Actors
(in order by first name...) @PenShakesAmanda Zarr
Amanda currently lives in Los Angeles and has worked extensively with Shakespeare Orange County, one of the premiere summer Shakespeare companies in southern California. Roles with Shakespeare O.C. include Juliet(Romeo and Juliet), Ophelia (Hamlet), and Silvia (Two Gentlemen of Verona), and soon as a company member traveling to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland performing a telling of Shakespeare's epic poem Venus and Adonis.
She has appeared in the feature films Yesterday and Tomorrow with Academy Award winning director Michael Korolenko and recently completed the filmLetting Go with Picturehead productions. Her television credits include Run of the House and the new web-series Life in the Round with Fred Savage.
Andrew Hubbard
Andrew Hubbard is making his debut with Pensacola Shakespeare Theatre, and is currently living in Chicago, IL where he is pursuing his MFA in Acting from the prestigious Professional Actor Training Program at Roosevelt University. Andrew's credits include work at New York City's famed Neighborhood Playhouse as well as starring roles in Guys And Dolls and Grease at The University of West Florida
Anthony Reimer
Anthony Reimer's live Theatre credits include The Drowsy Chaperone at The Gateway Playhouse in Long Island, NY, MacBeth for The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and The War of The Roses Cycle, Doctor Faustus, and The Three Sisters at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Anthony is also a member of the NYC-based Improv troupe Undiscovered Treasure.
TV and Film credits include Chasing Zero, Marvelous Miles, and Rescue Me starring Dennis Leary.
Anthony received his MFA in Acting from The Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Professional Actor Training Program and currently resides in New York City.
Brooke Touchstone
Brooke Touchstone is honored to be the first actor selected to pilot Pensacola Shakespeare's paid internship program. Currently a junior at West Florida High School, she was first introduced to Shakespeare at the Actors Movement Studio Teen Shakespeare Conservatory in NYC. As a member of the Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company she played Juliet in Romeo And Juliet, and Miranda in The Tempest . She recently played Puck in West Florida High School's production of a Midsummer Night's Dream.
Darren Campbell
A former student at the University of West Florida, Darren's past credits include The Crucible, As You Like It, Guys & Dolls, and Indians. Darren is also a member of the Pensacola comedy troupe, Improvable Cause. Darren currently resides in Pensacola.
Gary Lamb
Gary Lamb returns to Pensacola Shakespeare following last year's season where audiences will remember him as Benedick in Much Ado..., and as himself in The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged). Gary is currently the Artistic Director for the Crown City Theatre Company in North Hollywood, California, where his acting credits include most Scrooge in A Chicago Christmas Carol, Sir Toby Belch in 12th Night, and the critically acclaimed award winning production of A Prayer For My Daughter as Sean de Kahn. Credits elsewhere include Iago in Othello and MacDuff inMacBeth with Nevada Shakespeare, and roles with Pasadena Shakespeare Company, Pasadena Shakespeare in the Park, Kingsmen Shakespeare and Shakespeare at Play. TV credits include I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant, America’s Most Wanted, General Hospital, a webisode called A Driving Fool starring Jim Hanks, and as a voice actor on The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause starring Hal Holbrook.
Grace Thompson
Grace Thompson returns to the Apprentice program at Pensacola Shakespeare Theatre after being seen in last summer's production of Much Ado About Nothing. Recent Pensacola credits include Maggie Anderson in UWF's Brigadoon, Christmas Carol, Grease, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Joanne McGee
Joanne is delighted to be making her debut with Pensacola Shakespeare Theater. Currently living in Los Angeles, she has landed a starring role as the loving southern bell mom, Mae, in the feature film You Should Meet My Son, now playing in festivals all over the world. She can also be seen as the ruthless felon Kimberly O'Neil in Americas Most Wanted and a panicked mom in the movie Cedar Rapids, starring John C Reilly and Ed Helms. Los Angeles credits include Baptista in Taming of theShrew, Gertrude in Hamlet, and Donna Lucia in the 2008 version of I'm Just Wild About Harry at Crown City Theatre Company. Other Los Angeles credits include the title roles in The Matchmaker and The Mad Woman of Chaillot at Arroyo Repertory, and Caught in the Net at the International City Theatre. Regional Theatre credits include Sierra Rep, The St. Michael’s Playhouse, Detroit Rep, Florida Rep, The Chamber Theatre of Boston, The Utah Shakespeare Festival and the Nevada Shakespeare Festival in the Park. She is thrilled to be once again performing in her favorite Shakespeare comedy and getting to play with this talented group of artist including her husband Gary Lamb as Feste.
Ken Clement
Ken Clement currently resides in south Florida where his Shakespeare work includes Hamlet at New Theatre, MacBeth at Dramatic New Arts, and a ercent turn as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night at SoBe Arts. Other credits include the National Tour of Mr. Bumble in Oliver! Moonface Martin in Anything Goes at Hillside Rep, and the TV shows The Glades and Burn Notice. He is the recipient of The Carbonell Award recognizing theatrical excellence in south Florida, and is a founding member of MadCat Theatre Company in Miami. Ken received his BFA in Theatre from California Institute of the Arts.
Kevin P. Kern
Kevin is thankful to return to Pensacola Shakespeare after appearing in last season's Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (Abridged), and directing the season opener: Much Ado About Nothing. As an actor, Kevin’s live Theatre credits include King Cymbeline at The Geffen Playhouse, Love’s Labor’s Lost at Kingsmen Shakespeare, As You Like It with Shakespeare Festival L.A., 12th Night at Pasadena Shakespeare, and The Tempest at Will Geer’s Theatricum, all in Los Angeles, California. Credits elsewhere include Tartuffe at The Theatre at Monmouth, andMidsummer Night’s Dream with the Hackmatack Playhouse in Maine, and Showboat for the Pensacola Opera. Film and TV credits include A Night At Sophie’s, Chatterbox, One Thumb Up, and regional and national commercials for a wide variety of clients. In the spring of 2012 he will stage a condensed version of A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring Pensacola Shakespeare Theatre actors alongside the Pensacola Symphony's performance of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream at Saenger Theatre.
Laura Rondinelli
Laura Rondinelli is a senior Theatre Major at the University of West Florida who recently transferred from Florida School of the Arts. Her past credits include The Trojan Women, Holy Ghosts, Grease!, Look Homeward, Angel and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.
Mark Duncan
Mark Duncan returns to Pensacola Shakespeare after playing in last season's Much Ado About Nothing as Prince Don Pedro. Mark’s Shakespeare credits elsewhere include productions of Romeo And Juliet at Georgia Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen Of Verona at Richmond Shakespeare, and Taming of the Shrew at Wing and Groove Theatre in Chicago. Other credits include work with Chicago’s famed Second City, Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania, and the film Net Force starring Scott Bakula. Mark received his MFA in Acting from Virginia Commonwealth University, and is currently the chairman of the Theatre Department at Nova Southeastern University.
Natalie Kern
Natalie returns to Pensacola Shakespeare following last season's Much Ado About Nothing. Natalie received her BFA in Acting from Chapman University, and began working in Los Angeles doing live theatre and television. Credits include Mysteries Part 1 & 2, Human Interest Story, Film is Evil, Radio is Good with the renown experimental group Son of Semele Ensemble, Hamlet with The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company, the feature film Rocky & Bullwinkle, and NBC’s daytime drama Passions. Credits elsewhere include Dracula, Salesgirl, and Mad Forest at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (Kentucky), and Trepidation Nation, an entry in the 2003 Humana Festival also at A.T.L. Natalie played Shelby for PLT’s production of Steel Magnolias.
Nathan Simmons
Nathan Simmons returns to the Apprentice Program at Pensacola Shakespeare after playing The Friar in last summer's production of Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare credits elsewhere include Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew, and Lysander in Midsummer Night's Dream. Nathan is a recent graduate of the University of West Florida's BA Acting program where his recent roles include Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Dr. John Buchanan, Jr., in Summer and Smoke. He is also a published playwright and is hard at work on his next script.
Reese Vines
Reese Vines is a recent graduate of the University of Mobile with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater and Communications. Recent credits include Godspell, Lend Me A Tenor, Curly in Oklahoma, Barefoot in the Park, and most recently The Music Man. Reese is honored to be a part of the second season of Pensacola Shakespeare after working last year as a technical apprentice.
Steven Dawson
Is a senior Theatre major at the University of Mobile. Favorite roles include Max- Lend Me A Tenor, Sir Harry- Once Upon a Mattress. This fall Steven will appear as Chad in All Shook Up at the Joe Jefferson Players. He is excited to make his debut with Pensacola Shakespeare.
T. Fulton Burns
T. Fulton Burns returns to Pensacola Shakespeare after directing last season’s production of The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged). Fulton is currently the Director of Acting & Performance at the University of South Alabama’s Department of Dramatic Arts.
Fulton began his theatre career as a dancer in the southeast in both ballet and modern dance with Charleston Ballet Theater and Greenville Ballet. Burns is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) and a member since 2000 in addition to being an award winning Advanced Actor Combatant recognized in all eight weapons that the organization has to offer. He is also an Instructor with the Dueling Arts International Fulton’s fight director work has included choreographed fights for Extremeties, Othello, The Beaux Stratagem, Romeo and Juliet, The Illusion, Man of La Mancha & Hamlet. Additionally he has worked professionally with Moises Kaufman, the Living Theatre and Cirque du Soleil’s production of Quidam.
