Romeo and Juliet

The Cast

Brian Robert BurnsBRIAN ROBERT BURNS (GREGORY/ENSEMBLE)

previously appeared at Yale Rep in Richard II, directed by Evan Yionoulis. His New York stage credits include Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart; Look Back in Anger; The Erotic Diary of Anne Frank; Caitlin and the Swan; One Night with Rael; and The English Channel. His other credits include The Young Man from Atlanta; The Time of Your Life; Burn This; Pericles; Troilus vs. Cressida; The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II; The Taming of the Shrew; Titus Andronicus; and If Found, Please Return to Charles Darwin by Mattie Brickman. Brian received his MFA from Yale School of Drama.
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Catherine CastellanosCATHERINE CASTELLANOS (LADY MONTAGUE/ENSEMBLE)

is an award-winning actress. She is an associate artist with California Shakespeare Theater, where her credits include the world premiere adaptation of Steinbeck’s Pastures
of Heaven, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, The Triumph of Love, Richard III, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Nicholas Nickleby Parts 
I & II, Othello, All's Well That Ends Well, Henry
IV, The Seagull, and A Midsummer Night's
Dream. Other regional theatre credits include productions at Magic Theatre, San Jose Rep, Brava Theater; as well as performing for American Conservatory Theater, Arena Stage, Lensic Performing Arts Center, and Central Works with Paul Hawken. She is a company member of Campo Santo+Intersection for the Arts, collaborating with and performing in world premieres by Denis Johnson, Naomi Iizuka, Greg Sarris, Octavio Solis, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Jessica Hagedorn, Luis Saguar, Junot Diaz, Vendela Vida, Dave Eggers, and Cherríe Moraga. Catherine lives in San Francisco.
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William DemerittWILLIAM DeMERITT (DAVID/FRIAR JOHN)

is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Uncle
Vanya, elijah, and The Bottle Breakers. His other credits include The Phoenix (Yale Summer Cabaret); Missed Connections, The Wedding Reception (Yale Cabaret); Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? (The Public Theater); Edward II (Red Bull Theater); Tartuffe (Arclight Theatre); Hamlet (Bridge Lane Theatre, London); The Slam Jam (Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre); The Rivals (Abingdon Theatre Company); Lessen (Bailiwick Repertory Theatre); Liz Swados’s The Violence Project (La MaMa E.T.C./New York Stage and Film); King John (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); and The Complete Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) in Hoboken, NJ. Television and film appearances include Law & Order: SVU, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, and the indie feature, What's Up Lovely. He received his BFA in theatre from Marymount Manhattan College.
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John Patrick DohertyJOHN PATRICK DOHERTY (MERCUTIO)

previously appeared at Yale Rep in A Woman of No Importance. New York stage credits include The Coward (Lincoln Center Theater) and A Bright New Boise. Other regional credits include The Torchbearers, The Good Negro (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and Henry V (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey). He received his MFA from Yale School of Drama in 2010.
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Marcus HendersonMARCUS HENDERSON (TYBALT)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he has appeared in Eurydice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Seagull, Good Goods, and Jelly’s Last Jam. Other credits include A Raisin in the Sun, Othello, and Jesus Christ Superstar. He received a BA in theatre arts from Alabama State University, Montgomery in 2008.
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Chris HenryCHRIS HENRY (BENVOLIO)

is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Jib, the things are against us, and Buffalo, Maine. He made his Yale Rep debut last season in The Servant of Two Masters. His other theatre credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Williamstown Theatre Festival), End of Lines (Origin Theatre Company), and various productions at Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon University. He also has appeared on All My Children. He received his BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Ben HornerBEN HORNER (PARIS/ENSEMBLE)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, Eurydice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, House of Cards, Bones in the Basket, Hamlet, and The French Play. His other theatre credits include The Gods Are Pounding My Head! and Zomboid, both written and directed by Richard Foreman (Ontological-Hysteric Theater); Bingo with the Indians, written and directed by Adam Rapp, Smoke
and Mirrors, seatingARRANGEMENTS (Flea Theater); As You Like It, The Tempest (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Macbeth (Wachovia Playhouse); Mustard (La MaMa E.T.C.); The Phoenix and Sarah Ruhl’s Late: A Cowboy Song (Yale Summer Cabaret).
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Irene Sofia LucioIRENE SOFIA LUCIO (JULIET)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Eurydice, elijah, Orlando, The Droll, The Bedtrick, and Jelly’s Last Jam. She made her Yale Rep debut last season in The Master Builder. Her other credits include The Surrender Tree, Passing, The Maids, Antibiosis: (Yale Cabaret); After the Revolution, Golden Gate (Williamstown Theatre Festival Fellowship Projects); Amadeus, Macbeth (Chautauqua Theater Festival); Hedda Gabler, Laughing Wild, and Romeo and Juliet. She also appeared in the HBO Latino movie Casi Casi. Irene graduated from Princeton University with a degree in comparative literature.
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Cynthia MaceCYNTHIA MACE (NURSE)

makes her Yale Rep debut in Romeo and Juliet. She played Sally opposite Lynn Redgrave in The Mandrake Root (the second of Ms. Redgrave’s quartet of family plays); Prism to Ms. Redgrave’s Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by David Schweitzer (Paper Mill Playhouse); and stood by for Ms. Redgrave in her final one-woman show, Nightingale, directed by Joseph Hardy (Manhattan Theatre Club). Other theatre credits include Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? opposite Brian Kerwin (Mark Taper Forum; Best Actress: Garland Award, Ovation Award nomination); Psychomachia (Artistic New Directions); Safe Home (Women’s Interart Center); and Lillian Hellman’s The Autumn Garden (Williamstown Theatre Festival). She has created roles in world premieres of plays by Murray Schisgal, Lee Blessing, Oliver Mayer, John Mighton, Jon Robin Baitz, and Tony Kushner (as Harper in the Mark Taper Forum’s original productions of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika).
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Graeme MalcomGRAEME MALCOM (PRINCE)

most recently appeared as Scrooge in McCarter Theatre’s A Christmas Carol. His previous Yale Rep appearances include Safe in Hell and Pentecost. His Broadway credits include Equus, Translations, Aida, The King and I, and M. Butterfly (First National Tour). Off-Broadway credits include A Dangerous Personality (Perry Street Theatre); Oroonoko (Theatre for a New Audience); Macbeth (The Public Theater); The Learning Curve (Beckett Theatre); Hapgood (Lincoln Center Theater); Aristocrats and Prin (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: Absurd Person Singular (Barrington Stage); Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations (Arena Stage); Translations, Betrayal (McCarter Theatre Center); Under Milk Wood (Hartford Stage); Travesties (Long Wharf ); Y2K (Actors Theatre of Louisville). TV and film: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, Whoopi, Mr. Halpern & Mr. Johnson, The Extra Man, National Treasure, Everything’s Jake, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, and The Eden Myth. He has narrated over 300 audio books.
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Christopher McHaleCHRISTOPHER McHALE (MONTAGUE)

has previously appeared at Yale Rep in Night Is Mother to the Day, The Beach, Figaro/Figaro, Pentecost, Petersburg, Iphigenia at Aulis, and Richard II. His Broadway credits include Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, King Lear (Lincoln Center Theater); Julius Caesar; Execution of Justice; The Iceman Cometh; and Piaf. He also appeared Off-Broadway in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar, King John, Macbeth, Othello, Richard II, all at The Public Theater, and  Domino at New York Theatre Workshop; as well as productions at Hartford Stage, Merrimack Rep, The Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), Cleveland Playhouse, and Cincinnati Playhouse, among others.
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Seamus MulcahySEAMUS MULCAHY (PETER)

is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His theatre credits include elijah (Yale School of Drama); Salome, Vaska Vaska Glöm (Yale Cabaret); the Off-Broadway production of Our Town, directed by David Cromer; “MASTER HAROLD”… and the boys (Delaware Theatre Company); King Lear, Henry V, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); as well as productions at Paper Mill Playhouse, Chautauqua Theater Company, and Peterborough Players. He also appears in the film One Fall. Seamus attended the British Academy of Dramatic Art in Oxford, in the summer of 2010. www.seamusmulcahy.com
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Andy MurrayANDY MURRAY (CAPULET)

is making his Yale Rep debut. At the California Shakespeare Theatre he has appeared in over twenty five productions, including Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Antipholus Twins in The Comedy of Errors, and Jacques in As You Like It. He has also worked at the McCarter in Princeton, New Jersey; the Shakespeare Theatre in DC; Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE; Seattle Rep; Kansas City Rep; American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco; Berkeley Rep; San Jose Rep; Magic Theatre; Marin Theatre Company; and Shakespeare Santa Cruz, among others. He lives in New York City.
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Fischer NealFISHER NEAL (ABRAM/ENSEMBLE)

is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Every Other Hamlet In The Universe, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, and Buffalo, Maine. His Yale Cabaret credits include Vaska Vaska Glöm, Missed Connections, Radio Station, and Salome. Recent regional credits include Macbeth, You Can't Take It with You (Chautauqua Theater Company); The Little Foxes and King Lear at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, as well as Romeo and Juliet and Nevermore as part of their Shakespeare Live! company; The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Clarence Brown Theatre); and Big Bill (world premiere, Williamstown Theatre Festival). Fisher received his BA from the University of Tennessee.
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Joseph ParksJOSEPH PARKS (ROMEO)

was previously seen at Yale Rep in Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice and Richard II. His Off-Broadway credits include Eurydice (Second Stage Theatre). Regional credits include Broadway Bound (The Old Globe); The History of Invulnerability, Love Song (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, Slay the Dragon (American Conservatory Theater); The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (Magic Theatre); Wintertime (San Jose Repertory Theatre); In the Red and Brown Water, Run Mourner Run, The Ghost Sonata,and Venus (Yale School of Drama). He has also appeared on Law and Order. He received his MFA from Yale School of Drama and is a co-founding member of New Theater House.
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Christina RounerCHRISTINA ROUNER (LADY CAPULET)

previously appeared at Yale Rep in The Black Dahlia and Tartuffe. New York credits include Coram Boy (Broadway), The Duchess of Malfi, Tom Ryan Thinks He’s James Mason…, Halfway Home, Three Tall Women (and National Tour). Other credits include the tours of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Epilogue; Pera Palas, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Long Wharf); Vita and Virginia (The Globe Theatre); Spinning Into Butter (Alliance Theatre); Hamlet, Hedda Gabler (Guthrie Theater); Continental Divide (La Jolla Playhouse); Death Takes a Holiday, Ad Wars, Inherit the Wind (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Cymbeline (Playmakers Rep); Permanent Collection (CENTERSTAGE); Amy’s View, Communicating Doors (San Jose Rep); The Importance of Being Earnest (Portland Stage Company); Dancing at Lughnasa (Westport Country Playhouse), among others. Film and television: MacGruber, Taking Chance, Fur, The Skeptic, Crazy Like a Fox, Herman U.S.A., Sex and the City, New York Undercover, All My Children, One Life to Live, and Law & Order (recurring). Christina is a graduate of Yale College and The Juilliard School.
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Blake SegalBLAKE SEGAL (BALTHASAR/ENSEMBLE)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Jib, Eurydice, Paradise Lost, The Seagull, The Droll, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Yale Cabaret credits include Bones in the Basket, Waking, and The Surrender Tree. Regional credits include Amadeus, The Winter’s Tale, Arcadia, An Incident (Chautauqua Theater Company); The Corn Is Green, Cold Hard Cash, Big Money, Wing It (Williamstown Theatre Festival/Fellowship Project); Carousel (Paper Mill Playhouse); and Don’t Hug Me (Heritage Theatre Festival). Blake is thrilled to reprise his role as Mozart in Chautauqua Theater Company’s Amadeus this May with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. He received a BA from the University of Virginia in political and social thought and religious studies.
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Alice ShihALICE SHIH (ENSEMBLE)

is making her Yale Rep debut. Previous theatre credits include Washington & Lee Theater’s Kiss Me, Kate. Television credits include the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (dancer). She has appeared in Roanoke Ballet Theatre’s Peter and the Wolf (as the Wolf), Tapestry Dance Company’s Esprit!, and was featured as a soloist in American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive’s Swan Lake. Dance has also allowed Ms. Shih the opportunity to travel as a Goodwill Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. Additionally, her choreography has been featured across the country, including at American College Dance Festival. Ms. Shih is currently a second-year law student at Yale, where she is a dancer and choreographer for Yaledancers.
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Gabriel SloyerGABRIEL SLOYER (SAMPSON/ENSEMBLE)

is thrilled to be back at Yale and working at Yale Rep.  On this stage, he performed in Dramat productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Our Town, and The Full Monty. In New York City, Gabriel has appeared at The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Players Theatre, SoHo Playhouse, and Repertorio Español.  He was recently seen in The Contemporary Shakesperience and The Dreamer Examines His Pillow. Gabriel trained at Yale, The Moscow Art Theatre, and Gardzienice in Poland.  For more information, please visit www.gabrielsloyer.com.
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Sarah SokolovicSARAH SOKOLOVIC (ROSALINE/ENSEMBLE)

is a third-year acting student at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Jib, the friendship of her thighs, Othello, Paradise Lost, The French Play, Every Other Hamlet In The Universe, and Man in Love. Other credits include Waking, Skintight, Vaska Vaska Glöm, The Wedding Reception, The Rocky Horror Show (Yale Cabaret); Fly By Night (Yale Summer Cabaret); Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Killer Joe, Bash (Bialystock and Bloom); A Month in the County, Translations (Milwaukee Rep); A…My Name Is Alice (Madison Repertory Theatre); Medea, Homebody/Kabul, Under Milk Wood (Chamber Theatre); The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline (Milwaukee Shakespeare); The Taming of the Shrew and Cymbeline (Montana Shakespeare in The Park). She recently took part in a workshop reading of The Shaggs at Playwrights Horizons and was a company member of the Yale Institute for Music Theatre last summer, where she performed in The Daughters. She is also the proud recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Scholarship.
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Henry StramHENRY STRAM (FRIAR LAURENCE)

has appeared on Broadway in Inherit the Wind, The Crucible, Titanic, and Spring Awakening (First National Tour). His Off-Broadway credits include John Singer in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (New York Theatre Workshop/The Acting Company); See What I Wanna See, The Winter’s Tale, Timon of Athens, Henry V, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Bright Room Called Day (The Public Theater); Unwrap Your Candy, Christina Alberta’s Father (Vineyard Theatre); The Grey Zone (MCC Theater); My Head Was a Sledgehammer, The Mind Game, and Eddie Goes to Poetry City (Ontological-Hysteric Theater). His recent regional theatre credits include Bus Stop (Huntington Theatre Company), Rocket to the Moon (Long Wharf), and Stanley in The Birthday Party (Bard Summerscape). Henry is a graduate of Juilliard
and a recipient of a 1996 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance.
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Kathryn ZukaitisKATHRYN ZUKAITIS (ENSEMBLE)

is making her Yale Rep debut.  She is a third-year master’s student at Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where she studies religion and literature.  Kathryn received her BA from Haverford College in 2007; she has also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg. She trained in dance primarily at the Omaha Academy of Ballet and has performed with Omaha Dance Project and student dance companies at Creighton University, the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Bryn Mawr College, and Yale University.
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