Suzanne Dean

(Duke Senior and Prospero) Suzanne trained in the UK at the British American Drama Academy, NYC's Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, The Old Globe, Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum, and with Shakespeare & Co. Some theatre credits include Present Laughter, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Dresser, Bus Stop, Look Back in Anger, The Glass Menagerie, Crimes of the Heart, Antigone and most gratefully in the works of Shakespeare: R&J, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Thanks to Lisa, Scott and the cast for talking me into this one! And to my soul's idol....

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Eldon Cline

(Touchstone and Stephano) - Eldon was last seen by San Pedro audiences impaling himself on a wooden sword in last summer's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Since then, Los Angeles audiences have seen him as John Handsome in The Ghost of Nova North, Adam in Apples, listened to him as The Voice in Baby With the Bathwater, and holiday theatre goers witnessed his cartwheels as The Sugarplum Fairy at the Celebration Theatre. Eldon has spent the last two years touring the educational theatre circuit in Cootie Shots, and SBTS's own Shakin' it up with Shakespeare. Please keep Betty White and me happy by spaying or neutering your pet.

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Ernest Foote

(Duke Frederick and Gonzalo) - Ernest Foote is from Phoenix Arizona and graduated from Trinity University in 1999 with a BA in English. Ernest is excited to be back on the stage after some time off. His last play was the world's lowest budget run of Much Ado About Nothing. A member of the under-cast dropped out and was replaced by a sock puppet on one of the actor's hands. The actor pulled it off well, but Ernest has it in writing from SBTS that there will not be any inanimate cast members.

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Graham Barnard

(Sebastian) - This is Graham's debut with SBTS. His other recent work includes: Sir Robert, The Winslow Boy, Newport Beach Theatre Arts Center; Cassio, Othello, Alke-Bulan Culture Center; Nathaniel, The Taming of the Shrew, ensemble in The Misanthrope and Cyrano DeBergerac, A Noise Within Classical Theatre. He graduated from the University of Florida and continues his classical studies at A Noise Within's classical conservatory. He is currently employed as a project manager and children's writer for Walt Disney Publishing.

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Heather Lohmeyer

(Celia, Spirit, Ariel understudy) - Heather graduated from CSU, Long Beach with a degree in Theatre Arts and is currently pursuing a career in acting. She's been an integral part of SBTS's outreach program, Shaking it up with Shakespeare. She was recently seen in The Knightsbridge Theatre's production of Antony and Cleopatra, other credits include: By Tender Strokes (an original play), The Bald Soprano, Galileo, Equus, and The Tempest. She's taught youth drama camps with the Department of Recreation and Parks and looks forward to working with TheatreXperience.

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Matt St. James

(Caliban) - Matt is pleased to be here in beautiful San Pedro, realizing his lifelong dream of playing Caliban. He has performed in Colorado, Seattle, Oklahoma, Washington D.C. and LA, and won't be happy until he has acted in every state. He received a BFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He was most recently seen as Enobarbus in the Knightbridge Theatre's Antony and Cleopatra. Thanks always to my lovely, loving wife for her support.

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Wendy Carter

(Rosalind and Fire Spirit) - At six she began synchronized swimming, a ten-year obsession that took her to silver in the National Junior Olympics. At 17, when she dried off, her physical training and work with music led to Virginia's Musical Theatres. Her studies led to VA Tech and then to the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago. She has appeared in episodes of Early Edition, Cupid, two pilots The Independent films Under the Bus and Going All the Way with Ben Affleck. Her favorite roles include Billie in Born Yesterday, Paulinka in A Bright Room Called Day, Maid Marion in Robin Hood and Wendy in Peter Pan. Wendy is thrilled to be speaking the Bard's music again and to be working with such an inspired group of people. Thank you Adam for filling my heart and home with your smile. And Dad, for your John Wayne strength and Bill, for your big-lug hugs.

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Chris Nelson

(Ferdinand) - Christopher Nelson grew up in a rural Nevada and left to get a degree from USC School of Theatre. He has spent the last two years working at the Western Stage in Salinas, CA. where he developed a love for Big Sur, the Cypress tree and most importantly John Steinbeck. Christopher played Al Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, played seven different characters in Viva Zapata and was both Cal Trask and Charles Trask in a twelve-hour production of East of Eden. Christopher still isn't exactly sure how he managed to be back here in sunny Southern California, but promises to maintain his life pursuit if infinite knowledge, regardless of where he lands.

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Evan McNamara

(Orlando and Trinculo) - Evan McNamara recently moved from Philadelphia, and is happy to be acting on the Southern California coast. Other Shakespeare credits include Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and Iago in Othello. Los Angeles credits include appearances on Felicity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and as Ben in The Kid with Bruce Willis. Look for him as the hitchhiker in the upcoming feature Senator Fitzgerald.

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Emily Rogge

(Phebe and Ariel) - Emily Rogge is excited to be spending her first summer with SBTS. Although now settled in LA, she grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and studied at Denison University in Ohio, The British American Drama Academy in London, England and The Warehouse Theatre Journeyman Program in South Carolina. Her favorite roles include: Julia and Lydia in The Rivals, Vasques in Tis Pity..., May in Fool for Love, Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday, and Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls. Emily wants to thank her friends and family for making the drive this summer!

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Jeffrey D. Klein

(Oliver and Antonio) - Jeffrey D. Klein's classical experience includes productions of Midsummer Nights Dream and Romeo and Juliet at Theatre of Moscow - Southwest, The Furies in a tour through Greece, Orestes in Electra, Pisthiteros in The Birds and title role in Prometheus Bound in Chicago. After moving to LA recently, he has worked with the Pasadena Shakespeare Company on productions of Henry IV Parts I & II. His first authored play Death of Socrates was produced last fall in Chicago.

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Jenny Myers

(Corin and Miranda) - Jenny Myers is excited to be with SBTS after recently moving from New York where she appeared as Annie in The Real Thing and as Rusty in Goodbye Charlie with the DNA Theatre Company. Other credits include Catherine in An Enemy of the People with the Globe Repertory Theatre Company. She has also appeared in two independent films and trained at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City. Jenny would like to thank her amazing family, friends and Scott for being so supportive.

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Krista Schafer

(Audrey & Spirit) Krista was last seen romping through the Shakespeare by the Sea woods as Helena in last year's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She comes back to SBTS after swinging her hips as Big Mama in M.Y.E. Theatre Company's CloudCuckooLand and sailing the Atlantic in Downey Civic Light Opera's Anything Goes. Krista has performed in theatres large and small (mostly small) throughout LA and Philadelphia since graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in theatre. This is her first time appearing in a Shakespeare play that doesn't begin with the letter M (she has played in Midsummer, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado About Nothing) Krista has also spent a lot of time teaching drama, and is teaching this summer through SBTS's TheatreXperience. Love and kisses to Sean.

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Kyle Walls

(Silvius/Adam and Boatswain) Kyle has recently been seen in Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth, and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra at the Knightsbridge Theatre. He sends his love to Meghan, Kevin, Mom and Dad.

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Meghan Leigh Walls

(Amiens) Meghan Leigh Walls gives all her love to her extremely talented husband and would like to thank you for coming. "I believe courage is all too often mistakenly seen as the absence of fear. If you descend by rope from a cliff and are not fearful to some degree, you are either crazy or unaware. Courage is seeing your fear, in a realistic perspective, defining it, considering alternatives and choosing to function in spite of risks." - Leonard Zunin Contact: The First Four Minutes

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Tom Metcalf

(Jaques) - Tom Metcalf is a veteran of the New England Theatre scene where he performed such roles as MacDuff in MacBeth, Arles, Petey, et al in Greater Tuna and Charles the Wrestler in As You Like It. Being unable to resisit the sheer magnificence and beauty of his siren as well as her ever compelling song, Tom moved to LA in January of 1997 to follow his dream. Her name is Karyn and she was on her way here to follow her dream. Tom has worked in several area theatres most notably the Knightsbridge in Pasadena where he has performed as Rosenkrantz and the Gravedigger in Hamlet, Pilia Boza in The Jew of Malt,. Lepidus and Thyreus in Antony and Cleopatra and a whole lot more. This is Tom's first experience with SBTS and it has already been a great thing.

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Will Simmons

(Charles the Wrestler and Alonso) Will is excited to be performing again with the SBTS after playing Theseus in the 2000 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. A graduate of the National Shakespeare Conservatory, Will has also performed in Titus Andronicus, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and hopes to get through the rest of the canon before he drops dead. In addition to playing cops and cowboys in various films and on TV, Will performs children's educational theatre for the California Science Center. This he does purely for the thrill. Will hopes to parlay his new celebrity into his own line of aftermarket motorcycle accessories and would like to thank his wife Dove for her infinite patience.

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