Othello
By: William Shakespeare
Directed by Candice Handy
Scenic Design: Charlie Calvert+
Assistant Scenic Design: Gabby Trice
Costume Design: Rainy Edwards
Lighting Design: Andrew Hungerford
Sound Design and Composer: Derek A. Graham
Wig Design: Kayla Cieslinski
Fight Director: Gina Cerimele-Mechley
Intimacy Director: Torie Wiggins
Stage Manager: Cole Cammack-Sweasy*
Assistant Stage Manager: Danitza Piper*
Cast
Iago: Billy Chace*
Montano, Clown: Montez Jenkins Copeland*
Cassio: Cary Davenport*
Othello: Sylvester Little Jr.*
Bianca: Courtney Lucien*
Brabantio: Sara Mackie*
Emelia: Kelly Mengelkoch*
Duke, Lodovico: Grant Niezgodski*
Roderigo: Patrick Earl Phillips*
Desdemona: Tess Talbot
Production Staff
Resident Stage Manager & Company Manager: Cole Cammack-Sweasy*
Master Carpenter: Bryce Carson
Wardrobe Supervisor: Kayla Cieslinski
Lighting Supervisor & Scenic Associate: Jared Earland
Associate Production Manager: Rainy Edwards
Costume Shop Manager: Lindsey Jones
Technical Director: Chris Holloway
Properties and Scenic Artisan: Traci Listo
Charge Artist: Chase Melendez
Production Technician: Brad Hopper
Resident Stage Manager: Danitza Piper*
Dramaturg: Isaiah Reeves
Production Manager: Robert Carlton Stimmel^
Season Shakespeare Sponsor:
The Linnemann Family Foundation
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Design Sponsor: 
+Member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829
*Appearing through an Agreement between this theatre, the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
^Artist sponsored by Judge Mark Painter
(he/him) 17th Season
Cincinnati: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Play That Goes Wrong, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, Let The Right One In, As You Like It, Taming Of The Shrew, Richard III, A Flea In Her Ear, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The 39 Steps, Dracula, King John, & Every Christmas Story Ever Told (Favorite CSC). The Other Place (Ensemble Theatre). Nathan The Wise (Theatre Of The First Amendment). Education: Alumnus of George Mason University (BA).
(they/them) 2nd Season
Cincinnati: A Soldier's Play, Mrs. Dalloway, The Play That Goes Wrong, Enemy Of The People (CSC), Kinky Boots (The Carnegie), A Case For The Existence of God, Girlfriend-The Musical, Red Bike, Moby Dick (The Know Theatre), It’s Fritz (Ensemble Theatre). TV/Film: Miles Ahead. Education: Walnut Hills High School, Northern Kentucky University.
(he/him) 13th Season
Cincinnati: The Play That Goes Wrong, One Man, Two Guvnors, The Grapes of Wrath, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, August: Osage County, Mrs. Dalloway: A New Musical, The Living Dead, Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!), As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, The Comedy of Errors (Favorite CSC), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (The Carnegie), Girlfriend, Ada and the Engine, Whisper House (Know Theatre), Judith, Deliver Us (One Off Productions). Regional: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Promethean Theatre Ensemble, Chicago), The Bacchae (Right Brian Project, Chicago). Education: Northern Kentucky University
(he/him) 10th Season
Cincinnati: A Soldier's Play, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Tempest, Macbeth, Fences, All the Way, Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet (Favorite CSC). Regional: Faust (Aimee Rose - Frankfurt, Germany), Death of a Salesman, Comedy of Errors (American Players Theatre), Superior Donut's (Birmingham Equity Theatre). Education: Alumnus of Purdue University (MFA), Berea College (BA).
12th Season
Cincinnati: Mrs. Dalloway: A New Musical, Twelfth Night, Kindred Spirits, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Trouble in Mind, As You Like It, The Living Dead, Pride & Prejudice, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, and more (Favorite CSC). Regional: Twelfth Night (Prague Shakespeare), Dogberry & Verges are Scared (at Philadelphia Fringe), The Great Gatsby (Cardinal Stage Company); Annie Warbucks (Theatre at the Center). Education: Alumnus of Indiana University (BA). Website: courtneylucien.com
(she/her) 5th Season
Cincinnati: Wrecking Ball, MacBeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Pride and Prejudice (Cincy Shakes); Fun Home, Hands on a Hardbody, all Wonderettes iterations as Betty Jean (green one), Mauritius, Fiona – and many other holiday events (ETC); Rutka: A New Musical, u/s (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); This is Tom Jones!, An Act of God, Family Ties, (HRTC); Hello Dolly, Always…Patsy Cline, Pump Boys and Dinettes; (The Carnegie); Frankie and Johnny… (NET). Film: The Bikeriders, The Public, Dark Waters. Website: saramackie.com
(she/her) 20th Season
Cincinnati: Much Ado About Nothing, Importance of Being Earnest (Favorite CSC); A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Let the Right One In (CSC/CCM); This is Tom Jones! (Human Race Theatre). Regional: The Spitfire Grill (Old Creamery Theatre Company Amana, Iowa); Grease and The Scarlet Pimpernel (New Theatre Kansas City). New York: The Rewards of Being Frank (New York Classical Theatre). TV/Film: Dark Waters, Perception, Old Man and the Gun, A Kind of Murder, Healing River, Dusk, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America. Website: kellymengelkoch.com
6th Season
Cincinnati: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cyrano De Bergerac, Richard III, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, Pride and Prejudice (CSC). Regional: King Charles III (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). The Play That Goes Wrong (Indiana Repertory Theatre). As You Like It, Coriolanus (Indianapolis Shakespeare Company). Snow Fever (Phoenix Theatre). Henry IV Part 1, The Winter’s Tale (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre). Television: Chicago Fire (NBC).
(he/him) 11th Season
Cincinnati: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Little Women, Macbeth, Mrs. Dalloway, Much Ado About Nothing, Titus Andronicus, Twelfth Night (Favorite CSC), Tick… Tick, Boom (The Carnegie), Hands on a Hardbody, Luna Gale, Fly By Night Bloomsday (Ensemble Theatre), Mercury (The Know Theatre). Regional: This is Tom Jones!, Around the World in 80 Days (Human Race Theatre). Education: Xavier University (BA) and St. Xavier HS. Website: PatrickEPhillips.com
(she/her) 8th Season
Cincinnati: Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Henry VI Part I, II, III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dracula, The Winter’s Tale (Favorite CSC); A Christmas Carol, Alias Grace (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Judith: Deliver Us, Happy Birthday Wanda June! (One-Off Productions); Dickless, Sleeping Giant, Mercury, Girl in the Red Corner, Ada and the Engine, Shock! The Spine-Tingling Tale of Miss Spidrax Listen for the Light (Know Theatre); When We Were Young and Unafraid (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati); Venus in Fur (New Edgecliff Theatre). Regional: The Revolutionists (Human Race Theatre). Film: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Netflix), Inconceivable (Hulu), Wildfire: Apophenia (Amazon Prime), American Cryptids.
(she/her) 8th Season
Cincinnati: The Tempest, The Amen Corner, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Hamlet (Park Tour), Romeo and Juliet, (Educational Tour), Macbeth (Educational Tour) (CSC). The Twunny Fo’ (Know Theatre Cincinnati); The Pirates of Penzance (Theatre Monmouth). Regional: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), The Twunny Fo' (Know Theatre). Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Associate Artistic Director.
(he/him) 3rd Season
Cincinnati: Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar (CSC); Spring Awakening, Let the Right One In, Rope (CCM). Regional: Inherit the Wind (Tantrum Theatre); Camelot, Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy (Human Race Theatre); A Christmas Carol, A Man for All Seasons, Blithe Spirit, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Comedy of Errors (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Last Five Years, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); King James, The Crucible (The Warehouse Theatre); Lizzie (Actor’s Express); A Comedy of Tenors, Dial M for Murder (Olney Theatre Center). Education: New York University (MFA). Website: charliecalvert.net.
(she/her) Debut Season
Cincinnati: Everybody, Clue, La Finta Giardiniera, A Midsummer Night's Dream - Britten Opera, The Lightning Thief (CCM).
Regional: As You Like It (The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); The Little Mermaid, Escape to Margaritaville (The Legacy Theater, Atlanta GA); Legacy of Light, Mirandy and Brother Wind, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, The Rocket Men (Synchronicity Theater, Atlanta GA); Camelot, Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy (Associate Design to Charlie Calvert, Human Race Theater). Education: Christopher Newport University (BA). CCM (MFA '26). Website: gabbyscenic.com
(she/her) 7th Season
Cincinnati: The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, The Living Dead, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gaslight, The Importance of Being Earnest, Frankenstein, Kindred Spirits, Twelfth Night (Favorite CSC); Lizard Boy: The Musical (Know Theatre). Education: Florida State University (MFA in Costume Design). Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Associate Production Manager and Resident Costume Designer.
11th Season
Cincinnati: 48 CSC Productions; Know Theatre (17 seasons as Resident Scenic & Lighting Designer, 10 seasons as Producing Artistic Director); The Children's Theatre; Cincinnati Playhouse. New York: Hundred Days (New York Theatre Workshop); These 7 Sicknesses (The Flea). Regional: Boise Contemporary Theatre; Boston Court Pasadena; La Jolla Playhouse; Matheatre; Performance Network; Portland Stage; Rogue Machine; Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Son of Semele; Stanford Summer Theatre. Education: Michigan State University (BA
(he/him) 2nd Season
Cincinnati: A Soldier’s Play, Fat Ham (CSC); I Shall Not Be Moved/Your Negro Tour Guide (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati). Regional: Fat Ham, They Do Not Know Harlem (PlayMakers Repertory Company); What We Look Like, Kill Move Paradise, Skeleton Crew, Wakey, Wakey, An Octoroon (Dobama Theatre). Composer Credits: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Cleveland Playhouse); In Every Generation (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley); Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Protocol (Portland Center Stage); The Chinese Lady (Artists Repertory Theatre). Education: MFA Sound Design (Ohio University); BA in Music/Sound Recording Technology (Elizabeth City State University).
(she/they) 3rd Season
Cincinnati: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Macbeth, Frankenstein, Twelfth Night, Fat Ham, Kindred Spirits, Much Ado About Nothing (CSC). Regional: Charlotte's Web, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Just Between the All of Us, The Enlightenment of Percival von Schmootz (Constellation Stage and Screen). Education: Indiana University (BA in Theatre, concentration in Acting, Stage Management, Costuming; Minor in Arts Administration)
(she/her) 31st Season
Cincinnati: Much Ado About Nothing, Kindred Spirits, The Play That Goes Wrong, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Living Dead (Favorite CSC); Fight direction for Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Ballet, Ensemble Theatre, Playhouse in the Park, Human Race Theatre. Regional: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre Company, Opera Theatre St. Louis, Alaska Cabin Nite Dinner Theatre. Affiliations: 33-year member, Society of American Fight Directors (one of the few female Fight Directors). Education/Teaching: Founder, Cincinnati Actor’s Studio & Academy; First recipient, CAA’s Arts Educator Award.
(she/her) 10th Season
Cincinnati: Oliver Twist, A Raisin in the Sun, Fences (CSC); Collapse, Afghan Women Writer’s Project, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Pluto, Harry and the Thief (Know Theatre); The Mountaintop, Cinderella, Violet and His Eye is on The Sparrow (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati); Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 by Anna Deveare Smith (Diogenes Theatre Co); Mame, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Crowns (Human Race Theatre Co.). Education: Intimacy Direction training from Theatre Intimacy Education (TIE), Intimacy Coordinators of Color (ICOC), and Intimacy Directors and Coordinators.
(they/them) 5th Season
Cincinnati: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Fat Ham, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Amen Corner, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors (Favorite CSC); All's Faire, Cincinnati Fringe Festival (Know Theatre). Regional: Event Stage Management in Bowling Green, Nashville and Atlanta. Education: Western Kentucky University (BAs in Theatre, Communication Studies, and English). Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Resident Stage Manager and Company Manager.
(she/her) 2nd Season
Cincinnati: A Soldier’s Play, Love’s Labour’s Lost, An Enemy of the People (CSC); What the Constitution Means to Me (regional premiere), Fiona: The Musical (world premiere), How I Learned What I Learned (regional premiere), The Match Game (world premiere), Hands on a Hardbody, Where the Lost Children Play (world premiere) (Ensemble Theatre). Regional: Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - APT 2B, A Frosty Night (world premiere), A Distinct Society (regional premiere) (Human Race Theatre Company); FLEX (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Volunteer Coordinator of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival since 2022. Education: University of Kentucky (BA). Website: danitzapiper.com Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Resident Stage Manager.
SPOILER ALERT! Do not read if you prefer to be surprised by the production.
Othello the Moor, a general employed by the Venetian state, has secretly married Desdemona, the daughter of the senator Brabantio.
Daughter Disowned
Iago, a lower-ranking officer, nursing resentment against Othello, enlists the help of Roderigo, a disappointed suitor of Desdemona. Iago and Roderigo wake Brabantio in the middle of the night with the news of his daughter's elopement. Brabantio takes the case to the senate where, learning that she has married Othello of her own accord, he disowns his daughter. Othello is immediately ordered to the Venetian colony of Cyprus to repel a threatening Turkish invasion. Desdemona sails with her husband, taking with them her companion Emilia, who is also Iago's wife, and Othello's lieutenant Michael Cassio, newly-promoted instead of Iago.
Suspicion Grows
Once in Cyprus, Iago plants the suspicion in Othello's mind that Desdemona has been unfaithful to him with Cassio. He engineers a drunken brawl for which Cassio is blamed and dismissed by Othello. Desdemona intervenes on Cassio's behalf but her pleas to Othello for his reinstatement simply convince Othello further that Cassio is her lover.
The Plot Unravels
Iago acquires a treasured handkerchief given to Desdemona by Othello as sacred token of his love for her, and uses it as 'proof' of the affair. Increasingly maddened by jealousy, Othello orders Iago to kill Cassio and smothers Desdemona himself. Emilia discloses her husband's plot and Othello, tormented by grief and remorse, kills himself. Iago, after murdering his own wife, is left to the justice of the Venetian state.
Sourced from the Royal Shakespeare Company
When I was asked to direct Othello, I was inspired by the opportunity to share with audiences an experience that would more closely resemble that of an Elizabethan theatre audience. European productions of Othello marked the beginning of the prominent practice of using blackface to portray characters of African or Middle Eastern descent. While an African American actor, Sylvester Little, is playing the title role, I knew that this production of Othello needed to remind its audience of this old and now considered problematic tradition, in order for it to feel impactful and highlight race or “otherness” as a theme. Of course, I did not want to subject Little to have to wear blackface, the role of Othello is complicated enough. I came to a compromise; a choice that is perhaps more artistic and thought-provoking than just asking Little to cover his face in soot. Iago, instead, throws a blackface party and Clown (played by a Black actor) dons the iconic “tears of a clown” white face.
I use masks in this production of Othello as imagery to represent disguising one’s true feelings, identity, intentions and subconscious biases. I believe we all wear masks. We wear masks to fit in when we feel that we are standing out. We wear literal masks, like make-up. We wear abstract masks, like laughing politely when we do not think something is funny. I believe that wearing a mask for Black folks in our society can also be thought of as “double consciousness”, which is a phrase coined by W.E.B DuBois, referring to Black people viewing ourselves through our own eyes and through White people’s eyes simultaneously. I do not think it possible that Shakespeare had it in his mind when writing the character of Othello, that he had this heightened sense of awareness of his Blackness. Othello does not mention his race until act III of the play; “haply that I am black.” What Shakespeare did, however, have in mind was that the actor playing the role would be a White man in blackface; a literal mask, which hides what truly lives underneath what Iago calls “a free and open nature.”
In such unsettling times, when facts are misconstrued and reality is disillusioned, it is difficult to discover truth. Some of us are wearing masks to survive. Some of us are wearing masks to wreak havoc. I hope the audience will leave this production of Othello with a desire to discover truth that comes from facts and facts that come from unmasked sources.
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The Winter’s Tale, Act I, Scene ii
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Susan Schapiro
Suzanne Schindler
Mary Ann Weiss
In-Kind Donors
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company sends special thanks to the following individuals and organizations for their in-kind contributions.
American Legacy Tours
The BonBonerie
Brazee Studios
Castle Skateland
The Children's Theater
Cincinnati Men's Chorus
Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati Observatory
Cincinnati Zoo
Civic Garden Center
Dr. Niamh O'Leary
eat well celebrations and feasts
Esquire Theatre
Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance
Friends of Music Hall
Gina Cerimele-Mechley
Graeter's
Green Umbrella
Jessica Ruebusch
KeyBank
Lightborne
The Macaron Bar
Mellotone Beer Project
Mercantile Library
Midwest Falconry
Mikki Schaffner
NKU Haile Planetarium
Red Tree Coffee and Art
REVEL Urban Winery
Rhinegeist Brewery
State Bound Operations
Western & Southern Financial Group
Legacy Society
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is grateful to the generous donors who have remembered CSC in their estates, or have expressed their commitment to a future planned gift. If you have considered including Cincinnati Shakespeare Company in your estate plans and want to learn more, please reach out to Sara Clark, Director of Development, at Sara.Clark@cincyshakes.com.
Mrs. L.L. Browning
Cynthia Crilley
Estate of Henrietta Barlag
Estate of Dava Lynn Biehl
Estate of James R. Bridgeland, Jr.
William Gordon and Nancy Johnson
The Gumbleton Family
Laura A. Hobson
Thomas P. Lee
Julie Metz
ArtsWave Partners
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company acknowledges the following partner companies, foundations and their employees who generously participate in the annual ArtsWave Campaign at the $100,000+ level. Thank you!
$2 million +
P&G
$1 million to $1,999,999
Fifth Third Bank and Fifth Third Foundation
$500,000 to $999,999
GE Aerospace
$250,000 to $499,999
The Cincinnati Insurance Companies
The H.B., E.W. and F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation, Fifth Third Bank, N.A., Trustee
Western & Southern Financial Group
$100,000 – $249,999
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati Reds
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
The E.W. Scripps Company and Scripps Howard Foundation
The Enquirer│Cincinnati.com
Great American Insurance Group
Greater Cincinnati Foundation
The Kroger Co.
Messer Construction Co.
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