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WHO’S WHOALDO BILLINGSLEA*(Lord Windermere)Mr. Billingslea was lastseen at Cal Shakes asSweet Back and Joe in2012’s Spunk. OtherBay Area credits include:Othello, The Hairy Ape,Splittin’ the Raft, andIn the Red & BrownWater (Marin Theatre Company); This Is How ItGoes and Collapse (Aurora); The Elephant Manand Radio Golf (TheatreWorks); A MidsummerNight’s Dream and Coriolanus (ShakespeareSanta Cruz). Mr. Billingslea’s credits outsidethe Bay Area have included the Dallas, Illinois,Oregon, Marin, San Francisco, Utah, and ArabianShakespeare Festivals. Mr. Billingslea is arecipient of the Bay Area Theatre Critics’ CircleAward, a member of PlayGround company, onthe board of the Renegade Theatre Experiment,the advisory board of Gritty City RepertoryYouth Theatre, and is Professor of Theatre andAssociate Provost of Diversity and Inclusion atSanta Clara University.L. PETERCALLENDER*(Mr. Dumby, AssociateArtist)At Cal Shakes: Spunk,Romeo and Juliet(2009), An IdealHusband, King Lear,Man and Superman,As You Like It, NicholasNickleby, The Importance of Being Earnest,Julius Caesar, Richard II, Twelfth Night, AWinter’s Tale. Marin Theatre Company: MyChildren! My Africa!. Berkeley Rep: MajorBarbara, Spunk, Galileo, The Oresteia. AtA.C.T.: A Streetcar Named Desire, Tartuffe,Insurrection: Holding History. Aurora Theatre:Saint Joan, Permanent Collection, The Soldier’sTale. On Broadway: Prelude to a Kiss. NYPublic Theater: Caucasian Chalk Circle, TwelfthNight. Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Taming of theShrew, A Doll’s House. Diablo Actors’ Ensemble:Driving Miss Daisy (Bay Area Critics Award).TheatreFIRST: World Music (Bay Area CriticsAward), Old Times. Thick Description: Richard III,Blade to the Heat. Mr. Callender is the recipientof several Dean Goodman awards, an Elly Award,SF Bay Guardian Goldie Award, and the East BayExpress Best of the East Bay Award.JAMES CARPENTER*(Lord Augustus,Associate Artist)A longtime Bay Arearesident, this willbe roughly his 30thproduction for CST; anAssociate Artist in his13 th season with CalShakes, Mr. Carpenterlast appeared here as Alonso and Master of theShip in The Tempest. Other Bay Area creditsinclude A.C.T., San Jose Rep, Aurora TheatreCo., Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks, MarinTheatre Company, and Shakespeare SantaCruz. He performed at Berkeley Rep in over 30productions in his 12 years there as AssociateArtist, is the Honoree of the BATCC ConsistentExcellence in Theater and Lifetime AchievementAwards, and was named a 2010 Lunt-FontanneFellow from the Ten Chimneys Foundation. Outof-towncredits include: The Old Globe Theatre,Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale RepertoryTheatre, Intiman Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center,Arizona Theatre Company, and The Huntington.Television: Nash Bridges. Film: The Rainmakerand Metro. Independents: Singing, Presque Isle,The Sunflower Boy. This one is for Barbara.DAN CLEGG*(Cecil Graham)Mr. Clegg appearedearlier this season atCal Shakes as Romeoin Romeo & Juliet;previously as Tranio andothers in The Tamingof the Shrew (2012),and as Proteus in TheVerona Project (2011). He has appeared locallyin American Conservatory Theater’s A ChristmasCarol (Young Scrooge), Lorraine HansberryTheatre’s Blue/Orange (Bruce), and in a numberof productions with the A.C.T. MFA program.Before moving to the Bay Area, Dan lived inMontreal where he performed in a variety ofshows at Théâtre Olympia, the Rialto, andPlayers’ Theater, including Equus, The Merchantof Venice, The Rocky Horror Show, and TheWoman in Black. Mr. Clegg is also the voiceof Winston in The Winston Show, a new iPadapp created by ToyTalk, a family entertainmentcompany based in San Francisco.NICK GABRIEL*(Lord Darlington)Earlier this season atCal Shakes Mr. Gabrielplayed Tybalt and Parisin Romeo & Juliet;previously as Horatioin Hamlet (2012) andas Marchbanks inCandida (2011). Heis a member of the core acting company atAmerican Conservatory Theater wherefrom hereceived his MFA and where he currently serveson the faculty. At A.C.T. he has appeared inOnce in a Lifetime, Scorched, Arcadia, andEndgame (opposite Bill Irwin). Mr. Gabrielhas also played principal roles in mainstageproductions at Capital Rep, Shakespeare SantaCruz, CenterREP, North Coast Rep, SaratogaShakespeare Company (New York), South CoastRep, the Brooklyn Lyceum, the Berkshire Ballet,San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, FringeNYC,Milwaukee Rep, and the Berkshire Fringe. Hereceived his BFA in musical theater from theUniversity of Michigan and is a Ten ChimneysFoundation Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.EMILY KITCHENS*(Lady Windermere)Ms. Kitchens’ regionaltheater credits includeDell in Grace, or theArt of Climbing (DenverCenter New PlaySummit), Natasha inThree Sisters adaptedby Sarah Ruhl (YaleRepertory Theatre/Berkeley Repertory Theatre);Betsy/Lindsey in Clybourne Park, Belle inA Christmas Carol (American ConservatoryTheater); Miranda in The Tempest, JohnSteinbeck’sThe Pastures of Heaven, Hero inMuch Ado about Nothing (California ShakespeareTheater); Calpurnia in Julius Caesar and Helenain A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ShakespeareSanta Cruz). Ms. Kitchens received her BFA fromthe University of Evansville and her MFA fromA.C.T., where, as a student, she appeared inplays including The Gnädiges Fraulein; Hamlet;L’hiver sous la table; Macbeth, The Mutilated;and O Lovely Glowworm, or Scenes of GreatBeauty. She has served as an actor at The NewHarmony Project several times with writersincluding Theresa Rebeck, Susan Bernfield,David Caudle, and Constance Congdon.RAMI MARGRON*(Lady Plymdale, LadyAgatha, Rosalie,Movement Coach)Ms. Margron was lastseen at Cal Shakes in theensemble of RestorationComedy (2006). Recentcredits include Pericles(Berkeley Rep), PreciousLittle (Shotgun Players), Dogsbody (Intersectionfor the Arts, La Mama) and He Moved Swiftlybut Gently Down the Not Too Crowded Street(Dancers’ Group). Other Bay Area credits:SF Shakes, Magic Theatre, Shotgun Players,Crowded Fire Theater, Mugwumpin, WillowsTheatre, Woman’s Will, Word for Word, PacificRep, Town Hall Theatre, Pear Avenue Theatre,City Circus, and a handful of dance companies.She studied acting at the Bennett Theatre Labin SF, clown and buffoon in Paris, and morethan 20 styles of dance and movement in theUS, Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, and Indonesia. She is acompany member of Crowded Fire Theater andRara Tou Limen Haitian dance company.*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.encoreartsprograms.com 19