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COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES ACTING COMPANY ANTHONY FUSCO (Finch McComas, MATTHEW BALDIGA Ensemble) (Valentine, Ensemble) Anthony has appeared in Matthew is honored to major roles at Cal Shakes make his Cal Shakes in Much Ado About debut. Regional: Ah Nothing, Pygmalion, Wilderness!, A Christmas Blithe Spirit, Candida, Carol (American King Lear, The Importance Conservatory Theatre); Our of Being Earnest, The Town, Intimate Apparel, Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Arms Henry V (Chautauqua and the Man, among others. He is a Resident Theatre Company); Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Artist at A.C.T. in San Francisco, where he has Well (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); A Christmas been in more than 40 productions over the years. Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); 3:59am, A few recent favorites include Ah, Wilderness, BRINK! (33rd Humana Festival); Cyrano de Love & Information, Indian Ink, Dead Metaphor, Bergerac (PlayMakers Repertory Company). New and The Homecoming. Bay Area audiences may York: Einstein and Mileva (Crosshatch Theatre also have seen his work at Berkeley Repertory Company); Pratfalls (GroundUP Productions); Theatre (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and This Lady’s Not for Burning (Parenthesis); Twelfth Spike and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide Night (Fiasco Theatre). ACT-MFA: The Long to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Goodbye, The Cherry Orchard, Crazy for the Scriptures) and the Magic Theater (Sister Play). Country, I Am My Own Wife, Midsummer Night’s Mr. Fusco is thrilled to be a part of this new Dream, Hamlet, The Big Meal, The Rocky Horror chapter in the ongoing story of Cal Shakes. Next Show. Training: MFA – American Conservatory up: Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem at A.C.T. Theatre, Acting Apprentice Program – Actors www.anthonyfusco.actor Theatre of Louisville, BA – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. LANCE GARDNER (Philip, Ensemble) ELIZABETH CARTER Lance is a Bay Area native (Mrs. Clandon, Ensemble) who recently returned to Elizabeth Carter is the stage after a four-year delighted to be back at Cal family-focused hiatus. Shakes where she began He appeared in August her professional career Wilson’s Fences and with Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing Comedy of Errors, As You earlier in the season, Like It, Richard II and The and in the 2009 production of A Midsummer Winter’s Tale. Elizabeth’s Night’s Dream. He has worked as an actor Bay Area theatre credits include The Convert at with TheatreWorks (Proof, Superior Donuts, Proud to Marin Theatre Co. where she was nominated Auctioning the Ainsleys, Anna in the Tropics, for both SFBATCO and TBA Awards, Fences at Intimate Apparel [u/s]), Marin Theatre Company Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Nickel and Dimed (Equivocation, Fuddy Mears, A Streetcar Named Celebrate at TheatreWorks, Merry Wives of Windsor at SF Desire, Lovers and Executioners, A Brief History Shakespeare Festival, Trouble in Mind, Wittenberg of Nearly Everything), Berkeley Repertory Theatre where she was nominated for a SFBATCO Award (Yellowjackets, Passing Strange [u/s]), Magic Cal Shakes and most recently The Heir Apparent at the Theatre, Climate Theatre, Just Theatre, City Aurora Theatre Co. Elizabeth teaches Shakespeare Lights and more. He has also directed locally, and performance at Asawa San Francisco School of the was a teaching artist with Red Ladder Theatre Arts and has directed for the Cal Shakes Summer Company. When he’s not acting, he’s either home Conservatory for nearly 20 years. with his two boys, out running Bay Area trails, or responding to 911 calls as an EMT in Santa Clara Personal attention KHALIA DAVIS County. (Dolly, Ensemble) thoughtful litigation DANNY SCHEIE Cal Shakes debut! Partial final resolution regional credits include: (Walter, Ensemble) Aurora Theatre (The Last season: Mystery Our goal is to preserve our LAW FAMILY Heir Apparent), 42nd of Irma Vep.