2018 Actors' Renaissance Season - casting update!

Photo by Michael Bailey.

A week or two ago, some of us had a photo shoot with Michael Bailey for marketing with the upcoming 2018 Actors' Renaissance Season. I felt a little bit like a guest host for SNL--it was a lot of fun. I can't wait for you to see the others popping up around Staunton and online.

The Actors' Renaissance Season is a troupe of 12 actors putting together five plays in rotating repertory. We don't have formal directors (though there are instances where a couple actors play a kind of Peter Quince/actor-manager role). We get to costume the plays ourselves! Sometimes all we receive are cue-scripts (instead of having the whole play in our hands, all I have are my lines and the few words that cue those lines).

This will be my third time performing in the Ren Season, and I'm thrilled.
Here's the list of plays and my roles:

Hamlet - Polonius and Fortinbras

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Polonius and Fortinbras

The Way of the World - Mirabell

Richard II - Northumberland

Antonio's Revenge - Alberto


​Stay tuned for more updates.

In the meantime, here's a peek at my cue script for Hamlet. It's just the lines I speak with the few words that precede each line.​