

Collegiate credits include: Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan as Rosalie, both Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Puck, and Julius Caesar as Lucius/Messala, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves as #8, as well as the titular role of Agnes in John Pielmeier’s Agnes of God. Rachel is an actor/creator currently residing in Chicago, Il, recently receiving her BFA in Acting from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music in the Spring of 2022. Jones is ecstatic to join the Montana Shakespeare in the Schools fall tour of Macbeth as Lady Macbeth. Foss was the recipient of the ATHE/KCACTF Prize for Innovative Teaching in 2013 and the 2020 University of Toledo Edith Rathburn Outreach and Engagement Excellence Award.
Shakespeer in the park professional#
The play had its professional premiere in Chicago in 2019, winning 6 Jeff Awards-including Best Production, Best Ensemble and Best New Work. In 2019, his adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front received the Kennedy Center’s David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award. In 2012 his production of Six Characters at Iowa State University received the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival’s National Award for Outstanding Production of a Play and Outstanding Director of a Play. The production received Chicago Jeff Award Nominations for Outstanding Production, Director, Ensemble, and won for best new adaptation.

He adapted and directed Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for Oracle Productions in Chicago in 2014.

In 2016, his touring production of The Glass Menagerie performed at Russia’s Moscow Art Theatre. We worked and lived in Red Lodge, MT as a wildlife biologist before starting his theatre career. He toured as an actor with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks from 2003-2006 and wrote and directed 2020’s Faithful Friends, an adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona for Montana Shakes! in theatre studies and directing from Wayne State University in Detroit. in acting from Chicago’s Roosevelt University and Ph.D.

She also writes and performs stories from her life. She holds a BFA from NYU, and and MFA from DePaul University. She has worked as a theater educator and director at Writers Theatre (Chicago), Adventure Stage Chicago, 2nd Story Chicago, North Carolina Theatre, PBS Kids, Students Motivated by the Arts (Ohio), Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and DePaul University. In Chicago she was nominated for a Best Actress Award for her work as a basketball player in Charles Ives Take Me Home. Elsewhere, she has performed in New York, Connecticut, and in Chicago. WhenĬhildren’s crafts and activities begin at 5 p.m.Ī valid motor vehicle permit is required to enter all Great Parks.Stephanie Chavara has worked as an actor-educator for Montana Shakespeare in the School’s Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet, and the Shakes! tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream she has designed curriculum and created learning materials for Julius Caesar, Goodnight Sweet Prince Great King!, The Tempest, and As You Like It: Books in Brooks. In Montana, she has worked as an actor in residence at Lame Deer Schools, taught with the Tate School and the Children’s Shakespeare Society. Great Parks is continuing to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic closely and will make adjustments as necessary, with guidance form the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Hamilton County Public Health.
Shakespeer in the park free#
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company brings “Twelfth Night” to center stage at this free performance.īe sure to arrive early to check out children’s activities before showtime, provided by Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library.Ĭincinnati Shakespeare Company is a resident ensemble theatre company bringing Shakespeare and the Classics to life for audiences of all ages. What do you do when the person you’re in love with is in love with someone else and the wrong person loves you back? Explore the mind of William Shakespeare in this comedy about mistaken identity and true love. Let the natural majesty of Sharon Woods provide the backdrop while you enjoy an evening of classic theatre at Shakespeare in the Park.
