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Ron Severdia

Ron Severdia

Starting as a magician when he was nine, he wrote and performed in The Great Escape, a play about the life of Harry Houdini. While studying at American Conservatory Theater, Ron played the title role in the ExitTheatre's controversial reverse-cast production of Othello. In his travels all over Europe, he has performed in Shakespeare festivals and television. He is the recipient of two BATCC Awards, one for his acclaimed solo adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

USA: California

Matthew Henerson

Matthew Henerson
  • Arts Writer

  • Los Angeles, CA

Matthew Henerson is an actor born and based in Los Angeles. He has worked regionally at many theatres including American Citizens Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Antaeus, the Independent Shakespeare Company, International City Theatre, Kingsmen Shakespeare, La Jolla Playhouse, Pacific Repertory, San Diego Repertory, Sierra Repertory, South Coast Repertory as well as at Shakespeare festivals in Arizona, Colorado, Marin, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Utah. In over 50 productions of Shakespeare, he has played Macbeth, Leontes, Shylock, Caliban, Sir Toby Belch, Lear’s Fool, and Alcibiades in Timon of Athens. His film and television work includes appearances on The Bernie Mac Show, Hung, Torn Apart (Lifetime), America 101, Disney’s A Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms. He holds a B.A. in English from Yale and an MFA in Acting from the University of California, San Diego.

Julian López-Morillas

Julian Lopez-Morillas

Julian López-Morillas is a professional theatre actor, director, and teacher. He has performed at all the major San Francisco Bay Area theatres including ACT, Berkeley Rep, California Shakespeare Theatre, Magic Theatre, Aurora, and many others. Beyond the Bay Area, he has performed at the Denver Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, McCarter and Chicago's Court Theatre. He directed for many years with the original Berkeley Shakespeare Festival (now California Shakespeare Theatre), and also at Marin Theatre Company, Berkeley Jewish Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the American Players Theatre. He has taught acting, directing, theatre history, and Shakespeare for the University of California at Berkeley, San Jose State University, Mills College, Foothill College, and Solano College. In 2008, Julian fulfilled one of his life goals by performing the role of Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, thus becoming one of the elite individuals to have performed professionally in all 38 of Shakespeare's plays. He is recognized as a leading authority on Shakespeare plays and their performance. Julian was also a two-day winner on Jeopardy!

USA: Colorado

Ginny Quaney

Ginny Quaney

Ginny Quaney lives in Englewood, Colorado, where she works as an aerospace engineer (yes, a rocket scientist). She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics. She has always loved STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), but the humanities – particularly music, literature, and theatre – have been nearly equal objects of her affection for her entire life. She fell in love with Shakespeare after reading Romeo and Juliet as a freshman in high school, and the very first humanities course she took at MIT was called simply, “Shakespeare.” The first friend she made in that class introduced her to the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble; although by that point, she was already a member of the MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players, she would spend every semester (and some breaks) at MIT on stage for one of those two groups. Ginny considers herself a human Venn diagram, and when she’s not engineering or experiencing Shakespeare, she’s volunteering for STEM outreach programs, knitting, working on her novel, or watching baseball.

USA: Pennsylvania

Jennifer Kramer

Jennifer Kramer

Jennifer Kramer graduated from the College of William and Mary with a BA in English and minor equivalents in Linguistics and Psychology. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and loves to travel, particularly if her itinerary just happens to coincide with performances of Shakespeare. In her free time, Jen enjoys subjecting unsuspecting pop culture to rigorous critical analysis (as well as unsuspecting classical literature to rigorous pop cultural analysis). Re-telling medieval Arthurian literature has always been her passion, but she recently began working on a transformative feminist re-editing of Hamlet, focusing on Ophelia’s struggles with her personal life and the supernatural forces overwhelming Denmark.

USA: Texas

Cynthia Greenwood

Cynthia Greenwood

Cynthia Greenwood is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Shakespeare’s Plays, released in 2008 by Penguin/Alpha Books. While writing the book, she interviewed directors and actors from the U.S., Canada, and China to capture their expert views on staging and performing Shakespeare. Her arts reports and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Playbill, San Francisco Chronicle, Andante, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express-News, and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She served as the Houston Press classical arts reviewer from 1998-2002. For nine years, she taught Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets in her British literature course at Wharton County Junior College. She earned a BA in linguistics and Spanish from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin and an MA in English from UT San Antonio.

USA: Ohio

Yuko Kurahashi

Yuko Kurahashi

Yuko Kurahashi is an associate professor of theatre, Graduate Coordinator, and AOT (Art of the Theatre) supervisor in the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University. Her areas of specialty include multicultural theatre, community-based theatre, and intercultural theatre. She is the author of Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players (Garland, 1999) and Multicultural Theatre (Kendall/Hunt, 2004 & 2006). She has published a number of articles on Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements. Her articles on regional theatres include an article on Terrence Spivey and Karamu House (Cleveland) published in February issue of American Theatre Magazine and Love in Afghanistan for Theatre Journal. She continues to write reviews and articles for scholarly journals and other venues.

USA: New York

Diana Carter

Diana Carter

Diana L. Carter is a freelance writer who spent 34 years as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers. She lives in Rochester, NY, USA with her husband and three children and holds degrees in both English Literature and Journalism. Her time in college several decades ago was enlivened by an Oxford-Cambridge traveling production of Comedy of Errors and since then she has enjoyed live productions of Shakespeare’s works on both sides of the Atlantic: Stratford-upon-Avon; Stratford, Ontario; London’s Regents Park; Lenox, Massachusetts; Buffalo, Rochester, and New York, NY; and Sandwich, New Hampshire. When she’s not working or driving her kids around, she can be found haunting local farmers markets looking for locally grown foods, or in fabric shops searching for inspiration for her next sewing or quilting project.

Rob LoAlbo

Rob LoAlbo

Robert M. LoAlbo has been a high school English and Shakespeare teacher for over twenty years, and is currently teaching in Brewster, NY. He holds an English degree from the University of Delaware, with studies in Film, and a Bachelor of the Arts in Secondary English Education from SUNY New Paltz. A lover of travel, Hemingway, and pop-culture, Rob lives with his patient and understanding wife, his remarkably handsome and brilliant son, and their three lovable but odiferous dogs. He also enjoys work as a freelance writer, columnist, playwright, and theater director. In his spare time, Rob enjoys devouring as many independent films as possible and arguing the merits of graphic novels to his unwitting colleagues.

USA: Georgia

Ben Alper

Ben Alper

Ben Alper is a criminal defense attorney in Atlanta, GA. After three years at the United States Military Academy, Ben graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and then went on to graduate from Emory University School of Law. Ben is an avid reader of Shakespeare and, as you might imagine, is particularly interested in the intersection of Shakespeare and the Law.

United Kingdom

Claudine Nightingale

Claudine Nightingale

Originally from the Channel Islands, Claudine graduated from the University of Southampton, UK, with BA (Hons) English and Music, and MA English. She currently works in the editorial department of a small London publisher and enjoys writing freelance for several classical music publications. As might be expected, her interest lies especially in Shakespeare and music, which was the focus of her MA dissertation and is something she hopes to continue researching in the near future.

New Zealand

Glenda Pearce

Glenda Pearce

Glenda Pearce is employed within the performing arts and public presentation industry in Auckland. NZ. She is the director of an extensive practice in Auckland, tutoring clients wishing to develop more powerful and dynamic vocal skills. She facilitates communication arts, and dramatic arts workshops. She acted in many productions, including a range of Shakespearean characters, and theatre performed in outdoor venues. She is an active reviewer of NZ Theatre for Broadway World, Glenda is a popular keynote speaker at national conferences and has spoken onf the education of the gifted and talented English students, creativity, Shakespeare and Adjudication of performance. Glenda is active in community theatre, an active director and writer, actor and set design. Glenda has been the recipient of several national awards (winner of the NZ Theatre Federation actor and winning play awards) and scholarships within education and drama including two Deirdre Snedden Scholarships – the most recent was to study at the Globe, London July 2018. She also attended the International Drama Educators Conference in France 2013. Previously employment includes national roles with the NZ Ministry of Education and with the NZ Qualifications Authority. Glenda is President of the national executive of the NZ Speech Communication Association, with a portfolio of responsibility for maintaining the standard of the adjudication of regional perfuming arts festivals and speech competitions in NZ.

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