Acting Company

Idaho Shakespeare Festival debut: Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio), The Imaginary Invalid (Bonnefoi), The Winter’s Tale (Cleomenes). Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio) at Great Lakes Theater; Henry IV pt. 1 (Hotspur), The Three Musketeers (Aramis), Love’s Labor’s Lost (Costard), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck) at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; The Importance of Being Earnest (Jack), The Real Thing (Billy) at PCPA; Ghosts, Henry IV, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (A Noise Within); Drawer Boy, Lonesome West, Entertaining Mister Sloane (South Coast Repertory); Gross Indecency (Mark Taper Forum); King Lear (San Diego Repertory); Much Ado About Nothing (Arizona Theatre Company); I Pagliacci (Kennedy Center, directed by Franco Zeffirelli); and performances at the Theatre at Boston Court, Grove Theater Center, and Utah Shakespearean Festival. Film/Television: Gilmore Girls, The West Wing, Flyboys, and Warriors of Virtue. Mr. Adams holds an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater. Hide «

Ten seasons. Recent credits with ISF and its sister company, Great Lakes Theater, (Cleveland): Titania/Hippolyta—A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Meredith—Bat Boy: The Musical; Lady Markby—An Ideal Husband; Princess Puffer—The Mystery of Edwin Drood;, Adriana—The Comedy of Errors; Paulina—The Seagull; Jack’s Mother—Into the Woods; Countess Rosillion—All’s Well that Ends Well; Ann Putnam/ Sarah Good—The Crucible; Mistress Overdone—Measure for Measure; Aunt Abby—Arsenic and Old Lace; Lady Britomart—Major Barbara; Effy—The Spitfire Grill; Mistress Page—The Merry Wives of Windsor; Clara—Hay Fever. Also, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Maria—Twelfth Night; Opera Idaho and Boise State University: Maria Callas—Master Class;. Company of Fools (Hailey): Dr. Gorgeous—The Sisters Rosensweig, and Ensemble—Frog and Toad; Boise Contemporary Theater: The Tooth Fairy—God’s Ear; Florence Foster Jenkins—Souvenir; Toinette—Love Lies Bleeding; Dorothea—Elemosynary; Eileen—The Cripple of Inishmaan; Gertie—Fuddy Meers. Lynn’s first play premiered at Boise Contemporary Theater in April: Off The Record. Hide «

Jessica is thrilled to be performing with Idaho Shakespeare Festival! NY Credits include: Medea (Riverside Theatre), Love in the Time of Unemployment (Gershwin Hotel), The Magnificent Cuckold (East River Commedia Theatre) American Dreams, Lost and Found (Lucille Lortel Theatre) 365 Days/365 Plays (The Women’s Project). National Tours include; Twelfth Night, Hamlet (The National Shakespeare Company), American Dreams Lost and Found, As You Like It (The Acting Company). Regional theater includes: Or, (Capital Stage), The Voysey Inheritance (Milwaukee Rep), The Mask of Moriarty, Travesties, The Seagull, Tonight at 8:30, Henceforward (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre), Cyrano De Bergerac (Hangar Theatre). Theater abroad includes; Mind The Gap (UK Tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), Miss Julie (Man in the Moon Theatre, London), The River Merchant’s Wife (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Hide «

Lynn is excited to be returning to the Idaho Shakespeare Festival after a far too long hiatus. Previously at ISF: Banquo in Macbeth, Caliban in The Tempest, Bill Walker in Major Barbara, Edmund in King Lear, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Guiderius in Cymbeline. At sister company number one, Great Lakes Theater: Dr. Parker in Bat Boy: The Musical, Marcus Lycus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sandy Tyrell in Hay Fever, Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew, and the Ghost of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol. At sister company number two, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival: Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Currently based in Chicago, Lynn’s credits there include Macbeth in the educational tour of Chicago Shakespeare Theaters’ Short Shakespeare Macbeth, The Feast: An Intimate Tempest, also at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Writer’s Theater. Lynn earned his MFA at the University of Delaware Professional Theater Training Program, and is a proud member of Actors' Equity. SLL’M Hide «

Laurie is a veteran stage actor of more than 30 years but this is her debut with ISF. She was a Resident Company Member with Milwaukee Rep. Some favorite roles there: Josie in A Moon For The Misbegotten, Penny Sycamore in You Can't Take It With You, Claire in A Delicate Balance, Betty Meeks in The Foreigner, the Widow Quin in Playboy Of The Western World, and the original Betty Jean in The Marvelous Wonderettes which went on to Broadway! She spent 7 summers at Utah Shakespeare Festival playing Queen Margaret, Madame Arcati, Domina, Paulina, Mistress Page, Mistress Quickly...to name a few. Other regional credits include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Stage Company, Asolo Theatre, Connecticut Rep, Great Lakes Theater. Now living in NYC, Laurie has had two Off-Broadway successes: A Little Journey at The Mint Theatre, and originated the title role in Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage. Laurie is a mezzo soprano, voice/speech coach, ukulele player, African drummer, Dog Lover, and has now narrated 8 novels for Recorded Books in NYC. lauriebirmingham.com. Hide «

Three seasons with Idaho Shakespeare Festival, previous credits include Duncan/Macduff (Macbeth, ISF Shakespearience Tour) Proteus (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Idaho Shakespeare Festival) Orsino/Andrew Aguecheek (Twelfth Night, ISF Shakespearience Tour) Montano (Othello, Great Lakes Theater/Idaho Shakespeare Festival) Othello (Othello, ISF Shakespearience Tour) Banquo/Rosse (Macbeth, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival) Leontes (The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare Lit Moon Festival) Conrade (Much Ado About Nothing, Santa Barbara Shakespeare Company) Dakotah has a BFA from UC Santa Barbara. Hide «

Lise is delighted to join the ISF gang for the first time! She is currently a DC resident, and past productions include Heartbreak House (Denver Center), The Game's Afoot (Cleveland Playhouse), An Ideal Husband, Ion, Othello, The Winters' Tale (Shakespeare Theatre), Legacy of Light (World Premiere, Arena Stage), Mary Stuart, Blithe Spirit, Mrs. Warren's Profession (Center Stage), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Misalliance (Old Globe), Wars of the Roses (Alabama Shakespeare), Private Lives (Indiana Rep), Pygmalion, As You Like It (Seattle Rep), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Angels in America (ACT), The Book Club Play (Round House), Loves' Labor's Lost (Oregon Shakespeare), and Triumph of Love (Berkeley Rep). Lise is also a director, having worked on Hamlet (Nebraska Shakespeare), Savage in Limbo (Metro Stage), and for her teeny and exciting DC company Taffety Punk: Let x, Owl Moon, 5 Bootleg Shakespeares (full productions rehearsed and performed in a single day), and All Women productions of Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, and Julius Caesar. Check us out at taffetypunk.com. Lise trained at RADA, and is here with her favorite project of all, 4 year old Percy. Hide «

Sixteen seasons with ISF! Sara’s favorite Festival roles include Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Fr. Kost in Cabaret, Ariel in The Tempest, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Percy in The Spitfire Grill, and Rosalind in As You Like It. With Great Lakes Theater, she appeared in The Mousetrap, The Taming of the Shrew, Cabaret, Twelfth Night, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Macbeth, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Seagull, The Crucible, All’s Well that Ends Well, Hay Fever, The Tempest, Arms and the Man, Hamlet, Tartuffe and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has also performed with Boise Contemporary Theater in Drive Me, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Lobby Hero, Brilliant Traces, The Cherry Orchard, The Underpants, Dracula, and The Physics of Regret. Sara has served as assistant director to Risa Brainin, Victoria Bussert and Charles Fee. She also has adapted/directed Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet for ISF's educational outreach tour "Shakespearience". Sara dedicates her work to her family. Hide «

Lina is so excited to be back for another ISF summer! This is Lina’s 2nd season performing on the mainstage, and her 6th season working for the Festival. Her ISF credits include: Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lady Basildon in An Ideal Husband and The Woman in The Woman in Black. She most recently returned from her 2nd tour around Idaho performing in the Idaho Theater for Youth production of H.G. Wells: The Science of Fiction. Lina is a recent graduate of Boise State University, where she holds a BA in theater arts. Lina would like to send big kisses out to the wonderful Boise audiences, her teachers, and her family. Hide «

Kathryn is thrilled to be back working at ISF for her 8th season. Her ISF credits include: Annabelle in The 39 Steps, Isabella in Measure for Measure, Elaine Harper in Arsenic and Old Lace, Louka in Arms and The Man, Maria in Twelfth Night, Mistress Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor, Constanze in Amadeus, Phoebe in As You Like It, Calpurnia in Julius Caesar. Some of her favorite roles include: Sonya in Uncle Vanya, Catherine in The Memory of Water, Lucy in The Good Times are Killing Me, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Cherie in Bus Stop, and Blue in Beruit. Kathryn has received a BFA from the University of Detroit in acting and she is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA/AEA unions. Kathryn wants to thank her friends and family for their support. Hide «

Thirteenth season with Idaho Shakespeare. Previously with ISF: Sea Captain in Twelfth Night, Chairman in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Danforth in The Crucible, Duncan in Macbeth, King of France in All's Well that Ends Well, David Bliss in Hay Fever, Undershaft in Major Barbara, Boyet in Love’s Labor’s Lost, Senex in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sir Charles Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer, Gloucester in King Lear, title role in Julius Caesar, Jaques in As You Like It, Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest, Chorus in Henry V, Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Nicola in Arms and the Man, Antonio in The Two Gentleman of Verona, Claudius in Hamlet, Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing, Camillo in The Winter’s Tale, Marcus Andronicus in Titus Andronicus, Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet and Storyteller One in Cymbeline. A proud and appreciative member of Actors’ Equity since 1984. Hide «

Five seasons at Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Jodi’s previous roles include Sally Bowles in Cabaret, The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Helena Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Bianca in Othello, Ivana/Tailor in The Taming of the Shrew, Luce in The Comedy of Errors and Lucetta/Outlaw in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Five seasons at Great Lakes Theater including Cabaret, Into the Woods, Macbeth,The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Twelfth Night, An Ideal Husband, Othello, Two Gentleman of Verona, Romeo and Juliet and A Christmas Carol. Other credits include Diana in I Love You Because at Playhouse Square; Helen/Frances/Bad Perm, The Break Up Notebook at The Beck Center for the Arts and Hudson Backstage Theatre; Clara, Passion at The Beck Center for the Arts; Woman 1 and 2 in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at The Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square; Gypsy at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Jodi is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University. Hide «

Christian Durso (Romeo) is thrilled to make his debut season with ISF. Past credits include Plato in Cinephilia (Theatre Row, NYC); Melchoir in Spring Awakening (Blue Heron, NYC); Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (EST, NY); Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Thurio in The Two Gentleman of Verona, Braun in The Madness of George III, Burgundy in King Lear, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of The Shrew and Amadeus at The Old Globe; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Television credits include Justin in One Life to Live (ABC); Guiding Light (CBS). Christian earned his BFA from NYU's Tisch School of The Arts and his MFA from USD/Old Globe and is a member of the Los Angeles based IAMA Theatre Company. A proud member of AEA. Also a playwright, his play SHINER will debut in Los Angeles this fall. With love to my family. Hide «

Six Seasons Idaho Shakespeare Festival: the Baker in Into the Woods, Ross in Macbeth, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, King of Navarre in Love’s Labor’s Lost, Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew, Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Touchstone in As You Like It, Casca in Julius Caesar, Hucklebee in The Fantasticks and the title role in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Great Lakes Theater: Six Seasons. Boise Contemporary Theater: Truman Capote in Tru, I Am My Own Wife (co-produced with ISF.) Portland Stage Company: Schott in Bach at Leipzig, Lady Enid, et al in The Mystery of Irma Vep, I Am My Own Wife and many others. Broadway: Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Weber’s By Jeeves at the Helen Hayes Theater. New London Barn Playhouse: Three seasons, two New Hampshire Theater Awards for Acting. To see my full resume please visit me at tomfordactor.com Hide «

Sarah is thrilled to begin her first mainstage season with Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Previously, she has toured with Shakespearience, one of ISF's educational outreach programs, for three consecutive years. Roles with Shakespearience include: Desdemona in Othello, Olivia in Twelfth Night and Witch in Macbeth. Other roles include The Writer in A Dream Play at Boise State University, and Natalie in Alley Repertory Theater's Voices From the Boise Hole. Sarah received her Bachelor of Arts from Boise State University in the Spring of 2009. During the summer she also spends her time teaching acting classes with ISF’s School of Theater, where she first began her theater education many years ago. Hide «

Ian is delighted to return for his second season with ISF, where he was previously seen as both Dromio twins in The Comedy of Errors, Medvedenko in The Seagull, Bazzard in The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night. He performed in all four productions at Great Lakes Theater as well, and had a third engagement as Sir Andrew at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Regional theater credits include Copenhagen (Luna Stage), The Miser (Centerstage), Amadeus (New Harmony Theater), Rough Crossing (MetroStage). New York: Richard III and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Pearl Theatre Company), The Devil’s Disciple (Metropolitan Playhouse) and Titus Andronicus, The Weir, Cymbeline, Benefactors and Our Country’s Good with Folding Chair Classical Theatre, where he is Artistic Associate. Film and TV: Friar Jacomo in The Jew of Malta, Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Jeopardy! Training: MFA, The Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy for Classical Acting; BFA, NYU. Proud member of Actors’ Equity. Hide «

Paul is thrilled to be performing for the first time with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Regional credits include playing Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Nephew Fred in A Christmas Carol, and multiple roles in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at Great Lakes Theater; Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew at the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis; Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company; Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the Utah Shakespearen Festival; and Neoptolemus in The Cure at Troy and Arnold in The Circle at the American Players Theatre, where he has appeared in over 15 productions. Paul holds an MFA from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program. Hide «

Three seasons at Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Stage manager credits for ISF: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, An Ideal Husband, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). For Great Lakes Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, An Ideal Husband, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet. For Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night. For NYC Cherry Lane Theater and Playwrights Horizon: Asking for It. For Houston’s Stages Repertory Theatre: The Giver, Old Stories, Always Patsy Cline. Assistant stage manager credits for Great Lakes Theater include The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Christmas Carol. Tim has multiple production assistant and intern credits with Alley Theater, Houston Grand Opera and Stages Repertory Theatre. Tim’s friends and family rock! He is thankful for their continuous support and encouragement throughout this journey. Go Tribe! Hide «

This is Richard’s 20th season with ISF. He has appeared in such roles as Sir Robert in An Ideal Husband (also at the Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland), Kent in King Lear, the Duke in Measure for Measure and Brutus in Julius Caesar (also at GLT), and Salieri in Amadeus. In 2011 Richard appeared in The 39 Steps. In the fall of 2006 he was a guest member of the Theatre Artists Group at UC Santa Barbara, where he appeared in a production of Timon of Athens as a part of the Lit Moon World Shakespeare Festival. Richard has also performed at Boise Contemporary Theater, Primary Stages in New York City, the Attic and Detroit Repertory Theaters in Detroit, the Shakespeare Society Theatre in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Center, and in Jeff Daniels’ original play Shoe Man at the film actor’s Purple Rose Theatre. Richard is the chair of the Department of Theater Arts at Boise State University. He received his PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit. Hide «

This is Kimbre’s first season with ISF. She will be reprising the role of Angelique in The Imaginary Invalid, as well as playing Perdita in The Winter’s Tale. Her most recent roles include Angelique in The Imaginary Invalid, Kitty Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Daphne/Mabel (U/S) in The Pirates of Penzance, Ensemble/Amalia (U/S) in She Loves Me, Lady in Waiting in Twelfth Night, among others (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Clara in Light in the Piazza (Bainbridge Performing Arts), Viola in Twelfth Night, Aggie in Summer of ’42, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, among others (Idaho Repertory Theatre). Kimbre graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Idaho and is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association. She would like to dedicate this season back in the state of Idaho to her beloved theatre department faculty and fellow alumni back at the University of Idaho. Go Vandals! Hide «

ISF debut. Regional theater credits include: The Mousetrap (Sergeant Trotter) and Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt): Great Lakes Theater; Julius Caesar (Brutus), Timon of Athens (Ventidius), and A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Dog in the Manager, Julius Caesar, and King Lear, starring Stacy Keach and directed by Tony winner, Robert Falls: Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C.; Hamlet (Laertes): Gallery Players and Hudson Valley Shakespeare in NY; As You Like It (Orlando): Seacoast Repertory in NH. Dan holds a BFA in acting from Ithaca College and has trained internationally at The Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. Much love to Nicole and family for all their support. Hide «

This is Juan’s first season at ISF. Selected credits include: Florizel in The Winter's Tale at The Guthrie Theater, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Sylvio in Servant of Two Masters at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Rodolfo in A View from the Bridge at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Bicycle Pants in Lorca in a Green Dress at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. BFA, Carnegie Mellon University. Member of the U.S. delegation to the Unesco/ITI World Congress in Madrid, Spain 2008. Recipient of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship funded by the William & Eva Fox Foundation and administered by the Theater Communications Group. Member of Actors’ Equity Association. Special thanks to C.W., O and B for their love and support. Hide «

Stitch has been acting in and around Idaho for 40 years and is thrilled and grateful to be doing his 29th season with Idaho Shakespeare Festival. He has also has loved acting with Boise Contemporary Theater (most recently: Shipwrecked: The Amazing Adventures of Louis deRougemont, as Told by Himself), Idaho Theater for Youth, Company of Fools, Southeast Ensemble Theater, Drop Dance, Idaho Dance Theatre, Knock ‘Em Dead, Ballet Idaho, Opera Idaho, and several guest appearances at Boise State Theater Department (including Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha). Stitch has enjoyed many school outreach tours with Shakespearience and Idaho Theater for Youth and has been a long time educator, currently at Washington Elementary. He has also worked in film (most recently Nobody Cares), television, radio, and rock ‘n roll. He plays guitar, bass, and/or drums weekly at Oasis Church. Stitch thanks this wonderful, generous community for keeping ISF alive and well for 36 years. For Danny P! Hide «

Kristy is excited to make a reappearance working with ISF. She has spent the last 15 years as resident stage manager at Boise Contemporary Theater where she has called “stand-by lights 1.7” approximately 650 times in the 48 plays she has worked on. She has bought more than 38 big tubs of red vines, responded 4,723 times to actors' calls for "line", reset 8,850,231 pieces of furniture. Kristy earned a BA from Boise State University in theater arts. She has also stage managed for Idaho Theater for Youth, 7 Devils Playwrights Conference, DROP Dance Collective and Balance Dance Company. Kristy is immensely grateful for her job. Hide «

Luke is overjoyed to return for his second summer working with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Last year Luke played the role of Sir Eglamour in The Two Gentleman of Verona as well as working as an understudy for the company. Recently, Luke completed his fourth consecutive year performing with Shakespearience, a touring production that is one of Idaho Shakespeare Festival's educational outreach programs. Roles include Macbeth/ Macbeth/ 2012, Sir Toby and Sebastian/ Twelfth Night/ 2011, Iago/ Othello/ 2010, Puck and Egeus/ A Midsummer Night's Dream/ 2009. This summer also marks the third year Luke has worked as an instructor for ISF's School of Theater. Luke would like to thank all of the fantastic individuals, in and out of the company, who help make his life and work so rewarding. Hide «

Noah is beyond excited and incredibly blessed to once again set foot on the ISF stage. He was last scene as Officer Brophy in Arsenic and Old Lace and Soldier 4 in Measure for Measure. Noah has been part of Shakespearience and Idaho Theater for Youth tours for the past couple of years appearing as Banquo/Porter/Witch 3 in Macbeth, The Witch/Monster of the Black forest/Evil King in Hansel and Gretel's Grimm Tale, The Tortoise/The Lion/Boy who cried wolf in Aesop's Network, and Henry in The Boxcar Children. Outside of ISF, He has been working with new Boise companies such as Alley Repertory Theatre and most recently completed Me and My Shadow in the Boise Improvised Music Festival. Noah thanks all of his friends and family for feeding him too much, making him laugh too loud and being too beautiful for their own good. Hide «

This is Betsy’s Idaho Shakespeare Festival debut. Favorite credits include: Hermia/A Midsummer Night's Dream, Phoebe/As You Like It, The Boy/Henry V, Agnes/The School for Wives, Mopsa/The Winter's Tale, Poppy/Noises Off! at the Utah Shakespeare Festival; Juliet/Romeo and Juliet at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and Hero/Much Ado About Nothing, Miranda/The Tempest at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater. Betsy has a Bachelor of Arts from Temple University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Irvine. Member Actors’ Equity Association. Love and thanks to my family, Quinn and Henry! Hide «

Idaho Shakespeare debut! Regional: Lucio; Measure for Measure at Peterborough Players. New York: Burgundy; "LEAR" at EPBB. Juilliard: Rus/Dan; Clybourne Park, Treplev; The Seagull, Lancelot Gobbo; Merchant of Venice. Graduate of The Juilliard School, BFA '11. Recipient; Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize for leadership in drama. Teaching artist, globally and in the US, through The Juilliard School's ArtReach program. Thanks to family and friends for unwavering support. Hide «

Laura returns to ISF for her eighth season. Other performances with ISF and GLT include: The Mousetrap, An Ideal Husband, Othello, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Twelfth Night, The Seagull, The Comedy of Errors, The Crucible, Into the Woods, Macbeth, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Taming of the Shrew, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Love’s Labor’s Lost, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and Hay Fever. NY credits: Love’s Labor’s Lost, Heartbreak House, Kabuki Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Major Barbara, Boy Meets Girl, The Long Goodbye, Talk to Me Like the Rain..., Whispers on the Wind, Private Lives. Cleveland credits: Spring Awakening, Hedda Gabler, Broken Glass, Uncle Vanya, King Lear, Jocasta, The Front Page, Angels in America, Three Days of Rain, Closer, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, How I Learned to Drive. Great Lakes Theater: The Wild Duck, Gypsy, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Arms and the Man, Julius Caesar, The Importance of Being Earnest, Private Lives, Tartuffe, Hamlet. Hide «

This is Corrie’s eighth season with Idaho Shakespeare Festival, having stage managed The Taming of the Shrew, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Major Barbara, The Spitfire Grill, The Tempest, Measure for Measure, The Crucible, Into the Woods, The Comedy of Errors, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Bat Boy: The Musical, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Cabaret. Other Credits include The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, 7 seasons with Great Lakes Theater, 6 seasons with the Cleveland Play House, and 3 seasons with Cain Park. Corrie is an alumna of Baldwin Wallace University, where she teaches stage management. Thanks to her family for their constant support. Hide «

Jane is thrilled to be joining the Idaho Shakespeare Festival for her first season. Roles in the past have included Joanna, singing "The Ladies Who Lunch" from Steven Sondheim's Company for Theatre Aspen, Mrs. Gottleib in Dead Man's Cell Phone, and Mrs. Whitney in Goldfish for the Aspen Fringe Festival. In NYC she was a member of the LaMama Theater Company, and also served as musical director when the company went to the Amsterdam Arts Festival. At Second City in Chicago, Jane was a part of the second performing group, doing improv theater. For the Pasadena Shakespeare Company, she showcased Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, as well as Lady Macbeth from Macbeth. Additionally, Jane played Mrs. Thurber and was musical director for A Thurber Carnival. Jane holds a bachelor of music degree and an MA in theater and communications from Wichita State University, and is a member of Screen Actors Guild. Hide «

Tim happily returns to the festival for his 9th season! Past ISF productions include The 39 Steps, The Taming of the Shrew, Complete Works (Abridged), The Woman in Black, Othello, Bat Boy: The Musical, The Spitfire Grill and others. Tim has also worked with Great Lakes Theater (Bat Boy: The Musical), Nevada Ballet Theater (The Nutcracker), Trey McIntyre Project (Year 3, Bogotá and Calí), Balance Dance Company (Dream of Balance), Boise Contemporary Theater (I Am My Own Wife, A Number, Love-Lies-Bleeding, etc.) Ballet Idaho (Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, etc.), the Boise Philharmonic (2011/12 season), and Alley Rep, whose board of directors he joined in 2011. He attended the College of Idaho (BA Theater, ’05) and Florida State University (MA Theater Studies, ’09). He would like to thank his extraordinarily wonderful family for their love, support, and willingness to play board games. Hide «

This is David’s twelfth season with the Festival. Audiences have seen him as Hannay in The 39 Steps, Iago in Othello, Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband, title role in Henry V, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, Sergius in Arms and the Man, and as Benedick, Petruchio, Beroune, Laertes, Lucio, Mark Antony, Mercutio and Parolles. Other theaters: nine seasons with Great Lakes Theater, The Old Globe, Laguna Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Sierra Rep, Madison Rep, The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum and the Shakespeare Festivals of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Garden Grove (CA) and Westerly Shakespeare in the Park (RI). David has played Iago, Romeo, Dromio, Bassanio, Lucio and other roles ending in “o.” In addition to numerous television appearances, David has starred in the feature films The Hanoi Hilton, Field of Fire, Terror in Paradise and Judgment Day. Forever and a day Natalia. Hide «

M.A. (aka Mark Anthony) is delighted to return to ISF for his 17th season. He was last seen in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Speed), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (the Girls), The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio) along with a myriad of roles spanning many previous seasons. Also among his credits; Candy in Of Mice and Men for PTTP/Rep, Dracula for Boise Contemporary Theater in the title role, Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Gravedigger in Hamlet for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Crave & Fully Committed for Tooth & Nail Theater in Salt Lake City. Other productions include; She Stoops to Conquer, Streetcar Named Desire, Tooth of Crime, Translations, An Ideal Husband, All the King’s Men, The Effects of Tobacco, Swan Song, Saint Joan and The Count of Monte Cristo. He holds an MFA from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP). He wishes to thank his Families (both Genetic and Professional), Old Chicago, The Flying M, and the Frim Fram Four. As always, He dedicates his season to the memory of his dear friend Dan Peterson. Love you Bub! Hide «

Miles Gaston Villanueva is beyond thrilled to be spending his first season with ISF! Mr. Villanueva recently finished working on a very successful world premiere play, Tortilla Curtain, at San Diego Repertory Theatre in Southern California, where he originated more than a handful of characters. This California born actor has been privileged to perform up and down the coast of California with a number of esteemed companies, including San Jose Repertory Theatre (Legacy of Light, Sonia Flew), TheatreWorks (Sunsets and Margaritas), Shakespeare Santa Cruz (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar), Livermore Shakespeare Festival (Lend Me a Tenor), and Woodward Shakespeare Festival (Othello). Mr. Villanueva is grateful to hold a BA from CSU, Fresno and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. He sends his deepest love to the other 4 Gaston-Villanueva's, and the irreplaceable Gabriela Lawson, for inspiring, supporting, and loving him with every step. Hide «

Veronica is so excited to be making her mainstage debut at Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Over the last four years she has worked for ISF in many different capacities. Most recently she was Lady Macbeth in the 2012 Shakespearience tour of Macbeth and was Maria in the 2011 tour of Twelfth Night. Veronica has also taught many drama camps, including instructing the 2011 Apprentice Company and has done an Idaho Theater for Youth tour. She recently received her BA in theater arts from Boise State University. Veronica is extremely grateful for the continual love and support from her parents. Hide «

Christopher is pleased to make his ISF debut with Noises Off! Select credits include: Miles in The Drawer Boy (AZ Theatre Company); Morris in No Way to Treat a Lady, Garry in Noises Off! (Phoenix Theatre); Louis in Angels in America: Part I & II, Jeff in Lobby Hero (Actor’s Theatre); Robert in Don’t Dress for Dinner, Max in Lend Me a Tenor, Danny in The Chosen, Duvid in A Shayna Maidel (North Coast Repertory); Horatio in Hamlet, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Southwest Shakespeare Company); Bob in Beau Jest and Jest a Second (AZ Jewish Theatre). Christopher is a theater and film instructor for various colleges and conservatories in AZ and CA. He is the Artistic Director of Oceanside Theatre Company, a Film Producer at Liberty Studios, Inc., and works as a director, stage manager, and fight choreographer. Christopher is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Hide «

Shad Willingham is a professor of acting and performance with the California State University, Northridge. He recently left New Orleans where he was a professor of voice & speech, acting and movement at Tulane University. Some New Orleans theater credits include: Theatre -13 (The 39 Steps), Southern Rep (The Seafarer and The Vibrator Play) and Summer Lyric Music Theatre (South Pacific). Shad has acted regionally with more than a dozen theater companies. Since receiving his masters degree from the University of Washington in 2002, Shad had been an actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for six seasons performing in over twenty productions. He has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association (the professional actors union for stage actors) since 1990. Shad is enjoying being back in native California very much with his wife Heidi and their daughter Tess - without whom he would be a total mess. Hide «

John Woodson: Camillo/ The Winter’s Tale, Diafoirus/The Imaginary Invalid is returning to ISF for his second season. Audiences will remember him as Herr Shultz in Cabaret and Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew. Thirty years of professional experience includes; Jason in the Broadway productions of Medea, starring Dame Diana Rigg; Kent in King Lear with Hal Holbrook at the Roundabout Theatre and Great Lakes Theater (Gerald Freedman directing), Off Broadway; Kent in King Lear with F. Murray Abraham and Exeter in Henry V at the NY Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre; Destiny of Me, Lucille Lortel Theatre; Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks, Signature Theatre (founding company member). International: Worked in the U.K. with Alan Ayckbourn. Regionally: Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Great Lakes Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center, Alley Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Long Wharf, Buffalo Studio Arena and the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. John is a proud member of all performing unions. Hide «