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His concepts of Elizabethan staging were brought to North America by Ben Iden Payne.



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A Bright Room Called Day

In the version performed by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Zillah has moved to Berlin.

Angus L. Bowmer

Bowmer attended the University of Washington in Seattle in the 1930s, acting in at least two of its Shakespeare productions, Love's Labor's Lost and Cymbeline under guest director Ben Iden Payne, an Englishman whose ideas for neo-Elizabethan staging of Shakespeare’s plays provided inspiration later in Bowmer's life as he began producing the plays that became the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Emily Kuroda

Other theatres include New York's Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Singapore Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, LA Women's Shakespeare Company, Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and Lodestone Theatre Ensemble.

Gemma Pranita

Pranita was encouraged to join the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) by her drama teacher, and from 1999 to 2003, she competed at state level in the Shakespeare Globe Association's annual Shakespeare festival.

Judy GeBauer

After graduation, she appeared as Octavia in Antony and Cleopatra at Marin Shakespeare Festival, in productions of Twelfth Night (Viola), King Lear, Richard III (Jane Shore), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mustardseed) at California Shakespeare Festival.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival

For the last few years the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival has been bringing more than Shakespeare performances to the Sand Harbor Amphitheatre to entertain residents and visitors to the Reno–Lake Tahoe region, including performances by the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, Chautauqua, Reno Jazz Orchestra and the Sierra Nevada Ballet.

Morgan Jenness

For over 10 years, Jenness worked at the Public Theater, under both George C.Wolfe and Joseph Papp in roles ranging from literary manager to Director of Play Development to Associate Producer of the NY Shakespeare Festival.

Neil Bartram

With book writer Brian Hill, Neil is currently developing Not Wanted On The Voyage (which is being workshopped as part of Northwestern University’s AMTP project under the direction of Amanda Dehnert) and Clara’s Piano (workshopped in July 2008 by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival with director and conceiver Susan H. Schulman).

Olney Theatre Center for the Arts

2005 Olney Theatre Center opens its new amphitheater, the Root Family Stage at Will’s Place, finally giving a permanent home to its Summer Shakespeare Festival.

Porky's II: The Next Day

The local Ku Klux Klan chapter joins the movement to shut down the Shakespeare festival because its members object to an American Indian (Runningfox's Seminole character) playing Romeo opposite a white girl Juliet (Wendy).

Sierra Foothills Shakespeare Festival

The Sierra Foothills Shakespeare Festival is a non-profit educational theatre organization based in El Dorado Hills, California.

Susan Hilferty

Hilferty has collaborated often with playwright Athol Fugard and has designed for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, and the Roundabout.