Stefanie Harris (Director/Adapter)
Anthony Rapp (Production Consultant)
Katie Barnhard (Stage Manager)
David Jordan Chlapecka (Movement Consultant)
Daniel A. Weiss (Original Music)
Royal Family Productions
Creative Team
is an actor and director originally from the north shore of Massachusetts. Her love of Shakespeare was born of her involvement in the Rebel Shakespeare Company, a youth theater collective in Salem, MA where she spent a number of years both acting and directing. She is grateful to be working with such talented and motivated people on this project, and is inspired by each and every one of them. Stefanie will complete her BFA in performance as Hofstra University in the spring of 2013.
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Anthony Rapp has been acting and singing professionally since he was nine years old. Rapp is best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award-winning rock opera, Rent, for which he shared an OBIE Award with the rest of the cast. He then reprised his role in Chris Columbus’ film version. Currently, Anthony is filming Love and Other Impossible Pursuits in New York City opposite Natalie Portman. He recently wrote a book entitled Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent (Simon & Schuster) which became a New York Times bestseller, and he adapted the book into a one-man show. Broadway credits include the revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation, Precious Sons for which he received an Outer Critics Circle award and a Drama Desk nomination. Film credits include Adventures in Babysitting, School Ties, Dazed and Confused, Six Degrees of Separation, Man of the Century, David Searching, Road Trip, and A Beautiful Mind (SAG Award nomination for Ensemble). He has also appeared in Winter Passing, a film written and directed by his brother, Adam Rapp. On television, Rapp has appeared in The Lazarus Man, The X-Files, The Beach Boys: An American Family, and Law & Order: SVU. In 2000, he released his debut album, Look Around. He has performed his music in clubs and colleges throughout the country. Directing credits include Born Blue and a production of RENT in South Africa.
Rapp is proud to serve on the board of Friends In Deed.
recently received his master’s degree in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School and earned bachelor’s degrees in Advertising Creative Emphasis and Anthropology from Southern Methodist University. Through his “creative” side and his passion for anthropology, Jordan was able to be apart of unique research and artistic projects during his graduate and undergraduate studies. His most recent works "Dust" and "Aspirations in Dust" have been performed in small theaters and gallery spaces. Jordan currently resides in New York City.
Katie is a new york based Stage Manager. She graduated from Hofstra Univesity in 2011. Previous credits include In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (New World Stages), How Deep Is The Ocean? (NYMF 2012), Magdalen (FringeNYC 2012), Merry Wives of Windsor and A Fabulation, Or the Re-Education of Undine (Brave New World Repertory Theatre Company). She is very excited for the opportunity to get to work with this fabulous cast and crew.
