Love’s Labour’s Lost

July 20-August 7, 2016

Boston Common

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Steven Maler

A high-spirited comedy, Love’s Labour’s Lost dazzles with Shakespearean wordplay and strong comedic characters and unexpected twists as youthful idealism is derailed by love. The King of Navarre has come up with a brilliant idea to prevent distractions while he and his men commit to three years of study and fasting-simply banish all women from the court. Separating the sexes and hitting the books proves not so simple when the beautiful Princess of France and her equally attractive entourage arrive in Navarre. Devotion to learning gives way to the Shakespeare’s version of “speed dating,” as the men pen love letters delivered to the wrong hands, setting off a series of adventures that turn the whole court upside down.

Wednesday, July 20 at 8:00pm
Thursday, July 21 at 8:00pm
Friday, July 22 at 8:00pm
Saturday, July 23 at 8:00pm
Sunday, July 24 at 7:00pm
Tuesday, July 26 at 8:00pm
Wednesday, July 27 at 8:00pm
Thursday, July 28 at 8:00pm
Friday, July 29 at 8:00pm
Saturday, July 30 at 8:00pm
Sunday, July 31 at 7:00pm
Tuesday, August 2 at 8:00pm
Wednesday, August 3 at 8:00pm
Thursday, August 4 at 8:00pm
Friday, August 5 at 8:00pm
Saturday, August 6 at 3:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, August 7 at 7:00pm

Cast

Remo Airaldi
Don Armado
Remo Airaldi
Don Armado

Remo Airaldi has appeared with CSC in Cymbeline, Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentleman of Verona, Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Comedy of Errors, and The Taming of the Shrew. He has appeared in over sixty productions at the American Repertory Theater, including Night of the IguanaOliver Twist (also at Theatre for a New Audience and Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and Island of Slaves (IRNE Award—Outstanding Actor). Other credits: Shakespeare in Love (Speakeasy Stage), Murder on the Orient Express, Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Foxes, My Fair Lady, and Sweeney Todd (Lyric Stage), Exposed (Boston Playwrights’ Theater), Mistero Buffo (The Poets’ Theatre), Frankenstein and The Hound of the Baskervilles (Central Square Theater),The King of Second Avenue (New Repertory Theatre) and productions at Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Cirque du Soleil, American Conservatory Theater, Walnut Street Theatre, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville. He teaches acting, improvisation and public speaking at Harvard University.

Justin Blanchard
King of Navarre
Justin Blanchard
King of Navarre

Justin Blanchard is thrilled to making is CSC debut.  He first appeared on Broadway in Journey’s End (2007 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play).  Other New York credits include The Changeling and The Witch of Edmonton with Red Bull Theater; Into the Woods with Fiasco Theater at the Roundabout; Macbeth at Theatre for a New Audience; and the title roles in Hamlet, and Henry V at New York Classical Theatre.  Regional: Fiasco Theater (Iachimo, Cymbeline tour), Long Wharf (world premiere, A Civil War Christmas), Shakespeare Festival St. Louis (Iago, Othello), Shakespeare Theatre of D.C.; McCarter Theatre. Berkeley Rep, New London Barn, and ten shows at Trinity Rep.  Television and Film include roles in “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC) and “Marie Curie” (PBS). Justin is a graduate of the Brown University-Trinity Rep MFA Acting Program.

Jason Bowen
Berowne

Jason Bowen returns to CSC after appearing in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2007.  Off-Broadway and regional credits include My Mañana Comes (Playwright’s Realm), As You Like It, Black Odyssey (Denver Center Theatre Co.), The Lake Effect (TheatreWorks Palo Alto), June Moon (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Ruined (La Jolla Playhouse), Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, (IRNE Award), Prelude to a Kiss, A Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre), Twelfth Night, Othello, The Duchess of Malfi, The Tempest (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Groundswell (Lyric Stage Company). TV/Film: “Law & Order: SVU”, “Braindead”, “What’s Your Number?”.  Special Awards: Best Actor-Boston Magazine, 2012.

Larry Coen
Costard

Larry Coen‘s CSC credits include The Boys from Syracuse (with Landmarks Orchestra), Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Two Gentleman of Verona, All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Taming of the Shrew.  Many productions with Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans, Beau Jest, Lyric Stage Company, Speakeasy Stage, and Huntington Theatre. Performed three World Premieres of Tennessee Williams’ plays,  Larry is the recipient of four Elliot Norton Awards from Boston Theater Critics Association.  Coen is Artistic Director of City Stage Co. of Boston.

Jennifer Ellis
Princess of France
Jennifer Ellis
Princess of France

Jennifer Ellis was most recently seen in Shear Madness (Off-Broadway, Carousel (Reagle Music Theater), and the Lyric Stage Company’s award-winning My Fair Lady (Elliot Norton & IRNE Award).  NYC: New World Stages, Sibiline Shakespeare, Project Rushmore.  National Tour: A Christmas Carol. Regional: SpeakEasy Stage Company, Gloucester Stage, Central Square Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera, New Repertory Theater, Peterborough Players, Stoneham Theatre, Huntington Theatre.  Elliot Norton Award: My Fair Lady, Wonderful Town.  IRNE Award: My Fair Lady, The Most Happy Fella. ArtsImpulse Award: Far From Heaven. @jen_ellis, JenEllis.net

Obehi Janice
Rosaline

Obehi Janice returns to CSC after performing as Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Recent credits include Oleanna and The Gift Horse at New Repertory Theatre; Out of the Mouths of Babes at Gloucester Stage Company; We’re Gonna Die (IRNE Award, Best Solo Performance) at American Repertory Theater with Company One Theatre; An Octoroon at ArtsEmerson with Company One Theatre; Mr g at Underground Railway Theater; FUFU & OREOS at Bridge Repertory Theater. Obehi was named “Boston’s Best Actress” by The Improper Bostonian in 2014. American Theatre magazine named her one of “6 Theatre Workers You Should Know” in February 2017. Obehijanice.

Ray O’Hare
Moth

Ray O’Hare is making his CSC debut.  Recent roles include Gold in The Wild Party (Moonbox Productions), Grimsby in Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Fiddlehead Theatre) and Dale Harding in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Broadway World Boston Best Actor Nomination).  He originated the role of General Manager in Club Oberon and ImprovBoston productions of T: MBTA Musical.  

Mark Soucy
Sir Nathaniel
Mark Soucy
Sir Nathaniel

Mark W. Soucy performed in CSC’s The Boys From Syracuse (Aegean), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Sir Nathaniel), Romeo and Juliet (Montague), and King Lear (The Duke of Albany). Other favorite roles include The Royale (Max – IRNE Award Best Supporting Actor) at Merrimack Repertory Theatre and Lobby Hero (Bill) at Capital Repertory Theatre. Mark is a fundraising consultant and has served as Theater Manager for Arlekin Players Theatre and Development Manager at New Repertory Theatre.

Fred Sullivan, Jr.
Holofernes

Fred Sullivan is celebrating 16 seasons with CSC. On the Common, Fred has played Bottom, Jaques (Norton Award winner), Ageon, Brabantio, Parolles, Menenius, First Gangster (Kiss Me Kate at the Hatch Shell) Malvolio (Norton Award nominee), Gloucester, Holoferness, Capulet, Buckingham, Stephano  and he directed 2019’s Cymbeline and adapted our one-man A Christmas Carol. Most recently, Fred appeared at the Lyric Stage Company as Ben Jonson in The Book of Will and as Tim in The Cake. He spent 35 seasons as a resident actor at Trinity Repertory Company in RI where he appeared in 130 plays and received Norton and IRNE awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in Blithe Spirit and His Girl Friday. His Trinity roles included Falstaff, Harold Hill, Captain Hook, Oscar Madison, James Tyrone, Jr, Daddy Warbucks, Creon, Peer Gynt,  Joe Pitt, Alfie Doolittle, Scrooge, Nick Bottom and 118 others. At Trinity, Fred directed Shooting Star, A Christmas Carol and Boeing Boeing. Fred is a  Resident Director for the Gamm Theatre (25 seasons) where he directed 35 productions including Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet (each twice) The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, The Tempest , King Lear, and Awake at Sing (Norton Award for Outstanding Production). As an actor at Gamm, he played Donny in American Buffalo, Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale, Potter/Clarence in It’s a Wonderful Life, Aslasken in A Lie Agreed Upon and Mark Rothko in Red. Fred has also performed at NJ Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Berkeley Rep, and Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. He is featured in the films: Vault, Saving Christmas (w/ Ed Asner), Mister Birthday, Agent Toby Barks and Almost Mercy. He teaches acting at Gamm and RISD.

 

Brandon Whitehead
Boyet

Brandon Whitehead CSC credits include Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, Boyet in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the Hatch Shell, and Fool in King Lear. Other recent credits include Amiens in As You Like It and Oscar Wilde et al in The Importance of Being Earnest at the GAMM Theater. Also Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind and Mike Francisco in Breaking Legs at Ocean State Theater Company as well as Mr. Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors with Tantrum Theatre (Ohio). Before moving to Massachusetts, Whitehead spent nearly twenty years working professionally in Seattle performing with ACT (A Christmas Carol, Joe Egg, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Seattle Repertory Theater (Twelfth Night, The Imaginary Invalid), Intiman (Paradise Lost), Seattle Shakespeare Company, Book-It Repertory Theater, Village Theater, and many others. Some of his film and television credits include “Castle Rock” (Hulu), “A Bit of Bad Luck”, “21 and Over”, and “Leverage”.

Jes Bedwinek
Maria

Jes Bedwinek is a New York based actor and comedian.  NYC: Grusome Playground Injuries (Times Square Arts Center), Asylum (New Dance Theatre), Achilles & The River (Reading-MTC), Blood Red Roses (City Show), Monster Party (Tiny Rhino Festival).  Regional: Titania in CSC’s Stage2 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Olivia in Twelfth Night (Oberlin Summer Theatre Festival), The Foreigner (MPAC), Spring Awakening (Promethean).  Film/TV: “Hunting Season” on Logo TV.  Jes has worked with the Moscow Art Theatre at ART and The Second City in Chicago.  MFA from The New School for Drama. www.jesbedwinek.com

Rachel Belleman
Jaquenetta

Rachel Belleman returns to CSC after appearing as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the CSC2 company.  Other credits include Person/Greta in the bilingual, international tour of Del Agua Al Polvo (Brown Box Theatre Project), Courtney in Triple Word Score (Car Shorts), and Hero/Aphrodite in Love of the Nightingale (Hub Theatre Company).  She holds a B.A. in Musical Theatre from James Madison University.  www.rachelbelleman.com

Anthony Cason
Forester

Anthony Carson returns to CSC after performing with CSC2 as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Other credits include Belize in Angels in America: Part I Mickey in After the Fall, and Peter in At Home at the Zoo.  Regional: Lincoln: A Pioneer Tale (Lincoln Ampitheater), The 39 Steps, The Fantasticks (Fritche Theatre). Film/TV: “The Breaks” (VH1).

Margaret Clark
Katharine

Margaret Clark returns to CSC after appearing as Hermia in CSC2’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Other credits include Carol in Oleanna (Umbrella Arts), Miss Plum in Trumpet of the Swan (Wheelock Family Theatre), Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (Brown Box Theatre), Annie in Spinning (Solas Nua), and The Silver Lining, Translations (Bad Habit). She received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College and additional training at Shakespeare & Company and The American Shakespeare Center.

Dalton Davis
Longaville
Dalton Davis
Longaville

Dalton Davis returns to CSC after appearing as Demtrius in CSC2’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Classically trained, Dalton is a resident of New York where he studies Shakespeare under the direction of Eddie Lew. Other credits include Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Glen Cooper in Rumors, Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mark in The Wayside Motor Inn, and Tartuffe in Tartuffe.  

Marisa Gold
Ensemble

Marisa Gold returns to CSC after appearing in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Snug/Cobweb) as part of CSC2 and completing the Apprentice Program in 2015 as Macbeth in Macbeth directed by Nora Long. Other credits include Corrie in Barefoot in the Park (Moonbox Theatre Company) and Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest (Newton Theatre Company).

Cameron Gosselin
Mercade

Cameron Gosselin returns to CSC after appearing as Snout/Moth/Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with CSC2.  Previous credits include Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (Brown Box Theatre Project), Laertes in Hamlet, Banquo in Macbeth, and Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, all with Bay Colony Shakespeare Company.  Other credits include Griever in Blue Window, Katurian in The Pillowman, and Erik Larsen in Enigma Variations.  Cameron is a graduate of Muhlenberg College where he received a BA in Theatre with a focus on acting.

Nash Hightower
Dumain

Nash Hightower returns to CSC after appearing as Domain in Love’s Labor’s Lost. Other theater credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CSC2), Ether Dome (Huntington Theater Company), Falsettoland (Test Theater Company), and more. Film credits include: “The American Dream”, “Paralarva”, and “The Internet”. He also is a set carpenter and a proud member of the National Registry of EMTs. Nash is a graduate of Emerson College.

Arisael Rivera
Dull

Arisael Rivera returns to CSC after appearing as Puck in CSC2’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Friar Laurence in CSC2’s Romeo & Juliet, and in the Ensemble of King Lear on Boston Common.  Other credits include Narrator/Arsonist in LA Lights Fire, and Butch in Educational, Career Relevant.  Follow him on Twitter: @ari_sael_riv.

Grace Trapnell
Ensemble

Grace Trapnell returns to CSC after completing the Apprentice program in 2013 and appearing in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.  Recent regional credits include Blood Wedding (Apollinaire), Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare Now!).and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Vermont Shakespeare Company). Grace hails from Charlottesville, Virginia and holds a BA in theater from the University of Vermont.

Matthew Tyler
Ensemble

Matthew Tyler returns to CSC after appearing as Oberon/Theseus in CSC2’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Regional: Romeo & Juliet (Romeo) with San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Stanley) with Highlands Summer Theater, Children of A Lesser God (Orin Dennis) with Chabot College, and Columbus Day (Kip) with Wheeler productions.  Film: J.D. in “The Sex Movie”, Cappuchino in “Killer Bean Forever”, and Oliver in “Gypsy Boys.”   Matthew graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Acting.

Colin Wulff
First Gentleman
Colin Wulff
First Gentleman

Colin Wulff returns to CSC after appearing as Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with CSC2.  Previous credits include Orlando in As You Like It (Oberlin Summer Theater Festival), Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southern Shakespeare Festival), Juror 3 in Twelve Angry Men (AlphaNYC), and Osvald in Ghosts (Oberlin College). Graduate of Oberlin College with a BA in Theater.

Creative Team

Steven Maler
Director

Steven Maler is the Founding Artistic Director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC). At CSC he has been directing Free Shakespeare on the Boston Common productions since 1996, including Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well, Othello, The Comedy Of Errors, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Henry V, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, and Romeo & Juliet. Other CSC works include his critically acclaimed production of Naomi Wallace’s adaptation of William Wharton’s novel Birdy, Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden, the world premiere of Jake Broder’s Our American Hamlet, and the world premiere of Robert Brustein’s The Last Will.  In collaboration with Boston Landmarks Orchestra, he directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring the Overture and Incidental Music of Felix Mendelssohn, as well as concert stagings of The Boys from Syracuse and Kiss Me Kate at Boston’s iconic Hatch Shell.  For CSC he has also directed one-night-only readings of iconic plays featuring Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, Blair Brown, Tony Shalhoub, Brooke Adams, Leslie Uggams, David Morse, and Jeffrey Donovan among others.  He conceived and directed Shakespeare at Fenway, an evening of Shakespeare scenes performed at Boston’s iconic Fenway Park, featuring Mike O’Malley, Neal McDonough, Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, Kerry O’Malley, Seth Gilliam, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Max Von Essen, Christian Coulson, Jason Butler Harner, and many others.

In collaboration with Google, he adapted and directed a first of its kind sixty minute virtual reality film of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, entitled Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit, starring Jack Cutmore-Scott, Jay O. Sanders, Brooke Adams, and Faran Tahir.  It is currently available for viewing on Boston public media producer GBH’s YouTube channel; for more information, visit www.wgbh.org/hamlet360.

Outside of CSC, he directed Maria, Regina D’Inghilterra for Odyssey Opera, Péter Eötvös’ operatic treatment of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (U.S. Premiere) and Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face for Opera Boston, The Turn of the Screw at New Repertory Theatre, Santaland Diaries and Chay Yew’s Porcelain at SpeakEasy Stage Company, Top Girls and Weldon Rising at Coyote Theatre, and The L.A. Plays by Han Ong at A.R.T. His New York City credits include the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Without You, written by and starring Anthony Rapp. The production has been seen in Boston, Edinburgh, Toronto, London, and Seoul.

He received the prestigious Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, as well as for Best Production for Twelfth Night and All’s Well That Ends Well; Outstanding Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Best Production, SubUrbia; Best Solo Performance, John Kuntz’s Starf***ers (which also won Best Solo Performance Award at New York International Fringe Festival). His feature film “The Autumn Heart,” starring Tyne Daly and Ally Sheedy was in the Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.

William Shakespeare
Playwright

William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23 April, which is also believed to be the date on which he died in 1616. Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre (sometimes referred to as the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period). Shakespeare’s plays are perhaps his most enduring legacy, but they are not the only things he wrote. Shakespeare’s poetry has also remained popular to this day.

Shakespeare’s work includes 38 plays, 2 narrative poems, a collection of 154 sonnets, and other poems as well. No original manuscripts of Shakespeare’s plays are known to exist today, and about half of Shakespeare’s plays are only available to us because a group of actors in his company collected them for publication after his death. These writings were brought together in what is known as the First Folio (‘Folio’ refers to the size of the paper used). It contained 36 of his plays, and none of his poetry. Shakespeare’s legacy is as rich and diverse as his work; his plays have spawned countless adaptations across multiple genres and cultures, and his plays have had an enduring presence on stage and film.

His writings have been compiled in various iterations of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by different entities, which usually include all of his plays, his sonnets, and his other poems. From Stratford to London and beyond, William Shakespeare was and is one of the most important literary figures of the English language.

 

Scott Bradley
Scenic Design
Scott Bradley
Scenic Design

Scott Bradley For CSC: The Tempest, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It.  Broadway: Seven Guitars (Tony Nomination and Drama Desk Award for Best Set Design), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Drama Desk Award for Best Set Design).  Recent Credits: His Eye Is On The Sparrow ( Portland Center Stage), A View From the Bridge (Seattle Rep), The Crucible (Cleveland Playhouse), Brownsville Song (Long Wharf Theater), Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Chapattil (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Things We Do For Love (Delaware Rep), A Great Wilderness (Seattle Rep), Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl (Second Stage), and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci by Mary Zimmerman (Second Stage).  Television: Set Designer for “Late Night with David Letterman”.  Film: “Pushing Hands”.

Nancy Leary
Costume Design
Nancy Leary
Costume Design

Nancy Leary is a Costume Designer who’s visionary work for Opera and Theater has graced stages across the United States. Experienced in producing both highly conceptual and more traditional models of Opera and Theater costuming, Nancy has successfully applied her expertise to a wide array of theatrical styles and artistic endeavors.  From 2000 to the present Nancy has worked on well-established productions, recently developed pieces, and the premier of new works for such places as; Opéra Royal Château de Versailles, Glimmerglass Festival, The Pittsburg Symphony, Virginia Opera, Utah Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Saratoga, Mannes Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Mobile Opera, Juilliard Opera, Opera Boston, as well as Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.mpany, Westin Playhouse, The Julie Harris Theatre, The Barrow Group Theatre, and New York Live Arts to name a few.

Eric Southern
Lighting Design
Eric Southern
Lighting Design
Eric Southern is a lighting designer for theater, opera, music, and dance. With CSC Richard III (set and Lighting Design, IRNE Nomination), Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Love’s Labor’s Lost, and Two Gentlemen of Verona.  Other recent projects include: Echo Mine an evening length dance by Robyn Mineko Williams with music by Caliphone (Harris Theater); Knee Plays a semi staged re-orchestration of the seminal works of David Byrne and Phillip Glass (The Crossing); Riddle of the Trilobites (Collaboration Town, New Victory Theater); The Good Swimmer, a pop requiem created by Heidi Rodewald, Donna DiNovelli, and Kevin Newbury (BAM Next Wave); After the Blast, Ghost Light, Bull in a China Shop, and The Harvest (Lincoln Center); Buyer and Cellar (Barrow Street Theater, Mark Taper Forum, London and National Tour). He is a longtime collaborator with the award-winning theater group 600 HIGHWAYMEN where he has designed Manmade Earth, The Fever, Employee of the Year, The Record, Empire City, This Great Country, and Everyone is Chanting Your Name. Internationally, his designs have been seen in London at the Mernier Chocolate Factory, in Paris at the Pompidou Center and at Park de la Villette, in Avignon at the Avignon Opera House, as well as in Seoul, Greece, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Bosnia, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, Abu Dhabi, and Hungary.In the US, his work has been seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theater Club, Hubbard Street Dance Atlantic Theater Company, The Guthrie Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Playwrights Horizons, The Goodman Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Asolo Rep, Virginia Opera, Portland Center Stage, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, The Arden Theater, The Magic Theater, Kansas City Repertory, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (among others).  He is an assistant professor at Northwestern University and received his B.F.A. and M.F.A from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
David Remedios
Sound Design
David Remedios
Sound Design

David Remedios CSC: Romeo and Juliet (2017); Our American Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night (2014, IRNE nom.), The Last Will, Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well, Othello. Recent: Knyum, The Royale, Women in Jeopardy!, The Making of a Great Moment, Merrimack Rep; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Scottsboro Boys (IRNE Award), SpeakEasy Stage; Wild Horses, The Niceties, Contemporary American Theater Festival; The Effect, Gloucester Stage; Faithful Cheaters, Trinity Rep; Finish Line, Boston Theater Company at Shubert Theatre. Other regional and local credits include Geva Theatre, 59E59, Huntington Theatre, Studio Theatre, Portland Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, American Repertory Theatre, Centerstage Baltimore, LaJolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, among many others. International: prominent arts festivals in Bogotá, Paris, Hong Kong and Edinburgh. David is Assistant Professor and Program Head of Sound Design at Boston University. remediosssound.com.

Yo-El Cassell
Movement and Choreography
Yo-El Cassell
Movement and Choreography

Yo-El Cassell’s CSC credits include Comedy of Errors, All’s Well That Ends Well, Othello, Coriolanus, Two Gentleman of Verona, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kiss Me Kate and Symphonic Shakespeare with Boston Landmarks Orchestra. Off Broadway: Moonlight Interior. Many productions with American Repertory Theatre, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, New England Conservatory, Boston Opera Collaborative, and Nantucket Dreamland Theatre.  He has taught at Boston Ballet, Skidmore College, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, The New England Conservatory, and Harvard University Dance Department.

Kevin Schlagle
Stage Manager
Kevin Schlagle
Stage Manager
Kevin Schlagle returns to the Common after previously working on Cymbeline, Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Other theatre credits include Huntington Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater, New Repertory Theatre, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. His opera credits include Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Baroque, Boston Opera Collaborative, Guerilla Opera, New England Conservatory, and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. BFA in stage management from Boston University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.
Leslie Chiu
Production Manager
Leslie Chiu
Production Manager

Leslie Chiu has been a stage, production and general manager in the theater industry for over twenty years. Before joining BabsonARTS she worked in Brandeis University’s Department of Theater Arts as the Director of Production.  She has served as Production Manager for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s productions of Othello (2010),  All’s Well That Ends Well (2011), and Love’s Labour’s Lost (2016); Associate Production Manager for CSC’s Coriolanus (2012) and Two Gentleman of Verona (2013); Production Stage Manager for the Off-Broadway show Blue Man Group (Boston) and Assistant Producer for Boston Early Music Festival’s Niobe: Regina de Tebe (2011). Leslie received her MFA in Stage Management from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music and her BFA In Theatrical Design/Technology from Florida State University.

 

Performances take place at the Parkman Bandstand on the Boston Common, across from the AMC Loews Boston Common movie theater on Tremont Street.

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This year’s choice for the annual Shakespearean outdoor production on the Boston Common could not be better suited to its surroundings. A large audience, seated on chairs or blankets spread out on the vast lawn, was treated to… Read More

- TheatreMania, Iris Fanger

Words pour out in such dazzling profusion throughout “Love’s Labour’s Lost,’’ an early comedy, that Shakespeare’s untrammeled joy in language is abundantly evident.    

- The Boston Globe, Don Aucoin

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