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Lead Artistic Staff
Director––Carolyn Howarth
Assistant Director––Micah Cajilig
Stage Manager––Caleb Thomas Cook^
Assistant Stage Manager––Kathryn Whilden
Production Assistant––CeCe Crook
Scenic Designer––Apollo Mark Weaver
Costume Designer––Raven Ong
Lighting Designer––Shannon McKinney
Sound Designer/Original Music Composer––Lindsay Jones
Music Director––Andrew Flasch
Dramaturg––Isabel Smith-Bernstein
Voice/Text/Dialect Coach––Jeremy Sortore
Fight Director––Geoffrey Kent
Intimacy Coordinator/Choreographer––Sacha Comrie
Cast
In order of appearance
Canidius, a follower of Antony––Walter Kmiec^
Eros, a follower of Antony––Blake Henri
Antony, a triumvir of Rome––Geoffrey Kent^
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt––Kathryn Tkel^
Charmian, attendant to Cleopatra––Alia Shakira^
Iras, an attendant to Cleopatra––Amara Webb
Alexas, an attendant to Cleopatra––Kayland Jordan^
Enobarbus, a follower of Antony––Chris Mixon^
A Soothsayer––Olivia D. Dawson^
Octavius Caesar, a triumvir of Rome––Gabriel W. Elmore
Lepidus, a triumvir of Rome––Graham Ward^
Agrippa, a follower of Caesar––Cassandra Bissell^
Maecenas, a follower of Caesar––Olivia D. Dawson^
Pompey, a rebel against the triumvirs––Chauncy Thomas^
Menas, a pirate and follower of Pompey––Elijah Eliakim Hernandez
Menecrates, a pirate and follower of Pompey––Kayland Jordan^
Octavia, sister to Caesar, later wife to Antony––Caitlin Wise^
Scarus, a follower of Antony––Lavour Addison^
Thidias, a follower of Caesar––Patrick Vest
Ambassador, serving Antony––Graham Ward^
Clown, a rustic––Graham Ward^
Soldiers, Messengers, Attendants––Lavour Addison^, Cassandra Bissell^, Olivia D. Dawson^,
Blake Henri, Elijah Eliakim Hernandez, Kayland Jordan^, Walter Kmiec^, Chauncy
Thomas^, Patrick Vest
Understudies
Emma Cox†—Agrippa/Ensemble; Austin Fronk†––Menas/Thidias/Ensemble; Nicole Eve Goldstein––Octavia; Blake Henri––Octavius Caesar; Elijah Eliakim Hernandez––Scarus/Ensemble; Steven Jensen––Enobarbus; Loren Jones––Pompey/Canidius/Maecenas/Soothsayer/Alexas/Menecrates/Ensemble; Kayland Jordan^––Charmian; Kat Lee––Iras; AJ Newbury†––Eros/Lepidus/Ambassador/Clown/Ensemble; Alia
Shakira^––Cleopatra; Patrick Vest––Antony
^ Member of Actors’ Equity Association
This gripping tragedy explores complex and intense emotions and includes sexual puns and innuendos. Antony & Cleopatra explores themes of violence and warfare, suicide, mature romantic relationships, and colonialism.