Roy Lewis
12th season: Friar John in Romeo and Juliet, the Executioner in The Three Musketeers and understudy in The Merchant of Venice. Stratford: Credits include Hymen (As You Like It), The Winter’s Tale, Old Man (Macbeth), Montague (Romeo and Juliet), Achillas (Caesar and Cleopatra), Reverend Sykes (To Kill a Mockingbird), Cyclops (The Odyssey). Elsewhere: Dr. Martin Luther King in Jeff Stetson’s The Meeting. Assistant director to Marti Maraden, Do You Turn Somersaults?, Talk Is Free Theatre; Raoul Bhaneja’s Blues Project as Howlin’ Wolf; Signing the Bard (Shakespeare Link). Other acting roles of note include Baron Van Swieten (Amadeus), Stage Manager (Our Town), Prospero (The Tempest), Posthumus (Cymbeline), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Lightbourne (Edward II), Norfolk (A Man for All Seasons), Mr. Visconti (Travels with My Aunt). Directing credits include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, Cymbeline and Waiting for Godot. He is a founding member of the Obsidian Theatre Company and Shakespeare in the Rough.