For Cal Shakes: Portia in The Merchant of Venice (2006) and Imogen in Cymbeline (2001). Off Broadway: Lydia in Omnium Gatherum (Variety Arts); Princess/Orphan in Orphan of Zhao (Lincoln Center); Carson in Carson McCullers (Playwrights Horizons); Helene in Race (Classic Stage Company); and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Sara in More Stately Mansions (Herald Angel Award), and Mabel in The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, all for New York Theatre Workshop. Regional: Salyer in Last of the Boys (McCarter); Phedre in Phedre and Mary in Mary Stuart (Jeff nomination) for Court Theatre; Ann in All My Sons (Westport Playhouse); Nora in A Doll's House (Backstage West Award) for Seattle Rep; His Soul in Hydriotaphia (Alley Theatre); Molly in Molly Sweeney for Steppenwolf (Jeff nomination) and Arena Stage (Helen Hayes nomination); Kuan Yin in Journey To The West; Sara in A Touch Of The Poet; Masha in Three Sisters; Anna in Baltimore Waltz (Jeff nomination) all for Goodman Theatre. Film: In God’s Hands. TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Fling, The Untouchables.

Mr. Callender’s numerous productions at Cal Shakes include: King Lear, Man and Superman, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo & Juliet, and Hamlet. At Berkeley Rep: Major Barbara, Spunk, Galileo, The Oresteia. At A.C.T.: A Streetcar Named Desire, Tartuffe, Insurrection: Holding History. Aurora Theater: Saint Joan, Permanent Collection. On Broadway: Prelude to a Kiss. NY Public Theater: Caucasian Chalk Circle, Twelfth Night. Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Taming of the Shrew, A Doll’s House. Magic Theatre: A Question of Mercy, Rust. TheaterFIRST: World Music (Bay Area Critics Award). Thick Description: Richard III, Blade to the Heat. Mr. Callender is the recipient of several Dean Goodman awards, an Elly Award, SF Bay Guardian Goldie Award and the East Bay Express Best of the East Bay Award. I Love You, Dad. And Teddy, you will live always in the music.

At Cal Shakes: The Triumph of Love, Restoration Comedy, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, and Henry IV. Awards include: London Fringe One-Man Show of the Year; Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award; Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award (Lead and Solo Performances); four KPBS Patte Awards; four Backstage West Garland Awards; and 15 Dramalogue Awards; as well as Helen Hayes and Jeff Award nominations. Theater credits include: Mark Taper Forum; Seattle Rep; A.C.T.; Habima Theater (Israel); Mercury Theater (Chicago); The Old Globe; Old Red Lion Theatre (London); Metro Stage (Washington D.C.); Intiman Theatre; and Edinburgh, Telluride, and California Theatre Festivals. Ron is a founding member of The Actors’ Gang and has played the Chef at Teatro Zinzanni. Ron also performed the one-man shows R. Buckminster Fuller, The Thousandth Night, The Bone Man of Benares, Shylock, and A Tale of Two Cities, as well as the eponymous roles in Richard III, Cyrano de Bergerac, Tartuffe, The Imaginary Invalid, The Inspector General, and Corpse! Ron teaches at Berkeley Rep School of Theatre and can be contacted at soarfeat@gmail.com.

Ms. Carlin has appeared in numerous Cal Shakes productions including Man and Superman, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Importance of Being Earnest, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, All’s Well That Ends Well, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. She was seen this season in The Pillowman at Berkeley Rep. Nancy has performed with A.C.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, San José Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Aurora Theatre Co., and TheatreWorks. She has directed productions for Aurora Theatre, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Foothill Theatre Company, and the B Street Theatre where she recently directed The Clean House. She is featured in the films Jon Jost’s Frameup and Night of Henna and co-produced the film Haiku Tunnel. She holds a B.A. in comparative literature from Brown University and an M.F.A. in acting from A.C.T.

An Associate Artist in his ninth season with Cal Shakes, Mr. Carpenter appeared this year as King Edward IV and the Bishop of Ely in Richard III and as the Earl of Gloucester in King Lear. Past performances include: Ralph Nickleby in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Richard in Richard III, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Trigorin in The Seagull, MacDuff in Macbeth, and Henry IV and Prince Hal in two Cal Shakes productions of Henry IV. Other Bay Area credits include A.C.T., San José Rep, Aurora Theatre Co., TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Co., Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and Thick Description. James has appeared at Berkeley Rep in over 30 productions, his most recent being The People’s Temple. Out of town credits include work at The Old Globe Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Intiman Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Arizona Theatre Company, and The Huntington. Television: Nash Bridges. Film: The Rainmaker and Metro. Independents: The Sunflower Boy.

Ms. Castellanos is an award-winning actress who, in 2007, portrayed Queen Margaret in Richard III and Corine/Hermidas in The Triumph of Love. Previous productions with Cal Shakes: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Nicholas Nickleby, Othello,  All's Well That Ends Well, Henry IV, The Seagull, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She works with many stage companies throughout the Bay Area, and is a company member of Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco.  She has collaborated on numerous world premieres at Campo Santo with writers Denis Johnson, Naomi Iizuka, Greg Sarris, Octavio Solis, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ntozake Shange, Luis Saguar, Jessica Hagedorn, Junot Diaz, Vendela Vida, and Dave Eggers.  Deep gratitude to mentor Jean Shelton. Praise to my family for their constant inspiration and generosity in sharing mama with the theater. For my mom, always.

Ms. Cavanaugh received her MFA in Dance Composition from Mills College. Prior to receiving her degree, she worked at Oregon Shakespeare Festival for five seasons as choreographer and actor. Since then, she has choreographed for Berkeley Rep, La Mama, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The Lab at Lincoln Center, S.F. Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare at Stinson, Mills College Rep, Summerfest Dance, and for thirteen seasons at Cal Shakes as Choreographer and Movement Teacher. She has taught at U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Davis, Cal Shakes, and the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre. She has directed Measure for Measure and The Red Wheel Barrow for Shakespeare at Stinson and Peter and the Wolf for Napa Valley Rep. MaryBeth Cavanaugh is the Coordinator of Theatre Arts Training at the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre.

Previously at Cal Shakes: King Lear, As You Like It, The Importance of Being Earnest, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Regional credits include: The House of Mirth, Dinner at Eight, and A Christmas Carol (A.C.T.); An Ideal Husband and The Beaux’ Stratagem (Berkeley Rep); Holiday and Hay Fever (San José Rep); Far East, Tally’s Folly and The Heidi Chronicles (Theatre Works); The Comedy of Errors and Much Ado About Nothing (S.F. Shakespeare Festival); The Shaughraun (Huntington Theatre and Seattle Rep); An Ideal Husband (Seattle Rep); The One Eyed Man is King (Geva Theatre); and Dragonwings (Syracuse Stage). She received her B.A. in Drama from U.C. Davis, and trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

For Cal Shakes: The Merchant of Venice (2006), Measure for Measure (2003), and Cymbeline (2001). Recent work includes Rocket to the Moon (True Love Productions/Bard Summerscape), Hamlet (McCarter Theatre) and the world premiere of Poor Beck for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and London. Off-Broadway work includes the premiere Charles Mee's True Love (Zipper Theatre), and Ghosts with Amy Irving (Classic Stage Company). He has directed The Black Monk by David Rabe (world premiere, Yale Rep), The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl (Wilma Theatre), Loot, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Learned Ladies (McCarter), Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.), and Romeo and Juliet (Great Lakes Theatre Festival). His work has also been seen at Baltimore Center Stage, Court Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Intiman Theatre and the Juilliard School. Daniel Fish has worked as Associate Director to Sir Peter Hall and Michael Kahn; he is a graduate of Northwestern University's Department of Performance Studies and a Lecturer in Directing at The Yale School of Drama.

Ms. Foster’s Broadway casting credits include The Light in the Piazza, Lennon, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Taking Sides (Co-Cast); The Kennedy Center: Golden Child; off-Broadway: Endpapers, True Love, The Dying Gaul, The Maiden’s Prayer, Dream True, and Trojan Women: A Love Story; at Playwrights Horizons: Floyd Collins, The Monogomist, A Cheever Evening, and Later Life. She has cast regionally for California Shakespeare Theater, Intiman Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Berkeley Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Yale Rep, Prince Music Theater, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, and ART. Her film and television credits include COSBY, Tracy Ullman Takes On New York, The Deal, and Advice From a Caterpillar.

Mr. Hiatt appeared at Cal Shakes in 2007 as the Duke of Buckingham in Richard III, Straker in Man and Superman, and Hermocrates in The Triumph of Love; previously asTouchstone in As You Like It, Newman Noggs in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gonzalo in The Tempest, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Dorn in The Seagull, Sergius in Arms and the Man, and many others. Other credits include Happy End, The Rivals, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Cherry Orchard at A.C.T.; Dinner with Friends and Menocchio at Berkeley Rep; The Immigrant and A Flea in Her Ear at San José Rep; Regional theater credits include Seattle Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, The Huntington Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Stage West in Toronto.

Jennifer King is the Head of Theater at Napa Valley College and Executive and Co-Artistic Director of Sonoma County Repertory Theater. She was the first Director of Artistic Learning at California Shakespeare Theater. Prior to Cal Shakes, she served as Director of Education and Community Programs for Dallas Theater Center. Her teaching credits include work at California Shakespeare Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Sonoma County Repertory Theater, Napa Valley College, Richland College, Foothill College, Solano College and the University of California, Davis. A recipient of a Theatre Communications Group Observership Award, Jennifer has participated in education programs at the Lincoln Center Institute for Aesthetic Education, Manhattan Theater Club, and the 52nd Street Project. She is the co-editor of Reflections of Diversity, a scene book for actors, and holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of California, Davis, and a B.A. in Drama from the University of Southern California.

Previously at Cal Shakes: All’s Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000 Bay Area Critics Circle Award), and Measure for Measure. Regional credits include: Oedipus The King (Guthrie Theater); Alice, Tales of a Curious Girl (Dallas Theater Center); A Feast of Fools with Geoff Hoyle (La Jolla Playhouse, San Francisco, Chicago); Good Person of Szechwan (La Jolla Playhouse); The Learned Ladies (A.C.T.); Endgame and Twelfth Night (Berkeley Rep); and Imaginary Invalid (Yale Rep). Additional credits: Lincoln Center, NYSF/Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, and La Mama Experimental Theatre Club. As leader of various ensembles, Ms. Leishman’s compositions may be heard on recordings available on Koch Jazz, New World and GCQ Records (including O Mistress Mine, a Commemorative Album for Cal Shakes’ 30th Anniversary, available in the TheaterStore). For more info go to www.ginaleishman.com.

At Cal Shakes, Ms. Lozano has appeared in numerous productions, including The Triumph of Love, As You Like It, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Importance of Being Earnest, Arms and the Man, Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and most recently as Leontine in The Triumph of Love. She has served as vocal coach for Hamlet, Macbeth, and last season’s Othello, among others. She has appeared regionally in The House of Mirth, Othello, and The Rose Tattoo (A.C.T.); As You Like It, Othello, The White Devil, Twelfth Night, Mad Forest, Antony & Cleopatra, and The Illusion (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Fuente Ovejuna, Our Country’s Good, and The Illusion (Berkeley Rep); and Enchanted April, Hay Fever, On the Verge, and Mizlansky/Zilinsky (San José Rep). She has directed for San José Stage Co., Marin Theatre Co., Center Rep, Napa Valley Rep, and A.C.T.’s Young Conservatory.

A Cal Shakes Associate Artist, Joan has appeared in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, A Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, and Henry IV. She recently played Madame Sécurité in The Gamester at A.C.T. and Mrs. Peachum in Beggar’s Holiday at Marin Theater Co. She has also worked with S.F. Shakespeare Festival and Magic Theatre (as an actor and director), San Diego Rep, TheatreWorks, Traveling Jewish Theatre, and San José Stage; and has been a company member of San Francisco Mime Troupe, The Dell’Arte Players, and Pickle Family Circus. She is currently on the faculty of the Clown Conservatory of S.F. Circus Center, and is a Bay swimmer.

This is Mr. Murray’s seventh season at Cal Shakes, where he most recently appeared as Kent in King Lear and Mendoza/the Devil in Man and Superman; in 2006, he was Jacques in As You Like It. He has been seen most recently in the Bay Area as Howie in Rabbit Hole at San Jose Rep and as Ariel in The Pillowman at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Most recently at Cal Shakes: King Lear, Othello and The Tempest. Recent credits include Eurydice, directed by Les Waters, and Ghosts, directed by Jonathan Moscone, at Berkeley Rep. At Cal Shakes, Meg has designed costumes for Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Other Bay Area credits include: Closer, Suddenly Last Summer, and Galileo at Berkeley Rep; Buried Child at A.C.T.; and productions at San Francisco Opera Center, San José Rep, Magic Theatre, Marin Theater Co., and Joe Goode. Other regional credits: Cosi Fan Tutte for Chicago Opera Theatre (C.O.T.); Orfeo and Eurydice for C.O.T. and BAM; Yale Rep; Marin Theater Company; Dallas Theater Center; New York Stage and Film; Hartford Stage; and Baltimore Center Stage. Meg resides in San Francisco with husband Chris and daughters Daisy and Sunny.

Ms. Peters is an award-winning artist/activist whose creative work ranges from theater to poetry to music.  The 2007 Bay Area Black Music Award-winner for Spoken Word began her sincere artistic pursuits after graduating from San Diego State University, where she studied Political Science and Sociology and received honors as a scholarship Track & Field athlete.  Shortly after returning to her hometown of Oakland, California, in 2003, Ms. Peters partnered with Cal Shakes, Intersection for the Arts, and internationally renowned playwright, Naomi Izuika to write Hamlet: Blood in the Brain, a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet; she also played "O" (Ophelia).  A relative neophyte to the theater, Ms. Peters has also been seen in the Playwrights Foundation’s 30th Anniversary Playwrights Festival, performing in award-winning writer Julie Hebert’s Tree, and most recently, performing as part of the ensemble in Intersection and Campo Santo world-premiere production of Everything Has Been Arranged, adapted from the writing of Denis Johnson. Outside of the theater walls, Ms. Peters, also known as RyanNicole and RYE, continues her tireless endeavors in activism and art, working with her own spoken word and hip-hop productions and Oakland's Youth Movement Records.

For Cal Shakes: King Lear, All's Well That Ends Well, A Winter's Tale, and Love's Labour's Lost. Upcoming projects include The Rainmaker at Arena Stage; Beth Henley's Ridiculous Fraud at McCarter Theatre Center; Water and Power at the Mark Taper Forum; Mother Courage at La Jolla Playhouse; and Major Barbara at the Guthrie. Peterson has also directed at: Huntington Theatre Co., Intar, Prince Music Theatre, Women's Project, Vineyard Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, Center Stage, Berkeley Rep, Manhattan Class Company, Hartford Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Rep, Public Theater, Intiman Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, Classic Stage, East-West Players Williamstown Theatre Festival, the New Century, the Hanger, Trinity Repertory Co., Yale Rep, Sundance, The Playwrights' Center, New Dramatists, New York Stage & Film, Royal Court London and Young Playwrights' Festival. Ms. Peterson is a graduate of Yale College. Currently Resident Director at the Mark Taper Forum, she is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Drama Department.

Mr. Rodriguez  has carved out sound and music for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, A.C.T., California Shakespeare Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, and Art Street Theatre. Recent sound design credits include world premieres of Passing Strange, The People's Temple, and Fêtes de la Nuit at Berkeley Rep; the West Coast premiere of Blackbird and the world premiere of After the War at A.C.T.; Salome at Aurora, and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby at Cal Shakes. Other credits: music and sound for Cal Shakes's 2004 production of A Comedy of Errors; sound for Marin Theatre Company's Lifex3; sound for Ibsen's Ghosts at Berkeley Rep; and sound for Shotgun Players' and Studio Theatre's productions of The Death of Meyerhold. Rodriguez won the 2003 Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Award in sound design for The Death of Meyerhold and a 2004 Princess Grace Award.

Mark Rucker opened the 2007 season at Cal Shakes with his Richard III, and he closes 2008 with Twelfth Night; he previously directed Romeo and Juliet in 2001. Other Bay Area credits include The Beard of Avon by Amy Freed at A.C.T., Culture Clash's The Birds at Berkeley Rep, and Luminescence Dating by Carey Perloff at Magic Theatre/A.C.T. Other theaters include Yale Rep (6 productions), La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Indiana Rep, the Taper Too, the Intiman Playhouse, the Old Globe, Syracuse Stage, Asolo Rep and Ford's Theater. Mark was an Associate Artist at South Coast Repertory Theater, where he staged over 20 productions including world premieres by Richard Greenberg, John Glore, Culture Clash, Annie Weisman, and Christopher Shinn. His feature film debut Die Mommie Die! won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Mark is a graduate of UCLA and the Yale School of Drama.

In 2007, Ms. Schulman appeared as Lady Anne in Richard III and as Ann Whitefield/ Doña Ana in Man and Superman (as Susannah Livingston); she has previously appeared at Cal Shakes in As You Like It, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Seagull, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. Other credits include: The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, On the Mountain, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Dazzle, Nostalgia, Six Degrees of Separation, and The Taming of the Shrew at South Coast Rep; David Edgar's Continental Divide at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Birmingham Rep (England) and the Barbican Theatre in London; The House of Blue Leaves at Berkeley Rep.; five seasons at Shakespeare Santa Cruz including Cymbeline, King Lear and The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Geva Theatre; Picnic at Marin Theatre Co.; The Comedy of Errors at Aurora Theatre Co. and the National Tour of Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

Lynne Soffer has been the dialect/text coach on over 160 productions for theaters including A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, San Jose Rep, The Old Globe (San Diego), Dallas Theater Center, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre, Word for Word, and PCPA Theaterfest; the world premiere of Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie Project at the Denver Center, New York, and Berkeley; and for several films. She has both acted with and coached dialects/text for Cal Shakes in the past including Nicholas Nickleby, Restoration Comedy, and this season’s Man and Superman and King Lear. As an instructor of acting, text and speech, Ms. Soffer has taught for many schools and theater companies throughout the country in addition to working as an actor in theaters from Maine to Alaska.

Mr. Solis is a playwright and director living in San Francisco, currently adapting John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven with our New Works/New Communities program and Word for Word Performing Arts Company. His plays include Man of the Flesh, Prospect, El Paso Blue, Santos & Santos, La Posada Mágica, El Otro, Dreamlandia, The 7 Visions of Encarnacion, Bethlehem, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, Gibraltar, Lethe, and Marfa Lights.  They have been mounted at a variety of theaters including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Magic Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, South Coast Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Latino Chicago Theatre Company, La Compania de Albuquerque, Teatro Vista in Chicago, El Teatro Campesino, Undermain Theatre in Dallas, Thick Description, Campo Santo, Imua Theatre Company in New York, and Cornerstone Theatre.  His has collaborated on several pieces such as Burning Dreams, co-written with Julie Hebert and Gina Leishman; Shiner, written with Erik Ehn, and Great Highway, written with Wendy Weiner.  Mr. Solis has received numerous awards for his work including an NEA 1995-97 Playwriting Fellowship, the Roger L. Stevens award from the Kennedy Center, the Will Glickman Playwright Award, a production grant from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the 1998 TCG/NEA Theatre Artists in Residence Grant, the 1998 McKnight Fellowship grant from the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, and the National Latino Playwriting Award for 2003. He is the recipient of the 2000-2001 National Theatre Artists Residency Grant from TCG and the Pew Charitable Trust for Gibraltar at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His new anthology, Plays by Octavio Solis has just been released by Broadway Play Publishing.  He has also completed Prospect, an independent feature film which he wrote and directed.  Mr. Solis is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a New Dramatists alum.

Ms. Tillman is a theater teacher, actor, and improviser. Her teaching credits include work in acting technique, text, scene study, improvisation, and creative drama, with students ranging from kindergartners to adults at California Shakespeare Theater, New Actors Workshop (New York), San Francisco Arts Education Project, Julia Morgan Theater, the Academy of Art, New Conservatory Theater, Marin Theater Company, Bay Area TheaterSports, and Longfellow Middle School. She has written, produced and acted in two one-woman shows, founded two improvisational theaters, performs regularly with improv companies like Tilted Frame and Unscripted Theater, and has directed over 20 youth theater productions. As an actor, she has performed leading roles in the Bay Area in The Cherry Orchard, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All in the Timing, What the Butler Saw and Boston Marriage. Trish holds a B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and an M.A. in Dramatic Performance and Teaching Theater from Antioch University/New Actors Workshop.

For Cal Shakes: Orlando in As You Like It (2006), Nicholas Nickleby in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2005) and Posthumus in Cymbeline (2001). Off-Broadway: Hastings in Richard III (NYSF), Race (Classic Stage Company), All My Sons (The Roundabout), A Letter From Ethel Kennedy (MCC), and Lips (Primary Stages). Other theater credits: Alden in After Ashley (Humana Festival and the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference), Torvald in Nora (Intiman Theatre), George in Of Mice and Men (Arena Stage), As You Like It and La Ronde (both at Williamstown Theatre Festival), Orestes in Electra (Hartford Stage), The Entertainer (Long Wharf Theatre), The Quick Change Room (Denver Center). Film: Lilly (upcoming), Satellite (2005 Tribeca Film Festival), The Warrior Class, The Disappearance of Andy Waxman, Blair Witch 2, Cosmopolitan (PBS), and Machiavelli Rises. Television: Sex and the City, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order, Hack, Swift Justice, Guiding Light, and One Life to Live.

2008 marks Mr. Worsley’s sixth year as a California Shakespeare Theater Teaching Artist, where he teaches acting and directs student productions for our in-house training programs and summer acting camps. He is the moderator of our popular Student Discovery Matinee program, bringing world-class productions of Shakespeare and other classic plays to students from throughout the Bay Area. As part of the Artistic Learning Department’s Integrated Curriculum program, he has been a Teaching Artist in Residence in elementary, middle and high School classrooms; during these residencies, Mr. Worsley uses theater arts to bring history, social studies, and language arts to life for students from a variety of cultural, economic, and social backgrounds. He strongly believes in the power of theater to enrich and expand children’s education. As an actor, he has appeared on many Bay Area stages including Cal Shakes, Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, and others. He is delighted to be a member of the Cal Shakes family.

Most recently for Cal Shakes: Othello (2005) and Macbeth (2002). Broadway: Topdog/Underdog. New York: Lincoln Center, Joseph Papp Public Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Vineyard Theatre, Ontological-Hysteric Theater (with Richard Foreman), others. Regional: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theater, American Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theater, Guthrie Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Stage, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Alliance Theatre Company, many others. International: National Theatre, Royal Court, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, ICA (London), Edinburgh Festival (Scotland), Adelaide Festival (Australia), Zurcher Theaterspektakel, Theatre Neumarkt (Zurich), Sommertheater Festival (Hamburg), In Transit (Berlin), Schauspielhaus (Vienna), Rotterdamse Schouwburg (Rotterdam), Dansens Hus (Stockholm), Dansens Hus (Oslo), TheatreWorks (Singapore), Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan). Dance: The Joyce, Kennedy Center, American Dance Festival, American Ballet Theater, National Ballet of Canada, Centre National de la Danse (Paris), San Francisco, Boston, Kansas City Ballets. Opera: English National Opera, New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera, Minnesota Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Arizona Opera, Berkshire Opera, Opera Colorado, Spoleto USA, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Gotham Opera, among others.