When shall we three meet again In thunder lightning or in rain?
When the hurly burly's done When the battle's lost and won
Kit Ryan director
Chicago-based director, stage manager, and production manager. Previous Southern Illinois directorial work includes The Importance of Being Earnest and Competition Piece for Carbondale Community High School. She also assistant directed several shows for Carbondale Community Arts' All-Southern Music Theater Project. In Chicago, she has assistant directed King Ubu and Matryoshka with the Plagiarists, and will be assistant directing The Mad King of Scotland, another Macbeth adaptation,with Nothing Special Productions in March. She has stage managed for several companies, including Nothing Special, the Plagiarists, Cold Basement Dramatics, Living Canvas, and inFusion Theatre. Kit is a company member with Nothing Special Productions.
Carl Herzog 003
Enjoys new
works and readings with Chicago Dramatists, recently with the Citizens new play
festival, and recently performed in the new work Down Range with Genesis Theatrical Productions. Other
Chicago area credits include The
Shakespeare Conspiracy (Artists Ensemble Theater), Streetcar Named Desire (Jedlicka Performing Arts) and the Pegasus
Players Young Playwright Festival. Herzog is a 2012 graduate of Southern
Illinois University’s Drama Department.
Ken Miller 001
A recent company member of Stone Soup but has been working with them since their 2012 tour of "Midsummer Night's Dream". He has been working as an actor in Chicago since 2011. There he has worked with such companies as the Plagiarists, Nothing Special Productions, and Redtwist. Miller graduated from Millikin University with his B.F.A in Acting.
Julia Stemper 002
Artistic Director of Stone Soup Shakespeare. In addition to working extensively with the company she has performed throughout Chicago, Washington, DC and Glasgow, Scotland. Credits include: As You Like It, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet (Stone Soup Shakespeare); King Ubu and Matryoshka (The Plagiarists); The Drunkard (Solas Nua); Romeo and Juliet (First Folio Theater); Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed (Lifeline Theatre). Stemper holds a Masters from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
William Shakespeare playwright
Also known as the Bard of Avon. Baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon,
England. From roughly 1594 onward he was an important member of the Lord
Chamberlain’s Men company of theatrical players. Written records give
little indication of the way in which Shakespeare’s professional life
molded his artistry. All that can be deduced is that over the course of
20 years, Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of
human emotion and conflict.