Stage2: Macbeth 2018

Claire Alexander is absolutely thrilled to be making her debut with CSC2. NYC credits include Duke of Exeter (Hamlet Isn’t Dead), Mark Antony (Genesius Theatre Company), Elmire (Onwheels Theatre), Adriana (Bergen Shakespeare), Saturnine (Hudson Shakespeare). Claire is a graduate of the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in Method Acting, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. www.claire-alexander.org

Ross Barron is proud to be on the Boston Common! On the way here, he studied a little at the Lucid Body House, Stella Adler Studios, and the Guildhall School in London, and studied a lot at Princeton University ‘17. An actor who enjoys performing in preexisting stories as much he does making his own, he most recently appeared in Antigone at Primary Stages. His favorite credits include: Disco Pigs, The Seagull (Lewis Center for the Arts), and Metamorphoses (Princeton Summer Theater). Playwright: Revision (Theater Intime). Film: Author/Lead of “Sticks and Stones” (Neymarc Visuals, *upcoming). www.rossbarron.com

Tyshon Boone is excited to be joining CSC2. Past credits include Two Noble Kinsmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Golden Boy at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. All’s Well That Ends Well and Antony & Cleopatra at Virginia Shakespeare Festival. BFA from University of the Arts. 

Marge Buckley is a recent graduate of Emerson College, where they performed in the The Caucasian Chalk Circle (The Singer/Shauva), We Are Pussy Riot (Vladimir Putin), and O Beautiful (Brian Ryan). They recently appeared in the Underlings Theatre Company’s Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio. Their plays, such as God is a Woman, A Fable Regarding the Octopus, Anchortown, and The Earth Room have been performed in Boston and New York.

Bailie de Lacy is a New York based actor who was born in Peachtree City, Georgia, but grew up in Hollis, New Hampshire.  Bailie was recently seen in New York playing Rosannah in Brilliant Traces at the Playroom Theater and Sonya in a new adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Boston credits include Lucille in Parade, Lydia in Big Love, Sinadab in the U.S. premiere of Zobeide, Francis/Bardolph/John of Lancaster in Henry IV Part I, Eve in The Serpent and Philomele in The Love of the Nightingale. Bailie earned her BFA in Acting from Boston University and studied physical comedy and Commedia dell’arte at the Academia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy.  Bailie is beyond excited to be reunited with the beautiful city of Boston and is thrilled to be making her debut with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company this summer. www.bailiedelacy.com

Kody Grassett recently returned to New England after receiving his MFA at the University of Central Florida in partnership with the Orlando Shakespeare Theater. Recent credits include the Underlings Theatre Co’s Romeo and Juliet (Nurse/Prince), Orlando Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (Agrippa), Blackberry Winter (Grey Mole), and West Side Story (Glad Hand), TheatreUCF’s Reeling (Big Man) and The Divine Sister (Mother Superior), and Guerrilla Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius/Cobweb/Starveling/Puck). He recently directed an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth as part of his graduate thesis and has studied with Routalibero Teatro in Rome and the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Michael Mansour is honored and excited to be performing with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.  Michael’s favorite performance credits include Billy Elliot (Small Boy), Willy Wonka (Augustus Gloop), and Elf (Michael Hobbs).  Michael lives with his family in Westwood, Massachusetts where he is in 4th grade. He enjoys dance, playing the trumpet, and basketball.

Stefanie Resnick is thrilled to be a member of CSC2. She is originally from New York and received her MFA in Performance from UNLV. She has most recently been on tour with the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s productions of The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Stefanie has worked with Great River Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Nevada Conservatory Theatre, and TITAN Theatre Company in NYC. stefanieresnick.com

Billy Saunders Jr. is thrilled to be making his debut with Commonwealth Shakespeare! He has worked recently with Hartford Stage (A Christmas Carol), Capital Classics (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Monomoy Theatre (Of Mice and Men, The Tempest), Chesapeake Shakespeare (As You Like It, Comedy of Errors), and 4615 Theatre Co. (The Pillowman).  New York credits include The Evoke Festival (A Lottery) and Village Playwrights. Billy has studied in the UK at Drama Studio London and is a proud graduate of The Hartt School.  www.billysaundersjr.com @bsaundsjr

Felix Teich is thrilled to working with CSC again after his time as an Apprentice in 2013. Locally he’s worked with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Greater Boston Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Brown Box Theatre Project, Sleeping Weazel, and Apollinaire Theatre Company, and he appears regularly in Shi*%!t-faced Shakespeare. He graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Acting and trained with Shakespeare and Company in the Berkshires in 2017

Michael Underhill previously appeared at CSC in Cymbeline, Othello, Two Gentleman of Verona (u/s), Macbeth (CSC2), Richard III, and Romeo & Juliet (CSC2). He is a graduate from Northeastern University and a Boston born and bred actor. Additional roles include the title role in King John (Praxis Stage), Actor #1 in Hotel Nepenthe (Brown Box Theatre) and Joseph Surface in School for Scandal (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). Other regional credits include the Huntington Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Central Square Theatre and imaginary beasts. Find out more at www.michaeljunderhill.com 

Susannah Wilson is excited to make her debut with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Recent credits include: Nurse Play (Exiled Theatre); Julius Caesar (Praxis Stage); Both/And: A Quantum Physics Play (Catalyst Collaborative project with MIT); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (Boston Theatre Co.); Once a Blue Moon, Shahrazad (Double Edge Theatre); and the title role in Richard III (Emerson Stage). She is a graduate of Emerson College where she received a BA in Acting.

Jaine Ye grew up in a small town outside of Seattle, WA. Now based in NYC, she was last seen in the The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar. Other credits: Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, Octavia in Antony & Cleopatra, and Comfort Women: A New Musical (off-broadway). TV/Film: “Yuna’s Lunch” (short film), “Experience Curve” (web series). 

David R. Gammons is a director, designer, visual artist, and theatre educator.​ He is currently an Associate Professor at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and is on the Music and Theatre Arts faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recent directing projects include Edward II. The Comedy of Errors, Medea, The Hotel Nepenthe, The Duchess of Malfi, and Titus Andronicus for Actors’ Shakespeare Project; and the New England premieres of Hand to God,​ ​Necessary Monsters, The Whale, The Motherfucker with the Hat (2013 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production), Red (2012 Norton Award for Outstanding Production), and Blackbird at SpeakEasy Stage Company. He helmed the world premieres of The Farm by Walt McGough and The Salt Girl by John Kuntz at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and the New England premieres of Cherry Docs, The Lieutenant of Inishmore and My Name is Rachel Corrie at New Repertory Theater. He was awarded the 2007 and 2017 Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Director. He has served as a guest artist at Emerson College, Harvard University, Northeastern University, Boston College, Brandeis University, and Suffolk University, among others. Mr. Gammons is a graduate of the Directing Program of the ART Institute and of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department of Harvard University. For more information, please visit davidrgammons.com.

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.

Jeff Adelberg returns to CSC after designing Death and the Maiden and Macbeth last season. Other recent work: Trouble in Tahiti and Arias and Barcarolles (Boston Lyric Opera); Gloria, The Night of the Iguana, As You Like It (The Gamm Theatre, RI); Beckett Women: Ceremonies of Departure (Poets’ Theatre at the MAC Belfast, Northern Ireland); Being Earnest, The Legend of Georgia McBride (Greater Boston Stage Co.); Frankenstein, Constellations (Underground Railway Theatre); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Hand to God (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Man of La Mancha (New Repertory Theatre); Rhinoceros (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Edward II, God’s Ear (Actors’ Shakespeare Project);Finish Line (Boston Theatre Co.); and Boston’s Christmas Revels since 2010. A graduate of the University of Connecticut, Jeff teaches at Boston College and Brandeis University. Member of United Scenic Artists 829. www.jeffadelberg.com

Miranda Kau Giurleo has previously designed Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Midsummer Night’s Dream for CSC’s Second Stage.  Regional credits include: Native Gardens, The Heath, The Royale, A Christmas Carol, Chill  (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Allegiance, The Scottsboro Boys (SpeakEasy Stage Company), Dry Land, Shockheaded Peter, She Kills Monsters, Neighbors (Company One), Richard III, Measure for Measure, As You Like It (Actor’s Shakespeare Project), The Convert, Matchless & The Happy Prince, Roots of Liberty (Underground Railway Theatre), True West, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Effect, The New Electric Ballroom, Totalitarians (Gloucester Stage Company).  Miranda is also on the faculty at Bridgewater State University where designs include Gypsy, Assassins, and Young Frankenstein.

Nathan Leigh has designed sound and composed original music for over 300 plays at theatres including New York Theatre Workshop (Nat Turner In Jerusalem), Red Bull Theatre (The Duchess of Malfi),Huntington Theatre (Skeleton Crew), American Repertory Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, The Debate Society (Gothamist: Best Sound Design 2007 for The Eaten Heart), Stoneham Theatre (IRNE Best Sound Design 2009 for Strangers On A Train), and Central Square Theatre (IRNE Best Sound Design 2010 for The Hound of the Baskervilles). With Kyle Jarrow, Nathan co-created the musicals Big Money (WTF Boris Segall Fellowship 2008) and The Consequences (World Premiere 2012 at WHAT). With the Liars and Believers ensemble, Nathan Leigh composed scores for adaptations of Song of Songs and Icarus. With Megan Sass, he is the composer and lyricist for The Mad Scientist’s Guide (NYC Fringe 2015). Nathan’s latest solo album is “Ordinary Eternal Machinery”.

Rachel Corning returns to CSC for the Stage2 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Since 2016, she has worked in various technical capacities with companies throughout the Boston and North Shore areas. Select credits include Deal Me Out (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), A Christmas Celtic Sojourn (WGBH), Trayf, Cardboard Piano (New Repertory Theatre), Romeo & Juliet, Birdy, Blue Kettle/Here We Go, Macbeth, Old Money, Death and the Maiden (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), A Christmas Carol, Sunset Boulevard, Jersey Boys, Jekyll and Hyde (North Shore Music Theatre). Rachel holds a BA in Communications from Simmons University and is a native of Ipswich, MA, where she first discovered her love for theatre in sixth grade.

Kristen Mazzocchi is an experienced arts educator, director and production manager. She holds a BA in Theatre and Economics from Boston College and a Master’s in Education from Harvard University. Kristen began her career at the Boch Center for the Performing Arts working in their arts education program. She went on to work as Production Manager and Director of Education for Celebrity Series of Boston. Kristen is currently a freelance teaching artist, director and production manager working with many schools and arts organizations in the Boston area. Current and past clients include: New England Conservatory of Music, Improv Asylum, Needham Public Schools and Needham Community Theatre. She also serves as Chair of the Needham Cultural Council.

Cassie Foote is excited to be back working with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Previous credits with CSC include Julius Caesar (Cassius) with the CSC2 ensemble and Romeo & Juliet (Ensemble/u/s Lady Capulet). Other Boston credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Arts After Hours). NY credits: The Changeling (West End Theater), Othello, Love’s Labour’s Lost, (Easy Leap Theatre Company) Whaddabloodclot! (Williamstown Theater Festival), Sky Pony: Raptured (The Play Company), The Fourth Grader’s Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide (Dreamstem Productions).

Christopher Webb’s previous fight choreography includes: Skin and Bones, Little Murders, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sons of the Prophet, Alice at War, Jesus Christ Superstar, Noises Off!, Mercury Fur, Extremities, Coriolanus, Big Love and Trojan Women: A Love Story (Boston Conservatory at Berklee); and Romeo and Juliet and Dog Sees God (Off The Grid). He is an Elliot Norton Award winning actor and also directs professionally around Boston. He is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College, where he teaches Viewpoints/Movement for the Actor and Acting, in both the BFA and MFA Musical Theatre programs. He holds a Bachelor of Arts In Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University a Certificate of Completion from the Marymount London Drama Conservatory and a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from the National Theatre Conservatory.