Love’s Labour’s Lost CAST/CREW
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David Keohane / BEROWNE
(he/him) grew up in Andover and is overjoyed to be performing in Cape Ann, making his debut with Lanes Coven Theater! Regional: Leopoldstadt (Huntington Theatre) Smart People (Silverthorne Theater); Things I Know To Be True (Great Barrington Public Theater); Vanity Fair, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Matchless & The Happy Prince (Underground Railway Theater); The Crucible (BEDLAM / Nora Theater Company); The Tempest (Opera House Arts); Ah, Wilderness! (Goodman Theatre); Tug of War: Parts 1 & 2 (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Oak Park Festival Theater). David is currently a Dramaturgy MFA candidate at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Education: BFA (Boston University).
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Michael Lopez Saenz (DON ARMADO / BOYET)
(he/him) Credits: Off Broadway (Affluenza! P.O.V.) Regional: Arlekin Players (The GAAGA), Theater@First (Antigone), Off the Grid (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Richard III), Emerson College (Working), Wheelock Family Theater (Tuck Everlasting), The Publick Theater (The Winter’s Tale), Boston Academy of Music (Lady in the Dark), Gloucester Stage (Dew Point, Dealer’s Choice). Sáenz is also a director, producer, playwright and educator. His play “Mobius” was selected for the New York International Fringe Festival, and he directed the world premiere of “Vote for Me” off-Broadway. He was commissioned by the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival to adapt his novel, “The Thousand Natural Shocks” into a play for their new works program. His production company, VitalSaenz, creates new work in Lowell. When not acting he teaches theater at Lynn English High School.
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Naomi McLeod (KATHERINE)
(she/her) (INTERN) is currently a sophomore at Chapman University pursuing her BFA in Theater Performance. Naomi is making her Lanes Coven debut! Her other credits include #00 in The Wolves, Antigone in Antigone, and Company Member in The Laramie Project. Naomi grew up in the Brooklyn, New York area but goes to college in Orange County, California. She loves hiking, a cup of tea, and her cat, Chai. She wants to give a special thank you to her loving parents, Pedro and Efuru for their support for her education, career, and providing her with the opportunities she has today.
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Lily Narbonne (PRINCESS OF FRANCE/CO-FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR))
(she/her) With Lanes Coven: Romeo & Juliet Tour (as Capulet), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (as Director), The Proposal, Romeo & Juliet, The Importance of Being Earnest (as Director), The Dumb Waiter(as Director), Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew (Lanes Coven Theater Co). Regional: Leopoldstadt (Huntington Theatre), A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Persuasion, Cyrano de Bergerac (SPARC Theater in Livermore, CA); Every 28 Hours (Berkeley Rep/A.C.T); The Three Musketeers, King Lear, Two Noble Kinsmen, All’s Well That Ends Well (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); TV/Film: Julia (HBO Max). Lily is also a Dialect Coach (@dialectarts)– select credits include: A View From The Bridge, Shining City, Translations, Funnyhouse of a Negro and Moviestar. Education: MFA, American Conservatory Theater; BFA, BU School of Theatre & LAMDA. @lilynarbonne
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Nate Oaks (LONGAVILLE)
(he/they) With Lanes Coven: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Nate is very excited to work again with Lily and Justin! Cinderella (Annisquam Village Players), Imogen says Nothing (Emerson Stage). Nate is currently getting his BFA at Emerson College ‘26. He thanks his loving and supportive family and asks you all kindly to drop a follow on his TikTok @nateoaks
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Eryn O'Sullivan (ROSALINE)
(she/her) With Lanes Coven: Romeo & Juliet Tour, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Importance of Being Earnest, Macbeth. Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike (Gloucester Stage.) Eryn is a Georgia transplant who ended up in Gloucester late in the pandemic and decided to stay. She has lived and performed all over the country, and still maintains an all-female theatre and production company in New York City. She trained at Boston University's School of Theatre and London Academy of Dramatic Arts. She lives for these summers and is so proud of Lily & Justin and what they've created. Love you, Lowe!
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Graciela Rey (JACQUENETTA / DANCE CAPTAIN)
(she/her) grew up visiting Gloucester and is thrilled to be making her Lanes Coven debut! Select credits include: In The Heights, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Signature Theatre); In The Heights (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); On Your Feet! ¡En español! (GALA Hispanic Theatre); West Side Story in Concert, Fiddler on the Roof, Lend Me a Soprano, Beauty and the Beast (Olney Theatre Center); In The Heights, POTUS (NextStop Theatre); Miss Nelson is Missing, Paper Dreams (Imagination Stage); Make Way for Ducklings (Adventure Theatre). Graciela is a two time Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding Performer in a Musical and is a current nominee for Outstanding Ensemble in a Play for POTUS. She has a passion for educational choreography, offers private voice lessons and coachings and believes in joy as an act of resistance. Graciela is based in Washington, DC and holds a BA in Musical Theatre from American University. Many thanks to my loving family for their support. Say hi! and visit her online @graci_rey or at gracielarey.com.
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Stuart Siegel (ANTHONY DULL)
(he/him) Stuart Siegel is a non-profit leader, educator, and bon-vivant. He and his wife Emily live with their magical kids Jonah and Bayla in the woods near Lanesville. They were founding directors of the non-profit Sonoran Desert Inn in Ajo, Arizona, where they harvested saguaro cactuses, drove golf carts, and hosted thousands of guests. Stuart has a Bachelor of Science in Film from Boston University and a Master of Hebrew Letters from the Hebrew Union College in New York. He's lived in about thirteen different places around the world. Somewhere along the way, he tried to become a rabbi. Twice. He appeared in Man of La Mancha at the Jerusalem Theater, and starred as Father Flynn in Doubt. This is his first production with Lanes Coven, and his first stab at Shakespeare.
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Phoebe Singer (MOTH)
(he/they) Lanes Coven debut! Phoebe Singer is a non-binary, multidisciplinary theater artist from the Boston area. Other acting credits include: Sense and Sensibility, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (Downstage Theater Co.), MacBeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SLC HNS), and The Beau Defeated (BADA). Directing credits include: A Year with Frog and Toad (AD, Wheelock Family Theater) Troilus and Cressida (Sarah Lawrence College). They have also served as a Stitcher/Dresser for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, The Sound of Music, Escape to Margaritaville, Fiddler on the Roof, Frozen (North Shore Music Theatre). Sarah Lawrence College and British American Drama Academy alum. Many thanks to this incredible team!
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Alex Strzemilowski (DUMAINE/FORESTER)
(he/him) is a Rockport native with his BFA in acting from Baldwin Wallace University. He is thrilled to be back in his hometown this summer to make his Lanes Coven debut! Alex has been tackling NYC this past year in both theatre and film. He’s been seen working with The Players Theatre and most recently in Script Club NYC’s production of God of Carnage. You can also catch him on camera in collaboration with projects at NYU and independently. Shakespeare credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio), Julius Caesar (Marc Antony), Twelfth Night (Antonio). Huge shoutout to the cast and crew at Lanes Coven for an amazing opportunity. Enjoy the show! Keep up with Alex on IG (@Strzemilowski).
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Evan Turissini (KING OF NAVARRE)
(he/him) is an Elliot Norton Award-nominated actor and long-time fan of Lanes Coven excited to make his debut with this troupe! His local acting credits include Vanity Fair (CentralSquareTheater); Haunted (Company One); Casey at the Bat, The Spider & The Fly (imaginary beasts); A Bold Stroke for a Husband (Theatre in the Open); The Antelope Party, Three Sisters (Apollinaire Theatre Company); Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare); Revolution’s Edge (Plays in Place/Old North Illuminated); Twelfth Night, Shipwrecked! (Moonbox Productions); and many more. By day, Evan is the Director of Marketing & Communications for Actors’ Shakespeare Project. You can see him soon in Mount Harvest Productions’ web series, The Canon of Grimward.
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Debra Wise (COSTARD)
(she/her) is delighted to be making her debut with Lanes Coven, whose past season she much admired. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director Emerita of Underground Railway Theater; from 1978-2007, which toured nationally and abroad original works inspired by the collaborative, activist spirit of the Underground Railroad, as well as puppet theater collaborations with the Boston Symphony. In 2007, along with the Nora Theatre Company, URT created Central Square Theater. During her 15-year tenure as an Artistic Director at CST, Wise co-founded Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, a science theater partnership; and her work received multiple Elliot Norton awards: Vanity Fair (Outstanding Design); blackodysseyboston (Outstanding Ensemble);The Convert and Constellations (Outstanding Production) and Bedlam’s St. Joan (Best Visiting Production). Acting appearances at CST have included Vanity Fair, Homebody, Copenhagen, The How and the Why, Einstein’s Dreams, From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story, Breaking the Code, Arabian Nights and A Christmas Memory. Appearances on other Boston stages: Dinner for One (Greater Boston Stage); Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare); Doll’s House 2 and Escaped Alone (The Gamm); Mistero Buffo (Poets’ Theatre); A Boston Marriage and Orson’s Shadow (New Rep); People, Places & Things (Speakeasy). Work as a playwright includes her adaptation of A Christmas Carol; States of Grace (inspired by Grace Paley’s stories); and Alice’s Adventures Underground. Partnerships she has led include those with Mount Auburn Cemetery (Our Town) and the National Park Service (Roots of Liberty – The Haitian Revolution and the American Civil War, featuring a cast of over 50 actors, dancers, and musicians, and guests Danny Glover, Henry Louis Gates and Edwidge Danticat). Wise left her CST Artistic Director position in 2022, to help invite increasingly diverse leadership. She continues work as an actor, and is the audio book narrator for Gregory Maguire’s return to his Wicked epic, the Another Day series. Wise also currently serves as Interim Artistic Director for Revels, and is adapting Maguire’s story Matchless for this December’s Midwinter Revels (revels.org). To read the digital book Underground Railway Theater - Engine of Delight and Social Change, go to URTheaterEbook.com. And to become involved with an ad hoc network of theater artists, scientists and activists interested in lifting public conversation about climate change, visit ClimateCrisisCabaret.org.
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Carly Dreme Calbreath (u/s PRINCESS OF FRANCE and ASM)
(she/her) is thrilled to make her debut with Lanes Coven this summer! Select theater credits include: Yiddish Cyberpunk (Boston Workers Circle), Richard II (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Apprentice Repertory Company), Gragger RenFaire (Boston Workers Circle), and Queer Ultimatum (Queer Artists & Players). Carly is a California-born, Boston-based actor, writer, improviser and educator with a particular passion for sci-fi, fantasy, and Shakespeare. www.carlydremecalbreath.com
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Tara Hightower (Production Stage Manager)
(she/her) With Lanes Coven: Romeo & Juliet School Tour/Hammond Castle Museum, The Servant of Two Masters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Macbeth. She is excited to be in Gloucester this summer for a fourth season with Lanes Coven! Select Stage Management credits include: Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Gloucester Stage); Too Fat For China and Sam & Jim in Hell (Lost Nation Theatre); and The Nutcracker (Brass City Ballet). Proud member of the Stage Managers’ Association of the United States. Tara is a Connecticut Native and Central Connecticut State University alumni who holds a BFA in Theatre Technology, Design, and Production. IG: @tarajhightower
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