Unsex Me Here Shakespeare! - March 26 - April 09, 2021
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Who's Who
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D. Scott Glasser
Director / Adaptation
Scott Glasser joined the graduate faculty of UNO Theatre in 2004, becoming Professor and Chair in 2009 and transitioning to Artistic Director in 2017. He teaches directing, acting, theory, film and Shakespeare. Scott’s production of The Playboy of the Western World was selected to perform at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Regional Conference. At UNO he directed his adaptations of Aristophanes’ The Birds and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Scott has directed over 180 productions including operas, musicals and premiere productions of plays by Lee Blessing, Jon Klein, Martha Boesing and Steven Dietz. As Associate Artistic Director for the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival he directed Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, The Tempest, Richard III, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Love’s Labor’s Lost, King Lear and Macbeth.
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Paul Boesing
Composer
Paul Boesing (Composer) during a span of fifty years in the theater, has done nearly everything. He is an actor/singer, composer and voice teacher with degrees in music, voice and drama. Paul has appeared in nine plays with The Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, playing Polonius in Hamlet, The Chorus and French King in Henry V and King Lear, among other roles. As a composer, he has written the music for many productions including the musical Jack Jack by Megan Terry, a folk opera for the Minnesota Opera Company and Houston Grand Opera called The Wanderer, the opera Journey To Canaan. Paul was composer for At the Foot of the Mountain Theater for several years where he created, among other shows, Calamity Jane and the music for Carol Churchill's Vinegar Tom. Paul's musical setting of Gertrude Stein's Photograph received multiple productions, as did Paul’s music and lyrics for a musical parody of the Hardy Boys called The Secret of The Old Queen.
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