A Little Shakespeare: Macbeth

SARA HOLDREN (she/her) (DIRECTOR) is a director, teacher, and writer-about-theater, originally from the Blue Ridge foothills of Virginia. She is the co-founder of the theater company/project Tiltyard, and in 2019-2020, she served as the Artistic Director of Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford. From 2017-2019 she was the theater critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com. Sara is also the recipient of the 2016-2017 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her essay “The Revolution Will Not Be Hashtagged.” During the pandemic, she has directed As You Like It at SUNY Purchase and a reading of Erin Shields’s Paradise Lost for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. She has also ridden her bike 4,000 miles across the U.S. with her partner, Beau, a writer. Pre-pandemic directing projects include Twelfth Night at Two River Theater; The Merchant of Venice with the Cleveland Play House/CWRU MFA Acting Program; The Winter’s Tale with Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford; Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors with Two River Theater’s A Little Shakespeare program; MIDSUMMER (which she co-adapted from the plays of William Shakespeare) with Tiltyard; Deer and the Lovers by Emily Zemba; The Zero Scenario by Ryan Campbell; and The Master and Margarita, adapted by Edward Kemp from the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Sara has also served as the Artistic Director of the Yale Summer Cabaret, where she directed the original production of MIDSUMMER and Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. She is a Drama League Fellow and a graduate of the Acting Shakespeare program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has also taught acting and directing at Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of the Performing Arts and at the New School’s MFA Acting program. She holds a BA in Theater from Yale University and an MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama. She loves E. M. Forster and George Eliot, the Decemberists and David Bowie, bears, bicycles, bandanas, and other things that do and don’t start with B. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with Beau and their cat friends, Henry and Masha (who always wears black).

Christopher Thompson Recent works include Runaways (The Public Theatre), A Chorus Line (Heritage Theatre Festival) the world premieres of The Dancing Granny (Alliance Theatre), peerless (Yale Rep), MIDSUMMER (Tiltyard), The Zero Scenario, Love Holds a Lamp in This Little Room, and The Untitled Project (Yale Cabaret). Other recent projects include Cobb (Penguin Rep), Diary of One Who Disappeared (Cantata Profana), The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Yale Cabaret), He Left Quietly (Toronto SummerWorks). Assisting credits include My Fair Lady (Lincoln Center Theater), Southern Comfort (The Public Theater), The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, “Blindspot” (NBC), “The Blacklist” (NBC), “Red Oaks” (Amazon), and “The Wizard of Lies” (HBO). Christopher holds an MFA in design from the Yale School of Drama and is a proud member of USA829. www.CTSetDesign.com

FABIAN FIDEL AGUILAR (he/him) (COSTUME DESIGNER) attended Yale School of Drama (MFA) and Boston University (BFA) to pursue theatrical costume design. Credits include Twelfth Night (Two River Theater), Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Max Makes a Million, Winnie the Pooh (Alliance Theater), Slow Food (Dorset Theater Festival), Afterglow, Safeword (Midnight Theatricals), Recent Alien Abductions (Play Co.), Mlima’s Tale, In the Heights, Man of La Mancha, Romeo and Juliet (Westport Country Playhouse), ¡Bienvenidos Blancos! or Welcome White People! (Team Sunshine, Philadelphia), A View from the Bridge, Seven Spots on the Sun. Set and costumes for The War Boys (NYC), Sotto Voce (Portland Stage), Midsummer, The Moors (Yale Repertory Theater world premier, He Left Quietly (SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto). In his spare time, Fabian likes to paint watercolors.

Caitlin Smith Rapoport A Brooklyn-based lighting designer for theater, opera, dance, live entertainment and architectural projects. Recent New York credits include productions at Theatre Row, Soho Rep. Walkerspace, Ars Nova, The New Ohio Theatre, Judson Church, Columbia University Theatre, and many others. Select US and international projects include work at REDCAT, Yale Repertory Theatre, TheatreSquared, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Totem Pole Playhouse, Stonybrook Opera, Two River Theater: A Little Shakespeare, the Vancouver Fringe Festival, on tour in the US with Nimble Arts Circus, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, and internationally with Wakka Wakka Theater and Cirkus Xanti. Recent associate design credits include projects for the Park Avenue Armory, and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway. Caitlin holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and a BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. To learn more about Caitlin’s work and upcoming projects visit caitlinsmithrapoport.com.

Michael Costagliola is a New York-based sound designer and composer, and is thrilled to return to Two River after designing Sara Holdren’s A Little Shakespeare: Macbeth last year. He studied music at Brown University where he received the Weston Award for Music Composition, and Sound Design at the Yale School of Drama where he received the Shaw, Mason & Suttor Prize in Sound Design. He is a Teaching Artist in Sound Design for the Roundabout Theatre Company and is the resident composer for the AntiGravity Performance Project. His work has been heard in New York at La MaMa, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, Ars Nova, and Dixon Place among others, as well as at various theaters across the U.S., Europe, and India. michaelcostagliola.com

Josephine Stewart (Movement Consultant) is a multidisciplinary performer, artist, editor, and writer originally from Cleveland, Ohio. She has collaborated with Sara Holdren (on Shakespeare and more) for many years, fueled by her interest in performance and folk processes as integral components of everyday human function and in the body as the prime storytelling medium. She studied theater and modern dance at Oberlin College and the Trinity/La MaMa Experimental Theater Program. She has taught and performed at the Augusta Heritage Center and is an award-winning traditional percussive dancer.

JESSICA PARKS (she/her) has been working as a scenic designer for theater since 2003, and has been the resident scenic designer and prop designer for the New Jersey Repertory Company since 2010. She has worked as the prop supervisor for the Little Shakes program in the past and is very excited to have the opportunity to work with this wonderful program as a designer. Set designs in NYC include: Michael Tucker’s Fern Hill, Butler, The Housewives of Mannheim, Jericho and Poetic License at 59E59 St. Theaters. This is Not a Time for Peace, The End of Hester and Dan Lauria’s Dinner with the Boys at Theater Row on 42nd St. Other designs include: A Tailor Near Me, The Hummingbirds, Eden Prairie 1971, Memoirs of a Forgotten Man, Wolf at the Door, The Jag, Swimming at the Ritz, Happy and Broomstick at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch.

Devin Fletcher is a theatre artist from the wild coast of Maine, based in New York City. After joining TRT this past winter as stage manager for A Little Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors, and this summer as director of the Summer Intensives, she’s excited to be back with this wonderful company and SWH’s brilliant Macbeth. Recent credits include work with Lincoln Center, La MaMa ETC, The Assembly, Trusty Sidekick, Tiltyard, New Victory LabWorks, Little Orchestra Society, and various Off-Broadway productions. Regional directing and stage management credits include American Repertory Theater, Oregon Symphony Orchestra, Elm Shakespeare Company, Orchestra New England, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and ArtsEmerson. Alum of Emerson College, additional training with the Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles, she’s taught for IUGTE Physical Theater in Austria and Italy, Legacy Theatre in Branford CT, and Elm Shakespeare Company in New Haven CT, and is Artistic Associate of Bluelaces Theater Company.

RYAN LINDNER (DIRECTING ASSISTANT/SWING) is so excited to be a part of Little Shakespeare for her third and final year! She is a senior at Middletown High School South, where she is a Stage Manager. She has worked on both A Little Shakespeare: Macbeth and Twelfth Night. She has spent so long at Two River Theater, and could not leave without doing one more show! She’d like to thank her family, friends, and the cast and crew of Much Ado About Nothing.