Craig Wallace as Caesar

Craig is excited to make his Washington Stage Guild debut. He has appeared in multiple productions in The Washington DC area including Folger Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Everyman Theatre, Studio Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, Round House Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre. His regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Hangar Theatre, among others. Craig holds a BFA from Howard University; an MFA from Pennsylvania State University; and he’s studied at the Royal National Theatre in London. He has received four Helen Hayes Awards nominations. 

Hannah Taylor (Cleopatra) is a DMV-based actress who is thrilled to be returning to Washington Stage Guild! Recent credits include Between Riverside and Crazy, Birthday Candles and The Piano Lesson (1st Stage) Not Your Mother’s Goose! (Adventure Theater), Faithless (Washington Stage Guild), Hand to God (Keegan Theatre), Paper Dreams and The Last Martyr (Imagination Stage), Klexography “Vox Populi”” (Rorschach Theatre).

Laura Giannarelli (Ftatateeta; Assistant Director) is thrilled to be a part of this exciting new adaptation of Shaw’s iconic play. Most recently, she played Valeria Hunter in all three of Patricia Milton’s Victorian Ladies mysteries here at The Guild. A founding member of the company, Laura, has appeared in more than 40 Stage Guild productions over the past three decades, beginning with Chekhov in Yalta in our inaugural season. She has also acted with many other area theatres over the years: Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre, Olney Theatre, The Kennedy Center (Theatre for Young Audiences), GALA Hispanic Theatre, Theater J, Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Wayside Theatre in Virginia and Annapolis Shakespeare Company, among others. She also directs and helmed last season’s Shaw’s Shorts and the 2023-24 season opener, Dorothy’s Dictionary by E.M. Lewis, among others. A narrator since 1979 for the Library of Congress’ “Talking Books for the Blind” Program, Laura has recorded over 1400 books. 

 In rehearsal, 3/17

DESIGNERS:

Set Design: Jonathan Dahm Robertson
Costume Design: Elizabeth Morton
Lighting Design: Marianne Meadows
Sound Design: Thom J. Woodward
Zhy Strowbridge: Ass’t Sound Designer

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Fight Choreography: Bess Kaye
Adapted By: Bill Largess from the play by George Bernard Shaw.
Stage Manager: Shannon Lewis
Assistant Stage Manager: Luca Maggs

PLAYERS:

Matty Griffiths (Rufio) is a freelance actor and director and former Executive Director/Founder of City Artistic Partnerships. He recently performed in Stage Guild’s Happy Days and was last seen with them in Endgame in 2023. Other recent roles include Angus in Morning After Grace by Carey Crim (The Anacostia Arts Center), Jack Warner-Gwen & Ida (Nu Sass), Hemingway-Clothes for a Summer Hotel (Rainbow Theatre Project), Boolie-Driving Miss Daisy (Anacostia Playhouse), Greg/Kelly-Flood City (Theatre Alliance), Rabbi Barry-Constructive Fictions (Cap Fringe), Janitor-Dry Land (Forum Theatre.

Ryan Michael Neely (Pothinus/Sentinel) is thrilled to return to Washington Stage Guild. D.C. credits include The One Good Thing (Washington Stage Guild), the world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s Death on the Nile (Dir: Hana S. Sharif) at Arena Stage, King Lear (with Patrick Page), Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Simon Godwin), Our Town, and The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Other regional credits include the title role in Hamlet (StoryTellers Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), East of Heart Mountain (Dir. Giovanna Sardelli), House for Sale (Dir. Daniel Fish) and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe, UK), among others. New York credits include Hamlet (L+F), Romeo and Juliet (Secret Theater), and The Book of Z…(Manhattan Rep).

Chris Stinson (Apollodorus) is honored to be returning to the Washington Stage Guild this season, having previously appeared as “Tommy” in The One Good Thing, Or ‘Are Ya Patrick Swayze? At WSG, he was also in 2022’s Memoirs of a Forgotten Man & 2015’s Pen. Select D.C. area credits include: A Christmas Carol and One Destiny at Ford’s Theatre, Shear Madness and Digging Up Dessa at The Kennedy Center, Another Way Home at Theater J, The Diary of Anne Frank at Olney Theatre, Failure: A Love Story (Helen Hayes nom.) at The Hub Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Constellation Theatre. Other: The Angel Next Door  and Clue: On Stage at Meadow Brook Theatre. TV credits: Legends & Lies: The Civil War; CopyCat Killers; Evil Kin. Chris’s voice can also be heard in numerous audiobook titles by Graphic Audio.

Dylan Arredondo’s (Apollodorus understudy) DC credits include Ford’s Theatre: Sister Act; Theater J: An Enemy of the People; Signature Theatre: A Funny Thing…Forum, Daphne’s Dive; Round House: Quixote Nuevo; 1st Stage: Between Riverside & Crazy, Birthday Candles, The Nance; Rep Stage: The Glass Menagerie; Olney Theatre Center: Lend Me a Soprano, Fiddler on the Roof, Beauty & the Beast, The Great Gatsby, Alice in Wonderland, Othello; Kennedy Center: Mortification of Fovea Munson; Constellation: School for Lies, White Snake; Spooky Action: Frontières Sans Frontières, Lady…Falling Flowers. His directing credits include NextStop: Dream Hou$e; Flying V: Astro Boy & the God of Comics (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction & six nominations).