THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

HEIDI ARMBRUSTER ( John of Gaunt/Duchess of York, Mistress Quickly ). New York premieres: Time Stands Still (Broadway), Disgraced (Lincoln Center), Lewiston/Clarkston (Rattlestick), Man From Nebraska (Second Stage), Poor Behavior (Primary Stages), Boy (Keen Company), Dov and Ali (Playwrights Realm), The Fifth Column (The Mint) and Sea of Tranquility (The Atlantic). Drama League nomination for Tea and Sympathy (Keen Company). Extensive regional credits including Scarecrow (written and performed by Heidi). Numerous film and TV credits including “Younger,” “Manifest” and “Partner Track.”

JORDAN BELLOW ( Bushy/Exton, Warwick ). New York: California (Clubbed Thumb); Gnit (Theatre for a New Audience); Ransom (Arts on Site); Interior (59E59); The Feels… KMS (New Ohio); Macbeth and Alkestis (The Connelly). Regional: Fisher Center at Bard, Westport Country Playhouse, Denver Center, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre and South Coast Repertory. Television: “Dickinson,” “Gotham,” “Orange is the New Black.”

CHRISTIAN CAMARGO (Richard II, Justice Shallow). Founding company member of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London. TFANA: Coriolanus (Karin Coonrod), Hamlet (David Esbjornson; Obie Award, Drama Desk nom.), Pericles (Trevor Nunn). Broadway: Romeo and Juliet, All My Sons, Skylight. BAM: directed by Sam Mendes in The Tempest and As You Like It. London: The Kid Stays in the Picture (Simon McBurney), Henry V, Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Films/ series: The Hurt Locker, K-19: The Widowmaker, The Twilight Saga, “See,” “Wormwood,” “Dexter.”

DIANE HEALY ( Stage Manager ). TFANA: A Doll’s House; The Father. With Bedlam: The Winter’s Tale, Hedda Gabler, The Crucible, Sense & Sensibility, Saint Joan, Hamlet, Pygmalion, Peter Pan, Cry Havoc!, Twelfth Night/What You Will . Has SM’d in NY with NAATCO, Clubbed Thumb, Radical Evolution/WP Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Mabou Mines, Primary Stages, Playwrights Realm, Barrow Street Theatre, Atlantic Theatre Co., LCT3, LaMama, The Civilians. Regionally: Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Folger Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Oldcastle Theatre Company.

The Production Cast And Creative Team

BYRON JENNINGS ( Duke of York/Duchess of Gloucester, Westmoreland/Francis/Silence ). Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, She Loves Me, You Can’t Take It With You, Macbeth, Arcadia, The Merchant of Venice, Inherit the Wind . Off-Broadway: Plenty, Waste, Don Juan, The Foreigner, Dealer’s Choice, Stuff Happens

BRENDA MEANEY (Scroop/Fitzwater, Worcester/Doll Tearsheet). Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink (Roundabout); Party Face (City Center); Little Gem (Irish Repertory Theatre); The Mountains Look Different, The New Morality (The Mint); Neil Labute Short Play Festival, Incognito (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: Venus in Fur, The Hard Problem (A.C.T.); Queens (La Jolla Playhouse); Caucasian Chalk Circle, Owners (YRT); And a Nightingale Sang... (Westport Country Playhouse). Film/television: forthcoming Fear the Night, There’s Always Hope, “FBI: Most Wanted,” “For Life,” “Hell on Wheels,” “Love/Hate” (RTÉ). BA, Trinity College Dublin; MFA, Yale School of Drama.

KELLY MERRITT ( Assistant Stage Manager ). Broadway: The Inheritance, Hillary and Clinton, The Ferryman, The Boys in the Band. Off-Broadway/NYC: Slave Play (NYTW) , SuperHero! (Houses on the Moon) . Regional: Enchanted April (STNJ), Soft Power, Bright Star, Archduke and Zoot Suit (CTG); A Funny Thing Happened… (Geffen Playhouse), Born for This. Love to her family for their endless encouragement and support!

AJAY NAIDU ( Northumberland, Bardolph/ Archbishop of York ). Theatre includes Hamlet (Sheen Center), The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court), Indian Ink (Roundabout), Master and Margarita and Measure for Measure (Theatre Complicité), Little Flower of East Orange (The Public Theater), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (National Actors Theatre), Darwaza (Labyrinth), Everyman (Steppenwolf). Film includes The Good Nurse, The Kindergarten Teacher, Office Space, SubUrbia and many more. Television includes “Extrapolations,” “WECrashed,” “Uncoupled,” “Blindspot,” “Billions,” “Friends From College,” “Deadbeat,” “Bored to Death,” “30 Rock,” “West Wing,” “The Sopranos.”

TOM PECINKA ( Henry Percy or “Hotspur” ). TFANA: He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, Timon of Athens Off-Broadway: Troilus and Cressida, Richard II (The Public); The Soldier’s Tale (Carnegie Hall); Torch Song (Second Stage). Regional: Ghosts, Member of the Wedding (Williamstown); Father Comes Home From the Wars (Yale Rep, A.C.T.); Arcadia (Yale Rep); Cloud 9, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage); Deathtrap, Design for Living, Cat and the Canary (Berkshire Theatre Festival). Current TV: "American Rust." Upcoming film: The Kill Room . Education: BA, Fordham University; MFA, Yale School of Drama. tompecinka.com

SUSANNAH PERKINS they/them ( Aumerle, Prince Hal ). Broadway: Network. Off- Broadway: Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), The Low Road (The Public), The Wolves (Lincoln Center/The Playwrights Realm) and The Rape of the Sabine Women by Grace B. Mathias (The Playwrights Realm). Regional: Night of the Iguana (A.R.T.). TV/film: “The Politician,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Lapsis (SXSW), Enclosure, Snakeeater. BFA, NYU/Tisch. Obie and Drama Desk Awards.

JULIA RANDALL ( The Queen/Berkeley, Poins ) is thrilled to be working with TFANA and Eric Tucker. After completing her degree in drama at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Julia returned to NYC and starred in Mr. Toole at 59E59. TV/film credits include “Dose,” Who We Were and New Year’s Eve

CARA RICKETTS ( Mowbray, Lady Percy/ as cast ). Broadway: Time and the Conways . Regional theatre: Measure for Measure (TFANA), The Wild Party (Acting UpStage), Hedda Gabler (Necessary Angel), Constellations and Race (Canadian Stage) and several seasons as a leading lady at Canada’s esteemed Stratford Festival. TV: “The Resident” (FOX), “Anne With an E” (CBC/Netflix; ACTRA Award). Cara has also developed quite a fan base for her two leading roles in the Ubisoft games: the villainess Mickey in Far Cry New Dawn and Sayla in Far Cry Primal.

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MICHAEL ROGERS ( Green, Pistol ). Mr. Rogers has worked at theatres across the United States and internationally in roles varying from Titania, Othello, Dracula, Robert Mugabe (USA) and God (Italy). Most recently: Generations, Marley, The Call, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale . On television Mr. Rogers has appeared on many of the major episodic shows. Most recently: “Madam Secretary” and “Alternatino.” Films: The Mosquito Coast, Weekend at Bernie’s 2, Side Streets, Dope Fiend, God’s Pocket, Inscape, Dance of the Quantum Cats, Moonfire Mr. Rogers is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a son of TFANA.

THOMAS JAY RYAN (Bolingbroke, Henry IV). Broadway: West Side Story, The Nap, The Crucible, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play. Off-Broadway: Becky Nurse of Salem, Eureka Day, Dance Nation, The Amateurs, 10 Out of 12, The Lady From Dubuque, Venus, The Temperamentals, The Misanthrope and The Little Foxes. Films: Henry Fool (title role), Scenes From an Empty Church, Cryptozoo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Legend of Bagger Vance, Burn Country, Teknolust, Strange Culture. Awards: Callaway, two Drama Desk Awards, Drama League, Gemini Award nominations.

JAMIE SANDERS ( Bagot, Mortimer/ Prince John/various ) is a New York City-based and raised actor. Credits: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Portland Center Stage and KC Repertory). The Belle’s Strategem, The Man of Mode and Much Ado (Sweet Tea Shakespeare), Stars in the House Presents Misalliance (Gingold Group).

JAY O. SANDERS ( The Gardener, Sir John Falstaff ) has been exploring Shakespeare his whole career. Starting in 2010, he collaborated with his wife, Maryann Plunkett, and playwright/director Richard Nelson on The Apple Family (including three Zoom plays), The Gabriels and The Michaels . Sanders played Uncle Vanya for the Hunter Theater Project, Cyrano de Bergerac at the Guthrie Theater and Nick Laine in Girl From the North Country on Broadway, and many films and television projects.

KRYSTAL SOBASKIE (Duke of Surrey, Nym/Lady Mortimer). TFANA debut. Theatre credits include Off-Broadway: Liar (WP and PopUP Theatrics). NYC: Inside, Broken City: Wall Street (PopUP). Workshops at The Lark, Lincoln Center’s Across a Crowded Room and Dixon Place. Regional: Antony and Cleopatra, Our Town, Urinetown (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), The Secret Garden. Film credits include Electric, Wing Wednesday. Training: University of Connecticut. Endless gratitude to Scott, Jack and the late Wynn Handman. Special thanks to Clemmie Evans for the Welsh.

DAKIN MATTHEWS ( Adapter ), besides acting on stage (over 250 productions including eight on Broadway, with Camelot upcoming) and screen (300 TV appearances and 30 films), is an award-winning playwright (L. A. Critics Circle Award for The Prince of L.A.), Shakespeare dramaturge (Drama Desk Award for Henry IV) and script translator (five Walker Reid Awards for translating Spanish Golden Age plays). He is also the creator/host of TFANA’s video series “Sheltering With Shakespeare,” a teacher of Shakespeare master classes around the world, a former artistic director of three theatres and an emeritus professor of English from Cal State East Bay.

ERIC TUCKER ( Director ). WSJ Director of the Year 2014/2021. Off-Broadway: The Winter’s Tale; Hedda Gabler; Persuasion; The Crucible; Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet; Pygmalion; Peter Pan; Vanity Fair; Sense and Sensibility (OffBroadway Alliance Award, Lortel nom Best Director; Drama League nom; Helen Hayes Awards Best Director, Best Production); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Drama League nom Best Revival, WSJ Best Classical Production 2015); Saint Joan (NY Times/Time Magazine Top 10; Off-Broadway Alliance Best Revival 2014); Hamlet (NY Times Top 10); Twelfth Night and What You Will (NYT Critic’s Picks); The Seagull (WSJ Best Classical Production 2014); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Two River); Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (OSF); Pericles (WSJ Best Classical Production 2017). Eric is artistic director of Bedlam.

JIMMY STUBBS ( Scenic Designer ) is a scenic and production designer based in NYC. He is excited to be returning to TFANA after serving as associate scenic designer to Riccardo Hernandez on Des Moines . Recent designs include Alcina (Yale Opera), Marisol (University of Rochester), The Juniors (Colgate University), Cabaret (Yale Dramatic Association), Fun Home (Yale School of Drama). He holds an MFA in set design from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. jimmystubbs.com

NICOLE E. LANG (Lighting Designer) is a designer for performance based in New York City. Her recent designs include Hanging With Clarence (Park Avenue Armory), Amber/Blue (Belinda McGuire Dance Projects), Fallen Angels (Quinnipiac University), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Outcasts (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Today Is My Birthday (Yale Repertory Theatre), When Day Comes (Crossroads Theatre Company), the moment before…, bodyssey (Yale Cabaret) and Fun Home (Yale University). nicoleelang.com

ANDREW WADE (Voice Director). The Royal Shakespeare Company: voice assistant 1987–2003, head of voice 1990–2003. Since 2003: The Acting Company, Guthrie Theater, Stella Adler Studio (master teacher voice andShakespeare). Currently: TFANA (resident voice and text director), The Public Theater (director of voice), Juilliard (adjunct faculty Drama Division). Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (U.S. head of voice and dialect), King Lear with Glenda Jackson (voice coach), Matilda (director of voice and national tour), A Christmas Carol and tour, A Bronx Tale the Musical. Film: Shakespeare in Love. Workshops and lectures worldwide. Fellow of Rose Bruford College.

JONATHAN KALB (Resident Dramaturg) is professor of theatre at Hunter College, CUNY and is TFANA’s resident dramaturg. The author of five books on theatre, he has worked for more than three decades as a theatre scholar, critic, journalist and dramaturg. He has twice won The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and has also won the George Freedley Award for an outstanding theatre book from the Theatre Library Association. He often writes about theatre on his TheaterMatters blog at jonathankalb.com.

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