Local Paulsen Theatre Clan Joins Seattle Shakespeare Co For CYMBELINE

After more than 30 years of working in the theatre, the Paulsen theatre family (actors Larry and Jeanne Paulsen and lighting designer Rick Paulsen) collaborate all together for the first time in their hometown for Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of Chamber Cymbeline. Henry Woronicz, former Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, returns to the Pacific Northwest to direct his adaptation of Shakespeare's fairy tale adventure.

Tickets are available now through the Seattle Shakespeare Company Box Office at 206-733-8222 as well as online at www.seattleshakespeare.org.

Chamber Cymbeline is a stream-lined adaptation that Woronicz originally created with the acting company at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A banished princess, a wicked stepmother, a faithful servant, and a long lost brother all inhabit this storybook adventure. After brave Princess Imogen is falsely accused of adultery and exiled from her father King Cymbeline's court, she sets forth on a treacherous and miraculous journey to reclaim her good name and reunite with her true love.

Husband and wife actors Larry Paulsen and Jeanne Paulsen make their Seattle Shakespeare Company acting debut along with Seattle actors Bradford Farwell, Ben McFadden, and Jennifer Lee Taylor. David Goldstein (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice), Alexander Samuels (All's Well That Ends Well) and Connor Toms (Wittenberg, The Two Gentlemen of Verona) join them in the cast.

"Jeanne and Larry were my teachers at the Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in California when I was teenager," says Artistic Director Stephanie Shine. "And I met Rick when I came to study theatre at the University of Washington. Who would have believed that nearly 30 years later I'd have the rare opportunity to bring them all together to work on our stage? It's an extraordinary thrill and I'm so grateful they agreed to be a part of Seattle Shakespeare Company's 20th anniversary season."