As You Like It

This gender-bending, female-dominated and music-infused take on Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy is directed by Lily Wolff with text direction by Robert Matney, assistant direction by Clarissa Smith-Hernandez, and boasts an incredible creative team including award-winning lighting designer Patrick W Anthony, set designer Bruno-Pierre Houle, costume designer EL Hohn, and original music composed by T Lynn Mikeska.

The show features an all-star cast including Shannon Grounds, Kriston Woodreaux, Robin Grace Thompson, Andreá Smith, Valoneecia Tolbert, Kevin Moxley, Julie Moore, David Boss, Molly Fonseca, Fritz Ketchum, Michael Mergen, Robert Deike, Taylor Flanagan, and Taji Senior-Gipson.

Shrewd has long focused on new work, especially new work by female playwrights (for 10 years, in fact)! But aside from new works, we’ve always had a powerful passion for the Bard. Shrewd’s very name is a Shakespearean reference: “She was damnably curst and shrewd”. It seems only fitting that a company named for cursed Kate herself, should fly the banner for Shakespeare with an eye to gender parity, and diversity in casting. Hence, Shakespeare: REPRESENT. For our inaugural production, Shrewd presents Shakespeare’s As You Like It, running at Trinity Street Theatre February 19 – March 6. Expect to see an As You Like It that stays unwaveringly true to Shakespeare’s text, but an As You Like It unlike ANY you’ve ever seen before.