Our Board of Directors
| the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company |
Kathleen Bode
Secretary
Education Committee Co-Chair
Previous Roles with Pigeon Creek:
Portia in The Merchant of Venice,
Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of
Windsor, Paulina in The Winter's
Tale, Ariel in The Tempest, Julius
Caesar in Julius Caesar, Paulina in
The Winter's Tale. Regan in King
Lear, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth,
Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing,
Helena in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Titania in A Midsummer Night’
s Dream.
Roles with Other Theatres: Adriana
in The Comedy of Errors, Gonzalo in
The Tempest, 1st Witch in Macbeth
(Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival).
Education and Training: Associate in
Arts from Grand Rapids Community
College, London Theatre
Exchange/Intensive Theatre Training
Program
Secretary
Education Committee Co-Chair
Previous Roles with Pigeon Creek:
Portia in The Merchant of Venice,
Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of
Windsor, Paulina in The Winter's
Tale, Ariel in The Tempest, Julius
Caesar in Julius Caesar, Paulina in
The Winter's Tale. Regan in King
Lear, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth,
Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing,
Helena in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Titania in A Midsummer Night’
s Dream.
Roles with Other Theatres: Adriana
in The Comedy of Errors, Gonzalo in
The Tempest, 1st Witch in Macbeth
(Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival).
Education and Training: Associate in
Arts from Grand Rapids Community
College, London Theatre
Exchange/Intensive Theatre Training
Program
Scott Lange
Chairman
Artistic Committee Chair
Previous Roles with Pigeon Creek:
Master Ford / Peter Simple in The
Merry Wives of Windsor, Gloucester
/ Grey / Nym / Burgundy / Constable in
Henry V, Sebastian/Iris in The
Tempest, Hamlet in Hamlet, Pericles
in Pericles, Antigonus / Autolycus in
The Winter’s Tale, Antipholus of
Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors,
Edgar/France in King Lear,
Camillo/Antigonus in The Winter’s
Tale, Lysander in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Macduff/Witch #3 in
Macbeth, Buckingham in Richard III,
Amiens/Oliver in As You Like It, Feste
in Twelfth Night.
Roles with Other Theatres: Wooer
in The Two Noble Kinsmen, Nathaniel
/ Longaville in Love’s Labour's Lost,
Angelo / Claudio / Mistress Overdone /
Barnardine in Measure for Measure
(Blackfriars Playhouse); Duke Senior /
Duke Frederick in As You Like It,
Hotspur in Henry IV, Part One (Grand
Valley Shakespeare Festival);
Chandabise/Poche in A Flea in Her
Ear, John in Oleanna (Grand Valley
State University); Ichabod Crane in
Sleepy Hollow, Gus Lumpkin in Who
Killed the Boss, Herr Troubadour in
The Pied Piper (Golden Duck
Productions); Clifford in Death Trap
(AP Theatrical Productions).
Education and Training: B.A. in
Theatre from Grand Valley State
University, London Theatre
Exchange/Intensive Theatre Training
Program.
Chairman
Artistic Committee Chair
Previous Roles with Pigeon Creek:
Master Ford / Peter Simple in The
Merry Wives of Windsor, Gloucester
/ Grey / Nym / Burgundy / Constable in
Henry V, Sebastian/Iris in The
Tempest, Hamlet in Hamlet, Pericles
in Pericles, Antigonus / Autolycus in
The Winter’s Tale, Antipholus of
Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors,
Edgar/France in King Lear,
Camillo/Antigonus in The Winter’s
Tale, Lysander in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Macduff/Witch #3 in
Macbeth, Buckingham in Richard III,
Amiens/Oliver in As You Like It, Feste
in Twelfth Night.
Roles with Other Theatres: Wooer
in The Two Noble Kinsmen, Nathaniel
/ Longaville in Love’s Labour's Lost,
Angelo / Claudio / Mistress Overdone /
Barnardine in Measure for Measure
(Blackfriars Playhouse); Duke Senior /
Duke Frederick in As You Like It,
Hotspur in Henry IV, Part One (Grand
Valley Shakespeare Festival);
Chandabise/Poche in A Flea in Her
Ear, John in Oleanna (Grand Valley
State University); Ichabod Crane in
Sleepy Hollow, Gus Lumpkin in Who
Killed the Boss, Herr Troubadour in
The Pied Piper (Golden Duck
Productions); Clifford in Death Trap
(AP Theatrical Productions).
Education and Training: B.A. in
Theatre from Grand Valley State
University, London Theatre
Exchange/Intensive Theatre Training
Program.
Katherine Mayberry
Executive Director
Finance Committee Chair
Previous Roles with Pigeon Creek:
Mistress Ford / John Rugby in The
Merry Wives of Windsor, Chorus in
Henry V, Director for Hamlet, Director
for Pericles, Hermione in The Winter’s
Tale, Cassius in Julius Caesar,
Goneril in King Lear, Viola in Twelfth
Night, Elizabeth in Richard III, Celia in
As You Like It, Hermia in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosaline
in Love’s Labour's Lost, Rosalind in
As You Like It, Titania/Hippolyta in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Roles with Other Theatres: Rosaline
in Love’s Labour's Lost, Gertrude in
Hamlet, Isabella/Provost/Elbow in
Measure for Measure, Ferdinand in
The Duchess of Malfi, Mistress
Quickly/Alice in Henry V (Blackfriars
Playhouse, Virginia); Lady Macbeth in
Macbeth, Hero in Much Ado About
Nothing, Phebe in As You Like It
(Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival);
Bessie in Marvin’s Room, Chicklet in
Psycho Beach Party (10 Weston
Theatre); Various Roles in Nobody’s
Gilgul, Liba in A Shayna Maidel
(Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids);
Bethany in Mint (Stark Turn Players).
Education and Training: Master of
Letters and Master of Fine Arts in
Shakespeare and Renaissance
Literature in Performance, acting
emphasis, (Mary Baldwin College in
Partnership with the American
Shakespeare Center;) BA, (Grand
Valley State University); Summer
Shakespeare Intensive, London
Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts;
Intensive Theatre Training Program,
London Theatre Exchange; Chekhov
Institute, University of Southern Maine;
Commedia Del’Arte Colloquiam with
Antonio Fava.
Other Credits: Adjunct Professor of
English and Theatre, Grand Valley
State University; Director of “Bard to
Go: Kissing and Courting,” Grand
Valley Shakespeare Festival 2008;
Member of Editing Team for Prestwick
House editions of Shakespeare’s plays.
Executive Director
Finance Committee Chair
Previous Roles with Pigeon Creek:
Mistress Ford / John Rugby in The
Merry Wives of Windsor, Chorus in
Henry V, Director for Hamlet, Director
for Pericles, Hermione in The Winter’s
Tale, Cassius in Julius Caesar,
Goneril in King Lear, Viola in Twelfth
Night, Elizabeth in Richard III, Celia in
As You Like It, Hermia in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosaline
in Love’s Labour's Lost, Rosalind in
As You Like It, Titania/Hippolyta in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Roles with Other Theatres: Rosaline
in Love’s Labour's Lost, Gertrude in
Hamlet, Isabella/Provost/Elbow in
Measure for Measure, Ferdinand in
The Duchess of Malfi, Mistress
Quickly/Alice in Henry V (Blackfriars
Playhouse, Virginia); Lady Macbeth in
Macbeth, Hero in Much Ado About
Nothing, Phebe in As You Like It
(Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival);
Bessie in Marvin’s Room, Chicklet in
Psycho Beach Party (10 Weston
Theatre); Various Roles in Nobody’s
Gilgul, Liba in A Shayna Maidel
(Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids);
Bethany in Mint (Stark Turn Players).
Education and Training: Master of
Letters and Master of Fine Arts in
Shakespeare and Renaissance
Literature in Performance, acting
emphasis, (Mary Baldwin College in
Partnership with the American
Shakespeare Center;) BA, (Grand
Valley State University); Summer
Shakespeare Intensive, London
Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts;
Intensive Theatre Training Program,
London Theatre Exchange; Chekhov
Institute, University of Southern Maine;
Commedia Del’Arte Colloquiam with
Antonio Fava.
Other Credits: Adjunct Professor of
English and Theatre, Grand Valley
State University; Director of “Bard to
Go: Kissing and Courting,” Grand
Valley Shakespeare Festival 2008;
Member of Editing Team for Prestwick
House editions of Shakespeare’s plays.
E-MAIL: kate@pcshakespeare.com
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E-MAIL: katherine@pcshakespeare.com
Heather Hartnett
Trustee
Production Chair
Previous Roles with Pigeon Creek:
Mistress Quickly / Bardolph in The
Merry Wives of Windsor, Montjoy /
Mistress Quickly / French Queen in
Henry V, Gertrude in Hamlet, Brutus
in Julius Caesar, Witch / Caithness /
Murderer in Macbeth, Helena in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Roles with Other Theatres: Queen
in Cymbeline, Portia in The Merchant
of Venice, Ariel in The Tempest, Lady
Macduff in Macbeth (Grand Valley
Shakespeare Festival); Sheila in Hair,
Chorus in Antigone, Naomi in A
Single Numberless Death, Hannah
Porter Pitt in Angels in America, Part
One, Darlene in Hurly Burly, Multiple
Roles in Durang? Durang!, Sister
Robert Anne in Nunsense (Grand
Valley State University); Dragons in
Talking With, Multiple Roles in
Metamorphoses (Heritage Theatre
Group); Lee in Marvin’s Room, Joan
in The Guys (10 Weston Theatre);
Multiple Roles in I Love You, You’re
Perfect, Now Change (Avalon
Theatre); Dawn in Lobby Hero (Actor’s
Theatre); Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof (Westshore College); Lily in
Nobody’s Gilgul (Jewish Theatre
Grand Rapids); Chorus in Wily and
the Hairyman (Community Circle
Theatre); Lady Plum in Jack and the
Giant Beanstalk (Grand Rapids Civic
Theatre).
Education and Training: B.S. in
Theatre from Grand Valley State
University, London Theatre
Exchange/Intensive Theatre Training
Program, Private Voice with Dale
Schreimer and Kathryn Steiler (Grand
Valley State University) Intensive
Linklater voice work with Andrea
Haring (Associate Director of Linklater
Center NYC and cofounder
Shakespeare and Co
Other Credits: Developer for multiple
college theatre projects (including
Expressions: Peer Theatre with
Marlese Kowalski Brown/GVSU Women’
s Center and ALERT Labs grant
project with Karen Libman/GVSU
Theatre), Currently works as a Private
Acting Coach for students across West
Michigan.
Trustee
Production Chair
Previous Roles with Pigeon Creek:
Mistress Quickly / Bardolph in The
Merry Wives of Windsor, Montjoy /
Mistress Quickly / French Queen in
Henry V, Gertrude in Hamlet, Brutus
in Julius Caesar, Witch / Caithness /
Murderer in Macbeth, Helena in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Roles with Other Theatres: Queen
in Cymbeline, Portia in The Merchant
of Venice, Ariel in The Tempest, Lady
Macduff in Macbeth (Grand Valley
Shakespeare Festival); Sheila in Hair,
Chorus in Antigone, Naomi in A
Single Numberless Death, Hannah
Porter Pitt in Angels in America, Part
One, Darlene in Hurly Burly, Multiple
Roles in Durang? Durang!, Sister
Robert Anne in Nunsense (Grand
Valley State University); Dragons in
Talking With, Multiple Roles in
Metamorphoses (Heritage Theatre
Group); Lee in Marvin’s Room, Joan
in The Guys (10 Weston Theatre);
Multiple Roles in I Love You, You’re
Perfect, Now Change (Avalon
Theatre); Dawn in Lobby Hero (Actor’s
Theatre); Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof (Westshore College); Lily in
Nobody’s Gilgul (Jewish Theatre
Grand Rapids); Chorus in Wily and
the Hairyman (Community Circle
Theatre); Lady Plum in Jack and the
Giant Beanstalk (Grand Rapids Civic
Theatre).
Education and Training: B.S. in
Theatre from Grand Valley State
University, London Theatre
Exchange/Intensive Theatre Training
Program, Private Voice with Dale
Schreimer and Kathryn Steiler (Grand
Valley State University) Intensive
Linklater voice work with Andrea
Haring (Associate Director of Linklater
Center NYC and cofounder
Shakespeare and Co
Other Credits: Developer for multiple
college theatre projects (including
Expressions: Peer Theatre with
Marlese Kowalski Brown/GVSU Women’
s Center and ALERT Labs grant
project with Karen Libman/GVSU
Theatre), Currently works as a Private
Acting Coach for students across West
Michigan.
E-MAIL: heather@pcshakespeare.com
Michigan's only year-round, touring Shakespeare company
Kat Hermes
Trustee
Education Committee Co-Chair
Previous Roles with Pigeon Creek:
Juliet / Apothecary in Romeo and
Juliet, Bianca / Tranio in The Taming
of the Shrew, Ursula / Dogberry in
Much Ado About Nothing, Falstaff in
Henry IV, Part One, Gratiano in The
Merchant of Venice, Justice Shallow in
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Bottom
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Westmoreland / Gower / Bardolph /
Orleans in Henry V, Trinculo / Gonzalo
in The Tempest, Horatio in Hamlet,
Thaisa / Thaliard / Diana in Pericles,
Prince of Tyre, Casca in Julius
Caesar, Aemelia / 2nd Merchant in The
Comedy of Errors, Queen Margaret /
Catesby in Richard III, Adam / Audrey
in As You Like It.
Roles with Other Theatres:
Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy
of Errors (The University Wits/Mary
Baldwin College); Mistress Openwork in
The Roaring Girl, Cariola in The
Duchess of Malfi, Wrath/Evil Angel in
Doctor Faustus (Mary Baldwin
College); Sonya in Uncle Vanya (Piven
Theatre), Sister Mary Helena/Betty
White in Nightmare the Musical, Mrs.
Voorhees in FXIII the Musical (Dog
Story Theater)
Education and Training: B.A in
Drama/Speech (Clarke College), M.Litt
in Shakespeare and Renaissance
Literature in Performance (Mary
Baldwin College in Partnership with the
American Shakespeare Center), Piven
Theatre Workshop (Piven Theatre).
Other Credits: Secretary/Board
Member for The Dog Story Theater.
Trustee
Education Committee Co-Chair
Previous Roles with Pigeon Creek:
Juliet / Apothecary in Romeo and
Juliet, Bianca / Tranio in The Taming
of the Shrew, Ursula / Dogberry in
Much Ado About Nothing, Falstaff in
Henry IV, Part One, Gratiano in The
Merchant of Venice, Justice Shallow in
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Bottom
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Westmoreland / Gower / Bardolph /
Orleans in Henry V, Trinculo / Gonzalo
in The Tempest, Horatio in Hamlet,
Thaisa / Thaliard / Diana in Pericles,
Prince of Tyre, Casca in Julius
Caesar, Aemelia / 2nd Merchant in The
Comedy of Errors, Queen Margaret /
Catesby in Richard III, Adam / Audrey
in As You Like It.
Roles with Other Theatres:
Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy
of Errors (The University Wits/Mary
Baldwin College); Mistress Openwork in
The Roaring Girl, Cariola in The
Duchess of Malfi, Wrath/Evil Angel in
Doctor Faustus (Mary Baldwin
College); Sonya in Uncle Vanya (Piven
Theatre), Sister Mary Helena/Betty
White in Nightmare the Musical, Mrs.
Voorhees in FXIII the Musical (Dog
Story Theater)
Education and Training: B.A in
Drama/Speech (Clarke College), M.Litt
in Shakespeare and Renaissance
Literature in Performance (Mary
Baldwin College in Partnership with the
American Shakespeare Center), Piven
Theatre Workshop (Piven Theatre).
Other Credits: Secretary/Board
Member for The Dog Story Theater.
E-MAIL: kat@pcshakespeare.com
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