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Rebecca Joy Wilcox Aidala

Rebecca Aidala has taught at Ambleside for 22 years and has been an ASU adjunct instructor for eight 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 seven dinner theatres: Antigone, Tartuffe, Arsenic & Old Lace, Prometheus Bound, Of Mice and Men, The Divine Narcisus, and Blithe Spitit. 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".

Zander Kuhn

as Jay Gatsby

Zander is a junior at Ambleside and in his thirtd year at our school. This is his third thatrical role; his first being "Cassius" in Julius Caesar, and his senond, "Charles" in Blithe Spirit. This is Zander's second leading role, as the iconic "Gatsby." Zander, a chess master, luanched Ambleside's Chess Club, and he plays chess competively. He is interested in engineering or pursuing a degree in law.

Kaleb Nelson

as Nick Carraway

Kaleb is a freshman and in his second year at Ambleside. He is performing a second lead role as "Nick Carraway," and played "Nick Bottom" in last year's A Midsummer Night's Dream. He loves to sketch, to play guitar, and is active in martial arts. He loves biology and is enterntaining a career in this field. He also enjoys history. Kaleb is an avid outdorrsman, a proponent of healthy eating, and mticulous in every area.