of Decency 3: Blue Coyote; Dear Ruth: Retro Productions; The Fourth Estate, Mr. Sensitivity: NY Fringe; Misalliance: NY Classical. Training: BFA (Theatre Nepean, Sydney); Primary Stages; LAByrinth. www.davidsedgwick.com DOUGLAS SELDIN sixth season (Ensemble in Mother Courage; Summer Training Institute Staff; Linklater Designation Workshop Liaison) S&Co: The Liar (Cliton), Tartuffe (Title Role), Macbeth New England Tour (Banquo, Porter), Richard III (Grey), The Winter’s Tale (Dion), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, All’s Well That Ends Well, Wild and Whirling Words. At Worcester Shakespeare Co.: Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Ephesus), Hamlet (Laertes), Macbeth (Ross), Much Ado About Nothing (Borachio). Other Regional Credits: The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare on the Sound); Three Sisters (Saratoga Arts Festival). Doug holds a BS in Theatre from Skidmore College and was a founding member of The Conservatory at Shakespeare & Company. He is also a Certified Advanced ActorCombatant through Dueling Arts International & The Society of American Fight Directors.
(Stage Manager). New York Credits: Page 73 Productions: Sleeping Rough; Lincoln Center Theatre: The Nance; Kindling Theatre: The Future is Not What it Was; NYCFRINGE: The Dick and the Rose; Playwrights Horizons: Rapture, Blister, Burn; Assistance; Milk like Sugar; The Juilliard School: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Top Girls; The Bartered Bride. Regional Credits: Shakespeare Theatre of NJ: Man of la Mancha. Training: Ithaca College BA Drama/English. Gérald Sibleyras (Playwright, Heroes) In the English-speaking world, Sibleyras is best known for Heroes, Tom Stoppard’s 2005 translation into English of Sibleyras’s 2003 play, Le vent des peupliers. His next play L’Inscription was produced in Paris and later in Poland. La Danse de L’Albatros premiered in Paris in 2006. Une Heure et Demie de Retard (An Hour And A Half Late, 2005) adapted by Mel Smith, was produced in England and toured for several months. In 2003 Un Petit Jeu Sans Consequence (Consequences) was awarded 5 Moliere Awards. The screenplay is in development with Focus Film
William Shakespeare (Playwright, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Richard II, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream) was an English poet and playwright (1564–1616) widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 37 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Atalanta (Atty) Siegel first season (Helena/ Fairie/Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Scenic Painter) is an actor and scenic artist from Washington DC. After being introduced to performing Shakespeare through Lumina Studios at age 12, she has continuously been acting and working in theater. She attended Oberlin College and Queen Mary University of London for Theater Arts and English. Previous performances include: SubUrbia (Oberlin College), Fewer Emergencies (Pinter Theater of London), Much Ado About Nothing (OSTF), and Keely and Du (Shakespeare & Company Fringe Festival)
TORI SHEEHAN second season (Production Assistant of Love’s Labor’s Lost; Stage Manager of Broadway in the Berkshires, Pearl, and DibbleDance: SWAY) S&Co: Measure for Measure, Wordplay, and Preludes 2009
TONY SIMOTES† founding member (Director & Fight Choreographer of Mother Courage; Director of Studio Series’ The Waiting Room and A Thousand Words, Director of It’s A Wonderful
Life: A Live Radio Play; Artistic Director & President) Tony is a Master Teacher of Fight and Movement and has been one of the Company’s Artistic Associates since 1995. S&Co Director: The Tempest (with Olympia Dukakis), The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Santaland Diaries (three times), Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) (three times) plus many others. He’s been an Associate Director and Fight Director on many of Tina Packer’s shows over the years and together they have created some of the Company’s most inspired productions. His work as a fight choreographer and director has been featured from coast to coast from the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and its world premieres of Green Card by Joanne Akalaitis and The Waiting Room by Lisa Loomer to the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theater New York premiere’s of The Woods by David Mamet. Recent directing credits include: War of the Worlds by Howard Koch and The Water Engine by David Mamet which were both broadcast live on Wisconsin Public Radio and NPR, The Nerd for Madison Repertory Theatre and Fight Direction for Macbeth at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. Internationally his work has been featured at The Stage X Festival in Brisbane Australia, The Canadian Stage Company in Toronto and in Vancouver at Theater 48 New Play Festival, just to name a few. Mr. Simotes’ desire to establish new technology in the development/research area of actor training lead to establishing a core stable of actors at Raven Soft Ware of Middleton, Wisconsin for training in Motion Capture Acting and Voice Overs for Raven’s game technology division. This collaboration was featured on NPR’s Market Place. Mr. Simotes also works as an actor and is a proud member of AEA, SAG and AFTRA. Film roles include: Father of the Bride II, Terminator II, Hot Shots, Alien Nation, The Waterdance, Pacific Heights, Maid to Order,
A Class Act, Whose Life is It Anyway, and a starring role in the Academy Award nominated Bronx Cheers for Best Live Action Short Film. TV: “Buddy Rich” for CBS’ Sinatramini-series, fight choreography for ABC News “What would you do?” with John Quinones, and many other primetime shows. Mr. Simotes spent six years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was a full professor and Director of University Theatre. To my Lucy, I have only one true partner! ERIC SIRAKIAN second season (Moth in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Assistant Director for Mother Courage). S&Co: King Lear (Gentleman/ Ensemble). Yale: Orlando (Queen Elizabeth/ Ensemble), Romeo and Juliet (Paris/Prince), The Real Thing (Max), Twelfth Night (Malvolio), and Coriolanus (Brutus). International: RADA: Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses). As director: A Prayer for Owen Meany. Eric is a rising junior studying English and theater at Yale University. He is a codirector of the undergraduate theater company Control Group, and will direct Anna in the Tropics for the Yale Dramat in the fall. ROCCO SISTO* founding member (Richard in Richard II) S&Co: Seen last season as Caliban in The Tempest. Broadway: To Be Or Not To Be (Manhatten Theatre Club), Amadeus (Music Box Theatre), A Month In The Country (Roundabout Theatre), The Comedy Of Errors (Lincoln Center); Recent Off Broadway: Old Fashioned Prostitutes (Public Theater), Volpone (Red Bull Theater), Iphenia 2.0 (Signature Theatre). Regional theatre credits include ACT-Seattle and Seattle Rep., Mark Taper -L.A., The Guthrie, Dallas Theatre Center, Center Stage Baltimore, among others. Films include Donnie Brasco, Frequency, Eraser, Illuminata, Carlito’s Way and the cult hit The American Astronaut. Television: “Mildred Pierce”, “The Sopranos”, “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: C.I.”, “Homicide”, “C.S.I.”, “666 Park Ave.”, “Star Trek T.N.G.”, “Alias”, “N.Y.P.D. Blue”, Awards: OBIE winner for Sustained Excellence, OBIE for The Winter’s Tale (Public Theatre) OBIE and Drama Desk nomination and Drama League Award for Quills (N.Y.T.W.). He holds an MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program. Student of Peter Kass.
The world’s mine oyster. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINSDOR, II.ii DAVID SEDGWICK*
Atalanta (Atty) Siegel
ROCCO SISTO*
Douglas Seldin
TONY SIMOTES†
ERIC SIRAKIAN
JOE CACACI†
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