A Little Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor

Nicole A. Watson is a freelance director and educator with a focus in new play development and plays that deal with the past. She is currently the Producing Artistic Director at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Selected credits include Bulrusher (Berkeley Rep, McCarter Theatre) Blues for an Alabama Sky (Guthrie Theater, McCarter Theatre) the premiere of it’s not a trip it’s a journey, (Round House Theatre) the premiere of The West End (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park) the premiere of A Wind in the Door (Kennedy Center) School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play, (Round House Theatre), Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, and Robert Schenkkan’s The Great Society, (Asolo Repertory Theater). On behalf of Round House Theatre and the McCarter Theatre, she produced the Adrienne Kennedy Festival, a celebration of Kennedy’s work. For the festival, she directed a digital version of Kennedy’s She Brought Her Heart Back in a Box. She also was a co-curator with Paula Vogel on Bard at the Gate, a digital catalog of new plays by playwrights such as Zakiyyah Alexander, Lloyd Suh, Dipika Guha, Nikki Massoud, Jose Rivera, Laura Shellhardt, Majkin Holmquist, and Joy Harjo. Nicole is a member of the New Georges Jam and has worked with New Dramatists, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Lark Play Development Center, the Fire this Time Festival, the New Black Fest, the Women’s Project Theater, The 52nd Street Project, NYTW, Signature Theatre, and Working Theater. Nicole is an alum of both the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the Women’s Project Directors Lab and a member of the SDC. BA: History, Yale. MA: NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Callan Hughes Selected Design: The Secret Garden (Tisch Drama StageWorks), Troilus and Cressida (Tisch Drama StageWorks), Marisol (Tisch Drama StageWorks). Assistant/Associate: Notes from the Field (Second Stage), Other People’s Money (Long Wharf Theatre), Fade (Primary Stages). Technical: Sister Act, The Wizard of Oz, West Side Story, The Buddy Holly Story (Theatre by the Sea); Sweeney Todd, Saturday Night Fever (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse); West Side Story (Carnegie Hall), Songbird (59E59), Dear Evan Hansen (Second Stage), Lazarus (NYTW). www.callanhughes.com

Liz McGlone is thrilled to be working on A Little Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor.  Work for Shakespeare in the Square: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard II, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labours Lost, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew.  Other work: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cue for Passion Collaborative), Troilus and Cressida (Tisch Drama StageWorks), Born Bad (Tisch Drama StageWorks), Macbeth (Shelter Theater Group), The Seagull (Roll the Bones). www.lizmcglone.com.

Frank J Oliva is an NYC-based Scenic Designer for Stage and Film, working primarily on new plays. With Nicole A. Watson: The Mountaintop (Kitchen Theatre Company) and Born Bad (NYU). Recent work includes Angry Young Man and Communion (Urban Stages), Autumn (Billie Holiday Theatre), Sweat (Center for Contemporary Opera), #liberated (IRT Theatre) and Visiting Hours (TheatreLAB). As Associate Designer: Everybody and The Antipodes (Signature Theatre), Fulfillment Center (MTC) and The Wolves (Playwrights Realm, NYSF). BFA: NYU. www.frankjoliva.com

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.

David A. Sexton is a Brooklyn based designer who’s been working with Two River on ‘Little Shakes’ for the past three seasons. Selected credits include: The Plough and The Stars (Abbey Theatre Company, North American Tour), Doubt, White Christmas (Ocean State Theater Company), Stuff Nobody Likes (F*it Club), Silken Veils and Solider Bear (Philadelphia Fringe), A Chorus Line, West Side Story (Cortland Rep), Chicago, Singing in the Rain (Park Playhouse), Spelling Bee (Algonquin Arts), Cabaret, Bring It On (Broadway Workshop), Romeo and Juliet, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Quintessence Theatre Group). Winner of the SALT award and NY Innovative Theater Award.   www.davidasexton.com

Kat Gavornik is a freelance stage manager based in the tristate area. Select credits include Angel Food Cake (Strange Sun Theater), Hot Season (Strange Sun Theater), Pins and Needles (NYU-Steinhardt), College Colors (Crossroads Theatre Company), and three seasons with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey as an assistant stage manager. Kat has served as the Production Stage Manager/Tour Manager for over 40 productions and in-school residencies with the education program at McCarter Theatre Center. She has also interned at Berkshire Theatre Festival and Blue Man Group. She holds a BFA in theatre production from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.