Mac Beth

Partial nudity, blood, interpersonal violence

For Skylar, Payton, and all those who are victims and survivors of senseless violence

Casey Gibbons is a first-year Theater Design Technology major with a concentration in Stage Management. She has worked on Life is a Dream (Run Crew) and Babette’s Feast (A2). She is so honored to have been working on such an exciting show with an outstanding cast and crew. Casey would like to thank Steph for taking a chance and putting her trust in her. She also owes a big thank you to Katie for keeping her sane all of these months.

Chris Padro is a fourth year BA actor from Larchmont, NY. Purchase credits include: The Wolves (#46), A Walrus in the Body of a Crocodile (#4), and The Christians (Jenn). She is so excited to close out her career at Purchase with her senior project, Mac Beth! She would like to thank God, along with every person that put their dedication and hard work into helping her vision for this project come to life. We couldn’t have asked for a better team. She would also like to thank her friends and family for all their support, and her beautiful girlfriend Lilly for running these lines with her until she got them perfect (Shakespeare is hard!). A special shout out to K 4-1, and a loving thank you to everyone in the audience :)

Dixie O’Connell is a third year Theatre and Performance major hailing from the Jersey Shore. Past acting credits at SUNY Purchase include: The Christians (Elizabeth), The Wolves (#13), A Robot Wrote This (Margueritte Spangler), How I Learned to Drive (Male Greek Chorus), and Dance Nation (Maeve). She would like to thank the wonderful team for their work as well as her friends, family, and roommates for their support.

Joann Maxwell is a third year Theatre And Performance major and Play Writing minor originally from Connecticut. Purchase credits include A Walrus In The Body Of A Crocodile (2/Emma) and The Christians (Choir Member). Outside Credits include The Three Sisters (Chebutykin), Into The Woods (Jacks mom),and Glass Menagerie (Tom).She would love to give many thanks to her friends that knew she could do it, family that supported her, cast and crew that made this experience one to remember and her wonderful girlfriend who was there with her through it all <3 Adieu!

Kaira Rivera is a fourth year, double-major of playwriting/screenwriting and theatre and performance and a minor of sociology, from Manhattan, New York. Purchase credits include: We All Fall Down (Frieda), A Walrus In The Body Of A Crocodile (Carrie Bradshaw) & The Silent Observer (Ensemble, Rachel, Maria, & Brenda’s Consciousness). Other credits include: Machinal (Young Woman), Twelfth Night (Olivia), Sweat (Cynthia), and The Wrestling Season (Heather). Many thanks to my family for their unconditional support, friends I made along the way, and definitely the rest of this amazing cast and crew!

Katarina Tobits is a jolly freshman who hails from Vermont. She made her grand debut into the theater world in the 6th grade and has not stopped since. After stopping during a gap year for her dear old mental health, she is back at it again in her first college production! Past credits include a whore, an emotional firefighter, and Max Reinhardt. She’d like to thank Antonio, Alex, her amazing mom, her new friends, and Ms. OK for their unwavering support and limitless love. And she’d like to give her performance to Apollo (the cat) and Dionysus as an offering and hopes this will be better than the goat fiasco.

Katie Thorn (Stage Manager) is a first year Theater Design and Technology student working to get a BFA in Stage Management. She is so excited to be working on this show. This past year she has worked on We are Proud to Present… (A1), Life is a Dream (run crew), Pirandello Party (sub SM). She would like to thank Steph for bringing her onto the show, and for being an amazing PSM. She would also like to give a big shout out to Casey, I’m so excited to be working with you again and appreciate all your help! She would also like to give a big thank you to all her friends that walked her dog when she was in tech.

Kiana Hindi is a second year theatre and performance major from Phoenix, Arizona. This is her first production at Purchase College and she’s incredibly grateful to the wonderful cast and crew for this opportunity. She would like to thank her amazing family for supporting her back home and her friends for always helping her run lines!

Nicole Castillo Hello, I am Nicki! I am a third year theater and performance major originally from the Bronx, New York. Purchase credits include Purgatorio Wonderland (Child 3/Cat), Walrus (Swing) and The Christians (Assistant Sound Designer). I have some film experience that include West Side Story (2021) and In The Heights (2021). I’m sending love to my mom, my boyfriend, and all the amazing friends I’ve met this year!

Reed Gordon is a second year theatre and performance major from the Capital Region. Past Purchase credits include Eurydice (Assistant Scenic Designer and Assistant Technical Director) and The Christians (Scenic Designer and Assistant Lighting Designer). He is very grateful for the continued support of his friends and family.

Rossy Veras is a fourth year BA actor of Theatre and Performance from Yonkers, New York. Past credit include: Hunter X Hollingsworth & Friends: Who Tells Your Story? (Maria). She would like to thank the production team for their creative work, love, and perseverance throughout the year. As well as an immense gratitude to her supportive friends, family, and mentors who guided her into this artistic world of Theatre.

Sara Meade (Lady Macbeth - she/her) is a fourth year theater and performance major. Purchase credits include Marisol (June) The Great Gatsby (Myrtle Wilson) Taming of the Shrew (Baptista). She’d like to thank the cast and crew for being so wonderful to work with and patient with her as she navigates her senior project! She’d also like to thank her friends and family (especially her mom and dad) for all the love and support they’ve given her these last four years.

Sean Gordon is a fourth year theater and performance major with a minor in playwriting. Previous purchase credits include Eurydice (Scenic designer), Gunshot/Door slam (Assistant Scenic designer) other credits include Trial on the Platonic (general crew)
Seth Thompson is a fourth year theatre and performance major from Sussex, New Jersey. Purchase credits include Marisol (Lenny/Golf Club/ Ice Cream), The Christians (Elder Jay), The Bear (Grigori Smirnov), Henry IV Part I (Sir Walter Blunt), and No Strings (Louis DePourtal). Other credits include the New York Renaissance Faire (Robert Gatton) and Les Miserables (Enjolras). He’d like to thank his friends, family, colleagues, crab, and wonderful production team for helping this production come together.

Stephanie Rhodes (Production Stage Manager) is a third year Design.Technology Theater student working towards a BFA in Stage Management. Recent credits include Waiting for Godot (Stage Manager), A Walrus in the Body of a Crocodile (Production Stage Manager), Purgatorio Wonderland (Stage Manager). She would like to thank her incredible production team for being patient and considerate and her amazing team, Katie and Casey, for stepping up and being more than she could ever wish for as a team. Special thanks to Noah Rigby who steered this ship until she could step back in, I am forever grateful. Finally thank you, my love forever infinity repeating.

Tess Walsh is an anthropology and theatre major at SUNY Purchase with a concentration in dramaturgy. Past dramaturg credits include Eurydice, How I Learned to Drive, and Marisol. They also served as fundraising + publicity manager for The Christians. They’d like to thank slay Sara and Chris for having them on the team and Ash for being the best co-dramaturg eva <3

Ayeraye Hargett (@ayeraslay) is a fourth-year Theatre and Performance student with minors in Screenwriting, Film, and Global Black Studies at Purchase College. She founded Sankofa Medias and wrote and directed Ancestral Plane (2021) and Justice (2022, coming soon) and Love Thyselves (2022, coming soon). Ayeraye’s past acting credits include: For Colored Women (Woman in Yellow), Palazzo Manor (Ash), My Own Eyes (Heather), Welcome America? (Fallen Angel) and the following films: Love Thyselves (Ayeraye Okusanya/ Y2k Ye/ Asymalayshun Mazzah/ Mama Yeri/ Ayeraye Iyaka/ DJ Krazy Kimmie / Mr. Too Involved) The Perfect Host (Peaches), Bad Trouble (Professor Hicks), It’s All in your Head (Sarah) and STEP! The Mockumentary (Step Team Ensemble). Ayeraye thanks all her friends and family for the love and support!

Ash Visker is a SUNY Purchase Alumni who recently studied Shakespearean Performance and Dramaturgy with the Prague Shakespeare Company. They are the Artistic Director of the Glow-Worm Theater Company, who is producing Julius Caesar with the Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford later this year. They are also currently a day player for the Will Kempe Players, performing in both Titus Andronicus (Lucius) and Comedy of Errors (Angelo). Shakespeare is a major aspect of their life, and seeing it breathed into something so contemporary and re-contextualized has allowed them to explore a whole new perspective on classical text and how it can be used to impact an individual.

Chelsea Muller is a third year Theater and Performance student with a second major in Psychology and is thrilled to be making her Purchase directing debut! Some of her past credits include Things My Mother Taught Me (2019), The Last Five Years (2021), Frame(D) (2021), and The Silent Observer (2022). She would like to thank the cast (especially seniors, Chris, Rossy, and Sara) for being absolutely wonderful to work with. She would also like to thank her family and friends for all their love and support!

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