Shakespeare in Love

October 19–November 26

Shakespeare in Love
Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
Directed by Blake Robison

A ROWDY, ROMANTIC ROMP

“Shall I compare thee to a something something… mummers play?” And so begins one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, and this charming story of love, inspiration, muses, and art, based on the Oscar-winning film. This smart and poignant tale offers a smattering of allusions that will delight anyone familiar with the Bard—or simply the English language. This story is as crowd-pleasing as mistaken identities, a shipwreck, and love triumphant, and is set in a time when a Londoner could still utter the words: “Shakespeare? Never heard of him.” A great play for the entire family.

“A big-hearted hit.” –Variety

Content Advisory: A bawdy tale of love contains some mature themes and sexual situations making this more suitable for audiences from middle school and beyond.

Approximate runtime is 2 hours and 25 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission.

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Nicholas Carriere*
Will Shakespeare

Avery Glymph*
Marlowe / Priest / Ensemble

John Plumpis*
Fennyman / Catling / Ensemble

David Whalen*
Ned Alleyn / Lambert / Ensemble

Michael Fajardo*
Frees / Wabash / Heavy 1 / Ensemble

Barzin Akhavan*
Henslowe / Ensemble

Brent Harris*
Burbage / Barman / Ensemble

Liz Daingerfield
Mistress Quickly / Waitress / Kate / Abraham / Ensemble

Meatball
Spot

Marquis D. Gibson
Adam / Heavy 2 / Ensemble

Wynn Harmon*
Tilney / Sir Robert de Lesseps / Ensemble

Naomi Jacobson*
Queen Elizabeth / Molly / Ensemble

Bari Robinson*
Nol / Valentine / Ensemble

Taha Mandviwala
Peter / Proteus / Guard 2 / Ensemble

Emily Trask*
Viola de Lesseps / Ensemble

Laura Gordon*
Nurse / Ensemble

Jefferson A. Russell*
Ralph / Ensemble

Jamal James*
Robin / Guard 1 / Boatman / Ensemble

Clark Furlong
Webster / Ensemble

Michael Brusasco*
Wessex / Ensemble

Richard Buchanan
Sam / Ensemble

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Broadway—The Tempest. Off-Broadway—Roundabout, NY Shakespeare Festival, The Drama Dept, Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Regional—Northern Stage: Macbeth; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Tempest, Coriolanus/Wallenstein; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Dorset Theatre; Cleveland Play House; The Old Globe: The Whipping Man (West Coast premiere); TheaterWorks Hartford; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Syracuse Stage; Crossroads Theatre Company (Regional Tony Season); Cape Fear Regional Theatre. Film/TV—Against the Current, Last Ball, He Got Game (dir. Spike Lee), 13 Conversations About One Thing, I’m with Lucy, Madam Secretary, Forever, A Gifted Man, Ugly Betty, Oz, Law & Order, Law & Order: CI, The Electric Company, The X-Files. Awards—Best Ensemble, Best Production for All The Way, St. Louis Critics Circle Award winner, San Diego Critics Circle Award Nominee and NAACP Theatre Award Nominee for The Whipping Man. Education—BFA North Carolina School of the Arts; MFA: STC Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University. AveryGlymph.com

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. National Tours—Barrymore (starring Christopher Plummer, also 2011 film), The Lion King, Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Off Broadway—Company member at TACT (28 productions as actor or director), Mint Theatre, Primary Stages, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons. Regional—select credits include Yale Rep, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Portland Center Stage, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Theatre, Portland Stage, PlayMakers Rep, Delaware Theatre Company, University of Delaware Rep, Kansas City Rep. Film/TV—Till There Was You, Law & Order: SVU, The Good Wife, 7th Heaven. Teaching—Guest teacher at over 50 colleges/universities across the nation, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festivals, and faculty at Montclair State University. Some of his thoughts on the Theatre have been published in the Northwest Theatre Review. Education—MFA: University of Delaware. @johnplumpis.

Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night. Credits include over 100 productions, and over a dozen world and American premieres: The Guthrie, Roundabout, South Coast Rep (10 productions), Alley Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public (10 productions), City Theatre (7 productions), Arden Theatre, Folger, Hartford Stage, Everyman Theatre, Roundhouse, Huntington Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Peoples Light & Theatre, Venice’s Bienalle Festival, Playmakers Rep, among others. Awards—Performer of the Year (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Kevin Kline Award for Best Actor (The Lieutenant of Inishmore). Barrymore (Opus, Take Me Out-Best Production), Helen Hayes (Hamlet, Best Production). Film/TV—American Pastoral, Southpaw, The Last Witch Hunter, The Fault in Our Stars, Jack Reacher, Insomnia, Bystander, The Last Samaritan, The First Seal, 61*, I’ll Call You, The Xmas Tree, Black Dahlia, My Bloody Valentine, True Blue, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, Without Warning, Three Rivers, Pensacola, Silk Stalkings, Diagnosis: Murder, All My Children, The Guiding Light. davidwhalenactor.com.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Regional—Cincinnati Playhouse: Shakespeare in Love, Disgraced. San Jose Rep, Arizona Theatre Company: The Kite Runner (SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Best Lead Actor nom); Berkeley Rep, Lookingglass, Arena: Arabian Nights; CATF: Lidless, Inana; Guthrie, Folger: Pericles; Seattle Rep: Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet; Virginia Stage: Poetry of Pizza; Merrimack Rep: The Persian Quarter; Mixed Blood Theatre: Vestibular Sense; Marin Theatre: The Invisible Hand; Waterwell: Hamlet (a Farsi/English production); American Conservatory Theater, Theatre Calgary: A Thousand Splendid Suns (world premiere) Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Idaho Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Tour—New York Theatre Workshop, ArKtype international tour: Aftermath. Film/TV—Anniversary, The Jew of Malta, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Smash. Education—MFA: University of Washington.

Baltimore Center Stage: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Broadway/Off Broadway—Pearl Theatre: Richard III; The Actors Company Theatre: Long Island Sound; Promenade Theatre: Tryst. Tours—The Screwtape Letters, The Lion King (Scar). Regional—Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: Exit the King, The Guardsman, The Alchemist, Henry IV, To Kill A Mockingbird, Timon of Athens; Portland Center Stage: Twelfth Night, The Beard of Avon (Drammy Award for Outstanding Leading Actor); Philadelphia Theatre Company: Orson’s Shadow (Barrymore Award nomination); American Repertory Theatre: Ajax (IRNE Award nomination); Pittsburgh Public Theatre: L’Hotel; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Present Laughter, Much Ado About Nothing, Dr. Faustus; Denver Center Theatre Co.: Measure for Measure, Amadeus, Noises Off ; Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale; Actors Theatre of Louisville: Heartbreak House; Seattle Repertory Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Syracuse Stage: Macbeth, Dracula. Film/TV—Out of the Box, Guiding Light.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Broadway—Porgy and Bess (The Detective, telecast “Live from Lincoln Center” on PBS). Off-Broadway—credits include Mint Theater Company: The Lucky One; The Pearl Theater Company: As You Like It; Musical Theater Works: The New Yorkers. International—Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and Opéra National de Bordeaux: Candide (Voltaire/Dr. Pangloss); Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman: The Music Man. Regional—credits include The Kennedy Center: Lost in the Stars, Showboat, Candide (upcoming); Cincinnati Playhouse, Arena Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, The Alley Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, The Glimmerglass Festival, multiple Shakespeare festivals and The Constant Wife plus ten Shakespeare productions at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. TV—All My Children (Trevor Babcock); The Knick (Mayor Robert Van Wyck). Film—credits include Paper Cranes. Education—American Conservatory Theatre: MFA. Awards—Helen Hayes Award nom; The Edwin E. Stein Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Baltimore Center Stage: Edgar Allan Poe. New York—Atlantic Theatre: Scenes From An Execution (Galactia). Regional—Arena Stage: A View from the Bridge (Beatrice); The Goodman: Mary Zimmerman’s Pericles (Bawd/Lychorida); Shakespeare Theatre Company: Richard ll (Duchess of York, Helen Hayes Award), Julius Caesar (Calpurnia); Woolly Mammoth Theatre: 20 year Company Member, Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Hermia, premiere), The Unmentionables (Nancy); Signature Theatre: God Of Carnage (Veronica); Arizona Theatre Company: Ten Chimneys (Louise, premiere); Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Henry VIII (Katherine); Wolf Trap Opera: The Inspector (The Inspector, premiere); Ford’s Theatre: State Of The Union (Norah/Grace Draper); Kennedy Center; Berkshire Theatre Festival; Milwaukee Rep; Round House Theatre, Olney Theatre Center; Delaware Theatre Company. Film/TV—I Fall To Pieces, Her Father’s Eyes, Homicide: Life on the Street. Awards—2009 Lunt Fontanne Fellowship through Arena Stage (with Lynn Redgrave), 2 Helen Hayes Awards, 12 Helen Hayes nominations, DC Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant.

Baltimore Center Stage: Shakespeare in Love. Regional—credits include Cincinnati Playhouse: Shakespeare in Love; Cincinnati Fringe Festival: kates; Opera House Arts: Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play, Merry Wives of Windsor, Orlando; Central Square Theater: Arabian Nights; Actor’s Shakespeare Project: Othello; Bridge Rep of Boston and Opera House Arts: Julius Caesar; Underground Railway Theater: A Disappearing Number; Shotgun Players: Lauren Gunderson’s By and By; Dramatic Repertory Company: Topdog/Underdog; Portland Stage Company: The Snow Queen. Film—Mail.Man (Trailside Studios LLC), The Finest Hours (Disney Studios). Education—The Public Theater Shakespeare Lab (NYC), MFA: Columbia University, BA: Bowdoin College. robinsonbari.com.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Off-Broadway—The Oldest Boy by Sarah Ruhl (world premier), The Chalk Garden with Angela Landsbury (reading); Lincoln Center Theatre, New Dramatists, 3day Hangover/Drunk Shakespeare, EST, Shakespeare Society/The Public Theatre, Titan Theatre Company, The Greene Space – WNYC. Regional—The Alley Theatre (Resident Company Member); Bay Street Theatre, The Folger Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale Cabaret, Montana Shakespeare, Hope Summer Rep, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre,The Utah Shakespeare Festival (five seasons Company Member). Film/TV—Marvel’s Daredevil; The Perfect Murder; End of a Summer Storm (Alison Krauss/Boynton), The Violist (numerous indie film awards). Recordings—Simon & Schuster/Folger Library audio book/app: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caesar. Publications—contributing scholar Simon & Schuster/Folger Library audio book/app; nationally published poet (various journals). Other—Literary Manager for Titan Theatre Company. Education—BA: Grinnell College; MFA: Yale School of Drama. emilytrask.net

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Regional—Milwaukee Rep (Associate Artist): Good People (Margie), Noises Off (Dottie), The Diary of Anne Frank (Edith Frank), Death of a Salesman (Linda Loman), Pride and Prejudice (Mrs. Bennett), Doubt (Sister Aloysius), The Clean House (Lane), The Goat (Stevie), The Crucible (Elizabeth Proctor), Richard III (Elizabeth), Mary Stuart (Queen Elizabeth), Copenhagen (Margrethe), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Maureen); Cincinnati Playhouse: Shakespeare in Love (Nurse), A Prayer for Owen Meaney Grandmother); Renaissance Theaterworks: Lettice & Lovage (Lettice), Agnes of God (Dr. Livingstone), Honour (Honor); Forward Theatre: Good People (Margie); Next Act Theatre: Going to St. Ives (Cora); Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: Skylight (Kyra). Director—Milwaukee Rep, American Players Theatre, Indiana Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Renaissance Theaterworks, Forward Theatre, Next Act Theatre. Education—MFA: University of Iowa. Professional—Actors Equity Association, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Regional—Cincinnati Playhouse: Shakespeare in Love, Jitney; Historic Ford’s Theatre: Ragtime; Pioneer Theatre Co: Fences; Round House: Father Comes Home from the Wars, Two Trains Running, Ironbound (world premiere), Fahrenheit 451, Amadeus; Woolly Mammoth: Clybourne Park; Dallas Theatre Center/The Goodman: Trinity River Plays; Rep Stage: Sunset Baby; Hangar Theatre: The Piano Lesson; Folger Shakespeare Library: The Tempest; Everyman Theatre: Gem of the Ocean, Blues For An Alabama Sky, Hedda Gabler; Marin Theatre Company: Fetch Clay Make Man, The Convert; Kennedy Center National tours: Harlem And Color Me Dark, others; productions and workshops with Arena Players, at the O’Neill Theatre Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Gulfshore Playhouse. Education—BA: Hampton University (Sociology/Criminal Justice); MFA: Academy of Classical Acting at George Washington University. Other—He is a former Baltimore police officer and a founding member of GALVANIZE, a network for artists of color.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Off Broadway/Regional—credits include Lyceum Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, New Saloon, Sharon Playhouse, Walt Disney World, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Hamlet Isn’t Dead, American Theatre Of Actors, Porchlight Productions Theatre, Theater For The New City, Connelly Theatre, Barter Theatre, The Anne Frank Center, Roundbarn Theatre, Waterside Theatre, Bright Star Touring Theatre, National Theatre for Children. Film/TV/Commercial—The Other F Word, Landed: Star Wars/WDW, Brain Games, Velma Doesn’t Get It, Directions, Pepsi PXP. Education—BFA: Emory & Henry College (Acting). thejamaljames.com

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Off-Broadway/Off-Off Broadway—The Pearl Theatre Company: Misalliance, The Playboy of the Western World; Voyage Theatre Company: Intermission; Theatre Row: Philosophy for Gangsters; Good Company: Electra in a One Piece; Perfect Disgrace Theater: The Crucible; Ars Nova: Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower; Lincoln Center Festival: Of Monsters and Prodigies. Regional—Alley Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hand to God, Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web, Cleo, All The Way, A Christmas Carol; Dallas Theater Center: Deferred Action, All The Way; Folger Theatre: Twelfth Night; Pittsburgh Public Theater: Private Lives; Barrington Stage Company: See How They Run; Round House Theatre: Pride and Prejudice; Seasons at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Great River Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, the Shakespeare Theatre in DC. michaelbrusasco.com. @brusasco

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Regional—Cincinnati Playhouse: Shakespeare in Love, Robin Hood (Sheriff), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Peter), #SelfieThePlay (Robie Williams), Jane Eyre (ensemble), A Christmas Carol (understudy), member of the Bruce E. Coyle Acting Intern Company; Iron Crow Theatre: Slipping (Jake), Soldier’s Dreams (German student); Generous Company: GUMBO Festival, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory. International—Ensemble Aimée Rose: Faust: Sweet Seduction (Frankfurt, Germany). Education—MFA: Purdue University (Professional Actor Training Program); BS: Towson University (Theatre).

Creative Team

Blake Robison
Director

Tim Mackabee
Scenic Designer

Kathleen Geldard
Costume Designer

Michelle Habeck
Lighting Designer

Matthew E. Nielson
Sound Designer

Diane Lala
Choreographer

Sordelet Ink/Rick Sordelet
Fight Director

Christian Kelly-Sordelet
Fight Director

Stephanie Klapper
Casting Director

Geoff Boronda*
Stage Manager

Erin McCoy*
Assistant Stage Manager

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. International—English Theater Berlin: Summer and Smoke; Avignon Fringe Festival: Macbeth. Regional—Cincinnati Playhouse (artistic director): Shakespeare in Love, Native Gardens, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Peter and the Starcatcher, Pride & Prejudice, Book Club Play, Mad River Rising, Three Musketeers, Tenderly, 4000 Miles, Abigail/1702; Other regional productions at Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Utah Shakespeare, St. Louis Rep, Round House, Folger, Clarence Brown Theatre, National Shakespeare Company, Vermont Stage. Other—Cincinnati Pops: The Music Man (with Will Chase and Betsy Wolfe); Knoxville Opera: Romeo et Juliette, The Mikado. Stage adaptations of Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy and Jay Parini’s The Last Station. Board member of Theatre Communications Group. Education—Williams College, UNC-Chapel Hill, British American Drama Academy.

Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice, Shakespeare in Love, Jazz, Amadeus. Broadway—The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End—The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway—MTC: Vietgone, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century; Atlantic: Guards at the Taj (2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Set Design), Our New Girl, The Penitent; Lincoln Center Theatre: Heathers The Musical, Luce; Vineyard: Gigantic; Public Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing. Regional—ACT San Francisco, Ford’s Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Center Stage Baltimore, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre Center, Geva Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, South Coast Repertory, Victory Gardens Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, The Muny, Williamstown Theatre Festival (9 seasons.) Dance—Doug Varone & Dancers, Cedar Lake Dance. TV—Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, Gotham, Smash, The Today Show. Education—North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama. timothymackabeedesign.com

Baltimore Center Stage: American Buffalo. Regional—Cincinnati Playhouse: Shakespeare in Love, Little Shop of Horrors, Mad River Rising; Actors Theatre of Louisville: Peter and the Starcatcher, Humana Festivals 2015, 2016, 2017; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Macbeth; Arena Stage: The Year of Magical Thinking; Portland Center Stage: Little Shop of Horrors; Huntington Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Florida Studio Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Imagination Stage, Flashpoint Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Studio Arena Theater, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. Awards—2012 Bay Area Critics Circle nom for Ruined at Berkeley Rep; 2012 IRNE Award nom for Ruined at Huntington Theatre; 2009 Helen Hayes nom for The Neverending Story at Imagination Stage. Professional—Artistic Associate at Signature Theatre.

Baltimore Center Stage: Jazz, Marley, Amadeus, dance of the holy ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Whipping Man, A Skull in Connemara, Let There Be Love, Things of Dry Hours, Elmina’s Kitchen. Broadway—Thoroughly Modern Millie (Slide Artist); The Boy from Oz, King Hedley, Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, King Hedley II Associated & Assistant Lighting Designer). Off Broadway—Fifty Words, MCC Theatre. Regional—The Guthrie, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Goodman, Alliance Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, The Zach, Kansas City Repertory, Penumbra, Arizona Theatre Company, Writer’s Theatre, Lookingglass, and others. Opera—Austin Lyric Opera: Elixir of Love, The Masked Ball; Julie Taymor’s Grendel, New York (Associate Lighting Designer). Awards—NEATCG Career Development Grant for Design, The University of Texas Faculty Fine Arts Award. Professional—Michelle heads the lighting design program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Off-Broadway—Public Theater, Lincoln Center, 59E59. Regional—Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institution, Cincinnati Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Milwaukee Rep, St. Louis Rep, Delaware Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre, Barrington Stage, Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Round House Theatre, Theater Alliance, Olney Theatre. Orchestrations & Arrangements for a regional tour of Peter and the Starcatcher. Film/TV—Those Who Wait, Elbow Grease, Blue, From Hell to Here, Death in Time, The Long Road, Epix Drive-In, UFC on FOX, NBC Sports. Awards—Helen Hayes Awards, Film Festival Awards. Professional—Wrote and produced audio series Troublesome Gap, runs a production music library and audio post-production house for film/TV. CuriousMusic.com

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Diane is Professor of Musical Theatre at University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music where she choreographs, directs, and teaches dance. She has served as director/choreographer on such shows as A Chorus Line, Carousel, Legally Blonde and Singin’ in the Rain. She has also worked at Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane in New Orleans where she has directed and choreographed shows including Annie Get Your Gun, Man of LaMancha, The Drowsy Chaperone and South Pacific. She has taught master classes in Atlanta, Florida, Montana and New Orleans. Internationally, she has taught master classes in the Ukraine, Germany and Beijing. Diane is a certified Romana Kryzanowska Pilates instructor and is an associate member of SDC.

Rick and his son, Christian Kelly-Sordelet, are the creators of Sordelet Ink. Baltimore Center Stage: Shakespeare in Love, Jazz, The White Snake, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Broadway—72 shows including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Eclipsed. National Tours—Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables. International—53 productions including Tarzan, Aida, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Ben Hur Live (Rome and European tour). Opera—The Met Opera: Cyrano(w/ Placido Domingo), Don Carlo(dir. Nicholas Hytner); The Royal Opera House; La Scalia (Milan). Film—The Game Plan, Dan in Real Life, Brave New Jersey, LIV, Hamlet. TV—CBS: Guiding Light (Chief Stunt Coordinator for 12 years); Kevin Can Wait. Instructor—Yale School of Drama. Awards—Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence from the Lucille Lortel Foundation; Jeff Award for Outstanding Fight Director for Romeo and Juliet at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Author—Buried Treasure, Choices. sordeletink.com

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Broadway—Picnic, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Waiting for Godot, No Mans Land, Eclipsed Sunset Boulevard. Off-Broadway—Masked, Slipping, Unlock’d, The Brother/Sister Plays, Kid Victory. Stunt Coordinator—All My Children, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, School Spirits, Kevin Can Wait. Christian assisted fight in—The Snow Geese, Beauty and the Beast (South Africa and Argentina tour), Fuerza Bruta, Ben Hur Live: Rome, As You Like It, Comedy Of Errors, King Lear. Professional—Santa Fe Opera Resident Fight Director; teaches at HB studios, The Acting Studio, City Collage of New York in Harlem.

Baltimore Center Stage: That Face, The White Snake, The Secret Garden, Herzog Festival (4000 Miles and After the Revolution), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Next to Normal, Vanya and Sonia…, Stones in His Pockets, dance of the holy ghosts, …Poe, The Whipping Man, A Skull in Connemara. Selected credits include: Broadway—Bronx Bombers; A Christmas Story, The Musical; Dividing the Estate; Bells Are Ringing; It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. Off Broadway—Daniel’s Husband; That Golden Girls Show!; Fade; Exit Strategy; The Roads to Home; Informed Consent; The Winter’s Tale; The Glass Menagerie; Billy Porter’s While I Yet Live; The Model Apartment; Emotional Creature; Karen O’s Stop the Virgens!. Regional—Many theaters including: Asolo, Canadian Stage Company; Cincinnati Playhouse, Capital Rep, Ford’s Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Kansas City Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Berkeley Rep, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Company, Old Globe Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Film/TV—Another Dance With Death; Poor Behavior; Stag; Alice Jacobs is Dead, Roberta, Feast of the Goat; Sidewalk Stories. TV—Lazytown. Member—Casting Society of America and League of Professional Theatre Women.

Baltimore Center Stage—Jazz, My America Too. Off Broadway credits include—The Public Theater: Mobile Unit: Romeo & Juliet, Mobile Unit: The Comedy of Errors, Buzzer, Ping Pong, Under the Radar Festival, The Urban Retreat, The Great Immensity, Fortress of Solitude. New York credits include—Soho Rep: generations; New School of Drama: She Kills Monsters; Rising Circle: Nobody Rides a Locomotive No Mo’. Regional—Center Theatre Group: A View from the Bridge; Yale Repertory Theatre: Hamlet, Dear Elizabeth, A Doctor in Spite of Himself; The Acting Company: X / Julius Caesar; Dorset Theater Festival: Dear Elizabeth; Triad Stage: Beautiful Star, A Christmas Carol; Connecticut Repertory Theater: The Sunshine Boys. Education—Master’s: Yale School of Drama (Stage Management).

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Reviews

“A delightful rom-com of a play and a wonderful way to spend an evening.”— Baltimore Style

“Undeniable beauty”— Washington Post

“Director Blake Robison reveals a deft touch and impeccable timing”— Baltimore Sun

“Ridiculous fun”— Broadway World

“This production of Shakespeare in Love will surely please just about any theatergoer. It would be a perfect date-night excursion for those looking to up their romantic game.”— DC Metro Theater Arts

“SIMPLY ASTOUNDING”— CULTURESEEN4U

“THE MOVEABLE WOODEN SET IS A MASTERPIECE.”— BALTIMORE STYLE

“DELIGHTS WITH ITS PASSION, PUNS, AND SHAKESPEAREAN ALLUSIONS THAT EVEN CASUAL DEVOTEES OF HIS SONNETS AND PLAYS WILL RELISH.”— DC THEATRE SCENE

“THE PLAYERS CHOMP INTO THE MATERIAL WITH ZEST AND POETIC VERVE. THEY ARE BEAUTIFULLY OUTFITTED IN KATHLEEN GELDARD’S COSTUMES AND UNDERSCORED BY MATTHEW M. NIELSON’S CINEMA-READY SOUNDTRACK.”— WASHINGTON POST

“THE COMEDIC TIMING IS PERFECT, THE SWORDPLAY LOOKS DANGEROUS, AND THE DOG IS WELL-BEHAVED….FOR ALL ITS NATIONAL POPULARITY, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE WILL ONLY APPEAR LOCALLY AT CENTER STAGE FOR THE TIME BEING, YOU'LL HAVE TO SEE IT THERE—AND WHY GO ANYWHERE ELSE, ANYWAY?”— BROADWAY WORLD

“A SUMPTUOUS PRODUCTION THAT IS NOT ONLY VISUALLY MAGNIFICENT, BUT IS HYSTERICALLY FUNNY.”— CULTURESEEN4U

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