A Midsummer Night's Dream
Presented by Penguin Productions in Association with Seattle Outdoor Theater Festival
Volunteer Park - Seattle, WA
Cast
Creative Team
Alexa Bowen
Fish Harrison
Skye Borch
Meet the Company
Bowie Logan
Bowie (he/they) is 18 years old and starting their associates in drama at Seattle Central College this fall. Their interest in acting began at an early age; as a young child they spent many hours practicing dramatic facial expressions in front of the mirror. Bowie has been taking acting classes at Seattle Children's Theater since age 5 and was in two productions with Broadway Bound. Their favorite role being Mr Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors. Bowie’s favorite part of acting is making others laugh. So please laugh at them.
Bronwen Pritchard
Bronwen (any) is very excited to be able to take a part in this production! This is their first show with Penguin, but in Seattle they've done shows with the Bathhouse, Taproot, and the ACT Young Core Company. Bronwen is currently going into her senior year at Whitman College, at which she majors in theatre and participates in acting, stage management, and playwriting. Outside of theatre, Bronwen likes to write, draw, sing, and spend time learning to sword fight with his friends at the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Everest Bond
Everest (he/she/they) is a passionate artist and performer who takes every opportunity that comes to him. He was previously seen at Penguin Productions in two plays for Finding Trails 2024. Some other roles include Macgyver in the Wave (and What Came After) Union Arts Center, Olivia in Twelfth Night Union Arts Center, Sister Mary Catherine/Martha in Nothing's Changed, Everything's New Union Art Center New Works Northwest, and Moth in Love's Labours Lost Seattle Shakespeare Company.
Josette Falzone
Josette Falzone (she/her) is a fourth year Musical Theatre and Psychology student studying at North Central College in the Chicago area. Having recently returned from a semester abroad in Scotland, Josette is working toward her honors thesis combing her theatre and psychology degrees next year. Select acting credits include in The 39 Steps, (Richard Hannay) Orlando, (Archduchess/Duke) and Camp Rock: The Musical (Ensemble). Recently, she has also been a deviser and actor in the premiers of two new plays, This Bloody Ball (Lavinia/Stranger) at the University of Glasgow, and Everybody Thrashing (The Doctor) at North Central College. She is delighted to be back in Seattle and performing with Penguin Productions for the summer and hopes you enjoy the show!
Marco McGuire
Marco (he/him) is a 19 year old going into his second year at Western Washington University, where he is studying both Theatre and Education! At school he has performed in A Streetcar Named Desire and Pestilence: WOW! and with Penguin Productions, you might have seen him as Marvin in Falsettoland or Ted in Peter and the Starcatcher. He is so excited to perform in his first Shakespeare show, and he hopes you enjoy!
Miranda Gilbert
Miranda Gilbert (she/they) is a 22 year old rising senior at the University of Washington studying drama performance. This is their 13th show with Penguin Productions, with other highlight roles including Sofia in Dance Nation, Pastor Greg in Hand to God, Lady Olivia in Twelfth Night, Stephano in The Tempest, and Chuck in She Kills Monsters. Miranda has enjoyed exploring the character of Lysander through a queer lens, portraying him as a masc lesbian and discovering how their presentation of masculinity and queer identity changes the role. Miranda would like to thank Fish, Skye, Alexa, and their castmates for giving her the opportunity to be a part of such a wonderful and fun production. They would also like to thank their family, friends, Shana Bestock, and Anna Klein for supporting her passion for acting and theatre.
Nada Alaloul
Nada (she/her) plays Flute and Peaseblossom.
Nasirah Canada
Nasirah Canada (she/her) is so excited to be in her first Shakespeare play, she just finished her first year at Shenandoah Conservatory where she is pursuing a BFA in Acting and a minor in Business and Administration. She was recently in Silent Sky as Williamina with YATC, Norca u/s in Our Lady of 121st Street at Shenandoah Conservatory and Van’s Sister in Dog Sees God at Shenandoah Conservatory with Hypnos Theater and Performance. Thank you for coming she she hope you enjoy the show!!!
Natalie McManus
Natalie McManus (she/her) is very excited to be involved in her first show with Penguin Productions! When not onstage performing she loves to read, sing, and craft pop up cards. A recent graduate of Ballard High School, in the fall Natalie will be starting college at the University of Washington :) A huge thank you to all of her friends and family for supporting her and she hopes you enjoy A Midsummer Night's Dream!
Sally Calvo
Sally (they/them) plays Hermia.
Sylvie Kelderman
Sylvie Kelderman (she/her) is properly chuffed to be part of bringing this magical play to life. She is an incoming sophomore at Amherst College over on the other coast where she studies rocks, humanity, and other liberal arts matters. Theatre has been a vital part of every stage of Sylvie's life, from acting classes at Seattle Children's Theatre and their late summer season program to performing on ACT's stages. All of high school, Sylvie was on the board of Young Americans' Theatre Company, an entirely youth run theatre company, where she acted in, directed, and/or produced over ten productions. Some of her favorite past roles are Catherine (Proof), Rosalind (As You Like It), and Rona (Spelling Bee). She plans to continue pursuing theatre as she cannot seem to live without it for very long. Thanks and love to her family for filling her childhood with fairies, wonder, and magical stories.
Primrose "Prim" Austin
Prim (any) is a fifteen year old student at Clearwater. She has done a class in early childhood education and been commissioned for art a few times over the past few years. Outside of school, acting, and volunteering, you can find them spending time with their friends and drawing!
Alexa Bowen
Alexa (she/they) is a recent graduate from the University of Washington with a BA in Drama Performance and English and will be attending New York University this fall for an MA in Educational Theatre and English. Her stage managing credits include UTS's Do You Feel Anger? and Olympias with UW's New Works Festival. Her acting credits include Karoline Levaitt in the Missing America with UW's New Works Festival. Outside of school, acting, and stage managing, you can find them hanging with friends, reading, and cross stitching the Lenox Spice Village.
Fish Harrison
In fourth grade, Fish (they/them) partook in their first Shakespearean play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when they played Lysander and Snug. It wasn’t until high school when they returned to Shakespeare. Directing a production of Midsummer has been a major goal of their’s since high school and they are so grateful to finally be given the chance. Fish is a Biology and Anthropology major at Whitman College in Walla Walla, where they will be soon be taking over the Summer Shakes program! Fish would like to extend a special thanks to Green Stage, for this performance opportunity and borrowed costumes/props/tent; The Shattered Glass Project, for supporting youth art by generously sharing their space; Penguin Productions, for producing this project; and finally Shana Bestock, for her dedication to theater education and commitment to youth leadership.
Skye Borch
Skye Borch (she/her) grew up performing in the Seattle theater scene, and is excited to be back, spending the summer interning with Penguin Productions! Most recently, Skye assistant directed Penguin’s production of We Can’t All Be Vampires, and directed Time-Dust for Latitude Theatre’s Victorian Christmas Cards in July: Oops! All Frogs! Short play festival. Skye has been directing plays since junior year of high school, and is now studying Theater & Performance Studies at Occidental College with the goal of becoming a professional theater director. In addition to numerous one-acts, sketches for sketch comedy troupe 2 Paws Up which she is president of, and even a haunted house, Skye directed her first musical, a production of [title of show] by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell, in spring 2025. She is now preparing to start rehearsals this fall for her next project, a production of the musical The Mad Ones. In her spare time, Skye enjoys going on long walks with friends, picking wild berries, obsessing over the Hatchetfield series, and writing song lyrics.
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Thank you!
We would like to extend our thanks to Rebecca O'Neill and the Shattered Glass Project, Shana Bestock and Tess Berger at Penguin Productions, Forrest for playing guitar, our lovely cast and production team's parents, guardians, and friends, and Egbert.
