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 Acting Cast DYLAN FITZPATRICK, Oberon/Theseus *BRENNAN FOSTER, Bottom MARIANNA GALLEGOS, Acorn JOSH HORTON, Lysander *KENT KIRKPATRICK, Quince / Egeus MIRANDA LICHTMAN, Hermia MARIAH OLESEN, Moth SKYE PAGON, Titania / Hippolyta KOPPANY PUSTZAI, Flute / Cobweb ANN ROYLANCE, Snout / Peaseblossom BEAR SCHACHT, Snug / Mustardseed HANIA STOCKER, Demetrius GEORGIA WAEHLER, Puck / Philostrate Composer and Music Director MARY KIMBALL OUTTEN Flute and Percussion Players CHARLY DROBECK, JEFF SUSSMANN Stage Designer and Advisor JAY BUSH Set Designer ROSARIO PROVENZA Costume Designer JASMINKA JESIC Props Manager PAOLA MARTINI Artistic Administrator / Front of House CINEMA JONES Production Manager PATRICK BRIGGS Stage Manager CATHERINE LYNCH Assistant Stage Manager MARIANNA GALLEGOS 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 Who’s Who in Our 2018 Production SKYE PAGON, Hippolyta / Titania. A BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where Of A Midsummer Night’s Dream her work has included acting in both the Classi- cal Studio and the Meisner Studio, Skye has ACTORS played Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, and Portia in The DYLAN FITZPATRICK, Oberon / Theseus. Merchant of Venice. She has also portrayed A Lincoln Center finalist at the 2015 National Meg in Little Women, Alex in No.11 (Blue & White), and Dora Shakespeare Competition, Dylan has acted in Lida Stein and the Righteous Gentile. in multiple venues at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, as well as at Adobe Rose KOPPANY PUSZTAI, Flute / Cobweb. Theatre, where he starred in The Ultimate Koppany holds degrees from Raritan Valley Christmas Show. He has been directed by Community College in New Jersey and from Vaughn Irving, Jon Jory, and Gail Springer, and he has the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, appeared in Cabaret, Mary Poppins, and other classics. where his instructors included Jon Jory and Hank Rogerson. At Adobe Rose he has * BRENNAN FOSTER, Bottom. A member of SAG-AFTRA, Brennan trained at North- starred in The Ultimate Christmas Show and western University and has appeared in four Extremities. At SFUAD he portrayed Charles in Easy Virtue, TV series: Breaking Bad (AMC), Dig (USA), Macheath in The Threepenny Opera, and Peter in Company. Gunslingers (Castle), and Manhattan ANN ROYLANCE, Snout / Peaseblossom. (WGN). His Shakespearean roles include A Dramalogue Award winner, Ann has Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, the worked in TV, theater, and clubs from DC Prince in Hamlet, and Stephano in The Tempest. He has also to New York to Sydney to Los Angeles. She starred in Enchanted April, Gibraltar, The Iceman Cometh, and has worked with Stephen Sondheim, Harold The Philadelphia Story, performing for Aux Dog, Mother Prince, Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Harris, Kathy Road, Vortex, and Shakespeare on the Plaza in Albuquerque. Bates, Bob Newhart, and Eva Marie Saint, JOSH HORTON, Lysander. Josh holds a and has acted locally for Adobe Rose, New Mexico Actors BFA in Theatre Arts from New Mexico State Lab, Santa Fe Playhouse, and Santa Fe Shakespeare Society. University and is now enrolled in the MFA MIRANDA SAVAGE, Helena. A senior at program at UNLV. He has twice participated NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Miranda has in the Kennedy Center’s American College also trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Theatre Festival, and his Shakespearean Acting, where she played Lady Helena in roles include Macduff in Macbeth and Orsino The Gut Girls. She portrayed Moth and in Twelfth Night. His other credits include roles in A Christmas Starveling for Annapolis Shakespeare Com- Carol, The Misanthrope, and Glengary Glen Ross. pany in Maryland. She has also appeared * KENT KIRKPATRICK, Egeus / Quince. in TV roles for CBS, HBO, and National Geographic Films. A member of both Actors’ Equity and SAG- BEAR SCHACHT, Snug / Mustardseed. A AFTRA, Kent is well known to TV viewers for singer and dancer as well as an actor, Bear roles in Better Call Saul, In Plain Sight, has portrayed Sky Masterson in Guys and Lazarus Man, Manhattan, and Wildfire. Local Dolls (Los Alamos Light Opera), Sheriff Joe audiences have admired his performances in Spitfire Grill (Dixon Community Players), with Shakespeare in Santa Fe (as Hortensio, Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie (Taos Lucio, and Puck), Adobe Rose (where he co-starred in Bus Community Chorus), and Matt in The Stop), and Shakespeare in the Garden (where he played Fantasticks (San Juan College). For Sandstone Productions, Trinculo in last year’s acclaimed production of The Tempest). he has portrayed Chuck Cranston in Footloose. MIRANDA LICHTMAN, Hermia. Last year HANIA STOCKER, Demetrius. Hania has in The Tempest Miranda charmed Santa Fe appeared as Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof audiences in the role for which she was at the Lensic, as Doug in The Way We Get named. A recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch By at Albuquerque’s Aux Dog Theater, as School of the Arts, she has played Ophelia Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, Detective at Playwrights Horizon, Tamora and Lady Tupolski in The Pillowman, Comrade O’Brien Anne at RADA, and Amiens and Hymen at in 1984, and Ned in The Normal Heart at the the Stella Adler Studio. She has also appeared in two Santa Fe Playhouse, and as Rev. John Hale in The Crucible television pilots, Family Style and Shadow Sides. with Ironweed Productions. MARIAH OLESEN, Moth. With training at GEORGIA WAEHLER, Puck / Philostrate. Sheridan College in Wyoming and at Santa A junior at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Fe University of Art and Design, Mariah will Georgia has performed in a dance piece be familiar to those who’ve enjoyed The Ulti- inspired by the #MeToo Movement. Her other mate Christmas Show and Extremities at credits include A Man of No Importance and Adobe Rose Theatre. She’s also appeared an original NYU graduate musical. She has in Company, Heathers, Threepenny Opera, acted at the Five Angels Theatre, the Papermill Playhouse, The Addams Family, 42nd Street, Little Shop of Horrors, and in Surrey’s Guildford School of Acting. and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. COMPOSER AND MUSICIANS PRODUCTION TEAM MARY KIMBALL OUTTEN, Composer and JAY BUSH, Stage Designer and Technical Music Director. Mary served as Resident Advisor. During a stellar career as Technical Composer for Shakespeare in Santa Fe Director, Production Manager, and General from 1989 to 2003, creating the music for Manager at Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Jay 14 Shakespeare productions and for four designed presentations of Romeo and Juliet, children's fairy tales with libretti and lyrics Twelfth Night, Hansel and Gretel, and other by Nagle Jackson. She has also worked as classics. He then left to pursue a new career in Artist in Residence for the Santa Fe Opera’s Education and architecture. Christ Church Santa Fe is one of the outstanding Outreach Department. She plays guitar, and her CD, Songs local designs for which he is celebrated. & Sonnets from the Time of Mary Sidney, is in the gift shop. ROSARIO PROVENZA, Set Designer. One CHARLY DROBECK, Flute Player. Charly of today’s most eminent scenic designers, learned flute and piano as a child and then Rosario has enjoyed a career with key roles studied jazz at Indiana University. She has in David Letterman’s Late Night show on CBS, worked with the Creede Repertory Theatre, in the acclaimed Longmire series on Netflix, New Mexico Repertory Theatre, Santa Fe and in feature films such as The Tao of Steve, Pro Musica, the Orchestra of Santa Fe, and Employee of the Month, Odd Thomas, and The the Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble. She has Messengers. With a degree from the Yale School of Drama, he worked frequently with Mary Outten, and she is a featured has worked extensively in theater, both here and elsewhere. player on Songs and Sonnets from the Time of Mary Sidney. JASMINKA JESIC, Costume Designer. Mina JEFF SUSSMANN, Percussion. Jeff has has done distinguished work in both film and played percussion for almost 50 years, theater. Her clients have included Santa Fe bworking with a broad array of groups and Stages, Shakespeare in Santa Fe, Theatre songwriters. He has recorded with Michael Grottesco, Theaterwork, Stray Dogs, and the Stearns, Erik Darling, Krishna Dass, Ottmar College of Santa Fe. She has taught at Santa Liebert, Tulku, and ThaMuseMeant. He has Fe Community College and at Santa Fe University of Art and studied with Paul Wertico and Christopher Design, and has worked with a number of fashion studios. Shultis (UNM), and is co-founder and co-producer of “The PAOLA MARTINI, Props Manager. After Drum is the Voice of the Trees,” a prestigious concert series. studying animation and filmmaking at Pratt Institute and at New York’s School of Visual PRESENTERS Arts, Paola earned a BA from the University RACHEL KELLY, Artistic Director. The of New Orleans and served as Art Director director of our production co-founded Shake- for award-winning feature film Sweet Melody. speare in Santa Fe and served as its Artistic She has worked as a Properties Master for Teatro Paraguas, Director from 1992 to 2002. She forged its Ironweed, and Santa Fe Playhouse. ties with St. John’s College and with Actors’ CINEMA JONES, Artistic Administrator. Equity Association. She introduced its Cinema has worked as Production Coordinator Shakespeare in the Schools and National at Reflective Images and as Box Office Man- MFA Internship programs.