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Sara Hymes

Sara is a multi-hyphenate artist, director, and educator. She has composed and directed music, and performed in productions with regional and international theaters like Gateway Playhouse, Southwest Shakespeare Company, and The Show Must Go Online. Select theatre performance credits include Ensemble Studio Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre, and two seasons as a resident actor and six years as an educator at The American Shakespeare Center. Sara has appeared in national commercials for Invisalign and the CIA, and spent seven years as a passionate ensemble member with Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, where she worked with the company as an actor and educator to reimagine the classics while creating a legacy of storytelling with gender equity at its core. She has developed and facilitated virtual and in-person professional leadership programming, and has taught and directed young actors in camps and educational programs at American Shakespeare Center, Mary Baldwin University, and Elm Shakespeare Company. Sara truly believes in the power of live performance to develop and promote empathy, imagination, and community. She earned her BFA in Musical Theatre Performance from Kent State University, her MFA in Acting from Wayne State University, and a Certificate of Advanced Training from the Moscow Art Theatre School.

Molly Seremet

Molly Seremet (she/her/hers) is a director, devised theatremaker, writer and educator. She is currently Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre at Mary Baldwin University in partnership with the American Shakespeare Center (Staunton, VA). She brings her experience as a practicing theatre-maker into the classroom, which allows her to teach a rich range of classes including Theatre/Power/Revolution, Stage Costuming, Shakespeare Pedagogy, and Black Theatre in America. Recent directorial credits for MBU include Big Love by Charles Mee, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner, Promenade by María Irene Fornés, and Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury. Molly has also created over 15 full-length original devised performance pieces in collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students, including The Wreck (MBU Undergrad Theatre), Quinze (Constellation Shakespeare Collective), 81 Minutes (Streetlight Shakespeare  Ensemble), ‘Til Then Have Fun Without Me (Silver Line Theatre), and The Enchanted Bluff (College of Saint Mary). Other professional credits include Antigone (American Shakespeare Center’s 2018-2019 Hand of Time National Tour), Der Wal: A Moby Dick Kabarette (Coney Island Sideshows by the Seashore), Troilus and Cressida (Compass Shakespeare Ensemble), and My Name is Rachel Corrie (NYC’s Kraine Theatre). Her own award-winning solo devised piece Martin’s (words lost) has toured internationally to Battersea Arts Center, London Festival Fringe, and Salzburg’s Szene Festival. Molly trained with the Atlantic Theatre Company’s acting school and has continued her education with Association of Mental Health Coordinators and Heartland Intimacy Design. She loves dogs and cats equally, watches a lot of hockey, and drinks more coffee than is usually advisable. 

Jacob Claflin

Jacob Claflin