Jon Gluckner Ensemble, Romeo and Juliet Great Lakes Theater debut Jon is thrilled to be making his debut at Great Lakes Theater! He is currently a junior at Kent State University, pursuing his BFA in musical theater. For KSU, he has been in the ensembles of Grease and Brigadoon. He also played Angel in Rent and Bobby in A Chorus Line. Jon would like to thank his professors, Terri Kent and Jonathan Swoboda, as well as Cynthia Stillings. ADS+MM! Paul Hurley* Benvolio, Romeo and Juliet; Giles Ralston, The Mousetrap and Young Scrooge/Nephew Fred/Ensemble, A Christmas Carol Two seasons at Great Lakes Theater Paul is thrilled to return to Great Lakes Theater, where he has appeared as Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and performed multiple roles in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Recently, he played Neoptolemus in The Cure at Troy (American Players Theatre), Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Festival St. Louis) and Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company). Other regional credits include work with Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Othello); Milwaukee Repertory Theater (A Christmas Carol, Anna Christie); Madison Repertory Theatre (The Laramie Project); Delaware Theatre Company (Henry V, All the Great Books (Abridged)); Utah Shakespeare Festival (Romeo and Juliet, Doctor Faustus); and seven seasons with American Players Theatre (The Circle, The Belle’s Stratagem, Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost, among others). Paul holds an
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Tom Ford* Gregory, Romeo and Juliet and Mr. Paravicini in The Mousetrap Six seasons at Great Lakes Theater Great Lakes Theater Festival: Mr. Paravicini in The Mousetrap, the Baker in Into the Woods, Ross in Macbeth, Pseudolous in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the King of Navarre in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Casca in Julius Caesar, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, Nicola in Arms and the Man and Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Into the Woods, Macbeth, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew, Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Touchstone in As You Like It, Julius Caesar, the title role in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown and Hucklebee in The Fantasticks. Boise Contemporary Theater: Truman Capote in Tru, I Am My Own Wife (co-produced with ISF). Portland Stage Company: The Snow Queen, Schott in Bach at Leipzig, Lady Enid, et al in The Mystery of Irma Vep, I Am My Own Wife, Billy in Iron Kisses, Kipps in The Woman in Black, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Max in Lend Me a Tenor, Mr. Manningham in Gaslight and Yvan in Art. Broadway: Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Weber’s By Jeeves at the Helen Hayes Theater. New London Barn Playhouse: Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Man in the Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone, Pseudolous in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey, Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, Edna Turnblad in Hairspray,
Sipos in She Loves Me and Max in The Producers. Other performances: Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors at Pittsburgh Public Theater, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Once Around the City at New York Stage and Film, Rutherford and Son at the Mint Theater, Salvador Dali in Hysteria at Florida Studio Theater, Johnny in Maurice Sendak’s production of Really Rosie and Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at McCarter Theatre.tomfordactor.com
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Midsummer Night’s Dream (EST) and Julius Caesar (Theatre For A New City). Regional: The Winter’s Tale, King Lear, Taming of The Shrew, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Amadeus, The Madness of King George III (The Old Globe) and Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Television: One Life to Live (ABC), Guiding Light (CBS). Christian trained at RADA, earned his BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and earned his MFA from The Old Globe/USD. He is a member of the Los Angeles based IAMA Theatre Company. Also a playwright, his play Shiner will debut this fall in Los Angeles. For Mom, Dad and Courtney, with love. www.christiandurso.com
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