Tyrel Brown (Flute) returns after making his CSC debut in their 2022 production of Twelfth Night. His previous credits include Julius Caesar (Fools and Madmen), Young Playwrights Festival (Baltimore Center Stage), Black Super Hero Magic Mama (Strand Theater), Dreamgirls (ArtsCentric), and The Comedy of Errors (Endangered Species Project). He is also a member of CSC’s Black Classical Acting Ensemble (BCAE). Tyrel is a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival nominee. Education: Towson University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Acting. Follow Tyrel on Instagram and Tik tok: @tyreltyrelbrown

Kathryne Daniels (Quince) is a CSC company member and was last seen in CSC's production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)[revised][again] (2023), Twelfth Night (2022) as Maria, and the student matinee of Romeo and Juliet as the Nurse (2022). Other CSC credits include: A Christmas Carol (2021), Dracula (2019), Measure for Measure (2020), Henry IV Parts 1&2 (2019) and Julius Caeser (2017). She has also worked with Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, Stillpoint Theater, Iron Crow and Fells Point Theater.

Gary DuBreuil (Bottom) is making his Chesapeake Shakespeare debut with this Shakespeare Beyond production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has always loved performing outdoor Shakespeare and has appeared in outdoor productions of As You Like It and Macbeth with Prince George's Shakespeare in the Parks and The Merry Wives of Windsor in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Some additional credits (inside actual theatres) include Constellation Theatre: The School for Lies; Keegan Theatre: Push the Button, Hands on a Hardbody; 1st Stage: The Farnsworth Invention (Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding Play and Ensemble); NextStop: Much Ado About Nothing; Nu Sass: The Ugly One; Brave Spirits Theatre: Richard II, Henry IV Part 2, and many more; Scena Theatre: War of the Worlds (DC and Prague) and many more. www.garydubreuil.com

Aura Gallanar (Cobweb) is an incoming freshman theater student at Montclair State University. She has previously performed with CSC in A Midsummer Nights Dream (2014, 2018) and A Christmas Carol (2016, 2017, 2018). She recently performed with the national honors chorus at Carnegie Hall.

Neel Madan (Musician/Troubador) has been writing and performing for the last 15 years in and around the Baltimore area. Most notably, you can find him on any given weekend fronting his band, The Chucks! He’s also performed at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, where he currently is the head Audio Engineer. If you’d like to keep up with his music, give him a follow on social media IG: @neeloffortune FB: Neel Madan Music

Elana Michelle (Titania / Hippolyta) is honored to be a Resident Company Member of CSC. Elana is an attorney who has enjoyed a variety of roles as an actress, musician, and vocalist across the country in film, television, and theatre; in CSC she has previously worked on Hamlet (Ophelia), Romeo & Juliet (Juliet), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania), Twelfth Night (Olivia), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rosaline), A Winter’s Tale (Time / Mopsa), Mother Courage & Her Children (Mother Courage), She Stoops to Conquer (Constance), A Christmas Carol (Belle / Dorothy), All’s Well That Ends Well (King of France), Henry IV Pt. 1 & 2 (Lady Percy), and Anne of the Thousand Days (Jane Seymour).

Molly Moores (Acting Company Manager, Philostrate, Peaseblossom) has been a CSC Company Member and Teaching Artist since 2011. CSC productions include: Romeo and Juliet (student matinee 2015-2020, 2022-2023); A Christmas Carol (2014-2019, 2021-2022); Much Ado About Nothing (2022, 2015); The Adventures of Pericles (2021); Macbeth (movable 2019); Macbeth (student matinee 2019); Henry IV Parts 1 and II; A Midsummer Night's Dream (2018 and 2011); The Winter's Tale; Julius Caesar; Anne of the Thousand Days; Three Musketeers; Macbeth (2016); Richard II; The Taming of the Shrew (2013); Antony and Cleopatra; Pride and Prejudice; Romeo and Juliet (2012); and The Merchant of Venice.www.mollymoores.com

JC Payne (Oberon/ Theseus) Has appeared with CSC as Laertes in Hamlet (2023), Longaville in Love’s Labour’s Lost (2019) Romeo in Romeo & Juliet (2018), the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (2018, and Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (2017) His other credits include Julius Caesar and Much Ado About Nothing with Fools and Madmen, The Seagull with Gamut Theatre, Little Women with The Strand, Stupid F*cking Bird with Silver Spring Stage, and Stick Fly with Fells Point Corner Theatre. He is a graduate of UMBC.

Willem Rogers (Lysander) is a Baltimore-based actor returning to the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company stage. He has made an appearance as Benvolio in Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's matinee production of Romeo and Juliet. Willem has also worked with the Maryland Ensemble Theater in Frederick and has appeared in productions such as Lifespan of a Fact (Jim Fingal) and Christmas at Pemberley (Mr. Darcy). He graduated from Towson University with a B.F.A in acting in 2020.

Theodore Sherron III (Snug) is back again at CSC for this summer play. Previous performances at CSC include: Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Understudy), Richard III (Buckingham, Duchess of York and others), Macbeth (Fleance), and Love's Labour's Lost (Forester). He has also been involved in several other performances such as: R&J (Strand Theatre), Everybody (UMBC), Gwyneth (UMBC), and She Kills Monsters (UMBC).

Emily Sucher (Puck) Selected performance credits include Julius Caesar (WSC Avant Bard), 46 Plays for America's First Ladies (NextStop Theatre), Infinite Tales (4615 Theatre), King John (Folger Theatre), Inside Out (Imagination Stage), Hello, My Name Is... (The Welders), and more. Emily is also a Helen Hayes Award-nominated intimacy choreographer with over 30 intimacy direction and consultation credits in the DMV theatre scene, as well as several short films. (they/she) www.emily-sucher.com

Michael P. Sullivan (Egeus, Snout) has been performing with CSC since 2005 and A Midsummer Night's Dream is his 23rd show with the company.  Favorite roles include the title character in Dracula, The Tempest (Prospero), Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Julius Caesar (Cassius and Julius Caesar), Titus Andronicus (Titus), Wild Oats (Sir George Thunder), and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford).  He most recently appeared in CSC's student matinees of Romeo & Juliet (Friar Laurence) and will be seen in As You Like It (Jacques) this Fall.  Last winter he portrayed Poirot in Murder on The Orient Express (Cumberland Theatre).

Angela Whittaker (Hermia/Moth) is making her CSC debut in the Shakespeare Beyond production of A Midsummer's Nights Dream. She is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, she's performed around the country, working with the likes of Patti Labelle, Sting, Paul Simon, and Kelly Price. She's been seen and heard on Good Morning America, Spotify, NPR, and NBC. Aside from her vocal accomplishments, Angela has spent the past year cutting her teeth on the theatre stage; acting in several original and classic theatrical productions. During this time, she has taken on iconic roles such as Beneatha in A Raisin in The Sun and Nettie in The Color Purple.

Joshua Williams (Demetrius) returns to CSC after having previous appearing as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. Other recent credits include: Iphigenia (Achilles, We Happy Few); Rhinoceros! (Papillon, Pointless Theatre Company); Macbeth (Macbeth, Hoosier Shakespeare Festival); Merry Wives of Windsor (Dr. Caius, Hoosier Shakespeare Festival); Henry IV Part 1 (Hotspur, Brave Spirits Theatre).

Jacqueline Youm (Helena/Mustardseed) is making her CSC debut. She’s a Senegalese American actor, lawyer, and French, English, Spanish, Acting, Mediation, and Negotiation teacher. Some of her favorite credits include Consecrated Ground (Clarice Lyle, Laurel Mill Playhouse); The Tempest (Round House Theatre); King Hedley II (Stool Pigeon, Dominion Stage); Nollywood Dreams (Adenikeh, Round House Theatre); Die, Mr Darcy, Die (Charlotte Brontë and others, Best Medicine Rep); The Revolutionists (Marianne Angelle, Globe Openstage); A Doll’s House Part II (Nora, Silver Spring Stage); An Ideal Husband (Mrs. Cheveley)... Theatre work on Youtube (Cestjackie) | Instagram: @jy_artiste | Facebook: Jacqueline Elisabeth

Ian Gallanar (Director/Founding Artistic Director) In addition to founding the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in 2002, Ian has worked as a professional actor, director, and writer for more than 150 professional productions. He has directed 40 productions for CSC. Previously, Ian has served as Artistic Director for the National Theatre for Children, Minnesota Shakespeare in the Park, and the Repertory Theater of America. Ian is a proud member of the distinguished National Theatre Conference and the Dramatists Guild of America; a Helen Hayes Tribute Award, Telly Award, and Howie Award (Howard County Arts Council) winner. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he is a Member of the College of Fine Arts Advancement Council. He is Immediate Past President of the international Shakespeare Theatre Association, an organization for professional Shakespeare companies around the globe.

Séamus Miller (Associate/Musical Director) is the Associate Artistic Director of Shakespeare Beyond and the Music Director of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has been a CSC Company Member since 2014, most recently directing Much Ado About Nothing and student matinee productions of Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth, as well as appearing onstage in Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, among others. Séamus is a member of Actors' Equity Association and has appeared in over forty professional productions in the DC-Baltimore Area. He holds a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Academy at George Washington University. www.seamusactor.com

Bri Manente (Program Manager) previous credits with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company include: Hamlet (Guildenstern) Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (Lord Bardolph, Vitner, Ensemble), Alice in Wonderland (Queen of Hearts, Frog Footman), Julius Caesar (Mar Antonia), Othello (Emilia), and All’s Well that Ends Well (Countess, Mariana). Other selected regional credits include The Oresteia (Shakespeare Theatre Company), She Kills Monsters (Rorschach Theatre), Tis Pity She’s a Whore and King and No King (Brave Spirits Theatre). Briana is a proud member of the 2022-2024 CSC Artistic Company and Program Manager for CSC’s new Shakespeare Beyond summer touring initiative.

Chester Stacy (Tech Director/Wagon Fabricator) has designed, built, and painted many CSC productions, including Alice in Wonderland, The Fantasticks, Red Velvet, and Titus Andronicus, and for Baltimore Center Stage’s Thoughts of a Colored Man and Shakespeare in Love. Chester Creates LLC, has provided production design for The Night Watchmen, set decoration for House of Cards and The Wire; and environmental graphics for Crunch Fitness, Royal Caribbean, Bmore Greek Grill, and Healthy Highlandtown

Jalice Ortiz–Corral (Stage Manager/Dramaturg) is a writer, director, and stand-up comic from Baltimore. She is the Artistic Producer of the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory. She holds an MA from Royal Holloway University and an MA from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. After completing the 2020 Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab, she returned to Maryland where she works as a stage manager.

Kaitlyn Johnston–Napora (Assistant Stage Manager) is making her CSC debut. She has stage managed for MNCPPC for Twelfth Night, Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Macbeth, and Body of Work.

Julie Cray Leong (Costume Designer) is a DC Area Costume Designer, mother, wife, theatre artist, costume shop manager, collaborator, teacher, seamstress, fan of all things fashion, full of sarcasm, lover of pandas, and an instagrammer. Follow her on social media to see what she’s up to! (Instagram @yesiamjulie)

Kristina Manente (Sound Designer/Audio Engineer) is a freelance sound designer and audio engineer and is making her CSC debut. Previous work includes Calling Darkness (Realm), Paperless Pulp (Flying V), seven methods of killing kylie jenner (The Public and Woolly Mammoth), If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On! (Prince George’s Shakespeare in the Parks), and The Toxic Avenger (Rorschach Theater). Upcoming projects include the second season of Feminist Fairytales Podcast and MONSTRESS (Flying V). www.kristinamanente.me

Joseph B. Musumeci Jr. (Set Designer) No Bio Available

Sierra Ho (Props Designer) is a contemporary sculptor, fabricator, and scenic designer who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. A child of refugees, her work often recognizes the story of the underdog and the minority. Her distinctive personal style is gestural yet precise, using an array of mediums both traditional and unconventional. Textures and graphic, gestural shapes are the backbone of Ho's work, whether it be a small sculpture, or the entire world built around a character. Her expertise in material, her irreverent humor, and her academic understanding of conceptual art make her a well known name in the Baltimore area.

Mallory Shear (Fight/Intimacy Director) is returns to CSC after previously working on their production of Twelfth Night.  Some credits include: DC AREA: Keegan Theatre: Shakespeare In Love (Intimacy Choreographer); Arena Stage: Seven Guitars (Asst. Fight Choreographer), Jubilee (Asst. Fight Choreographer);  We Happy Few: La Llorona(Upcoming: Fight & Intimacy Choreographer); St. Mary’s College: Head Over Heels (Fight & Intimacy Choreographer), The Lost Girl (Fight & Intimacy Choreographer), Macbeth (Fight & Intimacy Choreographer).  The Strand Theatre: Blood Countess (Horned Woman, Fight & Intimacy Choreographer) TEACHING:  Signature Theatre; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Camp Arena Stage, Levine Music; Landon School.  Mallory is a proud Associate Member of SDC.

Tara Cariaso, Waxing Moon Masks (Mask Fabricator) is a Filipina-American, Baltimore-based educator of physical theatre, archetypes, somatic acting, mask performance, and is founder/designer for Waxing Moon Masks Education and Fabrication Company. Tara earned her MFA from Dell’Arte Int'l School of Physical Theatre, and has received funding from GRIT FUND, Baltimore BASE Grant, and Alternate Roots to support her work in anti-oppressive organizing for DMV area educators. Her ongoing work with non-profit B4 Youth Theatre uses somatic practices for social justice play-making in Liberia, West Africa, and her pedagogy “Embodying Archetypes” is being used in devised theater practices across Maryland. She has been resident mask maker and consultant for Faction of Fools since 2021, reimagining an anti-oppressive Commedia Dell'Arte framework, character creation processes and masks for the next generation of comic actors.

Annie Montone & Brian Kehoe, The Encounter LLC (Magic Consultants) the two-person magic team of Brian M. Kehoe and Annie Montone, was formed in 2015.  Since then, it has brought magic to numerous venues including Baltimore Theater Project, Carroll Mansion, Maryland Art Place, Madonnari Arts Festival, The Engineers Club, Cabaret at Germano’s, The Peale, and many others. The Encounter has worked with Fells Point Corner Theatre (Woman in Black), and the Baltimore School for the Arts (Pippin) to bring narrative magic to the stage. Brian and Annie are co-founders of School of Magic Arts, a magic academy headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.  www.schoolofmagicarts.com