Cast & Crew

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2010 Summer Tour Cast & Crew
	COLLIN BIDDLE – is happy to be back! Prior productions with New England Shakespeare Festival include Much Adoe About Nothing, Romeo & Juliet, Taming of the Shrew and Twelfe Night. Other Shakespeare productions include Othello, All’s Well That Ends Well and Comedie of Errors. Other recent credits include When Joey Married Bobby (Off-Broadway), Praying Small (Love Creek Prods.), An Actor Prepares and Three Tables (K. Janowitz Prods.), and the Narrator in both King Kong and War of the Worlds with Radiotheatre. Collin co-produced and adapted Sheridan’s The Rivals in conjunction with the Titans Theatre Company. He played the lead in a recent award-winning short film, Valley of the Moon, and has appeared in a number of other films, including And Then Came Love, independent films, TV pilots, industrials, branded content and so on and so forth. With love and thanks to Ann and the girls. http://home.earthlink.net/~acbiddle/
	LAWRENCE CRANOR – Twelfe Night mark’s Lawrence’s 12th season with the New England Shakespeare Festival. Over these dozen years Lawrence has had the great pleasure to perform with both of his children. He has been active in the theatre arts for much longer, appearing on stage and screen. Well, okay only twice on screen, and the small screen at that, and only one was a talkie. He may have pursued a career on Broadway were it not for the fact that he cannot carry a tune. Lawrence originally hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he knew Nick Clooney, George’s father, but never actually met George. He has, however, met Brian Wilson years ago in a bar in San Diego. Within minutes and without uttering a word, but with a slight hand gesture, Lawrence was asked to leave the bar.
	MICHAEL DOUGLASS – is an actor, producer, director, choreographer, and acting teacher. He has directed or performed with Oscar, Emmy, and Tony winners such as Robert DeNiro, Bernadette Peters, Tommy Tune, and Brenda Vaccaro. He has directed and acted Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, in dinner theaters, summer stock and regional theater. Productions he has directed include Mame, The Glass Menagerie, and Stop the World, among many others. He has also produced and directed many videos, including the award-winning TeenStuf.
	LAUREN FORD – hails from Asheville, NC. There, she first performed Shakespeare with the Montford Park Players, playing Cordelia in King Lear, Celia in As You Like It and Viola in Twelfth Night, a role she is excited to reprise here with NES. She trained in the Conservatory program at the Flatrock Playhouse and received a BA in Acting from Emerson College. Favorite professional credits include: Leads in the premiers of The Seduction of Edgar Degas (Off-Broadway) and Battlecry (Dir. Gabriel Barre), the sheep in Animal farm: The Puppet Musical (national tour), Logainne in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Downtown Cabaret Theatre) and Belle in A Christmas Carol (Riverside Theatre).
	WILLIAM GREEN – is very happy to be performing with New England Shakespeare again. He was recently seen in Tom Stoppard’s A Separate Peace. Other favorite roles inlcude Dromio in Comedy of Errors; Bruno in Krankenhause Blues; and Studs Terkel in Studs. He’s done a couple of Law & Orders and other TV and film. A native Chicagooan, he lives in NYC with Susanna Sophie & Daisy.
	NICOLE GREENBAUM – is thrilled to be performing with NESF again. Other credits include Midsummer Night’s Dream (Peter Quince) with Spontaneous Shakespeare Players, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rosaline) with Extant Arts Company and Much Adoe About Nothing (Hero) with NESF. If she could remember a time before Shakespeare, she’d mention performing Chekhov (Three Sisters) and in various musicals (including the World Premiere of College: The Musical), but if not she’d also note that she’d studied Shakespeare at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Love to family and friends and always ESG.
	NATHANAEL HARTING – is a recent graduate from Wagner College on Staten Island with a degree in Theater/Speech Performance. He is thrilled to be making his debut with New England Shakespeare and is ecstatic for the chance to work with Shakespeare's wonderful language and plays. He would like to thank his family and friends who have supported him from day one.
	CHRISTINE KAHLER – is delighted to be back working with NESF this summer. Past Costume Credits include Much Ado About Nothing and Comedy of Errors with MosesMogilee, Wardrobe Asst. for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Nominee for Best Costume Design by the Kennedy Center (Citizen/Soldier.) Most recently she designed Richard III, Shrew, and MacBeth with WildBard and Spontaneous Shakespeare Players. AND when not designing costumes for tons and tons and tons of the Bard's finer works, she also highly enjoys Stage Management, Three Penny Opera, La Périchole, Pants on Fire, Visiting Hours, and Minor Demons. All the best!
	ANDY KIRTLAND – NESF: Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Comedy of Errors, Richard III and As You Like It. New York City: Banquo, Macbeth (Raised Spirits Theater); Ghost of Christmas Present, A Christmas Carol (13th Street Repertory Theatre); Das Fremde Essen (The Internationalists). Regional: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Trojan Women, The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); Gus, Finding Fossils (Baltimore Playwrights Festival). Tours: Chamber Theatre and Hampstead Stage Company. Andy studied at Dickinson College and the British American Drama Academy in London, England.
	MICHELLE KOVACS – is very happy to be spending another great summer with New England Shakespeare. Past shows with the company include Richard III (Margaret), Taming of the Shrew (Kate), and Romeo and Juliet (Lady Capulet). In New York, Michelle recently appeared in Richard III (Queen Elizabeth) and Macbeth (Lady Macduff) with Spontaneous Shakespeare, another First Folio-based company. A teaching artist, Michelle has taught drama (and even Shakespeare!) to students in grades K-8 throughout New York City and New Jersey. Michelle is deeply grateful to her fabulous husband, Erik, and is a very happy mom to the amazing Max and Henry.
	JOSHUAH LAIRD – holds a BA in Theatre from Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He has toured the United States and Europe with Missoula Children's Theatre, playing such roles as Long John Silver in Treasure Island and Geppetto in Pinocchio. He performed on the Las Vegas Strip in Marc Savard's Mesmermized at the V Theater in the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Favorite roles include CB in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, and Chris Keller in All My Sons. Josh is a new arrival in New York City and looks forward to the career opportunities available there.
	JAMES DAVID LARSON – is thrilled to be playing with New England Shakespeare! James recently played Aegisthus in Are You There, Zeus? It's Me, Electra, which ran at the beautiful Bleecker Street Theatre (Off-Broadway) in NYC. Originally from Portland, Oregon, James moved to New York City to study with the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse, School of the Theatre. He’s also studied with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Southern Oregon University. Recent credits: Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Sister Shakespeare, NYC), Gremio in Taming of the Shrew (WildBard, NYC), and Leaf Coneybear in “…Spelling Bee” (Oregon Cabaret Theatre).
	JAMES LUDLUM – Credits include Gremio in Kiss Me Kate, Sparky in Forever Plaid, Herr Zeller in The Sound of Music, Don Adriano de Armado in Love’s Labor’s Lost, Jud Fry in Oklahoma, Hortensio in Taming of the Shrew, Banquo in Macbeth, and Richmond in Richard III. James is an SAFD certified Actor/Combatant and holds a degree in Theatre from Muhlenberg College with a minor in music.
	DEVIN MORIARITY – is delighted to make her NESF debut. On stage, Devin often winds up in convents (The Rover - Shapiro Theatre, Cyrano de Bergerac - National Theatre for Arts & Education, Galileo’s Daughter - Educational Theater of NY), sacrifices for love (Romeo & Juliet - Theater at Monmouth, Terminating - Stage Left Studios, Othello – Hudson Shakespeare), or loses her mind (Secrets Revealed - Player’s Club, Embalming - Looking Glass Theatre, Dancing at Lughnasa - Harvard Law Drama). Devin trained at Shakespeare and Co. and with Artistic New Directions’ master teachers. She has a degree in medieval literature but has recently been immersed in the 1800’s with The Picture of Dorian Grey (Wings Theatre), The Yellow Wallpaper (Live Arts Collaboration), and Tombstone (Inwood Shakespeare Festival).
	DEMITRA PAPADINIS – is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of New England Shakespeare and has worked in some capacity on every NESF show since the company began back in 1994. An ardent First Folio enthusiast, she encourages and inspires students, teachers, directors, actors and audiences through workshops and performances across the country. Her first book, The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition, will be released later this year by McFarland. When not immersed in the world of Shakespeare, she can be found cleaning up what comes out of either end of a cat.
	LAURIE TOROSIAN – is thrilled to be performing with NESF again after appearing in their productions of As You Like It, Midsommer Nights Dreame, Taming of the Shrew, Comedie of Errors and Water Sheerie. Recent credits have included Crossing Delancey (Izzy), The Altos (Toffee) and Skirmishes (Rita.) Many Thanks to Demi and her family & friends for their continued support.

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