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Rebecca Joy Wilcox Aidala

Rebecca Aidala has taught at Ambleside for 21 years and has been an ASU adjunct instructor for seven years. She has directed 26 Shakespeare plays in a process-centered style. These include Antony & Cleopatra, Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Hamlet, Tempest, Comedy of Errors, Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, King Henry VI Part 1, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, Love's Labor's Lost, Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, and Two Noble Kinsmen. She has also directed five dinner theatres: Antigone, Tartuffe, Arsenic & Old Lace, Prometheus Bound, Of Mice and Men, and The Divine Narcisus. She has published Shakespeare for Children and The Sweet Life, Overcoming Poverty, a tribute to her mother. This summer she will begin another biography and a novel.

Rebecca is a summa cum laude graduate of ASU and a Merit scholar with a Master's Degree from the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. 

Her favorite roles are "Mom" and "Momo".

Emily Burney

as Elvira

Emily Burney is a senior and has been at Ambleside since Pre-Kindergarten. She has been in numerous theatre productions, from Shakespeare to high school plays. She has played a spirit in King Henry VI, Part I, ”Moth” in a Midsummer Night’s Dream, “Prospero” in The Tempest, a coach in Hamlet, a siren in Prometheus Bound, “Carlson” in Of Mice and Men, and “Pride, Synagogue, Angel, and soldier” in The Divine Narcissus. This year Emily is playing the haunting lead, “Elvira.” Emily has started her own business, Enigma, where she sells her resin art at markets. She is also interested in psychology, mathematics, and art, and will be taking classes at ASU in the fall.

Mimi-Carlisle King

as Ruth

Mimi-Carlisle is a senior and has been at Ambleside most of her academic life, starting in Pre-K. She has acted in several Shakespeare plays, as part of the “Chorus” in Prometheus Bound, and as “Zeal, Self-Love, Gentile, and Grace” in The Divine Narcissus. This year she is playing the lead, “Ruth.” Mimi will be attending the University of Richmond this fall where she is pursuing a degree in Health Studies.