Tennessee Shakespeare Co. - 2024-2025 Playbill

22 TNSHAKESPEARE.ORG BLAKE GALTELLI-MEEK (WIG/ MAKEUP/HAIR DESIGNER FOR TWELFTH NIGHT ) TSC: Cyrano de Bergerac, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Importance of Being Earnest . Blake has over 17 years of experience in the beauty industry, including theatre, film, print, editorial, and artist-training and development. Recent credits include University of Memphis’ The Rake’s Progress, Into the Woods ; Ballet Memphis’ Dracula ; Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s Amadeus ; Opera Memphis’s Once Upon a Hamster, La Bohème, La Calisto ; Theatre Memphis’ Master Class; and Memphis Tourism’s Welcome to Memphis Spring/Summer 2024. TIM GOURAN (MALVOLIO IN TWELFTH NIGHT ) (HE/HIM) is a Seattle-based actor and has performed with many Seattle theatres, including Seattle Repertory, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, New City Theater, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Theatre22, and Azeotrope Theatre. He got his start with The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. He has appeared in several movies and TV episodes, and has performed many voice- overs for radio and video games. LAUREN GUNN (OLIVIA IN TWELFTH NIGHT ; SENIOR RESIDENT ACTOR/FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER) TSC: The Comedy of Errors, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Tempest, Cyrano de Bergerac, Macbeth, Henry VI, Romeo and Juliet, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Ada and the Engine . Southern Arena Theatre: Boeing Boeing, I Hate Hamlet . New Stage Theatre: Constellations, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Crimes of the Heart, A Christmas Carol, Cat in the Hat . Fish Tale Group Theatre: Voice of Freedom Summer . Lauren is delighted and honored to continue serving military Veterans at the Memphis V.A. Medical Center with TSC’s Feast of Crispian-South program. She is a member and associate instructor with Dueling Arts International. Education: M.F.A. from the University of Southern Mississippi. SARAH HANKINS (DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS) is a director, AEA actor, teacher, and theatre administrator with a strong focus on collaboration, physical theatre, and heightened language. Sarah was most recently Artistic Director at Triad Stage, a professional regional theatre in North Carolina, prior to which she was a freelance theatre artist in NYC. Sarah is also the former Artistic Director of the NYC eco- theatre Green Theatre Collective, as well as a former Associate Artist at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. Sarah has taught theatre education programs from Maine to Florida for students ranging from kindergarten to college, including teaching and directing at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Greensboro College, Guilford Technical Community College, University of North Carolina Greensboro, and Guilford College. Sarah is a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s M.F.A. Directing program, and of Davidson College.