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GAGE HALLApril 11–27www.holycityshakespeare.org

Adapted & Directed by Laura Rose

HOLY CITYSHAKESPEARE

HAMLETby William Shakespeare

Adapted and Directed by Laura Rose

CastHamlet, son to the late & nephew to the present king Craig TrowClaudius, King of Denmark Mark Poremba Polonius, Lord Chamberlain; Gravedigger George YountsHoratio, friend to Hamlet Tara DentonLaertes, son to Polonius Brendan KellyOphelia, daughter to Polonius Maggie BordenGertrude, Queen of Denmark & mother to Hamlet Laura RoseGhost of Hamlet’s Father Paul O’BrienRosencrantz, Hamlet’s childhood friend Steven CardinalGuildenstern, Hamlet’s childhood friend Larry PerewiznykOsric, a courtier Emma StarkReporter, Card Player, Gentleman, Priest, Fortinbras John BryanCameraman, Card Player, Sailor, 2nd Gravedigger Chris PertgenQueen’s dresser Erica Rowley

The MousetrapPlayer King Paul O’BrienPlayer Queen Jennifer MettsLucianus Daniel Kuhn

CreativesCo-Director Chris MarinoTechnical Director, Stage Manager Melanie WoodSound Designer John O’NeillCostumer Erica RowleyFight Choreographer JC ConwayVideographer (The Mousetrap) James Heyward Run Crew and Front of House Student interns, Trident Technical College Elsinore is the center of power and politics in Denmark. Prince Hamlet has avoided the place—and his responsibilities—for years, choosing to remain a perpetual student in Wittenberg rather than join a world in which he doesn’t fit... and of which he’s not sure he approves. Now, unfettered ambition corrupts its halls, betrayals and secret plots become commonplace, and no one makes a peep of protest. But when a father’s murder prompts even the universe to cry for justice, Hamlet must learn to leave the sidelines of history and to make a stand.Performed in the intimate space of Gage Hall, Holy City Shakespeare’s Hamlet invites the audience within the walls of Elsinore to bear witness to this tragic political thriller.

This project was funded by:

Anonymous Foundation The Kelly Foundation

The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs &the City of North Charleston Cultural Arts Program,

through their joint administration of the Lowcountry Quarterly Arts Grant Program &

the SC Arts Commision, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts and

the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of SC

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Maggie BordenTraining/Ed: Stella Adler Studio of Acting Summer Conservatory; BA, Wofford Col-lege; American Shakespeare CenterHCS: Maria, Twelfth Night; Margaret, Much Ado About NothingTheatre: A Christmas Carol (Village Rep); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Threshold Rep); I Oughta Be In Pictures (South of Broadway); Red Noses, Freakshow, Big Love (Wofford); Urinetown, Reefer Mad-ness (Pulp Theatre)

John BryanTraining/Ed: BA Theatre Performance & Direction, Winthrop UniversityTheatre: Rock Hill Community Theatre,Fort Mill Community Playhouse, Shake-speare Carolina, IMPROV THIS!, Charlotte Comedy Zone

Steven Cardinal Training/Ed: Theatre 99Theatre: Every Christmas Story Ever Told, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Threshold Rep); Perfectly Normel People (Piccolo Spoleto)Film: My Sister Sam (Terrible Parrot Films)

JC ConwayTraining/Ed: BFA Media & Theatre Arts, Montana StateTheatre: Bug, Matt & Ben (Footlight); Three Musketeers (Porter-Gaud); Robber Bridegroom, Lt. of Innishmore (Threshold Rep); Taming of the Shrew (Theatre \verv\); Carmen (South of Broadway); Poe:Back From the Grave (Creative Spark); King Lear (Actors Theatre of Charleston); Blessed Assurance (So. Appalaichian Rep)Film: Cold Soldiers (Clandestine Films); Volition (Stage & Screen Prod)

Tara DentonTraining/Ed: Commedia del’Arte, Doug Berkey; HCS: Maria, Twelfth Night; Antonia, Much Ado About NothingTheatre: Motherf***ker with the Hat, In the Next Room (Vibrator Play), UP, Killer Joe, Lowcountry Boil (PURE); Hearts Full of Blood (WhatIf?); Proof (Midtown/Sheri Grace); Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Mac-beth, Julius Caesar, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antigone (CofC Shakespeare Project). CA- Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Henry IV Part I, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Coriolanus (Poor Players)

Brendan Kelly Training/Ed: BFA, DePaul Univ.HCS: Don John, Much Ado About NothingTheatre: Three Sisters (Threshold Rep); Sprouts Children’s Theatre; A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre), Miss Julie (Athenaeum Theatre); NY: Charlotte’s Web (NY Children’s Theatre Festival), Cries and Whispers (Terra Firma).

Christopher J MarinoTraining/Ed: BFA Bard College; Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts, Lon-don; MFA Shakespeare Theatre Academy for Classical ActingHCS: Coach, Much Ado About NothingSelected Credits:Director: London: Old Red Lion, Rose Bruford; NY: Soho Rep, Stella Adler; IL: Piccolo Theatre, Illinois State; DC/MD: Taffety Punk, UMBCActor: DC: Shakespeare Theatre, Taffety Punk; Utah Shakespearean Festival; Kansas City Shakespeare Festival; Illinois Shakespeare FestivalArtistic Dir.: Baltimore Shakespeare FestivalText Coach/Master Classes: Shake-speare Theatre, Hoosier Bard, Oxford Shakespeare, Right Brain Project, Redis-cover Theatre

Jennifer MettsTheatre: Charleston Stage, Footlight Play-ers, and Charleston Guerrilla Theater; Tony ‘n Tina’s Wedding, Cabaret (Midtown/Sheri Grace); A Christmas Story (Village Rep); Kepler (Spoleto); The House that Jack Built (CofC, Piccolo Spoleto); The Music Man, The Wiz, No Sex Please We’re British, Applause (Spartanburg Little Theatre)

Paul O’Brien Theatre: Three Sisters (Threshold Rep); All’s Well That Ends Well (CofC Shake-speare Project); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Footlight)

John O’NeillTheatre: Educating Rita, Over the River and Through the Woods, Last Train to Nibroc, Greater Tuna, Tell Me on a Sunday (Midtown/Sheri Grace)

Chris PertgenTheatre: Hamlet is Mr. Pertgen’s debut performance. Welcome Chris!

Larry PerewiznykTheatre: Improv comedy (Theatre99), Ev-

ery Christmas Story Ever Told (Threshold Rep), Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (Misfit Boy Productions)Film: Weekend Warriors, The Man Who Shot God, VooDoo Love Brush, Document-ing The Grey Man

Mark PorembaTraining/Ed: Meisner, Doug Farwell; Strasberg Affective Memory, Barry Fein-stein; Acting for the Camera, Steve Yeager; Summer Residency (Theatre on the Hill)HCS: Duke Orsino, Twelfth Night; Don Pedro, Much Ado About Nothing Theatre: A Steady Rain, I Oughta Be in Pictures, Dirty Blonde (South of Broad-way); Yankee Tavern (PURE); Taming of the Shrew (Theatre \verv\); Sea Marks (Footlight). Chicago: Telltale Heart, Waiting for Godot (Excalibur Shakespeare Co.). Balitmore: Sight Unseen, Anna of the Tropics (Fells Point Corner Theatre), The Dinner Party, View From A Bridge (Vag-abond), Royal Hunt of the Sun (Spotlight-ers). Annapolis, MD: Picnic, Barefoot in the Park (Bay Theatre Co.). Johnson City, TN: Streetcar Named Desire (Highland Theatrical Co.).

Laura RoseTraining/Ed: MA Shakespeare Institute, UK; Doctoral Rhetoric, Catholic Univ. of America; RSC: Masterclass, John Barton; Workshops, Cis Berry, Andrew Wade, Cathleen McCarron, Struan Lesley, Sue Lefton, Tom Jordan; Shakespeare Theatre: Chris Marino.HCS: Founder & Artistic Director; Dir., Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night; Viola, Twelfth NightTheatre: Midsummer Night’s Dream (U/S- Folger Shakespeare Theatre, DC); Women Beware Women (Shakespeare Institute UK), Richard III (CofC Shakespeare Proj-ect); Taming of the Shrew (Theatre \verv\); Superior Donuts (PURE), I Oughta Be in Pictures (South of Broadway), Sea Marks (Footlight); Baltimore: Dinner Party (Vagabond); Sight Unseen (FPCT); Alexan-dria: Vera (Signature Theatre); Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Adding Machine (St. Andrews University)Film/TV: Timeless (Gabriel Garcia, Cannes, 2004), Mentor (David Langlitz); USS Cole Conspiracy (History Channel); Scattered (Sattelite Prod.);Assoc.Producer, Discovery Channel

Erica RowleyTheatre: Porgy and Bess, It’s a Wonder-ful Life, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Footlight), Peter Pan (Charleston Southern Univ.); Black Fedora Theater; Chopstick Theater

Emma StarkTraining/Ed: Charleston Stage Theatre School, Theatre 99, Once Upon a Ballet; Washington, DC: Round House Theatre, Imagination StageHCS: Valentina/Officer/Servant/Priest, Twelfth Night; Girl, Much Ado About NothingTheatre: Taming of the Shrew (Theatre \verv\); Alice in Wonderland, Annie (Sulli-van’s Island ES).

Craig TrowTraining/Ed: Bristol Old Vic, UKHCS: Benedick, Much Ado About NothingTheatre: Company member (Theatre 99); Is He Dead (Footlight); UK: Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar (Rose Theatre), Phaedra’s Love (Barbican); Front Page, The City Madam, The Mysteries (New Vic Studio); Some Voices, Dangerous Corner (Bristol Old Vic)Film/TV: Empire Movie Award Winner

Melanie WoodTraining/Ed: BA Technical Theatre, Arizona StateTheatre: The Love of the Nightingale (CofC), Hairspray (Chas. County School of the Arts); The All-Night Strut and Happy Birthday, Katie Valentine (Desert Foothills Theatre); Lemon Sky, Balm in Gilead, Skin 2000, A Sense of Place, Measure for Mea-sure, Origins of the Sea, The Madagascar Plan, The Butterfly’s Evil Spell, Alicia in Wonder Tierra, Secret Things, The Birds, Enrico IV

George Younts Training/Ed: BA, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.; Graduate Conservatory, DePaul Univ.Theatre: Theatre 99, Charleston Stage, Village Rep, CofC Shakespeare Project, Sprouts Children’s Theatre, What If? Threshold, touring A Christmas Carol (touringchristmascarol.com), First Stage Milwaukee, Bigfork Summer Playhouse, ComedySportz, Athens Creative Theatre, Playmakers, Wilton Playhouse, Theatre-works USA. Award/Affiliations: Charleston County School of the Arts Theatre Faculty; SCTA Outstanding Theatre Educator Award recipient; member AEA, SETC and NEA.