MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
directed by Janice L Blixt
for the Michigan Shakespeare Festival's 2011 Mainstage Season
Scenic Design: Jeromy Hopgood
Costume Design: Lauren Montgomery
Lighting Design: Brian Scruggs
Music Composition and Sound Design: Kate Hopgood
Properties Design: Kate Kardiff
Dance Choreography: Matt Andersen
Production Stage Manager: Stefanie Din *
Assistant Stage Manager: Mercedes Coley
Assistant Stage Manager: Sara Robinson
DON PEDRO, Prince of Arragon William Irwin*
CLAUDIO, a lord of Florence, friend to Don Pedro Brandon St. Clair Saunders
BENEDICK, a lord of Padua, friend to Don Pedro David Blixt*
FRIAR FRANCIS Wesley Scott
DON JOHN, Don Pedro’s Bastard Brother Jason Phillip Kellerman
BORACHIO, follower of Don John Rick Eva
CONRADE, follower of Don John Matt Andersen
LEONATO, Governor of Messina Buz Davis*
URSULA, his sister Janet Haley*
HERO, daughter to Leonato Susaan Jamshidi
BEATRICE, her cousin Saren Nofs-Snyder
MARGARET, her cousin Christina Flynn
ELEANOR, her young cousin Victoria Hood
BALTHAZAR, a young attendant to Don Pedro Daniel Mozurkewich
VALENTINE, a boy of Leonato’s household Jack LaCasse
DOGBERRY, a Constable Alan Ball*
VERGES, a Headborough Jeffrey Booth Stringer