere of Nathan Alan Davis’ Nat Turner in Jerusalem at New York Theatre Workshop, the world premiere of Eleanor Burgess’ Chill at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and Dominque Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew at The Huntington Theatre Company. She has previously served as the Associate Artistic Director of Underground Railway Theater (Cambridge, MA), the Providence Black Repertory Company (RI), and The 52nd Street Project (NYC), and is currently the Director-in-Residence at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, MA. Megan is a recipient of the Princess Grace Theater Award and the TCG Future Leaders fellowship, an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a proud member of SDC. She is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. megansz.com