Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Shakespeare at Sea #3 — Speakers

Eastern Mediterranean • November 10–20, 2013

 

MARK BEDARD

Captain Spaulding and Chorus in Animal Crackers

Fight Captain for Animal Crackers

Usher and Ensemble in Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella

In five seasons at OSF: Ferdinand, King of Navarre in Love’s Labor’s Lost; Hastings, Musician, Feeble and Ensemble in Henry IV, Part Two; Ensemble in WillFul; Georg Nowak in She Loves Me; Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice; Truffaldino in The Servant of Two Masters; Kewpie in Paradise Lost; Balthasar in Much Ado about Nothing; Moth and 1st Fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors; Biondello in The Taming of the Shrew; Ensemble in On the Razzle.

Other theatres: Posthumus in Cymbeline (The Shakespeare Theatre Company); 1st Clown in A Circus Christmas Carol (International City Theatre).

Education: BA, University of California, Irvine.

LUE MORGAN DOUTHIT, PH.D.

Dramaturg, The Taming of the Shrew and The Unfortunates; Codramaturg, The Tenth Muse

In 19 seasons at OSF: Production dramaturg for more than 39 productions, including nine world premieres (WillFul; Throne of Blood; Equivocation; Don Quixote; Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter; Tracy's Tiger; By the Waters of Babylon; Continental Divide and The Magic Fire); co-adaptor on the six-actor Macbeth and seven-actor Measure for Measure, both produced at OSF and elsewhere; coproducer, Black Swan Lab (2009); producer, Black Swan Lab (2010–2012).

Awards: 1999 Literary Manager & Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Prize in Dramaturgy: The Elliott Hayes Award.

Education: Ph.D., University of Washington; M.F.A., Trinity University; M.A., University of Arizona.

EMILY SOPHIA KNAPP

Ensemble in The White Snake

Associate Director, All the Way

In five seasons at OSF: Moth in Love’s Labor’s Lost; Celia in The Pirates of Penzance; Ensemble in WillFul; Koken and Old Woman in Throne of Blood; Jessica in The Merchant of Venice; First Customer and Tango Dancer in She Loves Me; Jane Pilkings in Death and the King’s Horseman; Diana in All’s Well That Ends Well; Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Luciana in The Comedy of Errors; Philippine and Lisette in On the Razzle.

Other theatres: New York: Schwann Song (HERE), Millicent Scowlworthy (New York Summer Play Festival 2006), The Golem (Riverside Theatre), This Place Is a Desert (Prelude Festival), In This Is the End of Sleep (Chekhov Now Festival), People Burning in Hotels (PS122). Regional: Pericles (American Repertory Theater); The Glass Menagerie (Lyric Stage Company); On Raftery’s Hill (Sug‡n Theater Company); Assassins, La Bete, Henry V, Rock and Roll 12th Night (Harlequin Productions); The Me in the Mirror (Underground Railway Theater); Martin Guerre (Boston Music Theater).

Film/TV: After the Flood, Infidelities.

Other OSF credits: Dance captain, She Loves Me and The Pirates of Penzance.

Education: L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier; BA, Harvard College.

MIRIAM A. LAUBE

Mrs. Pearce and Ensemble in My Fair Lady

Ghost of Posthumus’ Mother and Ensemble in Cymbeline

In nine seasons at OSF: Medea in Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella; Maruca in Party People; Miss Ritter in She Loves Me, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Vasantasena in The Clay Cart, Adriana in The Comedy of Errors, Rosalind in As You Like It, Viola Luthy in Tracy's Tiger, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julia Craven in The Philanderer, Cordelia in King Lear, Yasmin in Pentecost, Black Swan Lab (2009, 2010).

Other theatres: Broadway: Mumtaz and Chaiyya soloist in Bombay Dreams. Off-Broadway: Marina in Pericles (The Public Theater); Cassandra in Agamemnon (Aquila Theatre). Regional: Lydia in Big Love (Dallas Theater Center); Electra in The Oresteia, Lisette in Changes of Heart (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Rahmi in Gum (Baltimore Centerstage); Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Virginia Stage Company); Yerma in Yerma (Cleveland Play House); Stepdaughter in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Jessica in Hysteria (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Valeria in The Rover, The Story in Naga Mandala, Aglaia in The Triumph of Love, Solveig in Peer Gynt (Guthrie Theater).

Other OSF credits: Associate Director, The Pirates of Penzance.

CYNTHIA RIDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Cynthia Rider comes to OSF from Kansas City Repertory Theatre, where she has served as managing director since 2009. Prior to her appointment as managing director, she served as the organization’s associate director for advancement and administration for five years.

Her accomplishments at Kansas City Repertory Theatre include raising more than $7 million for a capital/endowment campaign to inaugurate the Rep’s second stage, launching an ambitious five-year strategic plan for the organization and expansion of new work development resulting in world premieres such as A Christmas Story: The Musical!, which moved to Broadway in 2012, and Venice, which will run at New York’s Public Theater in the summer of 2013.

Cynthia’s experience also includes six years as executive director of Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, where she oversaw significant growth of the organization and the establishment of an endowment fund while consistently delivering a balanced budget.

Her career also includes serving as associate director, later promoted to acting director, of the Massachusetts Manufacturing Partnership, which worked to strengthen small- and medium-sized manufacturers across the state.

Cynthia’s theatre experience also includes time spent on the stage. She started her theatre career as a resident company member, guest artist and young company actor at the Alley Theatre in Houston. Most recently in Kansas City, she appeared in several new works by Kyle Hatley at the KC Fringe Festival, and was named "Best Actress" by The Pitch for her work in Bed Among the Lentils by Alan Bennett.

Cynthia graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boston University.

REX YOUNG

Duke of Cornwall in King Lear

Black Swan Lab

In 15 seasons at OSF: General Prince in Romeo and Juliet; Agamemnon in Troilus and Cressida; George in The Language Archive; Aguecheek in Twelfth Night; Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; as well as roles in WillFul; Macbeth; Death and the King’s Horseman; On the Razzle; Cyrano de Bergerac; Coriolanus; Our Town; Tartuffe; The Winter’s Tale; Timon of Athens; Enrico IV (The Emperor); The Shoemaker’s Holiday; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; King John; Henry VIII; Hamlet; Black Swan Lab (2011).

Other theatres: Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Studio Arena Theatre, Capital Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, among others. New York: World premiere of Flight (Lucille Lortel); Coriolanus, The Apollo of Bellac (NYSF workshop); The Love of the Nightingale (Soho Rep); The Comedy of Errors (NADA); The Two Noble Kinsmen (Theatre Row Theatre).

Film/TV: All My Children; Designing Women, ABCD, Language of Love.

Education: ART Institute at Harvard; B.F.A., Southern Oregon University.

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