in residence at the Jim Petosa Harriet Sheets Mosesian Center for the Arts Artistic Director Managing Director 321 arsenal st, watertown

presents

classic repertory company

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S directed by CLAY HOPPER

production designer assistant director Sean Perreira JULES TANNER

cast (in alphabetical order)

BENJAMIN FINN Roderigo/Duke LILLIAN GOMES Bianca/Montano CHRIS KANDRA Cassio sARAH MORRISETTE Desdemona eMMA TAYCE PALMER Emilia/Brabantio ADRIAN PEGUERO Othello SLAVA TCHOUL Iago

Funded in part by generous individual contributors, the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Esther B. Kahn Foundation, Fuller Foundation, Roy A. Hunt Foundation, and Watertown Community Foundation. This program is also supported in part by grants from the Boxford Cultural Council, Brookline Commission for the Arts, Burlington Cultural Council, Cambridge Arts Council, Carver Cultural Council, Dedham Cultural Council, Dover Cultural Council, Framingham Cultural Council, Granby Cultural Council, Marlborough Cultural Council, Milford Cultural Council, Shrewsbury Cultural Council, Sudbury Cultural Council, Waltham Cultural Council, Watertown Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Classic Repertory Company is produced in cooperation with Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre Benjamin finn (Roderigo/Duke)makes his diverse artistic community that cultivated her love New Repertory Theatre acting debut. of storytelling from many points of view. Emma has Ben recently graduated from UMass trained in both contemporary and classical acting Amherst with a double major BA in at the Guthrie, Boston University, and the London Theatre and English, and had worked Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). at New Rep for two full seasons as Recent credits include Tanya in Punk Rock and a Production Assistant prior to performing on Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard. the tour. He’s delighted for the opportunity to perform with friends old and new, and hopes to Adrian Peguero (Othello) makes his New inspire future generations of informed citizens Repertory Theatre debut. Adrian is through the communicative power and real world a recent graduate from Salem State applications of theater. Recent credits: Circle Up! University with a BFA in Theatre and Here and There (Central Square Theater w/ Performance. Recent credits include: Youth Underground Ambassador Ensemble), Julius Clybourne Park (Albert/Kevin), The Caesar (Praxis Stage Company), In the Next Room, Seagull (Sorin), Angels in America Part One (Belize), or, the Vibrator Play (Footlight Club), Hallowed and The Grapes of Wrath (Jim Casy). Adrian is most Ground (Leverett Historical Society) and The Glass excited about making Shakespeare and theatre more Menagerie (UMass Amherst Dept. of Theater). accessible to those around us.

Lillian Gomes (Bianca/Montano) makes her Slava Tchoul (Iago) makes his New Repertory New Repertory Theatre debut. Recent Theatre debut. Slava graduated from credits include Exit Strategy (Zeitgeist UMass Amherst a little over a year Stage Company) and The Threepenny ago with a BA in Theatre. Recent Opera (Bridgewater State University). credits include Circle Up (Youth Lillian recently earned her BA in Underground at Central Square Communications and Theatre from Bridgewater Theatre), All’s Well that Ends Well (Vermont Theatre State University. Company), and Love and Information (University of Chris Kandra (Cassio) makes his New Massachusetts). Repertory Theatre debut. Chris just graduated from Salem State CLAY HOPPER (Director) returns to New with a BFA in Theatre Arts with Repertory Theatre after directing A Number and a performance concentration and Classic Repertory Company’s To Kill a Mockingbird, spent the summer touring with Romeo and Juliet, The Scarlet Letter, 1984, Julius Speak About It, a show about consent and sex- Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, , positive communication for high-school and Of Mice and Men, and Great Expectations. In college students. He is most excited to be bringing Washington D.C., he served as the Associate Artistic Shakespeare and classic literature to the stage and Director of Olney Theatre Center and Director enabling people to appreciate these wonderful pieces of both the National Players and the Summer outside a conventional classroom! He is originally Shakespeare Festival. He now serves as lecturer in from Westford, MA. Directing and Theatre Arts at Boston University’s Sarah Morrisette (Desdemona) makes her School of Theatre. Directing credits include Two New Repertory Theatre debut. Recent Gentlemen of Verona, , , credits include: All in the Timing and Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Doubt: a Parable (Newton Nomadic Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Theater),Macbeth (Bay Colony Juliet, Amadeus, Farragut North, Triumph of Love, Shakespeare Company), My Children, and Call of the Wild (Olney Theatre). Other recent My Africa!, Psychosis 4:48 and The Bacchae (Ithaca credits include On the Verge, or The Geography of College) and and A Midsummer Yearning (Contemporary American Theatre Festival Night’s Dream (Ithaca Shakespeare Company). Sarah Actor’s Lab). Off-off-Broadway credits include A received her BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and is Home Without and Different Zen (Third Eye Rep); a graduate of the internship program at the Center for Earthworms (The Working Group); and Triage and Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The Interrogation (The Miranda Theatre). Emma Tayce Palmer (Emilia/Brabantio) makes her New Repertory Theatre debut. Emma is a recent graduate of web newrep.org/crc Boston University’s School of Theatre. facebook /classicrepertorycompany Originally from Minneapolis, MN, instagram @newrepclassicrep Emma grew up surrounded by a