A Midsummer Night's Dream

second season (Berowne, Love’s Labor’s Lost) S&Co: Lysander/Flute (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, NE Regional Tour), Brabantio/Montano/Lodovico (Othello), Judah (Wonders of the Invisible World), Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Romeo (Romeo & Juliet), Rick/Jean Luc (Marcus is Walking); Other credits: Calvin (REALLY; WAM Theatre), Governor Prudblood (Waste, Fraud and Abuse; Screaming Majority), Seymour (Little Shop of Horrors; Town Players of Pittsfield). David is a proud student alumnus of S&Co’s Fall Festival and Young Company programs.

eighth season (Rosaline, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Director of Riotous Youth) S&Co: Hermia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Elaria, The Emperor of the Moon; Katharine/Boy, Henry V; NE Regional Tours of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth; Celie, Les Faux Pas; Ensemble, King Lear; Columbina, The Venetian Twins; SLaW. Caroline teaches in S&Co’s Education Program and has directed for the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, 2011-17. BA: Brown University. Other training: NTI, SITI Company.

thirty-second season (Macbeth, Macbeth; Associate Director of Education) A Company member since 1982, Jon has played more than 70 roles in over 60 plays at Shakespeare & Company, including: Michael (God of Carnage), Uncle Billy/Old Man Potter (It’s a Wonderful Life); Pistol/French King, (Henry V); John of Gaunt, (Richard II); Gloucester, (King Lear); Morris, (Kaufman’s Barbershop); Dr. Watson, (The Hound of the Baskervilles.) Directing credits with the Company include The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Twelfth Night, The Real Inspector Hound, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The 39 Steps, Julius Caesar, Private Eyes, Romeo & Juliet, and Scapin. Additionally, Jon has created and directed numerous Northeast Regional Tour productions, worked with Shakespeare in the Courts, the Summer Training Institute, and our Young Companies.

fifth season (Holofernes, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Riotous Youth Faculty) S&Co: Egeus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream); Doctor (Emperor of the Moon); Frank (Private Eyes); Shakespeare & the Language that Shaped a World (2016-2018); Fall Festival of Shakespeare Director (2013- 2017). Regional: Dionyza, Pericles; Mistress Ford, Merry Wives of Windsor; Lady Capulet, Romeo & Juliet; Biondello, Taming of the Shrew; multiple roles, Julius Caesar; multiple roles, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears; Alice, Iris; Sandrine/Gayle/Hope, Almost, Maine; Cinderella’s Mother, Into the Woods; White Rabbit/Doormouse, Wonderland. BA in Drama: University of WA.

eleventh season (Princess of France, Love’s Labor’s Lost) Rory is pleased to be back at her home Shakespeare & Company. Last summer she played Kacie in Ugly Lies the Bone. NY credits: Pericles (SoHo Rep), Measure for Measure, Bachelorette (Circle in the Square), Where’s My Money (Cherry Lane Theatre), and The Scarlet Letter. Berkshires credits: Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Taming of the Shrew; King John, Richard III, Merry Wives of Windsor, Off the Map, Much Ado about Nothing, Merchant of Venice, Dibble Dance, Autres Temps, Xingu, and Summer. Actor Training: S&Co starting with Young Company, eventually becoming a member of the Summer Performing Institute (SPI). A graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC, and a Founding Member of Animus Theatre Company (New York City). www.animustheatre.org

second season (Costard, Love’s Labor’s Lost) S&Co: Lysander/Flute, (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Paris/Prince/Gregory, (Romeo & Juliet), Boris (St. Petersburg: 1913, Winter Studio Festival of Plays), Gerald (Marcus is walking, Joan Ackermann: One Playwright, One Weekend). Aglet Theater Company: Tom (These Shining Lives). Berkshire Historical Society: Pierre, Jones, Lawyer, Israel Potter’s Son (Melville on the Light Side). Hampshire Shakespeare Co: Cinna (Julius Caesar). UMass Theater Department: Dwight (Dead Man’s Cell Phone), Roland (Constellations), Van (Dog Sees God), Stephano/Ensemble (The Merchant of Venice). Luke graduated from UMass Amherst in 2015 with a double major in Theater and Communication, where he acted in many performances and composed original music for productions of The Merchant of Venice and Romeo & Juliet.

seventh season (Boyet, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Riotous Youth Faculty) S&Co: Emilia/Roderigo/Duke of Venice, Othello, and Helena/Quince/Mustardseed, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as a part of the 2018 Northeast Regional Tour; Lovers’ Spat: Round Two; Hippolyta/Snug, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Mopsophil, Emperor of the Moon; Wilson, The Batting Cage (Joan Ackermann One Playwright, One Weekend series); Smeraldina, The Servant of Two Masters; Elmire, Tartuffe; Pisanio, Cymbeline; Ensemble, Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World. Proudly been an Education Artist with the Company since 2012. Training: Shakespeare & Company; BA from Roger Williams University.

second season (Longaville/Jaquenetta, Love’s Labor’s Lost) S&Co: Elizabeth Darcy, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly; Helena/Cobweb, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; S&Co Regional Tour: Lady Capulet/Benvolio, Romeo & Juliet; The Humanist Project: Lavinia, Titus Andronicus. Madeleine completed the 2 year professional course at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

second season (Dumaine, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Riotous Youth Intern) S&Co: Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream.) Devante is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in Acting at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina. He is thrilled to be working with this creative team.

second season (Don Armado, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Riotous Youth Intern) Tom Reynolds will be joining Shakespeare & Company for his second season in their production of Love’s Labor’s Lost at The Mount as Don Armado. Last summer Tom played Demetrius in S&Co’s production of Midsummer at The Mount. Tom is currently studying theater at UMass Amherst. Tom grew up in the Berkshires and has spent time training at Shakespeare & Company and has been an active part of the Berkshire’s theater community. In 2015, Tom was Gregory in Pittsfield Shakespeare in the Park’s production of Romeo and Juliet. Tom is excited to be returning to Shakespeare & Company for their 2018 summer season.

third season (Katharine, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Riotous Youth Staff) S&Co: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Starveling, Philostrate), Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World, Emperor of the Moon (Dara, Cupid). Regional: The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Young Playwrights Festival. Dara has four times directed in Shakespeare & Company’s Fall Festival of Shakespeare, and twice in Albany High School’s Promising Playwrights Festival. She has taught in school residencies through S&Co, Capital Repertory Theatre, and Proctors. Dara is a graduate of The National Theater Institute (2011), Skidmore College’s Theater Department (2013), and Shakespeare & Company’s Fall Conservatory (2013). Dara would like to give her boundless thanks and love to her infinitely supportive and loving parents and husband. She also sends wishes to the teachers before her who have shown her the way.