Macbeth

At ANTAEUS: Macbeth, Peace in Our Time, Hay Fever (Classicsfest), John Gabriel Borkman (Classicsfest). Theatre credits include Hamlet in The Hamlet Project (Loose Canon Collective); Come Back, Little Sheba (A Noise Within); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (PCPA); As You Like It (Waterworks Theatre Company); Threepenny Opera, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Bacchae, Measure for Measure (UC Irvine); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Western Michigan University); Or What You Will (OSF Green Show); Titus Andronicus (Roundabout Theatre). Paul recently worked on a new HBO series, Videosyncrasy, with director, David Fincher. Other Film/TV credits include Danni Lowinski (CBS), All is Forgiven (Kitty Choir/End of May), Fetch (On Purpose Pictures), My Roommate The (Lucreative Productions), and more. He has studied at the British American Drama Academy and received a BA in Acting from Western Michigan University and an MFA in Acting from the University of California-Irvine.

At ANTAEUS: Hamlet (Hamlet), Measure for Measure (Angelo/Claudio), Henry IV, Part One (Hal), The Curse of Oedipus (Oedipus), Macbeth (Banquo), The Malcontent (Mendoza), King Lear (Edgar), host of The Zip Code Plays Podcast ; Other Theater: Kirk Douglas, Playwrights Arena,  NY Public, Kennedy Center, Signature,  NJSF, Ojai, O’neil, Yale, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Ma-Yi among others.  TV: Recurring roles on: 12 Monkeys, The West Wing, Dynasty, MacGyver, Notorious, Counterpart, Major Crimes, Medium, Killer Instinct, Sons of Anarchy. Recent Guest Star: 911, Magnum PI,  Big Shot.  BFA: Carnegie Mellon.  Narrator of over 300 audiobooks, including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series. AWARDS: OBIE Award; 16 Earphones awards, Audie award, AudioFile “Golden Voice”- a lifetime achievement in the craft.  This is for Lauren, my hero. And Wilder, my muse. IG/TWTR/FB @ramondeocampo

At ANTAEUS: Eight Nights, Macbeth, ClassicsFests: Heartbreak House, The Matchmaker, Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit.  She has worked extensively Off-Broadway and Regionally. Her favorite classical roles include Lady Utterword in Heartbreak House (Hartford Stage); Margery Pinchwife in The Country Wife and Lydia Languish in The Rivals (The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C); Viola in Twelfth Night (Utah Shakespearean); and Myra in Hay Fever (Westport).  She has created and premiered many new roles including Neil LaBute’s How To Fight Loneliness,  Lucy Thurber’s Killers and Other Family, Annie Weisman’s Hold Please, Rajiv Joseph’s Mr. Wolf, Richard Greenberg’s Everett Beekin, Dael Orlandersmith’s  Bones,  as well as Trainspotting (Player’s Theatre.) The Roommate, Mr. Wolf, Absurd Person Singular, Becky Shaw, Crimes of the Heart, Lobby Hero,  among many others (South Coast Repertory).  Her voice is heard regularly on commercials, video games, podcasts, and audiobooks. TV credits include The Affair, Modern Family, I’m Dying Up Here, Shameless, Law & Order(s), ER, Boston Legal. She is also a coach, teacher, and mother. tessaauberjonois.com

At ANTAEUS: Macbeth (Witch One); The Crucible (Rebecca Nurse). Guthrie Theater: Twelve seasons as actress, voice and movement director, including Furies (Chorus Leader) in Tyrone Guthrie’s House of Atreus. Other theater: Boston Court, REDCAT, South Coast Rep, Getty Villa’s Outdoor Theater in the inaugural production Hippolytos; Hecuba in Cavander’s The Greeks at The Back Alley Theater; plus many roles with LAWSC (Ovation Award). Television: includes series regular and Guest Star in premier TV shows. Films Include: Wes Craven’s Newest Nightmare and Crazy as Hell. Awards include: NAACP Theatre Award, Best Female Performance for Lear in the CNP production of King Lear; First AEA/AFTRA/SAG Diversity Honor Award; Watts Village Theater Company’s 2008 “Blazing the Trail Award”; Playwrights’ Arena, Outstanding Contribution to the Los Angeles.

At ANTAEUS: Hedda Gabler, Macbeth, American Tales, Pera Pelas. Other Theater: Sondheim UnScripted, The Western UnScripted, Chekhov UnScripted, Shakespeare UnScripted (Impro Theatre); The Belle of Belfast (Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA); The Children (The Theatre @ Boston Court); Opus (FountainTheatre – StageSceneLA Award: Best Actor); Major Barbara, An Italian Straw Hat (Garland Award: Best Actor), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, School for Wives, Nostalgia, A Christmas Carol (South Coast Repertory); A Distant Shore (Center Theatre Group). TV/Film credits include: With Honors, Crossing the Bridge, Rockabye, Close to Home (recurring), Charmed, NYPD Blue, Law & Order. Mr. Blinkoff received his MFA from The Yale School of Drama.

Jane Carr came to America with the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Nicholas Nickleby in 1986. She had an early success with the TV Series Dear John and has worked extensively on TV ever since, most recently in  How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men and The Closer.  Jane appeared in many plays with the Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre of Great Britain.  In the US she has trod the boards in Lettice and Lovage, Noises Off,  She Stoops to Folly, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Blithe Spirit, Sylvia, What the Butler Saw, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Habeas Corpus, The Cider House Rules, Stuff Happens and Pride and Prejudice. On Broadway she has appeared as Mrs. Brill in Mary Poppins and Miss Shingle in last year’s Tony award best  musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. She has also had a lovely voice over career. She is Pud’n  on the cartoon show The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy, Mama Cosma in The Fairly Odd Parents, Grandma Fletcher in Phineas and Ferb and Ann and Dan Chovie in Fish Hooks.

At ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Macbeth, Our American Hamlet (ClassicsFest 2013). Originally from Munich, Germany – Daniel is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He most recently appeared in the West Coast Premiere of Mac Rogers’ Viral at the Bootleg Theater (Dir. Darin Anthony) Other theatre credits include: Down in Front (World Premiere at Hollywood Fringe), Chris Keller in All My Sons, The Waiting Room (Dir. Art Manke) His film debut came this past Fall, in the David Ayer directed World War Two Drama Fury, starring Brad Pitt.

At ANTAEUS: King  Lear, Macbeth, The Liar, ClassicsFest 2010-11; The Tempest (A Noise Within); Hamlet (The Globe Playhouse); Little Women (Kennedy Center, National Tour); Skylight (The Studio Theatre); Becket (Olney Theatre Center; Henry V with Harry Hamlin , Henry VI (parts I-III)  and Measure for Measure with Kelly McGillis (The Shakespeare Theatre);  The Seagull with Gwyneth Paltrow and Christopher Walken, Our Town with Calista Flockhart and James Whitmore (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: J. Edgar, Lifeform, Fall Time, The Hollywood Sign, and Species 2. He has also toured Fringe Festivals with his award winning one-man show, Kill Your Television. Jeff has sound designed numerous productions at Antaeus including Wedding Band and is the resident foley artist at L.A. Theatre Works.

At ANTAEUS: The Hothouse, Peace in Our Time, The Crucible, As You Like It, Macbeth. Other Los Angeles Theater: The Engine Of Our Ruin, The Shoplifters (Victory Theatre), Baby Doll (The Fountain), The Magic Bullet Theory (Sacred Fools), Caribou Crossing, Memory of Water, The Great Great Grandson of Jedediah Kohler (Circle West), Heralds (Theater Tribe), The Andersonville Trial (All Saints in Pasadena), Briar Patch (Ventura Court Theatre), Breast Men (M.E.T. One Act Festival). Steve started in New York in 1980, where he appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. He has appeared in some TV shows, a few movies and several TV commercials. He is an expert in Southern Californian edible landscaping and pomology.

At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, As You Like It, Macbeth. World Premieres: Kingdom City, A Lonely Boy’s Guide to Survival… (La Jolla Playhouse). Other credits include The Lion in Winter (Laguna Playhouse); Ah! Wilderness (A Noise Within); 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Palos Verdes Performing Arts); Carrie the Musical (La Mirada Theater); Hamlet the Rock Musical (El Portal Theater); Cabaret (Celebration Theater). Ian trained a the University of Southern California and the British American Drama Academy.

At ANTAEUS: Twelfth Night, The Little Foxes, The Hothouse, The Liar, Macbeth, Peace in Our Time. Other Theater includes: Denver Center for the Performing Arts, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, New World Stages, Boston Court Pasadena, Fountain Theatre, Moving Arts, Rogue Machine Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, Skylight Theatre Company and The Troubadour Theater Company. 

Ann Noble is a Chicago Native with over twenty-five years of professional experience in the theatre as an actor, playwright, director and educator.  In addition to teaching at Antaeus, she currently teaches at Berg Studios (Technique I & II) as well as at the Hyperion Arts Center/Studio A Dance (Scene Study).  As a director, her recent credits include Smoke with LifeChild Productions and Moonshine Mamas with Two Heads Are Better Productions.  With Antaeus, she recently directed two of the Classic Sunday Readings of Shaw’s St. Joan and Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, which she is slated to co-direct in its full production this winter with Armin Shimerman.  As an actor, her credits with Antaeus are Hedda Gabler, The Crucible, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time, The Liar and The Malcontent.  Her other theatre acting credits include: BLISS, or Emily Post is Dead  with Moving Arts; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, and Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of Barack Obama’s Mother all with LA’s LGBT Center; Other Desert Cities with ICT of Long Beach; American Dead with Rogue Machine; Orange Flower Water with the Victory; Belfry with Malibu Playhouse; An Ideal Husband with Sierra Madre Playhouse; The Fall To Earth, Bedroom Farce and London’s Scars with the Odyssey; Betrayal with ETC of Santa Barbara; Sidhe, And Neither Have I Wings To Fly, The Friendly Hour, Big Death & Little Death, Shove and Bunbury all with the Road; and over six productions with South Coast Rep.  She also teaches acting and writing to incarcerated/at risk youth at several schools/institutions around LA including Homeboy Industries, and also works as a theatre director/instructor for youth at LA’s LGBT Center and LA’s Museum of the Holocaust.  She is the current Casting Associate for Antaeus, and, also, will be directing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for Warriors For Peace this fall.

Most recently seen at Portland Center Stage and Syracuse Stage as Lyman Wyeth in their joint production of Other Desert Cities.  Ned’s most recent Antaeus appearances have included You Can’t Take it With You (Grandpa Vanderhoff), The Curse of Oedipus, Macbeth, and Tonight at 8:30. Other recent stage appearances in the area include Loot (Truscott of the Yard) at Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara; and Groundswell, The Pleasure of his Company, Sea of Tranquility, A Body of Water, Blue/Orange, and Pericles (Ancient Gower) at San Diego’s Old Glob Theatre.  He has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, as well as at the Utah, Illinois, and Stratford (Canada) Shakespeare Festivals. Other regional theatre appearances include The Goodman and Steppenwolf theatres in Chicago, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Washington D.C., The Huntington Theatre, Boston, and the Long Wharf in New Haven.  He played on Broadway and in the National Tour of Aren’t We All with Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert and in the National Tour of Six Degrees of Separation (Flan) with Marlo Thomas.  Recent films include The Change Up, Accepted, and Wedding Crashers; and he’s made numerous guest star appearances on television.  Ned’s been a proud member of Actors Equity Association for over forty years and, for much of that time, served as a member of its National Council.

(Co-Director of Measure for Measure, The Crucible, and Shakespeare teacher at Antaeus). He is a highly regarded actor and is best known to television audiences as Quark, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He portrayed Leo Tolstoy in Discord for both the Noho Arts Theater and the Geffen Theater. Broadway: Threepenny Opera; St. Joan; I Remember Mama, and Broadway.  Selected Regional Theater: King Lear (Fool), Road to Mecca (Marius),The Seafarer (Blind Irishman -San Diego Critics Circle Award for Best Actor: San Diego Repertory); Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor (The Old Globe); Henry V (American Shakespeare Festival); Hoagy, Bix, Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhouse (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Threepenny Opera, Camille, Wild Oats (Guthrie Theatre).  Selected LA Theater – Birthday Party (LA Drama Critics Circle nomination – Lead Performance: The Matrix Theatre); Hamlet, As You Like It (Theatricum Botanicum); Misalliance, Juno and the Paycock (with his wife, Kitty Swink), Standup Shakespeare (Odyssey Theatre); Richard II (Mark Taper Forum).  At ANTAEUS:  The Seagull, Macbeth, and many Classic Fests.  TV: 80 different Guest Star roles, including Antaeus the Nox on Stargate, Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Judge Hooper on Boston Legal, and recently on CSI, Castle, and Franklin and Bash. As a voice-over artist, he was the long running voice of General Skarr on three different animated shows. In the field of video games, he has participated in over two dozen, acclaimed for his voicing of Dr. Nefarious in the Ratchet and Clank franchise as well as Andrew Ryan in the Bioshock series.

At ANTAEUS: Mother Courage and Her Children, King Lear, Macbeth. Elsewhere in Los Angeles: Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Theatre@Boston Court, The Matrix. Other appearances around the country include: Denver Center Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, La Mama Etc., Soho Rep., American Jewish Theatre, Mint Theatre Company.  TV: Bones, NCIS, Farmed & Dangerous, Liz & Dick, How I Met Your Mother, Happy Hour, Private Practice, Grey’s Anatomy, The Triangle, CSI:NY, Judging Amy, Commander in Chief, Gilmore Girls. Film: The Oh in Ohio, Lady Killers, The Mountain King. John is a graduate of Skidmore College.

At ANTAEUS: Henry IV, Part One, The Crucible, Macbeth, The Seagull, The Autumn Garden, and ClassicsFest projects A Delicate Balance and Wrecks. The Old Globe: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Best Actor Award), Lincolnesque (Best Featured Actor Award), The Price, The Savannah Disputation. La Jolla: Glengarry Glen Ross (Nominated Best Featured Actor Award). Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Conversations with My Father, The Changing Room, Hamlet. Off Broadway: Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Regional Theater: Other Desert Cities, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, The Price, A Perfect Wedding, A Man for All Seasons, Antony & Cleopatra, A Christmas Carol. Film/TV: IMDB will tell all.

Elizabeth Swain is an actor, director and teacher, and a member of Antaeus. Directing includes The Winter's Tale (Antaeus); Hamlet (Antaeus); Measure for Measure (co-directed with Armin Shimerman (Antaeus); Romeo and Juliet and Two Noble Kinsmen (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival); An Evening of Betrayal (The 6th Act); 3 Hamlets; 2 Macbeths; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Malcontent (Antaeus); The Rover and The Lucky Chance; and several new plays, most recently The Gatekeepers by Dan Perry. She directed a zoom production of The Comedy of Errors for the Classical Theatre Lab, for whom she has directed many staged readings, including Tartuffe, Richard I & II. For Antaeus she has directed six ClassicsFest readings.

At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, Macbeth, The Curse of Oedipus, Tonight at 8:30 & former Co-Artistic Director. Other theatre: Ah! Wilderness (A Noise Within), Dangerous Corner (Matrix Theatre), Juno & the Paycock (Odyssey Theatre), Ladyhouse Blues (Andak), Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (Tiffany Theatre), The Cavalcaders (Florida Stage), The Beat Generation (Merrimack Rep). TV/Film: South of Nowhere, Star Trek:Deep Space Nine, For the People, The Riches, The Fosters, Leverage, Monk, Judging Amy, Law & Order LA, Patty Hearst, In the Mood, The Longshadow, Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse, I Am I.

At ANTAEUS: Uncle Vanya, MacBeth, Peace in Our Time. Other Theatre: A Moon for the Misbegotten (Rubicon Theatre), Nice Things (Rogue Machine), Andronicus (Coeurage Theatre Company),Belfry (Malibu Playhouse), The Liar (The Ensemble Theatre), RII (Boston Court). TV/Film: Why Women Kill, Pretty Boy, Can You Take My Picture. Member: AEA. www.rebekahtripp.com.

Peter Van Norden has appeared in Antaeus productions of Hamlet (Drama Critics Circle, The Hothouse (2019 Ovation Award for Best Actor), Macbeth, The Liar, American Tales, The Man Who Had All The Luck, and The Zip Code Plays. Other recent appearances include: The Tempest, An Interactive Production at Shakespeare Center LA (where he also covered and performed for Tom Hanks as ‘Falstaff’ in Henry IV, Parts I and II); Red Ink at Playwrights Arena (2020 Ovation Award nomination); 1776 and Singin’ in the Rain at La Mirada Theater; and for three years as ‘Ebeneezer Scrooge’ in A Christmas Carol at the Rubicon Theatre Company. In his native NYC he appeared in Little Johnny Jones (with Donny Osmond), Hamlet (with both Kevin Kline and Sam Waterston), Jungle of Cities (with Al Pacino), Henry V (with Meryl Streep), and Saint Joan (with Lynn Redgrave). His many regional theater appearances include the lead roles in both George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (at San Jose Rep) and Misalliance (at Center Stage, Baltimore). Peter was the first American actor to appear in the title role of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III at Arizona Theatre Company (where he also appeared in Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys). Film and TV roles include leads in The Accused (opposite Oscar winner, Jodie Foster), Police Academy (as Steve Guttenberg’s inept partner), The Naked Gun 2 ½, and the Stephen King mini-series, The Stand. Petervannorden.com

At ANTAEUS: Macbeth. Broadway: The Real Thing. Off-Broadway: Journey’s End, Henry IV; Part One, Paradise Lost. Regional: Deathtrap, Mass Appeal, Peccadillo, The King Stag. The Pasadena Playhouse: Diva. Los Angeles: The Day Room, Cock. Hollywood Fringe Fest: His solo show, Five Uneasy Pieces. Film: The Lady Killer. TV: Chasing Life, Scandal, Desperate Housewives, Nip/Tuck, The Good Guys, On the Lot, Cold Case, Splash Too, The Return of the Shaggy Dog, Sinatra, Judging Amy, West Wing, Monk, NYPD Blue, Boston Legal, Castle, Op Center, Grey’s Anatomy.

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Macbeth. Other Theater: Oedipus the King, Richard III, Antigone (A Noise Within), The Seagull (Matrix Theatre), The Women (San Diego Repertory). TV: Grey’s Anatomy, Bones, CSI, Weeds, Nip/Tuck, NYPD Blue, Star Trek: Voyager, Boston Legal, ER, The Young and the Restless. Film: Freeway, Rushlights, Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell. Her audiobook narrations have received numerous Earphones Awards and Audie Award nominations.

At ANTAEUS: The Seagull (LA Weekly Award nom., Best Supporting Actress), The Curse of Oedipus, The Liar, Cloud 9, Peace In Our Time, Macbeth and The Malcontent. Other recent theater: Fallen Angels (North Coast Rep); Reborning (The Fountain); Steel Magnolias, The Pursuit of Happiness, Love Loss and What I Wore (The Laguna Playhouse); Noises Off!  (The Rubicon - Broadway World Award nom., Best Featured Actress); I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Mary’s Wedding (The Colony); Trying (The Indian Wells Theatre); Sherlock's Last Case (Kinetic Theatre in Pittsburgh), as well as shows at The Production Company, The Getty Villa, The Skylight Theatre, The Zephyr, Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Television: Modern Family, Agent Carter, House, The United States of Tara, Medium, Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip, 1000 Ways To Die. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. JoannaStrapp.com

Joe is thrilled to once more tread the boards of Antaeus alongside such skilled, passionate, and professional artists. TV roles include Guest Stars on Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Wife, Franklin and Bash, and Supernatural. LA Theatre includes Macbeth at Antaeus, We Are Proud to Present… at The Matrix, Nine Circles at The Bootleg Theatre, and The Pain and the Itch at The Zephyr. He also wrote, produced, directed, and acted in Noël, which was distributed on ShortsHD. He also produced and acted in Nostradamus, coming soon to a theatre near you. He is grateful for his friends, family, and all of his teachers.

Ms. McClain has worked in all aspects of the theater discipline, recurred and guest starred on TV and numerous films.  Two-time Ovation Award, LA Drama Critics Award, and NAACP Theatre Award nominee for Wedding Band and Raisin in the Sun. Has worked at such notable theaters as The Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Alliance Theatre, Alley Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Two River Theatre, Musical Theatre West, Syracuse Stage, McCarter Theatre, A.R.T., Spoleto Festival, New York Shakespeare Theatre, 2nd Stage, N.E.C., New Federal Theatre, Classic Theatre Company, Hudson Guild, Billie Holiday Theatre, Coconut Grove, A Noise Within.  Directorial credits include: The Play that Goes Wrong, Cabaret, Spring Awakening, Ain’t Misbehavin,’  Breath and Imagination, Flyin’ West, Spunk, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, The Colored Museum, For Colored Girls, Dancing Lessons, Intimate Apparel, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Fantasticks, and In the Continuum.

At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time. Other Notable Theater: Dream Catcher (The Fountain), The Graduate (LATW National Tour), Runaway Home (The Fountain), Hamlet (Oxford Shakespeare Festival), Camino Real (Boston Court), Circle Jerk (RedCat CNP), Jack Benny (Padua Playwrights/ Hollywood Fringe). TV: Silicon Valley CAST (recurring), 9-1-1 (recurring), What/If (recurring), I Think You Should Leave, The Orville, Station 19, Castle, Newsroom, Client List, Maron, Body of Proof, Happy Endings, and others. Writer and Producer of Tell Us Why You’re Here (TV series). Acting Instructor at the Michael Laskin Studio, and adjunct professor at LA Mission Community College. Brian loves theater, teaching, his wife Kimberly, and his pug Muttchops :)

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays (including Hamlet, MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Much ado About Nothing, Richard III, King Lear, and numerous other seminal works), 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.