Casting for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) will be announced later this fall.
Cast
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 Joe Dempsey, who returns to The Rep after interning and receiving his Equity card there over two decades ago and appeared in Three Sisters, The Miser and Laughing Wild; Dempsey lives in Chicago and has acted at the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, Chicago Shakespeare, many others, as well as regional theaters across the country; he has also been a member of the Neo-Futurists and The Second City National Touring Company. -Top-
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 Ernie Gonzalez, who makes his Rep debut, is a regular at Ohio Shakespeare Festival where selected credits include Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It and The Comedy of Errors; Gonazlez is also Artistic Associate of The Agency Theatre, a member of Funny Bones Improv and a former writer/performer with The Second City's Diversity Ensemble. -Top-
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 Gerard Neugent, just completed his ninth season with Milwaukee Repertory Theater and his fifth season as a member of the Resident Acting Company. He most recently appeared as Michael McCormick in Lombardi, Happy in Death of a Salesman, Clown 2 in The 39 Steps and Stan Laurel in Laurel and Hardy. -Top-
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Creative Team
Sean Graney (Director) is happy to return to Milwaukee Rep. He is the Founding Artistic Director of The Hypocrites in Chicago; he has directed most of their shows. He was a participant in the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors 2004/06. He won two Joseph Jefferson Citations for Direction. He has also directed Comedy of Errors , What the Butler Saw, and The Mystery of Irma Vep , (Court Theatre); Edward II, (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The Elephant Man, for Steppenwolf Young Audiences; Honus and Me, and The Hundred Dresses , (Chicago Children's Theater). He wishes to thank you for spending your time and money on theater. -Top-
Tom Burch (Scenic Designer), making his Rep debut, is a Chicago-based scenic designer whose work has been seen at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight, Court Theater and several shows with Sean Graney at The Hypotcrites. -Top-
Holly Payne (Costume Designer) is The Rep's Costume Director whose recent design work has included Lombardi, Yellowman, Bomb-itty of Errors, My Name is Asher Lev and Speaking in Tongues; she has also designed at Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Shakespeare, University of Tulsa, American Players Theatre and Florentine Opera, amongst others. -Top-
Noele Stolmack (Lighting Designer), who returns to The Rep after designing: Yankee Tavern, Mirandolina, I Am My Own Wife, Armadale, Enchanted April, Tartuffe, King Lear, Half Life and Bad Dates and who has also designed with Florentine Opera, Toledo Opera, Opera Columbus and Meredith Monk's mercy and impermanence. -Top-
Lee E. Ernst (Fight Director), who is a member of The Rep's Resident Acting Company and who was seen this year as Vince Lombardi in Lombardi and Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol. -Top-
Adam Long (Creator) began his professional life as an accountant for an anti-nuclear political action committee by day and bassist for an acoustic punk band by night. Then he put on a skirt and wig and became a founding member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Adam toured with the RSC, spent five years following The Grateful Dead, performed stand-up comedy in Canada, became a Buddhist, and finally settled in England where he lives in London with wife Alex, son Joe, daughter Tilly, friend John, four guinea pigs, a fish, two tortoises, a cat, and a small grey rabbit called Willard. -Top-
Daniel Singer (Creator) is a native Californian, trained in London for a career as a theatrical impresario. Following the creation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Daniel hung up his doublet-and-hose to design theme park attractions for Walt Disney Imagineering. He's particularly proud of his work on Disneyland's Toontown. After 12 years as an Imagineer, Daniel left Disney to become a freelance bohemian; these days he restores old houses, sculpts, gardens, and continues to write plays in hopes of another hit. -Top-
Jess Winfield (Creator) was an original member of the RSC, co-author of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), and performed with the troupe from its founding in 1981 until 1992, when he realized he'd played the title role of Hamlet more times than John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier combined and suddenly felt very old. He left the troupe to write and produce animated television for the Walt Disney Company, which made him feel young again - until he'd been there for ten years, at which point he felt old again. He left Disney to write My Name Is Will - A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare (Twelve Books). Depicting excessive drug use and promiscuous sex by both a would-be young Shakespeare scholar in the 1980s and the 18-year old Immortal Bard himself in the 1580s made Jess feel young again; but then he and Daniel Singer revised the Complete Works in honor of its 20th anniversary and directed it in the West End, which made him feel old again. He now lives in Hollywood with his wife (and original RSC costume goddess) Sa, and is working on his second novel... which makes him feel like he's in his forties. -Top-