The Artistic Company

Acting Company

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 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

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Venice. Select Houston credits include Catastrophic Theatre: Reverend Benson, et. al in BootyCandy; Thunderclap Productions: Gregory in From White Plains; and Black Lab Theatre Co.: Johnson in Really Really. Domonique earned a BFA from the University of Houston. “Do everything in love.”

Aled Davies*

Father Antonio Twenty-one seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous roles for Great Lakes include Mr. Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol, Prospero in The Tempest, Sir Wilfrid Robarts QC in Witness for the Prosecution, Seyton The Porter in Macbeth, The Gravedigger in Hamlet, Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady, The Old Actor in The Fantasticks, Scrooge/Samuels in A Christmas Carol, King Lear in King Lear, John Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Your Chairman in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dorn in The Seagull, Deputy Governor Danforth in The Crucible and Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. A proud and appreciative member of Actors’ Equity since 1984.

Jodi Dominick*

Ursula/Sexton Thirteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous shows include Witness for the Prosecution, The Music Man, Mamma Mia!, Julius Caesar, Wait Until Dark, Les Misérables, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Sweeney Todd, The Mousetrap, Cabaret, Into the Woods, Twelfth Night, An Ideal Husband, The Imaginary Invalid, My Fair Lady, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Richard III and The Tempest. Jodi has spent 11 seasons at The Idaho Shakespeare Festival, GLT’s sister company. Other theaters include New World Stages, Hudson Backstage Theater, Beck Center, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Hayworth Theatre, Dobama Theatre and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Jodi is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music.

Jeffrey C. Hawkins*

Benedick ✶ Eight seasons with Great Lakes Theater Favorite GLT roles include Milo (Sleuth), Mortimer (The Fantasticks), Hysterium (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), Reverend Hale (The Crucible), “Jeffrey” (Complete Works of Shakespeare). OffBroadway productions include Three Wise Guys, Beyond Therapy, Three Men on a Horse, Memorandum and Incident at Vichy. Regional productions include Inherit the Wind, Wait Until Dark, Mousetrap (REP) Book Club Play (Cincinnati Playhouse), Doubt (Flatrock Playhouse), Peter and the Starcatcher, Fall of Heaven (Rep Theatre STL) Romeo and Juliet, She Stoops to Conquer, Cymbeline (Idaho Shakespeare) Hound of the Baskervilles (Tahoe Shakespeare) and Boeing Boeing, (Delaware Theatre). Camera work includes some movies and TV and most titles for Rockstar Games. Jeffrey is a graduate of PCPA, and received his MFA at the University of Delaware. ✶ Dr. Lori Koethe & Dr. James Chapple

Ricky Moyer

Ensemble Debut season with Great Lakes Theater Previous shows include American Idiot, Disaster!, Hello Dolly!, Kinky Boots, The Addams Family (Weathervane Theatre); Into the Woods, Spring Awakening (Baldwin Wallace University) and A Christmas Carol (Great Lakes Theater). Love to Mom, Dad and Meghan, and thanks to Vicky Bussert and the GLT team for the opportunity!

James Alexander Rankin

Borachio Seven seasons with Great Lakes Theater James is floored to have the opportunity to step on GLT’s mainstage and is deeply grateful. He has

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worked with Great Lakes’ educational outreach tours since 2012. A local EMC actor, James is a proud member of the Northeast Ohio community. Recent work includes King Lear with Beck Center and Small Engine Repair with None Too Fragile. Upcoming work includes Our Country’s Good with Seat of the Pants and Venus in Fur with None Too Fragile. James has also worked at other theaters including Dobama Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, French Creek and Convergence Continuum. He would like to thank his family, David H, Lisa O and Robert E. Enjoy.

David Anthony Smith*

Leonato Nineteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Roles at GLT include Andrew Wyke in Sleuth, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Iago in Othello, Sergius in Arms and the Man and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. David has spent 20 seasons with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival where he has appeared in over 50 productions, including the title role in Henry V. Other theaters include The Old Globe, Laguna Playhouse, South Coast Rep and the Shakespeare festivals of Utah, Colorado, Rhode Island, Nevada and Lake Tahoe. In addition to numerous television appearances, David has starred in four feature films: The Hanoi Hilton, Terror in Paradise, Field of Fire and Judgment Day.

Mia Soriano

Margaret Debut season with Great Lakes Theater They have recently been in Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife understudy), Spring Awakening (Ensemble/Martha understudy) and Kinky Boots (Ensemble). She has also been seen regionally in B.A.R.S. (swing) at Playhouse Square, Lizzie (Emma understudy) at Beck Center; The Tempest (Gonzalo understudy), and A Christmas Carol (swing) at Great Lakes Theater. Their first movie, Wormwood Falling, produced by Shreek Theater in Cleveland, is premiering in 2022. Mia is currently studying music theater at Baldwin Wallace University. @miasoriano_

Nick Steen*

Don John Nine seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous roles with the company include Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Macduff in Macbeth, Caliban in The Tempest, Laertes in Hamlet, Lombard in And Then There Were None and Clifford in Deathtrap. Nick holds a BFA from the University of Evansville, and a MFA from the American Conservatory Theater. He’s also a voice actor whose work can be heard on Hulu and Spotify. Nick has endless gratitude for his family and for his love, Nicki. <4 you, my gorgeous fish! For more check out www.NickSteen.com

Kinza Surani

Georgia Seacole Debut season with Great Lakes Theater Kinza is a rising senior at Baldwin Wallace University, and she is thrilled to be joining Great Lakes Theater! Previous credits include Minnie (Hello Dolly!), Miranda (understudy in The Tempest), Whatshername (American Idiot), Jackie (Traci understudy in Disaster!), Morticia (Ancestor understudy in The Addams Family), Lauren (Factory Worker understudy in Kinky Boots) and Stepmother (Into the Woods). She has previously performed at Baldwin Wallace University and Weathervane Theater, and was featured as Perri in Playhouse Square’s virtual improv show, B.A.R.S. Special thanks to her family and friends, and she hopes you enjoy one of her favorite shows!

M.A. Taylor*

Verges Nineteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater M.A. is thankful to return to the magnificent Hanna Theatre, and was previously seen in A Christmas Carol (Charity Man, Old Joe), Witness for the Prosecution (Carter, Dr. Wyatt), Julius Caesar (Calpurnius), Macbeth (Murderer), A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Puck), Hamlet (Reynaldo) and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Sir

Nathaniel). Favorite roles include My Fair Lady (Doolittle), Sweeney Todd (Beadle Bamford), And Then There Were None (Rogers), Much Ado About Nothing (Verges) and Complete Works (all seven times). Other companies include Resident Ensemble Players and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. MFA from University of Delaware Professional Theater Training Program. Special thanks to his Families (Genetic & Professional), Sweet Dougie & Kathryn.

Boe Wank*

Hugh Oatcake/Ensemble Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Boe is overjoyed to return to Great Lakes Theater after 2019’s Julius Caesar and screaming the high notes in The Music Man (Quartet, Jacey Squires). National tours include Kathleen Marshall’s Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes. Favorite regional credits include Disney’s Beauty and The Beast (LeFou) A Chorus Line (Mike), Singin’ In The Rain (Cosmo), All Shook Up (Dean Hyde), Little Women: The Musical (Laurie), Jesus Christ Superstar, Oklahoma!, Legally Blonde and 42nd Street. Proud BWMT alum, big brother, and Brooklynite. All gratitude and love to Vicky, Charlie, Sara, Jackie, the entire Great Lakes Theater family, and above all else, my family. @boink_90

Joe Wegner*

Dogberry Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Off-Broadway credits include Judgment Day (world premiere, Park Avenue Armory). Regional theater credits include The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew (Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival), Archduke (world premiere, Center Theater Group), Guys and Dolls, A Wrinkle in Time (world premiere), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Very Merry Wives of Windsor Iowa, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, Romeo and Juliet (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Guys and Dolls (Wallis Annenberg Center), The School for Lies (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), In the Blood (Mixed Blood Theatre). TV/Film credits include Tales of the City (Netflix). Education: BFA, Southern Oregon University www.joewegner.net

Jerrell Williams

Conrade Debut season with Great Lakes Theater Jerrell Williams is a veteran, martial artist, dancer and actor from Birmingham, Alabama. After returning from his deployment to Kyrgyzstan in 2014, he began studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and it was there that he found his love for acting and stage combat. Although this will be his first time working with GLT, he worked with Idaho Shakespeare Festival in 2020 as part of their Shakespearience tour of Richard III and has been looking forward to working with ISF and GLT since.

Understudies

Isacc Baumann, Luke Brett, Jack Brudos, Abbie Donnellan, Kenzie Hall, Adam Kirk, Jasmyn Molaei, De’Aja Mon’e, Christie Spessard, Nick Steen*. MA Taylor*, Nathan Wasinski

Directors

Charles Fee GreatLakesTheater.org Producing Artistic Director/ Much Ado About Nothing Director Twenty seasons with Great Lakes Theater Directing credits at GLT: Sleuth, Witness for the Prosecution, A Christmas Carol, Misery, Macbeth, Hamlet, And Then There Were None, Dial “M” for Murder, Deathtrap, Blithe Spirit, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well, Hay Fever, The Importance of Being Earnest, Arms and the Man and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Charles holds a unique position in the American theater as producing artistic director of three independently operated, professional theater companies: Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, Ohio (since 2002); Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise, Idaho (since 1991) and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival in 21

Incline Village, Nevada (since 2010). His appointments have resulted in a dynamic and groundbreaking producing model for the companies, in which more than 60 plays have been shared since 2002. In 2009, Charles was honored to receive recognition for his leadership by the Cleveland Arts Prize as a recipient of the Martha Joseph Award. Other awards include The Mayor’s and Governor’s awards for Excellence in the Arts, Idaho. From 1988 to 1992, he held the position of artistic director at the Sierra Repertory Theatre in California. He has also worked with The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, the Milwaukee and Missouri repertory theaters, Actor’s Theatre of Phoenix and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. In addition to his work with the companies in Ohio, Idaho and Nevada, Charles is active within the community. He has served as a member of the strategic planning committee for the Morrison Center, as producer of the FUNDSY Award Gala (’96, ’98 and 2000), and as producer of the 1996 Idaho Governor’s Awards in the Arts. Charles has served on the board of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the Downtown Rotary Club. He received his BA from the University of the Pacific and Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Along with his wife, Lidia and daughter, Alexa, Charles resides in Boise, Cleveland and Lake Tahoe — a feat that is only possible because of the incredible love and support of his family, and the generous communities he serves!

Jaclyn Miller

Associate Artist/Movement Director Five seasons with Great Lakes Theater Choreography/Movement credit for GLT includes The Tempest, The Music Man, Julius Caesar, Mamma Mia!, The Taming of the Shrew, Pride and Prejudice and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Regional credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival (It’s Christmas, Carol!, Hairspray, Alice in Wonderland, Book of Will, Shakespeare in Love, Twelfth Night, Yeoman of Guard, Fingersmith world premiere, The Cocoanuts and My Fair Lady), South Coast Rep (She Loves Me), Arizona Theatre Company (Cabaret), Guthrie Theatre (The Cocoanuts) and Baltimore Center Stage (Fun Home). Additionally, Jaclyn has worked as an associate director and/ or choreographer around the country in theaters that include Arena Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre,

Designers

Jeff Herrmann

Scenic Designer Sixteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Selected designs for GLT include The Music Man, Mamma Mia!, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Bat Boy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Cabaret, The Secret Garden, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables and My Fair Lady, all joint productions with Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Other ISF productions include I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; The Spitfire Grill and Little Shop of Horrors. Jeff is the chair of theatre and dance and resident scene designer at Baldwin Wallace University. He holds an MFA in scene and lighting design from Southern Illinois University and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

Alex Jaeger

Costume Designer Four seasons with Great Lakes Theater Alex has designed Deathtrap, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew and Misery. Other credits include The Public Theater, The Guthrie, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theater, A.C.T. in San Francisco, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, The Theatre @ Boston Court, The Studio D.C., Magic Theatre San Francisco, Pioneer Theatre in Salt Lake City, Indiana Repertory and The Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis. Alex has received many awards, including two Ovation Awards, one Gregory, four Backstage Garlands and two Drama-Logue awards. He has a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and an MFA in costume design from UCLA. See more at www.alexjaegerdesign.com

Rick Martin

Lighting Designer Nineteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Many productions with GLT include Julius Caesar, The Tempest and Hamlet. Operas include Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte (La Monnaie, Brussels – scenery), Mitridate, Re di Ponto (La Monnaie, Brussels – scenery and lighting), Le Diable dans le beffroi,

La Chute de la Maison Usher (Opéra national de Paris – scenery and lighting) and BUTTERFLY - d’après Madama Butterfly de Puccini (Opera de Limoges and Opera de Rouen, France - lighting). Concerts include Harawi (Opèra Comique, Paris – scenery and lighting) and Le martyre de Saint Sèbastien (Citè de la Musique, Paris). Coming up: Rusalka (Avignon, Marseilles and Nice, France – lighting) Rick is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE.

Matthew Webb

Sound Designer/Composer Sixteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater Matthew is music director for music theater at Baldwin Wallace University. Previous Great Lakes Theater sound designs include The Tempest, A Christmas Carol (Radio Play), Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth and Hamlet. As music director, credits include The Music Man, Mamma Mia!, The Fantasticks, Sweeney Todd, Guys & Dolls, Sondheim on Sondheim, Cabaret, Bat Boy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Credits elsewhere include Into the Woods and Kinky Boots (Baldwin Wallace University), Be More Chill and Lizzie (Playhouse Square), Scottsboro Boys and Once (Beck Center) and Hair (Cain Park and Kent State). Many thanks to Charlie, Sara, and his incredible parents, Carol and Jerry.

Playwright

William Shakespeare ✶ Other productions at GLT: All’s Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Henry IV, Part I, Henry IV, Part II, Henry V, Henry VI, Part I, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Richard II, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Winter’s Tale. ✶ Janet E. Neary ✶ Thomas G. & Ruth M. Stafford

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Nicki Cathro*

Production Stage Manager Six seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previously, Nicki has worked as the production stage manager for A Christmas Carol, The Tempest, and Julius Caesar; and has been the assistant stage manager for Sleuth, The Music Man, Witness for the Prosecution, Misery, Macbeth, and Pride and Prejudice. Nicki has also been Production Assistant for Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other theater work includes ASM at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Nicki earned her BFA in radio, television and film from the University of North Texas, and is a proud member of AEA. She is overjoyed to be back in the theater with her husband and friends.

Sarah Kelso*

Assistant Stage Manager Five seasons with Great Lakes Theater Previous shows include Sleuth, Million Dollar Quartet, Beehive the ’60s Musical, A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet. Eleven seasons with Idaho Shakespeare Festival include Sleuth, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Million Dollar Quartet, Beehive the ’60s Musical, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Forever Plaid, The Fantasticks and Steel Magnolias. Ten seasons with Boise Contemporary Theater include The Wolves, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, With Love and a Major Organ, Good Bitch Goes Down, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and A Skull in Connemara. Sarah is a graduate of Boise State University, Department of Theatre Arts.

Amy Essick

Assistant Stage Manager Eight seasons at Great Lakes Theater Previous GLT Assistant Stage Manager/PA credits include: Sleuth, Julius Caesar, Million Dollar Quartet, Mamma Mia!, Beehive: The 60’s Musical, Forever Plaid, Wait Until Dark, Twelfth Night, The Fantasticks, And Then There Were None, The Secret Garden, A Christmas Carol, Les Misérables, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. She is also the Company Manager for GLT & the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Love to all my family and friends and thank you for all of the support!