The Company: Actors

Hamilton Clancy, Founder/Producing AD

With TDC, produced and/or directed 21 of the 37 plays in Shakespeare‘s canon. Commissioned and developed over 350 new short plays, produced 21 projects celebrating playwrights of social conscience, including 2013’s NY Times Critic’s Pick, The Norwegians (world premiere). Received ongoing support from boboth NYSCA and DCA among many others. Off Broadway: Dog Logic (American Place Theatre) w/Lois Smith, The Retributionists (Playwright's Horizons) w/ Adam Driver, for Shakes in the Lot HAMLET (Hamlet) HENRY V (Henry), MERRY WIVES (Ford) Film/TV: Wizard of Lies, Billions, Mindhunter, Blue Bloods, Bridge of Spies, One Dollar, Bull, The Better Angels, Burn After Reading, American Gangster. SAG/Ensemble Award: Orange is the New Black.

Jane Bradley

Hamilton Clancy, Founder/Producing AD

For TDC: directed Twelfth Night and Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration (Bryant Park). Select performing credits with TDC include: Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice (Portia), As You Like It (Rosalind), Two Noble Kinsmen (Jailer's Daughter)Gabriel (Susan). Other NYC theatre credits with: Clubbed Thumb, La MaMa, The Kitchen, JACK. Film/web: The Dreamer (winner: Best Comedy, LA Shorts), Angel Spring Break, Trumpbusters. Co-creator/co-star of web series Emergency Contacts, a Brooklyn Web Fest Official Selection. Various national commercial campaigns. www.jane-bradley.com

David Marantz

Hamilton Clancy, Founder/Producing AD

Karla Hendrick

Shakespeare in the Parking Lot: MERRY WIVES (Falstaff), MERCHANT OF VENICE (Shylock), ROMEO AND JULIET (Mercutio) TWELFTH NIGHT (Toby Belch and Malvolio). Off Broadway: A CLASS ACT at New World Stages, CHASING JACK, The Mint Theater, Theaterworks USA. Regional: Human Race Theater, OH; Princeton Rep, NJ; Fairfield Theater Co, CT. TV/Film: yes. Webseries: Off-Off. Audiobooks: 80+ titles. AEA. www.davidmarantz.com

Karla Hendrick

Bradford B. Frost

Karla Hendrick

TDC: ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL(director) and has supported many other productions as AD. As a TDC actor: HAMLET (Gertrude) MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (Ms. Ford) both twice - each in the Parking Lot and in Bryant Park, RESERVOIR(Therapist), and NORWEGIANS (Betty) Cited by the New York Times as one of the Top 25 Quirky and Magical Moments in Theatre. Films: Household Accounts and the upcoming Avow; an audiobook narrator, a voiceover artist, and an Acting/Directing Master Teaching Artist with Roundabout Theatre Company.

Bradford B. Frost

TDC: MacBeth (MacBeth), Midsummer(Demetrius), The Tempest(Ferdinand) and Henry 6.3(Clifford/Louis/Hastings). Bradford has also been seen around New York and regionally: laughingstock(Jack)/BARNSTORMERS, Joseph… Dreamcoat(Pharoah/Naphtali)/CORTLAND REP, The Tempest(Ferdinand)ORLANDO SHAKES.

Mary Linehan

Bradford B. Frost

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia/Producer, Bryant Park), The Tempest (Miranda, Bryant Park), The Koan of Seymour (w/ Emmy-winner J.B. Heaps; Susan/Dancer), All’s Well That Ends Well (Fool, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot)

as Adam in ,As You Like It , photo by Lee Wexler

Bill Green

Kathleen Simmonds

Has appeared Off B’way in LOOK BACK IN ANGER (Col. Redfern);THE IDIOT (Lebedev); THE CHANGELING (Vermandero). This is Bill’s 12th season with THE DRILLING COMPANY where he has appeared in some twenty productions. A few of his favorite roles, Sheriff Bart in HOME OF THE GREAT PECAN; Sorin in THE SEA GULL; Aguecheek in TWELFTH NIGHT; Pompey in MEASURE FOR MEASURE; Ghost in HAMLET; Porter in MACBETH; York in HENRY VI, PART III. He has published a half dozen novels, and written and directed thousands of ON-AIR PROMOS for ABC-TV.

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Kathleen Simmonds

For TDC: A Midsummers Night’s Dream (Helena); Twelfth Night (Countess Olivia). Other selected NY theatre credits: Golden Boy (Lorna) directed by Aaron Latham; Missing Pieces (Tina) at The American Theatre of Actors, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot directed by Estelle Parsons at The Actors Studio. Film/TV/Web: Exp.36, The Strip (Channel 9 Australia), Executive Producer and Lead Actress of Woe is She (@woeissheseries). Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio; The PIT NYC improv training (thanks to MVRP Scholarship), Actors Studio Drama School MFA. www.kathleensimmonds.com / @kathleensimmo

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Drew Valins

Kathleen Simmonds

Drew Valins

Native of Tampa Florida, Directorial debut with the Drilling Company. Acting with TDC: OTHELLO(Iago), MIDSUMMER NIGHT’s DREAM (Puck), MACBETH (MacDuff), TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (Speed), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Don Pedro), MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (Dr.Caius), and RESERVOIR (Andres). With Washington D.C.’s Alliance for New Music Theater: Va

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Alessandro Colla

with TDC Richard in RICHARD III, RICHARD in HENRY VI PT.3, Petruchio TAMING OF THE SHREW, Sir Toby Belch TWELFTH NIGHT, Alumnus of LaGuardia Performing Arts High School and Boston University, some favorite NYC Shakespeare credits include Hamlet, R3, Toby Belch, Touchstone and Petruchio. Film credits include Gaspare in Vendetta (HBO Original) Web credits include Peter in Lemmings and Potts in Mirage (32nd St Productions) Bringing free Shakespeare to the people is an honor, and barding with the Drilling Co is a joy.

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Skyler Gallun

Alessandro Colla

Company credits include Twelfth Night (Sebastian), Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio), and Henry VI Part III (King Henry). Regional and NY credits include Robert O’Hara’s Macbeth and Lord of the Flies (The Denver Center) and Terezin (Playwrights Horizons). Graduate of NYU Tisch Meisner Studio and RADA. skylergallun.com

Jarrod Bates

Alessandro Colla

Jarrod Bates

With TDC: TAMING OF THE SHREW, MIDSUMMER, ALLS WELL, TWELFTH NIGHT, MERRY WIVES , MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in a three-person COMEDY OF ERRORS, and HAMLET ( Hamlet). Other credits include Clown Bar (Pipeline Theatre Co.); MAJOR BARBARA (Helluva Theatre Co.); and Writopia Lab’s Worldwide Plays Festival. Jarrod performs weekly with the FSGA Commedia Company, “Jarrod Bates: Out of the Box and Onto Your Face” created with Virginia Scott. Training: The Neighborhood Playhouse, The Funny School of Good Acting with Christopher Bayes, Spymonkey’s Aitor Basauri, and the Annoyance Theatre NYC! www.jarrodbates.com

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Elaine Ivy Harris

a NYC-based actor and producer, a proud company member and former Assoc. Producer of The Drilling Company. TDC credits include Parking Lot, Bryant Park, and Chekov Festival productions of AS YOU LIKE IT (Celia), Bryant Park’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Ursula), ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (Diana). NY credits include: THE YEAR OF THE BICYCLE (The Cell Theatre), COMEDY OF ERRORS (Accidental Shakespeare); WILL (Manhattan Rep); THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Nicu’s Spoon Theater); SEPARATE TABLES (Out of the Box Theatre). Regional credits include: ONDINE (We Players); THREE SISTERS, WAYS TO SURVIVE THE WORLD (Williamstown Theatre Festival); EN ROUTE (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); THE CRUCIBLE (Infamous Commonwealth); THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Metropolis Performing Arts Center). Film: Black Box, The Drunk, House of Purgatory, and various shorts. She holds an MFA in Classical Acting from The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting. www.elaineivy.com

Brandon Reilly

Theatre: FOOL FOR LOVE (HB), THE SLEEPOVER (NYC Fringe), SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (Williamstown Theatre Festival), OVER THE LINE (Drilling Co.), MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (Drilling Co.), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Hudson Warehouse), THE VANDAL (White Heron). Film/Television: Seven-Ten Split, Brazzaville Teenager, Law and Order SVU.

Emmanuel Elpenord

is a NY native, graduated magna cum laude from Brooklyn College: Acting BFA, TV/Radio BA, Creative Writing BFA. With TDC: TWELFTH NIGHT (Orsino), MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Duke), AS YOU LIKE IT (Oliver). Other credits: Puppeteer Off-Broadway in THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR SHOW (Daryl Roth Theater w/ Rockefeller Productions), BLOGOLOGUES (The PIT w/ GoldJam Creative). Member of Voyage Theater Co., AND Theater Co., & Puppeteer at Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater. www.emmanuelelpenord.com

Rachel Collins

Eric Paterniani

Rachel Collins

Award-winning actor, improviser, & social media marketing consultant who could add more to this sentence to make it flow better, but decided against it. Past Drilling Co: TWELFTH NIGHT (Fabian), MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Provost), AS YOU LIKE IT (Phoebe). She’s a member of New York Madness Acting Company, Ego Actus Advisory Council, and The Downtowners Improv. Alum of Florida Studio Theatre Acting Apprentice Company, BFA in Theater Performance from Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College. www.rachelacollins.com

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Lukas Raphael

Eric Paterniani

Rachel Collins

Acting: MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Angelo) , HAMLET (Laertes), TAMING OF THE SHREW (Gremio) -TDC 's Bryant Park Shakespeare - OTHELLO (Cassio) , CYMBELINE (Iachimo) - TDC Shakespeare in the Parking Lot - Regional: Cymbeline , Romeo and Juliet ( Virginia Shakespeare Co.) , Cyrano de Bergerac (Heartwood Regional Theatre,ME

Tour: MacBeth (Mopa

Tour: MacBeth (Mopa Theatre Company, UK) Film: Tryst (feature) , Mira Mira (Short), and Mona (Short). Directing: ROMEO AND JULIET, THE TEMPEST (TDC), A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet ( Harbinger Theatre Company). Member of the Actors Center. Training: Atlantic Theatre Company.

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Eric Paterniani

Previously with TDC: ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (Interpreter), MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (Pistol), MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Elbow), AS YOU LIKE IT (Le Beau), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Conrade), TAMING OF THE SHREW (Grumio), TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (Launce) and HAMLET (Bernardo), MERCHANT OF VENICE (Launcelot) and OTHELLO (Clown). New York: OEDIPUS

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Gracie Winchester

2017: Bryant Park as Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor, followed by Shakespeare in the Lower East Side Municipal Parking Lot as Norfolk, Tutor, Lady Bona and other characters in Henry VI, Part III. Other DrillCo credits include Witch 2 in Macbeth and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing. She received multiple Broadway World nominations for her work with Orlando Shakespeare Theatre; Best Actress in a Play for Marina in Pericles AND another for Best Supporting Actress in a Play for Miranda in The Tempest. Gracie has worked in the theatre since age six and has worked on Broadway, a National Tour, multiple regional theatres and industry readings with the likes of Tony-nominated Nancy Opel, the Broadway cast of Something Rotten, playwright Peter Shaffer and many more.

Ivory Aquino

played Cecilia Chung on the ABC miniseries “When We Rise" and was last seen on HBO's "High Maintenance." She will next be seen in Ava DuVernay’s “Central Park Five” and the revival of “Tales of the City,” both on Netflix. In Bryant Park, she played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Isabella in Measure for Measure. Other Drilling Company credits include: Othello (Desdemona), Julius Caesar (Marc Antony), Henry V (Katherine), Over the Line (Amanda) and Faith: On the Possibilities of Endings (Edna). With Leviathan Lab’s Shakespeare Quartet Project, she played Rosalind in As You Like It and as a company member of The Bats at The Flea Theater, she appeared in Offending the Audience and Waiter, Waiter. Other Off-Broadway credits include: Ma-Yi Theatre Company’s 365 Days/365 Plays at The Public Theater and developmental readings of Ms. Oriental at Lincoln Center and The Butterfly Club at Playwrights Horizons. Member: The Actors Center. "Much love to Chewy-Bear, the Clancys, my dearest family and friends, and the LGBTQ+ and AAPI communities. Dedicating my performance to anyone who feels different and out-of-place, but is truly special and one-of-a-kind.” Twitter/FB/IG: MsIvoryAquino

Natalie Smith

Broadway: One Man, Two Guvnors. The Drilling Company: As You Like It (Amiens /Composer for both Shakespeare in the Parking Lot and Bryant Park Shakespeare)TWELFTH NIGHT Viola, THE TEMPESET Ariel. Natalie is an accomplished composer, go to wwwnataliesmithsings.com, or try nataliesmith.bandcamp.com for her album "Sing Him Home" . Natalie is a graduate of Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Hayley Simmonds

Past Drilling Co. shows: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Rugby), As You Like It (Audrey). Other: Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Nadia), Degas C’est Moi (Doris), Shopping and F**king (Lulu) Seven plus years Drilling Co. member

Remy Souchon

Stand up show Remy avec un R comme Loser (les diables Rient ) and Loser en series (several national awards in French festivals). Producer, actor, and director : Legendaire (Jack Burn), L’inventionneur (Peter), L’Histoire du cinema en 1h10 pétante (15 characters in movie parodies). His new play, La théorie du K.O, will be performed in July 2018 at the International Festival OFF of Avignon. He joined the Drilling Company in 2017 for The Merry wives of Windsor (Dr Caïus) and in 2018 for Midsummer nights’ dream ( Francis Flute). www.remy-s.com.

Una Clancy

With TDC: ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (Widow) and HENRY VI PART 3 (Mother/Ensemble); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Snout The Tinker); and most recently HAMLET (Gertrude).Other credits include: THE O'CASEY PROJECT, Irish Rep, TRAVESTIES (Gwendolyn), THE COUNTRY WIFE (Margery Pinchwife), THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (the Widow Quin), and a 2018 one-woman-show, THE JESTER AND THE DRAGON (Mary) at The Tank.

Michael Bernstein

Previously with TDC: TEMPEST (Antonio) ,ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (Parolles), MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Lucio), TAMING OF THE SHREW (Gremio), OTHELLO (Roderigo), RICHARD III (Grey), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Borrachio). New York: LILY AND KOSMO LIVE (Davy C. Rocket), Regional: MEASURE FOR MEASURE (The Duke). Film: The Onion (NASA Guy), You Can’t Kill Stephen King (Verrill). Active with The Shelter and Ugly Rhino Productions.

Evangeline Fontaine

Favorite previous roles with TDC include Maria in Twelfth Night and Kate in Taming of the Shrew., Margaret in Henry the Sixth Part 3. She holds an MFA in acting from the New School for Drama, where she graduated in 2012. Other favorite New York credits include Marie in Woyzeck, Joan of Arc in Henry VI Part 1, and Lorena in Last Days.

Elowyn Castle

(SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA): most recently: NOISES OFF (ACC/Snarks); THE PHILANDERER and BLACK TIE (Triangle theatre). Off-B’Way: THE NORWEGIANS (The Drilling Company), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING and HAPPY BIRTHDAY WANDA JUNE (Equity Library Theater).

Regional, Off-off – etc: KALLIE (American Renaissance Theater); PLAZA SUITE, ARMS AND THE MAN, CEMETARY CLUB (ACC/Snarks); OTHELLO, TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, THE LADY’S NOT FOR BURNING, LOVE LETTERS… among others. Acting: for The Drilling Company: HAMLET (Polonia); ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (Countess); ROMEO & JULIET (Nurse); CORIOLANUS (Volumnia - “…the Mama Rose of the Roman Military” - NY Times)); Acting: Gertie in FUDDY MEERS, Sara in THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG, Hedda Gabler, Elvira in BLITHE SPIRIT, Celimene in THE MISANTHROPE, Athalie, Mehitabel in ARCHY & MEHITABEL, Queen Elizabeth I…..Educated in France, England, U.S.A. and Switzerland, Elowyn Castle received a Diplôme and the Grand Prix d'Art Dramatique in performance and directing from the Conservatoire de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland; President of the Episcopal Actors’ Guild since 2008: a 501-c-3 Membership Corporation helping actors in crisis.

Dan Teachout

TDC Actor: MACBETH (Macbeth), HAMLET (Player King), THE NORWEGIANS (Gus), THE SEAGULL (Trigorin), HOME OF THE GREAT PECAN (Ed), FAITH, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, HEALER (Workshop), HERO, ATOMIC FARMGIRL (Workshop), SECURITY 2, HONOR 2, BIG APPLES, PAPER, THEFT, THE SERVICE PROJECT, FATHERS, WHILE YOU WAIT.

TDC Director: REVENGE 2, JUSTICE, HERO, DEBT. Off Broadway: THE NORWEGIANS (The Drilling Company), KILLA DILLA (Working Theater) Directed by Andre De Shields.

Regional Theater: THE ODD COUPLE (Cape Fear Regional Theater/Oscar) STAND UP TRAGEDY (Apple Tree Theater), IN MY FATHERS COURT (National Jewish Theater), BARBIE AND KEN AT HOME (Cast Theater LA), A FARM UNDER A LAKE (City Lit Theater, Chicago). Film: FORGED, ARNIE JOHNSTONE AND THE VULVA TREE, SAM&SARA, SUBTRACTION.

Veronica Cruz

TDC: THE NORWEGIANS (Olive), HOME OF THE GREAT PECAN (Sonja), HAMLET (Gertrude), MACBETH (Lady Macduff), RICHARD III (Queen Elizabeth), THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (Mistress Quickly), DEBT, FAITH, HERO, JUSTICE, BOTH, THE SERVICE PROJECT. Other NY Theatre: CURMUDGEONS IN LOVE (EST Marathon/Ralph Peña), ACTS OF MERCY (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), BOTTLE ROCKETS (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre/Sturgis Warner), WIDOWS (59E59/Hal Brooks), NIGHT (FringeNY). Regional Theatre: SONIA FLEW (Contemporary American Theatre Festival), ANNA IN THE TROPICS (Pittsburgh Public), DIOSA (NY Stage & Film), CASCARONES (O’Neill). TV: The Code, Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, Veep, Blue Bloods, Person of Interest, Third Watch, Law & Order, recurring roles on One Life To Live and Guiding Light. Film: Occupant, Somebody’s Hero.

Bryce Dutton

TDC: Macbeth(Macduff), The Tempest (Sebastian), and Henry VI part III (Son/Somerset). Regional: FLMTF From Here To Eternity(Pvt. Bonner-North American Premiere), Ogunquit Playhouse From Here To Eternity(Pvt. Tucker), Timbermill Theatre Plaid Tidings(Frankie), RMRT Forever Plaid(Frankie). Film: Please Read, Casting Chloe. Bryce is a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with BFA in Music Theatre.

Robert Arcaro

Kendra Oberhauser

Liz Livingston

Previously with TDC: HAMLET (Claudius), MERCHANT OF VENICE (Duke of Venice), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Antonio), MACBETH, OTHELLO. TV: “LAW AND ORDER”, “FRINGE”. He is a founding member of The Working Theater. Robert has also appeared in productions with, Abingdon Theater, the Workshop Theater and the Italian American Repertory Theatre.

Liz Livingston

Kendra Oberhauser

Liz Livingston

Last seen with The Drilling Company as Othello's Desdemona, Liz Livingston is a theater artist and yogi who combines these two disciplines to offer Yoga for Artists and YogaPiano. Several of Liz’s plays have been produced through Abrons Arts Center’s education program, where she teaches young artists. Performing credits include: Iphigenia (Spirit Fox), Three Sisters (Moscow Art Theater School), and Nice Fish (American Repertory Theater). Directing credits include: Severance (The Tank), Carl Duncan 2020 (NYTF), Home (The Navigators), and THE VVOKE (Rule of 7x7). Liz earned her MFA from ART at Harvard University.

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Kendra Oberhauser

(Lady Capulet) is delighted to be back with The Drilling Company after productions of Hamlet (Bryant Park, 2019 and in the Parking Lot, 2018), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry VI, Part III and Measure for Measure. She also just finished playing Gertrude in Hamlet with Hamlet Isn’t Dead. She has worked with American Conservatory Theater, B

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Anwen Darcy

David Sitler

(Juliet) Helena in ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL, Beatrice on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (NYT Critics Pick) in Bryant Park. Previous Shakespeare in the Parking Lot credits include Mercutio (NYIT Nomination) in ROMEO AND JULIET and Princess of France in LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST. Other work with TDC includes the world premiere of THE SWEET REVENGE OF HANSEL AND GRETEL (originating the role of Gretel), HINDSIGHT (originating the role of Barbara). Previous regional credits include PICT Theatre’s HOUSE AND GARDEN (Sally Platt) and AN IDEAL HUSBAND (Mabel), and Monomoy Theatre’s YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU (Alice Sycamore) and MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Hermia). Miss Darcy can also be seen in the award winning short film “Puddle”. anwendarcy.com

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David Sitler

In summers past you might have seen him in ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, HAMLET, CYMBELINE and THE SCOTTISH PLAY. He has worked on Broadway, National Tours, Off Broadway, around the NYC with over 16 Companies and Regionally from Maine to California in roles from Atticus to Scrooge. You can catch him in a number of

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Jack Sochet

David Sitler

Jack Sochet

Previously with TDC: TWELFTH NIGHT, MACBETH, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Other credits: CORA AND DAVE ARE GETTING OLDER (EST), SONNETS ON TAP (Cherry Lane), BENEATH THE SKIN (La Mama), PERICLES (Walker Space), TRACKERS (Getty Villa, dir. Michael Hackett), THE AMERICAN CLOCK AND SUMMERFOLK (dir Austin Pendleton). Film: Heyday of the Insensitive Bastard, Love Comes Later (Cannes Film Festival). TV: “Black Mirror”. He has worked at Harold Clurman, HERE, Geffen Playhouse, LATC, Rattlestick, The Public, Antaeus Theatre, Odyssey Theatre, The Shadowland Theatre. A Native NYer. Thanks Lukas, Clancy, cu,m,m,m,e,j.

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Serena Miller

Amanda Cate Fuller

(AEA) is an actor, musician and music-maker originally from Baltimore, MD. BFA: University of the Arts in Acting. Training: James Brill (Meisner), John DeSotelle, FSGA. With TDC: MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Madam Pompey Overdone), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Titania). Regional credits: TWELFTH NIGHT (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), THE BOOK OF WILL (HVSF), LOVE'S LABOURS LOST (The Acting Company/HVSF). Select NYC credits: 8th Annual BIG GREEN THEATER FEST. (The Bush. Starr/Superhero Clubhouse), Salty Brine’s Living Record Collection: JUNGLE BOOK, SALTY FOLK (SHC), JULIUS CAESAR (WDMC/Queens Shakes.), THE OLD ...THINGS (The New School). love to the whole family and Nameless. www.serenaemiller.com

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Amanda Cate Fuller

Credits include: Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, Home of the Great Pecan, Short Plays; The Drilling Company. Julius Caesar; Shakespeare in the Park, The Public.. Twelfth Night; Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Mud, Love’s Labour’s Lost; New School for Drama. A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Payomet Performing Arts Center, The Triumph of Love; Shakespeare on the Cape. Training: MFA The New School for Drama, University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program. The Drilling company was my first artistic home in NYC when I moved here 9 years ago and I am thrilled to be a part of this production. Thank you for supporting free Shakespeare.

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Michael Gnat

Amanda Cate Fuller

Michael Gnat

toured Europe early 2019 in Sam Graber’s phenomenal Shooter (dir. Katrin Hilbe, ManyTracks). Since then: Frank Ceruzzi’s Round Went the Wheel (dir. Janet Bentley; BBTF), Morgan Dean’s Thick Blood, Thick Water (dir. Mehr Kaur), Dark Planet (Planet Connections), and Zooms for Portland Stage and Planet Connections. DrillingCo. work includes Malvolio, Polonius, Don Armado, Egeon, LaFeu, SECURITY, DEBT, and HONOR 2 (IT Award nom). Other NYC: Eddie Antar’s Drama Desk–nominated The Navigator and John McKinney’s The Chekhov Dreams (Chekhov; both dir. Leslie Kincaid Burby, WorkshopTh.); Savannah Disputation (dir. Katrin Hilbe, ManyTracks); Bill Rogers’s Caldwell’s Bomb (dir. Gerald vanHeerden; “Best Actor” nom.); John Dirrigl’s Bauer Sisters (dir. Troy Diana; MITF, “Best Supporting” nom.); Mike Folie’s Slave Shack (dir. Deb Whitfield, Algonquin); and Michael Niederman’s Riverside Symphony (dir. Hondo Weiss-Richmond; PCTF “Outstanding Actor”). Features/Web: Off Jackson Avenue; Bobby G. Can’t Swim; ONN’s News from the Year 2137. AEA, SAG–AFTRA. www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgnatactor/

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Playwrights

C.Denby Swanson

(playwright) graduated from Houston’s High School for the Performing & Visual Arts, Smith College, the National Theatre Institute, and the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers, where she was a fellow in playwriting and screenwriting. She has been a Jerome Fellow, a William Inge Playwright in Residence, and a McKnight Advancement Grant recipient. Her work has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater, 15 Head a Theatre Lab, Macalester College, and The Drilling Company, and developed at the Southern Playwrights Festival, the Women Playwrights Project, the Lark Theater’s Playwrights Week, PlayLabs, the WPA Festival at Salvage Vanguard, JAW: A Playwrights Festival at Portland Center Stage, New York Stage & Film, the Culture Project’s Impact Festival, the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, and the Earth Matters on Stage Festival at the University of Oregon. Her blues play BLUE MONDAY was developed at ZACH Theatre Center as part of the NEA/TCG National Theater Residency Program for Playwrights. Her plays for young people include EVERYTHING SO FAR, adapted from a 9th grade biology textbook, and RELATIVE, based on a story about her father, a mathematics professor. Her “killer comedy” THE NORWEGIANS had a successful year-long run in New York City at The Drilling Company and a rave review in the NY Times. It is published by Dramatists Play Service and the Smith & Kraus Best Plays and Best Monologues of 2014 collections. Her vaccine/internet/true love/high school dance/Crucible comedy for young actors, BAD SCIENCE, was commissioned by Educational Theater Association and published in the January 2019 issue of Dramatics Magazine. NUTSHELL, a commission from EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, was included in the 2018 First Light Festival at EST, Austin Playhouse’s New Play Festival, and the Alley’s All New Festival in January 2020. Her other work is published by Heinemann and Playscripts, Inc.

Brian Dykstra

Is an actor, playwright and HBO def Poet. Broadway: Lucky Guy, Great Society. London: Americana Absurdum. Regional: Jerusalem (Rooster Byron), Red (Mark Rothko), King John (King John), Banned From Baseball (Pete Rose), A Doll’s House Part 2 (Torvald), All The Way (LBJ), Copenhagen (Heisenberg). TV: HBO def Poetry, Chappelle’s Show, Bull, The Affair, The Tick, Third Watch, Law & Order. Film: Knight & Day, Freedomland, Poor Behavior. Playwright: Hiding Behind Comets, Clean Alternatives, Education, A Play on Words, The Two of You, etc. along with 17 one-act plays for The Drilling Company. Currently: Writing a tv show: …mr. wizard…, a musical: Crazy, Make Crazy, and two plays: Art Thieves, and a sequel, 18 years later, to Hiding Behind Comet, called Honey & Troy. Brian is married to the woman of his dreams. No longer stands for the anthem because BLM. briandykstra.net.

Stephen Bittrich

has had 15 plays, short and full-length, produced by TDC. Many have been published and performed around the world: South Africa (East London), Lebanon (Beirut), Japan (Tokyo and Sasebo), India (Magalore), and Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur – translated into Mandarin). A sampling of published plays includes – DUTY HONOR COUNTRY (Plays and Playwrights 2005), HOLE (The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011). His full-length Texas farce, HOME OF THE GREAT PECAN (Broadway Play Publishing, 2016), began as a one-act entitled BRAIN SUCKING, performed at Actor’s Theater of Louisville and published in Dramatics Magazine. Currently: developing www.BrainFireEntertainment.com – upnext: an original webseries called THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, a humorous response to the Covid-19 age, available now. StephenBittrich.com.

Eric Henry Sanders

Eric Henry Sanders's many plays include PLAY WITH TIME, MOVING WATER, MAYBE, PROBABLY; RESERVOIR; and THE HELIOPAUSE. His writing has been produced and developed in theatres across the US and abroad, including the Goodman Theatre (Chicago), Union Theatre (London), Theatre503 (London), Theatre89 (Berlin), New Group (NY), The Drilling Company (NY), Primary Stages (NY), Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (NY), Cherry Lane Alternative (NY), Victory Gardens Theatre (Chicago), Florida Repertory Theatre (Fort Myers) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Eric also writes fiction and has written several short films including Recently, Long Ago, which premiered at the Palm Springs International ShortFest. He is a Lark Playwrights Fellow, a Member of the Dramatists Guild, and he teaches at Hampshire College (Amherst, MA).

Kate McCamy

Award winning playwright, screenwriter and producer was raised in lower Manhattan by bohemian artist parents and grew up surrounded by creative minds. She has worked in film and theatre all her life from off off Broadway to Hollywood films. She is a published and produced playwright, screenwriter and songwriter, has been employed as a script doctor; taught playwriting at Julia Richman High School in Queens for Theatre For New Audiences; ran an improvisation workshop and was a Teacher-Director for the Circle Repertory Company Lab and their Arts and Education outreach program. She studied film and screenwriting at New York University, but has learned the most from the school of life, traveling the world and working in the “Business”.

Colleen Cosgrove

has been with TDC since 2001 as both actor and playwright. TDC Actor: Hero, Justice, Security 1 and 2, Revenge, Honor, Both, Paper, and Service. Actor/Shakespeare: Recent Hamlet (Gravedigger in Parking Lot and Bryant Park), Taming of the Shrew (Bryant Park), Romeo and Juliet (Parking Lot, 2007). TDC. playwright: With Benefits for Security 2 and A Cross to Bear for Hero.