A Midsummer Night's Dream

Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Directed by Paul Mullins

Performances: November 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 PM
November 16, 22, 23 at 2:00 PM
Oscar G. Brockett Theatre

Tickets: $20 adults, $17 UT faculty & staff, $15 students available online at www.utpac.org or by phone at 477–6060.

Media and Resources:

• Cast List
• Director Information
• Synopsis
• Press and Reviews
• Press Photos

Synopsis: A Midsummer Night's Dream features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus and Hippolyta, and set simultaneously in Athens and in the forest, the realm of the fairies or immortals, outside the city.

Director: Paul Mullins

Paul Mullins is a company member of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey where he has directed Private Lives, The Time of Your Life, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Richard II, King John, The Illusion, Tartuffe, Rhinoceros, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well and The Threepenny Opera.

Other credits: The Old Globe: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure and Macbeth. The Studio Theatre, DC: Fat Pig, This Is How It Goes and The Russian National Postal Service. Portland Stage: True West and Lettice and Lovage. The State Theatre, Austin: Twelfth Night. American Stage, St Petersburg, FL: Reckless, The Swan, Much Ado About Nothing and Two Gents. Yale School of Drama: A Month in the Country and Summerfolk. The Juilliard School: As You Like It.

Cast:

• Michael Sullivan as Theseus, duke of Athens
• Smaranda Ciceu as Hippolyta, captured queen of the Amazons
• Hunter Smith as Egeus, father of Hermia

• Xochitl Romero as Hermia
• Mark Scheibmeir as Demetrius
• Harrison Butler as Lysander
• Melissa Recalde as Helena

• La Tasha Stephens as Nick Bottom
• Lesley Gurule as Peter Quince
• Sydney Andrews as Francis Flute
• Marlane Barnes as Robin Starveling
• Verity Branco as Snug

• Shaun Patrick Tubbs* as Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow
• Tom Truss as Oberon
• Kate deBuys as Titania, queen of the fairies

ATTENDANTS of TITANIA:

• Marlane Barnes as Peaseblossom
• Verity Branco as Cobweb
• Smaranda Ciceu as Moth
• Hunter Smith as Mustardseed
• Lesley Gurule as Greenfield
• Michael Sullivan as Nana
• Sydney Andrews as Egalantine

Appears Courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

Press and Reviews:

• A Midsummer Night's Dream Release
• Hear interviews and scene snippets on KUT's Arts Eclectic
• Daily Texan review - 11/19/08