| Ted Sharon is a specialist in voice, movement, and stage combat. He holds an M.F.A. from Boston University School for the Arts and has served on the voice staff at the American Repertory Theatre and the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. He is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, a Senior Instructor with Dueling Arts International and a Faculty Member at the Action Film Workshops. Ted’s work as a fight director has been seen at the California Shakespeare Festival, the Boston Lyric Opera, the Chautauqua Conservatory Theatre Company of New York, the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and internationally in Taiwan R.O.C. and in mainland China. Ted works internationally as an actor and fight choreographer. He is the Associate Chair and teaches voice, movement, stage combat and scene study in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the State University of New York–Fredonia. |
Dan Lendzian (Malcolm) is a resident of New York. He graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia with a BFA in Acting, a BA in English, and a minor in American Studies. Credits Include: Romeo and Juliet (Abram) and King Lear (Curan) at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom) and Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence) with Shakespeare Live!, Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio) and As You Like it (Oliver) at Shakespeare in the Valley, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Dasher) with Reality Aside Theatre, Birdgirl (Boyfriend) with Impact Theatre, Batboy:The Musical (Bud) at the Weathervane Repertory Theatre, and Plain and Fancy (Samuel) at Blatt's Theatre. Dan confounded Playground Drama Day Camp in 2006. Dan has also written over 15 scripts for on camera and the stage. He is thrilled to be performing with F.E.S.T.A.! |
Stephanie Taylor* ThisTexan first came to NYC to get her BFA from NYU under the thumb of the late Stella Adler. She then moved out to San Francisco where some of her favorite roles were May in Fool for Love, Verna in Tiny Tim is Dead, Sandy in The Crackwalker, and Della in the SF Cult Featurette The Day I Shot President Kennedy. She also toured nationally with the Obie and Tony Award winning SF Mime Troupe and did the physicalization of the animated character Princess Fiona in the Academy Award winning PDI/Dreamworks film, Shrek. Since being back, she's romped at Barrow Street, The Ontological-Hysteric, The Producers Club, Manhattan Theatre Source, & the American Globe Theatre, among others. |
Caroline Pagani (Witch) was born in Italy in a cosmpopolitan family. She’s a polyglot actor (French, English, Spanish) and graduated with a degree in History of English Theatre in Milan and specialized in Theatre,Dramaturgy, and Directing in Venice. She also trained and worked as an actor also with Centro Teatro Attivo, Centre International de Théatre, Teatro delle Albe, and as an assistant director with Giorgio Strehler and Luciano Damiani. She attended the “Shakespeare Intensive” course for the advanced actor at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. She has also collaborated with practical and theoretical classes within the Departments of Art, Music and Theatre at The University of Milan. She has translated, written, directed, and interpreted Shakespeare’s Lovers from William Shakespeare. |
Georgia Darell lives in Rome, Italy where she works as a Tour Guide at the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, a Teacher, and is breaking into the professional world of acting; she has just finished acting as Lulu in Harold Pinter’s the Birthday Party for the English Theatre in Rome. During obtaining of a B.A at Exeter University, Georgia was continuously involved in theatre productions, acting in a wide range of plays in the South of England and spent two summers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She also scripted, directed and produced a number of student theatre and film productions for Exeter’s Northcote Theatre. Notably “Shakespeare: His Greatest Hits” and “The Importance of Doing English” (a medley of famous literary scenes through the ages) which also afforded her the opportunity to act as nearly every one of her lifelong heroines – including Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet, Emily Bronte’s Cathy, Tennessee Williams’ Blanche DuBois and Shakespeare’s Lady M! |
Benjamin Sharon (assistant to the fight director) debuted as a child actor in Arthur Miller's Playing for Time which won the Boston, Massachusetts area's Moss Hart Memorial Award. Subsequent performances include Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, and supporting roles in Annie, Jr. and Honk, Jr. Benjamin enjoys traveling and choreographing sword fights with his dad and is thrilled to be playing his first Shakespearean role in F.E.S.T.A.'s production of Macbeth. |
