AS YOU LIKE IT
by William Shakespeare
Creative Team
William Shakespeare
playwright
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William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His birthday is most commonly celebrated on 23 April, which is also believed to be the date he died in 1616.
Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre (sometimes called the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period). Shakespeare’s plays are perhaps his most enduring legacy, but they are not all he wrote. Shakespeare’s poems also remain popular to this day.
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M. Graham Smith
Director / Adapter
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M. Graham Smith is a freelance Director, Educator, and Producer and he’s so thrilled to reunite with collaborators Justin Genna and Lily Narbonne eight years after working with them on Qui Nguyen’s Begets at ACT in San Francisco. Recent directing credits: The Tempest (Marin Shakespeare), Gods & Monsters (New Conservatory Theater), World Premieres of Obie winner Christopher Chen’s Home Invasion, Kevin Rolston’s Deal with the Dragon (Magic Theatre & Edinburgh Fringe), The Mortification of Fovea Munson (The Kennedy Center); Father/Daughter (Aurora); White Chip (B Street), Pickleball (B Street), You for Me for You (Crowded Fire), and White (Shotgun). Graham’s new play FDR’s Very Happy Hour, centering d/Disability and Access in an immersive environment had its World Premiere at Actors Theatre of Louisville and will be embarking on a National Tour in October of 2026. He teaches at A.C.T. and Berkeley Rep. He’s a graduate of Wesleyan University where he directed the first workshop of In The Heights.
Eliza Fichter
Oliver/Corin
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ELIZA FICHTER (she/her) is delighted and grateful to be returning to Lanes Coven after working with these lovely folks in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Servant of Two Masters back in 2024! Regional: How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos (Great Barrington Public Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Noises Off (Lyric Stage Company); Morning, Noon and Night (Company One); The Minutes (Umbrella Stage Company); Kill the Magistrate (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); The Crucible (Nora Theatre/Bedlam); The Revolutionists (Central Square Theater). A multidisciplinary artist from Massachusetts, Eliza is also a printmaker. Education: Boston University, LAMDA. elizafichter.com.
David Keohane*
Orlando
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David Keohane (he/him) returns to Lanes Coven after playing Berowne in last summer's Love's Labour's Lost. Regional: Leopoldstadt (Huntington Theatre) Smart People (Silverthorne Theater); Things I Know To Be True (Great Barrington Public Theater); Vanity Fair, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Matchless & The Happy Prince (Underground Railway Theater); The Crucible (BEDLAM / Nora Theater Company); The Tempest (Opera House Arts); Ah, Wilderness! (Goodman Theatre); Tug of War: Parts 1 & 2 (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Oak Park Festival Theater). Education: MFA, UMass Amherst; BFA, Boston University.
Breezy Leigh*
Touchstone
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Breezy Leigh (she/they) is blessed and thrilled to be making her Lanes Coven debut! New York: Hamlet (The Acting Company); Push Party (world premiere, The Hearth); Where Women Go (world premiere, Tent Theater Company); Le Blanc (People’s Improv Theater); A Sketch of New York (The Producers’ Club Theater). Regional: Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B (Gloucester Stage Company); The Snow Queen, Clyde’s (Portland Stage Company); Stew (regional premiere, Gloucester Stage Company); Joy & Pandemic (world premiere, Huntington Theatre Company); Superstitions (OKC Rep); Oedipus Rex/ Symphony of Psalms (SF Symphony); Animals Out Of Paper (Chautauqua Theater Company). Film: Step Into My Office (BRIC TV); Baby Mama Drama (Chela Films). Education: MFA, American Conservatory Theater; Honors BA, University of Virginia. www.breezyleigh.com | @itsbreezyleigh_
Michael Lopez Saenz*
Jacques
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Michael Lopez Saenz (he/him) is thrilled to be returning for his second show with Lanes Coven. Credits: Off Broadway(Affluenza! P.O.V.) Regional: Lanes Coven (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Huntington Theatre (Don’t Eat the Mangos-US), Arlekin Players (The GAAGA), Theater@First (Antigone), Off the Grid (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Richard III), Emerson College (Working), Wheelock Family Theater (Tuck Everlasting), The Publick Theater (The Winter’s Tale), Boston Academy of Music (Lady in the Dark), Gloucester Stage (Dew Point, Dealer’s Choice). Sáenz is also a director, producer, playwright and educator. His play “Mobius” was selected for the New York International Fringe Festival, and he directed the world premiere of “Vote for Me” off-Broadway. He was commissioned by the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival to adapt his novel, “The Thousand Natural Shocks” into a play for their new works program. His production company, VitalSaenz, creates new work in Lowell.
Naomi Mcleod
Celia
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NAOMI MCLEOD (INTERN) (she/her) is currently a junior at Chapman University pursuing her BFA in Theatre Performance. Naomi is returning to Lanes Coven for her second show this summer! You may have seen her last year as Katherine in Love's Labors Lost. Naomi is based in Brooklyn, New York but is currently pursuing her degree in Orange County, California. Her other credits include #00 in The Wolves, Antigone in Antigone, and Company Member in The Laramie Project. Next up she’ll be making her Chapman University mainstage debut as Jean in absurdist drama Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco. Naomi enjoys learning guitar, hiking, a cup of tea, and her cat, Chai.
Lily Narbonne*
Phoebe / Le Beau
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Lily Narbonne* is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of Lanes Coven Theater Co and also a Dialect Coach, Director, and Teaching Artist. With Lanes Coven: CHURCH, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Proposal, many productions of Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew; as Director: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Dumb Waiter. Select acting credits include Leopoldstadt (Huntington Theatre), A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Cyrano de Bergerac (SPARC Theater); The Three Musketeers, King Lear, Two Noble Kinsmen, All’s Well That Ends Well (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). TV/Film: “Julia” (HBO Max). As Dialect Coach (@dialectarts) – select credits: A View From The Bridge, Shining City, Translations, Funnyhouse of a Negro, and Moviestar. Education: MFA, American Conservatory Theater; BFA, BU School of Theatre & LAMDA.
Eryn O’Sullivan
Rosalind
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Michael Lopez Saenz (he/him) is thrilled to be returning for his second show with Lanes Coven. Credits: Off Broadway(Affluenza! P.O.V.) Regional: Lanes Coven (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Huntington Theatre (Don’t Eat the Mangos-US), Arlekin Players (The GAAGA), Theater@First (Antigone), Off the Grid (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Richard III), Emerson College (Working), Wheelock Family Theater (Tuck Everlasting), The Publick Theater (The Winter’s Tale), Boston Academy of Music (Lady in the Dark), Gloucester Stage (Dew Point, Dealer’s Choice). Sáenz is also a director, producer, playwright and educator. His play “Mobius” was selected for the New York International Fringe Festival, and he directed the world premiere of “Vote for Me” off-Broadway. He was commissioned by the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival to adapt his novel, “The Thousand Natural Shocks” into a play for their new works program. His production company, VitalSaenz, creates new work in Lowell.
Alex Strzemilowski
Adam / Silvius
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ALEX STRZEMILOWSKI (he/him) is a New England native who received his BFA in Acting from Baldwin Wallace University, and is currently living and working in NYC. Alex is thrilled to be returning for his second season with Lanes Coven after his debut summer in Love Labours Lost as Dumaine last year. He’s recently been seen working at The Rat NYC in their production of Lobby Hero (Jeff) as well as Theatre 4 the People in their New Works Series. Alex’s other credits include Julius Caesar (Marc Antony), Romeo & Juliet (Mercutio) and Rosencrantz…Are Dead (Guildenstern). Alex has also worked with indie filmmakers from Cleveland to NYC Keep an eye out for Alex in the upcoming indie short Doubles and a new narrative short Inertia for the Shot on Iphone campaign. Thanks to the Lanes Coven team for this opportunity.
Keep up with Alex on IG (@Strzemilowski).
Debra Wise*
Duke Senior / Duke Frederick
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DEBRA WISE (she/her) is delighted to return to Lanes Coven after playing Costard in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Recent productions on other stages: Angels in America, Vanity Fair (Central Square Theater); Escaped Alone, Dolls House 2 (The Gamm); Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare); Dinner for One (Greater Boston Stage); We Had A World (Huntington, U/S). She co-founded Underground Railway Theater, touring original works nationally & abroad (1978-2008) and creating puppet spectacles with Boston Symphony Orchestra. She was co-founding Artistic Director of Central Square Theater (2007-2021) and its ongoing science/theater partnership, Catalyst Collaborative@MIT. Wise has adapted and directed works by Grace Paley, Lewis Carroll, Dickens and Gregory Maguire, and led partnerships with Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Mount Auburn Cemetery, MIT Museum, and the National Parks Service (collaborating with Edwidge Danticat & Danny Glover). She has won multiple Elliot Norton awards; served as Interim Artistic Director of Revels (2024-26); and is audiobook narrator for Gregory Maguire’s return to his Wicked epic, Another Day. debra.anne.wise@gmail.com
Thomas Vice
Charles / Amiens / Jacques de Boys/ Lord / u/s Orlando
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THOMAS VICE (he/him) is thrilled to be making his Lanes Coven debut! Notable credits include: Evita (Reagle Music Theatre), Llorona, Or the Weeping Women (BCA), The Kittie Knox Plays (Plays In Place), Anastasia (Spring Lake Theatre), American Buffalo (Boston University), Macbeth (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts). Thomas is originally from the Jersey Shore, but currently lives in Boston where he can be found running throughout the city, squeezing in a round of golf, or clocked in behind the bar. He would like to thank his friends and family for their support, with a special thank you to Annika, Mom, Dad, and Shawna. BFA: Boston University/London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. thomasvice.com