SHANNON ALTNER (Understudy)
(She/Her) Select credits include Shakespeare In The Parking Lot and Uncle Vanya (DCPA Education); As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare In The Wild); Our American Cousin: A Nation Divided (Benchmark Theatre); Steel Magnolias (Cherry Creek Theatre); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (BETC), and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche (Avenue Theater). Special Awards: Henry Award nominee, Our American Cousin: A Nation Divided. shannonaltner.com
BRIK BERKES (Hamlet’s Ghost/Cornelius/Player King/Gravedigger 2)
(He/Him) Regional credits: Moon Over Buffalo (Oregon Cabaret Theater); The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence (Relative Theatrics); Charm (Salt Lake Acting Company); The Little Dog Laughed (Portland Center Stage); Proof, Glengarry Glen Ross, Medea with Phylicia Rashad (Alliance Theatre); The Tempest, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The 39 Steps, among others with Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Film credits: Kill the Messenger; Run, Ronnie, Run!, and Ruby in Paradise. TV credits: “Good Eats” with Alton Brown and “Foods That Built America” on the History Channel.
ANATASHA BLAKELY (Rosencrantz)
(She/Her) Theatre: Richard III (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Tempest (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Julius Caesar and Macbeth (Alabama Shakespeare Project); The Comedy of Errors and The Winter’s Tale (Kingsmen Shakespeare Company). TV/Film: “Colony,” Inch Thick, Knee Deep, Death Parts Us, Maladjustment. Best Actress Awards: Filmquest, Houston Horror Film Festival, Horror Haus, Haunted Fear Fest. Improv Comedy: Buddy Puzzle (Second City LA), Stormchaser (iO West), Three Beautiful Lips (Rise Comedy)
SETH ANDREW BRIDGES (Horatio)
(He/Him). is a NYC based actor and stuntman and is happily making his DCPA debut. Off–Broadway: Mint Theatre Company. Regional: Alley Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Riverside Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Florida Repertory Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, TheatreSquared. Film/TV: Over 100 credits, including “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live,” “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Severance,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Succession,” “American Horror Story,” “FBI,” “Modern Love,” and “Law & Order.” Interactive: Red Dead Redemption 2. Training: NYU
TODD CERVERIS (Polonius/Gravedigger 1)
Broadway: South Pacific and Twentieth Century. Off-Broadway: A Man for All Seasons, Yours Unfaithfully, Southern Comfort, Almost Maine, The Butcherhouse Chronicles, Time and the Conways, Somewhere Someplace Else, Dick in London. National tours: War Horse, Spring Awakening, Twelve Angry Men, and The Acting Company. Film/TV: “East New York,” “The Other Two,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Madame Secretary,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Homeland,” “Allegiance,” A Stage of Twilight, One True Thing. Regional: DCPA, Long Wharf Theater, A.C.T., Arena Stage, Old Globe Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Play House, TheaterWorks S.V., Alabama Shakespeare Festival
JACOB DRESCH (Understudy)
Favorite credits: The School for Scandal (Off-Broadway; Red Bull Theater); It’s A Wonderful Life (2022 Henry Award Winner; Breckenridge Backstage); A Christmas Carol (DCPA); One Man, Two Guvnors, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Lend Me a Tenor, The Foreigner, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Macbeth (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); The Comedy of Errors (Chautauqua Theater Company); Twelfth Night, The Great Gatsby (Orlando Shakespeare Theater). Currently serving as an Adjunct Professor at MSU Denver, Dresch received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Full credits at jacobdresch.com.
TY FANNING (Hamlet)
(He/Him) Off-Broadway: Spain (Second Stage) and Boswell (59E59). Chicago credits: Lindiwe (Steppenwolf Theatre Company – World Premiere), Teenage Dick (Theater Wit – Chicago Premiere), and multiple productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He spent five seasons at American Players Theater where some of his credits include An Iliad, Three Sisters, She Stoops to Conquer and Sense and Sensibility. Other credits include Writers Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival (two seasons), Indiana Rep, Palm Beach Dramaworks, and Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. TV/Film: “Search Party,” “Chicago Med” and “Hot Mess Holiday.” Training: BFA, Oklahoma City University
ERICK GONZÁLEZ (Guildenstern)
(He/Him) At the DCPA: Twelfth Night. Off-Broadway: El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, La Dama Boba, Valor Agravio Mujer, En el Nombre de Salomé, El Loco por Fuerza, Aire Frío (Repertorio Español); Marfa Lights (INTAR Theatre); Noche Tan Linda (Pregones/PRTT). Regional: Native Gardens (Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre, Syracuse Stage); Farragut North (Premiere Stages). Other NY credits: La Caída de Trujillo (Teatro Círculo); Pericles, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar (Hip to Hip); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Frog and Peach). TV/Film: “Evil,” “Madam Secretary,” “StartUp,” A Nice Girl Like You.
ÐAVID LEE HUỲNH (Laertes)
(He/They) is an award-winning actor and writer based in NYC. Off-Broadway: The Merchant of Venice (TFANA); Once Upon A (korean) Time (Ma-Yi Theatre Company); the Drama Desk-nominated Henry VI (NAATCO); Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Gingold Theatrical Group); Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Transport Group); No-No Boy and Emperor’s Nightingale (Pan Asian Rep). Regional: Yale Rep, Alley Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare, Everyman Theatre, Mixed Blood, The Shakespeare Theatre, and many others. TV/Film: “Blue Bloods,” “FBI,” Solitary, Children of the Dust. Starring in the Dungeons & Dragons series “Encounter Party” streaming on Freevee and Plex. MFA: University of Houston | davidleehuynh.com | Insta: huynhsome
COREY JONES (Marcellus/Fortinbras)
Broadway: The Book of Mormon (First National Tour). Regional: Intimate Apparel (Arizona Theatre Company); Raisin in the Sun, King John, Titus Andronicus, The Tempest (Utah Shakespeare Festival); A Distinct Society (Pioneer); A Few Good Men (La Mirada); Million Dollar Quartet and Our Town (South Coast Repertory); Grinch (Old Globe); Wild With Happy (Pittsburgh City Theater); The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Dallas Theater Center); The Color Purple (Celebration Theater); Gee’s Bend (Arkansas Repertory); Othello (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Macbeth, Ragtime (PCPA). Education: UT-Austin, Washington University.
XAVIER EDWARD KING (Barnardo/Lucianus/Captain)
Regional credits: Relentless and The Winter’s Tale (The Goodman Theatre); Dracula (Actor’s Theatre); Titanic (Court Theatre); The Star (ACT); Defacing Michael Jackson (Miami New Drama); Write Me A Murder, The Rainmaker and Ripcord (Peninsula Players); Hamlet and A Midsummer’s Night Dream (St. Louis Shakespeare and Notre Dame Shakespeare); Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Pericles (Notre Dame Shakespeare). TV/Film: “61st Street,” “4400,” “The New Edition Story,” “Sweet Vicious,” “Mary & Jane.”
MAEVE MOYNIHAN (Ophelia)
First National Tour: To Kill a Mockingbird. Regional: Steel Magnolias (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Music Man, The Master Butcher’s Singing Club, Little House on the Prairie the Musical (Guthrie Theater); Hamlet (Park Square Theatre); While You Were Out (Red Eye Theater); Richard III and The Comedy of Errors (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks); Violet (Theater Latté Da); The Wizard of Oz and Cinderella (The Children’s Theatre Company); The Grapes of Wrath (The Minnesota Opera). TV: “Blue Bloods.” Education: BFA, University of Minnesota/Guthrie.
MARK RUBALD (Voltemand/Priest)
At DCPA: A Christmas Carol, Comedy of Errors, Arcadia, The Winter’s Tale, Man Of The Moment, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Lonesome West, Measure for Measure, Sideman, Merchant Of Venice, John Brown’s Body, Servant of Two Masters, The Taming Of The Shrew, Ladies Of The Camellias, The Misanthrope, The Imaginary Invalid, The Tempest, The Madwoman Of Chaillot, A Flea In Her Ear, Grapes of Wrath, Room Service, and others. He has also worked at the Arvada Center, Lone Tree Arts Center, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Theatreworks, Central City Opera, Old Globe, New York stage and film
SHANNAN STEELE (Player Queen)
(She/Her). At the DCPA: Sweeney Todd, A Christmas Carol and Animal Crackers (DCTC); My Way, The Taffetas, The Last Five Years and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, (DCPA Cabaret). Regional credits: Noises Off, Into the Woods, Mamma Mia, Tarzan, and The 1940’s Radio Hour (The Arvada Center); Chicago (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre). Film: Ink. Special awards/Education/ Training: Doctor of Physical Therapy, Denver Post Ovation Award and Henry Award nominee
BRIAN VAUGHN (Claudius)
At the DCPA: A Christmas Carol. Broadway/ National Tours: Beetlejuice the Musical. Regional: Multiple productions as an actor and director at The Utah Shakespeare Festival; 13 seasons as a Resident Company Member at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Red Bull Theatre, Renaissance Theatreworks, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Nevada Conservatory Theatre, Northlight Theatre, PCPA, Skylight Music Theatre, South Coast Rep. brianvaughnofficial.com / @brianvaughn11.
MOSES VILLARAMA (Francisco/Reynaldo)
(He/Him) has worked with some of the most prestigious directors and playwrights in American Theatre. Most recently he was on Broadway playing the DJ in Here Lies Love written by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, directed by Alex Timbers. Moses was also in the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band at Signature Theatre, directed by Chay Yew. He was a company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for five seasons, working with influential directors such as Bill Rauch, Lileana Blain-Cruz, and Mary Zimmerman. Moses holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory at DCPA.
REBECCA WATSON (Gertrude)
Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird. Regional: To the Lighthouse (World Premiere/Berkeley Rep); Realistic Joneses (A.C.T.); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Sunday in the Park (Rep of St. Louis); Much Ado About Nothing (Pioneer Theatre); Julius Caesar (Portland Stage); Old Times (Shakespeare Theatre); 1776 and Me and My Girl (Goodspeed Opera); Sweeney Todd (Human Race); Ring Round The Moon (Barrington Stage). Film/TV: The Great Lillian Hall, The Good Nurse, “Fallout,” “The Gilded Age,” “The Night Agent,” “Looming Tower,” “The Good Fight,” “High Maintenance,” “Difficult People,” “Normal Heart,” “FBI.” Rebecca is Black Belle in Red Dead Redemption II.