2024 - Hamlet Cast — Venture Shakespeare

The Hamlet Cast

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Ashleigh Stochel:
Hamlet

Education: B.A. Saint Mary’s College, J.D. Valparaiso University School of Law, M.F.A. University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Favorite Play: Macbeth
Why Shakespeare?: When I’m playing Shakespeare, it’s the only time I feel completely human. Everything is permitted, nothing is forbidden.

Clark Garner:
Guildenstern/Barnardo

Education: AC Reynolds high school
Favorite Play: Twelfth Night
Why Shakespeare?: My experience so far has been all musical theater and I’d like to step out of my comfort zone and try something new and fun.

Kirstin Leigh Daniel:
Polonius

Education: A Theatre Education from Emerson College, MTS Production and Design from Southern Oregon University. MA Shakespeare and Creativity from Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham UK. Continuing education from Shakespeare and Company (including 2019 Month-Long Intensive).

Favorite Play: Whichever play I'm working on. But who doesn’t love the balcony scene in R&J?

Why Shakespeare?: Allows me to be in spiritual community with actors and audiences alike.

Lindy Booth:
Ophelia

Education: 25 years of on the job learning on film and TV sets around the world. Workshops with Independent Shakespeare Company LA, Stella Adler Studio and Shakespeare & Company (including 2019 Month-Long Intensive)
Favorite Play: Much Ado About Nothing for the laughs. King John for the tears.
Why Shakespeare: It’s scared me and excited me my whole life. Being a part of the long history of actors who have spoken these same words over the years is like being a part of a magical tribe.

Lori Evans:
Queen Gertrude

Education: BA in Drama University of WA, Shakespeare & Company Intensives; Freehold Ensemble Training Institute
Favorite Play: The Winter’s Tale
Why Shakespeare?: I love finding my own voice through his characters, as well as the intimacy and closeness that comes in community with actors and audience.There’s a safety in the danger and risk of it all.

MJ Gamelin:
Rosencrantz/Priest

Education: B.A. in Drama with a minor Arts Management from UNCA, 2023
Favorite Play: Hamlet.
Why Shakespeare?: To learn from and play with the text, the drama, and the brilliantly creative people!

Casey Morris:
Laertes

Education: BA Drama UNCA, MFA Acting DePaul University
Favorite Play: King Lear or Henry IV pt I
Why Shakespeare?: I love the mystery in all of Shakespeare's works. On and off stage. I love the distance between Elizabethan language and our current vernacular and the challenge in closing the gap. I learn more about humans each time I see, or do, one of his plays.

Ellie Wolfe-Meritt:
Osric/Francisco

Education: Drama Student at UNC Asheville
Favorite Play: Hamlet
Why Shakespeare?: There's a lot of room for creativity in Shakespeare, and I think a lot of space to bring new ideas and experiences to it!

Lindsay Wheeler:
Marcellus/Reynoldo/Player Queen

Education: B.A. Dramatic Arts, Minor Musical Theatre 2024
Favorite Play: Twelfth Night
Why Shakespeare: Since working with Venture my love for Shakespeare has only grown. The language is so fun to dissect and explore and I love being able to bring my 21st century experiences to William’s world.

Lochlan Angle:
Horatio/Player King

Education: BA Theatre and History from the University of South Carolina, 2018 weekend workshops at the American Shakespeare Center, 2018 Month-Long Summer Training Institute at Shakespeare and Company.
Favorite Play: Let’s go with Twelfth Night today!
Why Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s words have the power to incite positive change in people, in people’s lives, in the world--they sure changed me--and I want that power to be available to all.

Lucius Robinson:
Ghost, King Claudius, Gravedigger

Education: BA Performance Studies UNC-Chapel Hill. MFA Dell’Arte International School Of Physical Theater. MAT Notre Dame of Maryland. 2019 Month-Long Intensive at Shakespeare and Company
Favorite Play: King Lear (formerly Othello)
Why Shakespeare: Because speaking these words aloud with others leads me to my best self.

We are excited to greet you in-person!