TEMPEST
Mike Reynolds
Dr. Jennie Klein
Dr. Jennie Klein received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Southern California and primary areas of research lie in contemporary art, art criticism, feminist art, and performance art. She also chairs the scholarship committee for the School of Art, the Director of Studies for the Honors Tutorial Program in Art History, and the Chair of the Women’s Studies Colloquium Committee. She is a contributing editor for Art Papers and Performance Art Journal and has presented her work at festivals and panels in Finland, Scotland, and Denmark.
Dr. Andrew Escobedo
Dr. Andrew Escobedo received his Ph.D. in English from University of California at Berkeley and has published widely on Renaissance literature, including essays on Shakespeare's Cymbeline and on Othello. He's currently writing a book about personification as an expression of Renaissance ideas about the will. He hopes to finish this book next year at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, where he will hold a year-long fellowship. The Tempest was the first Shakespeare play he ever read, in Junior High.
Andy Felt
Andy is from Southern California where he earned his BA in Acting from CSU San Bernardino. He was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare in the Garden, (a summer theater festival), for three successful seasons and founded their Inner City High School Outreach Program. Andy’s past productions at OU have included ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore and The Shape of Things, as well as last year’s Playwright’s Festival version of Round Here by G. William Zorn and a reading of Dana Lynn Formby’s Inherit The Whole at Victory Gardens in Chicago. His past directing credits include Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as assistant directing Comedy of Errors (here at OU) and both Much Ado About Nothing and Merchant of Venice at Orlando Shakespeare Theater.