GHOST/FIRST PLAYER/ CAPTAIN - XIOMARA “XIO” BERNARD (She/He/They)

Born and raised in Philadelphia, P.A., Bernar is the daughter of a former Cuban refugee and a former Cuban political prisoner. Bernard grew up taking lessons in piano and ballet, but acting was always the career that took precedence inside her heart.

Bernard is mostly known in the independent film community. She has worked on short films, one of them being "April's Way", which has gone to Cannes, music videos, voice-overs, plays, and feature films, including Brielle Brilliant's feature film "Firstness", which won the Grand Jury Prize Award at the Outfest Film Festival. "Firstness" is currently streaming on Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime. In between working for other visionaries, Bernard runs a production company, Theophilus Films. Two of the company's short films, "Night" and "Poison", have gone to local and international festivals. The company's third film, "Blackout", is currently in post-production.

OPHELIA - KAITE BRANDT (She/They)

Kaite is an actor, director, dramaturg, teacher, and text coach. Recent productions include Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Love and Information, Everybody, Hamlet, Measure for Measure (Antaeus); King Lear (Radically Miscast Shakespeare- The Porters of Hellsgate); Julius Caesar, The Women of Shakespeare (Warriors for Peace); Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost (Sierra Madre Shakespeare Festival); Love's Labour's Lost (Chase What Flies); Much Ado About Nothing (The Unlikely Shakespeare Company); Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (Southern Bard); Much Ado About Nothing (the 6th Act); Troilus and Cressida (Ad Astra/Staring Straight Productions). For her next project, Kaite is directing the upcoming staged reading of Merchant of Venice for the Porters of Hellsgate.

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HAMLET 3 - SHANNON LEE CLAIR (She/Her)

Shannon Lee Clair has performed at L.A.T.W., La Mirada Theatre, The Antaeus Company, Will Geer Theatricum, EST/LA, MainStreet Theatre, New Canon Theatre Company (Monterey), Book-It Rep (Seattle), and Harlequin Productions (Olympia), among others. Indie film credits include When You Sleep (in post-production) and The Dangle (Best Short: California International Film Festival). As a writer, Shannon has been a Top 50 List-Semifinalist in the Nicholl Screenwriting Competition and a Finalist for fellowships with Stowe Story Labs. An avid outdoorswoman, she has hiked and backpacked hundreds of miles and, thanks to her tall ship sailing experience, holds a Merchant Marine license from the U.S. Coast Guard. Education: Princeton University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

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HAMLET1 - KRISHA DEAVER (She/Her)

Krisha Deaver (she/her) has long felt kinship to Hamlet's grief and is grateful to Emily Asher Kellis for this unique opportunity to play the character. Recent performances include The Seagull (Polina) with Salt Lake City's Sting and Honey Company and one-act plays at LA's Brisk Festival, including Helga's Wonderful Life (which she wrote and performed) and Brownie Husband (which she wrote and performed with her husband, Cam Deaver). Recent training includes Shakespeare and Company (Massachusetts), Antaeus, Paola Coletto, Larry Moss, and The Actors' Gang. She also works as a speaker, writer, and educational consultant. She sends infinite gratitude to Cam for all his incredible support.

QUEEN - ELIZABETH DENNEHY (She/Her)

Elizabeth Dennehy (she/her) originally from New York, studied at Hofstra University, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and Shakespeare’s Globe Teaching

Shakespeare program in London. She is a theatre educator with a focus on Shakespeare, mostrecently at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. She serves on the boards of the LACHSA Foundation and Independent Shakespeare Co.Theatre: Deirdre in The Humans at San Diego Rep, Hostess Quickly in Henry 4.1 at Antaeus Theatre Co, Chrissy in Dancing at Lughnasa, and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire at South Coast Rep, Cyrano with Frank Langella at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Audrey in As You Like It at Shakespeare & Co, Henry 5 at The New York Shakespeare Festival with Kevin

Kline, Opera Comique at The Kennedy Center, is an original creator and cast member of Tony and Tina’s Wedding, and performed with Charles Busch in Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Elizabeth directs the annual Bloomsday celebration of James

Joyce’s Ulysses at the Hammer Museum. Screen credits include: Hancock, Red Dragon, Gattaca, The Game, Masters of Sex, The Mentalist, Charmed, Seinfeld, Gideons’ Crossing, Star Trek theNext Generation, Picard, and Horizon, an American Saga by Kevin Costner.

HAMLET 6 - PEGGY FLOOD (She/Her) Selected Credits, Los Angeles: The Penelopiad and The Birthday Party at City Garage; Death of a Salesman, Macbeth, Rumors, The Crucible, and The Misanthrope. New York: Vinegar Tom and Under Milkwood at Circle in the Square, Dear Charlotte, NY Fringe. She is a founding member of The Miranda Theatre Company in NYC where she both performed and directed. Peggy is also a voice actor and can be heard in hundreds of films and television episodes including Daredevil, Soul, Dark, and Bordertown.