The Three Musketeers at Connecticut Repertory Theatre

Tony Simotes (Director and Fight Choreographer) is the Artistic Director and President of Shakespeare & Company. He is a founding member of the Company, a Director and became a Master Teacher in Fight and Movement since its beginnings in 1978. Recently he directed Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis in Mother Courage and her Children and The Tempest for Shakespeare & Company. He directed Othello with John Douglas Thompson and is proud to have produced Satchmo at the Waldorf starring Mr. Thompson which went on to Long Wharf Theater and is currently slated to open Off-Broadway early next year. He has directed for many other regional theaters across the country as well as internationally.

His Stage Fighting work and teaching have been the subject of numerous segments for National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting. He has helped to develop actors for Motion Caption Acting work for Raven Technologies and Software as a part his research and development work for artists of the 21st Century.

He has performed on the stage, in film and television in such features at Terminator II, Hotshots, Father of the Bride II, The Water Dance, Pacific Heights, and was featured as Buddy Rich in the CBS mini-series about Frank Sinatra. He has worked at the Mark Taper Forum, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Old Globe, as well as the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park to name a few.

He is also proud to have been a full professor at the University of Wisconsin — Madison where he served as Director of University Theater before coming to Shakespeare & Company. He is a proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, and SDC.

The Design team includes: Posy Knight, Scenic Designer; Fan Zhang, Costume Designer; Xiachen Zhou, Wig Designer; Sean Nicholl, Lighting Designer; Alexander Sovronsky, Composer, and Brandon Purstell, Sound Designer. The production will include original music composed Alexander Sovronsky.

THE CAST

Rocco Sisto (Cardinal Richelieu) Recent roles include Richard in Richard II for Shakespeare & Co and Samuel in Richard foreman’s Old Fashioned Prostitutes at the Public Theatre in New York. Broadway: To Be Or Not To BE, Amadeus, A Month In The Country, The Comedy Of Errors. Off-Broadway: Over ten productions for the Public including The Winter’s Tale (Obie Award), other credits include Quills (NYTW, Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination)and he has worked in most of the Off Broadway theaters over the last thirty years.TV: 666 Park Ave, Mildred Pierce, The Sopranos, CSI, Law & Order, Star Trek TNG. Film: Frequency, Donnie Brasco, Eraser, Carlito’s Way among many others. Mr. Sisto is a founding member of Shakespeare & Company. He is also a recipient of an Obie award for sustained excellence.

Alexander Sovronsky (Captain de Treville/Duke of Buckingham/Composer/Music Director) as an actor/musician/composer, Alexander’s acting and music/sound design credits include Broadway: Cyrano de Bergerac (with Kevin Kline). Off-Broadway: Romeo & Juliet, Measure For Measure (NYSF/The Public); Othello (TFANA); Bottom of the World (Atlantic); Volpone, Women Beware Women (Red Bull); Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, Marat/Sade, Three Sisters (Classical Theater of Harlem). REGIONAL: Walnut Street Theatre, The Shakespeare Theater Company, The Wharton Salon, and 6 seasons with Shakespeare & Company. International: title role in Hamlet (Hyperion Theatre Co/Teatro Franco Parenti) in Milan, Italy. www.AlexanderSovronsky.com

Will Haden (D’Artagnan) is a 3rd year Graduate Actor. Credits include: CRT - Big Love (Ensemble), Hairspray (Link Larkin), His Girl Friday (Ernie Kruger),Romeo & Juliet (Romeo), O Beautiful (Jesus), The Winter’s Tale (Florizel) and graduate acting project King Lear (Edgar); Hope Summer Rep. - Pride and Prejudice (Mr. Darcy), An Inspector Calls (Inspector Goole); Village Playhouse - Xanadu (Sonny), Mauritius (Dennis), The Little Dog Laughed (Alex),Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Andrew Jackson), Woolfe Street.

Sarah Wintermeyer (Constance) is a 3rd year Graduate Actor. CRT credits include: Big Love (Eleaonor), The Music Man (Alma Hix), Hairspray (Velma), His Girl Friday (Jaclyn Wilson), Romeo & Juliet (Lady Capulet), O Beautiful (Arlene Fletcher), Man of La Mancha (Housekeeper), The Winter’s Tale (Lady Paulina), and The Pirates of Penzance (Daughter). Regional credits include: Sierra Repertory Theatre: Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, Audrey Williams in Lost Highway; Summer Repertory Theatre, SF Bay Area: Agnes in Agnes of God, Jen in Jon and Jen; Little Theatre, LA: Elizabeth Hughes in Catholic School Girls, Silence in Silence. www.sarahwintermeyer.com

The cast will feature graduate actors Thomas Brazzle, Darek Burkowski, Anthony Goes, Will Haden, Khetanya Henderson, James Jelkin, Colby Lewis, Olivia Saccomanno, and Sarah Wintermeyer; as well as undergraduate actors Alyson Danielczuk , Marisa Desa, Harry Elfenbaum, Will Graziano, Alison Janavaris, Briana Maia, Ryan Marcone, Emmett McMullan, Coles Prince, Susannah Resnikoff, Gina Salvatore and Brian Sullivan.