AN ILIAD

S&Co: King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, Intimate Apparel, Henry VI.six (Tygre’s Heart, A Pair of Molehills. . .Boys of York, Queen Meg), Pride & Prejudice, Lovers’ Spat (2017 & 2018), Winter Studio Festival of Plays. REGIONAL: Ancram Opera House, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Kennedy Center, WAM Theatre, NJ Rep (company member), Theater Alliance (Insurrection: Holding History, Helen Hayes nomination), Ensemble Studio Theatre, Tennessee Shakespeare, 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: S&Co, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Alcorn State University. UPCOMING: Nurse in Romeo & Juliet with Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival (https://shakespeare.nd.edu) and Dee/Patrisse in Cadillac Crew with WAM Theatre (wamtheatre.org). For my mom, Dorothy D. Scott Chesser.

Jeffrey Mousseau is co-director of Ancram Opera House in Columbia County, NY, where he staged An Iliad with MaConnia Chesser in October 2021. At Ancram, he has also helmed Homebody by Tony Kushner (Berkshire Theatre Critics Award, Outstanding Solo Performance), Young Jean Lee’s We’re Gonna Die, the American premiere of In Praise of Elephants by Kevin Dyer, and two Barbara Wiechmann plays, Aunt Leaf, which toured to Aguascalientes, Mexico, and the premiere of a music-theatre adaptation of The Snow Queen. Regionally, his work has also been seen at Stageworks/Hudson and Hudson Opera House. Other credits include The Kennedy Center in Washington, HERE Arts Center in NYC where he is an alum of the HERE Artist Residency Program and numerous productions as founding artistic director of the Elliot & IRNE award-winning Coyote Theatre in Boston.

Denis O’Hare is a writer and Tony Award-winning actor who has performed on Broadway and off-Broadway as well as in numerous regional productions and in film and television. His TV work includes roles on HBO’s True Blood and FX’s American Horror Story.

Lisa Peterson is a theater director who wrote and adapted An Iliad with actor Denis O’Hare, for which they won 2012 Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards. Her other adaptations include The Waves, adapted from the novel by Virginia Woolf, with composer David Bucknam (Drama Desk nominations), the upcoming The Good Book with Denis O’Hare, and Insurance Men with composer Todd Almond. She was Resident Director at the Mark Taper Forum for ten years, and Associate Director at La Jolla Playhouse for three years before that. Her directing credits include the world premieres of Tony Kushner’s Slavs!, Donald Margulies’ Collected Stores and The Model Apartment, Naomi Wallace’ Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Janusz Glowacki’s The Fourth Sister, John Belluso’s The Poor Itch, Beth Henley’s Ridiculous Fraud, Jose Rivera’s Sueno, Marlane Meyer’s The Chemistry of Change, and many others. She has worked at theaters around the country including New York Theater Workshop, The Public, Playwrights Horizons, The Vineyard, Primary Stages, Manhattan Theater Club, MCC, Guthrie Theater, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, Arena Stage, Yale Rep, and the McCarter Theater. Lisa won an Obie in 1991 for Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire at NYTW, and Dramalogue, Drama Desk, and Calloway Award nominations for many other productions. She was the recipient of a TCG/NEA Career Development grant, and regularly develops new plays with the Sundance Theater Lab, New Dramatists, The Playwrights’ Center, and the O’Neill Theater Center. She is a graduate of Yale College, and a member of Ensemble Studio Theater, and the executive board of SDC.

Diana Evans is a writer, stage manager, and theatre education artist. She holds a BA in Communication, Journalism, Creative Writing, & English from New England College, Henniker N.H. Recent credits include: Advice To The Players (Sandwich N.H.): Stage Manager (As You Like It, 2020), Director (Noir Hamlet, 2020). Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Mass.): Stage Manager (Becoming Othello, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, 2021) Asst. Stage Manager (ART, Measure for Measure, 2021), Production Assistant (Breath of Life, 2021), Director (Fall Festival of Shakespeare, 2019 & 2021). Diana and her pup Huckleberry Finn hail from central New Hampshire, where her family has lived since King James I granted her ancestors land there in the 17th century.

S&Co: The Chairs, King Lear, Topdog/Underdog, Macbeth, Heisenberg, Cymbeline, God of Carnage, Or, Two Gentleman of Verona, Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Comedy of Errors, Richard II, Rough Crossing, Blue/Orange, The Ladies Man, Othello, Twelfth Night, Richard III, The Taster, As You Like It, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The War of the Worlds, Santaland Diaries. Regional: American Stage Theatre Company, Hartford Stage Company, Montana Repertory Theatre, WAM Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Wilma, Wallis Center, The Public Theatre, McCarter Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Hangar Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Stonington Opera House Arts, CLOC. Education: MA from University of Toronto; BA from Ithaca College. Member of Actors’ Equity Association and Stage Managers’ Association where she serves on the Board of Directors as Editor-in-Chief and International Cohort chair. Follow @doctorstgmgr on Instagram.