WHO WE ARE

John Gordon

John Gordon has performed, directed and studied acting in New York City for over 25 years, with an emphasis on Shakespeare.  He has played leading roles in New York including in Hamlet (Claudius) and Timon of Athens (Timon) and directed Timon of Athens at Theatre Row in the City, and more recently conceived and directed a production of Shakespeare’s Clowns and Fools at Playwrights Horizons, a collage of scenes from various Shakespeare comedies featuring clowns and fools. Most recently, he conceived and co-directed a production of Shakespeare’s Prisons: Tales of Conscience and Illusion at Theaterlab, NYC. He has performed improv in New York City and over the years directed numerous theatrical short pieces for special occasions, including for charitable and educational organizations in the city.

 

Nancy Rich

Nancy is a member of Actor’s Equity and has performed in numerous roles throughout the NY/NJ area for the past 25 years, including -- Princess Kosmonopolis in Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth, Queen Margaret in Shakespeare’s Richard III, the Nurse in Euripides, Medea (Gallery Players, Brooklyn); Ranevskaya in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard (Arc Light Theater, NYC), the Nurse in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, (Pax Amicus, NJ); as well as Gertrude (Hamlet), Arkadina (The Seagull), Olga (Three Sisters), Mme. Voynitsakaya (Uncle Vanya) Elizabeth (Richard III), Portia (Julius Caesar), Hecate (Macbeth), Elizabeth I in Robert Bolt’s Vivat! Vivat Regina! and as Theodosia Dudgeon in George Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey.

She was assistant director of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens at the Kirk Theater, NYC and Shakespeare’s Clowns and Fools at Playwrights Horizon’s, NYC.  She was co-director of Shakespeare’s Prisons: Tales of Conscience and Illusion at Theaterlab, NYC.

Nancy has studied with Patsy Rodenberg, Ben Steinfeld (Fiasco Theater), Michael O’Keefe, (Bedlam Theater), George Bartenieff and Katarina Sergava (HB Studios).