William Shakespeare (Playwright), 1564–1616, was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. During his career he wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and other verses. His body of plays consists of the tragedies Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, and Troilus and Cressida; the comedies All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Two Noble Kinsmen; the romances Cymbeline, Pericles, The Tempest, and The Winter’s Tale; and the histories Henry IV Parts I and II, Henry V, Henry VI Parts I, II, and III, Henry VIII, King John, Richard II, and Richard III. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Lindsay Jones (Sound Design) has designed 17 shows at The Old Globe, including Barefoot in the Park, Skeleton Crew, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Opus, The Glass Menagerie, In This Corner, and Oscar and the Pink Lady. His Broadway credits include Slave Play, The Nap, Bronx Bombers, and A Time to Kill.His Off Broadway credits include Privacy and Kings (The Public Theater), Mankind and Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Rx (Primary Stages), Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop), and many others. Internationally he has designed Henry IV, Parts I and II (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Titus Andronicus (Stratford Festival). Jones’s regional credits include South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Lookingglass Theatre Company, and others. His film and television scoring work includes The Brass Teapot (Magnolia Pictures) and the Academy Award–winning A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (HBO Films). His audio drama work includes A Streetcar Named Desire (Audible), Gather (Playwrights Horizons), and the award-winning weekly podcast for children The Imagination Neighborhood. Jones has received two Tony Award nominations, for Best Score and Best Sound Design of a Play; seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and 24 nominations; two Ovation Awards and three nominations; and multiple nominations for Drama Desk, Barrymore, Helen Hayes, and Craig Noel Awards, among many others. lindsayjones.com.

Anjee Nero (Production Stage Manager) has previously worked on The Old Globe’s world premiere musicals Almost Famous, Clint Black’s Looking for Christmas, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Benny & Joon, October Sky, Bright Star, Dog and Pony, Allegiance, A Room with a View, and Kingdom. Some of her additional credits include Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show, Life After; The Tempest; The Wanderers; Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Kiss Me, Kate; The Winter’s Tale; Be a Good Little Widow; and Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. Nero worked on the Broadway production of Bright Star and launched the first national tour. Most recently, she worked on Fly directed by Jeffrey Seller at La Jolla Playhouse. Other select LJP credits include Sideways directed by Des McAnuff, Ruined directed by Liesl Tommy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Christopher Ashley, Herringbone directed by Roger Rees and starring BD Wong. Nero has worked with several prominent regional theatres including The Kennedy Center, Center Theatre Group, Hartford Stage, SITI Company, Huntington Theatre Company, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, to name a few.