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Darryl Banks
as Darryl, Othello Rapper, Hamlet
Darryl Banks is a Junior at Mount Pleasant High School. He has been cast in numerous shows such as Laramie Project, Smokers Hill, Dear Chuck, and Jesus Christ Super Star. He is very excited to be performing in Shakespeare's Comedies! He would like to thank both his parents for all of their love and support, the cast, crew, his director Chris, and Matt Coyle for helping to put on a fantastic show, and the lord for blessing him with this wonderful opportunity!
MAY THE BARD BE WITH YOU!
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Emma Chambless
as Emma
Emma Chambless -- more commonly known by her stage name, EmmaKate Wahoozy -- is an IB Senior, and she is very excited to be a part of her last fall play here at Mount. Notable moments in Emma's acting career include a 3 year stint in Tokyo performing with a traditional Japanese interpretive dance troupe, the hairbrush in Veggie Tales' "Where is my hairbrush?", and the caterpillar in a spoken word performance of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". When Emma is not onstage, you can find her working as a freelance ventriloquist, running a 2:42 mile, or baking 5 minute brownies in 3 minutes.
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Ben Connor
as Romeo, Soldier, Football Player, Claudius, Himself
Ben Connor was born in 1921 in Moscow, the son of a butcher and a traveling clown. In 1939, he joined the KGB and began work as an operative in their Verestroika, or Assassination division. In 1942, he stabbed Leon Trotsky with an icepick in Mexico. For this he received the Congressional Medal of Freedom, the Nobel Prize and a chocolate cake personally baked by Vladimir Lenin. He currently resides in the sewers of Wilmington, and spends his time crocheting and learning Mandarin. His head is frozen in a holding tank in Glendale, California.
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Grace Gerchman
as Nurse, Soothsayer, Herself
Grace Gerchman is so excited to be in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Grace is a sophomore at Mount Pleasant and is in no way new to theater. She was most recently seen in The Music Man at the Everett Theater. her plans for life include becoming a super hero and joining The Avengers. If all else fails she plans to write the first Star Trek musical
