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.

Paige Clark is thrilled to be returning to the cast of Arabian Nights after a two-year hiatus.  She is pleased to be reprising the role she originated, and for which she won an IRNE Award (Best Ensemble).  Other area credits: Emilia in Comedy Of Errors, Benvolia in Romeo & Juliet, Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Helen in Troilus & Cressida (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Soraya in The Kite Runner (New Repertory Theatre), and Agnes in She Kills Monsters (Company One).  Paige has taught theatre to students of all ages throughout the Boston area at Riverside Theatre Works, Charlestown Working Theatre, Boston Preparatory Charter School, Warren Prescott Middle School, Edison K-8 School, and Boston University.  She is also the Assistant Theatre Director at Newton South High School.  She holds a BFA from Boston University and has studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

Ramona Lisa Alexander (Marley et al.) was last was seen at Central Square Theater in the first season of Arabian Nights. Most recently, she appeared as Nina in The Royale at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), The Boys from Syracuse, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Barbecue and Saturday Night Sunday Morning, The Lyric Stage Company of Boston; Milk Like Sugar, Breathe Boom, Huntington Theatre Company; Days of Atonement, Israeli Stage; Arabian Nights, Harriet Jacobs, Ti-Jean & His Brothers, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Central Square Theater; Seven Guitars, The Artist Repertory Theatre; The Brother/Sister Plays, King Hedley II, Portland Playhouse (Drammy Award); Intimate Apparel, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre; To Kill a Mockingbird Montana Repertory Theatre, National Tour; A Christmas Carol, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Postcards from Earth, Guthrie Theatre; 103 Within the Veil, Company One (IRNE Award); Doubt, Newton Nomadic Theater; In the Continuum, Joe Turner’s …, Up You Might Race Theatre Company (IRNE Award); In the Blood, Zeitgest Stage Company; Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Peter and the Wolf; International: Reggae Sun Splash Music Festival in Jamaica. Film/Television: Knock Around Kids, adekoje-filmwerks. Education: MFA Brandeis University.

David Allen, manager of artistic operations, has worked as an artistic associate at the Hartford Stage Company, where he was the staff dramaturg and director of education. Production dramaturgy at Hartford Stage included A Servant of Two Masters, directed by Bart Sher, Cymbeline, Under Milk Wood and Tiny Alice, all directed by Mark Lamos and Light Up the Sky, directed by Daniel Sullivan. He was also a literary associate and dramaturg for the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven. Productions worked on included A Touch of the Poet, directed by Arvin Brown, An Enemy of the People, directed by John Tillinger and numerous developmental works on the Theater’s “Stage Two,” including world premieres by Keith Reddin, Teresa Rebeck, and David Wiltse. In addition to professional theater work, David has been a professor of theater at the University of Hartford and Bridgewater State University. He was also the founding executive director the Community School of the Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, and the managing director of the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, a performing arts magnet high school.