Molly Horton Booth is a teacher, writer, consultant, and theatre nerd. They are currently the CSC Homeschool CORPS Lead Teaching Artist, as well as the Education Specialist for Shakespeare Beyond. She has nearly two decades of experience working in education and an English MA specializing in the pedagogy of Shakespeare’s texts. Molly offers professional development workshops using language and arts skills to improve team communication. In their spare time, they also write books for young adults and children, published most recently by Disney Hyperion. For more about Molly, you can visit her website: http://www.mollyhortonbooth.com/. (they/she)

Kevin Alan Brown is an actor, director, and teaching artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. He is so excited to return to Chesapeake after several years away. Some of his favorite performances with CSC were Taming of the Shrew, a Christmas Carol, and The Three Musketeers. He holds an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy at the George Washington University. When he is not performing, Kevin is an early education arts integration specialist with WolfTrap and Arts for Learning Maryland. He is also the co-artistic director of Red Key Dance Theatre with his wife, Robin Neveu Brown. He has performed internationally in Russia and Greece, as well as stateside in New York, DC, Maryland, Colorado, Arkansas, and numerous other theaters across the US.

Vince Eisenson, a long-time CSC company member, has appeared in CSC's Richard III, Wild Oats, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet, among many other productions. He also performed in The Rainmaker (First Stage), King Lear (Avant Bard), Fear (Longacre Lea), The Merchant of Venice (Faction of Fools), The Imaginary Invalid (Shakespeare Theater Co), and Richard II (PlayMakers Rep). TV and Film credits include New Amsterdam, Billions, The Endgame, The Good Lord Bird, Turn: Washington's Spies, and Wonder Woman 1984. Vince can be found on Youtube in the made-in-Maryland web series, Turf Valley.

Lauren Davis is a company member and a member of CSC’s Black Classical Acting Ensemble (BCAE). Most recently, she was seen in CSC’s 2023 production of As You Like It. She’s directed CSC’s outdoor production of Macbeth, featuring the BCAE, and CSC’s Olive Branch and Laurel Crown production of To Be a Solider and assistant directed Macbeth (2022 School Matinee). Acting credits include Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company); Acoustic Rooster, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Kennedy Center); Corduroy, Shrek the Musical (Childrens Theatre Company); Oliver! (Theater Latté Da); Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet (Pillsbury House Theatre/Guthrie Theater). She was also the Associate director of FELA at Olney Theatre Center. She holds an M.F.A. from the Catholic University of America and a theater degree from Frostburg State.

Melissa Freilich works as a director, teacher and fight choreographer in Baltimore, MD.  She is an Instructor for Dueling Arts International, a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, and an associate member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.  She is a certified Alexander Technique teacher and recognized member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT), having trained with Jane Heirich in Ann Arbor MI.

Caleb Griffith is an actor and teaching artist based in Baltimore, MD, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Caleb loves to perform and to see others perform, so when he was offered the opportunity to become a CSC teaching artist, he readily agreed. He loves to bring energy and positivity to both the classroom and the stage, and works to foster a welcoming and safe classroom environment.

Michael Harris has been a teaching artist with Chesapeake Shakespeare since 2020. He is a faculty member at Hood College & the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Michael is the former Executive & Artistic Director of the Baltimore Improv Group (BIG) and has taught for BIG since 2008. He has performed regionally at the Kennedy Center, Studio Theater, Signature Theater, amongst numerous other theaters, and played Feste in CSC's 2022 production of Twelfth Night.

Emily Karol is an actor, director, and teaching artist in the DC/Baltimore metro area. She has been a teaching artist with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company since 2015. She has performed with CSC in A Christmas Carol, Romeo & Juliet (student matinee) and Love's Labour's Lost. Emily works for AACPS as an acting teacher with the magnet program of Apex Arts. She is also an acting company member and Shakespeare Text Coach for the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Emily recently won Best Stage Actor in The Baltimore Sun’s “Best of 2023” competition for her performance as the titular character in Shakespeare’s “Richard III” at the Maryland Renaissance Festival and The Strand Theatre in Baltimore.

Molly Moores is a CSC Company Member and CSC Teaching Artist. She has appeared with CSC in A Christmas Carol (2014-2019); Macbeth (movable 2019); Macbeth (student matinee 2019); Romeo and Juliet (student matinee 2015-2020); Henry IV Parts 1 and 2; A Midsummer Night's Dream (2018 and 2011); The Winter's Tale; Julius Caesar; Anne of the Thousand Days; The Three Musketeers; Macbeth (2016); Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II; The Taming of the Shrew; Antony and Cleopatra; Pride and Prejudice; Romeo and Juliet (2012); and The Merchant of Venice. www.mollymoores.com

Brendan Murray is an actor, musician, and company member at CSC. With a background in theatre, consulting, and improv-comedy (an early member of the University of Maryland's improv group "Erasable, Inc."), Brendan focuses on “demystifying” the Bard’s text, re-imagining it, and just having FUN as students learn to present these stories in ways that speak to them personally. 

Jonathan Ezra Rubin is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) and freelances as a Fight & Intimacy Director throughout the Washington, DC-Metro Area, currently hosting classes and choreographing under his company, Fire & Ice Movement Arts. He is also a licensed professional wrestler in the State of Maryland. A three-time Helen Hayes Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography, and a WATCH Award Nominee for Fight Choreography, Jonathan has created fights and/or intimacy for Flying V, Mosaic Theater Company, The Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, GALA Hispanic Theatre, Adventure Theatre-MTC, 4615 Theatre Company, Cohesion Theatre Company, Silver Spring Stage, The Colonial Players, Lumina Studio Theatre, Georgetown University, Anne Arundel Community College, Goucher College, and the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, among many other companies and schools throughout the region. He is a proud Associate Member of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national professional theatrical union. In addition to studying stage combat with the SAFD and other instructors for over a dozen years, he has been studying intimacy direction since 2015 under the tutelage of some of the industry's founders and most influential names, continuing that training and legacy of work to this day as the Head of Administration and an accredited Intimacy Director with the Intimacy Professionals Education Collective. Jonathan also has nearly 15 years of executive-level nonprofit arts administration experience and works full-time as the Managing Director of the Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring, serves as the SAFD’s current Treasurer and Development Department Chair, and is an active member of Flying V’s Advisory Board. Jonathan is also the Co-Coordinator of the Fight Director Training Workshop in Silver Spring, MD, and the Mid-Atlantic Melee in Columbia, MD. Over the last several years he has been a guest instructor at multiple institutions and organizations around the region, including University of Maryland’s Ghostlight Theatre Company and MD Shakespeare Players, McDaniel College, Annapolis High School, Carroll Community College, Anne Arundel Community College, The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, The Noble Blades, and is a regular educator at Flying V, as well as at dozens of stage combat workshops across the country.

Ellie Skoda started at CSC as a box office assistant, ASM, StageHand, and now a teaching artist!  She is normally on the backstage side of things as a stage manager by trade, but since becoming a Theatre Teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools, she loves the limelight by directing her lovely students. They hold a bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts from McDaniel College. Former credits include Alice Beineke in The Addams Family, Mrs.Banks in Mary Poppins, and Horton the Elephant in Suessical the Musical.

Gerrad Alex Taylor is an award-winning director and multidisciplinary theatre artist based out of the Greater Baltimore region and an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His current creative work and research centers around creating space that preserves history and celebrates culture of the Global Majority.

In 2021 he was named one of Baltimore’s “40 Under 40” by the Washington Business Journal. In 2020, he founded Chesapeake Shakespeare’s Black Classical Acting Ensemble (BCAE), an affinity space for black actors interested in training and exposure of the “classics” and what an expansion of the classical canon may look like today. In 2024, Gerrad joined colleague Lizzi Albert to take on the roles of Co-Artistic Directors of Perisphere Theater in Montgomery County, MD.

He holds a BA in Neuroscience from the Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has worked with theatres and educational institutions across the country including the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Perisphere Theater, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Pacific Conservatory Theatre-PCPA, Children’s Theatre of Annapolis, Everyman Theatre, Constellation Theatre Company, Mosaic Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Studio Theatre, and Washington Stage Guild. He is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association and an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. (he/him/his)