2017 Davis Shakespeare Festival
SHAKESPEARE’S
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
CAST
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association
Gabby Battista: Hermia
Previously at the Festival: Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, Verges/Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, Ensemble in She Loves Me.
Other Theatres: Antigone, Big Idea Theatre; The Box, Z Space Theater; Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, San Francisco Neo Futurists; Vildskud Teatrefestival, Copenhagen; 36th Street Blues, Greenway Court Theatre; Avenue Q, San Francisco State Mainstage.
Education: Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University.
Ernesto Bustos: Flute/Others
Other Theatres: La Pastorela de Sactown, Latino Center of Art & Culture; The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, Main Street Theatre Works; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Stand Out Talent.
Education: BA in Theatre and Dance, CSU Sacramento.
Tim Gaffaney: Oberon/Theseus
Previously at the Festival: Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac, Dr. Kitchell in Bells Are Ringing, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Bazzard in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Head Waiter in She Loves Me, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing.
Other Theatres: Bunthorne, Patience, St. Andrews G&S Society; Touchstone, The Curate Shakespeare: As You Like It, Foundry Players (Washington, DC); Doc Gibbs, Our Town, Foundry Players; Applegate, Damn Yankees, Davis Musical Theater Company; La Flèche, The Miser, Wayne Wellacre, Inspecting Carole, Ferraillon, A Flea in Her Ear, Woodland Opera House.
Education: Ph.D., Political Science, UCLA.
Sam C. Jones: Lysander
Other Theatres: Tarzan, Berkeley Playhouse; Cinderella, The Tempest, The Donner Party, Sacramento Theatre Company; Bare: A Pop Opera, Corpus Christi, Richmond Triangle Players; Beethoven’s Fidelio, The Inseries, DC.
Education: Christopher Newport University.
John R. Lewis*: Bottom
Other Theatres: The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Jungle Book, Marin Theatre Company; The Memory Stick, San Jose Stage Company; The Unfortunates, Stuck Elevator, American Conservatory Theater; Don Quixote, Marin Shakespeare Company; The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, California Shakespeare Theater; Cymbeline, New Orleans Shakespeare Festival; Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Little Shop of Horrors, Boxcar Theatre; The Taming of the Shrew, Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Education: Theatre Arts Performance/Direction, Southern Oregon University, Ashland.
Andrea J. Love: Titania/Hippolyta
Other Theatres: Hope, Urinetown, Berkeley Playhouse; Viola/Sebastian, Twelfth Night, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival; Sense and Sensibility, Cinderella, Twelfth Night, Sacramento Theatre Company; La Rue’s Return, A Four-Legged Fortune, The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville; Ring of Fire, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Maples Repertory Theatre.
Education: MFA in Acting, University of Alabama; BA in Music Performance & Theory, Agnes Scott College.
Johnny Quesada: Snug/Others
Previously at the Festival: Francis/Ensemble in Bells Are Ringing, Cuigy/Ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac.
Other Theatres: Giorgibus, Signor Deluso, Neighbor/Chorus, Darling Corie, Chorus, Mozart! Mozart!, Sacramento State Opera Theater.
Education: BM, Music Education, California State University, Sacramento (In progress).
Sydney Schwindt: Helena
Previously at the Festival: Benvolio in Romeo & Juliet, Sue in Bells Are Ringing, Jodelet/Ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac, Helena Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Valentine/Ensemble in Twelfth Night.
Other theaters: Laertes, Hamlet (Upcoming), Rosalind, As You Like It, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival; Cassandra, Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes, Arabian Shakespeare Festival; Miranda, Tempest, Curtain Theatre; Titania, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lady Macduff/Young Seward, Macbeth, Raina, Arms and the Man, The Historic Jones Theatre; u/s Lady Macduff and Witch 2 in Macbeth at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Hartford Stage; The Hampton Theatre Company; The Meanderthals Theatre Company; Mirage Entertainment.
Education: BFA in Acting from The Hartt School; Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy; The San Francisco Clown Conservatory; and The Society of American Fight Directors.
Website: www.sydney-schwindt.com
Kyle Stoner: Puck
Previously at the Festival: Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, Ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac, Sandor in Bells Are Ringing, James Throttle in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Sebastian in Twelfth Night.
Other theaters: Princeton/Rod, Avenue Q, NCTC; Fabrizio, Light in the Piazza, Altarena Playhouse; J. Pierrepont Finch, How to Succeed, BAM! SF; F-WORD aka Frodo aka Francis, AlterTheater’s world premiere of The Fellowship; Jaques, As You Like It, SF Shakespeare Festival; Jesus, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jack, Into the Woods; Himself/Austin Tichenor sub in the world premiere of the Reduced Shakespeare Co.’s Ultimate Xmas Show (abridged).
Jessica Woehler: Quince/Others
Previously at the Festival: Brissaille/Ensemble in Cyrano de Bergerac, Ensemble in Bells Are Ringing.
Other Theatres: Truvy, Steel Magnolias, Martha, The Broken: An Original Play, Dottore, A Servant of Two Masters, Mrs Stockton, Mrs Packard, La Poncia, The House of Bernarda Alba, Martha, The Games Afoot, George Fox University; Mattie Fae, August: Osage County, Queen of Hearts, Alice in Wonderland, Ludwig Maximilian Univeristy (Munich, Germany); Lucetta, The Rover, Big Idea Theatre.
Education: BA in Theatre from George Fox University.