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*Appearing through an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the Professional Union of Actors and Stage Managers

Youth Ensemble - Aubrey Cianelli-Mazzenga, Amelie Cramer, Clementine DeMauro, Kierce Gray, Cleo Howell, Silas Howell, Charlotte Jordan, Garrett Miller, Lilly Robert-Taylor, Lillyana Vidra

Special Thanks: The Arden Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre, The Bearded Ladies, Ross Beschler, Jasmin Carroll, Elena Faverio, Damien Figueras, Kristin Finger, Archer McCarty, LaNeshe Miller White, Peter Nicholls, InterAct Theatre Co., PlayPenn, Plays & Players Theatre, Theatre Horizon, Theatre in the X, Aubrie Williams, The Wilma Theatre, Emmanuel Wilson, Wolf Performing Arts Center.

SCP Board of Directors

President- Patrick Derrickson Secretary - Catherine del Tito

Alix Liiv Caplan, John Kearney, Sam Kwietniak, K. O’Rourke, William Van Orden

Artistic Advisory Board

Vic Gill-Gomez, Kishia Nixon, Katherine Perry, Minou Pourshariati, Camille E. Young

ARTIST BIOS

Gage Baker - Sound Designer (he/him) is an Elliot Norton Award-winning, New York-based sound designer, thrilled to be making his Shakespeare in Clark Park debut. Regional credits include SpeakEasy Stage (A Man of No Importance, Pru Payne, The Museum of Broken Relationships), Wheelock Family Theatre (The SpongeBob Musical), HUB Boston (The Understudy, 46 Plays for America’s First Ladies), Catastrophic Theatre (The Turn of the Screw, Innominate), Rec Room (The Children, Dance Nation), Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (Driving in Circles), Adam Theatre (Library Lion: The Musical), and Moonbox Productions (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde). Earlier this month, he mixed his 322nd and final performance for Blue Man Group. Upcoming projects include the international premiere of Jay Eddy’s Richard Rodgers Award-winning solo musical Driving in Circles at the Edinburgh Fringe, and Annie at Wheelock Family Theatre. A recent inductee into United Scenic Artists Local 829, Gage holds a BFA from the University of Houston and an MFA from Boston University. gagebaker.com

Teresa Burns - Audio Engineer 3 (she/her)

Amy Boehly - Flute/Hermia/Peaseblossom (she/they) is a teaching artist working in the greater Philadelphia area, happy to be making her SCP debut! Previous credits include: Daphne’s Dive (South Camden Theatre Company), (Scarlet Letter) Humble Materials, (Water By The Spoonful) Eagle Theatre, (Pandemic: A Radio Play) Philly Young Playwrights, (MinorityLand) Power Street Theatre, (Among The Dead) Theatre Exile.Thanks to Kevin and Stella! www.amyboehly.me

Dante Brattelli - Snout/Demetrius/Mustardseed (he/him) is excited to be making his Shakespeare in Clark Park debut in this production of Midsummer! He has toured nationally with Nickelodeon and Cirque du Soleil. This past year he originated the role of Chucks in Baby Sharks Big Broadwave Tour. Previous Off-Broadway credits include: Comfort Women (St. Clements Theatre); Dream Babies (St. Clements Theatre); He Loves Me Not (Davenport Theatre). Tours: Baby Shark’s Big Broadwave Tour; Paw Patrol Live! Select regional: Evita (Fulton Theatre); Escape to Margaritaville, Rocky, Mamma Mia, Holiday Inn (Walnut Street Theatre); Into The Woods (Arden Theatre Company, Candlelight Theatre); Xanadu (Eagle Theatre); West Side Story (Media Theatre, Ocean City Theatre Company). Proud alum of the Lee Strasberg Conservatory in New York. He would like to thank his friends, family, Brian at Hell's Kitchen Agency, and Laura for all of their enduring love and support. www.dantebrattelli.com @dantebrattelli

Jonathan Carrillo - Deck Crew (he/him)

Jay Eddy - Book, Music & Lyrics (they/them) is a generalist: composer, writer, performer, sound artist, etc primarily creating work for live theater and building a hybrid and transdisciplinary practice integrating theater and performance art, music, film and video art, installation, testimony and memoir, poetry and essay, translation, and ritual. Their solo show DRIVING IN CIRCLES won the Richard Rodgers Award (American Academy of Arts and Letters), as well as the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award and Musical Theatre Award, (Kennedy Center). THE GULL, their musical adaptation of Chekov’s ЧАЙКА, also won the Kennedy Center’s Musical Theatre Award. They are a recent Elliot Norton Award winner, Folger Artistic Research Fellow, New Jewish Culture Fellow, New Harmony and Yaddo resident, Jonathan Larson Grant and National Music Theatre Conference finalist, New York Foundation for the Arts and Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellow. Their work as a generative artist is rooted in a trauma-informed and deeply neuroqueer Weird Futurity (meaning: predestined sense of what-is-to-come as a repeating pattern of what- has-been). Their work for the stage has been called, “Bracingly original, astonishingly resourceful, and daringly theatrical,” and, “a joy to listen to...a beautiful tapestry of sound.” As a performer, they’ve been called, “Kate McKinnon on a cocaine bender.” Published work includes poems and essays with North American Review (Runner Up, Terry Tempest Williams Prize in Creative Nonfiction), Tikkun, Pidgeonholes, Poets Reading the News, Tiny Seed, Tulip Tree. MFA in Playwriting at Boston University; MA in Music Theatre from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; BA in Stage & Screen studies at Bowdoin College; alum of Moscow Art Theatre School’s summer intensive.

Cait Foster - Lighting Director (any/all) is a Philly based freelance electrician and technician with a BS from Northwestern State University. From their first summer stock at Endstation Theatre Company to more recent work with children’s summer programs, Cait has always been passionate about site specific and low barrier theatre.

Katie Frazer - Tour & Special Programs Manager (she/her) Katie is the co-owner of Love Drunk Life with her amazing creative partner Brandon Monokian. Love Drunk Life is an arts production and creative lifestyle company working to cultivate theatre, film, and product for the artistic soul. With Love Drunk Life, Katie has produced new works in both theatre and film. Producer (Theatre): The Murder & Booze Cabaret (Philadelphia Fringe, Jersey Fringe, and in collaboration with Powerhouse Theatre and the New Canaan Library), amethyst (Philadelphia Fringe in collaboration with Every Library), Herlock Sholmes and the Mysterious Case of the Jersey Devil or The Living Dragon (Philadelphia Fringe), The Most Awkward Love Life of Peabody Magoo (Philadelphia Fringe and Jersey Fringe). Producer (Film): Self Tape, Tree Time, Happy Yummy Chicken (Distributed by Gravitas Venture and available on iTunes and Amazon). Katie is currently working on a new musical with her amazing husband and gifted musician, Sam Kwietniak. The husband and wife pair also perform music together and are coming soon to an open mic near you. She recently joined the Advisory Committee of Theatre Contra where she will be working with an amazing group of theatre makers on an amazing 2024 season. You can find Katie on Instagram @kfray23 and katiefrazer.com.

Victoria Gill-Gomez - Technical Director & Scenic/Props Designer is a local scenic designer and technician in Philadelphia. They currently serve as non-teaching faculty at The Haverford School, working as the Technical Assistant of Centennial Hall. They received their undergraduate degree from Washington College on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Previous collaborations include Shakespeare in Clark Park, Lightning Rod Special, Wolf Performing Arts Center, The Sonder Space, and Swarthmore College. Love to Shawn and Iz.

doug greene - Costume Designer (he/him)

Jessy Gruver - Choreographer (she/ella) is so excited to work with Shakespeare in Clark Park again after performing as The Countess in All’s Well! Recent credits include Camila in In the Heights with Bristol Riverside Theatre, Alma in Alma and Gina in Clean Slate at Passage Theatre, Senga in Dancing Lessons with Montgomery Theatre, the Stepmother in Into the Woods at Arden Theatre, Clotaldo in Life is a Dream with EgoPo Classic Theatre, and Valentina in the world premiere of Extreme Home Makeover with Theatre Exile. She has performed with the Walnut Street Theatre (South Pacific), Arden Theatre (Candide), Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre (Hunchback of Notre Dame and Seussical), Teatro del Sol (Oedipus el Rey), PIFA/Kimmel Center (Crystal Palace), Bristol Riverside Theatre (Pride and Prejudice, Ragtime, Pirates of Penzance and various Musicales), and the Venetian Macao Resort, among others. Jessy is also a burlesque artist and producer. Endless thanks and love to P and E. www.JessyGruver.com

Randi Alexis Hickey - Stage Manager (she/her) is a Philadelphia based stage manager, director, and self-producer. She makes new musicals with her company, Apartment 20, and is passionate about creating safe and exciting spaces for artists to create. She also runs her own pet sitting business, Randi Sits. Credits include: Penelope (Theatre Horizon & Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), Nosejob (Lightning Rod Special), Lilith & Her Demons (Polyphone Festival for New and Emerging Musicals, Apartment 20), The Mad Ones Lab (Kerrigan & Lowdermilk), Tick, Tick...BOOM! (Theatre Horizon), Broccoli, Roosevelt, and Mr. House (The Berserker Residents). www.randialexishickey.com

Zoe Hollander - Understudy for Snug/Puck (she/her) is so excited to be a part of this show! She studied at the University of the Arts for 3 years prior to its closure and graduated from Temple University this spring with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Zoe was most recently an understudy for The Arden Theatre Company’s production of The Hobbit. Favorite UArts credits include: Sweetwater, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Horse Girls. When not onstage you can find Zoe working as a theatre educator or partaking in silly shenanigans with her improv team. Instagram: @zoe_hollander

Jenna Kuerzi - Snug/Puck (she/her) Clark Park: All’s Well (Stage Manager et al), King Lear (the Fool), Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch). Off Broadway: Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Playhouse at St. Luke's. Recent credits: Camp Siegfried (Theatre Exile *Barrymore nomination: Outstanding Leading Performance in a Play), GayMis (Jaffe St. Queer Productions), Grease, RENT, Bonnie and Clyde (Media Theatre), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Delaware Theatre Company), Mrs. Harrison (Montgomery Theater), The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Steel Magnolias (Surflight Theatre) as well as work with EgoPo, Arden Theatre, Act II Playhouse, and countless productions in Fringe Festivals worldwide. jennakuerzi.com

Will Lazar - Audio Engineer 2 (he/him)

Drew Mangione - Audio Engineer 1 (he/him) is a Philadelphia-based live-sound engineer, sound designer, and electrical engineer. This is his third year with Shakespeare in Clark Park, previously working on As You Like it and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Some recent works include Girlfails (The Lemonade Stand), The Calamari Sisters (Delaware Theatre Company), How The Light Gets In (South Camden Theatre Company), and Ramayana (EgoPo Classic Theatre).

Leo Mock - Starveling/Demetrius/Cobweb (they/he) is a theatre-maker, consent educator, clown, and intimacy choreographer. He most recently provided intimacy choreography for Turds in Hell (EgoPo) and on stage in The Winter's Tale (Delaware Shakespeare). You can find Leo's writing on intimacy and Trans representation, advocacy, and performance in The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook and Queering the Stage, and you can find him clowning around most months at the Clown Slam at Studio 34.

Kishia Nixon - Deck Crew (she/her) Recents credits: Holy Grail of Memphis, The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) and Clyde’s (Arden); Glitter in the Glass (Theatre Exile), Amsterdam (Theater Ariel) Green Eyes,The Strange Play (Tennessee Williams Festival); Say It Ain't So (Revolution Shakespeare); Fabulation or the Re-education of Undine, The Comedy of Errors (Lantern Theater Company); The Comedy of Errors: Real Housewives of Ephesus (Shakespeare in Clark Park) Delaware Young Playwrights (Delaware Theater Company) Life is a Dream, Three Sisters Two (EgoPo Classic Theater). Member of Wilma HotHouse, Die-Cast, & SCP Artistic Advisory Board.

K. O’Rourke - Text Coach (she/they) Grateful SCP board member! Currently serving as Assistant Professor of Theatre, Head of Performance Faculty at DeSales University. A bicoastal artist and proud union member (AEA, SAG-AFTRA). Recently featured as Widow Quinn in Playboy of the Western World (Inis Nua) and Production Intimacy Director / Movement Director for Giovanni’s Room (Quintessence Theater Group). Regional theater recognition includes Barrymore nominations for Best Featured Performance: Detroit (Philadelphia Theater Company), Taming of the Shrew (Lantern Theater Company). Barrymore nominations for Outstanding Choreography: Jane Eyre (Philadelphia Artist Collective) Emma (Lantern Theater Company) It Girl (Simpatico Theater), Anna (EgoPo Classic Theatre), Lovesong (Inis Nua). Research/Studies: Intimacy Coordination and Direction, consent-forward spaces for stage and film with IDC (IC cert. pending), physical training for the actor and the Russian language. Certified yoga instructor (ashtanga-based vinyasa). K.O. studied Zen meditation at the San Francisco Zen Center as a guest student and continues to develop the ways in which that practice is able to inform all their affairs. Director of Programming for LA/Philly nonprofit Dancing With The Students. Recent international exchange: Frantic Assembly Devised Theatre Intensive (LA) and The Ramayana in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (EgoPo Classic Theater, Kalanari Theatre Movement, Papermoon Puppet Theatre). MA, Theatre Studies (Villanova University), MFA, Theater - Acting (Temple University). Next up: Intimacy Director, Detroit (Villanova Theater). Слава Україні. @kokoactor

KATHERINE PERRY - Associate/Youth Director (they/she) is a performer, trauma- informed educator, and creative engine whose work celebrates the creativity in every body and the storyteller at all stages. SCP: As You Like It (Audrey), new heaven new earth (Octavia). Previous on stage collaborations include People’s Light, Media Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Delaware Shakespeare, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, PlayPenn, Theatre Horizon, and Revolution Shakespeare, including several new works and world premieres. Katherine teaches in classrooms across the Philadelphia area with 1812 Productions, The Unscripted Project, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, and People's Light. Katherine lives, works, and creates on unceded Lenapehoking. Every body is creative. www.katherine-perry.com 

Beatrice Quinn - Music Director (she/they) is a theater writer, performer, and musician from Minnesota. After making The Best Decision Anyone Has Ever Made and attending grad school (GMTWP'31) from 2020 - 22, they settled down in Philadelphia to pursue a career in theater. Since 2023 she has been spotted directing the music of productions like Fellowship! at SideQuest Theater and appearing in ALIEN: Maternity, and the up-coming AstroQuest once again at SideQuest. In the meantime, Quinn is a for-hire private musical instructor specializing in voice, songwriting, and piano -- accepting all ages 5 - 95! She would like to thank her family from afar, as well as the family that she has been lucky enough to find here in Philly. "Fly Eagles Fly, Free Palestine."

Rayne - Philostrate/Oberon (they/all) is a Black, Queer multidisciplinary artist from 67th and Linmore Ave. They are the founder of Upstream Performance Collaborative, a Barrymore-Award Winning, Philly-based theatre company that specializes in boundary-breaking new works by emerging, underrepresented artists. Rayne is a member of Ring of Keys, New Pages at Azuka Theatre, and the Foundry at PlayPenn. Selected Credits: [fancy stuff] Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, F. Otto Haas Award Finalist (Theatre Philadelphia), and #blackgirlquarantine (University of California, Berkeley); [costume design] sandblasted (Theatre Horizon) and A Hit Dog Will Holler (Azuka); [performance] Ensemble at Sundance Directors Lab (Sundance Institute) and “Genesis” in The Light (Theatre Exile; Barrymore Nomination); [words] COMET (UPC & The Painted Bride; Barrymore Award: “Outstanding Original Production”) and On Buried Ground (Christ Church Preservation Trust & Pew Center for Arts and Heritage; Fringies Honorable Mention) [direction] The Taming! (Shakespeare in Clark Park), Judy’s Life’s Work (Naptown African American Theatre Collective), and Water By the Spoonful (Eagle Theatre; Barrymore Nomination). Upcoming: [words] new heaven new earth (SCP, UPC, and PTC’s Text and Dramaturgy Cohort), [words & lyrics] Ever: a play with music with Zachariah Julian, and [words & performance] an untitled, immersive performance-exhibition at The Ministry of Awe. tallblackcreative.com @tallblackcreative

Shamus - Director (he/him) is a queer director, producer, and educator with over 15 years of professional experience in the performing arts. He holds an MFA in Directing from Boston University and currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Fine Arts at Rutgers University–Camden. Shamus is in his third season as the Producing Artistic Director of Shakespeare in Clark Park, producing eight shows, commissioning five new adaptations, directing four productions and readings, receiving one Barrymore Nomination and finding immense joy in challenging the cannon.
He is the co-creator (with Hannah Parke) of Close Your Legs, Honey, a new pageant musical that premiered at PHIT Comedy and toured regionally. His directing and performance credits span nationally recognized institutions, including the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, PrideFest at The Tank, the O’Neill Theater Center, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Playwrights’ Center, PlayPenn, the Kimmel Center, Bristol Riverside Theatre, the Arden, EgoPo Classic Theatre (Barrymore nomination), Tennessee Williams Festival, Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, and Die-Cast. He also performed in the world premiere of John Guare’s Lydie Breeze Trilogy. He is a Founding Company Member of Die-Cast, member of Actors Equity Association and Associate Member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. justshamus.com @mononymous_shamus

Lili St. Queer - Rita Quince/Titania (they/she) is a drag queen, musician, cabaret & theatre artist, comedian, educator, and DJ. They were a contestant on OutTV's drag competition Camp Wannakiki, Season 4, and they are a co-founder of Jaffe St. Queer Productions, which produced a series of Broadway parodies including Gay Miz and The Lizard of Oz produced by The Painted Bride, the original musical Eric & Lili's Night at the Museum in partnership with the Penn Museum, and a musical tribute to The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Theatre Horizon. Their cabaret duo Glitter & Garbage won Philly Magazine's Best Cabaret Act 2019, and Lili is the prettiest cast member in their recurring one-woman show Cabaret Sauvignon.

Robin Stamey - Lighting Designer (she/her) is a production manager, lighting designer, producer, and educator based in Philadelphia. With a background in stage management, stage crafts, program and event management, Stamey’s work in and out of Philadelphia focuses on supporting artists and stewarding all parts of the creative and production process. A graduate with departmental honors from Arcadia University, she has toured with productions to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the International Festival of Contemporary Dance of Mexico City, the Gerald Ford Museum, the New York Historical Society, and with Acrobuffos for a month-long tour of The Netherlands. In Philadelphia, her major projects included Grounds that Shout! And Others Merely Shaking with Reggie Wilson, Partners for Sacred Places and Philadelphia Contemporary, The Garden of Forking Paths and Being/With with Nichole Canuso Dance Company, and The Philadelphia Thing’s Trade School. Prior to going freelance full-time, she was the Theatre Programs Manager at the National Constitution Center where she managed Living News, a performance geared towards 5th-12th grade students about current constitutional issues. She was also a technical coach of Lower Merion Players at Lower Merion High School and the Programs and Operations Manager of The Philadelphia Design Center. Before joining the Rutgers-Camden VMPA staff, she was the Center Director of The Discovery Center in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. A 2018 Barrymore Nominee for Outstanding Lighting Design and Production Manager for the 2017 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical.

Asher Vaglica - Assistant Stage Manager (he/they)

Camille E. Young - Bottom/Lysandra (she/her) Camille is a performer, teaching artist, and writer based in the Philadelphia area! As a performer Camille has worked at various theater companies in the area including The Arden Theater Company, Theater Horizon, Theatre Exile, and EgoPo Classic Theater company. She is so happy to be returning to Shakespeare in Clark Park this summer and would like to thank her friends and family for their constant support, and her students for inspiring her every day!

Shakespeare in Clark Park Staff

Producing Artistic Director - Shamus

Interim Managing Director - Charles Patrick Derrickson

Tour & Special Events Manager - Katie Frazer

Casting and Creative Consultant - Brenna Geffers

Social Media Manager - Katherine Perry

Volunteer of the Year - Henry Hor