Shakespeare As You Like It 2024

26 MEET THE ARTISTIC TEAM Burden of Proof , premiered at SATE in 2018 and was produced in 2020 by Exit Left Theatre Company. Delaney earned her BFA in Acting from The Sargeant Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. She’s glad to be back in her first artistic home of St. Louis, telling a story of love, family and self- discovery with Nancy Bell and the team at STL Shakes. Sarah Luedloff* (Stage Manager) is a St. Louis native and is delighted to be in Forest Park with St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, after working on this year’s Confluence New Play Festival, and King Lear as Wardrobe Supervisor. Other Stage Management work includes nine seasons at Stages St. Louis, It’s A Wonderful Lif e - A Live Radio Play and A Christmas Carol at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Man of La Mancha and 42nd Street at Riverside Theatre, The Sound of Music at Asolo Repertory Theatre, and Avenue Q and Menopause The Musical at the Playhouse at Westport Plaza. Sarah has also worked with the New Jewish Theatre, Variety Theatre, The Muny, COCA, Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed Musicals, and several National Tours. She holds a BFA from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Sam Gaitsch (Choreographer) is a St. Louis-based choreographer, educator, and multidisciplinary artist. She received her MFA in Dance from Washington University in 2018 and her B.A.s in both Psychology and Dance, with a minor in Visual Art, magna cum laude from WashU in 2015. Bridging the gap between professional concert dance and theatre, her choreography often uses humor as a tool for social commentary. She is passionate about co-creating joyful learning environments. She is currently the Dance Program and Pre-Professional Division Manager, a member of the dance faculty, rehearsal assistant, and choreographer at the Center of Creative Arts. She has performed as a dancer, taught all ages, and choreographed professionally for dance and theatre productions spanning Washington University, St. Louis University, the Big Muddy Dance Company, Stray Dog Theatre, Consuming Kinetics Dance Company, and more. Rachel Flesher (Fight and Intimacy Choreographer) Rachel Lee Flesher (Fight Director / Intimacy Director) (they.she.he) Saint Louis Shakespeare Debut! Select Los Angeles: Pang Spa (Chalk Theatre); One of the Good Ones (Pasadena Playhouse); Cabaret , Destiny of Desire , Dial M for Murder (The Old Globe Theatre) Cassils Human Measure (RedCat Theatre) Radical (IAMA theatre Company). Select Chicago: Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) Twilight Bowl , Relentless (Goodman Theatre); The Burials (Steppenwolf for Young Adults); Constellations , I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter , The Most…Miz Martha Washington (Steppenwolf Theatre); The Displaced (Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination) (Haven Theatre); First Love is the Revolution (Steep Theatre). Select Regional: There’s Always the Hudson (Woolly Mammoth Theatre); Othello (Dallas Shakespeare Theatre); West Side Stor y (Lyric Theatre Oklahoma). Select TELEVISION: Intimacy Coordinator: GLOW (Netflix); You (Warner Horizons), Hunters (Amazon); The Summer I Turned Pretty (Apple TV+); Gaslit (NBC Universal). EDUCATION: Flesher is an Intimacy Coordinator on the SAG- AFTRA registry, the founder and CEO of Intimacy Professionals Education Collective (accredited by SAG-AFTRA), a Certified Intimacy Director and Intimacy Coordinator. Flesher is a SAG-AFTRA stunt performer, a Certified Fight Director and Fight Instructor with the Fight Directors Canada.