RONIT ARANOFF

TWELFTH NIGHT- Maria

HENRY IV   - Lady Mortimer/ John of Lancaster/ Ensemble

Ronit is in her first season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Her most recent credits include Shakespeare Saturdays: As You Like It (Celia), Love's Labour's Lost (Moth); Stella Adler NYC: Trojan Woman (Greek Chorus), House of Yes (Jackie-O), Mnemonic (Alice); Gene Frankel Theatre: A Little Night Music (Fredrika); Manhattan Children's Theatre: Little Tales: Russia (Natasha); Edge Out Cancer '07 starring Emily Hughes; and the Delaware Ice Theatre as June/Roxie Hart (understudy).

KATIE BLACKSMITH

TWELFTH NIGHT- Olivia

HENRY IV   - Lady Percy/ Ensemble

Katie is in her first season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Credits include New York: Romeo and Juliet, M. Butterfly, and Missionaries. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival. Katie is a senior at New York University, where she has spent three years at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. This September she will be moving to London to finish her last semester of college abroad.

PRESSLY COKER

TWELFTH NIGHT- Malvolio
HENRY IV   - Earl of Westmoreland/ Edmund Mortimer/ Ensemble

Pressly is in his second season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Company credits include: The Cherry Orchard and The Rivals on the Main Stage, as well as the 2006 Apprentice Company production of The Winter's Tale. Recent credits include This is Our Youth, Twelfth Night , Lovers: Winners, This Lime Tree Bower, and The Country Wife with Theatre South Carolina. Recent professional credits include the staged reading of Dori and Duncan on the Peter Pan Express with 12 Miles West Theatre Company. Film credits include the independent film When They Could Fly , as well as a recent PSA for the Volunteers of America. Pressly most recently trained under the Actor Training Method of Tadashi Suzuki.

MICHAEL COSENZA

TWELFTH NIGHT- Sir Toby Belch

HENRY IV   - Bardolph/ Earl of Douglas/ Ensemble

Michael is in his first season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Recent credits include Othello and The Taming of the Shrew at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival Main-Stage Season, Sound and Fury: a No Holds Bard Look at the Fights of Shakespeare in its world premiere at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Café Series, Patient A (Matthew) with Simpatico Theatre Company 3, and Two Gentleman of Verona (Antonio) with the Philadelphia Shakespeare Young Professionals Ensemble of Summer 2006.

NICHOLAS CUTRO

TWELFTH NIGHT- Sea Captain/ Valentine/ Officer/ Priest

HENRY IV   - Peto/ Walter Blunt/ Ensemble

Nicholas is in his first season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Recent theatrical credits include The Pirates of Penzance, The Music Man, Oklahoma, 42nd Street, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Will Rogers Follies, and Sweet Charity. Film: Day and Slu. Broadway: The Full Monty. Off-Broadway: The Time of the Cuckoo. Regional: Do I Hear A Waltz?. NJPAC: Oliver.

WILL DAVIS

TWELFTH NIGHT- Antonio

HENRY IV   - Earl of Worcester/ Sheriff/ Ensemble

Will is in his first season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. His most recent credits include Julius Caesar (Lucius) at the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Pirandello's Henry IV (Ordulf) at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and The Tempest (Adrian) at the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis. He is a recent graduate of Webster Conservatory .

JOHN HEATH

TWELFTH NIGHT- Sir Andrew Aguecheek

HENRY IV   - Sir John Falstaff

John is in his third season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Company credits include The Rivals and Life of Galileo on the Main Stage, The Winter's Tale with the 2006 Apprentice Company, and Henry VI, Part 3 with the 2005 Apprentice Company. Recent credits include Romeo and Juliet and The Threepenny Opera . John is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University .

JAKE JONES

TWELFTH NIGHT- Sebastian

HENRY IV   - Henry, Prince of Wales

Jake is in his first season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Recent credits include The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Ephesus), Big Love (Leo), and The Elephant Man (John Merrick) at the University of Cincinnati 's College Conservatory of Music (CCM), and The Miracle Worker (James) at the Ovation Theatre Company. Jake recently completed his junior year as a Dramatic Performance major at Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music.

RACHEL MEWBRON

TWELFTH NIGHT- Viola

HENRY IV   - Poins/ Richard Vernon/ Ensemble

Rachel is in her first season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Recent credits include The Heart is a Lonely Hunter at Alliance Theatre, Skinwalkers at 7 Stages, and Be Aggressive and Language of Angels at Synchronicity Performance Group. She has a BA in Theatre and German from the University of Georgia at Athens.

JACK MORAN

TWELFTH NIGHT- Feste

HENRY IV   - Henry Percy ("Hotspur")

Jack is in his fourth season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Company credits include The Country Wife, Richard III, Henry V, and work as a member of the Junior and Senior Corps. Recent credits include A Lie of the Mind at the Actors Center, Endings at Manhattan Theatre, the Young Playwrights Festival at the Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, and the independent film Path. He holds a BA in Political Science from Rutgers University and is a graduate of the Actors Center Conservatory.

NISSA PERROTT

TWELFTH NIGHT- Fabian

HENRY IV   - Mistress Quickly/ Earl of Northumberland

Nissa is in her first season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Recent credits include: String Fever (Lily) with the Chester Theatre Company, and Fuddy Meers (Claire), GUM (Auntie), and Big Love (Thyona) with the UMASS-Amherst Theatre Department. She spent last summer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and has studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School. In the fall she will attend the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training to receive her MFA.

MATTHEW SIMPSON

TWELFTH NIGHT- Duke Orsino

HENRY IV   - King Henry IV/ Owen Glendower/ Gadshill

Matthew is in his first season with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Recent credits include New York: The Best Party Ever (John). Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Private Lives (Elyot), Godspell (Jesus), and Antigone (Haemon). He is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC.

MEGHAN CONDA

Next Stage Ensemble Tour Manager