Love's Labor's Lost

fourth season 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.

S&Co: Rosaline, Love's Labor's Lost; Hermia, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Elaria, The Emperor of the Moon; Katharine/Boy, Henry V; Northeast 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 in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, 2011-18. BA: Brown University. Other training: NTI, SITI Company.

first season. Emily is delighted to make her Shakespeare & company debut in Love's Labor's Lost. Raised in Boston, she earned her BFA in Acting at Boston University. Credits include: Grace, Baltimore, New Repertory Theatre BCAP), Tottles, Peter Pan, Wheelock Family Theatre, Narrator, Charlotte's Web, Wheelock Family Theatre, Lady in Waiting, The Little Mermaid, Wheelock Fmaily Theatre.

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.

thirteenth season 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

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.

(Ensemble, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Education Intern) Fiona Herter is thrilled to be returning to Shakespeare & Company after an amazing summer with Shakespeare & Young Company last year, where she played Hamlet in Hamlet. Prior to this, she played Perdita in Eggtooth Production’s immersive production of The Winter’s Tale, Reno Sweeney in Amherst Regional High School’s production of Anything Goes, and participated in an immersive piece for the Emily Dickinson Museum. Fiona is an avid songwriter and musician, enjoys working with her hands, and working hands-on with animals. She’s spent her last year working and traveling in Ireland and will be starting at University of Massachusetts Amherst in the fall, where she will be furthering her education in theatre. She would like to thank her high school director John Bechtold for helping her go the extra mile, and her family and friends for being a constant support.

eighth season (Grumio/Widow, Taming of the Shrew; Riotous Youth Faculty) S&Co NE Regional Tour: Gertrude/Gravedigger, Hamlet; Baptista/Grumio/Widow, Taming of the Shrew; Emilia/Roderigo, Othello; Helena/Quince, Midsummer. Other S&Co: Hippolyta/Snug, Midsummer; Mopsophil, Emperor of the Moon; Smeraldina, The Servant of Two Masters; Elmire, Tartuffe; Pisanio, Cymbeline. Has proudly been an Education Artist with S&Co since 2012, as a Director in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare and additional residencies throughout the year.

third season (Costume Designer, Love’s Labor’s Lost) S&CO: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, NE Regional Tour (Designer), The Tempest (Asst. Costume Designer), Or, (Asst. Costume Designer); Other: When She Had Wings, Long Wharf Theater Education Dept. (Designer); The Hunchback of Seville, Union College (Designer). B.A. Theater, minors: English & Mathematics, Union College. Thanks to my family and Adam for all their love and support!

fourth season 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. S&Co: Bingley (Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, staged reading). Berkshire Theatre Group: Harold Hill (The Music Man), Bob Cratchit (A Christmas Carol), Ben Marino (Fiorello!), Joey (The Homecoming), Bert (Mary Poppins). Other area credits include The Old Mezzo with WAM Theatre, You Can’t Take It With You with Hubbard Hall, As You Like It with Suffield Players and Scaramouche Jones with Pauline Productions. Rylan holds degrees in theatre and creative writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and attended Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High School.

fourth season S&Co: Theseus (A Midsummer Nights Dream), Dumaine (Love's Labor's Lost), Rob (Never Not Once, a reading). Devante is an Education Artist at S&Co and has spent the past two summers as a Riotous Youth intern. He is also a recent graduate from Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, where he earned a BFA with a concentration in Acting.

second season (Bianca, Taming of the Shrew) S&Co: Moth (Love’s Labour’s Lost); Bella is thrilled to be back for her second summer at S&Co, she holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University and has an endless amount of love for her family, boyfriend and those that have helped her to this day.

S&Co: Don Armado Love's Labor's Lost, Demetruis A Midsummer Night's Dream. 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.

fourth season (Voice and Text, Dialect Coach, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Heisenberg, Training Faculty.) Vocal Coaching/S&Co: Cymbeline, Intimate Apparel, The Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Or, Ugly Lies the Bone, Comedy of Errors, The Unexpected Man, Hamlet, Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World. Vocal Coaching/Regional: Atlantic Stage, Oxford Shakespeare Festival, Frank Theatre, Cheap Theatre. Acting/Regional: Margie (Good People), Gertrude (Hamlet), Mistress Quickly (Merry Wives), Nurse (Romeo & Juliet),Desdemona (Masks of Othello), Betty Dullfeet (Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui), Jean (Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer), Inspector (The Enchanted), Gwen (Finn in the Underworld). MFA from Illinois State, Designated Linklater Teacher, Certified Feldenkrais Teacher, Teacher of Colaianni Speech and Dialect Work, and member of Actors Equity.

third season. 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.

seventh season (Scenic Designer, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Props Master) Hailing from Westborough, Massachusetts, scenic designer, production designer and props master Devon Drohan has been involved in technical theater since the age of eight, when she first assisted her aunt, a co-founder of Central Massachusetts-based Calliope Productions, with technical production. Her professional and academic credits include scenic design for God of Carnage (S&Co), The Magic Flute (UNCG Opera), Antigone, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (UNCG), Machinal, and Casanova (UMass Amherst); production design for Emperor of the Moon (S&Co); and props master at S&Co and the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts. Devon has also served as a production designer for Shakepeare & Company’s Fall Festival of Shakepeare. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro’s School of Theatre and a Bachelor of Arts in Theater; Design, Technology and Production Concentration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Website: DevonDrohanDesigns.Weebly.com

eleventh season Kelly has worked as a director, teacher, and actor with Shakespeare & Company since 2008. Most recently with S&Co she directed The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labor’s Lost, and served on the faculty of the Shakespeare & Young Company Summer Conservatory. She served as Artistic Associate for WAM Theatre from 2012-2014, where she directed The Last Wife and produced the inaugural Fresh Takes Reading Series. She has also directed for the Gloucester Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, The Theater at Woodshill, Great Barrington Public Theater, and the Boston University School of Theatre. She has assisted for The Guthrie, Orlando Shakespeare, and Asolo Repertory Theatre, where she received a Directing Fellowship, and completed Directing Internships with Arena Stage and the Huntington. Kelly is the director of the rig, a performance group that brings live theater to audiences with limited access to professional theater. She holds an MFA from Boston University and a BA from Wellesley College.