The Educational Outreach Company:

Carolan Addams, Educational Outreach Coordinator, is currently on tour with the Festival’s educational outreach program, Shakespeare Alive! Prior to earning her M.F.A in Acting from University of Montana, Ms. Addams toured internationally with The Missoula Children’s Theatre, as well as working with Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park and Unto These Hills in Cherokee, N.C.

Douglas A. Hary, Educational Outreach Coordinator. is excited to be joining this varied and magical company from Louisville! He joins us from Montana where he spent the past two years building an arts education program and touring as an actor for the Montana Repertory Theatre. Doug received is Bachelor of Fine Art degree from The University of Montana and enjoyed eight terrific years of acting on the West Coast. Now he is slowly moving east and brings with him the experience of many favorite roles including, Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit, Danforth in The Crucible, Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls and Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Doug is very excited to join his bride for the year’s tour and invites you to enjoy the lives of Shakespeare with him!

Michael McNeil, grew up in North Dakota and graduated from the University of North Dakota in December of 1998. He first joined Kentucky Shakespeare Festival for the 1999 summer production of The Taming of the Shrew, in the roles of Christopher Sly, a Pedant and the Tailor, as well as Fight Director. He is now working as Artistic Associate, and will be touring with the festival’s educational outreach tour, Shakespeare Alive! Some past favorite Shakespearean roles include, Hamlet, Edmund, Nick Bottom, Lysander, Francis Flute / Thisby. Mr. McNeil’s two favorite modern roles are the two Tom’s, Tom Joad, The Grapes of Wrath and Tom Wingfield, The Glass Menagerie.

Curt L. Tofteland has been the Producing Director of Kentucky Shakespeare Festival since 1989. In addition to producing and directing the Festival’s summer season production, Mr. Tofteland tours his one-man show Shakespeare’s Clowns as a part of the Festival’s educational outreach tour, Shakespeare Alive!

Go Back!