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Shakespeare Bio and CV

In 2008, during a binge watch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, I noticed how often the show quoted or referenced Shakespeare, which piqued my curiosity. I decided to read a couple of the plays for the first time since high school, and fell in love not just with the stories and the characters, but the way Shakespeare always found the most interesting way to say whatever he was trying to say.

I was not a theatre kid growing up, so I wasn’t sure what to do with my newfound love of Shakespeare. I started volunteering with Richmond Shakespeare, the theatre company in my hometown of Richmond, VA. The artistic director, Dr. Jan Powell, took me under her wing, training me as a dramaturg, assistant director, and educator. I served as a staff member for years, and in 2017 the company recognized me with the Bard Award for my contributions.

In 2019 I left Richmond Shakespeare to start Elsewhere Shakespeare with two actor friends. Having grown up in the punk scene, I was used to taking initiative, doing things fast and with minimal resources. Elsewhere began as an attempt to apply the DIY ethos of punk to producing Shakespeare. Our first show was a production of Hamlet in November of 2019.

Elsewhere does minimally-rehearsed, 90min pop-up performances in unconventional spaces with no director, no stage manager, and no tech. Our “punk Shakespeare” work is congruent with “Original Practices” performance theory, with the “quick raise” techniques developed by Ben Crystal, and with the work of companies like Back Room Shakespeare Project. In addition to creating our own work, we also give away all our tools and resources to enable others to make their own small-scale Shakespeare. We post all our cut scripts, prop-making tutorials, etc for free on our website.

Since 2019, Elsewhere has produced 31 performances of 17 Shakespeare plays across seven US states and two foreign countries. We’ve developed and taught acting workshops at universities, and in 2025 and 2026 we curated week-long Shakespeare festivals in Massachusetts that featured performances, readings of the sonnets, artist talks, and other Shakespeare-related events.

While most of my Shakespeare work now falls under the aegis of Elsewhere, I still do various independent Shakespeare projects, including writing plays and books, and in 2025, I launched a podcast called Out, Damned Pod, with my friend and colleague Jessie Lillis. On ODP, we discuss a Shakespeare play, one act per episode.

As an educator, I have managed to carve out a niche for myself in the world of Shakespeare despite being a high-school dropout and autodidact late bloomer. I specialize in historical staging practices and rhetoric, and I’ve taught literary analysis as well as performance at schools and theatre companies for students in elementary school through university.

As a producer and dramaturg, I have facilitated shows and tours both in the US and internationally, and have created the tools and resources for others to make their own small-scale Shakespeare productions, including cutting scripts and making them publicly available via Google Docs.

As a writer, I penned a series of educational TV spots for PBS called Bard Bits II, and my first play, The Killer of Camp Arden (a satire of Shakespeare’s As You Like It) received a staged reading at the Atlanta Shakespeare Company in 2023. My self-published book The Play’s the Thing: A Beginner’s Guide to Seeing and Enjoying Shakespeare has been carried by theatre companies around the country.

As an actor, I have performed in 18 of Shakespeare’s 38 plays in some capacity. I’m proud that most of my acting experience has been in Elsewhere shows. Most actors spend the majority of their time auditioning for jobs they don’t get. I am a strong proponent of theatre artists producing their own work, making art while also creating opportunities for other artists, instead of living in a cycle of rejection.

Curriculum Vitae

Actor

  • All’s Well That Ends Well — Steward/Soldier (2024)
  • Antony y Cleopatra (bilingual) — Mark Antony (2024)
  • As You Like It — Charles/Silvius/Jaques (2026)
  • Coriolanus — Coriolanus (2025)
  • Hamlet — Laertes/Player 1 (2019), Horatio/Rosencrantz (2025)
  • Henry IV (conflated) — Hotspur/Lord Chief Justice (2024/2025)
  • Julius Caesar — Casca/Cinna the Poet (2023), Brutus (2023), Mark Antony (2025)
  • King John — Pandulph/Citizen/Prince Henry (2024)
  • King Lear — Edmund (2021), Edmund (2026)
  • Macbeth — Macbeth (2023), Ross (2024)
  • Measure for Measure — Angelo (2024), Claudio/Barnardine/Messenger (2025)
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Theseus/Oberon (2025), Theseus (2025)
  • Richard II — Northumberland/Gardener (2024)
  • Richard III — Hastings/Mayor/Tyrrell (2025)
  • Romeo and Juliet — Tybalt/Friar Laurence (2025)
  • Twelfth Night — Malvolio/Sebastian (2022), Duke Orsino/Andrew Aguecheek (2025), Feste (2026)
  • The Winter’s Tale — Cleomenes/Shepherd (2026)

Educator

Schools I’ve taught at: Idaho State University, Williams College, NC State University, The University of Richmond, Creighton University, Emory University, Richmond Juvenile Detention Center, St. Margaret’s School, St. Gertrude’s, VA Home for Boys & Girls, The Steward School, Hinsdale High School

Theatre companies I’ve taught for: The Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, The Shakespeare Forum, Richmond Shakespeare, Bard Unbound.

Workshops and tools I’ve created: Punk Shakespeare Toolkit, Shakespeare Karaoke, The Elsewhere Bible (acting guide), Monologue Coaching for Beginners

Writer

The Killer of Camp Arden (adaptation of As You Like It)
Received a stage reading at Atlanta Shakespeare in October 2023. Semi-finalist in the Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries competition at the American Shakespeare Center.

The Play’s the Thing: A Beginner’s Guide to Seeing and Enjoying Shakespeare
Carried by Atlanta Shakespeare, The American Shakespeare Center, and others.

Bard Bits (Season 2)
Educational Shakespeare TV spots produced for WCVE, Richmond VA’s PBS affiliate.

Will’s Discography: A Shakespeare Flight
Blog entry to promote Flagstaff Shakespeare’s 2022 season.

Producer

Producing an Elsewhere show involves a lot of interconnected logistics: cutting the script, casting, finding a venue and rehearsal space, designing and distributing marketing materials, acquiring props, and sometimes coordinating travel and housing for actors.

Projects that I am especially proud of:
• The four-city “Tread On Kings” tour of our conflated Henry IV. We performed in four cities with four different casts over the course of eight days.
• Our international performances of Measure for Measure in Lisbon and Richard III in London.
• North County Shakespeare Festival, a week-long celebration of Shakespeare in North Adams, MA in 2025 and 2026.
• Co-creating a new bilingual adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra.

Complete Elsewhere production history:
• King Lear — 2026 — North Adams
• The Winter’s Tale — 2026 — Atlanta / North Adams
• As You Like It — 2026 — Raleigh
• Coriolanus — 2025 — Raleigh / Richmond
• Richard III — 2025 — London / Boston / Raleigh
• Measure for Measure — 2025 — Lisbon / NYC
• Julius Caesar 2025 — North Adams
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream — 2025 — North Adams
• Twelfth Night — 2025 — Raleigh
• Hamlet — 2025 — Raleigh
• Romeo and Juliet — 2025 — Boston
• Antony y Cleopatra — 2025 — NYC
• Henry IV— 2024/2025 — Columbia / Raleigh / Richmond / DC
• King John — 2024 — NYC
• Richard II — 2024 — North Adams
• Macbeth — 2023 — Northampton / NYC / Atlanta
• Twelfth Night — 2022 — Columbia / Richmond / Northampton
• King Lear — 2021 — Richmond
• Hamlet — 2019 — Richmond

We’ve co-produced with: The Shakespeare Forum, Atlas Stage Collective, Teatro Soco, The Sonnet Man, Vicious Mole, The Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern.

Misc

Podcast host: Out, Damned Pod with Jessie Lillis (launched in 2025)

Podcast guest: Mauer Power Hour (talking about Shakespeare and Star Trek), Protest Too Much, Reduced Shakespeare Podcast

Member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association

Headshot, Stats, & Skills

Stats: 5’8. Blonde hair. Age range: 30-45.

Skills: Original practices, quick raise, sticks exercises, ensemble building, punk Shakespeare, text coaching, cue scripts, popup Shakespeare, modular touring, dramaturgy, script cutting, rhetoric, photography.

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