Nathaniel P. Claridad (he/him)

SIXTH SEASON 

Nathaniel is an NYC-based actor and director. Recent directing credits: Ragtime (Lincoln Center – Assistant Director), 2024/2025 Musical Theatre Directing Fellowship at City Center in association with The Drama League; and Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood at Imagination Stage (8 Helen Hayes Award nominations including Outstanding Musical Production, and Oustanding Director). Other directing credits include work at Weathervane Theatre, TheatreWorksUSA, Imagination Stage, Southern Rep., Two River Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Out of the Box Theatrics, the One Minute Play Festival, New York Shakespeare Exchange, Peculiar Works Project, a Drama League Resident in 2019 and 2016, as well as a guest director for New York University, Marymount Manhattan, and the University of Maryland, College Park. Acting credits include Here Lies Love (The Public Theater), Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History… (St. Ann’s Warehouse), numerous regional and international credits from the Kennedy Center to the Sydney Opera House.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon and died there in 1616. Works include Henry VI, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo & Juliet, Richard II, A Midnight Summer’s Dream, King John, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, Love’s Labour’s Won, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest.