At the Secret Theatre
44-02 23rd St
Long Island City, NYC, NY 11101-5000
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ANdrew Borthwick-LesliedirectorAndrew Borthwick-Leslie is the Co-Artistic Director of The Humanist Project and has been an active member of Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, MA for twenty years. Recent directing: “Frances Goes to War” (Humanist Project); “Julius Caeser”, “Cymbeline” (Shakespeare& Co); “The Long Run” (The Wharton Salon); “The Merchant of Venice”, “Love’s Labour’s Lost” (The Shakespeare Forum);“Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika”, Bogosian’s “Sex Drugs & Rock and Roll” (Bckseet). Recent roles: Casca “Julius Caeser” Guildenstern/Osric “Hamlet” (Shakespeare & Co.); Fuller “Lake Street Extension”, Kip “Raised in Captivity” (Bckseet), Nathan “Madagascar” (Isis Productions); Nightingale in William’s “Vieux Carre” (Egopo). He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, DeSales University, Emerson College, and the University of Maryland among others. He has taught workshops for the Center for Renaissance Studies, the American Bar Association, the New England Homeless Veterans shelter and many more.
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Michael F. ToomeyMacbeth/murderer/bloody captainMichael is the Co-Artistiic Driector of the Humanist Project. He has been a member of the nationally acclaimed Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA since 1998, where he is an actor, director, and faculty member. He is a founding member and trustee of Split Knuckle Theatre, which devises new works of theatre and is currently touring throughout the world with recent performances in Bangkok, Athens and Paris. For the last three years Michael has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Binghamton University teaching Clown, Shakespeare and Fight. Michael teaches workshops for professional actors in Fight, Clown and Shakespeare around the country and abroad. He has directed, devised or choreographed numerous shows including Julius Caesar and Alice In Wonderland and has performed throughout the East coast and internationally including roles such as Macbeth, Scapin, and Polonius.
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Claire Wardenlady Macbeth/ross/murderer/witch 2Claire’s Off-Broadway credits include Engaging Shaw (Abingdon Theatre), The Libertine (Kirk Theatre) and A Persistent Memory (Becket Theatre). Other New York and Regional credits include One Man, Two Guvnors (Berkeley Rep/South Coast Rep), Romeo and Juliet (Utah Shakespeare/Utah Symphony), Pericles (Passion in Practice/Ben Crystal), Edward IV (American Shakespeare Center), Outside Mullingar (FST), Henry V (as Henry V) (Accidental Shakespeare), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and Henry V (The Shakespeare Forum), Other Desert Cities (Lake Dillon Theatre), Moon for the Misbegotten (Luna Stage), Mary Stuart (Theatreworks), Lost In Yonkers (New Harmony Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Stoneham Theatre) and Humble Boy (Publick Theatre). Claire has starred in Quantico (ABC Network) and Jack the Ripper – An Ongoing Mystery for the Discovery Channel and in the films I Can, I Will, I Did, Kilimanjaro,Tomorrow Comes Today, When The Night Falls, Freedom Fighter and The Factory. Claire is the Director of Engagement for the Shakespeare Forum in New York City and teaches Fight and Text at Shakespeare & Company, MA. More info at www.clairewarden.com
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welland h. Scrippsduncan/macduff/witch 1/murdererWelland H. Scripps is an actor, director, teacher, and musician. Welland learned early on from his grandfather: a man of few words but great substance, that words are cheap and that “in order for Shakespeare’s words to be meaningful and alive, they must have the action and intention to support them.”
Welland studied at Manhattanville College, at the Stella Adler Studio in NYC, and continues to study the human condition. He was a member of the Irondale ensemble in Brooklyn NY for six years starting in 2008 and is a founding member of the Letter of Marque Theater Co. in Brooklyn. |
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josephine Wilsonbanquo/hecate/siward/lennoxJosephine Wilson is a company member of the Humanist Project and Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, MA). She recently wrote and performed her new play Psyche, and is currently working on another new play, The Reading. She has played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Titania in MIdsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare & Company, MA), Annie in Table Manners (Mixed Company, MA), Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Nancy in Frozen, Mrs. Sullen in The Beaux Stratagem (Pennsylvania Center Stage), She teaches at New York Film Academy and Lincoln Center and is a proud member of Actor's Equity.
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Zach LibrescoMAlcolm/donalbain/witch 3/waiting gentlewomanZach is a proud company member with The Humanist Project. Off Broadway: Letter of Marque Theater Company's Double Falsehood; Selected New York: The Humanist Project’s Titus Andronicus; The Shakespeare Forum's The Merchant of Venice; dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s The Fairy Queen at East 13th Street Theater. Currently voices Colonel Warren Kepler on Wolf 359; Dr. Fredricksen on Station to Station; and models for sculptor, Sabin Howard for the upcoming WWI Memorial in Washington DC. B.A. Wesleyan University. Thanks to AEA, ABL, ASL, and MD.
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designers
claire townsendcostumes
Claire is excited to be working with The Humanist Project for the first time. Design credits include Double Falsehood for Letter of Marque, Two Gentlemen of Verona and As You Like It for Shakespeare by The Sea, Romeo and Juliet, Tartuffe, and The Wedding Singer for Cypress College, Julius Ceasar for Marin Shakespeare Festival, Bullshot Crummond for PCPA Theatrefest, and Fuente Ovejuna at Mira Costa College, Madame Butterfly, La Forza Del Destino, Lucia di Lammermoor for West Bay Opera, and Cosi Fan Tutte for Opera Ebony, She graduated from Central St Martins, London. |
emmie finckelsets
Emmie Finckel is a New York based scenic and production designer. Design credits include world premieres of Telegraph Bois (Ars Nova), Out There! (University Settlement), The Essential Ella Maythorne (Dixon Place), and Hand Me Down (Fieldston School), the New York City premieres of Riot Antigone (La MaMa) and Loudon Wainwright’s Surviving Twin (Subculture NYC), and And It Felt Like A Kiss... (HERE Arts). Assistant/associate design credits include numerous productions with David Korins, Woodshed Collective, and The Assembly. Emmie currently teaches scenic design and stagecraft at the Fieldston School, and holds a B.A. in Theater and Sociology with High Honors from Wesleyan University. See more of their work at efinckel.com. |
megan langlights
Megan Lang has designed at BAM, Abrons Arts Center, EST, Under St. Mark's, the Berkshire Fringe, NYC Fringe, the Wild Project, Dixon Place, 59E59, JACK, Stella Adler, Atlantic Stage 2 and The Bushwick Starr, among others. Assistant work includes productions at Rattlestick, The Cherry Lane, NYLA, and 3LD. Assistant special effects work includes Sting's The Last Ship, Our Lady of Kibeho and An Act of God. BA: Fordham University. meganlangld.com |
jenna may cassVoice and Text
Jenna May is delighted to be journeying with these remarkable humans. A recent New York transplant, she was previously acting/directing/dialect coaching/teaching/text coaching in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jenna May holds a BA in Theatre from Western Washington University, and trained further at RADA, Theatricum Botanicum, and Shakespeare & Company, where she teaches Sonnet and Text. |
nolan KennedyMusic
Nolan Kennedy is an actor, musician, and composer. His musical work spans from folk music to disco, and his collaborative compositions have featured in works across the globe. He is best known as the lead singer of the vaporwave/electro-dance band Salon Man, his work with the Irondale Ensemble Project’s original abolitionist musical Color Between the Lines, the Chicago singer-songwriter duo Whiskey First, and member of the Walter Thompson Orchestra. He is also the Music Director and Co-Founder of Letter of Marque Theater Company where his work on their production of Double Falsehood was described as “captivating...ghostly siren symphonies” by the Reviews Hub. Nolan is a certified Soundpainter, a compositional sign language used to create live performance pieces involving musicians, actors, and dancers. A few of his favorite instruments include mandolin, viola, and the water gong. |
trampus ThompsonFights
Trampas Thompson (Fight Director) is thrilled to be collaborating with the Humanist Project on Macbeth. Trampas recently choreographed Bedlam’s Hamlet at the McCarter Theatre. Other theatrical work includes Women of Will for Tina Packer and Richard III for Shakespeare Dallas. Trampas has been a professional stuntman and stunt coordinator in film and television for over 20 years. His 100 + credits include four Pirates of the Caribbean films, National Treasure, and Zombieland, among many others. Trampas was Michael Keaton’s stunt double in the film Birdman and again joined Mr. Keaton as his stunt double on Spider-Man: Homecoming, due in theaters this summer. Trampas also recently directed his first short film, Step One, which will be screening at film festivals this year. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America. Complete credits can be found on IMDb. |
sheila bandyopadhyayMovement
Sheila Bandyopadhyay: classical acting credits include work with The Tempest Ladies (Taming of the Shrew) Hunger & Thirst Theatre Collective (The Misanthrope) the New England Shakespeare Festival (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Shakespeare & Company (The Tempest), among others. Her devised work has been seen in NYC at the West End Theater, the 72nd St Theater Lab, and Brooklyn’s Brick Theater. Sheila regularly coaches productions at NYU Gallatin and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where she is also Head of the Movement Department. MA: NYU Gallatin, BA: Brandeis University; Dell’arte International, PTP; Shakespeare & Company. |
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stage managment TEAM
gina costagliolaStage Manager
Gina Costagliola has stage managed in NYC, regionally, and abroad. She's brought performances to opera houses in Italy, universities in India, and coffee plantations in Costa Rica. She has worked on musicals (The Full Monty, Urinetown, Twist), with dance companies (Ailey II, Dance Theatre of Harlem school, In It For Life Productions), on countless interpretations of Shakespeare (Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Tempest), and on one particularly memorable production at LaMama that involved roller skates, aerial silks, pole dancing, and a phallic glitter cannon. In her other life, she manages engineers and programmers. |
laurel livezeyAssistant Stage Manager
Laurel Livezey has been working as an actor and theatre artist across the West Coast as well as in NYC. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts from Southern Oregon University in 2014. She is thrilled to be back in the room with The Humanist Project for this installment of The Tyrant Series after stage managing Titus Andronicus last year. Previous credits both on and offstage include: Dream Ticket (FringeNYC); KEEP (Wide Eyed Productions); The Tempest, Three Musketeers, Richard III, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing (Island Shakespeare Festival); Mauritius (Mendocino Theatre Company); next to normal (Gloriana Musical Theatre). www.laurelmaryanne.com |
sarah ryanAssistant Stage Manager
Sarah Ryan is an actress and teaching artist, who enjoys stage managing. She last assistant stage managed for Andrew Borthwick-Leslie during Shakespeare Forum’s Merchant of Venice. Most recently she was an Administrative Intern for Double Edge Theatre in Western Ma, where she has studied physical theatre for many years. While there she also studied aerial silks at the New England Center for Circus Arts. Recent Credits: Cinderella in December: A Frozen Fairytale Pantomime, As You Like It (Theater in the Open), Shahrazad: A Tale of Love and Magic (Double Edge Theatre). Graduated Skidmore College wtih a BA in English and Theatre. |