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Our Professional Staff
“With all the learned
council of the realm”
Much Ado is directed and staffed by professionally trained Shakespearean actors with extensive
teaching experience. Our staff has trained at such nationally recognized schools as Julliard, North Carolina School of the
Arts, UNC, the Howard Fine Studio, and Carnegie-Mellon.
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Stuart
Calof teaches Shakespeare, Acting, Text Analysis, and Stage Sword Combat. Professional credits include: Company member of
Bridgeport Free Shakespeare where he played ‘Mercutio’ in “Romeo and Juliet." Company member of Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
where he played the title role in a Second Stage production of “Hamlet," other Mainstage shows there: “Taming of the Shrew,"
“Harold and Maude,"
“Twelfth Night", “Midsummer Nights Dream,"
and “Madwoman of Chaillot”.
Stuart teaches at the
The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Hollywood. Dramatic Training: Howard Fine Acting Studio, Stella Adler Theater and University
of California, Berkeley.
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Rebekah
Czarnecki teaches Juggling, Clowning, Dance, Music, and Shakespeare. Professional credits include: Company member of Connecticut
Free Shakespeare: “As You Like It”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Cyrano de Bergerac”. Company member
of Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum: “Hamlet”,“Taming of the Shrew”, “Harold and Maude”, and “Twelfth Night”. Also National
Theatre for the Performing Arts, The Muckenthaller Theatre, Grove Theatre Centre,
and Rebekah is an Improv Olympic West
Alumni.
Dramatic Training: North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Romeo
and Juliet Ventura 2008
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Kelly
Boczek teaches Comedia del’arte, Elizabethan
Times, Improvisation, Singing, and Stage Make-up.
She has worked professionally
in Detroit, New York,
Volterra, Italy, and Frankfurt, and Germany. Some
of her favorite roles were Helena in All's
Well That
End's Well, Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, Nina
Taplin in Someday Called, Billie in Born Yesterday,
Little Red Ridinghood in Into the Woods, and Sissy
in A Piece of My Heart. She has appeared on the
Tonight show
and starred in the Independent film
Click Three Times, for which she won a best actress
award from the N.Y. Indi Flim
Fest. Kelly is a member
of the Knightsbridge Theatre in Los Angeles and is the
Artistic Director of the National
American Shakespeare
Company for Kids.
Dramatic Training: Carnegie Mellon.
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Henry
IV part 1 Ventura 2008
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Twelfth
Night Ventura 2008
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Love's
Labour's Lost Ventura 2004
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Taming
of the Shrew Ventura 2005
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Romeo
and Juliet Ventura 2003
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Romeo
and Juliet Ventura 2003
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