Eric Tucker¹, he/him/his (Director) Wall Street Journal DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR 2014/2021. “America’s Best Classical Theatre Director” WSJ.  Off-Broadway: Music City; The Assassination of Julius Caesar; Arcadia; Fall River Fishing; The Winter’s Tale; Hedda Gabler; Persuasion; The Crucible; Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet; Pygmalion; Peter Pan; Vanity Fair; Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility (Off-Broadway Alliance Award, Lortel nom, Best Director, Drama League nom, Best Revival, 4 Helen Hayes awards including Best Director and Best Production); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Drama League nom Best Revival, WSJ Best Classical Production 2015); Bedlam’s Saint Joan (NY Times/Time Magazine top 10; Off-Broadway Alliance Best Revival 2014); Bedlam’s Hamlet (NY Times top 10); Tina Packer’s Women of Will; New York Animals (World Premiere by Steven Sater/Burt Bacharach), Twelfth Night and What You Will (NYT Critic’s Picks); The Seagull (WSJ Best Classical Production 2014). Other: Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 & 2 (Workshop Production, TFANA); Angels in America: Parts 1 & 2 (Bedlam/Boston Nominated for 10 Elliot Norton Awards including Outstanding Production and Outstanding Director) Caesar and Cleopatra (ASC); The Rivals (BRT); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Two River), Disney’s Beauty & The Beast (OSF); Pericles (APT, WSJ Best Classical Production 2017); Copenhagen (Central Square Theatre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (HVSF), Mate (The Actors’ Gang). Eric resides in New York City where he is Artistic Director of Bedlam.

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright (1564-1616) widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 37 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several additional poems. His plays have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Nigel Gore  trained at Rose Bruford College and the Trinity Repertory Conservatory, graduating in 1994. Recent work includes George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Elliot Norton Award Outstanding Actor 2010), Eddie in Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Henry Carr in Travesties, and Bernard Nightingale in Arcadia, all at the Publick Theatre Boston; Squeers and Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby at Lyric Stage Company of Boston; Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Buckingham in Richard III, Lavache in All’s Well That Ends Well, Claudius in Hamlet, Mark Antony in Antony & Cleopatra and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Shakespeare & Company; and Volumnia in Coriolanus with the Mercury Theatre in Colchester England. Narration work includes Gaian Variations at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC, Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale performed with Puppeteer Dan Butterworth, Wellington’s March by Beethoven with the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra conductor Paul Phillips, An Evening of Music and Shakespeare and Peter & the Wolf performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Boston’s Jordan Hall. Mr. Gore appeared as Thurston Twitchell in Seasons 2 and 3 of Brotherhood for Showtime.

Tina Packer, is a leading authority on Shakespeare, not only in America but in the world. At Shakespeare & Company Tina has directed over 50 Shakespeare productions, as well as new and contemporary works including the world premieres of The Taster, Ice Glen, The Scarlet Letter by Dr. Carol Gilligan, Summer, adapted from Edith Wharton by Dennis Krausnick, and The Fly-Bottle by David Egan. Other productions of note include the critically-acclaimed King John, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, Part 1, and most recently an all-male production of Coriolanus in England for the Mercury Theatre in Colchester. Last summer at Shakespeare & Company, Tina also channeled Texan journalist Molly Ivins in the hit one-woman show Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. Previously for Shakespeare & Company, Tina took on the Queen of the Nile when she played Cleopatra in the Company’s 2007 season’s critically-acclaimed production of Antony and Cleopatra. Other S&Co. roles include Queen Gertrude in Hamlet where she played opposite her son, Jason Asprey, in the title role, and her husband, Dennis Krausnick, who played Polonious. Audiences flocked to see Tina as Lettice in Lettice and Lovage, and her many turns as Edith Wharton and Shirley Valentine which she has played numerous times over the past 30 years. Tina trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she won the Ronson Award for Most Outstanding Performer. In Britain, she was an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performed in the West End, and acted with repertory companies in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leicester, and Coventry. She also worked for the BBC and ITV television companies and in film. She has worked with John Barton, Peter Hall, John Schlessinger, Sir Ian McKellan, Paul Scofield, Janet Suzman, and Ian Richardson, among others.