Acting company BRIK BERKES* is thrilled to be joining the Colorado Shakespeare Festival this season. His regional credits include The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence at Relative Theatrics; Charm at Salt Lake Acting Company; The Little Dog Laughed at Portland Center Stage; Proof, Glengarry Glen Ross, and Medea with Phylicia Rashad at The Alliance Theatre; as well as The Tempest, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sherlock Holmes, The 39 Steps, Around the World in 80 Days, among others during nine years with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. His film credits include Kill the Messenger; Run, Ronnie, Run!; and Ruby in Paradise; his TV credits include Good Eats with Alton Brown and Foods That Built America. (1 season) LANDON TATE BOYLE is making his CSF debut. His other credits include Big River, Henry VI: Parts 1-3, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Pirates of Penzance, and Ragtime (Utah Shakespeare Festival); All is Calm (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Kinky Boots (Arvada Center); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Repertory Theatre St. Louis); Romeo and Juliet (Redhouse Arts Center); The Wizard of Oz (Syracuse Stage); The Tempest (Secret Theatre NYC); and A Christmas Carol (DCPA Theatre Company). He holds a BFA in acting from the Sargent Conservatory at Webster University, and has trained in corporeal mime and contortion. (1 season)
TROY COLEMAN holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Colorado State University and completed The Second City Training Center Conservatory Program in his adopted hometown, Chicago. He has worked with the National Theatre for Children, was repeatedly killed with Defiant Theatre, and overcame modesty with Hell in a Handbag Productions. His favorite roles include Stephano in The Tempest, Detective Cole in Stop Kiss and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet. He is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in theatre and performance studies at CU Boulder and is also a proud member of SAG/AFTRA. Offstage, he is a runner, vegan and animal activist who loves hikes with his wife and Westie Maggie Mayhem. (1 season) ANASTASIA DAVIDSON is delighted to return to CSF after last being seen as the Ghost of Diana in King Charles III in 2019. Since moving to Colorado in 2016, Davidson has had the pleasure of performing at many theatres across the Front Range, including the Arvada Center, Denver Center for Performing Arts, Butterfly Effect Theatre of Colorado, the Catamounts, Curious Theatre Company, Miners Alley Playhouse and more. She wrapped shooting the feature film Publish or Perish earlier this year, and her voiceover and motion capture work can be seen in the graphic adventure video game series Life is Strange. Davidson holds an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. (3 seasons) ILANA DEANGELO is originally from Marblehead, Massachusetts. She holds a degree in musical theatre from the University of Northern Colorado. Her credits include #14 in The Wolves and Lucinda in Into the Woods (The Little Theatre of the Rockies). (1 season)
JACOB DRESCH*, a classical clown who revels in repertory, has many favorite credits, including The School for Scandal (OffBroadway); Lend Me a Tenor, The Foreigner, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Playboy of the Western World, Julius Caesar and Macbeth (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); The Merry Wives of Windsor and Measure for Measure (Texas Shakespeare Festival); The Comedy of Errors (Chautauqua Theater Company); and Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare in Love and The Great Gatsby (Orlando Shakespeare Theater). Currently serving as an instructor at the New York Film Academy and adjunct professor at DeSales University, Dresch received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine. (2 seasons)
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SARAH DUTTLINGER is thrilled to join CSF’s summer season for the first time. Previously with the CSF Educational Tour she played Brutus in Julius Caesar and Toby and Olivia in Twelfth Night. Recent roles include Feste in Twelfth Night and King Henry VI in She Wolf with Prague Shakespeare Company, and Front Range Fables with Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Duttlinger is an advanced-actor combatant with the SAFD and has recently graduated from Mary Baldwin University in association with the American Shakespeare Center with her MFA in Shakespeare & performance. (1 season)
TOPHER EMBREY has recently played Cliton in The Liar, Boxer/ Mollie in Animal Farm (Arvada Center); Sir Toby in Twelfth Night (Nashville Shakespeare Festival); Mercutio/Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Red Bull Theater); Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol, and myriad other roles in Sense and Sensibility, The Winter’s Tale, Antigone, Cymbeline, and The Grapes of Wrath (American Shakespeare Center); Simon Fernando in The Lost Colony (Waterside Theatre); Ted in Peter and the Starcatcher and varied roles in Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, and Pericles (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre); and has appeared in The Merchant of Venice, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar, and Richard III (Virginia Shakespeare Festival). He holds a BFA in performing arts from Christopher Newport University. (1 season) LOGAN ERNSTTHAL* has performed at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in The Comedy of Errors (2011), Antony and Cleopatra (2004), Twelfth Night (2012) and Treasure Island (2012). His other credits include The Ladies Man, Road To Mecca, The Liar and Animal Farm (Arvada Center); General Store (world premiere), Our Town, The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite, Moon for the Misbegotten and A Beautiful Country (Creede Repertory Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear and The Comedy of Errors (Riverside Shakespeare); Of Mice and Men (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center); and Skull In Connemara (Miner’s Alley Playhouse). He hold an MFA from the University of Missouri Kansas City. (3 seasons) GRACE GRUBER is honored to be performing with Colorado Shakespeare Festival for the first time. She has attended Camp Shakespeare for several years and has trained in tap, jazz and hip hop. Gruber previously appeared in BETC’s A Christmas Carol at the Dairy Arts Center. (1 season)
MATARA HITCHCOCK has worked in various capacities at CSF since 2019 and enjoys artistic and administrative theatre work. She is a member of the CU Playback Ensemble, saw her own play A Book of Common Prayer in the CU New Play Festival, and performed in immersives A Dickens Experience and Information for Foreigners. Other recent credits include Agnes (She Kills Monsters), Lady Katherine (Falstaff in Love), Miss Havisham (Great Expectations) and a swing for CSF’s King Charles III. She holds a BA from her time as a McDermott Scholar at UT Dallas and a MA/ MBA from CU Boulder. (4 seasons)
JO HOAGLAND is a third-year student at the University of Colorado Boulder, pursuing their BFA in acting with minors in business and French. Some of their favorite recent CU credits include the title role in Gallathea, Kaliope in She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms, Escalus / Juliet in Measure for Measure and Lambchop in Climate Cabaret. (1 season)
WALTER KMIEC* is a theatre artist based out of Orlando, Florida. His acting credits include Much Ado About Nothing; Henry IV, Part 1; The Three Musketeers; and Snow White with the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, as well as title roles in Hamlet and Macbeth for Endstation Theater Company (Virginia), where he served as artistic director for two years. He holds an MFA in directing from Florida State University and does adjunct work for Stetson University. His directing credits include Cymbeline, Counter/Top (premiere) and The Importance of Being Earnest. His writing credits include a Shakespeare adaptation titled The Two Gentlemen of Virginia. (1 season)
* Member, Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
