PROGRAM

The Story

A brave Scottish general is confronted by three witches who prophesy that he will become king. To force that prediction to come true, he turns his back on his own identity as a good man and a loyal soldier to pursue a path of escalating desolation for himself and his country. Macbeth reveals the self destructive nature of evil, and asks us to explore whether darkness could overwhelm the light in our own lives.

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PLOT SUMMARY

The Tour

Produced by Apocalyptic Artists in collaboration with Red Bull Theater, Macbeth will tour schools in the New York City area, providing students with a live theatrical experience. Employing minimal design, vibrant music, and supported by in-school workshops, a company of actors will transform familiar school spaces – classrooms, cafeterias, auditoriums - into Scotland.

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MACBETH

Written by William Shakespeare, Directed by Alice Renier

*This production has been adapted for young audiences.

CAST

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*Taking pictures and/or making visual or sound recordings is expressly forbidden.

BLAIZE ADLER-IVANBROOK (Malcolm and others) is thrilled to work with Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble and Red Bull Theatre to bring this production to young audiences across NYC. Most recently he performed with Hudson Valley Shakespeare, playing Ambrose Kemper in The Matchmaker and Cassius in Julius Caesar, Other credits include: Milo in A Eulogy for Roman (SpinCycleNYC), Horatio in Hamlet (Utah Shakespeare Festival) Speed in Two Gentleman of Verona (American Theatre of Actors), Charlie Sub in Bliss Street (Theater for a New City), Astrov in Uncle Vanya (Columbia). He trained at Stella Adler Studio of Acting and received a BA in theatre and geology from Colorado College.

DIANA COATES (Fleance, Lady Macduff, and others) is thrilled to be telling this powerful story with Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble and Red Bull Theater. Theatre credits include The Acting Company (national tour), Goodman Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Court Theatre, Drury Lane, Victory Gardens Theater, and Great River Shakespeare Festival. Favorite roles include Isabella in Measure for Measure, Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, and Henry in Henry V. Television credits include Emperor of Ocean Park (MGM+), Deli Boys (Hulu), Chicago Med, and Chicago Fire (NBC). Diana also works as a teaching artist, bringing classical text into classrooms nationwide and sharing her love of bold, curious storytelling with the next generation of artists. Always for mom.

KAILEELA HOBBY (Ross and others)(she/they) Kaileela has performed Off-Broadway with The Pearl Theatre and regionally with Shakespeare & Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New Jersey Repertory Company, and Adirondack Shakespeare Company. As both an actor and educator, Kaileela has toured Shakespeare productions to high schools up and down the Northeast and Northwest coasts. She loves her time at the 52nd Street Project in New York City, where she has the joy of acting in and directing student-written plays, helping bring young artists’ beautiful work to life. Kaileela holds an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.

ĐAVID LEE HUỲNH (Macbeth) is a Ragin’ Cajun Asian who went from working on his family’s shrimp boat to making Theatre all over the world. Theaters include The Public Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, Classic Stage Company, Ma-Yi, NAATCO, Yale Repertory, Royal Lyceum, and many others. On-camera includes FBI, Blue Bloods, Solitary, and Encounter Party. His work as a writer has been supported by Ma-Yi, LIT Council, Yangtze Rep, HB Studios, Second Generation Productions, and others. He is a professor in Randolph College’s MFA Theatre Arts program. MFA: University of Houston | www.davidleehuynh.com | @huynhsome | "không phải tôi. chúng ta"

SINA POORESMAEIL (Banquo and others) Theater: Awake and Sing (Sea Dog Theater), Iraq, But Funny (Lookingglass Theatre Company), When the Rain Stops Falling (Lenfest Center for the Arts). TV credits: High Maintenance. Developed work at NYTW, Irish Rep, Clubbed Thumb, Arena Stage, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Wrote and acted in short films, Auto Plus and Inkshop. Represented by Framework Entertainment. MFA Acting Columbia University. Love to G.

NICK SHEA (Duncan and others) is a Chicago native and Day 1 superfan of Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble. Theatre credits include work with Classic Stage Company, City Lit Theater, Attic Playhouse, Polarity Ensemble Theatre and Center Stage Theatre. TV includes Law & Order: Organized Crime, Madam Secretary, Bull, Blue Bloods, and City on a Hill. Endless thanks to Take 3 Talent for their ongoing support and Alice for just about everything I can thank a person for. This one is for Dad.

KEA TREVETT (Lady Macbeth and others) (she/her) NY acting credits include Roundabout, Classic Stage Company, Lincoln Center, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, and Page 73. Favorite regional credits include Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and St. Louis Shakespeare Festival. Kea is an Outfest Screenwriting Fellow, a NYSCA Support for Artists grantee, and a NYFA NYC Women’s Fund recipient. Kea is a founding member of Apocalyptic, and director of their 2025 tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and their filmed adaptation of As You Like It. Kea is on the education team at TFANA and Lincoln Center Theater, and teaches acting at Circle in the Square. Love to Blair. www.keatrevett.com

CHAD PIERRE VANN (Macduff and others) is a NY based artist. TV: Let The Right One In (Showtime). Theater: Modern Swimwear (The Tank), Antony And Cleopatra, The Cherry Orchard, In The Blood, Too Heavy for Your Pocket (The Juilliard School). Education: The Juilliard School. Instagram: @chadpvann

Creative Team

ALICE RENIER (Director) is an actor, director and educator who specializes in Shakespeare and heightened text. She has served as an arts education administrator and teacher for The Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Red Bull Theater, and Columbia University. She is currently collaborating with The Classical Theatre of Harlem to develop a library of socially conscious study guides for the most studied classic plays in Western literature. She served as acting coach for the first national tours of American Girl: Live! and Bandstand. In Fall 2025 she became a certified facilitator with Alchemy Inc, a nonprofit that uses the power of myth and storytelling to mentor young people and adults. Alice is a Co-Founder of Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble, an education minded theater company based in New York City. In addition to her work in theatre, she is a certified yoga and mindfulness instructor. MFA Acting, Columbia University.

OLIVIA TYMON (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to Apocalyptic Artist Ensemble. Based in NYC, she is a dedicated Stage Manager and Production Assistant on Off-Broadway, regional theatre, digital productions, and live events. She has worked with Primary Stages, Ogunquit Playhouse, Perseverance Theatre, and Island Shakespeare Festival. Credits include ASM for God Said This at Primary Stages. Regionally, as ASM on When Elvis Met The Beatle, Titanic, Guys & Dolls at Ogunquit Playhouse, as well as Stage Managing Charlotte’s Web at Birmingham Children’s Theatre and The Winter’s Tale at Island Shakespeare Festival. In addition to live theatre, Olivia has Stage Managed digital projects, including Murder, We Spoke – A Podcast Play with Tantrum East.

BLAKE HABERMANN (Movement Director) For more than a decade, Blake has been working as a theater creator and educator in New York and around the world. Recent Projects: Simon Mcburney’s Die Zauberflote at the Metropolitan Opera, Palau Des Artes, Valencia, Spain and Dutch National Opera; Peregrinations, part of the Tank’s 24-25 core production season; company member of Broken Box Mime Theater; developing clown material for Pagliacci and Ariadne Auf Naxos at the Metropolitan Opera; Solitary at the Edinburgh fringe in 2019; Movement direction for Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera at Juilliard; Cirque du Soleil’s float in the Macy’s Parade.

DINA EL AZIZ (Costume and Prop Design) Regional: English (Long Wharf/TheaterWorks, Hartford); The Scarlet Letter (American Stage); School for Lies (Dartmouth College); Forgiveness, (Barrington Stage); Selling Kabul (Northern Stage); English (Barrington Stage); Layalina (The Goodman); Selling Kabul (Seattle Rep); Unseen (OSF); When Monica Met Hillary (Miami New Drama); 9 Parts of Desire (Portland Center Stage); King Lear (Northern Stage); Noura (The Guthrie); Noura (The Old Globe); Selling Kabul (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Off-Broadway: The Waterfall (WP Theater); Show/Boat: A River (Target Margin Theater); We Live In Cairo (NYTW); The Mulberry Tree (La Ma Ma); Munich Medea, Weightless (WP Theater), Spindle Shuttle Needle (Clubbed Thumb); The Vagrant Trilogy (The Public Theater); Heartland (Geva Theater/59E59); First Down (Noor Theater/59E59); Hindsight (Fault Line Theater); One Night (Target Margin Theater); Dina is a Target Margin Associate Artist and Princess Grace Honorarium recipient.

ALEX CHURCH-GONZALES (Puppet Design) is an interdisciplinary theatremaker, who gravitates towards the surreal, silly, and spectacular. A Swiss Army knife of the downtown theatre scene, Alex has collaborated on projects at La Mama ETC, Apocalyptic Artists, Keen Company, LIU Post, Flamboyán Theater, The 14th St Y, Classic Stage Company, The Anthropologists, CO_LAB Theater Group, The Old Stone House, Dixon Place, and more. They are a resident artist with Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, frequent director for Serials, and one-half of Monster Of The Weak Puppetry: a sustainable studio that transforms pollution into puppets and theatrical magic. alexchurchgonzales.com @alexncg @monsteroftheweakpuppetry

CHANCE KESTER (Puppetry Coach) is a puppet creator and performer with a focus on sustainable theatre. As co-founder of Monster of the Weak Puppetry, he creates art about environmental issues and works towards wildlife conservation efforts, having designed, built, and operated puppets made of recycled and waste materials for multiple productions throughout New York City. These include puppets for various projects with companies including the Wildlife Conservation Society, The Old Stone House, SheNYC, Forest for Trees Collective, No Kings NYC, The Tank, and more. You can catch him at the Bronx Zoo, operating as a puppeteer on the Wildlife Theatre team. @monsteroftheweakpuppetry

LEANA GARDELLA (Fight and Intimacy Director) (she/her) is a Fight Director, Intimacy Director, and Stunt Performer based in NYC. Select Credits: The Devil Wears Prada the Musical at the Nederlander in Chicago (ID), Our Class at BAM and CSC (ID/FD), Belfast Girls at Irish Repertory Theatre (FD/ID), Marie It’s Time at HERE Arts Center (ID/FD), Richard III with Soho Shakespeare Company (FD), Sway at The Flea Theater (FD), Zack at Theatre Row (ID), as well as Assisting Fight Director Drew Leary on Romeo + Juliet at Circle in the Square. www.leanagardella.com

K. ANN MCDONALD (Dramaturgy): Ann was President of the Board of The Shakespeare Society from 2007-2017 (Board member from 1997). In 2007 she co-founded the Hunts Point Children’s Shakespeare Ensemble and has acted as its dramaturg ever since (The Tempest; As You Like It; Twelfth Night; Romeo & Juliet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hamlet; and Much Ado About Nothing). Ann was the dramaturg for AAE’s productions of Romeo and Juliet (2024) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2025), as well as its film adaptations of As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Julius Caesar. Ann also is a dramaturg for Shakesperience Productions, Waterbury, CT.

NATHAN WINKELSTIEN (Casting Director)

JOANA TSUHLARES (Casting Associate)

MICHÈLE CARTER-CRAM (Assistant Director) (she/her) is a NYC based director with roots in the Mountain West telling stories of mythic proportion with a contemporary praxis. Her work centers trust and embodies joy as radical. Past collaborators include Next Stop Productions, Dixon Place (HOT Festival), Tank (Limefest), kindakismet productions, Columbia Musical Theater Festival, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise Contemporary Theater, Migration Theory, and the Juilliard School. Proud alum and former co-chair of Sarah Lawrence College’s Half Naked Shakespeare ensemble. Currently: MCC AMBIES cohort, AAE Macbeth. Education: Sarah Lawrence College, BADA, 2024 Kennedy Center Directing Intensive. IG: @mcartercram

HARMONY CARRASQUILLO (Assistant Director) returns to Macbeth for the second time in her career, stepping into the world of the play through her first collaboration with the Apocalyptic Artist Ensemble and Red Bull Theater as Assistant Director. A proud alumna of the Public Shakespeare Initiative Ensemble ( 2016-2018), Harmony previously performed with the ensemble in As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She extends heartfelt thanks to Alice Reiner, Ann McDonald, and the cast for their generosity, fearless artistry and steadfast support. An experience that has sharpened her voice, strengthened her confidence, and reaffirmed her commitment to bringing transformative art to underrepresented youth.

APOCALYPTIC ARTISTS ENSEMBLE (Producer) was founded in 2020 by a group of multidisciplinary theatre makers committed to making classical theatre accessible for all. Created in direct response to NYC’s arts education budget cuts during the Covid-19 pandemic, they produce innovative live and filmed adaptations honoring artists with diverse identities and experiences. Alongside their productions, they partner with classroom teachers to offer financially accessible in-class residencies taught by working professional theatre artists. By Summer 2026, they will have facilitated more than 750 workshops and performed for 30 schools across the five boroughs. Their films and live productions have been seen by thousands of students in New York City and beyond.

RED BULL THEATER (Producer) Founded in 2003 with a production of Shakespeare’s Pericles, Red Bull Theater has been acclaimed by The New York Times as “a dynamic producer of classic plays” and by Time Out as “the most exciting classical theater in New York.” Red Bull Theater serves adventurous theatergoers with OFF-BROADWAY PRODUCTIONS, REVELATION READINGS, and the annual SHORT NEW PLAY FESTIVAL. The company also offers outreach programs including SHAKESPEARE IN SCHOOLS bringing professional actors and teaching artists into public school classrooms, BULL SESSIONS, free post-play discussions with top scholars, and CLASSICAL ACTING INTENSIVES led by veteran theater professionals. In our 20-year history, Red Bull Theater has produced 25 Off-Broadway Productions and over 200 Revelation Readings of rarely seen classics, serving over 5,000 artists and providing quality artistic programming to an audience of over 200,000. The company’s unique programming has received ongoing critical acclaim, and has been recognized with Lortel, Drama Desk, Drama League, Calloway, Off-Broadway Alliance, and Obie nominations and Awards.

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (“Equity"), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors' Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks

Macbeth is a professional production employing members of Actors’ Equity Association.