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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 , 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. , 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 (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. , 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, , 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 , Harold Prince, Mary Tyler Lucio, and Puck), Adobe Rose (where he co-starred Moore, , 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 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 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. She has also worked as Artist in Residence Santa Fe. She’s taught at Santa Fe Community College for the Santa Fe Opera’s Education and Outreach and at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Mean- Department. Her CD, Songs & Sonnets from the Time while she has collaborated with a number of prestigious of Mary Sidney, is available at the Garden gift shop. fashion studios in northern New Mexico.

CHARLY DROBECK, Flute. Charly learned flute and PAOLA MARTINI, Props Manager. Paola studied art, piano as a child and studied jazz at Indiana University. animation, and filmmaking at Pratt Institute and at New She has worked with the Creede Repertory Theatre, York’s School of Visual Arts. She earned a BA from the the New Mexico Repertory Theatre, the Orchestra of University of New Orleans and served as Art Director for Santa Fe, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and the Santa Fe the award-winning feature film Sweet Melody. She has Women’s Ensemble. She has performed frequently worked locally as a Properties Master for Cascarones at with Mary Outten, and she is a featured player on Teatro Paraguas, for Death of a Salesman at Ironweed, Songs and Sonnets from the Time of Mary Sidney. and for The Madwoman of Chaillot at Santa Fe Playhouse. She recently created props for Ironweed’s The Crucible. JEFF SUSSMANN, Percussion. Jeff has been playing CINEMA JONES, Artistic Administrator. Cinema has percussion for almost 50 years, working with a broad worked as Production Coordinator at Reflective Images array of groups and songwriters. He has recorded with and as Box Office Manager for the Adobe Rose Theatre. Michael Stearns, Erik Darling, Krishna Dass, Ottmar Over the last two decades she has provided her expertise Liebert, Tulku, and ThaMuseMeant. He has studied in logistics to a number of local enterprises, among them with Paul Wertico and Christopher Shultis (UNM), and Teatrro Paraguas, Sangre de Cristo Mountain Works, he is co-founder and co-producer of “The Drum is the and Santa Fe Greenhouses and High Country Gardens. Voice of the Trees,” a prestigious concert series. For this show she will oversee all front-of-house functions.

NAGLE JACKSON, Artistic Consultant. Nagle is one of JOHN F. ANDREWS, Producer. John oversees the today’s most versatile theater artists. A playwright as well as Shakespeare Guild, best known for its Gielgud Award a director, he has overseen the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts, an honor that has and Princeton’s McCarter Theatre. Between 1997 and 2002 been presented to such artists as Kenneth Branagh, he and Rachel Kelly presided over Shakespeare in Santa Judi Dench, David Hare, Derek Jacobi, , Fe at St. John’s College. Nagle returned to that setting in Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Lynn and Vanessa 2013 for All For Your Delight. And last summer he opened Redgrave, and Patrick Stewart. The Gielgud is now Shakespeare in the Garden as he directed The Tempest. bestowed each October in London’s historic Guildhall.

CLAYTON BASS, Producer. Clayton has served as REBECCA JENSEN, Development Director. Rebecca Chief Executive Officer of the Santa Fe Botanical is a recognized leader in non-profit publishing, marketing, Garden since 2013. He worked with architect Michael and communications, and she oversaw those areas for Graves at Emory University’s Michael Carlos Museum Santa Fe Pro Musica before joining the Garden staff in and has held leadership roles at the Walter Anderson 2017. For several years she served as Executive Editor Museum of Art in Mississippi and at the Huntsville of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Museum of Art in Alabama. He has also served in key Adolescent Psychology, and she played a similar role with positions with the American Alliance of Museums. the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.

GEORGE JONES, Finance Director. With degrees MOLLIE PARSONS, Education Director. Mollie holds in mathematics and computer science from Hartwick a degree in art history from Brown University, and degrees College and Ohio State University, George began his in education from Harvard University and Boston College. career with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in A native of the Southwest, she taught at the Rio Grande Houston, and has worked with a number of technology School in Santa Fe from 2009 to 2013, and then became and consulting firms. He has taught at Rice University, Founding Director of Education at the SFBG. She builds and his book on business and professional ethics has partnerships not only with our schools, but with the larger been used at several institutions of higher learning. community, with special emphasis on ecological issues.

SHAWNA JONES, Volunteer Coordinator. With SCOTT CANNING, Horticultural and Special Projects two degrees from Texas Tech, a B.A. in Spanish and Coordinator. Scott was at the Brooklyn Botanical Social Work and an M.A. in Public Administration, Garden from 1989 to 1992, when he moved to and with experience in the Peace Corps and at El Albuquerque to run a landscaping business. In Camino Real Academy, Shawna has the perfect 1994 he joined the Brooklyn Botanic Garden credentials as the Adult Education and Volunteer as curator of greenhouses. In 2001 he moved Coordinator for the Garden. She’ll work closely with to Wave Hill, a garden and cultural center in those members of our society of Bardtenders who the Bronx. In 2014 he assumed his present provide in-kind service. position at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden.

CATHERINE LYNCH, Stage Manager. Catherine holds BEN ROUNTREE, Technical Director and Light Designer. a degree in directing and production (focusing on both Co-founder of CYC-ics Theater, a student-owned company, theatre and television) from Columbia College in Chicago. Ben has provided lighting and other technical services to She has also studied in London under the auspices of Adobe Rose Theatre, Lensic Performing Arts Center, and Syracuse University. In recent years she’s worked both Teatro Paraguas. His contributions to Shakespeare in the as a teacher (at Piven Theatre in Evanston, Illinois) and Garden’s inaugural season proved indispensable, and as a casting director (through CKLCASTING). Santa Fe we’re delighted to welcome him back for this summer’s audiences will also recall that she directed a production Dream. He’ll soon commence his senior year at the New of Time Stands Still at the Adobe Rose Theatre. Mexico School for the Arts.

CHLOE HANNA, Production Intern. Now that she RACHEL PEARSON, Production Intern. Rachel has has completed her high-school preparation at NMSA, participated in ten shows at the New Mexico School Chloe will be ttaking courses in eight countries over for the Arts, working both onstage and backstage. the next four years as a participant in Long Island Now in her second year as a Lensic Technical Theatre University’s global campus program. Meanwhile she’s Intern, she has appeared in or provided assistance for looking forward to a summer in which she’ll not only several films that have been shot in our state, among learns more about Shakespeare, but develop technical them The Kid and A Million Ways to Die in the West. skills as a member of the crew that oversees lighting And she’s recently been accepted into a new program and other aspects of this year’s presentation. called New Mexico Girls Make Movies.

CASEY LAKATOS, Production Intern. Last season JAYDEN CHAVEZ, Production Intern. A junior in the New Casey worked as a key member of our technical Mexico School of the Arts’ Theatre Department, Jayden is an crew. This year, as part of our production team, she’ll actor, a writer, and a lighting designer, Her resume includes also assist with front-of-house operations. A senior at B(D)ad Jokes, TBD, and A Common Thread. She is also the St. Michael’s High School, Casey has worked at the artistic director and co-founder (with our Technical Director Adobe Rose Theatre, the Scottish Rite Temple, and and Light Designer Ben Rountree) of CYC-ics, a small theatre Studio Center, running light boards, handling conces- company that illustrates the types of creative innovation that sions, and gaining experience in stage management. NMSA cultivates in its selective student body.

CLEO ULATOWSKI, Production Intern. A senior OLIVIA WHITE, Dresser Intern. A 2017 graduate of the at St. John’s College’s campus in Santa Fe, Cleo is Academy for Technology and the Classics, Olivia has acted studying in a broad range of subject areas, among in eight productions of the Upstart Crows of Santa Fe, with them philosophy and the history of mathematics and roles that have ranged from Hamlet to Peter Quince. She science. Having read and experienced productions of portrayed Hermia in the Shakespeare Society’s recent a number of Shakespeare’s plays, and is grateful for presentation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2018). And the opportunity to be involved in a presentation of one she is now a sophomore, studying Theatre and Creative of his most popular comic masterpieces. Writing, at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.