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Laura Rose
Artistic and Education Director
Laura Rose is an experienced actor, director, and educator who began her formal Shakespeare
training in 1989. She earned her M.A. in Shakespeare Studies at The Shakespeare Institute
(1993, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK), where coursework included not only criticism,
bibliography, and performance history but also workshops with acclaimed acting coaches at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Professor Stanley Wells, Co-Editor of the Oxford Complete Works of Shakespeare (1986; 2005) and then Director of the Institute, advised her thesis.
After spending the next 6 years as a doctoral student in Rhetoric at Catholic University (Washington, DC) Ms. Rose pulled her education back toward Shakespeare and Theatre. Combining her extensive education in classical and Renaissance rhetoric with that in Shakespeare, she is returning to The Shakespeare Institute in 2011 to complete her PhD. Her dissertation, which examines productions of Richard III over the last 50 years, will be advised by the new Institute Director, distinguished performance expert Professor Michael Dobson.
Ms. Rose has performed Shakespeare and Jacobean roles at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, DC), The Shakespeare Institute, the College of Charleston (Summer Shakespeare Project), Theatre/VERV, and St. Andrews College (NC). In addition to performing for other theatres in Baltimore, Virginia, and North Carolina, she has also performed for local companies PURE Theatre, Footlight Players, and South of Broadway Theatre. She has starred or appeared in several films (including one screened at the Cannes Film Festival, 2004), guest starred in a History Channel television documentary, and played the lead in a television series pilot considered by the SyFy network. She has taught Theatre at the College of Charleston, Trident Technical College, and St. Andrews College, where she also Directed Much Ado About Nothing.
Ms. Rose has participated in Shakespeare performance workshops led by John Barton (co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company), Cicely Berry (RSC Voice Director since 1969), Andrew Wade (former RSC Head of Voice), Christopher Marino (Shakespeare Theatre, DC), and Sue Lefton (RSC Head of Movement). She has studied Shakespeare Performance History and Criticism with Russell Jackson (textual advisor on Kenneth Branagh’s film, stage, and radio productions) and Robert Smallwood (former Deputy Director and Head of Education at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust). She also attended a summer program (Shakespeare Text and Performance) in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, led by UNC-Charlotte and the Catholic University of America.
“My lifelong love of Shakespeare was sparked at age 14, when I saw Antony Sher play Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. Since then, I’ve had the good fortune to watch live performances launched by many famous Shakespeare Directors (including Adrian Noble, Bill Alexander, Sam Mendes, Richard Eyre, Elijah Moshinsky, Deborah Warner, and Jude Kelly) and Actors (such as Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, Ralph Feinnes, Norman Rodway, Robert Lindsay, and Jonathan Hyde). I want to spread my joy and appreciation for Shakespeare by helping to open that door for others that was opened for me in Stratford more than 25 years ago.”
Mark J Poremba,
Managing Director and
Member of the HCS Acting Ensemble
Mark J Poremba has been an actor for more than 15 years, performing in several cities, including Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Charleston. He has extensive off-stage experience, as well, in casting; direction; production, set, lighting, and sound design; set construction; budgeting, promotion, and sales. Mr. Poremba was also Road Manager for the Chicago-based Excalibur Shakespeare Company and House Manager for the Highland Theatrical Company’s “Little Chicago Theatre” in Johnson City, TN.
At HCS, Mark has starred as "Colonel" Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing and Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night (a reading performance in collaboration with Charleston's PURE Theatre).
Mark fell in love with Shakespeare’s work in high school, where he was the only person in his class brave enough to stand up and perform monologues from Hamlet & The Scottish Play.
Guest Artists:
Julian Rozzell (New York, NY)
Education Program Consultant, Performance Coach
Julian Rozzell, Jr. is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, the Rybinsk Theatre in St. Petersburg, and attended Radford University in Virginia. Julian also teaches regularly with The Manhattan New Music Project. Regional and off-Broadway credits include: Macbeth (Epic Theatre), The Piano Lesson (Arden Theatre), No Exit (Imago Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Milwaukee Shakespeare), and Othello (Texas Globe).
He has been a teaching artist through City Lights Youth Theatre and Possible Arts and has developed and conducted residencies in schools all over New York City, including the Bronx School for Writers and Artists, Bronx Latin School, PS 125, PS 140, PS 107x, PS 182, and CS 61. He has designed and led workshops for Odyssey House and the Flatbush YMCA. Julian also taught performance workshops at the Horizons Academy at Rikers Island, where he led a drama residency for three years. As an actor, Julian has performed in New York at the Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for the New City, Dixon Place, Soho Rep, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange, among others.
Julian also has appeared in numerous television programs and commercials. He was featured in the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards commercial, and appears regularly in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, produced by Martin Scorcese.
Marcus Kyd (Washington, DC)
Performance Coach, Lecturer, Director Consultant
Marcus Kyd holds an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University, DC. An experienced actor and director, he has performed in an extensive number of Classical and Contemporary plays at regional theatres around the country. Marcus cofounded the Helen Hayes award-winning Taffety Punk Theatre Company in DC, producing innovative classical and contemporary works and providing affordable theatre. Their Bootleg (plays rehearsed and performed in a single day) regularly appear on stage at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, as do their Riot Grrrl Shakespeare productions, featuring all-women casts.
His Shakespeare performance credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream and 1 Henry IV (Folger Shakespeare Theatre, DC); The Wars of the Roses: Henry VI pts 1-3 & Richard III (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), The Winter's Tale (Center Stage, DC), and multiple seasons at the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, as the Danish Prince in Hamlet, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Edumund in King Lear, Cassio in Othello, and the young Pericles and Lysimachus in a 7-actor Pericles.
Christopher Marino (Chicago, IL)
Performance Coach, Lecturer, and Director Consultant
(Kneeling, at right; with Avery Brooks in "Tamburlaine," Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC.)
Christopher Marino (Performance Coach) trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting, and Bard College, As a director; productions in New York City, Baltimore, Washington DC, and London England. As an actor spent several years teaching Master Acting classes and performing in productions with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC. He has also performed with the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Kansas City Shakespeare Festival, and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival among others. He is a founding member of the award winning Taffety Punk Theatre Company in Washington DC, and the former Artistic Director of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. He continues to teach classical text and Shakespeare performance privately and at colleges and conservatories both in the United States and abroad.
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The Ensemble:
Maggie Borden earned a BA in Theatre from Wofford College and recently graduated from the Stella Adler Summer Conservatory. She has studied acting in New York City and London and has attended workshops with the American Shakespeare Center. Past rolls include Mariah in Twelfth Night and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS), Libby in I Oughta Be In Pictures, Sonnerie in Red Noses, Lydia in Big Love, and Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing.
Sarah Coe earned a BFA in Theater from the University at Buffalo, including a year of study at Middlesex University in London, where she also studied under Jane Lapotaire at The Globe Theatre. Over the last 14 years, she has performed in Buffalo, London, Chicago and Charleston, and she frequently acts as Music Director on HCS productions. Recent roles include Feste in Twelfth Night and "Balthasay" in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS); Mae West in Dirty Blonde (SOBT), The Madam/ Demon in Poe:The Conqueror Worm (Theatre/verv), and Helen in Fat Pig (Footlight).
Tara Denton has performed as Mariah in Twelfth Night and "Antonia" in Much Ado Abotu Nothing (HCS), and in productions of Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar (CofC Summer Shakespeare Project). Other Charleston credits include Proof (Midtown Productions); Up, Lowcountry Boil, Killer Joe and PURE LAB (PURE Theatre). Tara is also an Associate Artist with the Poor Players (San Diego/Chicago), a theatre company dedicated to producing Shakespeare works (Artistic Director, Richard Baird). San Diego credits include Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part 1, Twelfth Night, and Coriolanus.
Fred Hutter has been involved in theater for 31 years. Among his many credits, he has played Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS). He also co-founded the Charleston Guerrilla Theater, which produced outdoor Shakespeare plays at James Island County Park (1996-2002) and which toured productions of Shakespeare scenes and short adaptations (for example, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet) to Lowcountry schools and parks. Fred has also appeared as Albany in King Lear (Actors Theater of SC).
Brendan Larkin Kelly earned his B.F.A. from The Theatre School of DePaul University (formally The Goodman School of Theatre), where his third year of training centered entirely on Shakespeare performance. New to the Charleston area, he has acted professionally in Chicago (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, the Athenaeum Theatre) and New York. In Charleston, Brendan has performed as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS) and in children's theatre for Sprouts at Creative Spark.
Michael Smallwood is a graduate of the College of Charleston with a degree in Theater. He is a two-time KCACTF award-winning playwright, a core member of PURE Theater, and a former playwriting apprentice with Horizon Theater Company in Atlanta, GA. Michael's Shakespearea credits include Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (HCS), and roles in King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo & Juliet.
Emma Stark has appeared as "Girl" in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS), The Widow in Taming of the Shrew (Theatre/VERV), the title role in Alice in Wonderland (Sullivan's Island ES), and as a Chorus member in Annie (SIES). With the help of various hats, mustaches, and eyeglasses, she played the multiple roles of Valentina, Officer, Priest, and Servant in HCS's reading performance of Twelfth Night. She has studied Acting and Musical Theatre locally at Charleston Stage; Theatre 99; Once Upon a Ballet) and in the DC area (at Round House Theatre; Imagination Stage). She is in 6th grade at Laing Middle School.
Robbie Thomas earned a BA in Theatre from the College of Charleston and has acted and directed regularly on Charleston stages ever since. He has played Borachio in Much Ado Abotu Nothing (HCS) and appeared in the last 9 summer Shakespeare Project productions (CofC) in roles that include Edmund (King Lear), Antipholus of Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors), the Duke of Buckingham (Richard III), and Master Ford (The Merry Wives of Windsor).
Craig Trow trained at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic theatre school (UK) and has performed all over the UK in a variety of plays from contemporary to classical. Past Shakespeare roles include Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing, HCS), Timon (Timon of Athens, The Rose theatre, London), and Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic). Craig has also performed in plays by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Anton Chekhov, and Sarah Kane. He is an award-winning comedy writer, currently producing several scripts for British television production companies.
Artistic and Education Director
After spending the next 6 years as a doctoral student in Rhetoric at Catholic University (Washington, DC) Ms. Rose pulled her education back toward Shakespeare and Theatre. Combining her extensive education in classical and Renaissance rhetoric with that in Shakespeare, she is returning to The Shakespeare Institute in 2011 to complete her PhD. Her dissertation, which examines productions of Richard III over the last 50 years, will be advised by the new Institute Director, distinguished performance expert Professor Michael Dobson.
Ms. Rose has performed Shakespeare and Jacobean roles at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, DC), The Shakespeare Institute, the College of Charleston (Summer Shakespeare Project), Theatre/VERV, and St. Andrews College (NC). In addition to performing for other theatres in Baltimore, Virginia, and North Carolina, she has also performed for local companies PURE Theatre, Footlight Players, and South of Broadway Theatre. She has starred or appeared in several films (including one screened at the Cannes Film Festival, 2004), guest starred in a History Channel television documentary, and played the lead in a television series pilot considered by the SyFy network. She has taught Theatre at the College of Charleston, Trident Technical College, and St. Andrews College, where she also Directed Much Ado About Nothing.
Ms. Rose has participated in Shakespeare performance workshops led by John Barton (co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company), Cicely Berry (RSC Voice Director since 1969), Andrew Wade (former RSC Head of Voice), Christopher Marino (Shakespeare Theatre, DC), and Sue Lefton (RSC Head of Movement). She has studied Shakespeare Performance History and Criticism with Russell Jackson (textual advisor on Kenneth Branagh’s film, stage, and radio productions) and Robert Smallwood (former Deputy Director and Head of Education at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust). She also attended a summer program (Shakespeare Text and Performance) in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, led by UNC-Charlotte and the Catholic University of America.
“My lifelong love of Shakespeare was sparked at age 14, when I saw Antony Sher play Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. Since then, I’ve had the good fortune to watch live performances launched by many famous Shakespeare Directors (including Adrian Noble, Bill Alexander, Sam Mendes, Richard Eyre, Elijah Moshinsky, Deborah Warner, and Jude Kelly) and Actors (such as Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart, Ralph Feinnes, Norman Rodway, Robert Lindsay, and Jonathan Hyde). I want to spread my joy and appreciation for Shakespeare by helping to open that door for others that was opened for me in Stratford more than 25 years ago.”
Mark J Poremba,
Managing Director and
Member of the HCS Acting Ensemble
Mark J Poremba has been an actor for more than 15 years, performing in several cities, including Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Charleston. He has extensive off-stage experience, as well, in casting; direction; production, set, lighting, and sound design; set construction; budgeting, promotion, and sales. Mr. Poremba was also Road Manager for the Chicago-based Excalibur Shakespeare Company and House Manager for the Highland Theatrical Company’s “Little Chicago Theatre” in Johnson City, TN.
At HCS, Mark has starred as "Colonel" Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing and Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night (a reading performance in collaboration with Charleston's PURE Theatre).
Mark fell in love with Shakespeare’s work in high school, where he was the only person in his class brave enough to stand up and perform monologues from Hamlet & The Scottish Play.
Guest Artists:
Julian Rozzell (New York, NY)
Education Program Consultant, Performance Coach
Julian Rozzell, Jr. is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, the Rybinsk Theatre in St. Petersburg, and attended Radford University in Virginia. Julian also teaches regularly with The Manhattan New Music Project. Regional and off-Broadway credits include: Macbeth (Epic Theatre), The Piano Lesson (Arden Theatre), No Exit (Imago Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Milwaukee Shakespeare), and Othello (Texas Globe).
He has been a teaching artist through City Lights Youth Theatre and Possible Arts and has developed and conducted residencies in schools all over New York City, including the Bronx School for Writers and Artists, Bronx Latin School, PS 125, PS 140, PS 107x, PS 182, and CS 61. He has designed and led workshops for Odyssey House and the Flatbush YMCA. Julian also taught performance workshops at the Horizons Academy at Rikers Island, where he led a drama residency for three years. As an actor, Julian has performed in New York at the Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for the New City, Dixon Place, Soho Rep, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange, among others.
Julian also has appeared in numerous television programs and commercials. He was featured in the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards commercial, and appears regularly in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, produced by Martin Scorcese.
Marcus Kyd (Washington, DC)
Performance Coach, Lecturer, Director Consultant
Marcus Kyd holds an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University, DC. An experienced actor and director, he has performed in an extensive number of Classical and Contemporary plays at regional theatres around the country. Marcus cofounded the Helen Hayes award-winning Taffety Punk Theatre Company in DC, producing innovative classical and contemporary works and providing affordable theatre. Their Bootleg (plays rehearsed and performed in a single day) regularly appear on stage at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, as do their Riot Grrrl Shakespeare productions, featuring all-women casts.
His Shakespeare performance credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream and 1 Henry IV (Folger Shakespeare Theatre, DC); The Wars of the Roses: Henry VI pts 1-3 & Richard III (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), The Winter's Tale (Center Stage, DC), and multiple seasons at the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, as the Danish Prince in Hamlet, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Edumund in King Lear, Cassio in Othello, and the young Pericles and Lysimachus in a 7-actor Pericles.
Christopher Marino (Chicago, IL)
Performance Coach, Lecturer, and Director Consultant
(Kneeling, at right; with Avery Brooks in "Tamburlaine," Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC.)
Christopher Marino (Performance Coach) trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting, and Bard College, As a director; productions in New York City, Baltimore, Washington DC, and London England. As an actor spent several years teaching Master Acting classes and performing in productions with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC. He has also performed with the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Kansas City Shakespeare Festival, and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival among others. He is a founding member of the award winning Taffety Punk Theatre Company in Washington DC, and the former Artistic Director of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. He continues to teach classical text and Shakespeare performance privately and at colleges and conservatories both in the United States and abroad.
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The Ensemble:
Maggie Borden earned a BA in Theatre from Wofford College and recently graduated from the Stella Adler Summer Conservatory. She has studied acting in New York City and London and has attended workshops with the American Shakespeare Center. Past rolls include Mariah in Twelfth Night and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS), Libby in I Oughta Be In Pictures, Sonnerie in Red Noses, Lydia in Big Love, and Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing.
Sarah Coe earned a BFA in Theater from the University at Buffalo, including a year of study at Middlesex University in London, where she also studied under Jane Lapotaire at The Globe Theatre. Over the last 14 years, she has performed in Buffalo, London, Chicago and Charleston, and she frequently acts as Music Director on HCS productions. Recent roles include Feste in Twelfth Night and "Balthasay" in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS); Mae West in Dirty Blonde (SOBT), The Madam/ Demon in Poe:The Conqueror Worm (Theatre/verv), and Helen in Fat Pig (Footlight).
Tara Denton has performed as Mariah in Twelfth Night and "Antonia" in Much Ado Abotu Nothing (HCS), and in productions of Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar (CofC Summer Shakespeare Project). Other Charleston credits include Proof (Midtown Productions); Up, Lowcountry Boil, Killer Joe and PURE LAB (PURE Theatre). Tara is also an Associate Artist with the Poor Players (San Diego/Chicago), a theatre company dedicated to producing Shakespeare works (Artistic Director, Richard Baird). San Diego credits include Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part 1, Twelfth Night, and Coriolanus.
Fred Hutter has been involved in theater for 31 years. Among his many credits, he has played Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS). He also co-founded the Charleston Guerrilla Theater, which produced outdoor Shakespeare plays at James Island County Park (1996-2002) and which toured productions of Shakespeare scenes and short adaptations (for example, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet) to Lowcountry schools and parks. Fred has also appeared as Albany in King Lear (Actors Theater of SC).
Brendan Larkin Kelly earned his B.F.A. from The Theatre School of DePaul University (formally The Goodman School of Theatre), where his third year of training centered entirely on Shakespeare performance. New to the Charleston area, he has acted professionally in Chicago (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, the Athenaeum Theatre) and New York. In Charleston, Brendan has performed as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS) and in children's theatre for Sprouts at Creative Spark.
Michael Smallwood is a graduate of the College of Charleston with a degree in Theater. He is a two-time KCACTF award-winning playwright, a core member of PURE Theater, and a former playwriting apprentice with Horizon Theater Company in Atlanta, GA. Michael's Shakespearea credits include Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (HCS), and roles in King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo & Juliet.
Emma Stark has appeared as "Girl" in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS), The Widow in Taming of the Shrew (Theatre/VERV), the title role in Alice in Wonderland (Sullivan's Island ES), and as a Chorus member in Annie (SIES). With the help of various hats, mustaches, and eyeglasses, she played the multiple roles of Valentina, Officer, Priest, and Servant in HCS's reading performance of Twelfth Night. She has studied Acting and Musical Theatre locally at Charleston Stage; Theatre 99; Once Upon a Ballet) and in the DC area (at Round House Theatre; Imagination Stage). She is in 6th grade at Laing Middle School.
Robbie Thomas earned a BA in Theatre from the College of Charleston and has acted and directed regularly on Charleston stages ever since. He has played Borachio in Much Ado Abotu Nothing (HCS) and appeared in the last 9 summer Shakespeare Project productions (CofC) in roles that include Edmund (King Lear), Antipholus of Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors), the Duke of Buckingham (Richard III), and Master Ford (The Merry Wives of Windsor).
Craig Trow trained at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic theatre school (UK) and has performed all over the UK in a variety of plays from contemporary to classical. Past Shakespeare roles include Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing, HCS), Timon (Timon of Athens, The Rose theatre, London), and Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic). Craig has also performed in plays by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Anton Chekhov, and Sarah Kane. He is an award-winning comedy writer, currently producing several scripts for British television production companies.
Education Program Consultant, Performance Coach
He has been a teaching artist through City Lights Youth Theatre and Possible Arts and has developed and conducted residencies in schools all over New York City, including the Bronx School for Writers and Artists, Bronx Latin School, PS 125, PS 140, PS 107x, PS 182, and CS 61. He has designed and led workshops for Odyssey House and the Flatbush YMCA. Julian also taught performance workshops at the Horizons Academy at Rikers Island, where he led a drama residency for three years. As an actor, Julian has performed in New York at the Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for the New City, Dixon Place, Soho Rep, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange, among others.
Julian also has appeared in numerous television programs and commercials. He was featured in the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards commercial, and appears regularly in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, produced by Martin Scorcese.
Performance Coach, Lecturer, Director Consultant
Marcus Kyd holds an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University, DC. An experienced actor and director, he has performed in an extensive number of Classical and Contemporary plays at regional theatres around the country. Marcus cofounded the Helen Hayes award-winning Taffety Punk Theatre Company in DC, producing innovative classical and contemporary works and providing affordable theatre. Their Bootleg (plays rehearsed and performed in a single day) regularly appear on stage at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, as do their Riot Grrrl Shakespeare productions, featuring all-women casts.
His Shakespeare performance credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream and 1 Henry IV (Folger Shakespeare Theatre, DC); The Wars of the Roses: Henry VI pts 1-3 & Richard III (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), The Winter's Tale (Center Stage, DC), and multiple seasons at the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, as the Danish Prince in Hamlet, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Edumund in King Lear, Cassio in Othello, and the young Pericles and Lysimachus in a 7-actor Pericles.
Christopher Marino (Chicago, IL)
Performance Coach, Lecturer, and Director Consultant
(Kneeling, at right; with Avery Brooks in "Tamburlaine," Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC.)
Christopher Marino (Performance Coach) trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting, and Bard College, As a director; productions in New York City, Baltimore, Washington DC, and London England. As an actor spent several years teaching Master Acting classes and performing in productions with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC. He has also performed with the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Kansas City Shakespeare Festival, and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival among others. He is a founding member of the award winning Taffety Punk Theatre Company in Washington DC, and the former Artistic Director of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. He continues to teach classical text and Shakespeare performance privately and at colleges and conservatories both in the United States and abroad.
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The Ensemble:
Maggie Borden earned a BA in Theatre from Wofford College and recently graduated from the Stella Adler Summer Conservatory. She has studied acting in New York City and London and has attended workshops with the American Shakespeare Center. Past rolls include Mariah in Twelfth Night and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS), Libby in I Oughta Be In Pictures, Sonnerie in Red Noses, Lydia in Big Love, and Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing.
Sarah Coe earned a BFA in Theater from the University at Buffalo, including a year of study at Middlesex University in London, where she also studied under Jane Lapotaire at The Globe Theatre. Over the last 14 years, she has performed in Buffalo, London, Chicago and Charleston, and she frequently acts as Music Director on HCS productions. Recent roles include Feste in Twelfth Night and "Balthasay" in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS); Mae West in Dirty Blonde (SOBT), The Madam/ Demon in Poe:The Conqueror Worm (Theatre/verv), and Helen in Fat Pig (Footlight).
Tara Denton has performed as Mariah in Twelfth Night and "Antonia" in Much Ado Abotu Nothing (HCS), and in productions of Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar (CofC Summer Shakespeare Project). Other Charleston credits include Proof (Midtown Productions); Up, Lowcountry Boil, Killer Joe and PURE LAB (PURE Theatre). Tara is also an Associate Artist with the Poor Players (San Diego/Chicago), a theatre company dedicated to producing Shakespeare works (Artistic Director, Richard Baird). San Diego credits include Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part 1, Twelfth Night, and Coriolanus.
Fred Hutter has been involved in theater for 31 years. Among his many credits, he has played Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS). He also co-founded the Charleston Guerrilla Theater, which produced outdoor Shakespeare plays at James Island County Park (1996-2002) and which toured productions of Shakespeare scenes and short adaptations (for example, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet) to Lowcountry schools and parks. Fred has also appeared as Albany in King Lear (Actors Theater of SC).
Brendan Larkin Kelly earned his B.F.A. from The Theatre School of DePaul University (formally The Goodman School of Theatre), where his third year of training centered entirely on Shakespeare performance. New to the Charleston area, he has acted professionally in Chicago (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, the Athenaeum Theatre) and New York. In Charleston, Brendan has performed as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS) and in children's theatre for Sprouts at Creative Spark.
Michael Smallwood is a graduate of the College of Charleston with a degree in Theater. He is a two-time KCACTF award-winning playwright, a core member of PURE Theater, and a former playwriting apprentice with Horizon Theater Company in Atlanta, GA. Michael's Shakespearea credits include Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (HCS), and roles in King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo & Juliet.
Emma Stark has appeared as "Girl" in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS), The Widow in Taming of the Shrew (Theatre/VERV), the title role in Alice in Wonderland (Sullivan's Island ES), and as a Chorus member in Annie (SIES). With the help of various hats, mustaches, and eyeglasses, she played the multiple roles of Valentina, Officer, Priest, and Servant in HCS's reading performance of Twelfth Night. She has studied Acting and Musical Theatre locally at Charleston Stage; Theatre 99; Once Upon a Ballet) and in the DC area (at Round House Theatre; Imagination Stage). She is in 6th grade at Laing Middle School.
Robbie Thomas earned a BA in Theatre from the College of Charleston and has acted and directed regularly on Charleston stages ever since. He has played Borachio in Much Ado Abotu Nothing (HCS) and appeared in the last 9 summer Shakespeare Project productions (CofC) in roles that include Edmund (King Lear), Antipholus of Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors), the Duke of Buckingham (Richard III), and Master Ford (The Merry Wives of Windsor).
Craig Trow trained at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic theatre school (UK) and has performed all over the UK in a variety of plays from contemporary to classical. Past Shakespeare roles include Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing, HCS), Timon (Timon of Athens, The Rose theatre, London), and Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic). Craig has also performed in plays by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Anton Chekhov, and Sarah Kane. He is an award-winning comedy writer, currently producing several scripts for British television production companies.
Performance Coach, Lecturer, and Director Consultant
(Kneeling, at right; with Avery Brooks in "Tamburlaine," Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC.)
Christopher Marino (Performance Coach) trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting, and Bard College, As a director; productions in New York City, Baltimore, Washington DC, and London England. As an actor spent several years teaching Master Acting classes and performing in productions with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC. He has also performed with the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Kansas City Shakespeare Festival, and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival among others. He is a founding member of the award winning Taffety Punk Theatre Company in Washington DC, and the former Artistic Director of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. He continues to teach classical text and Shakespeare performance privately and at colleges and conservatories both in the United States and abroad.
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The Ensemble:
Maggie Borden earned a BA in Theatre from Wofford College and recently graduated from the Stella Adler Summer Conservatory. She has studied acting in New York City and London and has attended workshops with the American Shakespeare Center. Past rolls include Mariah in Twelfth Night and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS), Libby in I Oughta Be In Pictures, Sonnerie in Red Noses, Lydia in Big Love, and Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing.
Sarah Coe earned a BFA in Theater from the University at Buffalo, including a year of study at Middlesex University in London, where she also studied under Jane Lapotaire at The Globe Theatre. Over the last 14 years, she has performed in Buffalo, London, Chicago and Charleston, and she frequently acts as Music Director on HCS productions. Recent roles include Feste in Twelfth Night and "Balthasay" in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS); Mae West in Dirty Blonde (SOBT), The Madam/ Demon in Poe:The Conqueror Worm (Theatre/verv), and Helen in Fat Pig (Footlight).
Tara Denton has performed as Mariah in Twelfth Night and "Antonia" in Much Ado Abotu Nothing (HCS), and in productions of Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar (CofC Summer Shakespeare Project). Other Charleston credits include Proof (Midtown Productions); Up, Lowcountry Boil, Killer Joe and PURE LAB (PURE Theatre). Tara is also an Associate Artist with the Poor Players (San Diego/Chicago), a theatre company dedicated to producing Shakespeare works (Artistic Director, Richard Baird). San Diego credits include Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part 1, Twelfth Night, and Coriolanus.
Fred Hutter has been involved in theater for 31 years. Among his many credits, he has played Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS). He also co-founded the Charleston Guerrilla Theater, which produced outdoor Shakespeare plays at James Island County Park (1996-2002) and which toured productions of Shakespeare scenes and short adaptations (for example, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet) to Lowcountry schools and parks. Fred has also appeared as Albany in King Lear (Actors Theater of SC).
Brendan Larkin Kelly earned his B.F.A. from The Theatre School of DePaul University (formally The Goodman School of Theatre), where his third year of training centered entirely on Shakespeare performance. New to the Charleston area, he has acted professionally in Chicago (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, the Athenaeum Theatre) and New York. In Charleston, Brendan has performed as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS) and in children's theatre for Sprouts at Creative Spark.
Michael Smallwood is a graduate of the College of Charleston with a degree in Theater. He is a two-time KCACTF award-winning playwright, a core member of PURE Theater, and a former playwriting apprentice with Horizon Theater Company in Atlanta, GA. Michael's Shakespearea credits include Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (HCS), and roles in King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo & Juliet.
Emma Stark has appeared as "Girl" in Much Ado About Nothing (HCS), The Widow in Taming of the Shrew (Theatre/VERV), the title role in Alice in Wonderland (Sullivan's Island ES), and as a Chorus member in Annie (SIES). With the help of various hats, mustaches, and eyeglasses, she played the multiple roles of Valentina, Officer, Priest, and Servant in HCS's reading performance of Twelfth Night. She has studied Acting and Musical Theatre locally at Charleston Stage; Theatre 99; Once Upon a Ballet) and in the DC area (at Round House Theatre; Imagination Stage). She is in 6th grade at Laing Middle School.
Robbie Thomas earned a BA in Theatre from the College of Charleston and has acted and directed regularly on Charleston stages ever since. He has played Borachio in Much Ado Abotu Nothing (HCS) and appeared in the last 9 summer Shakespeare Project productions (CofC) in roles that include Edmund (King Lear), Antipholus of Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors), the Duke of Buckingham (Richard III), and Master Ford (The Merry Wives of Windsor).
Craig Trow trained at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic theatre school (UK) and has performed all over the UK in a variety of plays from contemporary to classical. Past Shakespeare roles include Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing, HCS), Timon (Timon of Athens, The Rose theatre, London), and Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic). Craig has also performed in plays by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Anton Chekhov, and Sarah Kane. He is an award-winning comedy writer, currently producing several scripts for British television production companies.
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