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THANK YOU
TO OUR TOUR SPONSORS
Photo: Island in the Sky by Shane M. Kalyn
The generous support of our tour
sponsors makes it possible for
Seattle Shakespeare Company to
bring professional live theatre to
students and communities across
Washington State.
On Tour Across Washington State in Spring 2016!
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Seattle Shakespeare Company’s production is part of Shakespeare in
American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in
partnership with Arts Midwest.
On tour across Washington State
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The touring cast and design team at first rehearsal.
Theatre Festival, and New Century Theatre
Company. Education: Northwestern
University, MFA; Samuel Beckett Centre at
Trinity College Dublin, BA.
Craig Wollam
Scenic Designer
Dear Patron,
In Renaissance England, groups of actors that toured around the countryside
were called “playing companies.” They set up shop, performed a show, and, the
following day, moved on to the next town. The most famous of these playing
companies was Shakespeare’s own King’s Men.
Craig’s work as a scenic and lighting
designer has been seen at NWAAT,
Langston Hughes, Intiman Theatre, Seattle
Opera, Centerstage, Seattle Repertory
Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre,
Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre,
Spectrum Dance Theatre, Civic Light
Opera, ArtsWest, Bellevue Opera, Wing
Luke Museum, The Bruce Lee Exhibit for
Inter*Im, The Empty Space Theatre, Seattle
Public Theater, Youththeatre NW, Tacoma
Actors Guild here in Washington. Out
of town, Craig has designed for Arizona
Theatre Co., Chicago Theatre Center,
Atlanta’s 14th Street Theatre, Boston’s Lyric
Theatre, Dance Theatre Workshop of NY,
the Spoleto Festival of Italy, the Colony in
Miami, the Zephyr in LA, Kohler Arts Center
in Sheboygan, and the Actor’s Playhouse
NY. Craig is co-founder and Technical
Director of Seattle Scenic Studios, a nonprofit serving non-profits and education
throughout Western Washington including
Seattle Shakespeare Company.
To be part of a playing company took a great deal of work for an actor since they
were also the producers of each production. They took care of the set if it broke,
sewed torn costumes, loaded and unloaded the wagons, and tended to their cast
members if they were injured or sick.
This is not unlike the troupe that visits you today. They have worked countless hours to
prepare these plays, the costumes have been built, the set created — but once they
leave the rehearsal space in Seattle, they are on their own. They must sew a costume
if it rips, fix a set if it breaks. In the time period during which they will be traveling, they
will cover thousands of miles and perform for more than 15,000 people. They will
leave family and friends behind for one reason: they love what they do. They love the
opportunity to speak and share Shakespeare’s words with you. Through them you will
hear the words that were spoken by the King’s Men and be connected to the audience
members who stood for hours to hear these same words spoken 400 years ago.
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If you listen closely you will hear the reflection of your own lives in these stories.
The characters will love and fight and seek revenge and grieve — and they will
mostly learn to forgive each other so they can be released from the past. Though
the events of these plays may be more dramatic, if you look closely, I bet you can
see these themes in the lives around you. And when the lights go up and you go
on with your lives, realize these actors are packing up, fixing what is broken, and
moving on to the next town to perform again. Clap your hands not only for the
performance you see today, but for the ancient tradition that they keep alive.
Annie Lareau
Director
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Artists Repertory Theatre, and Shakespeare
and Company. Casey also works full time
at Seattle Shakespeare Company as the
Education Associate and manager of the
spring tour.
Jocelyne Fowler
Costume Designer
Jocelyne has designed for Seattle
Shakespeare Company (Titus Andronicus,
Richard II), Wooden O (Henry IV Part I,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V,
The Tempest), Book-It Repertory Theatre
(Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein;
or, the Modern Prometheus, Anna Karenina,
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet),
SecondStory Repertory (The Lion in Winter,
Legally Blonde, Chess: The Musical, Moon
Over Buffalo, and more), Seattle Musical
Theatre (Young Frankenstein and Legally
Blonde), Harlequin Productions (Clybourne
Park, Jesus Christ Superstar, and more),
Vashon Opera (Elixir, Albert Herring, Werther,
and Eugene Onegin), and other local
theatres. Her design for Evita can be seen
at SecondStory Repertory this spring.
Harry Todd Jamieson
Sound Designer
Harry is very pleased to be designing
for Seattle Shakespeare Company’s
statewide tour for the fourth year in a
row. Harry is a freelance sound designer,
actor, and director and has worked in
these disciplines at many local theaters
and institutions. Local sound design
credits include Pride and Prejudice (BookIt Repertory Theatre), Twelfth Night and
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Seattle
Shakespeare Company/Wooden O), The
Mountaintop and Chinglish (ArtsWest),
Gideon’s Knot and Broke-ology (Seattle
Public Theater), SOAPfest One-Act festival
(Sandbox Artist Collective), Macbeth,
Othello and Julius Caesar (Seattle
Shakespeare Company tour), The Phantom
Tollbooth, Pink and Say, Never Forgotten, A
Day’s Work, Skippy-Jon Jones, and Thank
You Mr. Falker (all for Book-It Repertory
Theatre’s touring program). Harry received
his BA in Drama from Western Washington
University.
Annie Lareau
Director
Annie is a professional director, actor,
adaptor, and teaching artist. She is an
Associate Member of the Stage Directors
and Choreographers Society, recipient of
two Seattle Footlight awards in Acting, is
a member of the Sandbox Collective and
most recently served as the Interim Artistic
Director of ArtsWest Playhouse. She
holds a BFA in Acting and Directing from
Syracuse University and an MED in Arts
Education from Harvard University. She
most recently directed Doktor Kaboom:
Live Wire at the Kennedy Center for the
Arts in Washington, DC and a remount of
her adaptation of Hotel on the Corner of
Bitter and Sweet at the Nevada City Theatre
in California. She has worked locally with
Book-It Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre,
Seattle Shakespeare Company, ArtsWest,
14/48, Annex Theatre, SOAP Fest, Theater
Schmeater, the former Empty Space, and
Cornish College of the Arts.
Erin Murray
Assistant Director
Erin is a national and international theatre
director based in Seattle. International
work includes the Irish premiere of
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Winner, Best
Production at the Spiegeltent, Dublin
Fringe), Jobless Satisfaction (Edinburgh
Festival Fringe), and staff director at
Dublin’s Opera Theatre Company. After
returning to the US, Erin executive
produced Ariel Zetina’s Pink Milk at
New York International Fringe Festival.
Chicago directing credits include
Anne Washburn’s The Internationalist
(Steppenwolf Garage) and Arthur Miller’s
All My Sons (Northwestern University). In
Seattle, Erin directed It’s A Wonderful Life
for ArtsWest and has directed projects for
Seattle Shakespeare Company, Intiman
THE TEMPEST CAST
ROMEO & JULIET CAST
Tom Dewey
Stephano / Gonzalo
Tom Dewey
Friar / Tybalt / Peter
Yadira Durate
Prospero
Yadira Durate
Lady Capulet / Abram / Apothecary
Chesa Greene
Ariel / Boatswain
Chesa Greene
Benvolio / Paris
Aishé Keita
Miranda / Sebastian / Caliban #2
Aishe Keita
Juliet / Sampson
Rafael Molina
Ferdinand / Trinculo / Antonio
Rafael Molina
Romeo / Gregory
Arjun Pande
Alonso / Caliban #1
Arjun Pande
Nurse / Mercutio / Prince
PRODUCTION TEAM
Xandria Barber
Rehearsal Stage Manager
Casey Brown
Fight Choreographer
Jocelyne Fowler
Costume Designer
Harry Todd Jamieson
Sound Designer
Annie Lareau
Director
Erin Murray
Assistant Director
Craig Wollam
Scenic Designer
Tom Dewey
Chesa Greene
Yadira Durate
Aishé Keita
Tom Dewey
Chesa Greene
Rafael Molina
Tom is pleased to be sharing his love of
Shakespeare with the awesome people
at Seattle Shakespeare Company. As an
actor and fight choreographer, his work
has been seen around the Puget Sound
region. Favorite roles include Titus Lartius
in Coriolanus at Seattle Shakespeare
Company, Fisher in Border Songs at
Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Brian
in The Gingerbread House with Theater
Schmeater. Tom holds the rank of “Actor/
Combatant” in the Society of American
Fight Directors and is a proud graduate of
the Theatre Arts and History departments
at the University of Puget Sound.
Chesa is thrilled to be part of Seattle
Shakespeare Company’s statewide touring
shows for this season. She most recently
appeared as Kattrin in Mother Courage and
Her Children. She graduated from Cornish
College of the Arts this past spring, where
you may have seen her in Tall Girls as
Almeda, A Midsummer Night’s Dream as
Peaseblossom/Philostrate, and Road as
Carol. She has also worked as an assistant
director and dramaturg on ArtsWest’s
production of Chinglish, and as a director
on Sinister Sisters, an original work.
Rafael is an actor, director, playwright,
singer/songwriter, and a San Francisco
native. Recent acting credits include
Quixote (Cornish College of the Arts), and
The Children’s Hour and John Baxter is a
Switch-Hitter (Intiman Theatre Festival). His
last directing/playwright work was O!Fest
(Cornish College of the Arts). Rafael will be
graduating from Cornish College of the
Arts with a BFA in Theater in spring, 2016.
The Tempest: Stephano / Gonzalo
Romeo & Juliet: Friar / Tybalt / Peter
Yadira Durate
The Tempest: Prospero
Romeo & Juliet: Lady Capulet / Abram /
Apothecary
Yadira is thrilled to be a part of Seattle
Shakespeare Company’s statewide touring
productions of Romeo and Juliet and
The Tempest. She is a recent graduate of
Cornish College of the Arts, where she
appeared in Lope De Vega’s Fuenteovejuna
and Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, and received
her BFA in Acting and Original Works,
with an emphasis on filmmaking. She is
beyond excited to be immersing herself in
the profession of theater and to become
an active member of its community. She
thanks her incredible parents and the
extraordinary family of artists she has
formed here in Seattle.
The Tempest: Ariel / Boatswain
Romeo & Juliet: Benvolio / Paris
Aishé Keita
The Tempest: Miranda / Sebastian / Caliban #2
Romeo & Juliet: Juliet / Sampson
Aishé holds a BFA from Cornish College
of the Arts in Original Works (playwright/
acting/directing).This is Aishé’s second
time working with Seattle Shakespeare
Company and she couldn’t be more
grateful to play Juliet/Miranda/Caliban.
She was last seen on stage with Seattle
Shakespeare Company a year ago, in
Measure for Measure as Mariana. She
also appeared as Mumford in Freehold
Theatre’s production Embolden written
by Reginald André Jackson this past
summer. Aishé continues to work in the
field of acting, but also in the community
working in Washington penitentiaries
doing applied theater work, and hopes to
continue and travel doing this work.
Arjun Pande
Rafael Molina
The Tempest: Ferdinand / Trinculo / Antonio
Romeo & Juliet: Romeo / Gregory
Arjun Pande
The Tempest: Alonso / Caliban #2
Romeo & Juliet: Nurse / Mercutio / Prince
Words alone cannot express how excited
Arjun is to be performing for you, or how
happy he is that you came to see the
show. He last appeared with the Seattle
Shakespeare Company as Dromio of
Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors. You also
may have seen him and his sideburns
over the holidays at Book-It Repertory
Theatre where he played Frank Churchill
in their adaption of Emma. And before
those you may have seen him on stage
at Brown University, where he received
a BA in Theater and Performing Arts. But
regardless, those shows have passed and
this one has not, so above all else, Arjun
sincerely hopes that you have as much
fun during this show as he does.
Xandria Barber
Rehearsal Stage Manager
Xandria is delighted to be returning to the
statewide tour for the second year running.
Recent credits at Seattle Shakespeare
Company include The Comedy of Errors, As
You Like It (Wooden O), Twelfth Night, and
Julius Caesar (Wooden O). Other regional
stage management credits include The
Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2014, 2013)
at Seattle Public Theater, The Mountaintop
at ArtsWest, and Returning to Albert Joseph
with The Satori Group. Assistant stage
management credits include Little Bee with
Book-It Repertory Theatre. She graduated
from Stephens College with her BFA in
Stage Management and, as always, would
like to thank her incredibly supportive
fiancé, Kori.
Casey Brown
Fight Choreographer / Touring Manager
Casey’s past fight choreography for Seattle
Shakespeare Company includes As You Like
It (Wooden O) and touring productions
of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius
Caesar, and Othello. Local credits include
Seattle Vice (ACT Theatre); Horse Girls
and Team of Heroes: Behind Closed Doors
(Annex Theatre); The 4th Graders Present An
Unnamed Love-Suicide and A Gogolplex
(Ghost Light Theatricals); and Macbeth
(Animal Fire Theatre). He is a certified
member of the Society of American Fight
Directors and the International Order of
the Sword and Pen. His acting credits
include work with Seattle Shakespeare
Company, Seattle Opera, Harlequin
Productions, Tygres Heart Shakespeare,