Heart of America Shakespeare Festival 2022

Romeo uliet &J Heart of America SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL June 14 - July 3, 2022 SOUTHMORELAND PARK FREE LIVE OUTDOOR THEATRE TUESDAY - SUNDAY, 8:00 pm #kcshakes kcshakes.org

MARILYN STRAUSS, FOUNDER, HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

30 TH ANNIVERSARY

Major Sponsors

Note from the Executive Artistic Director

Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation Sunderland Foundation Deanna and Greg Graves Family Foundation Theater League Shirley & Barnett Helzberg Jr. Donor Advisory Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City Green Mountain Foundation/John and Carol Kornitzer Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts – Commerce Bank, Trustee Burns & McDonnell Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund E. Kemper Carter and Anna Curry Carter Community Memorial Trust, UMB, n.a., Trustee Lockton Companies, LLC McMeel Family Foundation Missouri Arts Council Francis Family Foundation Edward P. Milbank Jim and Diana Cusser Dr. Blake and Lisa Wendelburg Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation Peter G. and Elizabeth Torosian Foundation Dr. Scott and Bernadette Ashcraft

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elcome back to Southmoreland Park! This is such a special milestone in the history of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival Strauss, Festival Founder (left) with because it marks 30 years of fulfilling the Marilyn Sidonie Garrett,Executive Artistic Director vision of our beloved Founder, Marilyn Strauss who brought free Shakespeare to Kansas City. Despite all the challenges due to the pandemic, we have returned to our park home stronger and more eager than ever to bring a powerful and popular story to vivid life.

We’ve missed the connection with our audience, being under the night sky and sharing space together as a community. Yet even during the years we’ve been distanced we have received our community’s support and are so grateful to all of you for sustaining us until now, when we can gather again.

Romeo and Juliet reminds us of the power of love and the cost of hate in a story with some of the most beautiful and expressive language in all literature.

There’s a reason we’re still telling this story 427 years after it was written – it resonates with us all. If you’ve encountered this story in an earlier part of your life, you may find that this time you will connect to this story in a different way and relate to characters that you wouldn’t have in a previous viewing. I do hope that each of you can sense the fresh “bud of love” that begins our story and feel our characters’ heartbreak as “these violent delights have violent ends”.

Welcome back to the lawn and the night sky and the soaring words of Shakespeare. Thank you to our Kansas City community for all your good will over 30 years…onward to our next 30!

Gratefully, Sidonie

Dr. Mark Box Robb & Robb LLC Charitable Foundation/Gary C. Robb and Anita Porte Robb W. J. Brace Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee

Nightly Schedule

William T. Kemper – Commerce Bank, Trustee

6:00 PM: Gates Open 6:00 PM through Intermission: Food and drink available from Festival vendors 6:30 PM: Parody presented by Team Shakespeare 7:00 PM: Show Talk 7:15 PM: Parody presented by Team Shakespeare 8:00 PM: Romeo and Juliet performance

Food and drink available from Festival vendors through intermission, including Italian-inspired cuisine and desserts from Ragusa’s Italian Cafe, delicious kettle corn from Butterfluff Popcorn and beer, wine and soft drinks from Embrace the Grape.

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Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web

July 20th - July 31st Goppert Theatre at Avila University

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Romeo and Juliet Cast Romeo ...............................................................Evan Cleaver* Juliet ................................................................Jess Andrews* Lord Capulet......................................................Scott Cordes* Lady Capulet .............................................. Chioma Anyanwu* Escalus, Prince of Verona/Chorus .............John Rensenhouse* Nurse ........................................................Cinnamon Schultz* Mercutio............................................................ Jacques Roy* Tybalt ............................................................... Justin Barron* Friar Laurence .................................................... Matt Raport* Benvolio ............................................................. Sam Cordes* Paris ..........................................................Erik Meixelsperger Lord Montague / Friar John ............................... Collin Vorbeck Lady Montague / Masquer ...............................Meredith Wolfe Balthasar, House of Montague ...................................JT Nagle Abraham,House of Montague/Watchman 3 .......Keenan Ramos

Romeo and Juliet Synopsis

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n age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues risk further conflict by gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father’s choice, the County Paris.

With the help of Juliet’s nurse, the women arrange for the couple to be married the next day by Friar Laurence, but Romeo’s attempt to halt a street fight leads to the death of Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, for which Romeo is banished.

In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her own death. The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet dead, he takes his life in her tomb. Juliet wakes to find Romeo dead beside her and kills herself. The grieving families agree to end their feud.

— Source: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Sampson, House of Capulet/ An Apothecary/Watchman 1 / Masquer ......................................................... Joshua Gleeson Gregory, House of Capulet / Watchman 2 /Masquer ..................................Solomon Langley Peter, House of Capulet/Masquer .................. Freddy Acevedo Masquer/Citizen of Verona ................................... Weiyi Zhang Masquer/Citizen of Verona ................................. Kendra Keller UNDERSTUDIES Romeo ............................................................... Taylor Harlow Juliet ............................................................... Chelsea Rolfes Friar Laurence, Lord Capulet, Prince/Chorus ..... Collin Vorbeck Nurse ..............................................................Meredith Wolfe Mercutio................................................................... JT Nagle Lord Montague / Friar John ............................. Keenan Ramos Tybalt ............................................................. Joshua Gleeson Paris ............................................................. Freddy Acevedo Peter, House of Capulet ...............................Solomon Langley Benvolio .................................................................J. Will Fritz Gregory, Abraham, Sampson, Watch 1, 2, 3, Page to Paris .....................................................Tyler Lindquist Lady Capulet and Lady Montague ...................... Kendra Keller

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Balthasar/Apothecary/Masquer/Pallbearer .............Will Morris *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association

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HASF Board of Directors

Creative Team

Officers

Sidonie Garrett....................... Director

Bill Yé.............................Co-President

Gene Emerson Friedman.......... Resident Scenic Designer

Beverly Elving................Co-President

Mary Robinson............... Co-Composer/ Co-Sound Designer Kaleb Krahn............. Technical Director

Mary Traylor........................... Resident Costume Designer

Martin English........... Co-Fight Director

Gabe Egli............................. Secretary

Ward Everhart.............. Resident Lighting Designer/Production Manager

Lisa Wendelburg....... VP of Education

Bradley Meyer................. Props Artisan

Tracy Terstriep-Herber........Movement/ Choreographer

Allan S. Gray II.......................VP of of Community Engagement

Greg Mackender....Resident Composer/ Sound Supervisor

TJ Lynn...... Immediate Past President

Thomas Newby..... Co-Sound Designer/ Head Sound Engineer

Dr. Scott Ashcraft........Vice President Michael Cline...................... Treasurer

Patricia Davison.......... Past President Linda Word................. Past President Daniel Bukovac........... Past President

William Grey Warren... Co-Fight Director

Rachel M. Dyer*.................. Production Stage Manager *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Shirley Bush Helzberg.. Past President R. Crosby Kemper III... Past President Directors Michael Abrams Chris Bannister Barbara Bloch Deanna Diebolt Christopher Gramling Paul Gutierrez Karen Holland Tom Mentzer Jonathan Staton Cindy Pratt-Stokes Shakespeare Advisory Board Bernadette Ashcraft Don Dagenais, Past President Mary Earls Carol Kane John Kornitzer Lauren Muriel-Marion LaPointe Sherrill Mulhern Dr. Susan Porter Joe Privitera Kelly Privitera Anita Porte Robb Anna Marie Tutera Paul Uhlmann III Dr. Blake Wendelburg 6 | HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

Production, Education & Site Personnel 2022 Stage Management Kate Winegarden – Assistant Stage Manager Kyn Johnson – Production Assistant Kaitlyn White – Production Assistant Sound Crew Halley Sylvester – Sound Engineer Gianna Agostino – Sound Associate Scenic Production Crew Bethany Elliot – Scenic Charge Maggie Killian – Scenic Artist Rylan Marincovich – Scenic Artist Taylor Adams – Carpenter Kenneth England – Carpenter Shawn Murphy – Carpenter Lighting Crew Travis Craft – Head Electrician Cody Wilson – Lighting Intern Talia Hinckley – Lighting Intern Costumes Running Crew Marianne Rowse – Wardrobe Supervisor Kelsey Harms - Wardrobe Intern Olivia Keller - Wardrobe Intern HASF Education Staff Matt Rapport – Director of Education Sarah Cooper – Education Associate

Teaching Artists Erika Baker Keenan Ramos R.H. Wilhoit Meredith Wolfe Erin Viets Education Interns Iris Church - Education Intern Naomi Kriege - Education Intern John Hobbs – Education Intern Administrative/Site Staff Reilly Hash – Administrative Intern Julia Chamberlain – Administrative Intern Elijah Nash – Administrative/Park Crossover Intern Grace Laughton – Park Intern Emery Downs – Park Intern House / Site Managers Patrick Peterson Parody Performers Team Shakespeare members directed

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Who’s Who in the Acting Company Evan Cleaver* (Romeo) was born and raised in Kansas City, MO. He received his B.A. in Acting from Dillard University, MFA in Acting from CalArts and recently completed the core curriculum at Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB). Evan is thrilled to be back with HASF for the third time. Regional credits include: In Love and Warcraft (Alliance) Father Comes Home From the Wars (Actor’s Express) and Grand Concourse (Horizon). Film/TV credits include: The Host, directed by Oscar nominee Andrew Niccol, The Walking Dead (AMC) and Christmas Next Door (Hallmark). He produced, directed, wrote and played the lead in Kody Switch, a short film that was an official selection of KC FilmFest International. This show is dedicated to his late grandmother, Betty Lu Donaldson. Follow him on Instagram @EvanCleaver Jess Andrews* (Juliet) is thrilled to be a part of HASF’s return to the park. Recent credits include: Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson Apt. 2b u/s, Ghost Light (KCRep); Dance Nation, Tiny, Beautiful Things (Unicorn Theatre); Brainstorm (The Coterie); 12th Night, The Moors, An Italian Straw Hat (UMKC); Cymbeline (Great River Shakespeare Festival). Jess received her MFA in Acting and Directing from UMKC. Thanks to Sidonie and the whole R&J team.

Scott Cordes* (Lord Capulet), a native of Nebraska, and long-time resident of Southmoreland Neighborhood, has been a professional actor and director in Kansas City for more than 30 years. His KC credits include work with KCRep (To Kill A Mockingbird, Death of a Salesman, Christmas Carol), The Unicorn (Take Me Out, Sideman), New Theatre (Sherwood, The Foreigner, Harvey), Kansas City Actors Theatre (Hamlet/Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Glengarry Glen Ross, Tally and Sons, Good People), MET (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Kimberly Akimbo, Rainmaker), The Living Room Theatre (Trigger Happy, Blackbird) and here at HASF (Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Shrew, Merry Wives, Tempest, As You Like It), just to name a few. Proud member of SAG/AFTRA and Actors’ Equity.

Chioma Anyanwu* (Lady Capulet) is thrilled to be playing in the park this year with HASF! Recent credits: The Pests (KCAT), A Christmas Carol (KCRep), Pipeline (Unicorn Theatre), Godspell (Starlight Theatre), Red Bike (Unicorn Theatre). Thank you to everyone who has supported the arts in any way during this time of lingering uncertainty.

John Rensenhouse* (Prince Escalus/Chorus) is delighted to be back outdoors this summer. The HASF show traditionally serves as his summer weight loss program, and that has been sorely absent the last two years. Mr. Rensenhouse has appeared in 18 previous productions here, ranging from Love’s Labor’s Lost to King Lear, and last fall played Prospero in the HASF co-production of The Tempest with UMKC. Most recently, he was seen as Morgan Fairchild’s husband in Don’t Dress For Dinner at the New Theatre. Kansas City born and bred, he attended Hocker Grove Junior High School and Shawnee Mission Northwest. He has performed major roles at the largest Shakespeare Festivals in the country, including those in Oregon, Utah and Alabama. He toured nationally with the Broadway productions of The Lion King and Noises Off and was once a TV idol on The Edge of Night. He happily makes his home again here in Our Town and serves as the Artistic Chair for Kansas City Actors Theatre.

Cinnamon Schultz*(Nurse) is very excited to be back out in the park with Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. She has appeared in previous productions of Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale and As You Like It to name a few. She is also a proud member of Kansas City Actors Theatre Artistic and Community Board where she has had the pleasure of being an actor and also a director for their stage. She has had the joy of 8 | HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

performing at several other theatres in Kansas City; The Unicorn Theatre, The Coterie Theatre, Theatre for Young America, KCRep, and New Theatre Restaurant.

While performing on stage, Cinnamon has also been quite busy in radio, television and film as well. She appeared as Victoria in the film Winter’s Bone, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and received four Oscar nominations in 2011 including Best Picture. Another position she thoroughly enjoys is being the head Acting professor for Kansas City Kansas Community College. Cinnamon lives in the KC area with her amazing children Scout and Leo. Jacques Roy* (Mercutio) is thrilled to be returning to HASF, where he has previously appeared in Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, King Lear, and Twelfth Night. In NY: Guerrilla Shakespeare Project (founding member), Hang a Tale, Fault Line Theatre, Hunger and Thirst. Regionally: Milwaukee Rep, Trinity Rep, American Players Theatre, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Rep, Rubicon Theatre. Jacques has also narrated over 100 audiobooks. MFA: Brown University / Trinity Rep. Justin Barron* (Tybalt) is overjoyed to be back at HASF where he has previously been in Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet, and numerous other script-in-hand performances and educational projects. When not on stage, Justin can be found running Ghostlight RPGs, an ever-growing Twitch/YouTube channel for community role-playing games. Love to Deanna, Quinn, and Ivy! Matt Rapport* (Friar Laurence) This summer marks Matt’s 20th production with HASF. Favorite past roles include Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Burbage in Shakespeare in Love, Oliver in As You Like It, Kent in King Lear, and many others. In addition to HASF, Matt has appeared on numerous stages throughout KC and abroad. He is currently the Director of Education for HASF and a teaching artist for many other arts organizations in the area. Matt is also an accomplished musician and juggler. Happy 30th Anniversary, HASF! Sam Cordes* (Benvolio) was “born in a trunk” in Kansas City, Missouri and has been doing professional theatre since the age of five. Sam has been seen on stage locally at KCRep, Unicorn Theatre, The Coterie, New Theatre and Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Sam received his B.F.A. in Theatre from Stephens College for Women in Columbia, MO and his M.F.A. in Theatre from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Sam currently works as an adjunct Professor of Theatre at Hastings College in Nebraska and is also the Producing Director of Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre. A theater troupe that creates original plays and tours them on bicycles to engage creative thinking about our collective future.

Erik Meixelsperger (Paris) is thrilled to make his HASF debut. Recent local credits include Bert in Mary Poppins and Joe in The Last Night Of Ballyhoo, both at The White Theatre. Erik returned to KC after living in Florida where he was able to work in the Asolo Repertory’s touring production of The Tempest, The Crucible, Oedipus Rex, The Rehearsal, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Delicate Ship — to name a few. Love to Amanda, Zoey, and Logan.

Collin Vorbeck (Lord Montague/Friar John) is blessed and humbled to be returning to the park in Romeo and Juliet. Previous experiences with HASF include Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet, King Lear, and others from farther back when he had a full head of hair. Collin recently completed his PhD at Texas Tech University, where he currently serves as Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar and coordinates curricula for interdisciplinary arts courses, ad-

Who’s Who in the Acting Company vises and mentors graduate teaching instructors, and awaits an opportunity to return home to KC for good.

Meredith Wolfe (Lady Montague, Masquer) is so grateful to be back in Southmoreland Park with Sidonie, this talented cast and crew, and all of you to celebrate the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s 30th season. She made her professional acting debut with the Festival in The Merry Wives of Windsor (2009) as Mistress Anne Page, and has been acting around Kansas City ever since. Most recently, she concluded a tour of The Snowy Day & Other Stories with Mesner Puppet Theater at the Center of Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, GA. Recent local productions include The Tempest (UMKC/HASF), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Midwest Trust Center/HASF) amongst various projects with the Festival over the past 2 years. When not performing, Meredith is a teaching artist with HASF, The Coterie, Mesner Puppet Theater, and BRTKC. As always, thanks to her Lion King for his love and encouragement, and thank you for continuing to support the arts!

JT Nagle (Balthasar) is thrilled to return to HASF where past credits include The Tempest in collaboration with UMKC. Other KC credits include The Pests, Picnic (KCAT), Bernhardt/Hamlet (Unicorn Theatre), Brainstorm (The Coterie), Twelfth Night, Hamlet (UMKC). Regional credits include Enemy of the People (Goodman Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado about Nothing, Midsummer (Muse of Fire). JT is the co-founder of the immersive theatre company, Visceral Theatre, and performs regularly with the KC Improv Company. Training: MFA, UMKC; BGS, University of Kansas.

Freddy Acevedo (Peter/Masquer) is a Chicano theatre artist from Forth Worth, TX. Education: UMKC (Acting MFA), LAByrinth Intensive Enemble. Recent work: La Intrevista (Playwright/Producer, KC Public Theatre), Día Y Noche (Actor, LAByrinth Theater Co.), & Ghost Light (Actor, KCRep).

Freddy has also had the pleasure of working with the Coterie, Unicorn, KCAT, and he is excited to return to the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival stage. Selected Credits: William Inge Theater Festival (Actor), LAByrinth Theater Co. (Actor/Director), A Call to Conscience Theatre for Social Change (Playwright), and Pachakutec (Karen Lisondra/Amado Espinoza, Bolivia Nat'l Tour). @freddyacevedo Weiyi Zhang (Masquer/Citizen of Verona) is excited to be a part of HASF as an actor. She would like to thank her fellow artists for believing in her, empowering her, putting trust in her and challenging her. She sends her love to her husband, Joseph, for supporting her and loving her for who she is. Finally, she would like to thank all those who have made the festival happen this year.

Kendra Keller (Masquer/Citizen of Verona) is thrilled to be part of the HASF return to the park this summer! Most recently, she took part in the joint production of The Tempest with HASF and UMKC. Before that, Kendra participated in JCCC Midwest Trust Center’s online production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, filmed at Yardley Hall. Work with HASF also includes Hamlet and Merchant of Venice, as well as educational programs Romeo & Juliet to Go and Heroes & Villains.

Keenan Manuel Ramos (Abraham/Watchman 3) is ecstatic to once again be back in the park under the stars. A proud alum of Kansas State University, he was last seen with HASF as Caliban during The Tempest in collaboration with UMKC. Keenan has performed at the Kennedy Center, Huntington Stage, and countless theatres across the country. However, Kansas City remains his home base, and he has been seen performing on the majority of stages in the city. Keenan would like to thank Sidonie for her incredible support and guidance, and his kids, who fill his heart with all the love in the universe. So let’s do a show about love under the stars, yeah?

Taylor Harlow (Understudy for Romeo) HASF debut!

Off-Broadway: Massacre (Sheen Center). Regional: Shape of the Stars (Strangemen Theatre), Hairspray (Quisisana Resort), …With the Earth Again (Gapeseed Theatre). NYC: Wilderness (EnGarde Arts), Our Class (Skirball Center), The Connection (International WowHaus). Local: A Christmas Carol (KCRep), Oklahoma! (MTH), Narnia (Starlight Theatre). Artist in residence: Barn Arts Collective, O’Neill Theater Center. BFA from Pace University. Founder of Astra Theatre Co. Pursuing an MFA in Directing this fall. Big love to the fam and Em. @HarlowTaylor

Joshua Gleeson (Sampson/An Apothecary/Watchman 1) is over the moon and back down again to once more return to the park for Romeo and Juliet. Other HASF performances include Much Ado About Nothing (Watchmen), Shakespeare in Love (Robin/Lady Capulet), and The Tempest (Trinculo) in collaboration with UMKC. Joshua’s most recent performance was playing Max in KCRep’s The Royale and his furthest performance was playing the Bridge in 3 Billy Goats Gruff for his Kindergarten class. He would like to thank Sidonie Garrett for this amazing opportunity and to the entire cast and crew who made it all possible. Of course, nothing is possible without all the love and support from his incredible wife Kaitlynn for whom he is eternally grateful for.

Chelsea Rolfes (Understudy for Juliet) is thrilled to spend the summer with Heart of America Shakespeare Festival for the first time. In May, she graduated from UMKC with an MFA in Acting. Recent credits include Dance Nation (Unicorn Theatre), The Tempest (HASF/UMKC), Dragons Love Tacos (The Coterie), Jane Eyre, Do You Feel Anger, Constellations and Antigonick (all UMKC). Outside of KC, she has worked with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, First Folio Theatre and Muse of Fire Theatre.

Solomon Langley (Gregory/Watchman 2) is from Smithfield, Virginia. Solomon loves storytelling and is very excited to be a part of this cast! Regional: Choir Boy (Zeider’s American Dream Theater), A Soldier’s Play (NSU Theatre Company, The Virginia Arts Festival), The Wiz, The Tempest and A Christmas Carol (Virginia Stage Company). Educational: The Colored Museum, Black Nativity, Motown Tribute, Gem of the Ocean, Once on This Island, The Color Purple, Luther Vandross Tribute, Ruined and Fences (Norfolk State University).

Education: BA in Drama and Theatre, Norfolk State University; first year MFA acting candidate at UMKC.

J. Will Fritz (Understudy for Benvolio) has been involved in several Heart of America Shakespeare Festival productions including The Tempest (in collaboration with UMKC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony & Cleopatra, As You Like It, A Winter’s Tale, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, and many others. You may have also seen him acting at the Coterie Theatre, the Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City Actors Theatre, Fishtank Theatre, Theatre for Young America, and other venues in the KC area. Most recently you may have caught him as Jeremy in the KC Public Theatre’s production of The Holy Trinity.

He is a graduate of UMKC, with a BA in Theatre Performance. Enjoy the show!

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Who’s Who in the Acting Company Tyler Lindquist (Understudy for Gregory, Abraham, Samson, Watchmen 1, 2, 3, Page to Paris) is honored to have the opportunity to help create Romeo and Juliet. Tyler is attending Avila University pursuing his degrees in Acting BFA and Theatre Education. Joining HASF’s production of Romeo and Juliet as a performance intern, he is the understudy for multiple roles. Tyler wants to give his gratitude to Sidonie Garrett and Matt Schwader for the wonderful opportunity and thank his family for their support and love throughout his continued journey.

Will Morris (Understudy for Balthasar, Apothecary/ Masquer/Pallbearer) is from Kansas City, Missouri. Will is thrilled to be a part of Romeo and Juliet at the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Regional: Macbeth (Team Shakespeare), Pour Elle (Lincoln’s Film Club), Sides of History (KC Fringe Festival), The Taming of the Shrew (Team Shakespeare), Much Ado About Nothing (Heart of America Shakespeare Festival). Education: A 2022 Lincoln College Preparatory Academy graduate, Will plans to study theater at the University of Missouri.

Our Production Team Rachel M. Dyer* (Production Stage Manager) Local: Production Stage Manager: Brother Toad, Man In Love, Lot’s Wife (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Morning’s at Seven (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Assistant Stage Manager: Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson- Apt. 2B, Fun Home, Pride & Prejudice, Last Days of Summer, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Between the Lines, Evita, Sunday in the Park with George, A Christmas Carol (20142019, 2021) (Kansas City Repertory Theatre).

Gene Emerson Friedman (Resident Scenic Designer) has served as designer in residence at Heart of America Shakespeare Festival since 1996. Recently you may have seen his designs for Don’t Dress For Dinner at the New Theater or Sweat at the Unicorn Theatre. His design work for the KCRep include A Christmas Carol, Death of a Salesman, Master Class, I’m Not Rappaport. Gene has also designed Gerald Freedman’s adaptations of A Christmas Carol (in its 32nd season) and People Who Led to My Plays at the Great Lakes Theater, where he has also designed The Dearest Friends, The Boor, The Enemies, The World of Sholom Aleichem and What the Butler Saw. Other designs include: Calderon’s Life is a Dream (New York’s Lincoln Center Educational Outreach); Second City Does Arizona (Arizona Theatre Company); The Music Man, Carousel, La Cage aux Folles (Stages-Saint Louis); and Death and the Maiden (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). In 2016, Friedman was honored by the Folger Library’s United States tour of Shakespeare’s First Folio and the Kansas City Library in an exhibition Shakespeare; Setting The Stage. This exhibition included 28 of Friedman’s scenic designs for Shakespeare’s plays from the previous 20 years. Gene is an Associate Professor and Head of Scenic Design at UMKC Conservatory.

Martin English (Co-Fight Director) is pleased to work with HASF again, having teamed with Bill Warren in past years to choreograph Shakespeare in Love, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, King Lear, As You Like It, Macbeth, Richard III, and others. Martin has also choreographed for Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Starlight, The Coterie and Unicorn Theatre and is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors. Martin’s other fight choreography credits include Camelot, Jekyll & Hyde, Treasure Island, Zorro, Othello, The Prince and the Pauper, and Pirates of Penzance.

Ward Everhart (Resident Lighting Designer /Production Manager) has been HASF’s Production Manager and Lighting Designer for 29 seasons. Ward’s history with the Festival began in 1991, prior to the first season of HASF, when he was the Lighting Designer for the Festival Gala, starring Kevin Kline.

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co-production designers for Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis’ 2001 inaugural season and their production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Kansas City audiences are familiar with Ward’s Production/Lighting design work for the Folly Theatre, Friends of Chamber Music, the Harriman Arts Program at William Jewell College, Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Heart of America Youth Ballet, Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s education touring productions of Charlotte’s Web and the world premiere of The Giver and the Kansas City Symphony’s Magic of Christmas.

Kaleb Krahn (Technical Director) is so excited to be back with the Shakespeare team for another summer at the park after our absence. He received his B.S. from Cavalry University and M.F.A. in Technical Theatre & Design from UMKC. This is Kaleb’s sixth production with HASF, and he is thrilled to add the classic play, Romeo and Juliet to his portfolio. When Kaleb is not building sets for theatre, he runs his own business as a handyman. He is grateful for his supportive wife, three energetic boys, and a God who continues to love and work through such an unworthy vessel as himself.

Greg Mackender (Resident Composer and Sound Supervisor) is looking forward to this production of Romeo and Juliet, his 36th composing design for the festival (and third Romeo and Juliet), where he is Resident Composer and Sound Supervisor. In 2020, he co-composed (w/Amado Espinosa) music for the HASF production of The Tempest, which was eventually produced on Spencer Stage in collaboration with UMKC in the fall of 2021. His 2015 composition for the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis’s production of Antony and Cleopatra earned him ‘Best Sound in a Play’ from the St. Louis Theatre Circle. He has written extensively for The Coterie (17 productions), Missouri Repertory Theatre (now KCRep, 25 productions), Kansas City Actors Theatre (founding member, 18 productions), and Unicorn Theatre (13 productions).

Mackender is a professor of Sound Design in the theatre department at the University of Missouri, and teaches Audio in the Film Department at the Kansas City Art Institute. He is on the executive board of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA).

Bradley Meyer (Props Artisan) is a professional educator who recently moved to Kansas City to study Scenic Design at UMKC. In Iowa he taught Family and Consumer Science as well as directed speech and theatre programs at the high school level. He was recently appointed as the resident scenic designer for Whim Productions. Some of his recent design credits include Do You Feel Anger? at UMKC and an upcoming production of Last Summer at Bluefish Cove. * Denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Our Production Team Thomas Newby (Co-Sound Designer/Head Sound Engineer) has been making music, film and live theatre for the past 15 years. He’s a cofounder of the Green Zoo Arts Collective and has released several albums as vocalist and songwriter for his two bands, The Green Zoo and By Fire and Sword.

He’s written and produced several original plays with his theatre company Green Zoo Theatre. His play, Waiting Games was chosen as a regional finalist for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival. He’s currently a sound design MFA candidate at UMKC. He’s a gifted whistler.

Mary Robinson (Co-Composer/Co-Sound Designer) is an active composer and sound designer from Saint Louis. Beginning her studies in vocal performance, she eventually switched her primary focus to music composition. Her first opportunity to score sound for theatre occurred during her final undergraduate year, when she was asked to compose original underscoring for Qui Nguyen’s She Kills Monsters. Since arriving in Kansas City, she has credits for both sound design and composition with UMKC, Unicorn Theatre, The Coterie, MSU, JCCC, and Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Her composition and design work can also be heard regularly on Kansas City Actor’s Radio Theater, both on KKFI 90.1FM and on the KCART podcast channel.

Tracy Terstriep-Herber (Period Movement Choreographer) has choreographed nationally for stage, film, and television. Highlights include PBS’ Emmy-nominated Winter Dreams: the F. Scott Fitzgerald Story, Late Night with David Letterman, and True Bromance. Performance highlights: Original Broadway casts of The Producers, Fosse, A Christmas Carol. The Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival’s Shakespeare Lab. National Tour and Regional highlights: Chicago, Will Rogers Follies, Funny Girl, Pippin, A Chorus Line. Locally, she has choreographed and been on facul-

ty at UMKC, KU, The Kansas City Ballet, and Pembroke Hill High School. She has collaborated with KCRep on A Christmas Carol and Sweeney Todd. This is Tracy’s eighth season with Heart of America Shakespeare Festival – As You Like It, A Winter’s Tale, King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Shakespeare in Love.

Mary Traylor (Resident Costume Designer) is a Kansas City designer who has been creating costumes for the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival for 27 years. Her designs for opera have appeared at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Washington National Opera, Michigan Opera, Calgary Opera, Minnesota Opera, and opera companies in Austin, Texas and Orlando, Florida. Locally she has created costumes for the University of Kansas opera, UMKC Conservatory Opera, New Theatre Restaurant, Starlight Theater, Coterie Theatre, and Unicorn Theatre.

William Grey Warren (Co-Fight Director) has been fight directing for more years than he’s willing to admit. Bill has an MFA from UMKC in Acting and Directing. Bill along with Martin English have been the resident Fight Directors for Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Some favorite past memorable fights include Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and previous productions of Romeo and Juliet. Bill has choreographed fights on almost every main stage theatre in the area including, Starlight, New Theatre, the Heartland Theatre, and Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Bill has been a member of the Society of American Fight Directors and has been teaching Stage Combat for many years at Avila University — and can still do a roll. Bill’s favorite Avila fight credits were choreographing fights for Zombies in, Night of the Living Dead.

HASF Camp Shakespeare and Education Programs a camp experience he or she will never forget! Camp Shakespeare combines acting with sword fighting and stagecraft. Camp Shakespeare programs for summer 2022 are offered in June and July in Brookside and South Kansas City, for students 8-18. Enroll now online at www.kcshakes.org or by calling 816-231-7728.

The Festival thanks our Education Sponsors: Theater League, Missouri Arts Council, Camps for Kids, IN Kansas City and the Oppenstein Brothers Foundation.

Camp Host Sites: Alexander Majors Barn, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church The Festival offers year-round workshops for schools, churches, libraries and community groups and is a proud member of Young Audiences’ Arts Partners program, serving school districts through the metropolitan area.

We offer in-class workshops and touring performances.

Offerings are listed on our website at www.kcshakes.org.

Custom programs are also available. Contact Director of Education Matt Rapport at mrapport@kcshakes.org or at 816-531-7728 to discuss options.

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Our Staff Sidonie Garrett (Executive Artistic Director) is the Executive Artistic Director of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival where she directed Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, King Lear and Twelfth Night, all awarded Best Play in Pitch Magazine’s BEST OF KC. She directed previous productions including The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet (2003, awarded Best Play by Pitch Magazine), Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, King Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Richard III, Macbeth, rotating repertory productions of Antony and Cleopatra and A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It. Sidonie directed the collaboration project, The Merchant of Venice, presented by the Jewish Community Center and Johnson County Community College and The Tempest, in collaboration with the UMKC Conservatory Division of Theatre both indoors. During the pandemic, she directed filmed projects for HASF; Shakespeare at Home, William Shakespeare’s Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for JCCC’s Midwest Trust Center, Show-Me Shakespeare, Red Bike for Unicorn Theatre and Twelfth Night for UMKC Conservatory Department of Theatre. Prior to joining the Festival, Sidonie worked as a freelance director. Her first projects were with her producing partner Jan Rogge and their company, Ground Zero Productions. Sidonie directed the off-Broadway production of Thanatos and was Assistant Director for the off-Broadway premiere of the interactive Aunt Chooch's Birthday Party. Locally she’s directed at Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City Actors Theatre, The Coterie Theatre, American Heartland Theatre, UMKC, The J, Fourth Wall Productions and staged readings at KCRep. She directed a script-in-hand reading of Much Ado About Nothing as part of the First Folio exhibition at the KC Public Library, a gender reversed reading of The Taming of the Shrew and eight plays in the first KC One Minute Play Festival.

For HASF she has directed collaborations with the Bach Aria Soloists, the Grammy Award-winning Kansas City Chorale, Kansas City Ballet, Kansas City Symphony, JCCC’s Performing Arts Series, Kansas City Actors Theatre, KCRep, the Kansas City Museum and many other partners. In fall/winter 2022 she will direct ShakesFEAR presented on the lawn of the Kansas City Museum, Women of Note, an HASF collaboration of word and song featuring female characters and composers with the Bach Aria Soloists and The Sound Inside for Unicorn Theatre.

Clarate Heckler (Director of Operations and Community Relations) began working with the Festival during the summer of 2018 as an administrative intern. In 2019 she was pleased to join HASF full time as the Director of Operations and Community Relations, managing administrative matters, coordinating volunteer activities and interns, and overseeing daily operations. Clarate graduated Summa Cum Laude from UMKC where she earned a BA in Communication Studies: emphasis in Journalism/Mass Communication and a Minor in Art History.

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Philip blue owl Hooser is an award-winning writer for and about the Theatre. Most recently seen as Arnold (Torch Song Trilogy), Truman Capote in the one-man show Tru, The General in the award-winning film Democrasaurus Rex, and originated the roles of Tom Sawyer (In Regard to Flight) and Tom Pendergast in the new musical Truman and Pendergast. His produced work includes more than 30 plays (and screenplays). As a storyteller/ writing coach, he has been featured at many venues in the area, appeared on the RISK! podcast, and led workshops for MCPL’s Story Centre, The Coterie Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, KCRep, and the Writer’s Place.

Felicia Hardison Londré, UMKC Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emerita of Theatre and HASF Honorary Co-Founder, is completing four years of total immersion in bringing Molière to Kansas City. As president of KC Molière: 400 in 2022, she worked with a vast team of volunteers to celebrate the great comic playwright’s 400th birthday (January 15, 2022). The Pests, her verse translation of Molière’s Les Fâcheux, has just been published by Broadway Play Publishing. Career highlights include Fulbright study in France (1962-63), a visiting professorship at Hosei University, Tokyo (1993), ATHE Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education (2001), Betty Jean Jones Outstanding Teacher of American Theatre/Drama (2011), and a term as Dean of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center (2013-15).

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Sydney Leigh Normile (Development and Marketing Associate) began working with the Festival in summer 2018 as an administrative intern. She now serves as the Development and Marketing Associate with areas of focus including fundraising, marketing, grant writing, and community outreach.

Sydney graduated from the University of Hull in England, where she received her Master’s Degree in Theatre Making in January of 2020. In her spare time, she enjoys directing and acting regionally.

Matt Rapport (Director of Education) first started teaching for the Festival’s Camp Shakespeare program when it began in 1997. He has taught for HASF ever since. He assumed the position of Director of Education in 2013 where it is his pleasure to lead Team Shakespeare, Shakespeare Conservatory, the pre-show parody, and all of the education work HASF does to share Shakespeare with the KC community. HASF education programs run yearround and include studio classes, in-school workshops and residencies, touring productions, summer camps, performances, lectures, and many other workshops and activities. In addition to being a Teaching Artist and HASF Director of Education, Matt is an accomplished actor, director, musician, and performer with many credits in Kansas City and abroad.

Marilyn Strauss is a former Broadway producer who returned to her hometown from New York. There she co-produced five plays, earning a Tony Award for the Irish drama, Da, an Off-Broadway Award (Obie) for Getting Out and a Tony nomination for the musical Pump Boys and Dinettes. Her fellow producer and founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, the legendary Joseph Papp, shared with her a mission: Help her hometown join the ranks of the 120 cities in North America with Shakespeare festivals.

She worked full-time, refusing recompense, to create the only Shakespeare Festival in the area.

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Carter Community Memorial Trust, UMB, n.a., Trustee Lockton Companies, LLC McMeel Family Foundation Missouri Arts Council Francis Family Foundation Edward P. Milbank Jim and Diana Cusser* Dr. Blake and Lisa Wendelburg* Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation Peter G. and Elizabeth Torosian Foundation Dr. Scott and Bernadette Ashcraft* Dr. Mark Box Robb & Robb LLC Charitable Foundation/Gary C. Robb and Anita Porte Robb W. J. Brace Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee William T. Kemper – Commerce Bank, Trustee $5,000 – $9,999 ArtsKC Judy and Joel Cerwick

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