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Tennessee
Shakespeare Festival Announces Cast
The Tennessee Shakespeare Festival's upcoming
production of A Midsummer Night's Dream brings
together a cast comprised of area professionals and
local favorites, as well as a few nationally
recognizable faces. Heading the cast is Lane Davies
who directs and plays Oberon. Davies is a television
veteran with more than 50 guest-starring roles to
his credit, as well as 4 series' and several soaps,
including a long-running role as bad-boy Mason
Capwell on Santa Barbara. He has been popping up
lately in re-runs as Elliot's dad on the popular
sit-com Scrubs. Among those joining him are Ronnie
Meek, Artistic Director of Lamplighters Theatre
Company, as Theseus; Ruth Cordell, seen recently in
I Hate Hamlet and The Goat at Tennessee Rep, plays
Titania; Marc Silver, recognizable from Designing
Women, and recently seen in The Underpants at
Tennessee Rep plays Flute (and Thisbe); Clarksville
native Jerry Winsett returns to his roots to assay
the role of Bottom. Jerry is a veteran of such films
as Radio Days, The Chosen, One Crazy Summer,
Ragtime, and SunsetStrip, as well as numerous
television shows and commercials; Local favorites
Greg Wilson and Richard Northcutt are Egeus and
Philostrate, respectively; Popular Nashville actors
Eric Pasto-Crosby and Patrick Waller are Lysander
and Demetius; They are joined by Kahle Reardon, seen
recently as Abigail in The Crucible at Tennessee
Rep, and Kate Siegel, who recently starred in the
soon-to-be-released Steam, with Ally Sheedy and Ruby
Dee, as Heria and Helena; Bobby Wycoff, a popular
Nashville theatre veteran, plays Peter Quince, and
7'1" Joey Waldrop is almost type-cast as 'Wall' in
the 'Pyramus and Thisbe' interlude. Rounding out the
cast are Andrew Kanies, Alan Smith, Harley Walker,
Kelsey Sutton, Erin McMahon, Nicole Rugel, Derrick
Raley and Patrick Bennyworth. For more information
about the actors, go to
Tennesseeshakespearefestival.com.
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