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Recently, a long time audience member, Frank Lopes, shared a celebrates Shakespeare’s stories and language, the natural beauty sonnet that he wrote about a tree. of the park, and the communion between the audience and the players that takes place night after night. It’s a lovely tree--in fact, you can see it right now, from where you It is a gift to create theater for the Los Angeles community, and our are sitting. If you’re looking towards the Festival stage, it’ s just to efforts are reciprocated tenfold. You really are the engine that pow- the left. Before a performance, you’ll often find actors and audi- ers the Festival. Your financial donations keep the Festival running. ence members sitting under it, enjoying the shade: Your generosity of spirit when we meet you after performances (or Into the sky towards providence do reach onstage at intermission) is deeply moving. We love taking pictures The wise and solemn bows of mighty tree. with you, chatting with you season after season--and in some And when night’s air of summer words do breech, cases, watching you grow up! Those magic words of past set people free. Oh,Tree! What beauty hast thou witnessed here? Every so often a pizza is delivered to us backstage, or a plate of Of lives, of loves, of kingdoms lost to dust, cookies, or a bottle of champagne. We’ve received deeply personal And passion’d players sharing skills and cheer gifts, including art work inspired by the plays. Once, a young child Till summer’s end brings closing rain and rust. invited the actress playing Peaseblossom in a Midsummer Night’s And when the lot packs up their rustic bags Dream to a playdate. Like Frank’s poem, all these gifts remind us To throw them up into the winter’s winds, how lucky we are to be part of your lives. Behind with tree the season’s mem’ry lags As Frank does, we believe “Those magic words of past set people Kept company ‘till next year’s June begins. free,” and we are grateful to have the chance to share them with Old tree bathed in the light cast from the stage, you this evening! Thank you for being here. As ever, we are proud to ‘Neath thee do troupe and groundlings both engage. be your theater company. Frank’s poem captures the spirit of the summer season. It is Melissa Chalsma, Artistic Director unabashed in its joyful expressivity, it is devoid of cynicism. It on behalf of Independent Shakepseare Co.

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Join your fellow art-makers, art lovers and arts audiences of Greater Los Angeles tto make a direct impact on the health of our city’s performing arts ecosystem. THE COMPANY House of Lancaster KING HENRY VI...... Lorenzo González* MARGARET, his wife ��Kalean Ung* LADY ANN, their daughter-in-law, wife to their slaughtered son ��Mary Goodchild* EARL OF RICHMOND (later King Henry VII) �� Evan Lewis Smith

House of York KING EDWARD IV �� Nathan Nonhoff ELIZABETH, his wife �� Aisha Kabia* EDWARD, their son, the crown Prince �� Tatiana Louder DUKE OF YORK, their youngest son ��April Fritz ELIZABETH, their daughter ��Katie Powers-Faulk RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, later King Richard III ��David Melville* DUCHESS OF YORK, Mother to Edward IV and Richard III ��Bernadette Sullivan* DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM ��WIlliam Elsman* THE LORDS RIVERS AND GREY, brothers to EIizabeth the Queen ��Victor Manso and Brandon Wong

Other Lords and Citizens of London LORD STANLEY...... Joseph Culliton* CATESBY, servant to Richard of Gloucester ��Fiona Cheung* THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON �� Lorenzo González* THE LIEUTENANT OF THE TOWER �� Nathan Nonhoff CITIZENS...... Nathan Nonhoff, Evan Lewis Smith, Jack Lancaster LORD TIRREL �� Victor Manso RATCLIFFE, servant to Richard of Gloucester ��Jack Lancaster FORREST, a murderer ��Brandon Wong NORFOLK, a lord that fights on the side of Richard ��Brandon Wong BLUNT, a lord that fights on the side of Richmond �� Lorenzo González* OXFORD, a lord that fights on the side of Richmond �� Nathan Nonhoff

THE BAND...... William Elsman*, Brandon Wong, Jack Lancaster, Victor Manso, with David Melville*

PLAYWRIGHT...... William Shakespeare DIRECTOR...... Melissa Chalsma COSTUME DESIGNER ��Garry Lennon SCENIC DESIGNER ��Caitlin Lainoff ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGNER ��Natalie Morales COMPOSER...... David Melville MUSIC DIRECTOR ��Chris Porter PROP MASTER ��Eric Babb LIGHTING DESIGN ��Bosco Flannagan PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ��Kendra Arado* ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER ��Salina Mahoney* *member, Actors’ Equity Association, the professional union of actors and stage managers in the United States

Notes on the Play by Melissa Chalsma Two years ago, David Melville described to me a 1699 version of Shakespeare’s RICHARD III that was adapted by Colley Cibber (a colorful actor-manager and playwright who was later declared the Poet Laureate of England.) For two hundred years it was the most performed play in the English speaking world. It became more famous than Shakespeare’s original, and in fact, when theaters began presenting Shakespeare’s unadulterated play, audiences revolted, demanding the Cibber version they knew and loved.

What was so intoxicating about Cibber’s adaptation? His main innovation was a focusing of the action; consolidating the sweeping, complex history into something sleek and concentrated. Gone were some famous characters, and in their place were story-clarifying moments, and several entirely new scenes (and even a song). What was the purpose for these changes? RICHARD III is the end of a sequence of eight plays. Shakespeare’s audience knew all the characters in this serialized drama evoking the 100 years of conflict within one British royal family, and didn’t need primers on who was related to who. For contemporary audiences, however, jumping into the story of the Plantagenet family tree is a bit like picking up “Game of Thrones” several seasons in. Cibber’s clever edit reversed that, distilling the extraordinary dramatic arc of Richard’s journey and allowing the play to shine as a stand-alone piece.

As the decades passed, Cibber’s version was edited and reworked by leading actors of the day. Much of Cibber’s more 18th-century language was replaced with the original Shakespeare (for as theatrically astute as Cibber was, he was not as transcendently poetic). By the end of the 19th century, Cibber’s version fell com- pletely out of favor, but was never lost entirely. (David Melville first heard about it through a teacher at his drama school.) And although it’s no longer published, the text is passed among scholars and fans of classical theatre ephemera (we are indebted to Tom Keever for giving us access to his compilation.) SUMMER NIGHTS

As we considered the vexing issues of presenting the final chap- with twinkling stars in the sky ter in a eight-play story, we turned to Cibber. Although we’ve re- stored much of the text to the original Shakespeare (and added and upon the stage, back some characters) we’ve retained Cibber’s condensing of the always have a way of story, and even several of his ingenious original scenes. (We bor- rowed the lyrics for Lady Ann’s plaintive song from Shakespeare’s going straight to contemporary, Ben Jonson.) our hearts. RICHARD III tells the story of two branches of the Plantagenet family tree. These two branches, the house of York (whose symbol is the white rose) and the house of Lancaster (whose symbol is the red rose), waged a generation-long war over the English crown. RICHARD III tells the story of the resolution of this battle, and gives rise to one of Shakespeare’s most electric characters: the charismatic and morally...complicated anti-hero, Richard of Gloucester.

Richard feels like an utterly contemporary creation, and an elec- tion year is certainly an interesting time to consider the often un- savory machinations involved in achieving power. Shakespeare’s portrayal of what happens when tyranny goes unchecked is as timely today as it was 400 years ago. Shakespeare also provides us with clear images that stand in contrast to the tyrant: the women who come together to take a stand against him, the innocent and forgiving nature of his victims, his final, heroic opponent. We’re proud to But what explains Richard’s appeal to audiences through the centuries? Without a doubt, he is one of Shakespeare’s most support the 2016 entertaining creations. Perhaps it is his absolute grasp of the- season of ISC play-ing atricality, his unrepentant self-centeredness, and the seductive glimpses he offers of his hidden vulnerability. We are thrilled by in our “backyard.” him, even while repelled by his actions: he is as close to a rock star as appears in Shakespeare. And even though we know that we really shouldn’t be, we are enthralled by his absolute commit- ment to slaking his appetites. We simultaneously wonder why no one stops him, and rejoice that he’s still going. Shakespeare perfectly captures our hunger for both morality and transgres- sion--a defining human conflict that holds us all in its thrall. And unlike the Wars of the Roses, there is no resolution in sight. www.iscla.org #ShakespeareSetFree THE COMPANY ALONSO, King of Naples ��Joseph Culliton* SEBASTIAN, his brother �� William Elsman* ANTONIO, the usurping Duke of Milan ��Faqir Hassan FERDINAND, son of the King of Naples �� Evan Lewis Smith GONZALO, an honest counsellor ��Lester Purry* STEPHANO...... David Melville* TRINCULO...... Lorenzo González* A BOATSWAIN ��Rudy Márquez

PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan �� Bernard White* MIRANDA, his daughter �� Erika Soto* CALIBAN, a native of the island ��Sean Pritchett* ARIEL, a spirit of the island ��Kalean Ung* SAILORS, PASSENGERS & SPIRITS...... Patrick Batiste, April Fritz, Jack Lancaster, Tatiana Louder, Nathan Nonhoff, Stefany Pesta

PLAYWRIGHT...... William Shakespeare DIRECTOR...... Matthew Earnest COSTUME DESIGNER ��William Bezek SCENIC DESIGNER ��Caitlin Lainoff ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGNER ��Thanya Jule Moran COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER ��Chris Porter PROP MASTER ��Eric Babb LIGHTING DESIGNER ��Bosco Flannagan PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ��Kendra Arado* ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER ��Salina Mahoney* *member, Actors’ Equity Association, the professional union of actors and stage managers in the United States

The Tempest: events leading to the 1611 premiere, and further notes by Matthew Earnest 1607 The JAMES TOWNE COLONIE is established in North America by an expedition from the Virginia Company of London. Shakespeare’s eldest child, Susanna, marries John Hall in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.

1609 A shipwreck: THE SEA VENTURE washes up on a beach in Bermuda. Some live to tell the tale.

1610 Shakespeare almost certainly reads about the wreck of THE SEA VENTURE in William Strachey’s eyewitness account, A TRUE REPORTORY OF THE WRACKE AND REDEMPTION OF SIR THOMAS GATES, KNIGHT.

1611 Galileo presents his homemade 30X telescope to the Vatican. The sunspots he has seen, along with the moons orbiting Jupiter, prove that Copernicus’s theories were correct after all. Unmoved, Cardinal Bellarmine, decrees that all mathematicians adhere to the theory that the sun revolves around the earth. And... THE TEMPEST premieres at Whitehall Palace in London before theater-obsessed monarch, King James I (age 44). The play’s 47 year-old author, who would be dead in five years, was enjoying the enthusiastic support of the King – his company was invited to perform at court more often in James’s first three years than they had been during Elizabeth’s entire reign.They are now known by their shiny new name, The King’s Men.

A daughter’s marriage. A shipwreck on an exotic island. A cloistered scientist at odds with the authorities. A company of loyal spirits. A theater maker at the end of his career.

The maverick playwright William Shakespeare, like Tennessee Williams and precious few others, was a genius at creating poetry from hard facts. We do the exact opposite today, converting even the most poetic ideas into cold, hard data (“Click here to view the 10 Best Abstract Expressionist paintings.”). We recycle inspiration instead of looking for it in dreams (AKA, the future), limiting ourselves to the short range of our own consciousness. We insist on logic, or worse, that something be quantifiable, “relatable”. We desire the literal in life and in art.

There is nothing “logical” about having a shape-shifting partner who can fly, nothing “relatable” (The word makes me shudder.) about a man who has taught himself to create storms by reading books. The play’s realities couldn’t be further from our contemporary lives, and yet, in its fantastical derring-do, its thoroughly invented details, its magical creatures, psychedelic language, murder plots, and “god- desses”, it reveals more to us about ourselves than any surveillance camera could.

Who cannot see him/herself in a father who must sacrifice his identity for the happiness of a beloved child? In a daughter whose Join us online! loyalties are divided between past and future? In a faithful spirit who must find the courage to fly blind into a strange new world?

How fortunate we are that Mr. Shakespeare seems to have been more concerned with what we might become, than with what we simply “are”. THE 2016 COMPANY OF ARTISTS

Kendra Arado Eric Babb Patrick Batiste William Bezek Melissa Chalsma Fiona Cheung

Joseph Culliton Matthew Earnest William Elsman April Fritz Lorenzo González Mary Goodchild

Faqir Hassan Nisha Joshi Aisha Kabia Caitlin Lainoff Jack Lancaster Garry Lennon

Tatiana Louder Salina Mahoney Victor Manso Rudy Márquez David Melville Nathan Nonhof

Stefany Pesta Chris Porter Katie Powers-Faulk Sean Pritchett Evan Lewis Smith Erika Soto

Bernadette Sullivan Kalean Ung Bernard White Brandon Wong

KENDRA ARADO (Production Stage Manager) Arado is delighted to be ERIC BABB (Season Propmaster) Eric is thrilled to be working with ISC again playing in Griffith Park for her second summer. After last season’s ROMEO for the third consecutive summer! Eric also works in the prop department AND JULIET and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, she has continued creat- at Center Theatre Group, where some of his prop artisan/assistant credits ing theatre throughout Los Angeles. Most recently, she produced SHINE include: CHAVEZ RAVINE (Kirk Douglas Theatre 2015), GIRLFRIEND (KDT DARKLY, ILLYRIA at the McCadden. She is a proud graduate of the Univer- 2015), POPOL VUH: HEART OF HEAVEN (Puppet Artisan 2015), APPROPRI- sity of Utah and member of USITT. She would like to send a big shout out ATE (Mark Taper Forum 2015), THE MYSTERY OF LOVE & SEX (MTF 2016), to her family and friends around the world. WOMEN LAUGHING ALONE WITH SALAD (KDT 2016). Thanks to everyone at ISC! PATRICK BATISTE (TEMP: Passenger, Spirit) is celebrating his second sum- WILLIAM ELSMAN (RIII: Buckingham, Musician/TEMP: Sebastian) is grate- mer festival with ISC, having been previously seen in last summer’s MUCH ful to be back for his second summer with ISC. Last season he appeared as ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Some of his favorite credits include RAGTIME Don John in MUCH ADO, and as The Apothecary/Musician in R&J. William (3D theatricals), BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON (CSUN), HAIR the has performed with the Texas, Pennsylvania, Marin, and Santa Cruz MUSICAL (Tribe Prod.), and 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING Shakespeare Festivals, the Sacramento Theater Company, Capital Stage, BEE (CSUN) among others. He has starred in over a dozen commercials and the San Francisco Playhouse. He can be seen playing drums in the Coen and co-starred in NBC’s TRAUMA. He sends thanks to Melissa and David Brothers film, “HAIL, CAESAR!” BFA Rutgers University and MFA University for making this summer possible and sends Love to his family and friends. of Delaware.www.williamelsman.com

WILLIAM BEZEK (TEMP: Costume Designer) is a freelance artist from San APRIL FRITZ (RIII: Duke of York/TEMP: Passenger/Spirit) This is April’s first Francisco. Recent work in Scenic and Costume design includes: LES LIAI- production with ISC. A Bay Area native, she received her BA in Theatre at SONS DANGEREUSES (Warehouse Theatre, Greenville, South Carolina), SFSU. Credits include NIGHTINGALE (Davis Shakespeare Ensemble), PHA- TAMING OF THE SHREW and EMPEROR OF THE MOON (International EDRA’S LOVE and KING HENRY IV (Do It Live! Productions), DANNY AND Theatre program, University of Rochester), ¡AY CARMELA! (Spanish Rep, THE DEEP BLUE SEA and OTHELLO (Breach Once More Theatre), and an all NYC), [GLUG], CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?, DEAD LETTER OFFICE (Hunting- female HAMLET (SFSU). When not on stage, she can be seen in various com- ton, West Virginia), I CA$$IE…OR THE END OF DAYS (English Theater, mercials and will be making her Virtual Reality debut later this year. Berlin Germany), POOR LITTLE LULU (Cleveland Public Theatre), THE UN- DERPANTS (Beck Center, Cleveland), TIGERS BE STILL (Dobama Theater, LORENZO GONZÁLEZ (RIII Henry VI, Lord Mayor, Blunt/TEMP: Trinculo) Cleveland). Will lives in NYC and in upstate New York. Lorenzo is ecstatic to be back home with ISC. Among the various theatres he has worked are: The RED CAT and The Ahmanson Theatre in L.A., San MELISSA CHALSMA (RIII: Direction) is the co-founder and Artistic Director Jose Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company, six of Independent Shakespeare Co. Melissa directs and acts in many ISC seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, El Teatro Campesino, Colorado productions. Most recently, she directed OTHELLO in the ISC Studio. Last Shakespeare Festival, and has also been a member of The Actor’s Gang. Lo- summer in Griffith Park, she directed ROMEO & JULIET, and played Bea- renzo is currently an associate artist with El Centro Su Teatro in Denver, CO trice in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. She has also performed in theaters and Chair of Undergraduate Programs in performance at Naropa University and Shakespeare festivals across the country, on Broadway (including the in Boulder. His MFA is from PTTP at the University of Delaware. American premiere of Harold Pinter’s MOONLIGHT with Jason Robards, MARY GOODCHILD (RIII: Lady Ann) With ISC: RED BARN (Maria), MID- Blythe Danner, and Liev Schreiber), and in the UK, including at the Derby SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Hermia), AS YOU LIKE IT (Phebe), HAM- playhouse and London’s Battersea Arts Center. She is married to ISC co- LET (Ophelia), ROMEO & JULIET (Benvolio), TWO GENTLEMEN OF founder David Melville. Together they have produced two children and VERONA (Julia), THE TEMPEST (Ariel), WINTER’S TALE (Perdita), MUCH sixty-seven theatrical works. ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Hero), COMEDY OF ERRORS, LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, HENRY IV, CHRISTMAS CAROL with CHARLES DICKENS (LA, France, FIONA CHEUNG (RIII: Catseby) Fiona is excited for her 2nd ISC production England). Louisiana native, Pepperdine University grad, AKA singer/drum- after playing Emilia in the Studio’s recent production of OTHELLO. She mer Hilda Parker of the band Dr. Pinch and the Pinchtones. More stuff: mar- graduated from Juilliard Drama and has also worked with the Shakespeare ygoodchild.com. Center of Los Angeles (MERCHANT OF VENICE), East West Players (TA-

KARAZUKA), Fresh Produce’d LA, and the Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble FAQIR HASSAN (TEMP: Antonio) is a graduate from the MFA Acting pro- here in Los Angeles. Thanks to Melissa Chalsma and David Melville, and gram at CalArts and is excited to be returning to the ISC stage for his second love to Fiona’s family and friends for their everlasting support. www. summer festival. Recently he has been seen on the ISC stage as Montague in fionacheung.info ROMEO AND JULIET, and as Roderigo/Lodovico in OTHELLO. He looks forward to joining the amazing Tempest team and the Los Angeles community JOSEPH CULLITON (RIII: Lord Stanley/TEMP: Alonso) Joseph Culliton acted in celebrating art and summer. on Broadway in THE BEST MAN, SOUTH PACIFIC, and George Abbott’s BROADWAY. Off-Broadway credits include the New York Shakespeare NISHA JOSHI (House Manager) Nisha Joshi did front of house for the ISC Festival’s KING JOHN and JULIUS CAESAR. He’s played the Ahmanson, run of OTHELLO in the Studio and is thrilled to be back for the summer Mark Taper Forum, Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, and the Shake- festival. She would like to thank Sarah, David and Melissa for giving her speare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. TV audiences know him this amazing opportunity to be part of bringing Shakespeare to the people!! from AMERICAN CRIME: O.J. SIMPSON, LAW AND ORDER, STRANGERS She would also like every person in attendance to know that if they need WITH CANDY, MR. SUNSHINE, ALL MY CHILDREN, GENERAL HOSPI- anything at all they can ask her. TAL, and a recurrent role on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS. In feature films he’s acted opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in J. EDGAR, Jeff Bridges in AISHA KABIA (RIII: Elizabeth) In six seasons with ISC: Princess in LOVE’S SOMEBODY KILLED HER HUSBAND, and John Wayne in CAHILL, U.S. LABOUR’S LOST, Mistress Ford in MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, Helena in MARSHALL. Joe has been an ISC company member since 2006. MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, Lady Macduff in MACBETH, Lady Capulet in ROMEO AND JULIET, Celia/Phebe in AS YOU LIKE IT, Adriana in COMEDY MATTHEW EARNEST (TEMP: Direction) Matthew’s many productions of OF ERRORS - Regional Theater: 3 Seasons at Oregon Shakespeare Festival - classics, operas, original works, adaptations, and US/world premieres have TV: Girl Meets World, How I Met Your Mother, NCIS:LA, House - Education: garnered acclaim Off-Broadway, across the country, in Europe, Canada, BFA, UC Santa Barbara. and Africa. Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and others, his work has received numerous awards, including THE NY TIMES Critics CAITLIN LAINOFF (Season Set Design) received her MFA from CalArts with Pick, CLEVELAND SCENE Best Director, Audience Favourite (Dublin), BIFF a focus on scene design and puppetry. She is thrilled to celebrate her sixth Award (NY Fringe), Dallas Theater Critics Forum Award, and others. An summer designing with Independent Shakespeare Co. in Griffith Park. She associate artist at English Theater Berlin and a Drama League Directing works as a freelance designer and educator, designing theater on the east Fellow, Matthew lives in Manhattan’s East Village and the Hudson Valley and west coast and teaching art to all ages. She is currently devising FEED with artist/stage designer William Bezek. with Applied Mechanics, which will premier at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival this fall. JACK LANCASTER (RIII: Ratcliffe, Musician/TEMP: Mariner, Spirit) is thrilled to join ISC for a second season. He is about to start his second year of acting training at DePaul University in Chicago, IL, which he loves. Last year he joined the company for ROMEO & JULIET. Past productions include, MACBETH and readings of KING JOHN and RICHARD III with The Antaeus Company. He also did a reading of FOR THE LOYAL with Circle X Theatre Company.

GARRY LENNON (RIII: Costume Design) previously designed costumes for ISC’s TWELFTH NIGHT, WINTER’S TALE and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. He designed COLONY COLLAPSE, MY BARKING DOG, SEVEN SPOTS ON THE SUN and THE MISSING PAGES OF LEWIS CAR- ROLL at the Theatre@Boston Court. He has also worked with Corner- stone Theater Company, Reprise Theatre Company, Mixed Blood and South Coast Repertory, among others. Garry is a professor and Chair of the Theatre Department at California State University Northridge.

TATIANA LOUDER (RIII: Prince Edward/TEMP: Passenger, Spirit) is an artist from America’s playground. She migrated to LA in 2014 with her car, Lolita, after graduating from Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, and has since had roles in QUIET AS KEPT (film), SAHARA TAHOE (play), and SWOLE (web series). She is the founder of upcoming all-girl boy band, “Boy Drag”, and the writer/director of short film LES IS MORE. She wants you to know she’s glad you’re here. You, specifically.

SALINA MAHONEY (Assistant Stage Manager) is a theatre maker, manager and playwright. Her producing credits include RUST ON BONE and ALL THE WAY HOME at The Blank Theatre Company and LET’S TALK SEX WORK: A PLAY and TEETH & INFLUENCE (which she authored) at the CalArts’ New Works Festival. With ISC, she has stage managed A CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH CHARLES DICKENS. Salina was last summer’s concessions manager and is looking forward to her third season at the park!

VICTOR MANSO (RIII: Rivers, Tirrel, Musician) Victor began his acting career at the National Youth Theatre of Venezuela. He also studied at the Barcelona Film School (ECIB) in Spain and is a graduate of the con- servatory program at Stella Adler Studio in New York. He has performed in three different countries with theatre credits such as SUBURBIA (Eric Bogosian), RUMORS (Neil Simon) and TV credits such as THE BRIDGE (FX) and RIZZOLI & ISLES (TNT). He is also a singer/songwriter.

RUDY MÁRQUEZ (TEMP: Boatswain, Spirit) is a native Californian, graduated from Long Beach State University with a BA in Theatre. He has performed in various theatres around Los Angeles such as Company of Angels, Independent Shakespeare Co., and Cornerstone, to name a few. As a bilingual actor you may have seen him on Hulu’s hit series, EAST LOS HIGH and SUPERGIRL. As a man of many talents he loves to entertain and believes hard work is the key to success.

DAVID MELVILLE (RIII: Richard, Composer/TEMP: Stephano) Co-founder of ISC, he’s acted in and directed many ISC productions. He wrote and co- starred in STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY, a condensed story that takes the audience through through 10 Shakespeare plays and 150 years of British war. For ISC he’s played Hamlet, Richard III, Iago, Macbeth, Henry V, Benedict, Friar Lawrence, Dr. Pinch, Feste, Charles Dickens, and WH Ireland in the one-man show SOLEMN MOCKERIES by Richard Creese. He appeared in DISCORD at the Geffen Playhouse, and London appear- ances include HAMLET (also Broadway) and IVANOV (both of which featured Ralph Fiennes), and Henry VI in THE WAX KING. TV and film: LAWRENCE OF AMERICA, IRONCLAD, THE UNDERSTUDY, and PERFEC- TION. He trained at the Webber-Douglas Academy, London. David writes the music for many ISC productions including numerous Dr. Pinch and the Pinchtones vaudeville shows, as well as the original musical, RED BARN. He is married to ISC co-fouder Melissa Chalsma. Together, they have two children, one dog, two cats, two rabbits, and five fish. NATHAN NONHOF (RIII: Lieutenant,Oxford/TEMP: Mariner, Spirit) is a ERRORS: Antiph of Syracuse; WINTER’S TALE: Autolicus; MERRY WIVES: Kansas native and graduate of the Calarts MFA Acting Program. His recent Sir Hugh; LOVE’S LABOUR’S: Berowne; HAMLET: Claudius. ISC Studio: credits include: 29 CROSS EXAMINATIONS directed by Maureen Selwood, OTHELLO: Cassio; CYRANO: De Guiche; TWO GENTS: Proteus. LA Theatre: IAMI Directed by Shawn Brown and performed at Edinburgh Fringe Fes- BOADICEA (SPQR Stage Co), PROOF (Olive Tree), SERIAL KILLERS at Sacred tival, and IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER directed by Nataki Garrett. Fools. UK Theatre: MANY LOVES (West End), ME & BILLY JOE (BAC), SEXUAL Nathan is enjoying becoming a full-time Angelino and works commer- PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO (Edinburgh Fringe). Film/TV: CARRIER (Cinema cially and in voice over and he couldn’t be more excited to work with this Epoch), BLOOD REDD (Red Love), PLASTIC (Retro-Juice), BAD DADS (Fuel splendiferous group of people. TV), BEST DAMN SPORTS SHOW (FOX). Vox: BBC Radio 1 & BBC2. Sean has performed in many Big Show’s for Young Storytellers. STEFANY PESTA (TEM: Passenger/ Spirit/ Goddess) is excited for the opportunity to work with the Independent Shakespeare Co. She graduated from EVAN LEWIS SMITH (RIII: Citizen, Richmond/TEMP: Ferdinand) is excited to Cal State Fullerton and also trained with Mark Majarian and Eric Morris. As be returning for his second Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival. Previous a singer she trained under the very talented Jo Monteleone. Favorite past ISC credits include: OTHELLO (Othello), MUCH ADO (Friar Francis/Sexton), credits include Juliet in ROMEO AND JULIET, Sabine from THREE MUS- ROMEO & JULIET (Tyblat), PERICLES (Lysimachus/Cleon/Thaliart). Other KETEERS, Ra in YEAR ZERO, and Jocelyn in SO YOU WANT TO BE KOREAN. stage credits: SOMEONE WHO’ll WATCH OVER ME (Adam Canning) Group Rep Thtre Co. MACBETH (Duncan/Macduff) Edgmar Center for the Arts. He CHRIS PORTER (RIII: Music Direction/TEMP: Composer) is an award-win- hails from Bloomfield Hills Michigan, and received his MFA Acting from USC. ning, Los Angeles-based composer of concert works, film scores, theater ERIKA SOTO (TEMP: Miranda) Happy to be back for her 5th summer! With music, and other performance events. Often working or collaborating as a ISC: ROMEO AND JULIET (Juliet), THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Bianca), SHE sound designer and/or writer, his projects have been seen and heard across STOOPS TO CONQUER (Constance), THE WINTERS TALE (Mopsa), HAMLET the country and around the globe. Chris previously worked with ISC on (Player Queen), STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY (Ingenue), RED BARN (Mary PERICLES, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, and OTHELLO. He also serves as Moore). With A NoiseWithin: YOU NEVER CAN TELL (Dolly). B.A., USC School the Associate Artistic Director of The Speakeasy Society. www.chrisporter- of Dramatic Arts & British American Drama Academy. Texas native, salsa composer.com dancer, Spanish speaker. More at erikasoto.com KATIE POWERS-FAULK (RIII: Princess Elizabeth) has just finished her BERNADETTE SULLIVAN (RIII: Duchess of York) Bernadette Sullivan began freshman year in UCLA’s department of Theater, Film, and Television. As performing with ISC in 2005 and has loved every minute of it. Past roles a musical theater major, she has taken an interest in choreography and include Gertrude in HAMLET, Paulina in A WINTER’S TALE, Quince in A recently joined Post Mortem Movement Theater. She is overjoyed to be MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, Emilia in OTHELLO, Maria in TWELFTH working with the Independent Shakespeare Co. once again. NIGHT and Mistress Page in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR among

SEAN PRITCHETT (TEMP: Caliban) Twelfth season with ISC: R&J: Capulet; others. She’s worked in theaters around the country, helped to start several SHREW: Lucentio; MACBETH: Malcolm; DREAM: Puck; COMEDY OF theatre companies (Frank Theatre in Minneapolis, Zoo District in LA), and is a voiceover artist.

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William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II Act IV, Scene II

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SPECIAL THANKS Councilmember David Ryu, Sarah Dusseault, and the entire Council District Four Office; Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell and the Council District Thirteen Office.

Department of Recreation and Parks, especially Joe Salaices, Brenda Aguirre, and Gonzalo Rebollo. Mike Ditz Photography (cover photos and season marketing materi- Independent Shakespeare Co. operates under a letter of agreement als), Tjalsma Design, Leslie Stevens, Edgar Landa, Gerald McGrory, with the Actors’ Equity Association, Blancaware, Barbara Monderine at The Village Bakery and Cafe, Jan- the union of professional actors and ice Portillo at Pop Gram Kettle Corn, Whole Foods Market, California stage managers in the United States. State University, Northridge Department of Theatre, Grettel Cortes Photography, Reynaldo Macias/BluPhiv Photography, Deborah Dodge Photography, Kenneth Grimes, Tom Keever, Matthew Kesner, Ashley Nguyen, Alexandra Piraino, Colin Postley, Sean Pritchett, Sarah Scalf, Joel Sherman from 4Wall, Michael Spellman All the volunteers that hand out programs, guide traffic, set up, and make the Festival run smoothly. And most particularly, to John Hemmings & Henry Condell. We are forever in your debt. THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS David Stainton, Halle Stanford, Catherine Sutton, Michael Swartz, Amy Tofte, Michael & Anne Towbes, Carrie Towbes & John Lewis, Alison Over the past twelve months, we have been the grateful recipients of Turner, Gerald & Lynn Wheeler. essential foundation and government grants. $120-$299 However, the majority of our funding comes from donations, small and The Alvord Family, Irene Anderson & James Somes, David Avery, David large, from audience members such as yourself. We hope your lives are & Pier Charlene Avirom, Margaret & Danilo Bach, Bob Bacon, Yen- enriched by the theater company you are such a vital part of creating. naedo Balloo, David Bardeen, David-Jon Barnard, Keri Bean, Francesca & Brian Beldham, Jessica Bendinger, Sarah Bernard, Brian Bird, Adam The following people and organizations made financial donations Blackman, Karen Bobrow, Alatia Bradley Bach, Lee Brainerd & Ned between June 15th, 2015 and June 15th, 2016. Without them, we would Racine, Sandy & Mayer Brenner, Candice Brokenshire, Ava Bromberg, not be here tonight. 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