Ms. Christine Albright has appeared with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two seasons. Her 2008 roles include Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Radanika in The Clay Cart. In two seasons at OSF Ms. Albright has played: Anya in The Cherry Orchard; Juliet in Romeo and Juliet; Maria in UP; and Prècieuse, Lise, and Nun in Cyrano de Bergerac.
Ms. Albright has appeared in other theatres playing: Marge in Walking Down Broadway (Mint Theatre, NYC); Eugenie in Vincent in Brixton (Virginia Stage Company); Hortense in Burning Deck (La Jolla Playhouse); Karen in Expectations (Stamford Center for the Arts, CT); Nina in The Seagull, Lady Anne in Richard III (UC, San Diego); and Celia in As You Like It (New York Classical Theatre).
Ms. Albright holds an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego and a BA from Ball State University.
Claudia Alick, Associate Producer, Community, joined the Oregon Shakespeare Artistic Staff in 2007. Ms. Alick curates the community-based Green Show, orchestrated OSF's 2007 Hip-Hop Boot Camp, and serves as the artistic office liaison to the Education department and the community at large.
Prior to joining OSF, Ms. Alick served as the Artistic Director of Smokin' Word Productions, authored and directed plays staged at The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, LaMama E.T.C., Cherry Lane Theater, and the Hip Hop Theatre Festival, toured as a performance poet internationally, was a member of the award winning NY Neofuturists, and performed on HBO's Def Poetry Jam.
Ms. Alick has guest lectured at New York University (NYU) and Montgomery College, taught with Arena Stage's Expedition Theatre Outreach Program, The Shakespeare Theatre's South East Project, City University of New York's Creative Arts Team, and at Riker's Island with Community Word Project. She teaches and designs original professional development workshops nationwide.
Ms. Alick holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University and a B.A. in Theatre from The George Washington University.
In his 17 years at OSF, Michael has delighted audiences in his wide ranging roles from Austrian Dr. Pingitzer in Tracy's Tiger to the title role in Macbeth. Memorable comic roles on the OSF stages include Lloyd Dallas in Noises Off, Sir George Thunder in Wild Oats, and Faker Englund in Room Service.
In addition to his acting roles, Michael has taught the arts of acting and improv to students and adults in venues from New York to Oregon. He has directed on the OSF Stage as well for regional theatres and off(off) Broadway. As a recent playwright, he co-wrote the musical They Come from Way Out There (with Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner), produced at Milwaukee Rep, Artists' Repertory Theater in Portland, and Ashland's Oregon Cabaret Theater all in this past season.
Training: American Conservatory Theatre; Uta Hagen, N.Y.C.
Since joining OSF in 2003 as a Rex Rabold Fellow, Sarah has taken on increasing complex roles to take center stage this summer as Desdemona in Othello. She will also play the role of Valeria in Coriolanus. While Sarah has the goal of acting in all plays within Shakespeare's Cannon, her credits to date at OSF include Phebe in As You Like It; Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew; Margot Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank; Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Teresa in Napoli Milionaria!; Envy, Old Woman, and Ensemble in The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; Katherine in Love's Labor's Lost; Margery Jourdain and Ensemble in Henry VI, Parts Two & Three; Margaret in Much Ado about Nothing; Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet; and Rose and Ensemble in Wild Oats.
Sarah is a veteran of OSF's School Visit Program. For three years, she has engaged students through performance and workshops helping them discover Shakespeare and the power of language. More than 40,000 people have benefited from her on-the-road performances.
Sarah earned her B.F.A., Performance, at the University of Idaho and joined OSF as a Rex Rabold Fellow. She is an avid golfer and a die-hard Denver Broncos fan. .
Ms. Williams teaches "Discovering Shakespeare" for adults at a local college in Santa Fe. She is also the hostess of two Shakespeare play readings a month, and runs 12- to 16-week guided discussions of selected plays for advanced readers, called "The Understanders." She is an Independent Scholar and has intermittently studied Shakespeare at St. John's College in Santa Fe and Oxford University in England.
Robin is an Associate Member of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust in London (founded in 1922) at the invitation of Mark Rylance, and has been a featured speaker at the Authorship Conference at the Globe Theatre in London for the past four years. She is a professional and acclaimed public speaker and instructor, a successful author of dozens of titles, and her books have been translated into twenty-three languages.
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