Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare • Directed by Rita Giomi
CAST (in alphabetical order)
Gordon Carpenter • Leonato
James Dean • Antonio, 1st Watchman
Alycia Delmore • Margaret, Sexton
Timothy Hornor • Don John
Sean Martin • Conrade
Todd Jefferson Moore* • Dogberry
Marty Mukhalian • Ursula, 2nd Watchman
Peter Dylan O’Connor • Borachio, Friar
David Quicksall* • Don Pedro
Don Darryl Rivera • Balthasar, Verges
Stephanie Shine* • Beatrice
MJ Sieber* • Claudio
Paul Morgan Stetler* • Benedick
Alexandra Tavares • Hero
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Gordon Carpenter • Leonato
SSC: Cyrano de Bergerac (Fight Choreographer, Le Bret), Richard III (Fight Choreographer) Romeo and Juliet (Fight Choreographer, Lord Montague), Othello (Fight Choreographer), As You Like It (Silvius/Charles)
Gordon is happy to be back with Seattle Shakespeare Company. He was recently seen in Capitol Hill Arts Center’s fabulous production of God’s Country and was grateful to take part in the staged reading of Buried Child, produced by Our American Theatre. Over the years he has performed at many area theaters including Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and ACT Theatre. He has also been involved in numerous productions with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks.
James Dean • Antonio, 1st Watchman
SSC: Richard II, Wild Oats, The Comedy of Errors. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tour)
James has appeared in numerous productions at Book-It Repertory Theatre, including: Waxwings, Cry, the Beloved Country, Pride and Prejudice, Sweet Thursday, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, I Am of Ireland, Grendel and Double Indemnity. James has spent the last eight years doing improvisational, interactive theatre pieces for Events on the Edge and It’s a Mystery. James is pleased to be working again with Seattle Shakespeare Company.
Alycia Delmore • Margaret, Sexton
SSC: Debut
Alycia is very excited to be working with Seattle Shakespeare Company. A native of Seattle, she has performed at Theater Schmeater (Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the Flames, The Three Musketeers, and a handful of Twilight Zone episodes), Spokane Interplayers (Inspecting Carol), Seattle Public Theatre (The Winter’s Tale), Macha Monkey (Game Girl, The Story of the Bull), and with Book-It Repertory Theatre (An Owen Meany Christmas Pageant), to name a few. She has toured nationally and internationally with the Missoula Children’s Theatre as a tour actor/director. A graduate of Western Washington University, Alycia is also the Assistant Company Manager at Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Timothy Hornor • Don John
SSC: The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio)
Timothy is very pleased to be back on the Seattle Shakespeare Company stage. He received his BA in Theatre Arts from Whitworth College and his MFA in Acting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Some of Tim’s favorite Shakespearean roles have been Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew, MacDuff in Macbeth, Angelo in Measure for Measure, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. Other favorite roles have been Floyd in Floyd Collins, Elyot in Private Lives, and Raleigh in Last Train to Nibroc.
Sean Martin • Conrade
SSC: Debut
Sean is delighted to make his Seattle Shakespeare Company debut. He recently appeared in Book-It Repertory Theatre’s production of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, adapted by Marcus Goodwin and directed by Jane Jones. At Cornish College of the Arts, where he received his BFA in theater, he appeared as Argan in Charles L. Mee’s The Mail Order Bride, directed by Robert Leigh; George Tesman in Hedda Gabler, directed by Timothy McCuen Piggee; and The Duke in The Revenger’s Tragedy, directed by Mark Jared Zufelt.
Todd Jefferson Moore* • Dogberry
SSC: Richard III (Richard), As You Like It (Jaques)
Todd recently played the preacher Casy in Grapes of Wrath (Intiman), Scrooge and others in Fellow Passengers (Strawberry Theatre Workshop), Death or Mr. Bones in Alki (ACT), and a librarian in Underneath the Lintel (Empty Space). He is also a bit of a writer (Town Mouse and Country Mouse, A Day at the Beach, Kenny’s Window and In the Heart of the Wood). He occasionally teaches at Cornish College of the Arts and is creating a ethnographic performance piece with Cambodian and Laotian students for Rainier Valley Youth Theatre.
Marty Mukhalian • Ursula, 2nd Watchman
SSC: Debut
Marty is delighted to be making her Seattle Shakespeare Company debut. Recent credits include Fellow Passengers with Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Camino Real with theater simple and The Three Musketeers with Theater Schmeater. She has also performed with Seattle Children’s Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Open Circle Theatre, among others.
Peter Dylan O’Connor • Borachio, Friar
SSC: Much Ado About Nothing (Props Master, Assistant Technical Director), Romeo and Juliet (Tour Stage Manager)
Peter contributes to theatre in all capacities. He is the resident Master Carpenter at Capitol Hill Arts Center. He played Charlie Conlin in Stones in His Pockets (CHAC), Robert Jay Matthews in Gods Country (CHAC), Craig in Ikea Circle (Printer’s Devil Theatre), Macduff in Macbeth (Wooden O Theatre), Joe in Waiting for Lefty (CHAC), and Randy Rage in PileDriver (Re-Bar). Peter has designed the sets for Burning Bridget Cleary (CHAC), Cloud Tecktonics (CHAC), and Requiem for a Heavyweight (Theater Schmeater). Peter has both photographed and acted in 14/48. He has many fight choreography credits. During his off hours, he is a photographer and builds houses in the Seattle area.
David Quicksall* • Don Pedro
SSC: The Tempest (Director), Richard II (Bolingbroke), Henry V (Chorus, Fluellen), Educator, Read a Play with Dave series
Most recently, Dave performed in Book-It Repertory Theatre’s production of The House of Mirth and in The 5th Avenue Theatre’s production of The Sound of Music. Dave has also been seen at ACT Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre and Wooden O Theatre. Dave also works as a writer and director; he co-adapted and directed Book-It Repertory Theatre’s production of Don Quixote last fall (the adaptation is soon to be published by Dramatic Publishing).
Don Darryl Rivera • Balthasar, Verges
SSC: Debut
Don Darryl is thrilled to be making his debut at Seattle Shakespeare Company. Don Darryl recently graduated from Cornish College of the Arts (BFA in theatre) where he appeared as Man with Ice Cream/Scar Tissue in Marisol and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. Other credits include: Bread and Puppet Theatre - Daughter Courage. He can be seen in the viral video Bill Gates Goes To College featuring Jon Heder from Napolean Dynamite.
Stephanie Shine* • Beatrice
SSC: Director – Cyrano de Bergerac, The Taming of the Shrew, Kate and Isabel, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Richard II, Wild Oats, Hamlet, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV Part One; Actor - Love’s Labour’s Lost (Princess of France), King Lear (Regan), Twelfth Night (Feste), Lovers and Madmen (Woman), Richard II (Queen Isabel), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), Richard III (Lady Anne), As You Like It (Rosalind), The Taming of the Shrew (Kate)
This marks Stephanie’s eighth season as Artistic Director for Seattle Shakespeare Company. She is a graduate of the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program under Bob Hobbs and has worked at many of the theatres in Seattle as well as several regional theatres including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, The Alley in Houston, New Jersey Shakespeare, Idaho Repertory Theatre, New Mexico Repertory Theatre, and Arizona Theatre Company. Stephanie directed The Comedy of Errors for Colorado Shakespeare Festival in 2004, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Baja Shakespeare Company last March. She appears in the movie World Enough and Time with Paul Morgan Stetler, is currently working for Greg Thompson Productions on a Marilyn Monroe Biopic and is the ever bemused mother of Conor and Cally.
MJ Sieber* • Claudio
SSC: Merry Wives of Windsor (Hugh Evans), Richard II (Aumerle)
MJ is proud to be returning to Seattle Shakespeare Company. Most recently he was seen as Prince Owain in the Seattle Children’s Theatre’s production of Sleeping Beauty also directed by Rita Giomi. Since graduating from Cornish College of the Arts, with an emphisis on original work, he has worked with Seattle Children’s Theatre (Holes; Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day), ACT Theater (A Christmas Carol), Book-It Repertory Theatre (A Child’s Christmas in Wales), Wooden O Theatre (As You like It, Henry V), Strawberry Theater Workshop (Accidental Death of an Anarchist) and Theater Schmeater (Monster, Our Country’s Good, Trojan Women) to name a few. He was the Artistic Associate and a founding member of The Poet’s Theater where he adapted and directed Iphigenia. His original play, Bull-headed Whiskey, was an offical selection for the first FringeACT Festival of new plays.
Paul Morgan Stetler* • Benedick
SSC: As You Like It (Orlando), Measure for Measure (Angelo), Merchant of Venice (Bassanio)
Most recently, Paul appeared as Daniel Webster in The Devil and Daniel Webster, directed by Rita Giomi at Seattle Children’s Theatre and Born Yesterday directed by Warner Shook at ACT Theatre. Other local credits include Living Out and Romeo and Juliet at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Wintertime and Grand Magic at ACT Theatre, Titus Andronicus and Candida at Intiman Theatre, and various (non-singing) roles at Village Theatre. Regionally, Paul has been seen at South Coast Repertory in Southern California, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company and Utah Shakespeare Festival. Look for Paul this September in the title role of Paul Mullins’ Louis Slotin Sonata presented by Empty Space Theatre.
Alexandra Tavares • Hero
SSC: Debut
Alexandra is thrilled to make her debut with Seattle Shakespeare Company. Some of her previous roles have been Irina in Three Sisters at Intiman Theatre, Barbara in Swimming in the Shallows at Washington Ensemble Theatre, and Meg in Little Women at Book-It Repertory Theatre. Last year she received her MFA from University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program and is proud to be an associate member of Washington Ensemble Theatre (WET).