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By William Shakespeare | Directed by Annie Lareau

Seattle Shakespeare Company’s production is part of Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in

partnership with Arts Midwest.

Thank You To our Tour SponSorSThe generous support of our tour

sponsors makes it possible for Seattle Shakespeare Company to bring professional live theatre to students and communities across

Washington State.

On tour across Washington State

Dear Patron,

In Renaissance England, groups of actors that toured around the countryside were called “playing companies.” They set up shop, performed a show, and, the following day, moved on to the next town or hamlet. The most famous of these playing companies was Shakespeare’s own King’s Men.

To be part of a playing company took a great deal of work for an actor since they were also the producers of each production. They took care of the set if it broke, sewed torn costumes, loaded and unloaded the wagons, and tended to their cast members if they were injured or sick.

This is not unlike the troupe that visits you today. They have worked countless hours to prepare these plays, the costumes have been built, the set created — but once they leave the rehearsal space in Seattle, they are on their own. They must sew a costume if it rips, fix a set if it breaks. In the time period during which they will be traveling, they will easily cover thousands of miles and perform for countless audiences. They will leave family and friends behind for one reason. They love what they do. They love the opportunity to speak and share Shakespeare’s words with you. Through them you will hear the words that were spoken by the King’s Men and be connected to the audience members who stood for hours to hear these same words spoken 400 years ago.

If you listen closely you will hear the reflection of your own lives in these stories. The characters will love and fight and seek revenge and grieve — and they will mostly learn to forgive each other so they can be released from the past. Though the events of these plays may be more dramatic, if you look closely, I bet you can see these themes that exist in the lives around you. And when the lights go down and you go on with your lives, realize these actors are packing up, fixing what is broken, and moving on to the next town to perform again. Clap your hands not only for the performance you see today, but for the ancient tradition that they keep alive.

Annie LareauDirector

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Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Opera, Harlequin Productions, Tygres Heart Shakespeare, Artists Repertory Theatre, and Shakespeare and Company. Casey also works full time at Seattle Shakespeare Company as the Education Associate and manager of the spring tour.

Jocelyne Fowler Costume Designer

Jocelyne Fowler has designed for Seattle Shakespeare Company (Richard II), Wooden O (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V, and The Tempest), Book-It Repertory Theatre (Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Anna Karenina, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet), Bellevue College (Into the Woods and Dead Man’s Cell Phone), Seattle Musical Theatre (Young Frankenstein and Legally Blonde), Youth Theatre Northwest (Spring Awakening, Shrek: The Musical, Little Women, and The Sound of Music), Harlequin Productions (Clybourne Park and Jesus Christ Superstar), SecondStory Repertory (Chess: The Musical) and other local theatres. Upcoming work can be seen in Carnival with Bellevue College, Blood/Water/Paint with Live Girls! and Avenue Q at Youth Theatre Northwest.

Harry Todd Jamieson Sound Designer

Harry is very pleased to be designing for Seattle Shakespeare Company’s statewide tour for the third year in a row. Harry is a freelance sound designer, actor, and director and has worked in these disciplines at many local theaters and institutions. Local sound design credits include Pride and Prejudice (Book-it Repertory Theatre), Twelfth Night and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Seattle Shakespeare Company/Wooden O), The Mountaintop and Chinglish (ArtsWest), Gideon’s Knot and Broke-ology (Seattle Public Theater), SOAPfest One-Act festival (Sandbox Artist Collective), Othello and Julius Caesar (Seattle Shakespeare Company tour), The Phantom Tollbooth, Pink and Say, Never Forgotten, A Day’s Work, Skippy-Jon Jones, and Thank You Mr. Falker (all for Book-It Repertory Theatre’s touring program). Harry received his BA in Drama from Western Washington University.

Annie LareauDirector

Annie has been directing regionally for the past 20 years. Most recently she served as Interim Artistic Director for ArtsWest Playhouse in Seattle, Washington where she directed the acclaimed production of The Little Dog Laughed for their 2013–2014 season and will direct David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish this winter. Prior to that she served as the Director of Touring Productions at Book-it Repertory Theatre and directed over 15 shows for them, most recently the sold out run of her adaptation of Jamie Ford’s Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. She will remount this production at the Nevada Theatre in California this spring. Also, Annie’s directorial work has been seen at the Belfry Theatre, ACT Theatre, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle Children’s Theatre, 14/48 Festival, Unexpected Productions, One Coast Collaboration, and the Soapbox Festival.

Craig WollamScenic Designer

Craig’s work as a scenic and lighting designer has been seen at NWAAT, Langston Hughes, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Opera, Centerstage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Spectrum Dance Theatre, Civic Light Opera, ArtsWest, Bellevue Opera, Wing Luke Museum, The Bruce Lee Exhibit for Inter*Im, The Empty Space Theatre, Seattle Public Theater, Youththeatre NW, Tacoma Actors Guild here in Washington. Out of town, Craig has designed for Arizona Theatre Co., Chicago Theatre Center, Atlanta’s 14th Street Theatre, Boston’s Lyric Theatre, Dance Theatre Workshop of NY, the Spoleto Festival of Italy, the Colony in Miami, the Zephyr in LA, Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, and the Actor’s Playhouse NY. Craig is co-founder and Technical Director of Seattle Scenic Studios, a non-profit serving non-profits and education throughout Western Washington including Seattle Shakespeare Company.

MacbETh caSTSusanna BurneyBanquo / Porter / Witch

Joe CummingsMalcolm / Witch

Joshua Chessin-YudinMacduff / Duncan

Anastasia HighamWitch / Fleance / Lady Macduff

Trevor Young MarstonMacbeth

Terri WeagantLady Macbeth / Witch / Young Siward

roMEo & JuliET caSTSusanna BurneyLady Capulet / Abraham / Apothecary

Joe CummingsRomeo / Gregory

Joshua Chessin-YudinNurse / Mercutio / Prince

Anastasia HighamJuliet / Sampson

Trevor Young MarstonFriar / Tybalt / Peter

Terri WeagantBenvolio / Paris

producTion TEaMXandria BarberRehearsal Stage Manager

Casey BrownFight Choreographer

Jocelyne FowlerCostume Designer

Harry Todd JamiesonSound Designer

Annie LareauDirector

Craig WollamScenic Designer

Susanna BurneyMacbETh: Banquo / Porter / WitchroMEo & JuliET: Lady Capulet / Abraham /

Apothecary

Susanna is returning for her third tour with Seattle Shakespeare Company. Last year, she was Emilia, Brabantio, and Bianca in Othello, and Capulet and Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet. Susanna received a BFA in acting from Boston University. Other Seattle Shakespeare Company roles include: Chorus in Electra, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Phebe in As You Like It, Emilia in Othello (Wooden O), and Jacques in As You Like It (Wooden O). Other favorite Shakespeare roles include Cassius in Julius Caesar (Freehold’s Engaged Theatre) and Hamlet (Annex Theatre). Susanna has worked with many Seattle-based companies including Seattle Children’s Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, West of Lenin, Printers Devil, and House of Dames. Other educational tours around the region and the country include Book-It’s Arts and Education program, and Living Voices.

Joe CummingsMacbETh: Malcolm / WitchroMEo & JuliET: Romeo / Gregory

Joe recently graduated from Cornish College of the Arts, majoring in Original Work with an emphasis in Writing and Performance Art. He is thrilled to be making his Seattle Shakespeare Company debut with the tour. Recently seen in Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s Our Town as George Gibbs, Centerstage’s My First Time, and Freehold’s touring production of The Flower of England’s Face: William Shakespeare’s Henry IV. Outside of theater Joe works at a restaurant on Capital Hill in Seattle. He spends most of his free time

either with his cat or avidly looking into hikes or other performances around the town.

Joshua Chessin-YudinMacbETh: Macduff / DuncanroMEo & JuliET: Nurse / Mercutio / Prince

Josh was born in Seattle, Washington — Fremont to be exact. This past June, he graduated from University of Washington with a double major in Drama Performance and Spanish while also helping out the University of Washington Men’s basketball team as a team manager during his freshman and sophomore years. Since he can remember he has been actively involved in the arts — in the theater and occasionally on camera — and hopes to continue to find opportunities to act in Seattle and, one day, in Los Angeles and New York. Some of his favorite productions that he had the opportunity to work on at the University of Washington were Love Song by John Kolvenbach (directed by Rosalind Phelps), Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle (directed by Mary Hubert), and The Beggars Opera by Vaclav Havel (directed by Wilson Milam).

Anastasia HighamMacbETh: Witch / Fleance / Lady MacduffroMEo & JuliET: Juliet / Sampson

This is Anastasia’s third tour with Seattle Shakespeare Company, previously appearing in Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Julius Caesar. For Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Wooden O, she played Miranda in The Tempest. She has also been seen at Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Annex Theatre, and Seattle Repertory Theatre. Anastasia is a Seattle native and a graduate of Whitman College.

Trevor Young MarstonMacbETh: MacbethroMEo & JuliET: Friar / Tybalt / Peter

Trevor is a Seattle based actor and producer and is delighted to return to the Seattle Shakespeare Company tour. He has performed locally in SnowGlobed at Theater Schmeater, Arcadia at Seattle Public Theater, She’s Come Undone at Book-It Repertory Theatre, Prelude to a Kiss at ReAct Theatre, and the 14/48 Projects, as well as the Seattle Shakespeare Company touring productions of Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet in 2012. As a producer he has brought to the stage, the world premiere of A Cure for Pain by Stephanie Timm, Boots by Libby Matthews, and Barbarians — a devised piece with SITI Company associate Jeffrey Fracé. Most recently he was associate producer and starred in the feature film Pacific Aggression directed and written by Shaun Scott. He earned his MFA from the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program.

Terri WeagantMacbETh: Lady Macbeth / Witch /

Young SiwardroMEo & JuliET: Benvolio / Paris

Terri is delighted to return to Seattle Shakespeare Company. Her Seattle Shakespeare Company/Wooden O credits include Measure for Measure (Kate Keepdown), Julius Caesar (Marc Antony), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), Antony and Cleopatra (Charmian), and Henry V (Gower). Regionally, Terri has worked with ACT Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, upstart crow collective, Annex Theatre, Harlequin Productions, 14/48 Projects, Theater Schmeater, Balagan Theatre, Radial Theatre Project, Con Works,

and Capitol Hill Arts Center. She has toured rural Washington State and Alaska with the solo shows The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and The Amish Project. Terri also performed in Seattle’s Solo Performance Festival with the original piece Karaoke Suicide is Painless. She is currently producing/co-directing the documentary film Above the Bamboo Room, set in rural Southeast Alaska.____________________________________

Xandria BarberRehearsal Stage Manager

Xandria is delighted to be joining Seattle Shakespeare Company’s statewide touring productions as a stage manager. She was last seen at Seattle Public Theater working on The Best Christmas Pageant Ever for the second year running. She spent the fall at Seattle Shakespeare Company assistant stage managing Twelfth Night and at ArtsWest stage managing The Mountaintop, as well as a summer galavanting through the parks assistant stage managing Wooden O’s Julius Caesar. As always a grand thank you to her incredibly supportive fiancé, Kori.

Casey BrownFight Choreographer / Touring Manager

Casey’s past fight choreography includes Seattle Shakespeare Company’s touring productions of Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Othello; Seattle Vice (ACT Theatre); Horse Girls and Team of Heroes: Behind Closed Doors (Annex Theatre); The 4th Graders Present An Unnamed Love-Suicide and A Gogolplex (Ghost Light Theatricals); and Macbeth (Animal Fire Theatre). He is a certified member of the Society of American Fight Directors and the International Order of the Sword and Pen. His acting credits include work with

Terri WeagantJoshua Chessin-Yudin Trevor Young MarstonJoe Cummings Anastasia HighamSusanna Burney