Romeo
Sylvie Schuetz
Sylvie Schuetz is delighted to be performing Shakespeare’s words for the first time in “Juliet & Her Romeo.” Recent credits include “Spring Awakening” with Vanguard Theater Company and “Duplicity” at Columbia High School – from where she will be graduating this June. She plans to attend Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music in the Fall to work toward a BFA in contemporary theater. Sylvie is interested in the power of community organizing and the creation of original theater art.
Mercutio/Friar
Alvin Keith
Alvin Keith: Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New York: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Apollo Theater, New Worlds Theatre Project, New Federal Theatre, and Primary Stages. Regional: Sweat (Huntington Theater); The Orestia (Shakespeare Theatre Company, directed by Michael Khan); Windfall (Arkansas Repertory Theatre, directed by Jason Alexander); Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Swine Palace, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Cleveland Play House, Crossroads Theatre Company, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Film: Don't Look Up, Last Fair Deal, Ambition’s Debt, If You Could Say It in Words, Kinsey. Television: "Modern Love," “Blue Bloods,” “Fosse/Verdon,” “The Blacklist," “Mr. Robot,” “Trial by Jury.” Education: Alabama Shakespeare Festival/UA-MFA Classical Acting; Morehouse College; The Public Theater – Shakespeare Lab (directed by Barry Edelstein).
Benvolio/Prince Escalus
Glynnis Goff
Glynnis Goff is a graduating senior at Columbia High School and a member of the CHS Shakespeare Club. She has performed in musicals at Maplewood Middle School and Columbia High School. Last summer she appeared in the Distance Theater Youth Collective’s original production, “Signs of Life.” Recently, she was nominated for a Montclair State Theater Night Award for her performance in the CHS Parnassian Society’s production of “Duplicity.” A student at Class Act Performing Arts Studio and a member of Suburban Legend Arts, she will be attending Mount Holyoke College this fall.
Juliet
Madison McGehee
Madison McGehee is a sophomore at Columbia High School. CHS productions: “2020 Hindsight," "Duplicity," "Fabulation: The Re-Education of Undine.” Other: Vanguard Theater Company’s “Spring Awakening,” A Class Act New York’s “Les Miserables” and “Beauty & the Beast” and French Woods Festival’s “The Lion King.” With the Broadway Youth Ensemble, Madison has performed at / with Carnegie Hall, Tunes in Times Square, Mount Sinai Hospital and Michael Bloomberg Foundation.
Nurse
Patricia Randell
Patricia Randell recently played Nurse Ratched to rave reviews at Playhouse on Park Theatre in West Hartford. Premiered Durang Durang at Manhattan Theatre Club and five One Act Play Marathons (including the premiere of Christopher Durang’s FOR WHOM THE SOUTHERN BELL TOLLS) at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Played Sheila Bair in HBO’s Too Big to Fail. NY: Penguin Rep Theatre, Pan Asian, TACT, Peccadillo, New York Theatre Workshop, Queens Theatre In The Park, Abingdon Stage. Regional: Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Alabama Shakespeare Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Inge Festival, Key West Theater (with Jesse Tyler Ferguson), John Drew, Centenary Stage and Studio Arena. Other film and TV: Islander, Approaching Union Square, My Day, “The Actress,” “L&O,” “Mysteries of Laura," among others. Frequent guest artist: New River Dramatists, William Inge Center for the Arts, The Actors Studio Playwright/ Director Lab. Member: Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Chorus
Kevis Hillocks
Kevis Hillocks is a Brooklyn, New York native. Off Broadway: X or Betty Shabazz v. the Nation (The Acting Company). Regional/touring: Julius Caesar (The Acting Company). International theatre: Ruined (Greek Festival ’16). Other New York and regional theatre: Pass Over (Luna Stage), Pirira (Luna Stage), College Colors (Crossroads Theatre), Morning Sun (Theatre 167), Thoughts of a Colored Man (Noisy Tenants), King Lear (The Public). TV: Blue Bloods. Film: Pebble Beach (Theeobc). Training: Ted Sluburski Studios- Scene Study, Acting Conservatory (BFA), SUNY Purchase College.