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Kate Kohler Amory is an award-winning theater maker, director, actor, choreographer, dancer, writer and teacher. Her directing/devising credits include: DREAM LOVE ESCAPE, Pandemic Plays 20|20, The Birds, Romeo and Juliet: A Space Oddity for Ridiculous Project; Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, The Mermaid Hour: Remixed, Midsummer Night’s Dream for Boston Conservatory Berklee; Macbeth, D.arc Water, Big Love, Ghosts of Troy, The Wolves, and Comedy of Errors for Salem State University and Hamlet at Brandeis University (co-directed). Kate is founding Artistic Director of The Ridiculous Project, founding member of Convergences Theater Collective, and Professor of Movement and Acting for Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She was a founding member of Holderness Theater Company and Convergences Theater Collective NYC. MFA Naropa University, MA RADA/ Kings College, BFA Goldsmiths College, University of London. Certified in Trish Arnold Pure Movement, DE-SMTT: Somatic Movement Educator and CYT. Acting and other credits can be found at katekohleramory.com

Samuel Beckett is widely recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Mr. Beckett is most renowned for his play Waiting for Godot, which launched his career in theater. He then went on to write numerous successful full-length plays, including Endgame in 1957, Krapp’s Last Tape in 1958, and Happy Days in 1960. Mr. Beckett received his first commission for radio from the BBC in 1956 for All That Fall. This was followed by a further five plays for radio, including Embers, Words and Music and Cascando. Like no other dramatist before him, Mr. Beckett’s works capture the pathos and ironies of modern life yet still maintain his faith in man’s capacity for compassion and survival, no matter how absurd his environment may have become.

Robert Egan is an award-winning producer and director who has served as the Artistic Director/Producer of the Ojai Playwrights Conference since 2002. Prior to OPC, Robert served for 20 years as the Producing Artistic Director at the Mark Taper Forum where he was Director of New Play Development and the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of its prestigious New Work Festival. He was also the Associate Artistic Director of the Seattle Repertory Theatre where he created their new play development program. Robert has produced, directed, and dramaturged hundreds of new plays in the United States and Europe. Robert is also the Founder and President of RHEgan Productions, LLC where he conceives, writes, produces and directs major live events and media projects for non-profits including Cure Autism Now, Operation Smile, L.A,, Team Mentoring, Global Green USA Homeboy Industries, Center Theatre Group and UCLA.

Rachel Harrison is a St. Petersburg, FL based Stage Manager and Sound Designer. As the Production Stage Manager for more than 45 productions at American Stage Theatre Co. (St. Pete, FL), she includes among her favorites Two Trains Running, The Royale, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Jitney, A Raisin in the Sun, Pipeline, Silent Sky, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Vietgone, and Skeleton Crew. In October of 2021, Rachel joined the American Stage Theatre staff as an Associate Artistic Producer. She also serves as "chief problem solver” for Your Real Stories Inc., a not-for-profit storytelling company committed to talking across differences through theatrical journalism; and provides production support for numerous projects with JNL Media to tell stories in the digital, visual media of video and streaming television. Rachel is the Eastern Region Director of the Stage Managers's Association and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

S&Co: Time Stands Still, Heisenberg, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona; Regional: Appropriate, SpeakEasy Stage; God’s Ear (Elliot Norton Award Best Actress & Best Production), Henry VIII, Pericles, Living In Exile, all for Actors’ Shakespeare Project; Rancho Mirage, New Repertory Theatre; Cabaret, American Repertory Theatre (IRNE Award Best Ensemble); Film/TV: Mother/Android, John And The Hole (2020 Cannes/2021 Sundance), The Equalizer 2, Chappaquiddick, Good Kids, The Judge; “Defending Jacob”; “Bull”; “The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe”; “Olive Kitteridge”; “Chasing Life”, “The Makeover”, “Army Wives”, “One Life To Live”; Canadian TV: “Blue Murder (Series Lead), “The Associates” (Series Lead); MFA American Repertory Theatre. Upcoming: Tamara is currently devising her own solo show called This Is It, which will appear at the United Solo festival in NYC in the fall as well as at Shakespeare & Company’s Plays in Process Festival in July. @thisisit_soloshow; instagram.com/thisisit_soloshow/?hl=en

S&Co: Maria (Twelfth Night), Sir Hugh Evans (Merry Wives of Windsor), Queen/Arviragus (Cymbeline), Trinculo (The Tempest), Nerissa (The Merchant of Venice), Margaret (Worse Than Wolves), Outlaw (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 includes: The Seagull; As You Like It; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!; Anna Karenina; Orlando. Film: Mente Revolver (Best Feature at Granada Cines del Sur, 2018). Numerous BBC TV and Radio. Publications include: Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence with Tina Packer (2020); With the Rogue's Company: Henry IV at the National Theatre (2005), The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit (2014). Training: Russian University of Cinematography, Moscow; PhD from University of Birmingham, UK. Professor of Acting & Directing, University of California, Riverside. Union: AEA, British Equity, SAG-AFTRA. 2016 S&Co. Winter Intensive.

S&Co; Received the 2018 Berkshire Theater Critics Association Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role as Katherine in Mothers and Sons Elliot Norton and Irne Award for best actress as Golda in Golda’s Balcony (2003); Elliot Norton best actress nomination for Martha in Martha Mitchell Calling (2006). Florida Carbonell Award best actress nomination for Vi in August Osage County (2012). This past fall Annette was featured as Esther Greenbaum in a new play for Zoom / Film “You Will Not Play Wagner” and can be seen as Mrs. Tanken in the Oscar nominated film “Don’t Look Up” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence for Netflix. Also, she narrated the opera Brundibar at the BSO for the Terezin Music Foundation featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Annette is currently touring her original theatrical collage Now is Our Time - the Pleasures and Perils of our Third Chapter, and a new play Prime Time. Favorite roles: Madeline Palmer, Breath of Life; Vera, 4000 Miles; Bernadette Kahn, Sotto Voce; Maria Callas, Master Class; Duchess, Richard III; Arkadina, The Seagull. B’Way: The Odd Couple Female Version. Films include: Company Men, Next Karate Kid, Autumn Heart. TV: “As The World Turns.” BA & BFA Brandeis and is an affliate Scholar at Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center.

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.