Tennessee Shakespeare Co. - 2024-2025 Playbill

25 2024-2025: SEASON SEVENTEEN The Diviners (CC Showers), Robin Hood: A Musical Celebration (Robin Hood). Robby received his M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Houston and B.F.A. in Theatre Performance from Belmont University. LOGAN McCARTY (ADMINISTRATIVE & BOX OFFICE/EDUCATION & OUTREACH MANAGER) is a theatre artist from Hattiesburg, MS, where they received their B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Southern Mississippi. Since moving to Memphis in the summer of 2019, his theatre credits include Peter Pan with Playhouse on the Square; A Christmas Carol and Macbeth with Theatre Memphis; and Quills with New Moon Theatre. Logan was a member of Tennessee Shakespeare Company’s inaugural Classical Theatre Apprentice Program in 2023-24, so you may recognize them from TSC’s recent productions of The Tempest, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Streetcar Named Desire , and Hamlet . He is looking forward to working with TSC in this new role and is ready for a great 17th season! DAN McCLEARY (TSC FOUNDER AND NANCY R. COPP PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR; DIRECTOR OF THE COMEDY OF ERRORS AND THE CREATOR/ACTOR OF THE GRACE OF GRACE ) , a native of Memphis, last year directed TSC’s Shout-Out production of The Tempest as well as A Streetcar Named Desire . For TSC, he also has directed/acted in As You Like It (playing Jaques), Cyrano de Bergerac (playing Cyrano), The Trouble Begins at Eight: Mark Twain, Ada and the Engine, Blue Roses of Tennessee Williams (playing Tennessee with his son, Collins), Julius Caesar, Waiting for Godot, The Glass Menagerie (playing old Tom), The Taming of the Shrew (playing Sly), Richard III (playing Richard), To Kill a Mockingbird, Much Ado About Nothing, Ernest Hemingway in Key West, Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia Gothic, All’s Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, The Tempest, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , the all-female Julius Caesar, Othello, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Themes from a Midsummer Night with IRIS Orchestra, Classical Creations in Quarantine , and Shakespeare’s Election of Coriolanus . Other regional theatre directing credits: The Servant of Two Masters , his adaptation of Anaïs Nin’s Henry and June, Vita & Virginia (Sackville-West and Woolf), My Own Stranger (Anne Sexton), and The Fiery Rain (Edith Wharton/ Henry James/Morton Fullerton) at Shakespeare & Company, where Dan was Associate Artistic Director. He also has directed at Seattle Shakespeare, Orlando Shakespeare, and Georgia Shakespeare. He has played over 120 roles on stage, including Coriolanus (thrice), Richard III (twice), Macbeth (twice), Falstaff, Marc Antony, Caliban, Brutus, Petruchio, Hotspur, Bottom, Master Ford, Stephano, Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus, Cassio, Bertram, Demetrius, Silvius, Herman Melville, Porfiry, Charles Dickens, The Gentleman Caller, Hannah from Hamburg in La Cage , and Bertha Bumiller et. al. in the Greater Tuna series. Dan is a published poet, and the creator/ director/actor of the plays Speak What We Feel: Shakespeare’s Radical Response to a Radical Time; Unto the Breach; Quintessence: Shakespeare in Performance ; and Classical Creations in Quarantine . Memphis Magazine has named him among the “Who’s Who in Memphis” for six years. Dan presented his TEDx Talk “Shakespeare in Kindergarten, or Let Fall Rome” in Memphis in 2020, and the Germantown