A Midsummer Night’s Dream Presenters CLAYTON BASS, Santa Fe Botanical Garden RACHEL KELLY, Shakespeare in Santa Fe JOHN F. ANDREWS, The Shakespeare Guild Director RACHEL KELLY Artistic Consultant NAGLE JACKSON Cast PATRICK BRIGGS, Quince / Egeus *BRENNAN FOSTER, Bottom MARIANNA GALLEGOS, Acorn JOSH HORTON, Lysander *KENT KIRKPATRICK, Quince / Egeus MIRANDA LICHTMAN, Hermia DYLAN NORMAN, Oberon/Theseus MARIAH OLESEN, Snug / Moth SKYE PAGON, Titania / Hippolyta KOPPANY PUSTZAI, Flute / Cobweb ANN ROYLANCE, Snout / Peaseblossom BEAR SCHACHT, Mustardseed HANIA STOCKER, Demetrius GEORGIA WAEHLER, Puck / Philostrate Composer and Music Director MARY KIMBALL OUTTEN Flute and Percussion CHARLY DROBECK, JEFF SUSSMANN Stage Designer and Advisor JAY BUSH Set Designer ROSARIO PROVENZA Costume Designer JASMINKA JESIC Props Manager PAOLA MARTINI Production Manager PATRICK BRIGGS Stage Manager CATHERINE LYNCH Assistant Stage Manager MARIANNA GALLEGOS Artistic Administrator / Front of House CINEMA JONES Technical Director and Light Designer BEN ROUNTREE Production Intern / Front of House Assistant CASEY LAKATOS Production Interns JAYDEN CHAVEZ, CHLOE HANNA, RACHEL PEARSON, CLEO ULATOWSKI Dresser Interns DINA ADVANI-MAHOOD, SAIF ADVANI-MAHOOD, AVA MCCOMBS, OLIVIA WHITE * Member of either SAG/AFTRA or Actors’ Equity Association, or both Introducing Our 2018 ‘Dream’ Team DYLAN NORMAN, Oberon / Theseus. A Lincoln Center finalist at the English-Speaking Union’s 2015 National Shakespeare Competition, Dylan has acted PATRICK BRIGGS, Egeus / Quince. A man of many in several venues at the Santa Fe University of Art talents, Patrick is serving both as Production Manager and Design, among them the Weckesser and Greer and, for our final week, as a member of the cast. He Garson theatres, as well as at Adobe Rose Theatre, has worked with Captain’s Table, Corral Playhouse, where he starred in The Ultimate Christmas Show. La Cantina Cabaret, National Dance Institute, New He has been directed by Vaughn Irving, Jon Jory, Mexico Actors Lab, the New Mexico Outdoor Drama and Gail Springer, and he has appeared in Cabaret, Association, Oasis Theatre, Santa Fe Performing Arts Mary Poppins, and a number of other classics. Company, Shakespeare in Santa Fe, and Santa Fe Shakespeare Society, and he has performed with such luminaries as Celeste Holm and Kier Dullea. MARIAH OLESEN, Snug / Moth. With training at both Sheridan College in Wyoming and Santa Fe BRENNAN FOSTER, Bottom. A member of SAG/ University of Art and Design, Mariah will be familiar AFTRA, Brennan trained at Northwestern University to audiences who’ve enjoyed her performances in and has appeared in four television series: Breaking The Ultimate Christmas Show and in Extremities at Bad (AMC), Dig (USA), Gunslingers (Castle), and Adobe Rose Theatre. Her other credits include roles Manhattan (WGN). His Shakespearean roles include in Company, Heathers, and Threepenny Opera at Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, the Prince in SFUAD, and in The Addams Family, 42nd Street, Hamlet, and Stephano in The Tempest. He has also Little Shop of Horrors, and Vanya and Sonia and starred in Enchanted April, Gibraltar, The Iceman Masha and Spike in other settings. Cometh, and The Philadelphia Story, performing for such companies as Aux Dog, Mother Road, Vortex, SKYE PAGON, Hippolyta / Titania. Skye holds and Shakespeare on the Plaza in Albuquerque. a BFA degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where her training has included acting in MARIANNA GALLEGOS, Acorn. Marianna is doing both the Classical Studio and the Meisner Studio. double duty for our show, as Assistant Stage Manager, Her Shakespearean roles include Bianca in The and as a performer playing one of the Fairies. Her acting Taming of the Shrew, Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, credits include roles at Adobe Rose Theatre, American and Portia in The Merchant of Venice. She has Southwest Theatre Company, Guild Cinema, the San also played Meg in Little Women, Alex in No. 11 Francisco Youth Theatre, the Valley Ensemble Collabo- (Blue & White), and Dora in Lida Stein and the ration, and Working Classroom. She has also done Righteous Gentile. commercials and a number of film and television roles. KOPPANY PUSZTAI, Cobweb / Flute. Koppany JOSH HORTON, Lysander. Josh holds a BFA in holds degrees from Raritan Valley Community Col- Theatre Arts from New Mexico State University and is lege in New Jersey and from the Santa Fe University now enrolled in the MFA program at UNLV. He has of Art and Design, where his instructors included Jon twice participated in the Kennedy Center’s American Jory and Hank Rogerson. At Adobe Rose he has College Theatre Festival, and his Shakespearean roles starred in both The Ultimate Christmas Show and include Macduff in Macbeth and Orsino in Twelfth Extremities. And his acting at SFUAD has included Night. His other credits include roles in A Christmas such roles as Charles in Easy Virtue, Macheath in Carol, The Misanthrope, and Glengary Glen Ross. The Threepenny Opera, and Peter in Company. KENT KIRKPATRICK, Egeus / Quince. A member ANN ROYLANCE, Snout / Peaseblossom. A of both Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA, Kent is well Dramalogue Award winner, Ann’s career has in- known to TV audiences for roles in Better Call Saul, cluded TV, musical theatre, plays, and clubs -- from In Plain Sight, Lazarus Man, Manhattan, and Wildfire. D.C. to New York to Sydney to Los Angeles, and Local audiences have admired his performances with now Santa Fe. She has worked with such notables Shakespeare in Santa Fe (in roles such as Hortensio, as Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince, Mary Tyler Lucio, and Puck), Adobe Rose (where he co-starred Moore, Julie Harris, Kathy Bates, Bob Newhart, and in Bus Stop), and Shakespeare in the Garden (where Eva Marie Saint, and she has performed locally for he offered a brilliant portrayal of Trinculo in last year’s Adobe Rose, New Mexico Actors Lab, Santa Fe acclaimed production of The Tempest. Playhouse, and Santa Fe Shakespeare Society. MIRANDA LICHTMAN, Hermia. Last summer in MIRANDA SAVAGE, Helena. A senior at NYU’s Tisch The Tempest, Miranda delighted Shakespeare in the School of the Arts, Miranda has also trained at the Garden audiences in the charming role for which she Stella Adler Studio of Acting. She played Hermione, was named. A recent graduate of NYU’s prestigious Hero, and Lady Macbeth during her years at Atholton Tisch School of the Arts, she has played Ophelia at High School in Columbia, Maryland, and she portrayed Playwrights Horizon, Tamora and Lady Anne at Moth/Starveling for Annapolis Shakespeare Company RADA, and Amiens and Hymen at the Stella Adler in Maryland. She has also appeared in television roles Studio. She has also appeared in two television pilots, for CBS (“Ford’s Theater”), HBO (“The Wire”), and Family Style and Shadow Sides. National Geographic Films (“The Boomer Century”). BEAR SCHACHT, Mustardseed. A singer and a RACHEL KELLY, Director. Rachel was co-founder dancer as well as an actor, Bear has portrayed Sky of Shakespeare in Santa Fe, and served as its Artistic Masterson in Guys and Dolls (Los Alamos Light Director from 1992 to 2002. She forged its partnership Opera), Sheriff Joe in Spitfire Grill (Dixon Community with St. John’s College and its ties with Actors’ Equity Players), Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie (Taos Association. She introduced its Shakespeare in the Community Chorus), and Matt in The Fantasticks Schools and MFA Internship programs. A graduate (San Juan College). And for Sandstone Productions, of the British-American Drama Academy, she also he has portrayed Chuck Cranston in Footloose. directed, and played Celia, Puck, Hermia, and Maria. HANIA STOCKER, Demetrius. Hania has appeared JAY BUSH, Stage Designer and Technical Advisor. as Perchick in Fiddler on the Roof at the Lensic, as During a stellar career as Technical Director, Production Doug in The Way We Get By at Albuquerque’s Aux Manager, and General Manager at Minneapolis Children’s Dog Theater, as Richard Hanney in The 39 Steps, Theatre, Jay designed presentations of Romeo and Juliet, Detective Tupolski in The Pillowman, Comrade Twelfth Night, Hansel and Gretel, and other classics. O’Brien in 1984, and Ned in The Normal Heart at the After thirteen years he then left to pursue a new career Santa Fe Playhouse, and as Rev. John Hale in The in architecture. Christ Church Santa Fe is one of his Crucible with Ironweed Productions. most celebrated local designs. GEORGIA WAEHLER, Puck / Philostrate. A rising ROSARIO PROVENZA, Set Designer. One of today’s junior at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Georgia most eminent scenic designers, Rosario‘s remarkable has recently choreographed and performed in an career has included key roles with David Letterman’s original dance piece inspired by the #MeToo Move- Late Night show on CBS, with the acclaimed Longmire ment. Other credits include Wilde’s A Woman of No series on Netflix, and with such films as The Tao of Importance and an original NYU graduate musical. Steve, Employee of the Month, Odd Thomas, and The She has performed at the Five Angels Theatre and Messengers. With a degree from the Yale School of at the Papermill Playhouse, as well as in the Ivy Arts Drama, he has worked extensively in theater, not only Centre at the Guildford School of Acting in Surrey . here in Santa Fe but in New York and Los Angeles. MARY KIMBALL OUTTEN, Composer and Music JASMINKA JESIC, Costume Designer. A native of Director. Mary served as Resident Composer for Yugoslavia, Jasminka has done distinguished work in Shakespeare in Santa Fe from 1989 to 2003, creating both film and theater. Her local clients have included the music for 14 Shakespeare productions and four Theaterwork, Santa Fe Stages, Shakespeare in Santa children's fairy tales with libretti and lyrics by Nagle Fe, Theater Grottesco, Stray Dogs, and the College of Jackson.