Shakespeare in the Woods

08/30/2026

🦚 HAPPY CLOSING: MERRY WIVES 🦚

Join us on the Taconic lawn one last time this summer, as we close the 2026 Season with a matinee performance of the audacious, ridiculous, joyous MERRY WIVES 🎉 !

Directed & Adapted by Jaz Hall
Co-Directed by Roberto Di Donato

with Original Music by Elsa Kennedy

Excerpt from the 2026 Artistic Director Playbill Notes: “Merry Wives illuminates what a slippery slope it is when love and insecurity tango together, and conversely, what true, vulnerable, and secure love looks like both in friendship and romance. What our own world could look like if we embodied the raucous joyousness and playfulness bursting from Merry Wives?”

Featuring:
Fran Tapia as MISTRESS FORD
Antony Terrell as MISTRESS PAGE
James Canfield as FALSTAFF
Deychen Volino-Gyetsa as PEACOCK PAGE/MZ. QUICKLY
Jesse B Koehler as PEACOCK FORD/SIMPLE Sandy Borrero as ANNE PAGE/PISTOL/ROBIN
Tatiana Graves-Kochuthara as FENTON/HOST/JOHN
Elsa Kennedy as SIR HUGH/ROBÍN Katharine Maness* as DOCTOR CAIUS/NYM

Production Stage Manager: Lucy Roberts*
Assistant Stage Manager: Beatrice Feldbush
Costume Design: Kat Ibasco
Lighting Design: Mike Mitrano
Sound Design & Composer: Elsa Kennedy
Intimacy Choreography: Greta Zandstra
Movement Choreography: Sandy Borrero
Set Design: Lines
Production Associate: Angie Calfa
Photography: Owen Leavey

*Denotes Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Performed at The Equinox Resort in Manchester, VT

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08/29/2026

🫯 HAPPY CLOSING: LEAR 🫯

Join us tonight in celebration as LEAR takes its final bow of the 2026 Season! Sharing this daring & pulsating production with audiences has been an incredible experience that we won’t soon forget.

Directed & Adapted by Elizabeth Dinkova
with Original Music by Elsa Kennedy

Excerpt from the 2026 Artistic Director Playbill Notes: “Dubbed one of “Chaos and Folly”, this season is underscored by a pulsing theme of Love and all the ways we succeed and struggle with it. The desire to love and to be loved so often drives us to do unexpected, and at times unimaginable, things. Grappling with the lack of control we have when it comes to the matter of love is perhaps the most universal of all human experiences. Our LEAR hones in on the many complicated threads of both familial and hierarchical love, and the deep wounds
and reactionary consequences that follow. What our own world could look like if we heeded LEAR’s warning to not confuse love and control?”

Featuring: Kimberly Schraf* as LEAR
Sandy Borrero as REGAN
Tatiana Graves-Kochuthara as CORDELIA
Deychen Volino-Gyetsa as GONERIL
Fran Tapia as KENT
James Canfield as GLOUCESTER
Antony Terrell as EDGAR
Katharine Maness* as EDMUND
Jesse B Koehler as OSWALD
and Elsa Kennedy as THE FOOL

Production Stage Manager: Lucy Roberts*
Assistant Stage Manager: Beatrice Feldbush
Costume Design: Kat Ibasco
Lighting Design: Mike Mitrano
Sound Design, Composition, & Music Direction: Elsa Kennedy
Intimacy Choreography: Greta Zandstra
Movement Choreography: Tatiana Graves-Kochuthara
Set Design: Lines
Production Associate: Angie Calfa
Photography: Owen Leavey

*Denotes Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Performed at The Equinox Resort in Manchester, VT

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08/27/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Q***R AFFINITY NIGHT: LEAR 🏳️‍⚧️

Our affinity night community event returns tonight, this time with LEAR🎉

For a third year, SitW is thrilled to invite our LGBTQIA+ siblings to join us for a performance and a post-show talk back with the cast & crew centered around q***ring Shakespeare & the specific show’s themes.

Our Q***r Affinity Nights intentionally create a space for our LGBTQIA+ artists and audiences to come together and meaningfully connect over our approach to Shakespeare. SitW additionally welcomes guests and allied individuals interested in participating in these special events, with the intent of uplifting and celebrating our LGBTQIA+ community.

For all performance details, planning your visit info, and to get your tickets, head to shakespeareinthewoods.org.💥

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08/26/2026

🦚 HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE MERRY WIVES? 🦚

Company members Sandy Borrero, Elsa Kennedy, and Tatiana Graves-Kochuthara give their replies…

Don’t miss our final three performances of MERRY WIVES: tonight, Friday, and Sunday!

All info & sliding scale tickets at shakespeareinthewoods.org

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08/25/2026

🫯 FINAL WEEK: PERFORMER UPDATE 🦚

This week SitW bids a huge, fond farewell and endless congratulations & thanks to Fran Tapia for her brilliant work on LEAR and MERRY WIVES this summer! 👏🎉

We are thrilled to welcome Lenny Mendez to the company as she steps into the roles of Kent (LEAR) and Mistress Ford (MERRY WIVES) for our final week of performances! 💥

Lenny Mendez (she/her) is a Latina artist local to the DMV. Theatre Credits include: “Espejos: Clean, Downstate” at Studio Theatre; “Prom Night”, “Jardín Salvaje”, “Picasso” at GALA Hispanic Theatre; D.C. “I love you” at The Folger Theatre; “Eclipsing Stars”, “Barnum Booth Lincoln” at Avant Bard theatre; “Laughs in Spanish” at 1st Stage; “Woman on Fire”, “Ichabod: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Audrey: The New Musical”, “Madeline’s Christmas”, “Monarch: A Mexican-American Musical”, “The Snow Queen”, “Pinocchio”, “Alice in Wonderland”, and “Aladdin” at Creative Cauldron. She is a proud company member of GALA Hispanic theatre and Creative Cauldron. Lenny has also appeared at The Kennedy Center, Mosaic Theater Company, Workhouse Arts Center, and The Alden Theatre. Training: MFA in Classical Acting (George Washington University, STC Academy), BFA in Theatre (Acting and Directing) from the University of George Mason, Circle in the Square Theatre School alumna. Instagram: Lenny Mendez 

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08/24/2026

✨ FINAL WEEK ✨

And just like that we’re approaching our final week of the 2026 Season! The last five repertory performances start this Wednesday, 8/26, with MERRY WIVES. All performances are outdoors on The Taconic Lawn at The Equinox Resort in Manchester, VT!

*LEAR and MERRY WIVES run in rep 8/26-8/29 @ 7:30PM, with a special closing performance matinee @ 2PM on 8/30!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Special community event: Thurs 8/27, SitW’s Q***r Affinity Nights are back! We invite our LGBTQIA+ siblings to join us for LEAR and a post-show talk back with the cast & crew centered around q***ring Shakespeare & the specific show’s themes. Our Q***r Affinity Nights intentionally create a space for our LGBTQIA+ artists and audiences to come together and meaningfully connect over our approach to Shakespeare. SitW additionally welcomes guests and allied individuals interested in participating in these special events, with the intent and celebration of our LGBTQIA+ community.

For all performance details, planning your visit info, and to get your tickets, head to shakespeareinthewoods.org.💥

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08/22/2026

⭐️ “FREE, FUNKY, FABULOUS” ⭐️

“SitW’s heightened camp production has a nightclub feel with electronic music opening the show (sound design and composer Elsa Kennedy), neon bars flanking the stage (lighting design by Mike Mitrano) and especially the flash and sparkle of Kat M. Ibasco’s costume design. The director and adaptor Jaz Hall, choreographer Sandy Borreno and their co-director Robert Di Donato keep the cast of nine running, jumping and jiving so there was nary a pause in the antic scheming of this b***y soap opera.”

Read Patrick White’s full review of MERRY WIVES, now running through August 30th! Link in bio 🔗

08/22/2026

"SitW’s heightened camp production has a nightclub feel with electronic music opening the show (sound design and composer Elsa Kennedy), neon bars flanking the stage (lighting design by Mike Mitrano) and especially the flash and sparkle of Kat M. Ibasco’s costume design. The director and adaptor Jaz Hall, choreographer Sandy Borrero and their co-director Robert Di Donato keep the cast of nine running, jumping and jiving so there was nary a pause in the antic scheming of this b***y soap opera." - Patrick White, Berkshire On Stage

💥💥💥 Click thru to read the full review.

Our "free, funky, fabulous" MERRY WIVES is back tonight! tickets & info available at shakespeareinthewoods.org

by Patrick White Sometimes a trip to the theatre due to its transitory nature and “you had to be there” uniqueness is just a little bit extra. I feel like I got a super sized Shakespeare in the Woo…

08/20/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Q***R AFFINITY NIGHT: MERRY WIVES 🏳️‍⚧️

Our affinity night community events return TONIGHT! 🎉

For a third year, SitW is thrilled to invite our LGBTQIA+ siblings to join us for a performance and a post-show talk back with the cast & crew centered around q***ring Shakespeare & the specific show’s themes.

Our Q***r Affinity Nights intentionally create a space for our LGBTQIA+ artists and audiences to come together and meaningfully connect over our approach to Shakespeare. SitW additionally welcomes guests and allied individuals interested in participating in these special events, with the intent of uplifting and celebrating our LGBTQIA+ community.

For all performance details, planning your visit info, and to get your tickets, head to shakespeareinthewoods.org.💥

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