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Julius Caesar Program — NY Classical Theatre
 

Cast & Crew Bios

 
 

Anique Clements (Flavius, Cinna, Octavia)

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. @aniqueclements

 

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 (Murellus, Metellus, Titinius)

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. 

 

Nafessa 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.