The Merry Wives of Windsor

twenty-fourth season (Calaban, The Tempest; Cloten, Cymbeline). Recent S&Co: Graziano, The Merchant of Venice; Speed, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Priest, Mother of the Maid; Cassius, Julius Caesar; Ferdinand, Love’s Labour’s Lost; Derek, Accomplice; Richard Hannay, The 39 Steps; Parasite Drag; Frank, The Memory of Water; Autolycus, The Winter’s Tale; Lord Hastings/Oxford, Richard III and Hamlet (Title Role). Recent Regional: Cassius, Julius Caesar (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre); Robert, Betrayal (Nora Theatre); Eduard Einstein, Einstein’s Dreams (Culture Project NYC) and Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet (Swine Palace), and Theatre in England, where he has also worked in TV and film.

second season. Steven is happy to return to Shakespeare & Company after last summer's Morning After Grace. He has appeared with the Actors’ Shakespeare Project in its productions of Richard III, Macbeth, Equivocation, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Winter’s Tale, among others. Other recent work includes Birdy (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company) Tartuffe (Huntington Theatre Company); and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Lyric Stage). He is a musician, teacher and playwright, the author of Windowmen (Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards, Best Play, 2013), adapter of Sheridan’s classic The School for Scandal for ASP, and has co-authored an operetta Tristram Shandy with Boston Baroque's Martin Pearlman.

sixth season. S&Co: Leo (4000 Miles), Scaramouch (The Emperor of the Moon), Feste/Fabian (Twelfth Night), Macduff/Duncan (Macbeth), Musician/Composer (An Iliad), Greg (SLaW), Polonius/Horatio (Hamlet), Nurse/Friar (R&J), Ensemble (The Tempest), Damis (Tartuffe). Off-Off B’way: Ernst, Spring Awakening: A Sin of Omission (Looking Glass Theatre); Greg has worked regionally with WAM Theatre, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Theatre at Monmouth, and Hampshire Shakespeare, and has taught and directed in the education department at S&Co. Training: S&Co 2017 January Intensive; (BA) UMass Amherst; UKent, Canterbury. Greg is a proud member of Actor’s Equity. www.GregoryBoover.com

third season. S&Co: Intimate Apparel, Henry VI.six (Tygre’s Heart, A Pair of Molehills. . . , Boys of York, Queen Meg), Lovers’ Spat (2017 & 2018), Winter Studio Festival of Plays. Regional: Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Kennedy Center, NJ Rep (company member), Theater Alliance (Insurrection: Holding History, Helen Hayes nomination), Ensemble Studio Theatre, Tennessee Shakespeare, WAM Theatre, Chester Theatre, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, York Shakespeare, African Continuum Theatre,Totem Pole Playhouse, & Folger Theatre. Film/TV:The Shape of Destiny (Official selection, 2018 Women in Comedy Festival), Nothing But the Truth, Ghosts of Hamilton Street, Diseasels, HBO’s “The Wire.” Education: Shakespeare & Company, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Alcorn State University.

first season. Jordan is a New York based actress and a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Recent stage credits include Robin Hood (as Maid Marian) and Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 (Alencon, Elizabeth) with Queen's Shakespeare, On This Mountain (Lindy) with Articulate Theatre Company, and several new plays by Emily C. A. Snyder, including The Other Other Woman (Gravide), and The Merry Widows of Windsor (Anne Page Fenton). She wrote and stars in the action/adventure audio drama Here Be Dragons (Harper Bennett & Dr. Atlas) and the new limited sci-fi horror series, Janus Descending (Chel). Jordan has also been featured in several other audio dramas, including Mythos, We Fix Space Junk, 1994, and the two upcoming series Among the Stars and Bones and LIMBO, all of which are available on iTunes and wherever else podcasts are streaming. For more information visit jordanvcobb.com.

Tobias participated in the Spring Young Company, which produced Romeo and Juliet and had him playing Romeo and Balthazar. Fall Festival had him as Puck in Lenox Memorial High School’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and in the winter residency of his 8th grade year he was Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. He’s tried a couple school musicals but Shakespeare has won his heart. He’s grateful for the opportunity to work with the professional actors of this amazing company. It has made his summer!

eleventh season (Porter/Duncan, Macbeth; Dukes Frederick & Senior, As You Like It) Off-Broadway: Pickering, Pygmalion, Bedlam. Dr. Rank, A Doll’s House, Ostermark, The Father, TFANA; Col. Brandon, Sense & Sensibility, Dorn, The Seagull, Bedlam; Women of Will. Regional: Mrs. Jennings, Sense & Sensibility, Bedlam/A.R.T., Prospero, The Tempest; Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night, Caesar, Julius Caesar, S&Co; Enobarbus, Antony & Cleopatra, Folger DC; Richard, Richard III, (Westword Denver; Best Actor Award), Colorado Shakes; George, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, (Eliot Norton Award Outstanding Actor). Public Theatre; Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Macbeth, Colorado Shakes; Squeers/Hawk, Nicholas Nickleby, Lyric, Boston; Lyman Felt, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Oldcastle, VT; Caesar, Julius Caesar, Orlando Shakes; Brutus, Julius Caesar, Prague Shakes; Women of Will; Shanghai, Prague, The Hague, UK, Mexico; Film: Last Knights.

fourth season is grateful for the chance to return to Shakespeare & Co, for her fourth Summer Season! Her past S&Co. roles include: Silvia, Two Gents.; Salarino, Merchant of Venice; Luciana, Comedy of Errors; Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Jane, Christmas At Pemberly; Off-Broadway: Siyah Powell/Stevens/Phebe, The Steadfast, (Slant Theatre Project); Ruth-Anne Darcy, Dirty Blood, (Billie Holiday Theatre); Ruby, She A Gem, (NYTW) Trinity Rep: Alsendra Sabine/Circe/Carib’Diss, Black Odyssey Brown/Trinity Rep: Augustina/Angel, Comedia De Equivocaciones; Saartije Baartman (Venus), VENUS Regional Theatre: Mabel, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, (Lyric Stage Company, Elliot Norton Nominee); Helen Robinson, To Kill a Mockingbird, (Weston Playhouse); Panacea, A Funny Thing Happened…, (BarnStormers); Mary Mack, The Clothesline Muse, (Aion Productions); Luann Finnis, How We Got On, (CompanyOne, Elliot Norton Nominee); Jordan, The Gift Horse, The Nurse/Lady Montague, Romeo & Juliet, (New Repertory Theatre); Senator, Othello, (Actors' Shakespeare Project); Cherie/M-16, BlueShift, (Huntington Theatre Company). Other: A Proud member of Actors’ Equity, She holds a B.F.A in Theatre Arts from Boston University and is Currently a M.F.A Candidate at Brown University/Trinity Rep. M.F.A Acting Program. Standing on the shoulders of those that have come before her, Cloteal is a product of her grandmother’s prayers + her ancestors’ wildest dream.

fifteenth season. Jennie M. Jadow is an actress with extensive regional acting credits. Her work has been seen at Shakespeare & Company, Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theater Group, Jacob’s Pillow, and Mixed Company. Jennie is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and holds an MA in Movement Therapy and Counseling with a primary focus in the treatment of adolescents with psychiatric diagnosis. Jennie also works as an Education Artist for Shakespeare & Company’s nationally recognized education team and is particularly proud of her work on Shakespeare in the Courts. For more information about Jennie’s Acting and Education work please visit www.jenniejadow.com

third 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.

third season (Maria, Twelfth Night; Sir Hugh Evans, Merry Wives) S&Co: Queen/Arviragus (Cymbeline), Trinculo (The Tempest), Nerissa (The Merchant of Venice), Outlaw (The Two Gentlemen of Verona); Regional: Colorado Shakespeare Festival: Margaret (Richard III), LA Phil: Beckett One-Acts. UK: National Theatre: A Laughing Matter; The Permanent Way; She Stoops to Conquer. UK Regional: The Seagull; As You Like It; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Can't Pay? Won't Pay!; Anna Karenina; Orlando. Film: Mente Revolver (Winner of Best Feature at Granada Cines del Sur, Spain, 2018). Numerous BBC TV and Radio. Publications: Acting: The Basics (2018), Facing the Fear: An Actor's Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright (2016); The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit (2014). Forthcoming: S&Co: Training, Education, Performance with Tina Packer (Routledge, 2020). Training: Russian University of Cinematography, Moscow; PhD from University of Birmingham, UK. Professor of Acting & Directing, University of California, Riverside. Union: AEA & British Equity. 2016 S&Co. Winter Intensive.

Founding Member (Director of Education, Board of Trustees, Fight Director) Kevin is one of Shakespeare & Company’s artistic and administrative leaders. He works in the Performance and Training departments as an actor, teacher, and director, and oversees the mission of the Education department. Kevin teaches text analysis, stage combat, and clown, and has been a guest teacher or director at MIT, Harvard, L.S.U., Stanford, Shenandoah Shakespeare, Q.U.T.- Brisbane, Lincoln Center, the Folger Library, Shakespeare Festivals in both Stratfords, and the Mercury Theatre in Colchester, UK. Kevin is the Theatre Director at the Austen Riggs Center, where he has directed over 30 productions. In 2016, Kevin was Runner-Up for the Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre Education.