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Varvara Pomoni
Varvara comes from Athens, Greece. She has trained in various theatre institutions in Germany, Austria and England on Meisner Technique, Improvisation, Shakespeare's Text and on Meyerhold's Biomechanics & Physical Theatre. This is her ninth production with Shakespeare Frankfurt having played the roles of Kent (King Lear) in 2021, Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) and Emilia (Othello) in 2019 and acted in Shakespeare Frankfurt's film Spiritus Vitae - The Breath of Life. She also performs in Huck Finn, a play for young audiences produced by The English Theatre Frankfurt. In Antony & Cleopatra, she plays the roles of Cleopatra, Menas, Maecenas and Soothsayer.
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Jonathan Roth
Jonathan Roth has been active as a performer in various companies for over 15 years now, including Zettels Theater, Theater 3D and Staatstheater Darmstadt. He has appeared in numerous German Shakespeare productions and played the title roles in “Pericles”, "Henry V" and "Hamlet”. With Theater 3D, he is mainly engaged in the production of documentary theatre plays. His first work as a playwright, "Dichterliebe", in which he also portrayed the poet icon Heinrich Heine, was awarded the jury prize at the MADE.Festival Hessen. When not on stage, he works as a lecturer at the University of Mainz, where his research and teaching focuses on cultural policy and independent theater. He joined Shakespeare Frankfurt in 2021 for "King Lear" at the Botanical Garden, where he played the Fool. “Antony & Cleopatra” is his second production with the company, where takes on the roles of Proculeius, the Clown, a pitiful messenger and last but not least the notorious Antony.
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Susanna Mauer
Susanna Mauer (she/her) is an actress and singer currently based in Frankfurt. Her love for theatre developed at an early age and she began voice, dance and acting training when she was just 6 years old. After spending her early childhood working and training in the UK, she moved to Germany with her family and received an acting scholarship from the Peter Ustinov Foundation. As a teenager she appeared in several productions at the English Theatre and the Gallus Theater in Frankfurt. In 2020 Susanna graduated from the University of Cambridge, where she was an active member of the student drama scene and participated in 35 productions alongside her degree including shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival such as Rust the Musical (Best Musical of the Fringe, The Derek Awards) in 2019. This is her fourth project with Shakespeare Frankfurt, having played Dorine in rehearsals for Molière’s Tartuffe, Regan in the summer 2021 production of King Lear and, most recently, appearing in Travelers, Fools and Thieves at the GoWest Open Air Theatre Festival.
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James E Bailey
James E. Bailey was born in Los Angeles, California and loves to entertain. Since moving to Frankfurt, he's had the opportunity to perform with Shakespeare Frankfurt in The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Spiritus Vitæ, and the monologue project. In addition to Shakespeare Frankfurt, James has also performed with Frankfurt English Speaking Theater in Our Country’s Good, the English Theatre Frankfurt in Huck Finn, and the Army MWR in productions of Beauty and the Beast and Blue Door. In addition to acting, James also enjoys music and provided the music for Shakespeare Frankfurt’s production of Twelfth Night. After the uncertainty of 2020, James is excited to return to the stage in this production of Antony & Cleopatra.
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Antonia Görge
Antonia is a Frankfurt native with a background in musicology and literary studies and over a decade of experience in English, German and sometimes multilingual theatre productions as an actor, singer, and sometimes tech. With Shakespeare Frankfurt she has played roles as diverse as Juliet, Prospero and Peaseblossom in 2016s Hortus Inclusus - Shakespeare in the Garden, Miranda and Sebastian in The Tempest, Helena and Robin Starveling in Midsummer Night's Dream and Paulina from The Winter's Tale in the feature film Spiritus Vitae - The Breath of Life. Other projects of the 2021/2022 season include a multimedia triptych of Walter Hasenclever texts with the silent film Die Pest as a highlight (Kulturhaus Frankfurt), a bilingual production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (Kulturhaus Frankfurt), and Bertold Brecht's Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis with Megalomania Theater Frankfurt.
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Jim Phetterplace Jr
Jim has been performing and directing since the late 1980s. With Shakespeare Frankfurt, in its various guises, he has performed Stephano and Alonso in The Tempest, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Rodorigo in O and Macduff in Macbeth. He was in the company’s first film, Spiritus Vitae – The Breath of Life, as Nurse in Romeo and Juliet. He enjoyed portraying Falstaff, Iachomo, Bolt and the Duke in the recent ensemble production of Travellers, Fools and Thieves. In Germany, he has additionally performed for Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre and the Interkulturelle Bühne (in German), and directed for FEST, the English Theatre Frankfurt, and the European Central Bank Theatre Ensemble. He has appeared in two German-language short films and one music video. As a playwright, he is completing his adaptation of three works by Native American poet Beth Brant, an homage to his Cree Nations mother.