Set Design ..... Beowulf Boritt
Costume Design ..... Clint Ramos
Lighting Design ..... Nancy Goldstein
Sound Design & Original Music ..... J Hagenbuckle
Choreography ..... Anna Myer
Production Manager ..... Thomas Kauffman
Production Stage Manager ..... Carola Morrone*

Cast

Mimi Bilinski* ..... Hippolyta/Titania
Shelley Bolman* ..... Snug
Jason Bowen ..... Demetrius
Meghan Bradley ..... Hermia
Larry Coen* ..... Peter Quince
Joel Colodner* ..... Egeus
Johnny Lee Davenport* ..... Theseus/Oberon
Leslie Harrell Dillen* ..... Tom Snout
Antonio Edwards-Suarez* ..... Puck
Ed Hoopman ..... Lysander
Doug Lockwood* ..... Robin Starveling
Lindsey McWhorter ..... Fairy
Paul Melendy* ..... Francis Flute
Fred Sullivan, Jr.* ..... Nick Bottom
Arthur Waldstein ..... Philostrate
Hannah Wilson ..... Helena
Marcio De Souza ..... Moth
Nina Saraceno ..... Mustardseed
William Weaver ..... Cobweb
Carol Someres ..... Peablossom

Fairies:

Keenan Cooks, Laticia Goodman, Christine Andre

Understudies:
Hannah Barth, Zach Bubolo, Tom Gleadow, Linda Monchik

* Members of Actors Equity Association

Theseus, the Duke of Athens is preparing to marry Hippolyta, the defeated Queen of the Amazons. As he ponders how to spend the four days till his wedding, Theseus is interrupted by Egeus, an Athenian aristocrat who has dragged his daughter Hermia into the court. Egeus wishes Hermia to marry the noble Demetrius but she is in love with Lysander, a younger and poorer man. Theseus confirms that if Hermia does no obey her father’s will, the law of Athens requires that she be put to death.

Lysander suggests to Hermia that they should escape to the forest, where the Athenian law cannot herm them. Hermia unfolds their plan to her school friend Helena, who is herself in love with Demetrius. Helena determines to reveal their scheme to Demetrius, and the four young lovers for the forest by night.

Meanwhile a group of tradesmen are preparing a play to be performed at Theseus’ wedding. They too enter the forest, hoping to rehearse there uninterrupted.

Unbeknownst to the humans, the forest is home to a tribe of fairies, whose King and Queen, Oberon and Titania, are fighting a bitter feud over a young Indian boy. To punish Titania, Oberon instructs his lieutenant Puck to cast a spell on her that will make her fall in love with the first creature she sees. Puck does so, and then bewitches one of the tradesmen, Bottom the Weaver, planting an ass’s head on his shoulders. Titania sees him, and duly falls prey to Oberon’s magic and finds herself in love with Bottom.

Oberon, in the meantime, has spotted the human lovers wandering in the forest and commands Puck to help them. Puck mistakes the men, and causes Lysander to fall in love with Helena. Chaos ensues, and it takes all of Oberon’s magic and cunning to resort order to the fairies, the tradesmen, and the lovers.