All-Female Cast Announced for Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Boiling Point Players

By: Jan. 02, 2016
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Boiling Point Players is excited to announce the cast members for its 2016 production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring an all female cast.

The play, originally performed in 1605 by an all-male cast, now meets its opposite as women of 2016 fill the play's dynamic roles under the direction of Christine Weems, founder of Cone Man Running Productions.

Synopsis
Lysander and Hermia love each other. Helena loves Demestrius who used to love Helena but now loves Hermia. Hermia's father, Egeus, wants Hermia to marry Demestrius. The duke, Theseus, urges Egeus's will and thus a complicated love tangle ensues.

CAST LIST

Theseus/Titania - Sammi Sicinski
Hippolyta/Oberon - Yunina Barbour-Payne
Puck - Cassandra Austen
Demetrius - Ruth McCleskey
Lysander - Autumn Clack
Helena - Katie Rinaldi
Hermia - Helen Rios
Bottom - Megan Nix
Quince - Bailey Hampton
Flute - Rachel Rubin
Snout - Amy Pope
Snug - Elizabeth Grant
Starveling - Stephanie Kelso
Peaseblossom/Philostrate - Whitney Zangarine
Cobweb/Egeus - Inge Kellerman
Moth - Madison Cockrell
Mustardseed - MaryAnna Nagorski A Midsummer Night's Dream shows Thursday, March 31 - Saturday, April 9 at Studio 101 (1824 Spring St, Houston, TX 77007).



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