Meet the Creative Team
Lydia Barnett-Mulligan*
Lizzy
Actors’ Shakespeare Project: 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. Lydiais 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
Alexandra Beller***
Choreographer
Alexandra Beller has been a Choreographer for Sense and Sensibility (Sheen Center, Judson Gym, Folger Shakespeare Library, American Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage), for which she won the Helen Hayes Award, Lortel Nomination, and the IRNE Best Choreography. She choreographed the Off Broadway musical, The Mad Ones (59E59), Bedlam’s Peter Pan (Duke Theatre), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), As You Like It (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Folger Shakespeare Library), How to Transcend a Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl (Lincoln Center Theatre), The Young Ladies of… (Taylor Mac), Chang(e) (HERE), and others. Current projects include Antonio’s Song by Dael Orlandersmith/Antonio Suarez (CATF, Milwaukee Rep). Her international performance career includes 7 years with the Bill. T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, projects with Martha Clarke, John Turturro, and others. Alexandra Beller/Dances formed in 2001 and she has created over 40 original Dance Theatre works, for her own and other companies. Her choreography has been presented at theatres throughout the US and in Korea, Hong Kong, Oslo, Cyprus, St. Petersburg, and Poland. Alexandra holds a BFA/Dance, MFA/Dance and CMA (Certified Movement Analyst) in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals. She is on faculty at Princeton University, Montclair State University’s graduate program, and adjuncts throughout the USA.
Anna Bortnick
Lydia/Lady Catherine
Anna Bortnick is thrilled to be making her ASP debut. The last time she performed at the Balch Arena Theater she played another naughty child, Mary Tilford, in The Children’s Hour (Tufts University). She received her B.F.A. from Boston University and
has also trained at the National Theater Institute, Bard Berlin heater, ImprovBoston, and Commonwealth Shakespeare Apprentice Company. In 2013 she placed second in the National English Speaking Union Shakespeare Competition at Lincoln Center. Anna is currently the Medical Humanities Fellow for Boston University School of Medicine.
Caley Chase
Assistant Director
Caley Chase is a director and dramaturg in the Boston area. Her directing credits include: The Trouble with Maisie (BTM XXI / Huntington Theatre Company), Eliza’s Artist (Trinity Rep’s Write Here Write Now), Rivkala’s Ring (Brandeis Theater Company),
and staged readings with Harvard Playwrights’ Festival and Fort Point Theatre Channel. She was the dramaturg for Equivocation (Actors’ Shakespeare Project) and Macbeth (also, Assistant Director, Shakespeare & Company). Additional assistant directing credits include: Romeo and Juliet and Sherlock’s Last Case (Huntington Theatre Company), Faithful Cheaters (Trinity Rep), Familiar and Macbeth (American Repertory Theatre Institute), Old Money (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), and Dark Room (Bridge Rep). Caley is a graduate of Brandeis University and is currently Assistant to the Artistic Director at the Huntington Theatre Company.
Nicole Clark
Production Manager
Nicole Calrk is a freelance production manager, stage manager, and technical director working in the Boston area. She received her BFA in Technical Production and Stage Management from Boston University, and is the recipient of the 2018 Daisette Hay McKelvie Award for Theatrical Collaboration and the Chuck Giles Award for Excellence in Technical Production. Her recent, work includes Boston Opera Collaborative’s Don Giovanni (Production Manager), BCAP and New Rep’s world premiere co-production of Ripe Frenzy (Technical Director), OperaHub’s world premiere of DIVAS (Production Stage Manager), Boston Midsummer Opera’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Assistant Production Manager), the Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater’s co-production of Frankenstein (Assistant Stage Manager), and New England Conservatory for Music’s Le nozze di Figaro and Suor Angelica/Giannni Schicchi (Assistant Stage Manager). Upcoming work includes Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Cymbeline (Aug 2019) (Associate Production Manager).
Christopher V. Edwards
Director
Christopher V. Edwards is excited to direct again after last fall’s Equivocation. 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, The 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.
Kate Hamill
Playwright
Kate Hamill is an actor/playwright. Wall Street Journal’s Playwright of the Year, 2017. Her work includes her play SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (in which she originated the role of Marianne)—Winner, Off-Broadway Alliance Award 2016; Nominee, Drama League Award; 265+ performances off-Broadway. Other plays include VANITY FAIR at the Pearl Theatre (in which she originated the role of Becky Sharp; Nominee, Off-Broadway Alliance Award 2017), PRIDE AND PREJUDICE at Primary Stages and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (originated the role of Lizzy Bennet; Nominee, Off-Broadway Alliance Award). Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at A.R.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Dallas Theater Center, PlayMaker’s Rep, Folger Theatre (8 Helen Hayes Award nominations; Winner, best production—S&S), Arvada Center and others; upcoming productions at Shakespeare Theatre of DC, A.C.T., Trinity Rep, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Kansas City Rep, Dorset Theatre Festival and more. Upcoming world premieres: LITTLE WOMEN at the Jungle Theater and Primary Stages; MANSFIELD PARK at Northlight Theatre. She is currently working on new adaptations of The Odyssey and The Scarlet Letter, as well as several new original plays (PROSTITUTE PLAY, IN THE MINES, LOVE POEM). Kate was one of the top 20 most-produced playwrights in the country this season. http://www.kate-hamill.com
Gabriel Kuttner*
Mr. Bennet/Charlotte
Gabriel Kuttner is a Boston-based actor, educator, producer and director. He has worked with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Lyric Stage, New Rep, Stoneham Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Israeli Stage, Publick Theatre, WHAT, Harbor Stage and others. He has performed across the US and Europe. He was a founding member of Orfeo Group, whose work was thrice recognized by the Elliot Norton committee. As an actor, he has twice been the recipient of the IRNE award (Solo Performance and Best Supporting Actor). Gabriel has served on the faculty of Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Salem State University and Northeastern University, where he has tuatara acting, public speaking, dialect and producing. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, Lori, and their two children, Alex and Lula.
Zoë Laiz
Jane
Zoë Laiz is a Berkshire-born, New York based actor. Recent regional credits include: Pericles (Thaisa/Dionyza/Bawd) at the rig; Macbeth (Hecate), As You Like It (Celia), 4000 Miles (Amanda, BTCC Award Nomination), The Emperor of the Moon (Bellemante) at Shakespeare & Company. New York: The Daerie Queene (Julie) at The Tank, Top Girls (Angie) at the Stella Adler Studio. Zoë is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and a proud alumnus of S&Co’s education and training programs. www.zoelaiz.com
Doug Lockwood*
Wickham
Doug Lockwood ASP acting credits include: Richard II, Antony & Cleopatra, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Richard III. ASP directing credits: Hamlet, Middletown, Cymbeline. Boston area acting credits include: Art, The Waverly Gallery, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Twelfth Night (New Rep); Carnival (Gloucester Stage); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Pericles (ART); Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse, Snow White, Pippi Longstocking (Wheelock Family Theatre); After Mrs. Rochester (Wellesley Summer Theatre). Other professional directing credits include: Chesapeake and Cyrano (New Rep); Doug has performed Wallace Shawn’s play The Fever over 50 times in people’s homes, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. NYC Acting: A Tale of Two Cities (The Culture Project); Judith (HERE); The Hussy Chronicles (The Go-Go Room at Show World) He is an Associate Professor at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee where he has directed: The Cradle Will Rock, Coolsville, Twelfth Night, Machinal, Two Gentleman of Verona-The Musical, BENT, Cloud 9, Landscape of the Body and The Beckett Bash. MFA in Acting: The University of Washington under the direction of Steve Pearson.
Louis Reyes McWilliams
Bingley/Mary
Louis Reyes McWilliams Regional credits include work at: Trinity Rep, The Public Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkeley Rep, Z Space, Rites & Reason Theatre, Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, Gamm Theatre, Pyramid Theatre Company, On The Verge Festival, Stanford Repertory Theater. Louis is a recent graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Acting Program. He holds a BA with honors in Theater & Performance Studies and Political Science from Stanford University. Cloris Leachman Award: Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play (Prowess, Pyramid Theatre); Richard Kavanaugh Fellow (Trinity Rep). As a writer, Louis’s play Brotherhood premiered last year at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Heather Radovich*
Stage Manager
Heather Radovich is a stage and production manager originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her MFA in stage management from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and her BA in technical theatre from Sonoma State University. Recent credits include stage manager for Elephant & Piggie’s ‘We Are in a Play’ (Wheelock Family Theatre), production manager for James and the Giant Peach (Wheelock Family Theatre), stage manager for Power Play (Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company), and stage manager for Priscilla Beach Theatre’s 2018 season. Heather is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. www.heatherradovich.com
Omar Robinson*
Mr. Darcy
Omar Robinson Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The School for Scandal, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Pericles, Twelfth Night. Other credits include Romeo and Juliet, Tartuffe (Huntington Theatre Company), black odyssey, The Hunchback of Seville (Trinity Repertory Company), Pride & Prejudice (Dorset Theatre Festival), Shakespeare in Love (SpeakEasy Stage Company), Superior Donuts, Death of a Salesman, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Lyric Stage Company of Boston), Lost Tempo (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Dog Paddle (Bridge Repertory Theater). Omar is also a member of Theatre Espresso, an educational theatre company that brings social justice plays to schools throughout New England. He received a BA in Acting and Television/Video Production from Emerson College.
Ian Scot
Sound Designer
Ian Scot is a Brooklyn-based composer and sound designer specializing in the development of new work. Selected credits: If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons); Pride and Prejudice (Dorset Theatre Festival); Too Heavy For Your Pocket (Roundabout Underground); DIREC-TORGY (Rattlestick); Mary Jane (Yale Rep); Carmen (Heartbeat Opera); Boy Gets Violent (Ars Nova ANTFest); The Great Disappointment (NYU Tisch); Love Me Tender (Listening Eyes Theatre Company); Blood Wedding, Othello, some bodies travel, This Land Was Made, and The Merchant of Venice (Yale School of Drama); Mrs. Galveston, Dutch Masters, Roberto Zucco, Moon Song, 50:13, Touch, and three proud years of Yale School of Drag (Yale Cabaret). Other credits include exhibitions, installations, original composition, and musical performances at Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Boston Conservatory, A+D Gallery Chicago, The Green Mill, and The WildProject. Ian received his MFA in sound design at the Yale School of Drama. Master of Arts in interdisciplinary arts at Columbia College Chicago. ianscot.com
Mara Sidmore*
Mrs. Bennet
ASP: Lady Anne/Duchess of York/Catesby in Richard III, Alonso/Trinculo in The Tempest, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Celia in As You Like It, Aricia in Phedre, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Charmian in Antony and Cleopatra, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Miranda in The Tempest. 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. Mara also is the Director of Education Programs, Projects, and Partnerships at ASP, overseeing all of our in-school, out-of-school, training, and community programs.
Deb Sullivan**
Lighting Designer
Previous designs for ASP: Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and Pericles. Off Broadway credits with The Public Theater/NYSF, Women’s Theatre Project, and Mary’s Hideaway Productions at the Acorn. Regional credits include: Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Alliance Theatre, City Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Huntington Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Company and Two River Theatre. Local credits include: Shakespeare and Company, Lyric Stage Company, Dorset Theatre Festival, SpeakEasy Stage Company, New Repertory Theatre (Norton Award- Clean House), Greater Boston Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Group and Harbor Stage Company. Deb is the Theatre Manager for the Boston Center for the Arts. The best part of every day is talking with Tallula.
Kelsey Whipple
Assistant Stage Manager
Kelsey Whipple is excited to be back working with ASP again! Previous credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Performance ASM), The Clearing (Hub Theatre Company, ASM), Peter and the Starcatcher (Hub Theatre Company, ASM), Richard III (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, SM Intern), Orlando (Suffolk University, ASM), Heist – Fall Showcase 2017 (Suffolk University, Production SM).
Alexander Woodward**
Scenic Designer
Alexander Woodward is so thrilled to be designing for Actors’ Shakespeare for the first time! Off Broadway: Must, and the world premiere of Goldstein. Recent projects include Tell Me I’m Not Crazy, and The Sound Inside (Williamstown), and Two Trains Running for Weston. Additional credits include: The Moors at Yale Rep, Ugly Lies the Bone (Alliance) and the world premieres of Lucy Thurber’s Orpheus…(Williamstown) and East Coast Curriculum (Lee Strasberg Theater) Once, A Doll’s House, and This Verse Business (Northern Stage) Pride and Prejudice, Baskerville, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Dorset Theater Festival) Sunset Baby (Theaterworks) The Children, Don Juan, Othello (Yale); Ruby Place Nest on the Ground (Signature Theatre) in addition to numerous assistant and associate credits in New York and across the country including: the Tony-nominated designs for Bullets Over Broadway, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Assembled Parties, Anastasia, and Present Laughter. Alexander teaches scenic design at the University of Connecticut. MFA Yale, USA 829, and Wingspace Executive Committee Member. www.alexanderwoodward.com
Haydee Zelideth
Costume Designer
Haydee Zelideth is a New York City based costume designer. Upcoming: Mojada (The Public Theater), Monsoon Season (Edinburgh Festival, Rattlestick Company), New York: Playing Hot (Pipeline Theatre), This Tree (HERE Arts Center), Afloat and Two Mile Hollow (Women’s Project), This is Modern Art (NYTW Next Door Series), Corpse Backpack (Pipeline Theatre Company), and Medea (Atlantic School Acting Company). Regional: Pride & Prejudice (Dorset Theatre Festival, Actors’ Shakespeare Project), She Kills Monsters, How We Got On (Brown / Trinity), Skin of Our Teeth, The Merchant of Venice (YSD), Imogen Says Nothing (Yale Rep), Cunning Little Vixen (Opera Theater of Yale College), The Silent Lyre (Elm City Consortium) and several productions at the Yale Cabaret. Film credits: As Shadows (Hamptons Film Festival) and Pear (SENE Film & Music Festival). MFA Yale University. @haydeezelideth
*Member of the Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
**Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829
***Member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union