Craig Anderson (Gobbo) is excited to be a part of The Shylock and the Shakespeareans after recently completing a four-month Manhattan mini-tour of UTC61’s Cabaret in Captivity, currently in its 10th year of production. Other UTC61 shows include Doctors Jane and Alexander, the stage and podcast versions of The Resistible Rise of J.R. Brinkley and The Iron Heel, and The Velvet Oratorio. He also appeared in the stage and film versions of The Last Cyclist, directed by Edward Einhorn and recently featured on PBS THIRTEEN’s Theater Close-Up. Other New York roles include Stephano in Dysfunctional Theater’s onsite production of The Tempest on Governors Island, Judge Brack in Love Creek’s production of Hedda Gabler, and Edward Hopper in a new one-act play, From the Williamsburg Bridge, at the Chain Theatre. Craig also appeared in King John, The Three Musketeers, Julius Caesar, and The Comedy of Errors with Hudson Classical Theater Company.

Edward Einhorn (Writer/Director) is the Artistic Director of Untitled Theater Company No. 61. Prominent shows include The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (HERE & The Jermyn Street Theatre in London), Critic's Pick from Jesse Green at The New York Times; The Pig, or Vaclav Havel's Hunt for a Pig (3LD & The New Ohio), Critic's Picks from The New York Times and The Village Voice; and The God Projekt (La MaMa), 4 stars Time Out New York; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (3LD), Critic's Pick from The New York Times, 4 stars Time Out New York; The Last Cyclist (La MaMa), broadcast on PBS-affiliate WNET's Theater Close Up.  In July he will be taking over the position as Artistic Director of The Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival, honoring Vaclav Havel, which plays yearly at The Bohemian National Hall.  www.edwardeinhorn.com

Ethan Fox (Salarino) is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, and performer, originally from Chapel Hill, NC. He’s performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Playmakers Repertory Co., The Gene Frankel Theatre, and The Players Theatre. Ethan graduated from Vassar College, where he studied Drama and English, receiving the prestigious Molly Thacher Kazan Memorial Prize for excellence in the dramatic arts. He also trained at the British American Drama Academy (BADA) in London. IG: @3thanfox

David Gibbs (Press Representative) (he/him) is the founder of DARR Publicity, a boutique entertainment press agency specializing in theater, dance, film, music and unique theatrical experiences. Clients include The Amoralists, Company XIV, FIAF, Ice Factory Festival, La MaMa, Molière in the Park, New Ohio Theatre, NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival, Pig Iron, PTP/NYC, Red Seed Films and Untitled Theater Company No. 61. David has publicized shows at many Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway venues throughout NYC. His clients have won Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Obie and Off Broadway Alliance Awards. www.DarrPublicity.com

Nick Hamparyan (Production Assistant) is a New York City-based theater, film and television actor and recent graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, having received a BFA in dramatic arts with a minor in the business of entertainment, media and technology. Prominent credits include The Arrival (Alyssa Rallo Bennett), Aftertimes (Aya Bogod), Confined (Emiliano Flores), Mirror (Malcolm Mills), and Writing About Writing (Zora Howard). In his training, Nick has studied the practical aesthetics technique under the Atlantic Theatre Company as well as on-camera acting methods at Stonestreet Studios. 

JaneAnne Halter (Female Understudy/Fight Choreographer) is a New York City-based actor and performance artist.  She received her BA in Visual Arts from Fordham University and MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School. Favorite credits include: Somewhere I Can Scream (The Players Theater), Alma Baya (A.R.T./New York), Let’s Pretend (Wild Project Theater). She would like to thank Edward and all of UTC61 for their continued support. www.janeannehalter.com

Yael Haskal (Jessica) is a writer and performer based in Brooklyn. She is a member of the New York Neo-Futurists and La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company. NYC: The Trojan Women (La MaMa/Andrei Serban), The Weak and The Strong (La MaMa/Planet Connections); The Infinite Wrench (Kraine/NYNF); The Iron Heel (UTC61). Her plays have been performed at La MaMa, IRT, The Tank, Midtown Int'l Theatre Festival (NYC); Echo Theater Company (CA); Ivoryton Playhouse, Warner Theatre (CT); Echo Theatre Dallas (TX); Theatre Simpson (IN); the InspiraTO Festival (Toronto); and others across the U.S. www.yaelhaskal.com.

Janine Hegarty (Salarina/Aragon) specializes in the study and application of behavior analysis (microexpressions/body language biofeedback loops) to help individuals communicate with confidence, clarity, and empathy on and off-stage. Training: Guthrie Theater, NYU Tisch (MA Performance Studies), HB Studio, Wellesley College (Neuroscience/French). Select NYC acting credits: Queen Margaret - Henry VI part 1 and part 2; Lady Anne - Richard III; Yoheved - Moses the Author (NY Fringe Audience Winner). Witch 2 - Macbeth. Select regional acting credits: Speed - Two Gentlemen of Verona. Thésée - Phèdre (French); Petra - Enemy of the People; Portia - Merchant of Venice; Francisco/Gravedigger – Hamlet. 

Chapman Hyatt (Bassanio) NYU BFA '17.  Notable works include The Whole of You by Amy Berryman, Cino Nights dir. by Larry Powell, Ugly Little Sister dir. by Daniel Talbott, Pule Verite by Crystal Skillman. Readings and Workshops: Becoming Anna (Robert W. Wilson Theatre), Tribes (prod. by Discovering Broadway) Film and TV: Ain't It Though (Rising Phoenix Rep, post-prod) Lemonade Mouth (Disney Channel). 

Berit Johnson (Stage Manager) does a lot of this sort of thing.

Mia Jurkunus (Production Assistant) is a theater and psychology student at Connecticut College. She is a performer and writer. Prominent roles include the Witch in Into the Woods (Connecticut College), and Helga in Cabaret (Connecticut College). She studied physical theater at Accademia dell’ Arte in Arezzo, Italy where she played Capitano in Stories of Love: Commedia dell’ Arte. She has performed in Giulio Cesare (The Guard in New London and in Greve, Italy ) with the Connecticut Lyrical Opera. In the spring, she will perform in a play she wrote and devised Where The Water Meets Her (Capstone Festival at Connecticut College).

Jeremy Kareken (Jacob) PLAYWRIGHT: FARBLONDJET (Sewanee Dakin Fellowship), THE SWEET SWEET MOTHERHOOD (Guthrie/Playwrights Center) and THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT (Broadway, Outer Critics Gassner Award) SCREENWRITER: MY AMERICA (d: Hal Hartley), THESE CONQUERED THE EARTH (Hamptons Film Festival) ACTOR: THE GIRL IN THE PARK (d. David Auburn), AMERICAN ROT (d: Estelle Parsons). Researcher/Associate Producer: “Inside the Actors Studio.” Lifetime member: Actors Studio.

Chase Lee (Lorenzo) is a Brooklyn-based actor and educator. He was mostly recently seen playing Banquo in a Spanish-language version of Macbeth at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira in Pereira, Colombia, Frank in Annie Baker’s Body Awareness at Trinity University’s Stieren Theater, and Sahil in a staged reading of Travis Tate’s Your Maximum Potential at the New Ohio Theater. Chase has trained at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, with La Escafandra Teatro in Pereira, Colombia, and at the Atlantic Acting School in New York. www.chaseleeacts.com

Stephanie Litchfield (Nerissa) is an NYC-based actor who particularly loves collaborating on new work. She is a graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (MA in Acting) and of the University of Chicago (BA in Theater & Performance Studies and Comparative Literature). Select stage credits include Persephone in Sing, Goddess! (HERE Arts Center), Mary Oliver in For Molly (Lenfest Center for the Arts), Cordelia in King Lear (Brick Theater), and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (Logan Center for the Arts). www.stephanielitchfield.com

Aria Martinelli (Production Assistant) is an actor from Brooklyn New York. She is a rising senior at Smith College studying theater, journalism, and political science. Her conservatory training includes studying at the British American Drama Academy (BADA) and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA). Some of her favorite roles have been Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Fraulein Schneider (Cabaret), and Ines Zulieta (Semi-Monde). Aria is a passionate actor, social justice advocate, and writer. She aspires to continue to engage in and make work that supports social change and furthers a more empathetic way to live with this world. 

Nalina Mann (Portia) was last seen as The Stranger in Untitled Theatre's production of Alma/Baya. Other credits: White Woman - In White America (New Federalist Theater), Chairy - Barnum (Westchester Bway), The Countess -  It Pays to Advertise (Metropolitan Playhouse), Constance - Three Musketeers (Wings Theatre), Raina - Arms & the Man (Pulse Ensemble Theatre), Haley - Dear Prudence (Rattlestick). Training: Sarah Lawrence College, École Jacques Lecoq. www.nalinamann.com

Nathaniel Meek (Male Understudy) Theater: Fat Pig (Geffen Playhouse - West Coast Premier), Bled For The Household Truth (Rogue Machine), Much Ado, Hamlet, Midsummer (Speakeasy Theater Company), Autobahn, The Devil and Billy Markham (UCLA LIVE). The Distance From Here, The Water Engine, Cyrano De Bergerac, The Laramie Project, Arcadia, Haiti and Coriolanus (Theatricum Botanicum). Film: Ouija House, Halfway to Zen, The Shoot. TV: My Crazy Ex, The Call Room. LA Opera: La Traviata (with Placido Domingo), Barber Of Seville, Tales of Hoffman. Nominated for Best Actor in I Knew Him Well (co-writer) at Oregon Shorts Fest 2021. As writer and director: The Boy at The Tank and The Anniversary at Lightning Society. Nathaniel can be seen in Where The Devil Roams from Adams Family Films, premiering at Fantasia International Film Fest this August. Graduate of UCLA. He lives in Brooklyn with his record collection. In your idle hours visit him at www.nathanielmeek.com.

Mike Mroch (Scenic Designer) is a New York based film & theater director, scenic designer, & producer. He is an Executive Producer with Future Facing Films & showrunner of In The Time Of. Select design credits: Alma Baya, Doctors Jane & Alexander (UTC61), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakesperience), Echoes in the Garden (American Bard), Hurricane Sleep (The Box Collective/IATI), Mary Stuart (Hedgepig), Unsex Me Here (Oblivious Volcano), After Miss Julie (2016 Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination), Charles Ives Take Me Home (Strawdog Theatre), We're Gonna Die (Haven Theater). www.mikemroch.com

Kingsley Nwaogu (Terach/Prince) graduated From the acting program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has a background in dramatic writing as well as dance. This is his first time working with UTC61 and can't wait to debut the staged production of The Shylock and the Shakespeareans playing the role of Terach and Prince of Morocco. Shows include Airness (Vermont Stage), TRACKS (The Skeleton Rep), The Comedy of Errors (AlphaNYC), Exploring Modern Myth I&II (The Skeleton Rep), Women of Manhattan (Pink Arts Peace).

Eric Norbury (Lighting Designer) Select credits include Hong Kong Mississippi (La MaMa ETC), Dodi & Diana (HERE Arts), The Prom (WPPAC), Footloose (Argyle Theatre), Xerxes (Detroit Opera), Blue (Seattle Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Dutch National Opera), Only Human: A Musical (Theatre St. Clement’s), Till: A Musical (NYMF), Nimbus Dance at BAM Fisher,. Previous work: LaMama ETC, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Barrington Stage Company, La Jolla Playhouse, New School of Drama, Washington National Opera, 5th Avenue Theatre, The Glimmerglass Festival, Seán Curran Dance Company, De Funes Dance, Second Avenue Dance Company and many others. MFA NYU/Tisch. Member USA829. www.ericnorburylighting.com

Eric E. Oleson (Antonio/Stranger) has performed with UTC61 since 2009, in Scenes from a Misunderstanding, Rudolf II, Velvet Oratorio, The Lathe of Heaven, and Iphigenia in Aulis.   He recently appeared in the film of Naomi Patz's reconstruction of Karel Svenk's The Last Cyclist, also under Edward Einhorn's direction. In NYC, he has worked with the Guerrilla Shakespeare Project (Tragedy of Arthur), Hunger & Thirst Collective (Lathem Prince), and Metropolitan Playhouse (The Poor of New York).   Regionally, he has acted at Cortland Rep (Spider's Web and Gross Indecency), Cider Mill Playhouse (Bach in Leipzig), Sacred Fools (The Visit), Arena Stage (Our Town), and the Shakespeare Theatre in D.C. (Coriolanus). www.olesoneric.com

Richard Philbin (Music)

Ramona Ponce (Costume Designer) began designing for theater at the Ridiculous Theatrical Company back in the 90’s. She now has long-standing relationships with numerous theater, dance and opera companies in and around New York City, including Untitled Theater Company #61, The Hotel Savant, TWEED Theaterworks, and Opera On Tap as well as performance and cabaret artists. Her work has netted nominations for the Hewes Design Award and the Innovative Theater Award. She has created specialty needlework for fashion designers like Chris March (Project Runway) and Thierry Mugler, and assembles sewn elements for fine artists, including Fiona Foley's HHH at the Brooklyn Museum. She designs special occasion wear for both women and men, and styles visual elements for a variety of applications, which has included making skeletons run, jump, and ride bicycles. She wrote a cookbook years ago and plans to write a scandalous tell-all memoir when she gets a little older.

Erica Reichler (Assistant Costume Designer, Wardrobe) is a senior BFA student in Design and Technical Production, and is scheduled to graduate this fall. At Brooklyn College, she has worked as an assistant costume designer and wardrobe supervisor for shows such as Lear, Dido & Aeneas and Tick, Tick… Boom! She was also the costume designer for Brooklyn College’s production of Little Shop of Horrors. She is excited for her professional debut and would like to thank her friends and family for their support.

Aimee Reiss (Production Assistant) is happy to be back in NY.  She was seen on stage in Portland, OR in Rose City Shakespeare's productions of Twelfth Night (Sir Andrew Aguecheek), Lysistrata (Lysistrata) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus/Oberon).  Film credits include A Man of Many and The Night We Thought Was a Dream. She has also worked as a wildlife researcher and will tell you more than you want to know about owls.  AT '18, PCT '22.

Thomas Shuman (Gratiano) Thomas Shuman (Gratiano) is thrilled to be performing with all these lovely people. Recent credits include After Eden by Jeff Athey (SoHo Playhouse's Lighthouse Series, performing again in late June!) and The Night Alive by Conor McPherson (Maiden Productions). In his free time, he cooks, runs, and recently wrote his first song! Enjoy the show, feel free to say hi afterwards.

Becca Silbert (Assistant Director/Sound Designer) is a film and theatre artist based in NYC.   She has been working in various capacities with UTC61 since 2016.  Becca is a co-founder of GrapefruitGIRL&Co., a content production company that focuses on queer femme voices.  She also works as a freelance stage manger, designer, producer and editor.

Mirit Skeen (Production Assistant/Fight Captain) is a director, lighting designer, and drag nuisance currently getting their BFA in Theatre & Drama: Directing and their BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Michigan. Their past work as a director includes Indecent (Rude Mechanicals), WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM? (Basement Arts), Men on Boats (SMTD UProd), and It’s The End of the World and I Wish You Were Here (SMTD). Select technical work at Michigan includes Passenger (director, lighting, and sound), Horse Girls (special effects), Speech and Debate (lighting), Hero of Our Time (lighting), The Normal Heart (makeup design), and Antigone (stage management). You can find them in drag around Brooklyn or at Pride Bar in Michigan.