Cast Bios
Anique Clements (Octavia, Cinna)
New York Classical Theatre (Artistic Associate): All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry IV. A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Resident Acting Company); As You Like It (Smith Street Stage); The Savage Queen (National Black Theatre); Unheard Voices (American Slavery Project); Fefu and Her Friends (Stella Adler Studio of Acting). Regional: Skeleton Crew (Shadowland Stages); The Last Match, Babel, The Nether (Florida Studio Theatre); Cymbeline, The Scottish Play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry VI: The Rise of Richard (Great River Shakespeare Festival). Three year conservatory training at the Stella Adler School of Acting and BS in Human Services from University of Delaware.
Paul Deo, Jr. (Mark Antony)
New York Classical Theatre: All’s Well That Ends Well (Bertram). New York: Troilus and Cressida (The Public Theater). Regional: Metamorphoses (Berkshire Theatre Group); The Importance of Being Earnest (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Theatre Company); The Glass Menagerie (Arizona Theatre Company); A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theater); Hamlet (Chicago Shakespeare); Dangerous Liaisons (Baltimore Center Stage). TV/Film: “Almost Family,” “Animation State,” “Elsbeth,” “High Maintenance,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Set It Up.” BA from Wesleyan University & MFA from NYU-TISCH.
Ian Gould (Metellus, Titiniuss)
New York Classical Theatre (Artistic Associate): Romeo & Juliet (2025 with Prague Shakespeare Festival, 2018: Tybalt, Nurse, Friar Lawrence), Henry IV (Glendower, Westmoreland), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), The Winter’s Tale (Shepherd), Measure for Measure (Elbow). Off-Broadway: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Connecticut Yankee… (The Acting Company); The Show-Off (Peccadillo Theatre Company). Regional includes: Guthrie Theater, Public Theatre of Maine, Theatre at Monmouth, Shakespeare on the Sound, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Baltimore Center Stage, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater, Luna Stage. International: Romeo and Juliet (Prague Shakespeare Company); Shooter (Theatre Konstanz, Germany/TAK, Liechtenstein). Film: “Bad Actor”, “Off Book.” Training: MFA, Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy, BFA, NYU/Tisch. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Nafeesa Monroe (Calpurnia, Trebonius, Messala)
New York Classical Theatre debut. New York: Proof (Classics in Color & Quicksilver Theatre Company). International: Trouble in Mind, Cyrano, Sonny’s Blues (Shaw Festival). Regional: Kudzu Calling (Alabama Shakespeare Company); Still (Premiere Stages); Top Girls (A.C.T.); Sweat (Pioneer Theatre Company); Disgraced (Pittsburgh Public Theatre). TV/Film: “Manifest,” “The Punisher,” “Blue Bloods,” “HBO’s Def Poetry.”  MFA from The Academy for Classical Acting at GW University, BA from Wesleyan University (CT), graduate of The Meisner School of Acting. Nafeesa is the founder and Artistic Director of Classics in Color: An INclusive Theatre Company.
Carine Montbertrand (Cassius)
New York Classical Theatre (Artistic Associate): All’s Well That Ends Well (Countess/Widow), Henry IV (Mistress Quickly, Worcester). Off-Broadway: Resident Acting Company, Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Acting Company, Soho Rep. Regional: Tales from the Guttenberg Bible (George Street/Bay Street Theatre); Comedy of Tenors (Florida Rep); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Baltimore Center Stage); Private Lives (Hartford Stage); A Flea in her Ear (Westport Country Playhouse); Fool (Alley Theatre); Sherlock Holmes, Othello (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Pioneer; Rep/Shakespeare St. Louis, ATL, UDRep. Audiobooks: Recorded Books, Penguin Random House Audio, Audible. TV/ Film: “Neuman,” “The Red Shoe,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “As the World Turns.”
Oneika Phillips (Brutus)
New York Classical Theatre debut. Broadway: FELA!, 1776, Spongebob Squarepants, Amazing Grace, Violet (Asst. Choreographer). Off-Broadway: Black No More (Signature Theatre); Watch Night (Perelman Arts Center–PAC NYC); Movies, TV Mayhem (Theatre Row); Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. Regional: Merry Wives (Shakespeare Theatre Company DC); A Room In the Castle (Folger Shakespeare Library); 1776 (American Repertory Theatre). *National/^International Tours: *1776; ^West Side Story; *^FELA!. Television: “The Tonys,” “Macy’s Day Parade,” “Spongebob Squarepants The Musical,” “GMA.” Honors: Astaire Award Outstanding Female Dancer/Ensemble (Broadway - FELA!), CBN Island Icon Arts Excellence Nominee, First Grenadian Woman on Broadway.
Briana Gibson Reeves (Portia, Ligarius, Cinna the Poet, Strato)
New York Classical Theatre (Artistic Associate): All’s Well That Ends Well (Lavatch, Lady B Dumaine), Henry IV (Lady Percy, Bardolph), Richard III (King Edward IV, Catesby, Archbishop). Off-Broadway: Made by God (Irish Repertory Theatre). National Tour: Amazing Grace. Regional: Becky Nurse of Salem (Capital Rep); Flyin’ West (Everyman Theatre); Stick Fly (Meadow Brook Theatre); As You Like It, Jane Austen’s Emma, Man of La Mode, Richard III (American Shakespeare Center); Moliere’s Don Juan (Taffety Punk). MFA from Academy of Classical Acting at George Washington University and BS Hampton University.
Nick Salamone (Soothsayer, Lucius, Casca, Lepidus)
New York Classical Theatre (Artistic Associate): All’s Well That Ends Well (King of France), Henry IV (King Henry IV), Cymbeline (Cymbeline), King Lear (2021: Gloucester, 2009: Cornwall), Romeo & Juliet (Capulet, Mercutio), The Rivals (Sir Lucius O'Tigger), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Egeus, Peter Quince, Fairy), The Taming of the Shrew (Baptista), As You Like It (Duke Frederick, Corin), The Seagull (Dorn), Playing Moliere (Moliere, La Grange, Sganarelle), The Tempest (Antonio), The School for Husbands (Sganarelle), Twelfth Night (Sea Captain, Fabian), Henry V (Archbishop of Canterbury), Richard III (Stanley), Hamlet (Marcellus, Player King, Priest). New York: Loyalty (Hudson Guild, Summerfest Best Actor Award); Macbeth 3 (HERE); Hillary Agonistes (Bleecker Street); Nightshift (Westbeth); Design for Living (Masterworks). Los Angeles: SWIPE (TicketHolder Award, best solo performance), Billy Boy, Red Hat & Tales, Riffs & Credos, Whale Watchers (Playwrights’ Arena); Dogeaters (Kirk Douglas, Backstage West nom.); Arturo Ui (Classical Theatre Lab, Backstage West nom.); Glengarry Glen Ross (Egyptian Arena); The Tempest (Taper Amphitheatre); Medea (Boston Court); Garden (Coast Playhouse); All Souls’ Day (Heliotrope, LA Weekly nom.); The Dying Gaul, Barefoot Boy, Kennedy’s Children. UK: Red Hat & Tales (British Stage Award nom.); Macbeth, Bill and Eddie, Sherlock Holmes: The Three Students. Film: “Nine Lives”, “All Kinds of Love” (Best Ensemble, Long Beach QFilm Festival).
Clay Storseth (Julius Cæsar)
New York Classical Theatre (Artistic Associate): Romeo & Juliet (2025 with Prague Shakespeare Festival, 2018: Montague, Paris, Apothecary), All’s Well That Ends Well (Lafeu), Henry IV (Assistant Voice & Speech Coach), King Lear (2020: Albany, 2009: Albany), The Importance of Being Earnest (Two Ways: Miss Prism, Dr. Chasuble), Macbeth (Banquo), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus/Oberon), Measure for Measure (Duke Vincentio), As You Like It (Jaques), The Tempest (Alonso), Twelfth Night (Orsino), Henry V (Exeter), Richard III (King Edward IV), Hamlet (Barnardo, Player Queen, Osric), Cymbeline (Pisanio), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Don Armado). Regional: The Waterfront Playhouse, A Noise Within, Laguna Playhouse, Musical Theater West, ICT, and Will & Company. Playwright’s Arena’s world premiere of Three (Tuzenbach) by Nick Salamone. Clay has been in nine productions at the Edinburgh Fringe, including Nick Salamone’s Fringe First Award winning musical Moscow. TV/Film: “Star Trek: Voyager.” Clay is a CalArts Grad.
Stephen Burdman (Director)
New York Classical Theatre: Romeo & Juliet (2025 with Prague Shakespeare Festival, 2018), All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry IV, Richard III, The Rewards of Being Frank (co-produced with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company), Cymbeline, King Lear (2021, 2020 Zoom workshop, 2009); The Importance of Being Earnest (Two Ways, 2019 Best Show TheatreScene.net), Macbeth (2017, 2008, 2001), The Rivals, The Winter’s Tale (2016, 2004), Measure for Measure, As You Like It (2014, 2005), The Seagull, Malvolio’s Revenge (workshop), A {15-Min!} Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night (2012, 2002), Playing Moliere, Henry V (New York Times Critic’s Pick), The School for Husbands, Much Ado About Nothing (2010, 2003), Hamlet, Misalliance, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Comedy of Errors, Mary Stuart, Scapin, The Feigned Courtesans, The Triumph of Love, The Taming of the Shrew, King Ubu, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Producer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, The Rover, Richard III, Cymbeline, The Recruiting Officer, All’s Well That Ends Well. Selected productions: Cymbeline (NYU), The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Waiting for Godot, Hamlet (Outstanding Production 1994 Season, Los Angeles Times), Three Sisters. MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and graduate of the National Theater Institute. Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society since 1994. Recipient of 2022 Sidney Berger award from the Shakespeare Theatre Association for outstanding talent and commitment to the works of William Shakespeare. All my love to Adena (my wife) and son, Zeke, who are the guiding stars of my life.
Garvin Hastings (Production Designer)
New York Classical Theatre: All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry IV. New York: Hungry Women (Soho Playhouse); The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue, The Shadow of a Gunman, An Domstol/En Anderssen, Pericles (NYU Tisch). Regional: Frankenstein (Studio Tenn Theatre Company); The Crucible, On The Lake (Syracuse Stage). TV/Film: “Major Barbara,” “Floating Carousel.” MFA from NYU Tisch and BFA from Syracuse University.