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CLASSICAL THEATRE COMPANY

BOLDLY RE-ENVISIONING CLASSICAL DRAMA

OUR HISTORY

The Classical Theatre Company was born in late 2006 when, inspired by a casual conversation about Houston theatre at a Christmas party, theatre professional John Johnston came to the conclusion that there was a distinct niche to fi ll in the local community. Recognizing the unwavering popularity of classical drama both regionally and worldwide, as well as the noticeable lack of year-round classical theatre in the Bayou City, he began traveling down the path that laid itself before him.

For its 2008-2009 inaugural season, CTC audiences enjoyed two very successful productions and a full three-installment reading series, highlighted by a reading of Benedictus and the inaugural production, Shylock, the Jew of Venice, an adaptation from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Following up its achievements the next season with a bold one-man adaptation of Hamlet as well as the smash hit production of Moliere’s Tartuffe, CTC continued to garner high praise from its audiences and critics alike.

In a landmark 2010-2011 third season, CTC added a third full production to its Mainstage including a co-production with the Prague Shakespeare Festival of As You Like It and King Lear. These Shakespearean classics combined local Houston and European artists with runs of the shows both in Houston and in Prague to rave reviews in each venue.

Using the clear need for the CTC’s services as well as its exciting young staff as its engine, the company has been able to garner support in many vital areas necessary to the successful achievement of its mission. As this support continues to build, we at the Classical Theatre Company look forward to making the future of classical drama as bright as its past.

OUR MISSION

The Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that brings them new life and relevance while maintaining the integrity that the works deserve.

OUR VISION

The Classical Theatre Company presents high-caliber professional productions of works from the classical canon. These time-honored plays, which were written at least one-century prior, are presented by outstanding local, national, and international artists as a critical component to the well-being of Houston’s cultural community. As Houston continues to develop its reputation as a nationally recognized city for culture and arts, a dynamic year-round, professional classical theatre is crucial in shaping Houston’s diverse cultural landscape.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ivar Siem Chairman & President

Kate PogueVice President

Daniel E. PrestonTreasurer

Robert LemusSecretary

Board Members:Breen HaireConor JohnstonJohn JohnstonJack W. MasseyBarbara Ann RadnofskyMichael Watson

ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Sidney BergerJodi BobrovskyChristy BolingbrokeJoan BolingbrokeBob BoudreauxCrystal JacksonChristine S. JohnstonJessica Q. JohnstonMimi Kilgore

Chesley Santoro KrohnDr. Justin LakeChristianne Mays HagemannCarol PhillipsDon L. Rumer-RiveraSusan ShofnerEd SmithClaremarie Verheyen

CLASSICAL THEATRE COMPANY STAFF

Executive Artistic Director ....................... John JohnstonArtistic Associate ....................................... Kalob MartinezResident Acting Company ........................ Holly Haire, Philip Hays,

Matthew Keenan, Blair Knowles, Philip Lehl, Thomas Prior

Resident Artists .......................................... Matthew Schlief, Julia TraberInternship Coordinator ............................. Thomas PriorAdministrative Associate ........................... Eva De La CruzCommunications Director ........................ Blair KnowlesProduction Stage Manager ....................... Andrea J. Wright

SPECIAL THANKS ARE EXTENDED TO:The Alley Theatre, Dennis Draper, Lindsay Ehrhardt, Drew Hoovler,

Houston Arts Alliance, Main Street Theater, Andrew Ruthven, Stages Repertory Theatre, Daniel & Julia Traber, UH School of Theatre & Dance

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

ADAPTED BY JOHN JOHNSTON

FEATURING

DIRECTED BY

JOHN JOHNSTON

SEPTEMBER 11-29, 2013BARNEVELDER ARTS COMPLEX

AMY BUCHANAN RUTHERFORD CRAVENS TED DOOLITTLE

CLASSICAL THEATRE

COMPANY

PRESENTS

SOUND DESIGN

BRYAN EALEY

FIGHT DIRECTOR

LUKE FEDELL

DRAMATURG

ELIZABETH JORDAN

STAGE MANAGER

K DAVID COCHRAN

SCENIC DESIGN

JODI BOBROVSKYLIGHTING DESIGN

DAVID GIPSONCOSTUME DESIGN

MACY PERRONE

CHRISTIANNE MAYS JEFF MCMORROUGH JARRED TETTEY

RALPH EHNTHOLT KIRK ELLIS DAIN GEIST

JOANNA HUBBARD KELLY JUNEAU MATTHEW KEENAN

NOTES ON THE PLAY:

In our fi rst meeting, John Johnston confessed, “You do not simply choose to take on a production like Hamlet; Hamlet fi nds you.” And indeed Hamlet did fi nd him one evening as he watched actor Matthew Keenan and actress Christianne Mays jump out of the fi nal scene in CTC’s previous production of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen and into the closet scene in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet taking on the personas of Gertrude and Hamlet. Once the initial casting was apparent, Johnson began to search for a “hook” in which to set his play.

… Then came June 7, 2013—the day after Edward Snowden decided to blow his whistle with one of the United States’ greatest leaks to The Guardian in a video describing the extensive eyes and ears the National Security Agency has over Americans.

After working for the NSA for years, Snowden decided it was time to expose the government and their capabilities of tapping into our telephone calls and personal emails.

I don’t see myself as a hero because what I’m doing is self-interested: I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity… I can’t in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building. Edward Snowden, The Guardian, June 6, 2013

Edward Snowden immediately became an icon. Finally, bipartisan parties agreed on a topic to discuss. However, from the left to the right, opinions varied on whether Snowden should be considered an American villain or hero. This dualistic fi gure seems to parallel the views on Hamlet. Hamlet is not an apparent protagonist. Some audiences see him as a selfi sh and immature young man who kills almost every one he comes in contact with; others see him as a victim of melancholy and usurpation. These complexities in both Snowden and Hamlet as misunderstood and rather complex individuals drove CTC to explore the world of an individual under surveillance.

Just as people sought out Snowden in Hong Kong and kept a watchful eye on him for the week he was trapped in Moscow International Airport, so too does Hamlet feel as if he is trapped in a Denmark prison under the lens of his Uncle’s court. There are eyes and ears behind every turn, every arras. He scurries around the Elsinore castle as the higher-ups decide what to do with him, just as America waited for action from Putin and Obama. This claustrophobic world where every action is closely watched and debated correlates with the life Edward Snowden was succumbed to this summer. Each man’s actions infl uenced a nation.

In Classical Theatre Company’s Hamlet, we intend to divulge into the deeply rooted layer of the human conscious; to tap into the deep seeded root of paranoia that fl oats in us all if we have the feeling we are being manipulated, or perhaps always being watched.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Classical Theatre Company is funded by grants from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance,and is a participant in the Houston Arts Alliance's Incubator Program.

CONTRIBUTORS

$10,000 - $24,999Cullen Trust for the Performing ArtsHouston Arts AllianceHouston EndowmentChristine & John W. JohnstonMacy’s Department StoresPepsi Corporation

$5,000 - $9,999Anonymous Albert & Ethel Herzstein FoundationClayton FundJohn R. Johnston

$1,000- $4,999AnonymousBarbara RadnofskyClaire GooseyBreen & Holly HaireRobert & Laura LemusJack & Lanie MasseyIn memory of Nancy MastersonMr. & Mrs. John MolbeckIvar & Britt SiemSchwab Charitable FundStage StoresSutherland Asbill & BrennanMichael Watson

$500 - $999AnonymousJohn & Joan BolingbrokeMr. & Mrs. John P. Cogan, Jr.

Christianne & Thomas HagemannDavid & Peggy HaysJessica JohnstonOmega Projects SolutionsTrustmark Bank

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THE CAST

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors andStage Managers in the United States, appearing under the Special Appearance Contract

PRODUCTION CREDITS

There will be one fi fteen-minute intermission.

Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. The use of cameras and recorders in the theatre is strictly prohibited. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. Cellular phones, beepers, and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance.

Guildenstern, Lady 1 ..................................... Amy BuchananClaudius ........................................................... Rutherford Cravens*Marcellus, First Clown .................................. Ted DoolittlePolonius, Priest ............................................... Ralph Ehntholt*Osric ................................................................. Kirk EllisLaertes, Player King ....................................... Dain GeistOphelia ............................................................ Joanna HubbardPlayer Queen, Messenger, Lady 2 ................ Kelly Juneau Hamlet ............................................................. Matthew KeenanGertrude .......................................................... Christianne Mays*Rosencrantz, Lord ......................................... Jeff McMorroughHoratio ............................................................. Jarred Tettey

Technical Director ......................................... Drew HoovlerProduction Interns ......................................... Kirk Ellis†, Kelly Juneau†

Production Assistant ..................................... Abbie Falk

Elsinore Castle, Denmark

SETTING

†Participants in the William Hardy Internship Program

WHO’S WHO

AMY GARNERBUCHANANAmy Garner Buchanan came to the U.S. from Australia two years ago and is so pleased to be making

her Classical Theatre Company debut with Hamlet. Houston credits include – Stark Naked Theatre: Macbeth; Texas Repertory Theatre: Company; Main Street Theater: The Magic School Bus LIVE!, A Little House Christmas, Pinkalicious the Musical; Express Theatre: Children’s Hilltop Theatre Festival, Freedom Train, Rudolph, The Adventures of Tom & Huck. She is also a teacher and blogger for Hope Stone. Australian credits – Tony Bones Entertainment: Schumann the Shoeman, Matty Forever, Kids’ Party Shows; Melbourne Museum: Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition (voice-over); Melbourne Fringe Festival: Death by Chocolate; Comedy Theatre: My Fair Lady. Education – Amy holds a BA (Hons) from Monash University, received a year of full-time dance training at Dance Factory, and has taken Meisner and Shakespeare training at Kim Tobin Acting Studio. Thanks also to Lucas, the best stage mom.

RUTHERFORDCRAVENS*has been a member of Actors’ Equity for a really long time. He is producer/director of Shakespeare

Outreach, Houston’s only free touring theatre. At the Houston Shakespeare Festival, he has directed Troilus and Cressida, King John, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, and Two Gentleman of Verona, and has appeared in numerous roles that include both Claudius and Polonius in Hamlet, Don Armado in Love’s Labor’s Lost, Titus in Titus Andronicus, Touchstone in As You Like It, and Caesar in Julius Caesar. At the Alley Theatre he has appeared in Taking

Steps, Arms and the Man, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Antony and Cleopatra, and Julius Caesar. At Stages Repertory Theatre he appeared in, among others, Auntie Mame, Castro’s Beard, Silence, Good Boys, The Drawer Boy, Betty’s Summer Vacation, The Unseen, The Laramie Project, Panto Cinderella, and Amy’s View. At Main Street Theater he has appeared in A Number, The Weir, What the Butler Saw, Mr. Pim Passes By, Close up Space and Coast of Utopia. At Theatre Under the Stars he appeared in 1776, Brigadoon, and West Side Story. At Prague Shakespeare Festival in the Czech Republic, he appeared in King Lear, Henry V and Richard III. At Classical Theatre Company he appeared in Candida and King Lear. Recent fi lm and television appearances include featured roles in Breaking Bad, Nashville, Alamo, Friday Night Lights, Ray, Into the West, the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men, and the HBO fi lm, The Temple Glandin Story. He has written two plays, Wondergirl and Zero Tolerance, both of which premiered at Main Street Theater.

TED DOOLITTLEBorn in London England to military parents, he was previously seen on the CTC stage as Alonso in The Tempest and Cleante in Tartuffe. Ted

received his BFA in theatre from Baylor University and considers Nebraska and St. Louis his homes. Other credits include: Unity Theatre Brenham (The Importance of Being Earnest, Taming of the Shrew); Texas Repertory Theatre (Shadowlands, Bus Stop, Miracle on 34th Street, Illyria, You Can’t Take it With You, Smoke on the Mountain, The Odd Couple, When You Coming Back Red Ryder); Masquerade Theatre (Camelot); City Players of St. Louis (Lovers); Act, Inc. St. Louis (Misalliance, The Unexpected Guest); A.D. Players (Godspell, Shadowlands, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Diary of Anne Frank), Dionysus Theatre (Little Shop of

Under the Stars: Into the Woods; Hair; A Chorus Line. Stages Repertory Theater: 7 seasons, including: Good Boys; Convenience; Shakespeare’s R & J; Kindertransport; Memory of Water; I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change; Company; Funny Girl; Always Patsy Cline (x3). Catastrophic Theater Co: Tamarie Cooper’s Old as Hell, Fleaven, Tamarie Cooper’s Doomsday Revue (The Greatest Musical Ever!). Unhinged: An Evening with Quentin Crisp. Express Theater: Arabian Knights. Regional: Chautauqua Conservatory Theater Company: Twelfth Night; Antigone; Marvin’s Room; Street Scene; The Dining Room, You Can’t Take It With You. NYC: Lilli TheatreWorks: Successful Strategies.

EVA DE LA CRUZ (Administrative Associate)Eva has been active in the Houston theatre scene for several years in a variety of capacities. She is currently a freelance teaching artist, working as the Youth Theatre Director at the ER Jewish Community Center, a satellite teacher with Main Street Theater, and an instructor at Page Parkes Center of Modeling and Acting. Previously, she served as the Artistic Coordinator at HITS Theatre, where she taught, choreographed, and directed productions for kids in grades 1-12. Other arts administration credits include

work with the annual Houston Shakespeare Festival (four seasons), Arts With an Impact, and Nova Arts Project. Eva received her BA in Theatre from the University of Houston. Eva has been a member of Actors’ Equity Association since 2005, and has worked as a stage manager for over 40 local productions at theatres including: Stages Repertory Theatre, Main Street Theater, HITS Theatre, The Children’s Theatre Festival, Talento Bilingue de Houston, Miller Outdoor Theatre, and the University of Houston.

*Denotes member of Actors’ Equity

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the

United Stages. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefi ts, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affi liated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of

excellence. www.actorsequity.org

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COMING UP NEXT IN

CLASSICAL THEATRE COMPANY’S2013-2014 SEASON:

Doctor Faustus By Christopher MarloweDirected by Philip Hays

January 29 - February 16, 2014

The Importance of Being EarnestBy Oscar Wilde

Directed by Thomas Prior April 9 -

April 27, 2014

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Naked Theater, Houston Grand Opera, Houston Ballet, Moore’s School of Opera, University of Houston School of Theatre, Texas Repertory Theater, and College of the Mainland. Her scenic designs include: Stages Repertory Theatre: Mistakes Were Made; Yankee Tavern; A Picasso; Syncopation; An Infi nite Ache; and Elizabeth Rex. Unity Theatre: The Fantasticks; Scotland Road; Harvey; Moonlight and Magnolias. Main Street Theater: The Coast of Utopia; The House of Spirits; Urinetown; and The Weir which a Best of Houston award for production design. For The Ensemble Theater, scenic designs include: Sty of the Blind Pig, which won honors at the African American Theater Festival in Winston Salem. For Generations Theater, the regional premieres of Spring Awakening and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. She is an advisory board member of Classical Theater Company and has designed costumes for: Ghosts; Tartuffe; and Antigone. Her scenic design models were recently exhibited at the American Institute of Architecture. She was recently featured in The Houston Press’s “Top 100 Creatives” blog.

DAVID GIPSON (Lighting Design)David Gipson has designed over 200 productions during a career that has spanned more than 25 years. He is a company member with Teatro Vista Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois and is a Resident Artist at Unity Theatre in Brenham, Texas and Masquerade Theatre in Houston. Credits include: Off Broadway - Runt of the Litter at MCC Theater and 37 Arts in New York City. It was originally produced at Stages Repertory in Houston, Texas. Houston credits include The Who’s Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar and the opera Our Town. In Chicago, he designed over one hundred productions at The Goodman Studio, Victory Gardens Theatre, Pegasus Players, Organic Theatre, and Steppenwolf ’s Arts Exchange and many others.

MACY PERRONE (Costume Design) Macy is a Houston based freelance costume designer. Her designs include Ubu Roi (Classical Theatre Company) From My Mother’s Mother, Courtside (HGOco); Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ragtime, Hairspray, Cats (Miller Outdoor Theatre); The Unexpected Man, Great American Trailer Park Musical, Auntie Mame (Stages Theatre); Alice in Wonderland, Magician’s Nephew, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Bud Not Buddy (Main Street Theater for Youth); Close Up Space, Dog Act, The Light in the Piazza (Main Street Theater); From My Hometown, Cinderella, Nacirema Society, King Hedley II (The Ensemble Theatre); Body Awareness (Stark Naked Theatre); Tartuffe, Macbeth, The Threepenny Opera (Rice University) It’s a Wonderful Life, Wait Until Dark (Texas Repertory Theatre Company); Boom, Our House, Farragut North (Black Lab Theatre); Greater Tuna (Unity Theatre); The Fantasticks (Okoboji Summer Theatre); Rent (Lone Star College - Montgomery); Two by Two, Dames at Sea (Utah Musical Theatre); The Hollow, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and The Comedy of Errors (Utah State University). Macy received her Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design from Utah State University.

ELIZABETH JORDAN (Dramaturg)Elizabeth will be graduating from the University of Houston receiving her BFA in dramaturgy this December. This is her fi rst show with CTC and she is very excited to work with this company. She has worked with other companies as a dramaturg or literary associate in the Houston area such as The Back Porch Players, The Landing Theatre Company, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Wordsmyth, and the Alley Theatre in both their literary and education departments.

K DAVID COCHRAN (Stage Manager)Alley Theatre: What We’re Up Against; Toxic Avenger – The Musical; Monster at the Door. Theater

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Horrors, Children of a Lesser God); Musical Theatre of Houston (Jesus Christ Superstar w/Ben Vereen) and Miller Outdoor Theatre (The Gold, the Musical). When not working, Ted enjoys the company of his beautiful wife, Martha and their delightful daughter Dorothy.

RALPH EHNTHOLT*Ralph is excited to be involved in his fi rst production with Classical Theatre Company. For the last thirty years he has been

actively involved in the Houston-Galveston Theatre scene. He appeared for six seasons with the Houston Shakespeare Festival. Playing such roles as Baptista in The Taming of The Shrew; Duncan in Macbeth; Gonzalo in The Tempest; as well as Aegeon in The Comedy of Errors. He was last seen on stage as “Pap” Rose in Stages’ production of Hank Williams: Lost Highways. You might have seen him in the P.B.S. Children’s show Mary Lou’s Flip Flop Shop as Mr. Bump. He is currently teaching Acting and Introduction to Theatre at San Jacinto Central College.

KIRK ELLISKirk is in his last year as a BFA Acting student at the University of Houston and this is his fi rst opportunity working with the Classical

Theatre Company. Most recent production credits include Bastien in Paradise Hotel, and the One-eyed Man in Mother Courage, both at the University of Houston’s Wortham auditorium. Prior to that, he played Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at UH and Discovery Green. Kirk is a founding member of the Houston improv troupe Glaundor and when he is not involved in an actual play he devotes much of his time to improvising.

DAIN GEISTClassical Theatre Company: Ubu Roi; Main Street Theater: The Coast of Utopia Trilogy, Love Goes to Press; Houston Shakespeare Festival: Antony

& Cleopatra, As You Like It, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Othello, Taming of the Shrew; Actors Studio Drama School: Seascape with Sharks and Dancer, The Bald Soprano, Dinner with Friends; Adelphi University: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oleanna; Education: BFA from Adelphi University; MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School.

JOANNA HUBBARDClassical Theatre Company: Hamlet, *Dr. Faustus; Main Street Theater: Close Up Space, Memory House, *James and the Giant Peach, Life Is a

Dream; Back Porch Players: Tea and Sympathy; Dionysus Theatre: The Bully Show; Action! Theatre Co.: Othello; LA Theatre Troupe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Globe Theatre London Education: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Guthrie Theatre: Writer 1272; Guthrie Theatre BFA: This Property’s Condemned, Hay Fever, Julius Caesar, Three Sisters, La Casa Nova, The Persians, Cymbeline, Spring Awakening. Education: BFA, University of Minnesota / Guthrie Theatre Actor Training Program, HSPVA alumna and current consultant for Theatre and Creative Writing Departments. She is also a teaching and directing artist with Main Street Theater and The Alley Theatre specializing in the classics and movement. (*upcoming work)

KELLY JUNEAUKelly studied theater at Sam Houston State University and is a graduate of the Austin based improv conservatory The New Movement. She

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has performed at several festivals including Hell’s Yes Fest, Trill Comedy Festival, and The Houston Improv Festival and toured the Midwest in the summer of 2012 as a performer in The New Movement’s Tourceratops tour. Kelly is proud to be a founding member of Houston’s Station Theater.

MATTHEW KEENAN Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Matthew is delighted to be working with the Classical Theatre Company again, having previously

appeared as Nazi Offi cer in The Merchant Of Venice, Ferdinand in The Tempest, Osvald in Ghosts and Haimon in Antigone. He is a graduate from the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin and is a proud company member of both the Keegan Theatre in Washington, D.C. and the Classical Theatre Company here in Houston. Previous acting credits include: Dancing At Lughnasa (Gerry), Gdirl From Gdansk (Rich), The Rapture Index (Mark), Love Peace And Robbery (Darren), Stones In His Pockets (Jake), Translations (Doalty), The Shawl (Charles), The Departure Lounge (Frank), Don Carlos (Gabriel De La Cueva/Prince of Parma), A Christmas Carol (Dick Wilkins), Fusion (Jayo), Blue (Des), Romeo And Juliet (Romeo), Big Love (Oed), The B.F.G. (Danny/Bonecruncher), Massacre @ Paris (Various), and What The Dead Want (Bobby). Film and television credits include On Our Way, Henry And Sunny, The Tudors, The Clinic, The Big Bow Wow, Camera Cafe, Bachelors Walk, and Bouncing Boy. Matthew made his directorial debut in 2011 at Keegan Theatre with Peter Coy’s A Shadow Of Honor and most recently made his playwriting debut, also at Keegan Theatre, with An Irish Carol.

CHRISTIANNE MAYS*Christianne has a BA from Rice University and MFA in acting from UCLA. She started her acting career in Los Angeles, with several

small television roles and as a member of an experimental theatre group, then returned to Houston where she became an Alley Theatre company member for two years, had a supporting role as the Irish maid in the TV miniseries A Woman of Independent Means (starring Sally Fields), and had a part in the independent fi lm, Picture Bride (picked up by Miramax), which was shown at Cannes and won the Audience Award for Best Dramatic Picture at Sundance. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors’ Equity. Christi has worked at Main Street Theater, Stages, the Houston Shakespeare Festival, Unity Theatre in Brenham, Classical Theatre Company and she has continued to work periodically at the Alley. Her most recent roles include Mrs. Alving in Ghosts with the Classical Theatre Company, Mrs. Stanley in The Man Who Came to Dinner at the Alley, and the Homebody in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul at Main Street Theater, for which she won the Houston Press Best of Houston award for Best Performance of a Really, Really Long Monologue.

JEFF MCMORROUGH Jeff is excited to be making his onstage debut with CTC. He has been seen in Macbeth at Stark Naked Theatre and in the A. D. Players

productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, Pride and Prejudice, The Beams are Creaking and Sherlock Holmes among others. Jeff has a BA in Theatre from Arkansas Tech University and trained in the MFA Acting program at Florida Atlantic University.

JARRED TETTEYHouston: As You Like It, King Lear Classical Theatre Company / Prague Shakespeare Festival. Eight Alley Theatre. A Wrinkle

in Time Main Street Theater. The Boys in the Band Country Playhouse. Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing Houston Shakespeare Festival. Barber of Seville, Italian Girl in Algiers, Dead Man Walking Houston Grand Opera. Austin: A Raisin in the Sun City Theatre Company. The Tempest The Baron’s Men. BFA in Acting Texas State University. www.jarredtettey.com

JOHN JOHNSTON (Director / Executive Artistic Director)J.J. is the founder and Executive Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre Company. For CTC, he has directed Reading Series productions of Benedictus, Love’s Last Shift, and Prometheus Bound in addition to Mainstage productions of The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Tartuffe, Shylock, the Jew of Venice, Antigone, One-Man Hamlet, and Ghosts. Raised in Texas, he came home to Houston after spending a number of years between Boston, Washington D.C., and New York City. Throughout his professional career he has been active in the theatre community locally, nationally, and internationally as an actor, director, and educator. He has appeared in numerous productions around the Houston area with Stages Repertory Theatre, the Alley Theatre, Unity Theatre, Unhinged Productions, Theatre Under the Stars, the Children’s Theatre Festival, and the Great Caruso as well as the International Festival Institute at Round Top, and the Houston Shakespeare Festival. He has also worked in a number of theatres in Washington D.C., Boston, and elsewhere including the Bill W. and Dr. Bob Project, Theater J, the Greenbelt Arts Center, the Source Theatre Festival, and the Keegan Theatre. He has

directed around the country at such theaters and universities as the Goddard Players, Creative Arts, Boston College, the Magic Circle Theater, and Tufts University. He has also directed and acted internationally at the National Theatre of Ireland through the Abbey Theatre Program. Currently a professor of drama at the University of Houston – Downtown, he has taught at all levels of education including Medford High School, Tufts University, Boston College, YES Prep Academy, San Jacinto College, and in Washington D.C. at the Catholic University of America. In addition to training at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, he holds a BA in Theater Arts from Boston College, and an MFA in Drama from the Catholic University of America.

LUKE FEDELL (Fight Director)Luke Fedell is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and holds a MFA in Theatrical Movement Pedagogy from Texas Tech University. He has served as Fight Director and Fight Captain for various productions around town including In the Blood, American Buffalo, Equus, and Il Trovatore at the Houston Grand Opera. He currently is a full time Lecturer of Theatre and Acting at the University of Houston-Downtown. Luke would like to thank the actors and the Classical Theatre Company for this great opportunity and the fun times had by all.

JODI BOBROVSKY (Scenic Design)As resident Properties Master at Stages Repertory Theatre, and a freelance artist and designer in Houston over the last 25 years, she has collaborated with a host of regional arts organizations, designing scenery, props, costumes and projections for: Main Street Theater, Generations Theater, The Ensemble Theatre, Infernal Bridegroom Productions, The Catastrophic Theatre, Unity Theatre, Mildred’s Umbrella, Stark

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