Taming of the Shrew - August 12 - August 21, 2016

Syracuse Shakespeare Festival

  Spotlights  

 

Kassandra Melendez-Ramirez (Assistant Director) was Celia in As You Like It and Stage Manager in Our Town at Manhattanville College.  She has her BA, Dance/Theatre from Manhattanville.

 

Herbert “Tone” Merrick (Vincentio) portrayed Flute/Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and was seen on film as Paid Enforcer in a short film, The FallTone completed

a college prep program at SUNY-E.O.C. and plans to attend SUNY-OCC in the fall.

 

Jesse Navagh (Tranio) has worked extensively with SSF in our school programs 

Avon Repertory Theater and No Bully Shakespeare as Mercutio, Romeo and Flute/Thisbe among others.  He frequently portrays various Ghost Walker characters for the Onondaga Historical Association.

 

Bob Reid (Baptista) enjoyed playing Brutus in the SSF’s Avon Repertory Theatre 

Julius Caesar and Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner.  He studied dramatic arts at OCC-SUNY many moons ago.

 

Kelsey Rich (Lucentio) is a junior at Le Moyne College in Theatre Arts. Her most recent credits are Virgilia/Citizen 1 in SSF's Coriolanus in June and Juliet in Le Moyne College's Romeo and Juliet.

 

Ben Sheedy (Petruchio) is the Assistant Technical Director at the Redhouse Arts Center. Favorite roles include Michael Novak in God of Carnage and The Narrator in 

The Rocky Horror Show. He holds an MFA Acting, Actors Studio Drama School.  

 

Sara Tucker (Biondello) was a co-stage manager for last year’s SITPAll’s Well that Ends Well, and was Mustardseed in SSF’s 10th anniversary SITP

A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  She is a rising sophomore at SUNY- Stony Brook majoring in English/Theater.

 

Jordan Van Ryn (Peter/Servant/Second Officer) played Myrtle Crunch in You Ain't Nothing But a Werewolf at Syracuse Children's Theatre and Joanna Goldberg in 

Give My Regards to Broadway. She is a candidate to receive her AA Art, SUNY-OCC,

May ’17, with a minor in Electronic Media Communications. 

 

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