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Tim
Gregory
(Macbeth) is appearing in his 41st Shakespeare production
(fourth Macbeth). Other Shakespearean favorites: Benedick,
Mercutio, Romeo, Edmund, Bolingbroke, Diomedes, Antonio,
Orsino and Snout. Modern roles include: Stanley (A
Streetcar Named Desire), Morrie (Blood Knot), Orson Welles
(Raising Kane), Robert (Betrayal), Brick (Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof), Charles (Blithe Spirit), Shotover (Heartbreak
House), and most recently, Aram (Beast on the Moon). He is
a founding ensemble member of Shakespeare Repertory in
Chicago, an MFA graduate in classical theatre (Delaware);
and newly settled in New York, where he does voice-over work
and appears occasionally on All My Children. Tim is pleased
to be making his Festival debut.
MACBETH ADOPTED
BY: KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
Josephine
Hall (Lady
Macbeth/Lady Macduffe) is delighted to be making her debut
with Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. Originally from
England, she came to America five years ago to direct at the
Appel Farm Arts and Music Center where she met her husband,
director/composer, William Perry Morgan. U.S. credits
include: Regina (The Little Foxes) at Seaside Music
Theatre; Harper (Angels in America: Millenium Approaches),
Desdemona (Othello), Rose (Dancing at Lughnasa) for which
she won a Memphis Theatre Award at Playhouse on the Square
and Ann (1940’s Radio Hour) at Jenny Wiley Theatre.
Some of her British work has been shown on U.S. television
in "The House of Elliott".
LADY MACBETH
ADOPTED BY: Arthur Andersen LLP
LADY MACDUFFE
ADOPTED BY: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Allison
Williams (Witch/Murderer/Seyton/Gentlewoman;
Co-Director of MACPANT; Company Movement Coach) is returning
for her second year with the Festival. She began her career
on Romper Room and was disappointed that other productions
have not included "cookie time". She is the author of
"Never Flick a Booger on a patron: A guide to Renaissance
Improv." Leading roles include Les Liasons Dangereuses, The
Tempest, The Three Musketeers, and The Artificial Jungle.
Allison has directed Bits and Pieces, Hamlette, Bonjour, and
Les Liasons Dangereuses. She has directed Movement, Mask,
Circus, and/or Commedia for A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
The Tempest, Carnival, Androcles and the Lion, Pinocchio
Commedia, and Pantalone Rides Again!
SEYTON ADOPTED BY:
Robert Whayne and Suzanne Wallace-Whayne
GENTLEWOMAN
ADOPTED BY: Robert Whayne and Suzanne Wallace-Whayne
Todd
Espeland (Witch/Murderer;
Co-Director of MACPANT; Company Movement Coach): is
returning for his second year at the Festival. He earned
his BA in Theatre at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and
did extensive post-graduate work in Mask, Clown, Physical
Theatre and Commedia Dell’Arte School of Physical
Theatre. Leading roles include Brighton Beach Memoirs, The
Taming of the Shrew, The Three Musketeers, The Tempest, and
the title role in Teatro Pachuco’s The Hunchback of
Notre Dame. Todd has designed Masks for Into the Woods, The
Tempest, Pinocchio Commedia, androcles and the Lion, and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carnival, Androcles and the
Lion, and Bits and Pieces, and directed numerous productions
including Pinocchio Commedia, Hamlette and Pantalone Rides
Again!.
Mollie
Blaine Milligan (Witch/Murderer)
joins the Festival for her first season. She is currently
residing in Dallas, Texas where she has just completed her
second year in Southern Methodist University’s MFA
acting program. Some of Mollie’s favorite roles
include Darlene (Balm in Gilead), Isabella (Measure for
Measure), and Olivia (Twelfth Night).
THE WITCHES
ADOPTED BY: Chase Securities Inc./The Chase Manhattan
Bank
Anthony
Guest (Hecate/Captaine)
joins the Festival for his first season. Tony now resides
in Kansas City, Missouri where he and his wife both are
pursuing MFA degrees at the Professional Actor Training
Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He hails
from Birch Run, Michigan where he received a BS degree in
Biology with a Theatre Minor at the University of Michigan.
Some past credits include, Leonato (Much Ado About Nothing),
Dysert (Equus), Fredrick (Noises Off) and Cinderella’s
Prince (Into the Woods). He sends his love to his wife Beth
and his dogs, Chaplin and Shelby, back home in Kansas
City.
HECATE ADOPTED BY:
Marsha and David Roth
CAPITAINE ADOPTED
BY: Robert Whayne and Suzanne Wallace-Whayne
Brian
Russell
(Macduffe/Fight Captain) returns for his third season with
the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. His roles here include,
Petruchio in The Taming of Shrew, Oberon/Theseus in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macduffe in Macbeth.
Recent credits include understudying and performing on the
National Tour of Laughter on the 23rd Floor; also, The
Sunshine Boys at The George Street Playhouse. He has
appeared in numerous national television commercials and is
a co-creator of the original comedy show The Terrible Black
Crystal of Grief . He is also an avid golfer and would
relish the opportunity to play Valhalla.
ADOPTED BY:
Goldman, Sachs, & Co.
Simon
du Toit (Duncan/Menteth/Porter/English
Doctor/Old Man/Apparition) is delighted to join the Festival
for his first season. Born in England and raised in Canada,
he trained at LAMDA and York University (MFA). Mr. du Toit
appeared in Macbeth, Richard II, and As You Like It at the
Stratford Festival. He played the title role in
Brecht’s Baal at the Toronto Free Theatre, and played
Peer in Peer Gynt at York. Other credits include Riel, No
Sex Please We’re British, The Jail Diary of Albie
Sachs, A Flea in Her Ear, and Pinter’s The Homecoming.
He is presently Assistant Professor of Theatre at Dordt
College in Sioux Center, Iowa.
KING DUNCAN
ADOPTED BY: Brown-Forman
MENTETH ADOPTED
BY: Maker’s Mark Distillery
THE PORTER ADOPTED
BY: Tom and Celeste Gerstle
THE OLD MAN
ADOPTED BY: Mr. Gordon Strauss
THE ENGLISH DOCTOR
ADOPTED BY: N. Dale Hill, M.D. and Caroline S. Willette,
M.D.
Randy
Lee Bailey
(Banquo/Scots Doctor/Fight Director): earned his MFA in
Acting from Ohio University in 1988, and has acted with
companies in Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
Since moving to the Cincinnati area, he appeared in Fool for
Love, Macbeth, Edward II, and Wild Oats. As a teacher of
Stage Combat, Randy has choreographed and taught at the
Universities of Northern Kentucky, Findlay, Kentucky,
Wisconsin, Bethany College, and Knox College. His
professional choreography credits include Blue Jacket,
Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Ensemble Theatre of
Cincinnati, and Cross and Sword. Randy was a member of the
acting company and was Fight Captain for The Three
Musketeers at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. He is a
restoration carpenter with The "B" Team and studies acting
with Cheryl Maxine Couch.
BANQUO ADOPTED BY: Milcor
FLEANCE ADOPTED
BY: Milcor
Carman
Matthew Lacivita (Donalbaine/Angus/Apparition
, Hecate Chorus/King Apparition) is excited to be working
with Kentucky Shakespeare Festival for the first time. He
is a senior B.F.A. major from Texas Christian University.
His most recent roles include Acaste (The Misanthrope) at
StageWest, Trissotin (The Learned Ladies), DeGuiche (Cyrano
DeBergerac), Max (Lend Me A Tenor), Stage Manager (Six
Characters in Search of an Author) and George (Actors
Nightmare). He worked with The State Theatre Koleso of
Togliatti Russia, acting in the productions of, She Stoops
To Conquer and Romeo and Juliet. Mr. Lacivita is also proud
of his first directing achievement with Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?
DONALBAINE ADOPTED
BY: Merrill Lynch & Co, Inc.
ANGUS ADOPTED BY: Charles F. Hoffman in memory of his
grandfather John Angus McLeod
Christian
Anderson (Malcolme/Apparition)
is extremely excited and looking forward to his first season
with the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. Born and raised in
the Chicagoland area, Christian has studied at The Theatre
School at DePaul University and is currently completing his
B.F.A. in Acting from The University of Illinois. He was
last seen in a Shakespearean production as Gregory in
Shakespeare on the Green’s Romeo and Juliet in Lake
Forest, Illinois.
MALCOLME ADOPTED
BY: Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Mark
Williams (Lenox/Hecate
Chorus) joins the Festival for his first season. He
recently completed his B.F.A. at the University of Illinois.
Originally from sunny California, favorite roles have
included Clay (The Dutchman), Randall (Slow Dance on a
Killing Ground), Caliban (The Tempest), as well as roles in
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Iago’s Plot—A
Kabuki Adaptation.
LENOX ADOPTED BY:
Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs
Greg
Carlisle (Seyward/Rosse)
was a member of the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival Acting
Intern Program in 1996. He received an MFA in Acting from
the University of Louisville, where in April 1997, he played
Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. He played the Creature
in Frankenstein at the Great Plains Theatre Festival in
Abilene, Kansas last October. Most recently, he played
Hansel and Gretel’s father for Lexington
Children’s Theatre and Martin in Fool for Love for
Phoenix Theatre Group in Lexington.
ROSSE ADOPTED BY:
Kroger
SEYWARD ADOPTED
BY: Robert Whayne and Suzanne Wallace-Whayne
YOUNG SEYWARD
ADOPTED BY: Robert Whayne and Suzanne Wallace-Whayne
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