Artistic team Producing Artistic Director
TIM ORR has been with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival as a performer since 2007. He joined the staff as the associate producing director in 2011 and became producing artistic director in 2013. During his tenure at CSF, he has helped found the CSF School of Theatre and CSF’s nationally recognized Shakespeare anti-bullying school tour, has begun the Original Practices series of Shakespeare’s plays and has led CSF through several successful capital and endowment campaigns. As an actor, he has appeared in 10 productions at CSF and in numerous theatres across California. His CSF directing credits include The Odyssey (2021), Twelfth Night (2019), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2017), Wittenberg (2015) and I Hate Hamlet (2014), as well as several touring productions. He has held lecturer positions in classical acting, voice and musical theatre at the University of California, Davis, the University of Colorado Boulder and the Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre. He holds degrees in music and arts management from California State University, Sacramento and an MFA in theater from the University of California, Davis. He was a fellow with the League of American Orchestras. (15 seasons)
Managing Director
WENDY FRANZ (Director: AW) has directed, produced and designed sound for numerous productions in the Front Range region and has served in arts administration roles in professional theatre and academia since 2001. She was a charter ensemble member and served as production manager for Denver’s critically-acclaimed Paragon Theatre and has also worked with CU Boulder’s Department of Theatre & Dance, Ashton Productions, square product theatre, Goddess Here Productions, Curious Theatre, Santa Fe Opera, Colorado Dance Theatre and Little Theatre of the Rockies. Franz received her BA in theatre directing and design/technology from the University of Northern Colorado. (8 seasons)
Directors
CAROLYN HOWARTH+ (TG) is the former artistic director of the Foothill Theatre Company in Nevada City, California. Her directing credits include numerous productions with such theatres as FTC, CSF, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Lake Tahoe and Sierra Shakespeare Festivals, Capital Stage (Sacramento, California), and the Perseverance Theatre Company (Juneau, Alaska). Her CSF credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021), As You Like It (2019), You Can’t Take It With You (2018), Hamlet (2017), Troilus and Cressida (2016), Henry V (2015), Henry IV, Part 1 (2014), Treasure Island (2012), The Comedy of Errors (2011), and The Three Musketeers (2008). As an actor, she has performed in more than 50 productions with FTC, ranging from classics to new works. Other professional acting credits include appearances with the Jewish Theatre of San Francisco, the B Street, Sacramento Theatre Company, Lake Tahoe and Sierra Shakespeare Festivals, and the Maxim Gorky Drama Theatre (Vladivostok, Russia). She holds an MFA from the University of California, Davis. (11 seasons) RODNEY LIZCANO’s (BW) CSF acting credits include Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021), Zeus / Cyclops / Tiriesas in The Odyssey (2021), Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (2019), Paris in Romeo and Juliet (2019), Richard III in Richard III (2018), Boris Kolenkhov in You Can’t Take It With You (2018), Polonius in Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2017), Robert Cecil in Equivocation (2016), Pisanio in Cymbeline (2016), Roderigo in Othello (2015), Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (2015), Pistol / Montjoy in Henry V (2015), Trinculo in The Tempest (2014), Pastor Hugh in The Merry Wives of Windsor (2014), and Vernon in Henry IV, Part 1 (2014). Other credits include Denver Center Theatre Company (17 seasons), the Old Globe, Dallas Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Stories on Stage, Theatre Aspen and the Arvada Center. His Off-Broadway credits include Actors Ensemble Theatre and DreamScape Theatre Company. Film and TV credits include Silver City (directed by John Sayles) and Stage Struck (Bravo Network). He is a graduate of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University and the National Theatre Conservatory. (8 seasons)
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ANTHONY POWELL+ (CO) began his professional career on a bus, touring as a performer with John Houseman’s The Acting Company. He served as associate artistic director with the DCPA Theatre Company for 18 seasons, during which he directed more than 25 productions including Wit, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Macbeth, The Dresser, Hamlet, Racing Demon, and Martin McDonagh’s Connemara Trilogy (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara and The Lonesome West). More recently, he directed the Arvada Center’s Black Box Repertory production of The Moors. He is currently artistic director of Denver’s Stories on Stage. KEVIN RICH’s* (OP) recent directing credits include Pericles, King Charles III: A Future History Play, King John, and King Edward III at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival; The Winter’s Tale and The Importance of Being Earnest at the American Shakespeare Center; and ShakesFEAR and Lord of the Flies at Nebraska Repertory Theatre. He is a member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA and an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. He holds a BA from Grinnell College and an MFA from Yale School of Drama. (4 seasons)
Playwrights
LAUREN GUNDERSON (BW) has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list twice including 2019/20. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied southern literature and drama at Emory University and dramatic writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She co-authored the Miss Bennet plays with Margot Melcon, and her play The Half-Life of Marie Curie is available on Audible.com. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You; Exit Pursued By A Bear; The Taming and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists Play Service (The Revolutionists; The Book of Will; Silent Sky; Bauer, Natural Shocks, The Wickhams and Miss Bennet) and Samuel French (Emilie). Her picture book Dr Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon is available from Two Lions/ Amazon. She is currently developing musicals with Ari Afsar, Dave Stewart and Joss Stone. LaurenGunderson.com BEN JONSON (1572-1637) (OP) was an English poet and playwright, both friend and rival to William Shakespeare. His plays include Every Man In His Humour (1601), Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1607), Epicene (1616), The Alchemist (1612), Bartholomew Fair (1631), and many others. Jonson was known for his biting social satire and his plays were primarily set in his modern/urban world (in contrast to Shakespeare, whose plays were almost exclusively set in other times and places). His plays are populated by Londoners of all classes, who often put on a show of their own as they attempt to swindle each other, sell their wares, and otherwise survive life in the city. He was twice imprisoned for scandalous content in his plays, and again for killing an actor in a duel.
Dramaturgs
AMANDA GIGUERE (TG, AW) joined CSF in 2004 as a graduate student and became a full-time staff member in 2011. She received her MA and PhD in theatre history and criticism from the University of Colorado Boulder and has taught undergraduate courses at CU Boulder, the University of Northern Colorado and Lingnan University. Her book, The Plays of Yasmina Reza on the English and American Stage, was published in 2010. She completed her undergraduate work at Trinity College (Connecticut) in theatre and French and taught in Hong Kong for two years. She has worked with Curious Theatre, Butterfly Effect Theatre of Colorado, Rebel Shakespeare Company, North Shore Music Theatre and Cleveland Play House. Giguere’s research and work in developing CSF’s Shakespeare in the Schools Tour: Shakespeare and Violence Prevention has been nationally recognized. (18 seasons) HEIDI SCHMIDT (BW, CO, OP) is a director, dramaturg and teacher. Dramaturgy: Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Julius Caesar, Equivocation, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, Richard III, Inspector General), Denver Center Theatre Company
TG: The Two Gentlemen of Verona AW: All’s Well That Ends Well
(Rattlesnake Kate, Disgraced, The Christians, Tribes), Local Theater Company (Faith), Curious Theatre Company (Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures). Directing: CU Boulder (Picnic, Melancholy Play), Dirtyfish Theater (Wedding Cake Vodka), CSF Education (Measure for Measure, King Lear, As You Like It), readings for Curious New Voices, Athena Project, and Paragon Theatre Company. Administrative positions: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Local Theater Company, Repertory Dance Theatre (Salt Lake City), Women and Theatre Program. As an all-around theatre maker, she has designed props for Curious Theatre, presented pre-show talks at the Arvada Center, served as voice coach for CSF’s Camp Shakespeare and performed in a devised ensemble piece on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Schmidt holds a PhD in theatre history, criticism and dramatic literature from CU Boulder, where she regularly teaches. She serves as Resident Dramaturg and Assistant Director of Outreach and regularly teaches after-school Shakespeare classes for kids, teens and adults. (11 seasons)
Designers / Choreographers
DAVID J. CASTELLANO^ (Scenic Designer: TG, BW) is a Colorado local. This is his first summer with Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He has had the pleasure working for several companies including Richard Frankel Productions, William Ivey Long Studios, Stella Adler Studio, Actors Theatre of Phoenix and Stray Cat. His favorite projects include Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway and National Tour), Twentieth Century (Broadway), Octopus (Stray Cat), Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Actors Theatre of Phoenix) and Spring Awakening (Phoenix Theatre/NNT). He graduated from the University of Evansville with a BFA in theatre design and technology and from Ohio University with an MFA in scenic and costume design. He is a member of USA829. (1 season) MEGHAN ANDERSON DOYLE’s (Costume Designer: TG, BW) previous credits with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Odyssey, Twelfth Night, King Charles III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, You Can’t Take It With You, The Taming of the Shrew and The Comedy of Errors. Other costume design credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Doll’s House, Xanadu, This is Modern Art, American Mariachi, The Wild Party, Sweet & Lucky, One Night in Miami, plus nearly 20 other productions (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); The Moors, Waiting for Godot and The Drowning Girls (Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities); The Secretary, The Brother / Sister Plays, A Number, Up and tempOdyssey (Curious Theatre); Caroline or Change (Aurora Fox Arts Center); as well as productions at LOCAL Theatre Company, Theatre Aspen and the National Theatre Conservatory. Doyle holds a BA in theatre from the University of Denver and an MFA in costume design from the University of Florida. (6 seasons) JASON DUCAT^ (Sound Designer) has designed sound for eight seasons with CSF. Highlights of these credits include Twelfth Night (2019), Romeo and Juliet (2019), As You Like It (2019), King Charles III (2019), Cyrano de Bergerac (2018), Richard III (2018), The Taming of the Shrew (2017), Julius Caesar (2017), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2017), Troilus and Cressida (2016), Henry V (2015) and I Hate Hamlet (2014). Ducat is an artistic company member at Curious Theatre Company, where his credits include Venus in Fur, Good People, The Brothers Size, Maple and Vine, 9 Circles, A Number and Astronomical Sunset. He has served as resident sound designer with the Denver Center Theatre Company, where he designed more than 20 shows in seven seasons. His other designs include Constellations and Born Yesterday (TheatreWorks); The Few and Full Code (BETC); Lab Coats on Clouds (Prague Quadrennial); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Elemental Theatre Company); Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre); and Tribulation and The Demolition Squad (Chicago Dance Crash). Ducat received his MFA in sound design from Purdue University. (8 seasons) KATIE GRUENHAGEN (Lighting Designer: AW, CO) is based out of Houston after many years of calling Colorado home. Her previous CSF credits include As You Like It, King Charles III (2019); Richard III, and You Can’t Take It With You (2018). Other design credits include This Is Modern Art (Denver Center Theatre Company-Off Center); The Revolutionists and Birds of North America (BETC); Peter and the Starcatcher (Town Hall Arts Center); Mamma Mia, Newsies, and West Side Story (Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre); Body of an American (Curious Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet (Best Lighting Design, 2014 Southeastern Theater Conference); and Into the Woods (Indiana University). (3 seasons)
BW: The Book Of Will CO: Coriolanus
OP: The Alchemist (Original Practices)
