{"id":371168,"date":"2025-08-11T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/?p=371168"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:37:00","slug":"shakespeare-theatre-company-announces-cast-and-creatives-for-the-wild-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dctheaterarts.org\/2025\/08\/11\/shakespeare-theatre-company-announces-cast-and-creatives-for-the-wild-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"STC announces cast and creatives for Ibsen’s ‘The Wild Duck’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shakespeare Theatre Company<\/a> has announced casting for Henrik Ibsen\u2019s The Wild Duck,<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>produced in association with Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA). Directed by STC Artistic Director\u00a0Simon Godwin<\/strong>, from the adaptation by\u00a0David Eldridge,\u00a0<\/strong>the production begins its TFANA run in New York on September 2 before playing at STC\u2019s Klein Theatre from October 18 through November 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time that I\u2019ve directed a play by Ibsen, and his plays\u2019 moral interrogations feel very relevant right now,\u201d says Godwin. \u201cThe play is urgently asking us, in the battle for moral certainty, who is the casualty? What is the price of truth?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"In\u00a0The Wild Duck,\u00a0<\/em>the eccentric son of a wealthy businessman wreaks havoc when he embarks on a crusade to unveil the false foundations of his friend\u2019s life. Ignorant of the adults\u2019 machinations, a young girl tries to shield a fragile creature from the hurts of the world. This is a rare presentation of Ibsen\u2018s unflinching tale about truth\u2019s tragic toll.<\/p>\n

The production uses David Eldridge\u2019s adaptation of the text. \u201cThere\u2019s a timelessness to the tension the play explores that sits in all of us; simultaneously a need for the truth of our lives to be told and the need to maintain delusions about ourselves and our loved ones that makes coping with living possible,\u201d said Eldridge. \u201cThat enduring relevance means that I\u2019m drawn to presenting a lucid version of the play, faithful to Ibsen\u2019s original, but that is immediate, alive, and can exist in the thrilling present tense of an act of theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

As previously announced, two recent actors from STC\u2019s 24\/25 season will return for The Wild Duck.\u00a0<\/em>Nick Westrate\u00a0<\/strong>(Frankenstein<\/em>)\u00a0takes on the role of Hjalmar Ekdal, an idealistic but disillusioned photographer forced to confront the lies in his family, to tragic results.\u00a0Melanie Field,<\/strong>\u00a0who appeared to high acclaim as the lovelorn Sonya in\u00a0Uncle Vanya,\u00a0<\/em>will play Gina Ekdal, Hjalmar\u2019s wife and partner, caught up in the betrayals.<\/p>\n

Alex Hurt\u00a0<\/strong>takes on the role of Gregers Werle, the impassioned and idealistic son of H\u00e5kon Werle, whose quest to reveal and avenge the past sins of his father leads to the unraveling of the Ekdal home.\u00a0Hurt makes his STC debut, having appeared on Broadway in\u00a0Patriots,\u00a0<\/em>as well as numerous film, TV, and off-Broadway roles.<\/p>\n

Veteran film and stage actor and musician\u00a0David Patrick Kelly\u00a0<\/strong>plays Old Ekdal. His extensive collaborations include the work of David Lynch and Spike Lee, and plays by Ibsen, Shakespeare, Chekhov, and more.<\/p>\n

Also making STC debuts are\u00a0Katie Broad\u00a0<\/strong>(Tony-nominated\u00a0An Enemy of the People\u00a0<\/em>at Circle in the Square) as Pettersen;\u00a0Maaike Laanstra-Corn\u00a0<\/strong>(Atlantic Theatre Company, Clubbed Thumb) as Hedvig;\u00a0Mahira Kakkar\u00a0<\/strong>(Broadway\u2019s\u00a0Life of Pi<\/em>) as Mrs. S\u00f8rby;\u00a0Bobby Plasencia\u00a0<\/strong>(HBO\u2019s\u00a0Maria Full of Grace<\/em>) as Mr. Flor; and\u00a0Alexander Sovronsky <\/strong>(TFANA’s\u00a0Othello<\/em>\u00a0directed by Arin Arbus, Broadway\u2019s\u00a0Cyrano de Bergerac<\/em>\u00a0with Kevin Kline) as Jensen.<\/p>\n

Matthew Saldivar\u00a0<\/strong>(STC’s\u00a0Much Ado About Nothing,\u00a0<\/em>2012) plays Relling and Captain Balle and has also appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including\u00a0Junk, Peter and the Starcatcher, A Streetcar Named Desire, Saint Joan<\/em>, and\u00a0Bernhardt\/Hamlet<\/em>.\u00a0Robert Stanton,<\/strong>\u00a0who appeared in STC\u2019s\u00a0The Critic<\/em>\u00a0&\u00a0The Real Inspector Hound\u00a0<\/em>(Emery Battis Award) and\u00a0Strange Interlude,<\/em>\u00a0plays H\u00e5kon Werle. Stanton\u2019s Broadway credits include\u00a0Uncle Vanya, Ink, Saint Joan, Mary Stuart,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Coast of Utopia.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Production Stage Manager for STC is\u00a0Laura Smith<\/strong>, and the Assistant Stage Manager is\u00a0Dayne Sundman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

CAST BIOGRAPHIES\u00a0 (in alphabetical order)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

KATIE BROAD*<\/strong>
\nPettersen<\/em><\/p>\n

STC debut. Credits include: Tony-nominated\u00a0An Enemy of the People\u00a0<\/em>(Circle in the Square),\u00a0Strategic Love Play\u00a0<\/em>(Audible Theater),\u00a0Oblivion<\/em>\u00a0(Westport Country Playhouse), Karen O\u2019s\u00a0Stop the Virgens<\/em>\u00a0(St. Ann\u2019s Warehouse, Sydney Opera House),\u00a0Complicity<\/em>\u00a0(New Ohio Theater),\u00a0Animals & Plants<\/em> (NY Premiere). Proud alum of Circle in the Square Theatre School and repped by WEG Talent. Massive love and gratitude to their family and Jamesworth.<\/p>\n

MELANIE FIELD*
\n<\/strong>Gina Ekdal<\/em><\/p>\n

STC:\u00a0Uncle Vanya.\u00a0<\/em>TV: \u201cA League of Their Own\u201d (Amazon), \u201cAmerican Horror Stories\u201d (Hulu), \u201cHeathers\u201d (Paramount), \u201cFlorida Girls\u201d (POP TV), \u201cThe Angel of Darkness\u201d (TNT), \u201cShrill\u201d (Hulu), \u201cYou\u201d (Netflix), \u201cKilling It\u201d (Peacock). Theater: Sonya in\u00a0Uncle Vanya<\/em>\u00a0(Berkeley Repertory Theatre & Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC). Broadway:\u00a0The Phantom of the Opera, Evita<\/em>. National Tour:\u00a0Wicked.<\/em>\u00a0Proud graduate of NYU and Yale School of Drama. For my Kitty Girl and Mr. Wells.<\/p>\n

ALEX HURT*
\n<\/strong>Gregers Werle<\/em><\/p>\n

Alex recently starred in the lead role in Larry Fessenden\u2019s film\u00a0Blackout<\/em>\u00a0and was also recently seen in Maria Schrader\u2019s film\u00a0She Said<\/em>. In television, he was a regular in the hit Netflix series \u201cBonding.\u201d Other TV credits include \u201cHomeland,\u201d \u201cSuper Pumped,\u201d \u201cBillions,\u201d \u201cLaw & Order: SVU,\u201d and \u201cThe Good Fight.\u201d He was nominated for an Emmy for Lead Actor in a Digital Drama Series for \u201cThe Rehearsal.\u201d Alex has been a mainstay on the NY stage. Most recently, he played Alexander\u00a0Litvinenko on Broadway in Peter Morgan\u2019s\u00a0Patriots\u00a0<\/em>opposite Michael Stuhlbarg and starred off-Broadway in\u00a0Scenes from a Marriage<\/em>\u00a0directed by Ivo Van Hove, Hamish Linklater\u2019s\u00a0The Whirligig<\/em>,\u00a0Placebo<\/em>\u00a0directed by Daniel Aukin, Mike Bartlett\u2019s\u00a0Love, Love, Love<\/em>\u00a0directed by Michael Mayer, and\u00a0Continuity\u00a0<\/em>directed by Rachel Chavkin.<\/p>\n

MAHIRA KAKKAR*
\n<\/strong>Mrs. S\u00f8rby<\/em><\/p>\n

STC: Debut. TFANA:\u00a0The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em>. Mahira is an award-winning actor and a writer. A recent recipient of a NYSCA grant, Mahira has written for publications in India and the US. As an actor: Broadway \u2013\u00a0Life of Pi.<\/em>\u00a0Off Broadway \u2013 Waterwell, LCT3, Primary Stages, Atlantic, NYSF, Ripe Time, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick, NAATCO. Regional \u2013 Huntington Theatre, Old Globe, Denver Center, OSF, Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage, McCarter and others. Film and TV \u2013 \u201cManifest,\u201d \u201cA Suitable Boy,\u201d\u00a0Hank and Asha<\/em>, (Slamdance Best Actress award),\u00a0Sweet Refuge<\/em>, \u201cLaw and Order:CI,\u201d \u201cNew Amsterdam,\u201d and others.<\/p>\n

DAVID PATRICK KELLY*
\n<\/strong>Old Ekdal<\/em><\/p>\n

David has appeared in films by Walter Hill, David Lynch, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders and Clint Eastwood. Onstage he has appeared in plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Gogol, Euripides, Buchner, Pirandello, Moliere, Brecht and Ibsen, directed by Richard Foreman, Nicholas Hytner and Karin Coonrod. He was awarded an Obie for Sustained Excellence.<\/p>\n

MAAIKE LAANSTRA-CORN*
\n<\/strong>Hedvig<\/em><\/p>\n

Maaike is a New York City-based actor. Recent credits include:\u00a0Grief Camp<\/em>\u00a0(Atlantic Theater),\u00a0Homofermenters\u00a0<\/em>(ARS NOVA ANTfest),\u00a0When The Other Mary Celeste Sank\u00a0<\/em>(WP Theater),\u00a0Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California\u00a0<\/em>(The Tank),\u00a0Button Lake Band Camp\u00a0<\/em>(Clubbed Thumb Winterworks), and\u00a0Ms. Lily\u00a0<\/em>(Clubbed Thumb Winterworks). BA: Brown University.<\/p>\n

BOBBY PLASENCIA*
\n<\/strong>Mr. Flor<\/em><\/p>\n

Bobby is excited to be making his STC and TFANA debut and sharing the stage with such a talented group ofartists! NY Stage: La Paloma Prisoner<\/em>\u00a0(Chelsea Factory);\u00a0Orchid Rece<\/em>ipt\u00a0Service<\/em>\u00a0(MITU580);\u00a0La Negra\u00a0<\/em>(BRIC Brooklyn);\u00a0La Ruta\u00a0<\/em>(Working Theater);\u00a0Ameri<\/em>can Jornalero (INTAR);\u00a0Luz\u00a0<\/em>(LaMama);\u00a0Julius Caesar<\/em>\u00a0(Drilling Company). Regional Theater:\u00a0In her Bones<\/em>\u00a0(FAC),\u00a0Somewhere Over The Border<\/em>\u00a0(Syracuse Stage, Geva Theater, City Theatre, People\u2019s Light),\u00a0American Mariachi<\/em>\u00a0(Goodman Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center, Old Globe, Alabama Shakes, Cleveland Playhouse, Two River Theater);\u00a0Recent Alien Abductions\u00a0<\/em>(Humana Fest, Actors Theater of Louisville);\u00a0Water & Power<\/em>\u00a0(San Diego Rep, Craig Noel Award);\u00a0Vesuvius<\/em>\u00a0(South Coast Rep);\u00a0Blood Wedding<\/em>\u00a0(La Jolla Playhouse);\u00a0Down Past Passyunk<\/em>\u00a0(Interact Theater);\u00a0The Tempest<\/em>,\u00a0Twelfth Night,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0A Midsummer Night’s Dream\u00a0<\/em>(ISCLA, Los Angeles);\u00a0Water & Power\u00a0<\/em>(Understudy, Mark Taper Forum).\u00a0 Film & TV: \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d (Netflix), \u201cGeneral Hospital\u201d (ABC Television), \u201cFidel\u201d (Showtime),\u00a0Maria Full of Grace\u00a0<\/em>(Sundance, HBO Films). MFA-NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.<\/p>\n

MATTHEW SALDIVAR*
\n<\/strong>Relling\/Captain Balle<\/em><\/p>\n

STC:\u00a0Much Ado About Nothing\u00a0<\/em>(2012). TFANA:\u00a0The Merchant of Venice<\/em>\u00a0(Edinburgh, Scotland),\u00a0Julius Caesar<\/em>. BROADWAY:\u00a0Junk, Act One\u00a0<\/em>(LCT),\u00a0Peter and the Starcatcher, A Streetcar Named Desire, Saint Joan<\/em>,\u00a0Bernhardt\/Hamlet<\/em>,\u00a0Honeymoon in Vegas, Grease, The Wedding Singer<\/em>. Other productions include: MTC, Classic Stage Company, Long Wharf, The Public Theater, Williamstown, NY Shakespeare Festival, Blue Light, Atlantic, NYTW, Shakespeare Theatre Company, New World Stages, Primary Stages, Hartford Stage, Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh CLO, Bay Street, 2nd Stage, Chautauqua, City Center, Signature Theater NYC, Mark Taper Forum, 1st National tour LCT\u2019s\u00a0South Pacific<\/em>,\u00a06 productions for The Guthrie Theater. Recent TV: \u201cDying for Sex.\u201d MA\/BA Middlebury College, MFA NYU.<\/p>\n

ALEXANDER SOVRONSKY*
\n<\/strong>Jensen<\/em><\/p>\n

A NYC-based actor\/multi-instrumentalist and composer, Alexander last appeared in TFANA’s 2009 production of\u00a0Othello<\/em>\u00a0directed by Arin Arbus. Other NYC theatre credits include\u00a0Cyrano de Bergerac<\/em>\u00a0(Broadway starring Kevin Kline);\u00a0Romeo & Juliet, Mother of the Maid<\/em>\u00a0(The Public starring Glenn Close);\u00a0Women Beware Women, Volpone<\/em>\u00a0(Red Bull);\u00a0Bottom of the World<\/em>\u00a0(Atlantic);\u00a0Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Marat\/Sade, King Lear<\/em> (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Regional credits include Arena Stage, Barrington Stage, Seattle Rep, Hartford Stage, KC Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare & Co, Denver Center, Milwaukee Rep, American Shakespeare Center, and many others.<\/p>\n

ROBERT STANTON*
\n<\/strong>H\u00e5kon Werle<\/em><\/p>\n

STC:\u00a0The Critic<\/em>\u00a0&\u00a0The Real Inspector Hound\u00a0<\/em>(Emery Battis Award),\u00a0Strange Interlude.<\/em>\u00a0TFANA:\u00a0The Killer.\u00a0<\/em>Broadway: includes\u00a0Uncle Vanya, Ink, Saint Joan, A Free Man of Color, Mary Stuart, The Coast of Utopia.\u00a0<\/em>Off-Broadway: two-dozen credits include\u00a0Love Child\u00a0<\/em>(written\/performed with Daniel Jenkins),\u00a0All in the Timing\u00a0<\/em>(Obie Award). Off-Off-Broadway:\u00a0The Gold Room.\u00a0<\/em>Extensive regional credits include this year\u2019s world premieres,\u00a0Millions\u00a0<\/em>(Alliance) and\u00a0The Thing About Jellyfish\u00a0<\/em>(Berkeley Rep).\u00a0<\/em>Films: many, from\u00a0A League of Their Own\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0Jason Bourne.\u00a0<\/em>Recent television: \u201cYour Friends and Neighbors,\u201d \u201cBlue Bloods,\u201d \u201cPretty Little Liars: Original Sin,\u201d \u201cMr. Mercedes.\u201d<\/p>\n

NICK WESTRATE*
\n<\/strong>Hjalmar Ekdal<\/em><\/p>\n

Broadway:\u00a0Bernhardt\/Hamlet, Casa Valentina, A Moon for the Misbegotten.<\/em>\u00a0Off-Broadway: Barrow Street, Public, NYTW, Transport Group, CSC. Recently: Frankenstein in\u00a0FRANKENSTEIN<\/em>\u00a0(STC) and Prior Walter in\u00a0Angels in America<\/em>\u00a0for J\u00e1nosz Sz\u00e1z (Arena: Helen Hayes Best Ensemble, Nom. Best Actor). Select TV: Robert Townsend on \u201cTurn: Washington\u2019s Spies\u201d (AMC), Todd Haynes\u2019 \u201cMildred Pierce\u201d (HBO), Bruno Barreto\u2019s \u201cThe American Guest\u201d (HBO), and \u201cManhunt\u201d (AppleTV). Film:\u00a0American Insurrection<\/em>\u00a0and Jonathan Demme\u2019s\u00a0Ricki & the Flash<\/em> opposite Meryl Streep. He’s a Drama Desk Award Winner, NYTW Usual Suspect, a graduate of Juilliard, and the co-founder, director, and designer of The Streetcar Project.<\/p>\n

CREATIVE TEAM BIOGRAPHIES<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

DAVID ELDRIDGE<\/strong>
\nAdaptor<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK: Broadway:\u00a0Festen<\/em> (Music Box Theatre). INTERNATIONAL: Beginning<\/em>,\u00a0Middle<\/em>,\u00a0End<\/em>,\u00a0Market<\/em>\u00a0Boy<\/em>\u00a0(National Theatre);\u00a0Holy<\/em>\u00a0Warriors<\/em>\u00a0(Shakespeare\u2019s Globe);\u00a0In Basildon, Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness\u00a0<\/em>(Royal Court);\u00a0Under the Blue Sky<\/em>\u00a0(Royal Court & Duke of York\u2019s Theatre, West End);\u00a0The Stock Da\u2019wa, Falling\u00a0<\/em>(Hampstead Theatre);\u00a0The Knot of the Heart<\/em>\u00a0(Almeida Theatre);\u00a0Summer Begins<\/em>\u00a0(Donmar Warehouse). ADAPTATIONS:\u00a0The Spy Who Came in from the Cold<\/em>\u00a0(Chichester Festival Theatre);\u00a0Miss Julie, The Lady from the Sea<\/em>\u00a0(Royal Exchange, Manchester);\u00a0John Gabriel Borkman, The Wild Duck<\/em> (Donmar Warehouse); Festen<\/em>\u00a0(Almeida, Lyric Theatre West End). TV:\u00a0The Scandalous Lady W<\/em>\u00a0(BBC2),\u00a0Our Hidden Lives and Killers<\/em>\u00a0(BBC4). AWARDS: Time Out Live Award for Best New Play in West End; Theatregoers Choice Award for Best New Play; Prix Europa for Best European Radio Drama; Off West End Theatre Award for Best New Play.<\/p>\n


\nSIMON GODWIN<\/strong>
\nDirector; Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company<\/em><\/p>\n

STC:\u00a0Uncle Vanya, All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Created the Villian, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens;\u00a0<\/em>Simon Godwin joined Shakespeare Theatre Company as Artistic Director in September 2019. He has served as Associate Director of National Theatre of London, Royal Court Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, and Royal & Derngate Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: UK: His work at the National Theatre includes\u00a0Man and Superman\u00a0<\/em>(ft. Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma), Antony and Cleopatra<\/em>\u00a0(ft. Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo),\u00a0Romeo & Juliet<\/em>\u00a0(ft. Josh O\u2019Connor and Jessie Buckley and filmed for Sky Arts\/PBS) | Work at Royal Shakespeare Company includes\u00a0Hamlet, Timon of Athens<\/em>\u00a0(ft. Kathryn Hunter and reimagined in 2020 for Theatre for a New Audience and STC). AWARDS: Evening Standard\/Burberry Award for an Emerging Director (2012).<\/p>\n

LAURA SMITH*
\n<\/strong>Production Stage Manager\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

STC:\u00a0Merry Wives, Frankenstein,\u00a0Kunene and the King, Leopoldstadt,\u00a0Comedy of Errors,\u00a0The Matchbox Magic Flute,\u00a0The Lehman Trilogy,\u00a0Salome.\u00a0<\/em>NEW YORK: Broadway:\u00a0The Thanksgiving Play\u00a0<\/em>| Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company:\u00a0Infinite Life, Shhhh, The Great Leap, Tell Hector I Miss Him<\/em>\u00a0| Manhattan Theatre Club:\u00a0Morning Sun, Bella Bella\u00a0<\/em>| Signature Theatre:\u00a0Hot Wing King, The Antipodes\u00a0<\/em>| Playwrights Horizons: Downstate, Noura\u00a0<\/em>| Second Stage Theater:\u00a0Dying City\u00a0|\u00a0<\/em>The Public Theater:\u00a0The Low Road<\/em>\u00a0| Theatre for a New Audience:\u00a0Remember This\u00a0<\/em>| Play Company:\u00a0Intractable Woman\u00a0<\/em>| Julliard:\u00a0Appropriate.\u00a0<\/em>REGIONAL: Eugene O\u2019Neill Theater Center:\u00a0National Playwrights Conference\u00a0<\/em>| Baltimore Center Stage:\u00a0Detroit \u201967, As You Like It, 4000 Miles, After the Revolution, Wild with Happy, Twelfth Night, Fabulation, Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\u00a0<\/em>| Woolly Mammoth Theatre:\u00a0House of Gold, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Unmentionables.<\/em><\/p>\n

DAYNE SUNDMAN*\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAssistant Stage Manager<\/em><\/p>\n

STC:\u00a0Jane Anger<\/em>,\u00a0The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci<\/em>. REGIONAL: Arena Stage:\u00a0A Wrinkle in Time\u00a0<\/em>(World Premier),\u00a0The Bedwetter<\/em>,\u00a0Death on the Nile<\/em>\u00a0(World Premier)\u00a0Unknown Soldier, POTUS, Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches,<\/em>\u00a0Catch Me If You Can, Newsies, Anything Goes<\/em>\u00a0Idaho Shakespeare Festival:\u00a0Murder on the Orient Express, Natasha Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Sense & Sensibility.\u00a0<\/em>PERSONAL: He\/Him\/His. Training: Baldwin Wallace University: BA in Theatre (Stage Management focus).<\/p>\n

* Member of Actors\u2019 Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Wild Duck<\/strong><\/em><\/a> runs October 18-November 16, 2025, in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Klein Theatre, 450 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20004. Full season subscriptions, play packages, and single tickets are all on sale, and individual tickets begin at $39. For tickets and information, call the Box Office at 202.547.1122 or go online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

SPECIAL PERFORMANCES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Young Prose Night (Under 35) –\u00a0<\/em>Friday, October 24, 7:30pm
\nAudio Description – <\/em>\u202f<\/em>Saturday, November 8, 2pm
\nOpen Captioning –<\/em>\u00a0\u202fSaturday, November 1, 2pm | Thursday, November 13, 7:30pm<\/p>\n

SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY<\/strong><\/p>\n

For nearly 40 years, the Tony Award-winning Shakespeare Theatre Company has been recognized as the nation\u2019s premier classical theater. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Simon Godwin and Executive Director Angela Lee Gieras, STC tells vital stories in audacious forms, stories that are Shakespearean in the deepest sense, even if they are not written by Shakespeare. They stage epic stories in exhilarating style.<\/p>\n

TFANA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Founded in 1979 by Jeffrey Horowitz and led by Horowitz and Managing Director Dorothy Ryan, Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) is a New York home for Shakespeare and other contemporary playwrights. It nurtures artists, culture, and community. On September 1, 2025, Arin Arbus will succeed Jeffrey Horowitz as Artistic Director, with Dorothy Ryan serving as Executive Director.<\/p>\n

With Shakespeare as its guide, TFANA explores the ever-changing forms of world theater. TFANA has produced thirty-five of Shakespeare\u2019s thirty-eight play canon and builds a dialogue spanning centuries between the language and ideas of Shakespeare and diverse authors, past and present. TFANA is committed to building long-term associations with artists from around the world and supporting the development of plays, translations, and productions through residences, workshops, and commissions through the Merle Debuskey Studio Program. TFANA performs for an audience of all ages and backgrounds; and promotes a vibrant exchange of ideas through its humanities and education programs. TFANA is very happy to continue its co-producing collaboration with The Shakespeare Theatre Company. The Wild Duck<\/em>\u00a0marks the third co-production between TFANA and STC building on co-productions of Shakespeare\u2019s Timon of Athens<\/em> featuring Kathryn Hunter, directed by Simon Godwin and\u00a0The Merchant of Venice<\/em> featuring John Douglas Thompson as Shylock and directed by Arin Arbus.<\/p>\n

TFANA\u2019s productions have played nationally, internationally, off and on Broadway. In 2001, TFANA became the first American theater company invited to bring a production of Shakespeare to the Royal Shakespeare Company. TFANA has recently partnered with Edinburgh\u2019s Royal Lyceum Theatre for The Shakespeare Exchange in a transatlantic partnership. In the spring of 2024, TFANA presented the Lyceum\u2019s\u00a0Macbeth (an undoing<\/em>). In January 2025, the Lyceum presented TFANA\u2019s\u00a0The Merchant of Venice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

TFANA is also committed to a civic role. It created and runs the largest in-depth program to introduce Shakespeare and classic drama in New York City\u2019s public schools. Since its inception in 1984, the program has served more than 140,000 students. TFANA is committed to economic access. In addition to offering selected Pay What You Can Performances, its New Deal Ticket Initiative offers $20 tickets to those age 30 and under and full-time students of any age for all dates of all its productions.<\/p>\n

In 2013, TFANA opened its first permanent home, Polonsky Shakespeare Center (PSC), in the Brooklyn Cultural District. The heart of PSC is its performance space: the 299-seat Samuel H. Scripps Mainstage, a uniquely flexible space capable of multiple configurations between stage and audience; as well as the 50-seat Theodore C. Rogers Studio.<\/p>\n

TFANA honors the Lenape and Canarsie people, on whose ancestral homeland Polonsky Shakespeare Center is built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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