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French Creek
THEATRE
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) [REVISED] Originally produced by Reduced Shakespeare Company
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] is produced By special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc. NYC www.braodwayplaypub.com
SPECIAL THANKS Special Thanks to Ohio Shakespeare Festival for actor housing
–– PLEASE NOTE ––
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited
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CAST Hannah Watson.............................................................................as herself Reid Henry........................................................................................as himself Mia Radabaugh...............................................................................as herself
PRODUCTION TEAM Director...................................................................................Tess Burgler Stage Manager...........................................................Julie Billinghurst Assistant Stage Manager..............................................Jessica Dupee Scenic Designer.............................................................Douglas Puskas Assistant Scenic Designer......................................Stephen Menard Resident Sound Designer/Electrician/ Rigger/Special Effects/Carpenter.............................Stan Kozak Costume Designer.................................................Lainne Amelia Davis Run Crew/Tech Team................................................Gretchen Woods Run Crew/Tech Team...........................................................Wes Carney Fight Direction......................................................................Ryan Zarecki Cultural Arts Programmer..............................................Erin Moran
Original Othello Tune by Scott McKenna Campbell
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CAST H A N N A H WATSON is overjoyed to be returning to the stage with this hilarious cast after the chaos of Covid. She was last seen onstage in The Odd Couple (female version) at Workshop Players, Nightbloom Theatre Co’s inaugural production of I’m Alive You Bastards And I Always Will Be, and the 41st Annual Marilyn Bianchi Kids Playwriting Festival at Dobama Theatre. She would like to extend love and gratitude to her family at Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston for helping her grow and teaching her the ins and outs of the business, to Casey and Erin for making sure she found her way back to acting after a 5 year haitus, and to Logan for helping her learn lines and listening to her practice all of the weird voices and noises to him and the cats. REID HENRY is a Chicago based actor, incredibly glad to be making his return to the stage after a nearly two year hiatus. He was most recently seen in Indiana University Theatre’s production of
Titus Andronicus, Jewish Theatre of Bloomington’s Leipzig, All’s Well that Ends Well and Romeo and Juliet for Ohio Shakespeare Festival. He hopes everyone stays safe, so we can all keep enjoying the theatre together in person. MIA RADABAUGH is honored to playfully poke fun at The Bard to make Shakespeare accessible to audiences in such a fun way. She has been active in the Northeast Ohio theater scene for the past three years after taking a 15 year hiatus to work up the corporate ladder. Mia holds a BFA in Acting from Ohio University. Some of her recent credits include Twelfth Night (Maria), God of Carnage (Annette), and virtual productions of The Seagull (Arkadina), Clue (Mrs. Peacock), As You Like It (Audrey), and Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice). Some of her favorite stage credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Martha), On the Verge (Alex), Emma (Miss Bates) and Tartuffe (Elmire). She has performed all over northeast Ohio, most notably at Avenue Arts, Western Reserve Playhouse, Ensemble Theatre, Cassidy Theatre, and Rubber City Theatre. As always she would like to thank her mom, husband and friends for always supporting Pg. 5 her.
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PRODUCTION TEAM: TESS BURGLER (Director) is happy to direct her first show for French Creek Theatre. She has been a working professional actor for nearly 30 years. Her home theatre is in Akron with The Ohio Shakespeare Festival, where she is a resident acting company member and also the Managing Director. Favorite roles there include Hamlet, Rosalind, d’Artagnan, and Joan of Arc. She also directs for the Festival, most recently for SHE KILLS MONSTERS and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, and for four consecutive years, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED). She loves stage combat, The Office, reading, Shakespeare, her pets; but she loves nothing more than husband Ryan and baby girl Zelda. JULIE BILLINGHURST (Stage Manager) is happy to be the SM for French Creek’s outdoor summer season! It’s so great to be back doing live theatre again! She has been stage managing for FC Theatre for the past 6 years. Some of her favorites include She Loves Me, The Drowsy Chaperone and The Last Five Years. Enjoy this fun and silly show with Frog and Toad! Special thanks to the amazing cast and crew! Teamwork makes the dream work! JESSICA DUPEE (Assistant Stage Manager) is so excited to continue working on the French Creek Theatre 2021 summer season as the Assistant Stage Manager for The Pg. 6 CompleteWorksofWilliam
Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]! She has worked professionally for Ohio theatres including Ohio Shakespeare Festival, Porthouse Theatre, and Weathervane Playhouse. Favorite FCT credits include the cast of Patrick Barlow’s A Christmas Carol and ASM for She Loves Me and A Year with Frog and Toad. Thank you to my family and friends for their love and support. Huzzah! DOUGLAS PUSKAS (Scenic Designer) is a designer for themed entertainment. Originally from Avon Lake, Ohio, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati: College Conservatory of Music with a BFA in Scenic Design. His design work ranges from small, intimate theaters to Broadway productions. When not touring, Douglas splits his time between Cleveland and Los Angeles. Previously for French Creek Theater: Last 5 Years, White Christmas, Odd Couple, Jekyll and Hyde and many more. STAN KOZAK (resident sound designer electrician, rigger, special effects, carpenter…) is credited for dozens of productions here at the French Creek Theater. Recently he also has served as sound designer/mentor/systems tech for the Breen Center for the Performing Arts. He is currently in his thirty-fifth seasons at Great Lakes Theater, has more than 50 design credits include Bat Boy: The Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Comedy of Errors. Amadeus, You Can’t Take It With You, Private Lives, Into the Woods and the Tom Hanks’ benefit performances. His work in 1979
ACTOR/ACTRESS BIOS and 1981 with Geraldine Fitzgerald on Streetsongs at GLTF led to the original cast album. Mr. Kozak was the resident sound designer for four seasons at the Porthouse Theatre Company, including productions of Driving Miss Daisy, Niteclub Confidential and And a Nightingale Sang. His collaborations with Victoria Bussert at BaldwinWallace College include productions of Chess, Hair, Company, Cabaret, West Side Story, Tommy in Concert, Parade, the Ohio premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, and one of the first nonprofessional productions of Phantom of the Opera. For Cain Park, his design credits include Secret Garden, Fiddler on the Roof, Grease, Bat Boy, Tick, tick…Boom, Nine, The Wiz, Harold and Maude and Pippin. Mr. Kozak has also designed sound for Wit and Last Five Years for the Dobama Theater, Iolanthe and Sweeney Todd for the Cleveland Opera, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and Forbidden Broadway SVU for the Hanna Theatre and A Shayna Maidel, Brooklyn Boy and Pangs of the Messiah for the JCC. He has served as sound designer for the All-City Musical for the Cleveland school system for thirteen seasons. He also had the good fortune to have worked with Bebe Neuwirth in her concert performance for the Ideastream Gala in 2005. He was honored to be among the first group of LORT sound designers to achieve recognition in USA 829. LAINNE AMELIA DAVIS (Costume Designer) is thrilled to work on her first production at French Creek Theatre! She has worked on
productions in many theatres in the Cleveland Area. She would like to thank her cats for always supporting her to follow her dreams. GRETCHEN WOODS (run crew/tech team) is excited to return for her 10th show at French Creek Theater! When she’s not building sets, making papiermâché cows, running a spotlight, sewing patches on curtains or buttons on costumes, helping with prop changes, or shooting confetti onstage, Gretchen can be found creating a makeshift chipmunk haven in her yard (or buying yet another bag of birdseed for the pampered pests). Many thanks to her family for putting up with all of the late nights and improvised meals that go along with (community) showbiz! WES CARNEY (Run Crew/Tech Team) is excited to be working on his seventh show at French Creek Theatre! Wes is a Lakewood High School alumnus where he was heavily involved in the Barnstormers Drama Club and was inducted into the International Thespian Society. While he has filled several acting roles in the past, Wes’s true passion lies in scenic design, technical direction, set construction, run crews, spotlight operation, and plenty of other backstage roles. Wes was the scenic designer and technical director for French Creek Theatre’s ‘Ordinary Days’ earlier this season. Wes loves the tech team that he works with at French Creek Theatre and hopes to have many more shows with them.
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COMING SOON!