Read Spunk Program - California Shakespeare Theater

ACtiNG COMPANY
ALDO BiLLiNGSLEA*
(Sweet Back, Joe,
Ensemble)
Mr. billingslea’s bay
area credits include:
Collapse (aurora); Anna
Christie (center rep);
…and Jesus Moonwalks
the Mississippi (cutting
ball); Ma Rainey’s Black
Bottom (lorraine hansberry); Gum (Magic);
Othello, The Hairy Ape, Splittin’ the Raft, and
In the Red & Brown Water (Marin Theatre
company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and
Coriolanus (shakespeare santa cruz); and The
Elephant Man and Radio Golf (TheatreWorks).
Mr. billingslea’s credits outside the bay area have
included roles at the dallas, illinois, Oregon, and
utah shakespeare Festivals; interact (interactive
asian contemporary Theatre, sacramento),
sacramento Theatre company; the Old Globe,
plano repertory Theatre, and portland repertory
Theatre, portland center stage, and Tacoma
actors’ Guild. Mr. billingslea is a recipient of the
bay area Theatre critics’ circle award, a member
of playGround Theatre company, on the advisory
boards of the renegade Theatre experiment
and Gritty city repertory youth Theatre, and a
professor of Theatre at santa clara university.
L. PEtEr
CALLENDEr*
(Sykes, Slang Talk Man,
Ensemble, Associate
Artist)
at cal shakes: Romeo
and Juliet, An Ideal
Husband, King Lear,
Man and Superman,
As You Like It, Nicholas
Nickleby, The Importance of Being Earnest, Julius
Caesar, Richard II, Twelfth Night, A Winter’s Tale.
at Marin Theatre company: My Children! My
Africa! at berkeley rep: Major Barbara, Spunk,
Galileo, The Oresteia. at a.c.T.: A Streetcar
Named Desire, Tartuffe, Insurrection: Holding
History. aurora Theatre: Saint Joan, Permanent
Collection, The Soldier’s Tale. On broadway:
Prelude to a Kiss. Ny public Theater: Caucasian
Chalk Circle, Twelfth Night. shakespeare santa
cruz: Taming of the Shrew, A Doll’s House. diablo
actors’ ensemble: Driving Miss Daisy (bay area
critics award). TheatreFirsT: World Music (bay
area critics award), Old Times. Thick description:
Richard III, Blade to the Heat. Mr. callender is the
recipient of several dean Goodman awards, an
elly award, SF Bay Guardian Goldie award and
the East Bay Express best of the east bay award.
Mr. callender is the artistic director of africanamerican
shakespeare company, san Francisco.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of
Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the
United States.
WHO’S WHO
MArGO HALL*
(Delia, Ensemble)
Ms. hall makes her cal
shakes Main stage debut
in Spunk. her recent
credits include Seven
Guitars at Marin Theatre,
Fabulation for lorraine
hansberry Theatre,
Marcus; or the Secret
of Sweet and Once in a Lifetime at a.c.T., and
Trouble in Mind at the aurora Theatre. hall is a
founding member of campo santo, the resident
theater company at intersection for the arts,
where she has directed and acted in over 15
productions including plays by chinaka hodge,
Jessica hagedorn, Naomi iizuka, philip Gotanda,
Octavio solis, and many more. in 2005, her
Will Glickman award-winning play The People’s
Temple (co-authored by leigh Fondakowski,
Greg pierrotti, and stephen Wangh) premiered
at berkeley rep. she has also performed at
arena stage, Olney Theater, and source Theater
in Washington, d.c. and the Guthrie Theater in
Minneapolis, and has toured France with Word
for Word.
OMOZé iDEHENrE*
(Missie May, Ensemble,
Dance Captain)
Ms. idehenre was
previously seen on the
cal shakes stage as lady
Macduff, Wyrd sister,
and others in Macbeth
(2010). she holds an
MFa from american
conservatory Theater and is a member of their
core acting company. regional/Triad stage: A
Streetcar Named Desire, The Matchmaker. a.c.T.:
Clybourne Park, Scorched, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Scapin,
Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, The Critic, or a
Tragedy Rehearsed, Macbeth, Hamlet, Increased
Difficulty of Concentration, The Mutilated, Blues
for an Alabama Sky, The Flattering Word. Other
credits include Seven Guitars at Marin Theatre
company; Welcome Home Jenny Sutter at
TheatreFirsT; and Our Lady of 121st Street,
Death and the King’s Horseman, and Home at
university of North carolina.
ANtHONY MiCHAEL
PEtErSON, A.K.A.
trU
(Guitar Man, Ensemble,
Additional Music)
Mr. peterson is a guitarist,
singer-songwriter,
orchestrator, and music
producer who has been
a faculty member at
the berkeley college of Music and allen Temple
baptist church, and is currently on the faculty
of Vibo Music center, east bay school for the
performing arts, and east bay Waldorf school.
he worked with spike lee as a songwriter for
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