A look back at our 2023 production:
The Winter’s Tale
The Cast
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Ashleigh Stochel:Camillo
Education: B.A. Saint Mary’s College, J.D. Valparaiso University School of Law, M.F.A. University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Favorite Play: Macbeth
Why Shakespeare?: When I’m playing Shakespeare, it’s the only time I feel completely human. Everything is permitted, nothing is forbidden.
Clark Garner: Florizell/Jailer
Education: AC Reynolds high school
Favorite Play: Twelfth Night
Why Shakespeare?: My experience so far has been all musical theater and I’d like to step out of my comfort zone and try something new and fun.
Ellie Wolfe-Meritt: Perdita/Emilia
Education: Drama Student at UNC Asheville, Expected 2025
Favorite Play: Hamlet
Why Shakespeare?: Being in community and creating something meaningful and human out of Shakespeare’s challenging texts.
Lori Evans: Paulina/Shepherd
Education: BA in Drama University of WA, Shakespeare & Company Intensives; Freehold Ensemble Training Institute
Favorite Play: The Winter’s Tale
Why Shakespeare?: The music and rhythm in the poetry brings me closer to my core and gives me words to reveal my feelings and “let ‘em forth!” Being in community with the audience and actors is the bright cherry on top.
Mack Moseley: Mamillius/Shepherd’s Son
Education: Drama Student at UNC Asheville
Favorite Play: Hamlet
Why Shakespeare?: I always have fun and leave the experience with gratitude overflowing. By reading and discussing his words with other theatre artists, I am inspired to act—more wildly and honestly than before.
Seven Castle: Antigonus
Education: Shakespeare & Company, Month Long Intensive 2019, BYU, B.S. Recreational Therapy + Minor in Acting, Embracing Shamanism, 2 year Practitioner Training, 2023
Favorite Play: The Tempest
Why Shakespeare?: His words can hold any depth of emotion and expression; for entertainment, healing, liberation, and transformation, like no other writer I’ve found.
Casey Morris: Polixenes
Education: BA Drama UNCA, MFA Acting DePaul University
Favorite Play: King Lear or Henry IV pt I
Why Shakespeare?: I love the mystery in all of Shakespeare's works. On and off stage. I love the distance between Elizabethan language and our current vernacular and the challenge in closing the gap. I learn more about humans each time I see, or do, one of his plays.
David Gingold: Dion/Archidamus
Education: Political Science Student at UNCA
Favorite Play: Othello
Why Shakespeare?: I find that his language and stories are a puzzle to interpret as an actor, and performing Shakespeare puts me in touch with myself.
Kirstin Leigh Daniel: Hermione
Education: BA Theatre Education - Emerson College, MTS Production and Design - Southern Oregon University, MA Shakespeare and Creativity - Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham UK, Continuing education - Shakespeare and Company.
Favorite Play: Whichever play I'm working on. But who doesn’t love the balcony scene in R&J?
Why Shakespeare?: allows me to be in spiritual community with actors and audiences alike.
Lucius Robinson: Leontes/Autolycus
Education: BA UNC-Chapel Hill. MFA Dell’Arte International School Of Physical Theater. 2019 Month-Long Intensive at Shakespeare and Company
Favorite Play: Othello
Why Shakespeare: Because speaking these words aloud with others leads me to my best self.
MJ Gamelin: Cleomenes/Mariner
Education: B.A. in Drama with a minor Arts Management from UNCA, 2023
Favorite Play: Hamlet.
Why Shakespeare?: To learn from and play with the text, the drama, and the brilliantly creative people!