Barbara Adrian: NY Classical: 16 production since 2004. Barbara is a Professor of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College. Barbara is also a freelance voice, text, dialect, and movement coach in regional and New York theatres, coaching shows directed by Stephen Burdman, Robert Brustein, Margret Milgrom Dodge, Tina Landau, David Rabe, and Liz Swados. She is the author of Actor Training the Laban Way: An Integrated Approach to Voice, Speech, and Movement (Allworth Press, 2008), co-editor of the second edition of Movement for Actors (Allworth Press, 2016) and co-author of The Laban Workbook for Actors (Bloomsbury/Methuen, 2018). MFA Brooklyn College, Certified Movement Analyst in Laban Movement Analysis.

Andrea Andresakis: NY Classical: The Importance of Being Earnest (Two Ways), Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Malvolio’s Revenge, Playing Moliere, Much Ado About Nothing. More than 100 productions as a choreographer and/or director, including: NYC: My Purple Wig and Spandex (Off-Broadway); Little Shop of Horrors (St. Clement’s); The Little Prince (Merkin Concert Hall); Lola Luning’s First Steps (Abingdon); Fahrenheit 451 (Wings); The Egg Project (NYC International Fringe Festival); Star Spangled Girl (Playwrights Horizons). Andrea has held residencies in Europe, India, China, Japan, and Alaska. Awards include grants and honors from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, The Kennedy Center, and Dance/NYC. andresakis.com.

Ian Antal: New York Classical Theatre : Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, As You Like It, A {15-Min!} Christmas Carol, The Seagull, Twelfth Night, Playing Molière, Henry V. Regional/International: Alice in Wonderland, Diaspora, The Nutcracker (Hudson Ballet Theatre); Aesop's Fables (Jim West Puppet Productions); Emil und die Detektive (Stella Theater, Berlin); What Next?, Verdi's Macbeth, Von Heute auf Morgen (Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin). Educational: Two Shakespearean Actors, Hamlet, On the Razzle, Saint Joan. BFA from University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Ian loves his lady, Sarah. 

Kristen Calgaro: NY Classical: Cymbeline, It Can’t Happen Here (reading), Three Sisters (reading); The Importance of Being Earnest (Two Ways), The Rivals, Malvolio’s Revenge (workshop), Playing Moliere, Much Ado About Nothing. New York: Mourning Becomes Electra (Target Margin); Brigadoon (Broadway workshop). National Tour: Dr. Dolittle with Tommy Tune. Selected Regional: Dancing at Lughnasa (Barnstormers); Boeing-Boeing (Totem Pole Playhouse); The Understudy (Cape May Stage); And the Curtain Rises (Signature Theatre); Broadway: 3 Generations (The Kennedy Center); The Glass Menagerie (Bay Theatre). Film: Kumare (SXSW Audience Award), Exeunt (HBO's NYFF). Directing: AMiOS, New York Theater Festival, The Tank. BA Religious Studies/Spanish, University of Virginia. kristencalgaro.com

L. Peter Callender: NY Classical: NY Classical Loves New York, It Can’t Happen Here (reading). Peter is the Artistic Director of African-American Shakespeare Company in San Francisco, California. His extensive theater credits extend from Broadway to the San Francisco Bay and many stops in between. Already multi-award-winning actor and director, Peter’s first venture as a playwright, Strange Courtesies, will be presented at San Jose Stage (February, 2021). He has just completed taping Satchmo at the Waldorf (Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong) for American Stage Company in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he’s been a resident actor/director for the past 6 years (Jitney, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, A Raisin in the Sun, Pipeline, Skeleton Crew, and played Walter "Pops" Washington in Between Riverside and Crazy. lpetercallender.com

Christopher Cass: NY Classical: Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing. NY/LA credits: Helen (Getty Villa); Rounding Third (STW); Jerusalem (NoHo Arts); Gaining Ground (Ark Theatre); RFK (Off-B’way). Selected: Tuesdays With Morrie (Arkansas Rep); Chapter Two (American Stage); All My Sons (Odyssey Theatre); Stand-Up Tragedy (Broadway & Mark Taper); Sleepwalk (Playwright’s Arena); Bill & Eddie (Edinburgh Fringe). TV/Film: “ER,” “The One,” “Like Family,” “Tucker,” “Fired Up,” “Night Court,” “Someone To Watch Over Me,” “83 Hours 'til Dawn,” “All My Children,” “Loving,” “As The World Turns,” “Trail of Tears,” “Boxboarders,” “The Family Plan,” “The Drive.” Senior Instructor for Acting for Film at the New York Film Academy-LA. Directed: “Scrubbers,” official entry in the 2014 Cannes Short Film Festival Corner.

Connie Castanzo: NY Classical: King Lear (2021, 2020 Zoom workshop), Three Sisters (reading), The Importance of Being Earnest (Two Ways), Romeo & Juliet, The Rivals, As You Like It. NYC: Gigi (Storm Theatre); Diaspora (Gym at Judson); Time Stands Still (Theatre for the New City); City Girls & Desperadoes (The Secret Theatre). Regional: The Wolves (BCT); Lost Boy Found in Wholefoods (Pittsburgh REP); Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Capital REP). Winner of “Best Actress in a Play” in BroadwayWorld 2019 Regional Awards. Connie was born and raised in Scranton, PA (yes, home of “The Office” & Joe Biden!) and she received her BFA in Acting from Point Park Conservatory of Performing Arts. Connie is also an animation voice over artist and postpartum doula. NY Classical has always been another home for her—she is so proud & honored to represent as an Artistic Associate.

Sean Michael Chin: NY Classical: Cymbeline, King Lear (2021, 2020 Zoom workshop), Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, and Henry V. Sean is a fight director, stage combat teacher, and combat performer in NYC. Other projects in NYC include: Dracula (Classic Stage Company); Hooded; or Being Black for Dummies (The Juillard School); Coriolanus (The Public Theatre). Sean is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and teaches at Long Island University CW Post, Pace University, and Neutral Chaos Combat. He is also an Associate Choreographer with SDC. seanmichaelchin.com SAFD Profile IG: @SeanMichaelChin

Will Dixon: NY Classical: It Can’t Happen Here (reading), Macbeth. Other Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, The Liars, Othello (LA Classical Theater Lab); Rumors (Neil Simon); Damn Skippy (Theaterworks); The Peacock Men (Company of Angels); Henry IV (LA Shakespeare Co.); The Importance of Being Earnest (24th Street Theater). Film/TV: “The Reckoning,” “Secret Santa,” “Shot,” “I See You.com,” “I Got The Hook Up,” “Final Decision,” “Risk.” TV: “Scandal,” “Vegas,” “Days of Our Lives,” “Seinfeld,” “Charmed.”

Dan Domingues: NY Classical: NY Classical Loves NY, Force of Habit (reading), Cymbeline. Off-Broadway: The Public (The Tempest, Wild Goose Dreams, Fidelis, The Great Immensity), Gingold Group, Sheen Center, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Abingdon Theatre, BAM, 59E59 Theaters, INTAR, Atlantic Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre. Regional: Alley Theatre, White Heron Theatre Company, Arena Stage, The Guthrie, Goodman, NY Stage & Film, Hangar Theatre, Studio Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Weston Playhouse, Kansas City Rep, Rep of St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre, Long Wharf, Florida Stage, Portland Stage, George Street Playhouse. Film/TV: “Run All Night,” “Future ’38,” “In Stereo,” “5A5B,” “West 40s,” “The Blacklist,” “Royal Pains,” “Law & Order.” MFA from A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard. Associate Artist: The Civilians, NY Classical Theatre. Creator and co-host of Hot Date, a podcast for movie fans. IG: domdan13 Facebook Twitter: @DominguesDan

Sarita Fellows: NY Classical: Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure. Sartia’s selected credits include: A Bright Room Called Day (The Public Theater); Native Son (The Acting Co); Original Sound (Cherry Lane Theater); Hatef**k (The Women’s Project); A Chronicle of the Death of Two World (New York Theater Workshop); Fur, MUD, Prospect, and Fabuloso! (The Boundless Theater Co). Her regional credits include: Top Girls, Her Portmaneau (A.C.T); The Royale (Arizona Theater Co); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (The Signature Theatre); Pipeline (Studio Theatre); The African School Girl Play (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Haunted Life (M.R.T); Two Trains Running (Weston Playhouse); Berta Berta, A Late Morning with Reagan (C.A.T.F); Having Our Say (Philadelphia Theater Co). Lecturer Princeton University. Associate Professor NYU@ Playwrights. MFA NYU/Tisch.

Ian Gould: NY Classical: Three Sisters (reading), The African Company Presents Richard III (reading), Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure. Other Off-Broadway credits include: The Acting Company, and Peccadillo Theater Company. Regional credits include: Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Baltimore Centerstage, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Luna Stage, Theatre Konstanz, TAK Liechtenstein, Great Lakes Theater, and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. He is on the faculty of the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and has guest directed at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. MFA, Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy for Classical Acting, BFA NYU/Tisch.

Stephanie Klapper: NY Classical: 38 productions since 2003. Stephanie is euphoric to continue her collaboration with New York Classical Theatre and Stephen Burdman. Her work is often seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, internationally, and on television, film, and the internet. Stephanie continues her long collaborations with numerous companies such as New York Classical Theatre, Mint Theatre Company, Primary Stages, Masterworks, Resonance Ensemble, Capital Rep, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, American Players Theatre, amongst many others. Recent projects include: The Importance of Being Earnest (Two Ways), Maverick, Actually We’re F…ed, Daniel’s Husband, Final Follies, Days to Come, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, The Saintliness of Margery Kempe, Romeo and Juliet, A Letter to Harvey Milk, Red Roses, Green Gold, Pride and Prejudice.

Dr. Joan Melton: NY Classical: 16 productions since 2007. Joan is a leading researcher in cross-disciplinary performance techniques and a pioneer in the integration of singing and voice/movement training for actors. The author of three groundbreaking textbooks, she has worked as a performer, composer, voice coach and/or music director on productions in virtually all media. Joan has taught at leading centers of drama and music in the US, UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand, is on the Editorial Board of Australian Voice, and is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre, California State University Fullerton. joanmelton.com

John Michalski: New York Classical Theatre (Artistic Associate): King Lear, Hamlet, Playing Moliere, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Tempest, The Seagull, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, A {15-Min!} Christmas Carol. Broadway: Herzl (opp. Paul Hecht); Gorey Stories (dir. Tony Tanner). Off-Broadway: Under My Skin, Homer’s Odyssey (Handcart Ensemble); Gross Indecency: The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde (Minetta Lane), Regional: One Man, Two Guvnors (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), The Crucible (Pioneer Theatre, Salt Lake City) Dracula (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park & Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). John is a Group II graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division. 

Evan Moore-Coll: NY Classical: Cymbeline, King Lear, It Can't Happen Here (reading), Macbeth. New York: How to Gild an Eagle (Columbia New Plays Festival), Pastel Color Ripples (The Tank). Evan was raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, and received his BFA in Acting from Otterbein University.

Kevin Orton: NY Classical: Three Sisters (reading), The Rivals, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing. Broadway: Amadeus (directed by Sir Peter Hall). NYC: The Public and others. Regional: Guthrie, Ahmanson, Cincinnati Playhouse, and others. Tours: The Acting Company (4 seasons). Film/TV: “Wu Tang: American Saga,” “Blacklist,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Law & Order,” “Darwin,” “One Take,” “Dakota.” Audio: Long list of titles for Recorded Books. World Premieres: Lynn Nottage’s Mud River Stone, Tammy Ryan’s Molly’s Hammer. Music: Everything from opening for Violent Femmes to original music for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Front man of cult Gothic Americana band, The Maledictions. Training: Juilliard.

Andy Paterson: NY Classical: Three Sisters (reading), Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing. A.R.T. (Endlings, Sammi Cannold), Bucks County Playhouse, McCarter Theatre (Daniel Fish), La MaMa ETC (Liz Swados), Yale Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (KJ Sanchez), Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Paper Mill Playhouse, North Shore Music Theatre, Great Lakes Theater, Geva Theatre Center, Virginia Stage Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Pioneer Theatre Company, Florida Studio Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, among others. Proud Equity member since 1994.

Jon Lawrence Rivera: NY Classical: NY Classical Loves NY. John directed Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro at The Theatre @ Boston Court (and its original 2008 workshop at the Getty Villa). Other recent works include The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown (with an Asian-American cast at East West Players), Miss Saigon, Tragically Rotund by Boni B. Alvarez, Laws Of Sympathy by Oliver Mayer, The Joy Luck Club by Susan Kim, Sea Change by Nick Salamone (2009 LA Weekly Award for Direction), The Third From The Left by Jean Colonomos (2008 NY Fringe Festival), Hillary Agonistes by Nick Salamone (2007 NY Fringe Festival Award for Outstanding Direction), Havana Bourgeois by Carlos Lacamara (2008 GLAAD nomination), Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn (Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre), Songs for a New World (Rubicon Theatre), Conjunto by Oliver Mayer, References To Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot by José Rivera, the Sondheim/Lapine musical Into The Woods, and Barefoot Boy With Shoes On by Edwin Sanchez. A four-time Ovation Award nominee, he is the Founding Artistic Director of Playwrights’ Arena, and his productions have garnered over 100 local and international awards.

Jamila Sabares-Klemm: NY Classical: King Lear (2020 Zoom workshop), Macbeth. Jamila is a Filipino-American activist, actor, and singer. She most recently starred as Eliza Hamilton in the Hit Broadway Musical Hamilton at the CIBC Theatre in Chicago. Recent Credits include: Hair (First National Tour), The Prince of Egypt (World Premiere), Rent, Miss Saigon, The King and I, Spamalot, and In the Heights. Offstage, Jamila is an active member of different grassroots movements. She works to be an ally and supporter alongside those who’ve been deeply affected by systemic oppression around the world. Her mission is to use her voice, body, and work as a vessel for change.

Nick Salamone: NY Classical: Cymbeline, King Lear (2021, 2020 Zoom workshop, 2009),NY Classical Loves NY, Three Sisters (reading), Romeo & Juliet, The Rivals, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, The Tempest, The Seagull, Malvolio’s Revenge (workshop), Twelfth Night, Playing Moliere, Henry V, The School for Husbands, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, and Hamlet. New York: Macbeth 3 (Here); Hillary Agonistes (Bleecker Street); Nightshift (Westbeth); Preggin and Liss (Raft); We Bombed in New Haven, Lorca (Art/Work Ensemble). LA: Billy Boy, Red Hat & Tales, Riffs & Credos (Playwrights’ Arena); Glengarry Glen Ross (Egyptian); Dogeaters (Kirk Douglas); The Tempest (Taper Amphitheatre); Coriolanus (Strasberg); Arturo Ui, The Libertine (Classical Theatre Lab). Regional: Medea (Boston Court); Find Your Way Home (Alley Theatre); 2 (ICT). UK: Sherlock Holmes, Macbeth (Edinburgh). Award Nominations: British Stage, LA Weekly, 4 Backstage West Garlands. Nick is a published playwright and a member of the Board of New York Classical Theatre.

Sid Solomon: NY Classical: A {15-Min} Christmas Carol (stage manager), The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It. National Tour: The Play That Goes Wrong. Other Off-Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong (New World Stages), Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet (The Acting Company). Regional: Guthrie Theater, Virginia Stage, Northern Stage, Riverside Theatre, Florida Studio, Florida Stage, Florida Rep, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Theatre Raleigh, Mill Mountain Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare, Minneapolis' Children's Theatre Company. TV: “Law & Order,” Training: University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program; LaGuardia Arts High School, New York. Proud Member, Actors' Equity Association. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram: @sidsolomon

Tina Stafford: Dr. Chasuble/Miss Prism in NYClassical’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Queen Elizabeth in Richard III. She spent two years on the road with the First National Tour of the Broadway musical Once. Most recently onstage: Murder on the Orient Express and Into the Breeches at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota Florida. Others: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Buck’s County Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed Musicals, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Kansas City Rep, and the Utah, Texas and Maine Shakespeare Festivals, among many others.  

Yetti Steinman: NY Classical: Cymbeline, King Lear (2021, 2020 Zoom workshop),, It Can’t Happen Here (reading), The Importance of Being Earnest (reading), Three Sisters (reading), Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, The Rivals, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, A {15-Min!} Christmas Carol, The Tempest. Broadway: The Father (MTC). Off-Broadway: Popcorn Falls (dir. Christian Borle); Drama League Director’s Festival; The Ruins of Civilization, Taking Care of Baby (MTC); The Gravedigger’s Lullaby, She Stoops to Conquer, Hard Love (TACT); A Man’s A Man (CSC); The Jammer (Atlantic). Other: The Enlightenment of Mr. Mole (B.H. Barry Production); A Streetcar Named Desire, She Stoops to Conquer, Three Hotels (Williamstown). TV Script Dept.: Oscars, Grammy Red Carpet, SpaceX Launch, BET Awards, Macy’s Parade, NASCAR Awards.

Clay Storseth: NY Classical: King Lear (2021, 2009), NY Classical Loves NY, King Lear (2020 Zoom workshop, assistant voice coach), Three Sisters (reading), The Importance of Being Earnest (Two Ways), Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Henry V, Richard III, Hamlet, Cymbeline, Love’s Labour’s Lost. New York: Moscow (Chekhov Now/NY Original Cast CD). Regional: Corpus Christi (I Am Love Tour); Measure for Measure, Oh! Pioneers (A Noise Within); Joined at the Head (Laguna Playhouse); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Musical Theatre West); Song of Singapore (ICT). LA: Richard III, Cymbeline (Will & Co.); Sea Change (LA Weekly Award Nom.); King Lear (dir. Patsy Rodenburg); Into the Woods (Actor’s CoOp); All Souls Day (Playwrights’ Arena); Chess (Blank). Edinburgh: Dierdre (Queen’s Hall); Moscow (Assembly, Fringe First & Audience Favorite Award); Macbeth (Greyfriar’s Kirkyard); Riffs & Credos, Whale Watchers, Weho (French Institute). TV: “Star Trek: Voyager.” MFA Cal Arts.

Julia Sverchuk is a Moscow-born, NY-based multidisciplinary artist, trained in illustration and reportage drawing (Parsons, Dalvero Academy) and ceramics. As a reportage artist, Julia has been documenting live events for almost two decades, ranging from performances, protests and technology conferences to a four-year-long restoration of a whale ship at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. Julia’s drawings have been commissioned by NY Classical Theatre, MontBlanc, Canson Paper, and Princeton University Concerts. She’s had her work featured in “Reportage and Documentary Drawing” by Veronica Lawlor (Quarry Books) and exhibited at Mystic Seaport Museum. juliasverchuk.com