This is also his first season at the Festival. V Craig Heidenreich will be playing the roles of Gordon and Richard Nixon and the voices of Announcer, Disc Jockey, and Cab Calloway in Pearl’s in the House.
She will also be recognized by Utah audiences, mainly for her work at Lyric Repertory Company where she has appeared as Catherine in The Foreigner, Mary Jane in Big River, Alice in You Can’t Take It with You, Cathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain, Elaine in Arsenic and Old Lace, and Edwin Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood and atUtah State University’s Caine College of the Arts where she has played such roles as Hennie in Awake and Sing!, Lady Olivia in Twelfth Night, Masha in Three Sisters, Lady Larken in Once upon a Mattress, Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde the Musical, and Violet in Violet the Musical.
Regionally, she has acted at Asolo Rep, Clarence Brown Theatre, PlayMakers Rep, Arkansas Rep, Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival, Northern Stage, and many more.Īlso new at the Festival this year is Katie Fay Francis who will be playing Catherine in The Foreigner, The Muse in An Iliad, and Susan Wilkes in Big River. She has worked off-Broadway at TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, as well as the NY International Fringe, The Players Theatre, The Night Shift, American Place Theatre, and Drunken Shakespeare, all in New York City. She has a long list of credits in theatres in New York City and regionally. Katie Cunningham will be performing her first roles at the Festival this summer: Emilia in Othello and the dual roles of Isabelle and Sabine in The Liar. Multi-talented, he is also the author and performer in an original one-man show titled Invention. He has worked as the artistic director of The Onyx Theatre in Las Vegas and the director of operations at Access Theatre in New York City. Past Festival roles include Paris in Romeo and Juliet, Rusty Charlie in Guys and Dolls, Adam in Shakespeare in Love, Borachio in Much Ado about Nothing, Gower/Grey in Henry V, Ensemble in Three Musketeers, Venticello in Amadeus, The Professor in South Pacific, and Lysander/Flute/Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2017 educational tour). She’s so honest and charming and I can’t wait to sink my teeth into the role!”īrandon Burk has worked extensively at the Festival the past few years, and is returning this year to take on the roles of Roderigo in Othello and Cliton in The Liar. “Betty in The Foreigner is a part I’ve always wanted to play. “I’m still pinching myself that I get to be in the Utah Shakespeare Festival it has been a dream of mine since I was in high school,” said Baum. Utah audiences will recognize her for her extensive work at Pioneer Theatre, Salt Lake Acting, Plan-B Theatre, Lyric Repertory, and Sting & Honey Company. She will be playing Betty Meeks in The Foreigner and Widow Douglas and Strange Lady in Big River. in Ragtime, and Jake in Porgy and Bess at Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater in Logan.Ĭolleen Baum is a well-known actor in Salt Lake City, but she has never appeared at the Festival-until now. in Ragtime atRevival Theatre Company Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera at Southern Opera and Musical Theater Company and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Coalhouse Walker Jr. I’m buckling up for an amazing ride this summer.Īndrew has performed numerous roles at a variety of theatres, including Timur in Turandot at Mississippi Opera Coalhouse Walker Jr. “As a native of Mississippi, growing up with the stories of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer on the Mississippi River, I am eager to step into the role of Jim and share an oh-so-pertinent message of unconditional love and acceptance of all people.
“I am beyond excited to experience my first season with Utah Shakespeare Festival,” he said. The last group of actors includes the following:Įzekiel Andrew will be playing Jim in Big River and Ensemble in Henry VI Part One. Information on all of them is available at the Festival website: “This is a remarkable group of actors, with notable experience working at hundreds of theatres across the country,” said Artistic Director Brian Vaughn. “They bring with them an array of talents, and I am incredibly excited to see their work.” The complete acting company this year consists of nearly sixty performers. CEDAR CITY, UT - The Utah Shakespeare Festival recently announced the last round of casting for the 2018 season, including eleven actors who are traveling to Cedar City from across the country.
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