Alan Altschuler
Alan Altschuler is a professional actor and has performed in numerous New
York City theater productions, including playing Rick, the central character in
“Bigfoot Stole My Wife”, which he conceived and co-adapted, that was part of
Bedlam’s Man Solo Festival. Other favorite stage roles include “Festen” (Helge);
Hamlet (Polonius); A Lie of the Mind (Baylor); A Midsummer Night’s (Oberon);
Ghosts (Pastor Manders); Crazy Lady Of Chaillot (The President); Uncle Vanya
(Serebryakov); The Seagull (Dr. Dorn); Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Rev. Samuel
Gardner); Macbeth (King Duncan); and Rhinoceros (Botard). Film performances
include lead roles in Performance; Off Hour; Worry Dolls and Early Release. TV
roles on Law and Order: SVU and The Onion News Network. Alan is a founding
board member of the Bedlam Theatre Company. He is a proud member of AEA
and SAG-AFTRA. Website: www.alanaltschuler.com.
In his prior business career, he most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer
of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Previously, he was a Co-Founder of
Seaport Capital, Inc. and Chief Financial Officer of the United Baseball League.
Earlier, Mr. Altschuler served as an Executive Vice President of Prudential
Securities, where he was responsible for merchant banking.
In addition to serving on the Bedlam Board, he is currently the Treasurer of both
Manhattan Country School and The Fund for the Aged. He is the former Chair of
the Board of the New York Foundation, and the American Diabetes Association
and its Research Foundation, as well as the Treasurer of the National Center for
Learning Disabilities. He is a chartered financial analyst.
He received his BA from Cornell University and MBA from the Wharton School
at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a graduate of Acting Conservatory
of the Michael Howard Studios.
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Amy Greer
Amy J. Greer is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group at the global law
firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, resident in the firm’s New York office. Amy’s
practice focuses on securities litigation and enforcement matters, to which she
brings her experience as a former regional trial counsel for the US Securities
and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Philadelphia office, where, as chief litigator,
she led the SEC’s trial program for the mid-Atlantic region. Amy’s work involves
advising clients in connection with investigations and inquiries from federal and
state enforcement authorities and self-regulatory organizations, as well as the
conduct of internal investigations, concerning a wide variety of securities-related
issues including insider trading, financial reporting and accounting claims, fraud
allegations related to securities offerings, investigations into structured and
complex products and trading, and a wide variety of compliance-related issues.
Over the years, Amy has served on and led the Boards of arts organizations,
including Chatham Baroque, an early music chamber ensemble; law-related
organizations, including serving as President of the Bar Association in Pittsburgh;
and organizations whose focus is on ending hunger and food insecurity. She has
also been recognized for a long history of volunteer service. Amy has received
numerous awards and recognitions, including the American Bar Association’s
Pro Bono Publico Award, SEC Chairman’s Award for Excellence, the Allegheny
County Bar Foundation Partnership Award, the “Emissary for Justice” award from
Pennsylvania Legal Services, and the Neighborhood Legal Services Association
Outstanding Service Recognition. Amy received her J.D. from The College of
William & Mary and her B.A. from Gettysburg College.
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Kathryn Keller
Kathryn Keller is a life-long resident of Boulder, Colorado, and a third generation
Coloradan. She fell in love with the theater at the age of ten when she was a
student of Joan Van Ark, also from Boulder and future stage and television star.
Kathryn attended Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona as an undergraduate and
has an MA in English from the University of Colorado. She has taught English
Literature in Melbourne, Australia, the Economics Institute in Boulder, and the
State University of New York. Kathryn has been a real estate broker at one of
Boulder’s oldest real estate brokerage firms for over three decades and currently
serves on the Colorado Music Hall of Fame Board of Directors in addition to
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where she served for three years as President and nine years on the Board of
Directors. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of Historic Boulder,
The Boulder Public Library, and The Artist Series at CU PRESENTS; Kathryn enjoys
skiing, hiking, being entertained by her two adult children, traveling to NYC and
training her new Goldendoodle puppy.
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Andrus Nichols
Stage Credits include: Off Broadway: Twelfth Night and What You Will, Sense &
Sensibility and The Seagull, Bedlam’s Hamlet and Saint Joan (Lucille Lortel Award
nomination, Outstanding Actress; NY Times top 10 of 2014, Time Magazine top
10 of 2013; Off Broadway Alliance Best Revival 2014). Regional: Bedlam’s Hamlet,
Saint Joan (Helen Hayes and Elliot Norton Award nominations, Outstanding
Actress; Elliot Norton Awards: Outstanding Ensemble and Visiting Production);
Hamlet (title role), Iphigenia & Other Daughters (We Players on Alcatraz Island);
Julius Caesar; The Rainmaker; The Importance of Being Earnest; others. Film:
Wash Song (Grand Jury Finalist, New Orleans Film Festival), Franny. Andrus is also
an award-winning audiobook narrator and voiceover artist. Audiobooks include:
“The Home Place” (AudioFile Earphones Award, RUSA Listen List Winner), “Last
Night at the Blue Angel”, and Russell Banks’ “Permanent Member of the Family”).
She is a member of the Americana/Roots band, Back Porch Society, which
released its first album, Northern Gothic, in February 2015. She is the Producing
Director of Bedlam, which she co-founded with Eric Tucker in 2012. www.
andrus-nichols.com
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Tina Packer
The Founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox,
Massachusetts, Tina has directed most of Shakespeare’s plays (some of them
several times), acted in seven of them (never when directing) and taught the
whole canon one way or another at over thirty colleges in the U.S., including
Harvard, M.I.T. and NYU. At Columbia, she taught in the M.B.A. program for four
years, resulting in the publication of her piece, “Power Plays: Shakespeare’s
Lessons in Leadership and Management”, with Deming Professor John Whitney.
For Scholastic, she wrote “Tales from Shakespeare”, a children’s book, and the
recipient of the Parent’s Gold Medal Award. She began her career in England,
having trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she won the Ronson
Award for Most Outstanding Actor. Following this, she became an associate
artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing at Stratford, in the West
End, and on tour. She has worked at The Royal Court in London; Glasgow,
Edinburgh, Leicester, Coventry and Hornchurch repertory companies. For BBC
Television, she played Dora to Ian McKellen’s David Copperfield, was a love
interest for Patrick Troughton’s “Doctor Who” (which she has never lived down),
and also performed in several other TV plays and series. She came to the U.S.
in 1974 when the Ford Foundation funded an eleven-month project for her to
research the visceral roots of Elizabethan theater with five master teachers (Kristin
Linklater, John Barton, B.H. Barry, John Broome, Trish Arnold), fifteen actors,
and three managers. Out of these projects, led by Tina throughout England
and the US, her work has translated into the aesthetic and practical methods
that Shakespeare and Company is based on, and still practices to this day. Tina
then received two grants from the Ford Foundation to travel the world, looking
at the relationship of mind, body, sacred texts, stand-up comedy, voice, and
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actor–audience relationship in her studies. The current company was founded
in 1978 at Edith Wharton’s derelict mansion in Lenox, far from the cities of New
York and London. Tina has returned to acting from time to time, most notably as
Edith Wharton, a two-year stretch as Shirley Valentine, playing in Lenox, Boston
and Louisville, and Lettice in “Lettice and Lovage”. For the Boston Shakespeare
Company, she directed a season of twelve Irish plays, including the U.S. premiere
of “Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme”. She has received
the state of Massachusetts’s highest honor, The Commonwealth Award, and
has six honorary degrees (which gives her great pleasure as she never went to
regular college). During the mid-90’s, Tina conceived the idea for the production
of “Women of Will”, and subsequently received grants from the Guggenheim
and Bunting fellowships to fund the project. This collaboration resulted in its first
incarnation, at that time. In 2009, desperate to get back to “WoW”, Tina gave up
the Artistic Directorship—though Shakespeare & Company remains her creative
home and passion. She began work, first with Nigel Gore and then joined by
Eric Tucker, to bring “Women of Will” to its present form, which includes one
Overview performance and five separate performances. This is Tina’s seventh
creative collaboration with Nigel (including playing George and Martha in Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and she would like to acknowledge the power of their
work together over the past six years. “Women of Will” marks her New York
debut as an actor and a writer. Her book, “Women of Will”, was published by
Knopf in 2014.
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Martin Schneider
Martin Schneider is a Managing Partner at Fine Capital Partners, a hedge fund
based in New York City. Marty is the Founder and former President of Health
Pages, a consumer website devoted to providing consumers with background,
experience, and quality information about health care providers. He is also the
Founder and former President of Physician Hospital Alliance, a company that
provided out-patient medical services. He currently serves as Chair of the Board
of Peer Health Exchange as well as Chair of Informed Patient Institute, and as a
Board member of Consumer Reports, IDEO.org and the International Center for
the Disabled. He is also a principal in the social enterprise investment fund TSEF.
He received a BA from Amherst College, an MBA from the University of Chicago
and a MSc from The London School of Economics. When his hip isn’t bothering
him, he runs marathons and lives on the Upper West Side with his wife and three
children.
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Eric Tucker
Wall Street Journal DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR 2014. Off Broadway: A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (The Pearl), Bedlam’s Saint Joan (NY Times top 10 of 2014; Time
Magazine top 10 of 2013; NY Times, Backstage Magazine Critics’ Pick; Off
Broadway Alliance Best Revival 2014), Bedlam’s Hamlet (NY Times top 10 of
2014; Time Out NY and Backstage Critics’ Pick), Tina Packer’s Women of Will
(The Judson), The Belle of Belfast (Cherry Lane). For Bedlam: Twelfth Night and
What You Will (NY Times Critics Picks), The Seagull and Sense and Sensibility
(NY Times top 10 of 2014; NY Times/ Wall Street Journal/Time Out Critics Pick),
Saint Joan and Hamlet (NYC, D.C, Boston, Elliott Norton Outstanding Visiting
Production and Outstanding Ensemble, Saint Joan 2015). The Libertine (The
Kirk, NYC and Boston Center for the Arts, Bridge Rep; IRNE nomination, Best
Director). Other: Copenhagen (Central Square Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival),
Hunter/Gatherers (Playhouse Creatures), Hamlet (with William Hurt, Stella
Adler Theatre, Los Angeles), Mate (The Actors’ Gang), Macbeth (nominated
Best Overall Production and Best Director by LA Weekly), Pinter’s Mirror, Bad
Dates (Shakespeare and Co.), Women of Will (Shakespeare and Company and
Tour) Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (Trinity Repertory Company), Antony and
Cleopatra, Hamlet, Measure for Measure (Redlands Shakespeare Festival), Man
of La Mancha, Sanctuary (North American Premiere, Veterans Center for the
Performing Arts). As an actor: Hamlet, Iago, Henry V, Macbeth, Romeo, Malvolio,
Orsino, Prince Hal, Master Ford, Benedick, Orlando, Laertes, Demetrius, Angels in
America: Parts 1 & 2, Time Stands Still, Man of La Mancha, Closer, Burn This, True
West, Into the Woods. Eric received his M.F.A. from the Trinity Rep Conservatory.
He resides in New York City where he is Artistic Director of Bedlam, which he
co-founded with Andrus Nichols in 2012.
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