THE ARTISTIC COMPANY Acting Company
at Playhouse Square
Laura Welsh Berg* Beatrice ✶ Sixteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Laura is thrilled to be returning to the Hanna Theatre, and to finally be bringing this production of Much Ado to life! Past credits with GLT include Hamlet, Julius Caesar (Cassius), Pride and Prejudice (Lizzie), Mamma Mia! (Rosie), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rosaline), And Then There Were None (Vera), Macbeth (Witch), and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Ford). She has a BA in theater from Baldwin Wallace University, and an MFA in acting from the theater school at DePaul. She is currently an associate professor of acting and directing at Colorado Mesa University, and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. ✶ Ms. Kimberley Barton Lynn Robert Berg* Don Pedro Twenty seasons with Great Lakes Theater
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Credits include Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), Brutus (Julius Caesar), the title roles of Macbeth and Richard III, Charlie Cowell (The Music Man), The Ghost and Player King (Hamlet), Zoltan Karpathy (My Fair Lady), Gremio (Taming of the Shrew), Malvolio (Twelfth Night) and Frank Ford (Merry Wives of Windsor). Other credits include Don Armado (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Watson (Hound of the Baskervilles), and Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival; Hucklebee (The Fantasticks), Mayhew (Witness for the Prosecution), Friar Laurence (Romeo and Juliet) Jonas Fogg (Sweeney Todd) Polixenes (The Winter’s Tale) at Idaho Shakespeare Festival; and Short Shakespeare Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. MFA from the University of Delaware Professional Theater Training Program.
Kailey Boyle* Hero Three seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous GLT shows include Pride and Prejudice, Mamma Mia! and The Music Man. Other favorites include Lauren in Kinky Boots (Baldwin Wallace), Martha in The Secret Garden (New London Barn Playhouse) and Lizzie Borden in Lizzie (Playhouse Square). Kailey was seen in The Cleveland Orchestra’s South Pacific in Concert as Nellie Forbush at Blossom Music Festival. NYC-based, born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, she is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. Mateus Cardoso Third Watch, Ensemble Debut season with Great Lakes Theater Mateus has been in professional regional productions across northeast Ohio, including the world premiere of Heartbreakers in Hell at Rubber City Theatre and the world premiere of Monster on the Lawn at Beck Center, as well as some productions at Baldwin Wallace University, where he studies musical theater. Domonique Champion* Claudio Debut season with Great Lakes Theater Domonique was last seen in GLT’s The Tempest as Ferdinand and A Christmas Carol as Christmas Past. Select classical credits include Montana Shakespeare in the Parks: Prince Hal in Henry IV Part One and Master Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Texas Shakespeare Festival: Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing, Brakenbury in Richard III and Bellerose in Cyrano de Bergerac; Shakespeare Walla Walla: Salanio/Prince of Morocco in Merchant of ✶ Thank you to our Character Sponsors for their generous support of the Great Lakes Theater artistic company.
