The Tempest

At the American Repertory Theater Ron Daniels has directed Hamlet, The Seagull, Dream of the Red Spider, Cakewalk, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, The Cherry Orchard, Henry V, The Threepenny Opera, The Tempest, and Long Day's Journey Into Night on the Loeb Stage and Silence, Cunning, Exile and Slaughter City for the A.R.T. New Stages; he was also associate artistic director of the A.R.T. and director of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University from 1992 to 1996. Mr. Daniels was a founding member of the Teatro Oficina in São Paulo, Brazil, where he was born. In 1977, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as artistic director of the Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. His work in the U.S. includes Romeo and Juliet at the Guthrie Theater, Camille at Long Wharf, and Bingo, Ivanov, Man Is Man, and Mister Puntila and His Chauffeur Matti at the Yale Repertory Theatre. At the RSC, his productions included The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, Timon of Athens, Richard II, A Clockwork Orange, and many more, as well as world premieres of works by David Edgar, David Rudkin, Stephen Poliakoff, Pam Gems, and others. Mr. Daniels has staged Titus Andronicus and Hamlet in Tokyo, Japan. He is an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

At the American Repertory Theater, John Conklin has designed sets for The Tempest, Henry V, and Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; sets and costumes for Robert Wilson's production of When We Dead Awaken, and costumes for Wilson's Alcestis. Locally his work has been seen in the Boston Lyric Opera's I Puritani, where he also designed La Bohéme and Beatrice and Benedict. Mr. Conklin's designs are seen in opera houses, ballet companies, and theaters all over the world, including designs for the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Bastille Opera in Paris, the Boston Ballet, Louisville Ballet, the Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, and the Goodman Theatre, among many others.

A.R.T.: The Provok’d Wife; Pericles; The Birthday Party; Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; Henry V; The Tempest; The Threepenny Opera. Recent work includes Osvaldo Goliov’s Ainadamar directed by Peter Sellars for the Teatro Real in Madrid, Stew and Heidi’s The Total Bent at The Public Theater and the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’s last play, Of Masks Outrageous and Austere at the Bleeker Street Theater in New York. An OBIE and Bessie award winner, Ms. Berry is the only American to ever win an individual medal at the Prague International Design Quadrennial. She received a silver medal for her contributions to experimental theater.

Chris Parry (Lighting Designer for The Tempest) works both in the U.S.A. and Europe designing for theater and opera and teaches at U.C.S. Recent credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses (New York Drama Desk Award, Tony Award nomination on its Broadway run), Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear (for Nicholas Hytner) Othello and Measure for Measure (for Trevor Nunn) at the Royal Shakeapeare Company, and The Crucible, Piano, and Way of the World at the Royal National Theatre. On Broadway his work also includes The Who's Tommy (New York Drama Desk Award and Tony Award) and Translations, as well as productions for numerous resident theaters throught the U.S. He has also designed for the Welsh National Opera, and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera. Mr. Parry received the 1993 Lighting Designer of the Year Award from Lighting Dimensions magazine.

Chris Parry (Lighting Designer for The Tempest) works both in the U.S.A. and Europe designing for theater and opera and teaches at U.C.S. Recent credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses (New York Drama Desk Award, Tony Award nomination on its Broadway run), Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear (for Nicholas Hytner) Othello and Measure for Measure (for Trevor Nunn) at the Royal Shakeapeare Company, and The Crucible, Piano, and Way of the World at the Royal National Theatre. On Broadway his work also includes The Who's Tommy (New York Drama Desk Award and Tony Award) and Translations, as well as productions for numerous resident theaters throught the U.S. He has also designed for the Welsh National Opera, and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera. Mr. Parry received the 1993 Lighting Designer of the Year Award from Lighting Dimensions magazine.

A.R.T.: Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, Henry V, and The Tempest. Collaborations with JoAnne Akalaitis: The Rover (The Guthrie Theater), Suddenly Last Summer (Hartford Stage), Dance of Death (Arena Stage), Dream Play (Juilliard School), and Iphigenia (Court Theatre). Creator of large-scale sound installations in historic places, including Trajan's Forum in Rome, the Miro Labyrinth at Foundation Maeght in Nice, the Castle of Linz, MAK in Vienna, and Kongreßhalle in Berlin. His Sounds from the Vaults for Field Museum won the Golden Muse prize for interactive exhibitions. His Hearing Perspective of the World we Live In has influenced his works for Museums, Film, Radio and Theater. His work has been heard at regional theaters across America, and in festivals across Europe. This year his collaboration with Sam Auinger, Blue Moon, will transform New York's noise into music in real-time at the World Financial Center Plaza.

Richard Colton performed with Twyla Tharp Dance from 1977 to 1988 and was a member of the Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. He was a guest performer and teacher with the White Oak Dance Project, directed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and has staged the works of Twyla Tharp for the Paris Opera Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Twyla Tharp Dance, where he served as rehearsal director. Mr. Colton appeared in the films Hair and Amadeus, directed by Milos Foreman, the PBS Great Performances presentation of "The Catherine Wheel," and on Broadway in Singing in the Rain. Mr. Colton currently co-directs SPENCER/COLTON, a company of dancers and actors formed in 1989 to perform his work in collaboration with Amy Spencer. The company, based in Boston, has been presented by Jacobs Pillow, Boston Dance Umbrella, the American Repertory Theater Fall Festival, Harvard Summer Dance Performance Series, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, and New York's Dance Theater Workshop. Mr. Colton has choreographed the A.R.T. productions of The Cherry Orchard; Henry V; The Threepenny Opera, directed by Ron Daniels; and Ubu Rock, directed by Andrei Belgrader. Each year since 1989, in collaboration with Amy Spencer, he has created an original dance-theater work with the actors of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Mr. Colton has choreographed productions for Trinity Repertory Theatre, Boston Conservatory Dance Theatre, and the Boston Ballet. He is currently on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory and co-directs the dance program at Concord Academy.

Amy Spencer was a member of Twyla Tharp Dance from 1981 to 1988. During that time she worked on the films Amadeus, Zelig, and "The Catherine Wheel," and appeared on Broadway in Singing in the Rain. She was a collaborator and performer in Martha Clark's Vienna: Lusthaus and Miracolo d'amore at the Public Theater, and has been a guest artist with Pilobolus and the White Oak Dance Project, directed by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Ms. Spencer co-directs, creates work for, and performs in SPENCER/COLTON, a company of dancers and actors based in Boston. The company has been presented by Jacob's Pillow, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Dance Theater Workshop, Boston Dance Umbrella, and Harvard Summer Dance Center. She has choreographed productions for the American Repertory Theater, Trinity Repertory Theatre, and the Boston Ballet. Ms. Spencer has taught movement to actors at N.Y.U. through Playwrights Horizons and taught dance at Barnard College, Sarah Lawrence College and N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

Jonathan Hammond is a 1996 graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. His American Repertory Theater roles included Ralpheslas/Tax Collector/Trash's Messenger/etc. in Ubu Rock, Francisco/Captain in The Tempest, Sawtooth Bob/Smith in The Threepenny Opera, and Cilissa in The Libation Bearers. At the A.R.T. Institute he appeared in The Conduct of Life, Party Time, The Balcony, Blood Wedding, and Tales From the Vienna Woods. Other credits include Forbidden Broadway, Forever Plaid, The World Goes Round, Cabaret, and The Merry Widow (opposite Judy Kaye and Ron Raines). He has appeared as soloist with the Rochester Symphony in Michigan, the Michigan State Symphony, and with The Wheeling Symphony in West Virginia. Mr. Hammond has a BFA in musical theatre performance from the University of Michigan.

Dmetrius Conley-Williams (Tartaglia in the A.R.T. tour of King Stag) appeared at the American Repertory Theater in The Bacchae, Woyzeck, The Tempest, and The Taming of the Shrew, as well as in the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University's productions of A Night Out, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Viva Detroit, and Six Degrees of Separation. He was seen as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and performed the role of Marcel in Weldon Rising at the Boston Center for the Arts. Off-Broadway he was seen in Candide, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and The Creditors at Classic Stage Company. Resident credits include Leontes in The Winter's Tale at Shakespeare & Company, Unfinished Business at Indiana Repertory Theatre, and Ice House at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Television credits include the PBS special "The Reunion." He received his MFA from the Moscow Art Theatre School and is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

A.R.T. Senior Actor, founding member of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the A.R.T. Yale: more than 40 productions (including The Seagull). A.R.T.: 100 productions including The Seagull (three turns as Sorin), Julius Caesar, Three Sisters, The Onion Cellar, Major Barbara (Undershaft), Heartbreak House (Shotover), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Quince four times, Snug once), Henry IV (Falstaff), Twelfth Night (Toby Belch), The Caretaker (Davies), The Homecoming (Max), Loot (Truscott), Man and Superman (Mendoza/Devil), Waiting for Godot (Vladimir), The Threepenny Opera (Peacham/Petey), Ivanov (Lebedev), Three Sisters (Chebutkin), Buried Child (Dodge), The Cherry Orchard (Gaev) and The King Stag (Pantelone). Teaches at Harvard College, Harvard’s Summer and Extension Schools and at the A.R.T/MXAT Institute. Trained at the Old Vic Theatre School and subsequently taught there. Acted at the Old Vic, Young Vic, The Royal Court, in the West End, in films and television and has been hosting his own show “The Caravan” for the BBC for five years. Came to the U.S. with the satirical revue The Establishment and acted on and off Broadway, at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and at the Lincoln Center Festival. Lectured on Shakespeare in India and the Netherlands Theatre School. Received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Boston Actor and the Jason Robards Award for Dedication to the Theatre.

Vlad Tepes/the Functionary in The Communist Dracula Pageant. A.R.T.: Fifty-four productions, including Alfed in Cardenio, Conspirator in Julius Caesar, Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, Eddie Darko in Donnie Darko, A Marvelous Party!, Mr. Brownlow in Oliver Twist (also at Theatre for a New Audience and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Garcin in No Exit, Kulygin in Three Sisters, Uncle Jacob, Innkeeperess, Head Waiter in Amerika, Jupiter in Dido, Queen of Carthage, Valère in The Miser, Goldberg in The Birthday Party, Egeus and Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream, several roles in Highway Ulysses, the President of the Senate in Lysistrata, Marat in Marat/Sade, Brabantio and Lodovico in Othello, Dantly in Animals and Plants, the Father in Nocturne, Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington in The Doctor's Dilemma, Gregory Smirnov and Gonov in Three Farces and a Funeral, Heiner Müller in Full Circle, Borkin in Ivanov, the State Trooper, Policeman, Grave Digger, and Grandfather in We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, Dr. McSharry in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Karl Hudlocke in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Argan in The Imaginary Invalid, Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew, Tiresias in The Bacchae, the title role and other parts in Shlemiel the First, the Doctor in Woyzeck, Hjalmar in The Wild Duck, Brighella in The King Stag, Will in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Mother/Father in Alice in Bed, King Wenceslas/McGreedy in Ubu Rock, Cléante in Tartuffe, Sebastian in The Tempest, Murray in Demons, Exeter in Henry V, Aegisthus and Chorus in The Oresteia, Sagot in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Earl of Westmoreland in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and Lord Chief Justice in Part 2. Other credits include The Rivals and Melinda Lopez's Sonia Flew (Huntington Theatre), Twelfth Night (Feste, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Brian Friel's Faith Healer (Gloucester Stage Company), Shear Madness (all male roles), the Boston Pops premiere of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (narrator). Film: Next Stop Wonderland. Television: the Cable Ace Award–winning animated series Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (voice of Stanley).

Alvin Epstein is a former artistic director of the Guthrie Theater and associate director of Robert Brustein's Yale Repertory Theatre. He has directed over twenty productions (five at the American Repertory Theater, including the inaugural A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1980) and performed in over one hundred (over fifty at the A.R.T.). His A.R.T. roles include Old Man in Lysistrata, the Herald in Marat/Sade, Dionisio Genoni in Enrico IV, John of Gaunt/First Gardener in Richard II, Erich Honecker in Full Circle, McLeavy in Loot, Shabelsky in Ivanov, and Lee Strasberg in Nobody Dies on Friday; Mr. Epstein has also appeared in The Doctor's Dilemma, Antigone, Three Farces and a Funeral, The Winter's Tale, Charlie in the House of Rue, The Merchant of Venice, In the Jungle of Cities, The Bacchae, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable), Slaughter City, Tartuffe, The Tempest, Beckett Trio, The Threepenny Opera, and Waiting for Godot, among many others. His twenty Broadway and off-Broadway productions include his debut with Marcel Marceau, the Fool in Orson Welles's King Lear, Lucky in the American premiere of Waiting for Godot, Clov in the American premiere of Endgame, Peachum in The Threepenny Opera (co-starring with Sting), and the world premiere of Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin's When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable). For twenty years he and Martha Schlamme performed A Kurt Weill Cabaret on tour in the U.S. and South America and a year's run on Broadway. He has performed at many resident theaters throughout the U.S., in films and on television. Awards include Most Promising Actor ('56 Variety Poll), Brandeis Creative Arts Award ('66), Obie for Dynamite Tonight! ('68), Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence ('96), and the IRNE Award for Best Supporting Actor as Shabelsky in Ivanov ('99). Mr. Epstein teaches acting at the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

A.R.T.: The Lily’s Revenge, Cabaret, Paradise Lost, Endgame, The Seagull, Oliver Twist, Island of Slaves, The Onion Cellar, The Communist Dracula Pageant, Cardenio, Julius Caesar, Amerika, The Miser, Henry IV and V, The Birthday Party, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Dispute, Uncle Vanya, Enrico IV, The Winter’s Tale, The Wild Duck, Buried Child, Tartuffe, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Waiting for Godot. Regional: Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Sweeney Todd, My Fair Lady, Lyric Stage Company; Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; The Poets’ Theater; Israeli Stage; Central Square Theater; New Repertory Theater; Hartford Stage.

Scott Ripley appeared as Andres in Woyzeck; Mr. Twiddle (The Banker) in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Truffaldino in The King Stag; and the Stage Manager in Six Characters in Search of an Author in the 1996-97 Loeb Stage Season, and as Chaim Rascal in Shlemiel the First on tour in San Francisco. Mr. Ripley's previous A.R.T. roles have included The Tsar, Dregadier McBalls and other roles in Ubu Rock; Valère in Tartuffe; and Ferdinand in The Tempest. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and flew the Navy's A-6 Intruder for six years before entering the Professional Acting Program at the University of California/San Diego, where he received an M.F.A. He was seen in the world premiere of The Who's Tommy and in Much Ado About Nothing, both directed by Des McAnuff at La Jolla Playhouse, Alchemy of Desire at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Game of Love and Chance at the Washington Stage Guild. At U.C.S.D. he performed the title role in Henry V and Argante in Andrei Belgrader's production of Scapin, among others.

Paul Freeman's appearance as Prospero in the American Repertory Theater production of The Tempest was his first stage role in America. His extensive theater credits in England include the role of Jabe Torrance in Peter Hall's production of Orpheus Descending, Lazar in David Hare's Plenty, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Claudius in Hamlet, and Geraldo in Death and the Maiden. He is a founding member of the Joint Stock Company, and has played leading roles at the National Theatre, Royal Court, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Mr. Freeman has appeared in numerous feature films, from Belloq, the nemesis of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the most recent Ivan Ooze in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and including Derek in The Dogs of War and Moriarty in Sherlock and Me (Without a Clue). He has over forty television credits, including the upcoming third installment of the WGBH/BBC series House of Cards: The Final Cut, as well as Death of a Princess, Winston Churchill—The Wilderness Years, Between the Lines, and Grushko for the BBC; a recurring leading role in several episodes of Young Indy for Lucasfilm, as well as in the series Falcon Crest on Dallas. He has starred in more than twenty TV films and miniseries.

Jessalyn Gilsig's roles at the American Repertory Theater have included Mariane in Tartuffe and Miranda in The Tempest. Other Loeb Stage work included The Oresteia and understudy roles in Henry V and The Cherry Orchard. Ms. Gilsig is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, where she appeared in The Trojan Women: A Love Story (under the direction of Robert Woodruff), Cymbaline (the Queen), Three Sisters (Masha), The House of Bernarda Alba (Magdalena), Titus Andronicus (Lavinia), and in Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and Jack, or the Submission. Other roles include Estelle in No Exit at the Morrice Theatre, Philomele in The Love of the Nightingale at Moyce Theatre, Hanna in A Shayna Maidel at Centaur Theatre, and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Marina in Pericles at Repercussion's Shakespeare in the Park. Ms. Gilsig is a native of Montreal and a graduate of McGill University.

Benjamin Evett has appeared at the American Repertory Theater in La Dispute, as Ilya Ilych Telegin in Uncle Vanya, Kinesias in Lysistrata, Jacques Roux in Marat/Sade, Peter in Absolution, Cassio in Othello, Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk/Sir Stephen Scroope in Richard II, Burris in Animals and Plants, the General in Mother Courage, the Messenger in Antigone, Time in The Winter's Tale, Lvov in Ivanov, the Policeman in Charlie in the House of Rue, Babbybobby in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Hyppolytus in Phaedra, Clèante in The Imaginary Invalid, Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew, Pentheus in The Bacchae, Zalman Tippish/Chaim Rascal/Dopey Petzel in Shlemiel the First, the Dreamer in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Leandro in The King Stag, the Son in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Punch 2/Judy Bell/Taxi Judy in Punch and Judy Get Divorced, Bouggerslas in Ubu Rock, Vince in Buried Child, Ariel in The Tempest, Charles Filch/Walt Dreary/Beggar Joe in The Threepenny Opera, Bardolph/Montjoy in Henry V, Lucky in Waiting for Godot, Herald/Chorus/Pylades/Hermes in The Oresteia, Epihodov in The Cherry Orchard, Nicholas Beckett in What the Butler Saw, Pistol in Henry IV, Part 2, and as Sir Richard Vernon in Part 1, in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and in Platonov. He has also performed at the Missouri Repertory Theatre, where he played the title roles in Billy Bishop Goes to War and Amadeus, and at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival, where he played Swiss Cheese in Mother Courage. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Mr. Evett currently serves as artistic director of the Actors' Shakespeare Company in Boston.

Jack Willis appeared as Hector Malone Sr. in Man and Superman, Carl in The Old Neighborhood, The Drum Major in Woyzeck, Bruto in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Relling in The Wild Duck in the American Repertory Theater's 1996-97 season. Previously, he appeared as Tilden in Buried Child, Caliban in The Tempest, the husband in The Accident, Man in Hot 'n' Throbbing, Jamie Cregan in A Touch of the Poet, Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, Sir Walter Blunt in Henry IV, Part 1 and Lord Hastings in Part 2, Boss Mangan in Heartbreak House, Panin in Black Snow, Uyttersprot in Dream of the Red Spider, Aston in The Caretaker, Sal in Those the River Keeps, and Banquo in Macbeth. As a member of the resident company at the Dallas Theatre Center, his roles included Willie Stark in All the King's Men, Caliban in The Tempest, and Jack Henry Abbott in In the Belly of the Beast. He has also appeared at the Alliance Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Teatro de Dallas, the San Antonio and Dallas Shakespeare Festivals, and Cincinnati Playhouse.  Mr. Willis is also a founding member of Aruba Repertory. Television and film credits include Dallas, All My Children, Love Hurts, Problem Child, and I Come in Peace.

Todd Kozan (Adrian/Sailor in The Tempest) is a second-year actor training with the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, and makes his first appearance on the Loeb Stage. His work at the A.R.T. Institute includes Alfons the Cop in Odon von Horvath's Faith, Hope, and Charity; Soranzo in 'Tis Pity She's A Whore; Demetrius in Titus Andronicus; Fabian in Twelfth Night; as well as roles in Blood Wedding and Jack or the Submission. He is a native of Calgary, where he attended the University of Calgary in Canada.

Jonathan Hammond is a 1996 graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. His American Repertory Theater roles included Ralpheslas/Tax Collector/Trash's Messenger/etc. in Ubu Rock, Francisco/Captain in The Tempest, Sawtooth Bob/Smith in The Threepenny Opera, and Cilissa in The Libation Bearers. At the A.R.T. Institute he appeared in The Conduct of Life, Party Time, The Balcony, Blood Wedding, and Tales From the Vienna Woods. Other credits include Forbidden Broadway, Forever Plaid, The World Goes Round, Cabaret, and The Merry Widow (opposite Judy Kaye and Ron Raines). He has appeared as soloist with the Rochester Symphony in Michigan, the Michigan State Symphony, and with The Wheeling Symphony in West Virginia. Mr. Hammond has a BFA in musical theatre performance from the University of Michigan.

A.R.T.: 119 productions, including R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Myster) OF THE UNIVERSE (R. Buckminster Fuller), Cabaret (Fraulein Schneider), Endgame (Clov), The Seagull (Dorn), Oliver Twist (also at Theatre for a New Audience and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Birthday Party (Stanley), Highway Ulysses (Ulysses), Uncle Vanya (Vanya), Marat/Sade (Marquis de Sade), Richard II (Richard). Broadway: Jackie: An American Life (23 roles). Off-Broadway: Johan Padan (Johan), Big Time (Ted).  Tours with the Company across the U.S., with residencies in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and throughout Europe, Canada, Israel, Taiwan, Japan and Moscow, and has recently been performing Julius Caesar in France. Other: I Am My Own Wife, Boston TheatreWorks; Approaching Moomtaj, New Repertory Theatre; Twelfth Night and The Tempest, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.; London’s Battersea Arts Center; five productions at Houston’s Alley Theatre, including Our Town (Dr. Gibbs, directed by José Quintero); and many theatres throughout the U.S. Awards: 1994 Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence, 2000 and 2004 IRNE Awards for Best Actor, 1997 Los Angeles DramaLogue Award (for title role of Shlemiel the First). Television: Julie Taymor’s film Fool’s Fire (PBS American Playhouse), "Unsolved Mysteries," "Del and Alex" (Alex, A&E Network). Film: Mystic River (directed by Clint Eastwood), The Pink Panther II. He is on the faculty of the A.R.T. Institute, teaches acting at Harvard University and Emerson College, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Kemba Francis (Africa in The Tempest) majored in voice at the Berklee College of Music, where she has been featured in the Vocal Jazz Series and toured with the Berklee Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Since receiving her degree she has written arrangements, organized, formed, and directed bands for showcase performances, and has performed at various jazz clubs, including Wally's Cafe, Riley's, Chelsea Commons, and Hudson Bar and Books, among others. Her career objective is to perform jazz standards, original compositions, and arrangements.

Dmetrius Conley-Williams (Tartaglia in the A.R.T. tour of King Stag) appeared at the American Repertory Theater in The Bacchae, Woyzeck, The Tempest, and The Taming of the Shrew, as well as in the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University's productions of A Night Out, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Viva Detroit, and Six Degrees of Separation. He was seen as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and performed the role of Marcel in Weldon Rising at the Boston Center for the Arts. Off-Broadway he was seen in Candide, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and The Creditors at Classic Stage Company. Resident credits include Leontes in The Winter's Tale at Shakespeare & Company, Unfinished Business at Indiana Repertory Theatre, and Ice House at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Television credits include the PBS special "The Reunion." He received his MFA from the Moscow Art Theatre School and is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.