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Robbie Simpson as Benedick and Meaghan Boeing as Beatrice with (background, from left) Erin Elizabeth Adams as Margaret and Charlotte Bydwell as Ursula in The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by James Newcomb, Nov. 9 - 17, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by JT MacMillan. |
Stephen Hu as Claudio and Allison Layman as Hero in The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by James Newcomb, Nov. 9 - 17, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by JT MacMillan. |
The cast of The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by James Newcomb, Nov. 9 - 17, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by JT MacMillan. |
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Meaghan Boeing as Beatrice and Robbie Simpson as Benedick in The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by James Newcomb, Nov. 9 - 17, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by JT MacMillan. |
(from left) Stephen Hu as Claudio, Robbie Simpson as Benedick, Lowell Byers as Don Pedro and Kushtrim Hoxha as Leonato in The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by James Newcomb, Nov. 9 - 17, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by JT MacMillan. |
(from left) Meaghan Boeing as Beatrice, Allison Layman as Hero and Charlotte Bydwell as Ursula in The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by James Newcomb, Nov. 9 - 17, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by JT MacMillan. |
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Adam Gerber as Dogberry in The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by James Newcomb, Nov. 9 - 17, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by JT MacMillan. |
Lowell Byers as Don Pedro with (background, from left) Allison Layman as Hero and Lindsay Brill as Antonia in The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by James Newcomb, Nov. 9 - 17, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by JT MacMillan. |
The cast of The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by James Newcomb, Nov. 9 - 17, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by JT MacMillan. |
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Director James Newcomb. Newcomb directs The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Nov. 9 - 17, 2013. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe. |
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Cast and Creative Team
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Erin Elizabeth Adams (Margaret) was last seen in the Globe’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Pygmalion and the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. production of Measure for Measure and reading of Once in a Lifetime. She has worked in New York City on Gated (Midtown International Theatre Festival) and regionally on Heist!, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Post Wave Spectacular (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Henry IV Parts I and II (Actors’ Shakespeare Project) and Done (Providence Black Repertory Company). She is a former Acting Apprentice with the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Adams received her B.A. in Theatre and Literary Arts from Brown University. |
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Meaghan Boeing (Beatrice) was most recently seen in the 2013 Old Globe Shakespeare Festival. She has also appeared in the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program productions of Measure for Measure and Tartuffe. Her regional credits include Imagine (South Coast Repertory), Master Class (The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum), Man of La Mancha (A Noise Within), Surf Orpheus (Getty Villa), and various productions with The Antaeus Company, as well as King Lear, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It, The Misanthrope, Sunday in the Park with George, The Pirates of Penzance, The Sound of Music and a world premiere translation of Don Juan. Boeing has appeared in national commercials and independent films, performs vocal music of various styles and is a teacher of piano and voice. Boeing received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Ithaca College. |
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Lindsay Brill (Antonia, Verges) most recently appeared in the New Jersey premiere of Font of Knowledge (Art House Productions). In New York, she has originated roles in several plays including The Bear (Theatre Row), The Big Not Knowing and Doppelganger (The Actors Studio), and Four Better or Worse (Theatre for the New City). Brill performed in the solo show Testify! at The Payan Theatre and won the Festival Award for her performance. She has also worked in various other theatres in New York City including The Ensemble Studio Theatre, Prospect Theater Company, Nora’s Playhouse and New York Theatre Workshop. Last year, she performed in the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival. Brill has appeared in several independent films and web series including the feature film Dragonchaser and the new web series Annie and Brie. Brill holds a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. |
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Charlotte Bydwell (Ursula) is a graduate of The Juilliard School and began her career as a dancer with Monica Bill Barnes Company and Keigwin + Company, performing at Jacob’s Pillow Dance, American Dance Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, and The Joyce Theater, among others. She went on to join the resident acting company at The Flea Theater and played an important role in their highly acclaimed production of Sean Graney’s These Seven Sicknesses directed by Ed Iskandar. Bydwell was also a resident actor at the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival where she appeared in The Importance of Being Earnest directed by David Hyde Pierce and as Vera in A Month in the Country directed by Richard Nelson. She was most recently seen in New York City performing her one-woman show, Woman of Leisure and Panic, as part of the New York International Fringe Festival. After its debut in the eighth annual soloNOVA Arts Festival, Woman of Leisure and Panic was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production and was translated into Spanish for productions in Mexico with an all-new cast and crew. |
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Lowell Byers (Don Pedro) was born in New York City and grew up in Chappaqua, New York. His Off Broadway credits include Dr. Jake in Night Float (Playwrights Horizons), Montano in Othello (Theatre Row), Bob in Balm in Gilead (New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Play), and Valentine in You Never Can Tell and Fielding in The Changing Room (T. Schreiber Studio). His regional theater credits include Sal Morella in North Shore Fish (Gloucester Stage Company), Orlando in As You Like It (Vermont Stage Company), and Lieutenant Jake Rowan in SMILE: The Musical (Deane Center for the Performing Arts). He has appeared on television as Caligula in Caligula: 1400 Days of Terror (History Channel) and on film in Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear (Chiller/NBC Universal), Brewsie and Willie (Rocam Productions), and Things I Don’t Understand (Best Dramatic Feature Film, Burbank International Film Festival; Best Feature, Philadelphia Independent Film Festival). Byers recently shot an on-camera commercial for Staples Advantage as The Overachiever. This past August, Byers’ new original play, Luft Gangster,had its world premiere at Abingdon Theatre Company directed by Austin Pendleton. He received his B.A. in Theatre from Denison University where he also competed with the varsity swimming team as a 26-time All-American Swimmer. |
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Jamal Douglas (Conrade, Messenger) is making his debut with the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program. His previous credits include The Lysistrata Project (Simpatico Theatre Project), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Delaware Shakespeare Festival), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Plays & Players), Superior Donuts (Arden Theatre Company), Living News (National Constitution Center), and others. He also teaches with Our Time Theatre Company, for youths who stutter, in New York City. He holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Arcadia University. |
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Adam Gerber (Don John, Dogberry) was last seen in The Old Globe’s productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Pygmalion and the Old Globe/USD production of Measure for Measure. His New York credits include As You Like It and the Off Broadway revival of Lebensraum (Harold Clurman Lab Theatre). He has also worked in Tokyo, Japan on Hikobae (The Actors Clinic, Will Do). Gerber has performed in numerous other productionsincluding Sex and the Holy Land (New York International Fringe Festival) and Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, In the Boom Boom Room,and Dancing at Lughnasa (Stella Adler Studio of Acting), and he has been featured in various national commercials. He is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and received his B.A. from The George Washington University where he appeared in The Winter’s Tale and Metamorphosis. |
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Kushtrim Hoxha (Leonato) was recently seen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Merchant of Venice at The Old Globe’s 2013 Shakespeare Festival, as well as Tartuffe and Measure for Measure with the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program. He has appeared in Rock ‘n’ Roll, King Lear, Sun Monkey, The Glass Menagerie,and Hamlet (National Theater of Kosovo), Senior Carrar’s Rifles and Scapin’s Deceits (Professional Theater of Gjakova), Patriotic Hypermarket (Bitef Theater, Belgrade), Yue Madeline Yue (Multimedia Center, Kosovo and Volkstheater, Vienna), and Hamlet (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte). He has performed in numerous theater festivals such as Festival Iberoamericano in Columbia, Mess Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ex-Ponto Festival in Slovenia, VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival in Italy,ASSITEJ Festival in Sweden, Dezire Festival in Serbia, Durban Theatre Festival in South Africa, Skupi Festin Macedonia, and SKENA UP Festival in Kosovo. He is the cofounder of Teatri Urban Theater Company in Prishtina, Kosovo. His film and television credits include Human Zoo, I Need You,and “Familja Moderne.” Hoxha studied Acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts at the University of Prishtina in Kosovo and received a B.A. in Theater Performance from Greensboro College. |
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Stephen Hu (Claudio) was last seen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead for The Old Globe’s 2013 Shakespeare Festival. He also recently appeared in the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program’s Tartuffe and Measure for Measure. His other credits include Los Angeles productions of Macbeth and Richard III (The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum) and in the title role of Ching Chong Chinaman (Artists at Play). His Bay Area credits include Over the Asian Airwaves (Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company), Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and Beijing, CA (Asian American Theater Company). Hu holds a B.A. in Theater Performance Studies from University of California, Berkeley. |
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Tyler Kent (Friar, Sexton) recently appeared as Trofimov in The Cherry Orchard for the Eugene O’Neill Foundation. His other credits includeMary Zimmerman’s The Arabian Nights (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing in Central Park (Extant Arts Company), A Doctor in Spite of Himself and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Berkeley Rep), Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway By the Bay), Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots and Auctioning the Ainsleys (TheatreWorks), Vera Wilde (Shotgun Players), Finian’s Rainbow (Woodminster), Twelfth Night (The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), and What the Butler Saw (Pacific Repertory Theatre). He is a regular collaborator with PlayGround, Northern California’s foremost playwright incubator. This spring Kent originated the role of Pierre in the New York workshop of Kim Sherman and Darrah Cloud’s musical Makeover (Demos Bizar Entertainment). His cabaret shows, Nobody’s Hart and Give Me the Simple Life, directed by Karen Lynn Carpenter, toured China in 2009 and 2011. Kent is a graduate of Whitman College and New York University’s CAP21. |
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Allison Layman (Hero) was a member of the Globe’s 2013 Shakespeare Festival company and appeared indoors as Parlor Maid in last season’s Pygmalion and as Francisca in the Globe/USD M.F.A. production of Measure for Measure. She spent two years as a company member of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, performing in The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar,and Macbeth. Her other regional work includes Petra in An Enemy of the People (Playhouse on Park) and a wide range of roles in productions at the Monomoy Theatre in Chatham, Massachusetts. Layman studied with Bill Esper at his studio in New York and received her B.A. in French Language and Literature from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. |
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Robbie Simpson (Benedick) was most recently seen in The Old Globe’s 2013 Shakespeare Festival productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead directed by Adrian Noble. His other Globe credits include Freddy Eynsford Hill in the 100th anniversary production of Pygmalion directed by 2013 Tony Award nominee Nicholas Martin. Simpson’s Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program credits include Measure for Measure and the staged reading of Once in a Lifetime. His U.K. and New York credits include Orlando in As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe), A Class Act directed by Bob Moss (Playwrights Horizons) and Hanschen in Spring Awakening (Roy Arias). Simpson’s selected regional credits include A Class Act (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Rent and Almost, Maine (Papermill Theatre), The Sisters Rosensweig and The House of Blue Leaves (New Century Theatre) and Miss Saigon, Inherit the Wind, The Sunshine Boys,and Lost in Yonkers (The Majestic Theatre). He has appeared on television in NBC’s “30 Rock” and “Smash,” Syfy’s “Can You Survive a Horror Movie?” and numerous commercials. Simpson holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Syracuse University. @MrRobbieSimpson on Twitter and Instagram. |
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Megan M. Storti (Bazira, Watch) is pleased to begin her work with the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program in Much Ado About Nothing. Her Chicago credits include The Liar (Writers’ Theatre), As You Like It (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), The Woman in White and The City & the City (Lifeline Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Metropolis Performing Arts Centre), Marat/Sade (The Right Brain Project), Romeo and Juliet (Glass Onion Theatre), and Titus Andronicus (DreamLogic Theatreworks). Her other regional credits include Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Heartland Theatre Company, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and Putnam County Playhouse. Storti received her B.A. in Acting from Illinois State University. |
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Patrick Zeller (Borachio) is thrilled to be at The Old Globe again. He previously appeared at the Globe in Richard Greenberg’s The American Plan in 2008. Zeller’s classical theater credits include The Mysteries (Shakespeare & Company), The Comedy of Errors (New York Classical Theatre), Edward II (Pet Brick Productions), Hamlet (Maine Shakespeare Festival), and Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company). Zeller has appeared on “Law & Order,” “Medium,” “All My Children,” “One Life to Live,” and “The Young and the Restless.” He also co-starred in the award-winning feature film Virgin Alexander. His other film credits include No Reservations, End of the Spear and A Totally Minor Motion Picture. Most recently Zeller has worked as a mentor and teaching artist with The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company in Los Angeles. He’d like to thank The Old Globe and the University of San Diego for giving him this opportunity. |
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James Newcomb (Director) recently played Juror 7 in Twelve Angry Men and Stephano in The Tempest (Utah Shakespeare Festival), and this last spring he played The Duke in Robert Falls’ acclaimed production of Measure for Measure (Goodman Theatre). His other recent credits include playing Appomantus in Timon of Athens opposite Ian McDiarmid as Timon (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), and George in Zoot Suit (San Diego Repertory Theatre). He spent 14 seasons with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, seven with Denver Center Theatre Company, two with Utah Shakespeare Festival, three with Shakespeare & Company, and four with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and he has worked with Arizona Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Intiman Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, and Syracuse Stage. His Shakespeare roles include Iago, Richard III, Coriolanus, Oberon, Puck, Bolingbroke, Laertes, Touchstone, Feste, Dogberry, Benedick, Romeo, Grumio, Tranio, Caliban, and Thersites. His other roles include Treat in Orphans, Hero in The Rehearsal, Gary in Noises Off, and Leslie in The Hostage (Drama Logue Award, Denver Theatre Critics Award, and Oxford Society Award for Artistic Excellence). He has directed Much Ado About Nothing (The Old Globe Summer Shakespeare Intensive), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program), Found a Peanut, Lone Star, and True West (National Theatre Conservatory at Denver Center). He served as resident fight director for seven seasons at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and fight director for The Old Globe, Denver Center, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Opera, four seasons at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He is an adjunct professor for the UC San Diego Department of Theatre & Dance. |
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