Who's
Who
JOE DISCHER
(Associate Artistic Director ) directed Cymbeline
on the Main Stage last year, as well as Julius Caesar
for The Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, which broke attendance
records, playing to 50,000 in three weeks. He is in his seventeenth
season with The Shakespeare Theatre, where he oversees casting
for The Theatre's various acting companies and aids in training
program recruitment, outreach and education programs. Company
directing credits: Life of Galileo, Of Mice and
Men (Best Revival of the Year, The Star-Ledger), A
Midwinter Night's Dream, The Fantasticks (Best
Director of a Musical, The Star-Ledger) and Twelfth Night
on the Main Stage; That Scoundrel Scapin on
the Outdoor Stage; Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare
LIVE!; Brecht's The Visions of Simone Machard for
the Next Stage Ensemble; and Travels With My Aunt,
Much Ado About Nothing and The Compleat Wrks
of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) for the Other Stage. Mr. Discher
is a member of the Actors' Equity Association and is a winner
of the National Society of Arts and Letters acting competition
( New Jersey chapter). Company acting credits: Amiens in
As You Like It and Valentine in Twelfth Night
on the Main Stage and Pan in The Grouch on the Outdoor
Stage. He sings professionally at St. Cassian Church in Upper
Montclair and previously sang for four years at the Cathedral
Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. He is a proud alumnus
of Drew University and Delbarton School. This season, he will
direct The Play's the Thing.
KATE IVINS
(Assistant to the Artistic Director) is
in her second season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey,
having served as an Artistic/Casting Intern in 2006. She recently
graduated summa cum laude from the University of Richmond
with a B.A. in theatre and minors in English and history.
She held various roles on and off stage during her tenure
at Richmond, and was President of Alpha Psi Omega, the dramatic
honorary fraternity. Kate has also studied at the Atlantic
Theatre Company in New York and the University of Cape Town
in South Africa .
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