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Guy Roberts, Artistic Director
PSF Debut: Macbeth in Macbeth PSF Credits: As You Like It, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, One Man Hamlet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's Country Matters As the Artistic Director of the Mermaid Theatre Company and the Austin Shakespeare Festival, Guy Roberts has led American Shakespeare Theatres to ninety-two (92) Austin Critic's Table and B. Iden Payne Award nominations for Theatre Excellence; personally receiving as a producer, director and actor, forty-two (42) B. Iden Payne and Austin Critic's Table Award nominations for Theatre Excellence - winning multiple awards for Best Drama, Best Comedy, Best Director and Best Actor. As PSF producer and director, his European theatrical credits include: As You Like It, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, One Man Hamlet and his original play, Shakespeare's Country Matters. As producer, director and actor his New York and American Regional productions include: the American premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company's & David Johnston's translation of Lope de Vega's The Dog in the Manger, Henry V, Othello, As You Like It, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, The Rivals, The Glass Menagerie, La Ronde, The Tempest, W;t, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Undiscovered Country, The Lady from the Sea, The Importance of Being Earnest, Spring's Awakening, Tweflth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, The Rover, Of Mice and Men, A Streetcar Named Desire and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Guy recently appeared in Prague and Houston as Edmund in his production of King Lear and as Adam in his production of As You Like It. He was also recently seen in Houston as Hamlet in his one man adaptation of the play for Classical Theatre Company (in association with PSF) and Pericles in Pericles, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing for Houston Shakespeare Festival. Previously for PSF he appeared as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet in a full production of the play for PSF at Vysehrad (Vyse Castle) and Divadlo Na Pradle and as Macbeth in his production of the play at Divadlo Komedie, L'Espace Electrique in Prague and on tour in Vienna. Other Shakespearean roles include: Hamlet, Henry V, Richard III, Jaques, Mercutio, Puck, Caliban, Demetrius and Romeo. Productions by: Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, George Street Playhouse, Austin Playhouse, State Theater Company, Mermaid Theatre, Austin Shakespeare and Divadlo Miloco. Under Guy's leadership, the ASF completely revitalized and reinvented itself, producing year round professional Equity productions, often in rotating repertory and forging alliances with other national and international Shakespeare theatres - such as Shakespeare & Co., The Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company - and acquiring the first permanent theater home in the company's history: The Curtain Theater, a Globe-replica. He has worked and studied with such theatre notables as Maria Aitken, Michael Langham, Tina Packer, Richard Cottrell, Irene Worth, Barry Edelstein, Mark Brokaw, Jane Nichols, Paul Robeling, Megan Cole, Jacques Cartier, Sharon Ott, Michael Bloom, Charles Towers, Peter Altman, Edward Gilbert, Scott Kanoff, Susan Kerner, Eric Shaeffer, Ron Holgate, Seanna McKenna, Fiona Reid, Michelle Farr, Juni Dahr and Franchelle Stewart Dorn. As a fight choreographer/director his work has been seen throughout America in various stage plays, operas and ballets as well as with the first national company of the Broadway musical big!, a production he also toured nationally with as a stage manager. In addition to teaching at numerous theatre schools in New York, Boston and Texas, Guy also travels extensively conducting Shakespeare and Leadership workshops for Sigma Breakthrough Technologies, Inc., training corporate executives and managers in the art of leadership using essential Shakespearean lessons as a model for dealing with modern-day corporate challenges. Guy is a member of Actors' Equity Association, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the Society of American Fight Directors and the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America. Guy splits his time between the United States and Prague, Czech Republic. |
