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.