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WHO’S WHO: THE ARTISTS
HAMILTON CLANCY (Director)
Hamilton Clancy is the current and founding Artistic Director of The Drilling Company, home of
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. With TDC, this is his sixth season as Artistic Director of Bryant
Park Presents Shakespeare. He has produced 21 of the 37 plays in Shakespeare‘s canon since
2006 at The Drilling Company’s Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. He founded The Drilling Company in 1999. World premieres include Gabriel: A Polemic , The Norwegians, (NY Times Critics;
pick), Atomic Farmgirl (all by C.Denby Swanson), Home of the Great Pecan, Reservoir, Wild Children, Over the Line and Mutant Sex Party, NY Premieres: El Viaje de Beatrice, Bird Brain, Apple
among others and has commissioned, developed and produced over 350 new short plays in
21 themed projects celebrating playwrights of social conscience, Actor select 昀椀lm/TV credits
include: Blue Bloods, Bull One Dollar, Wizard of Lies, Billions, Bridge of Spies, Burn After Reading,
American Gangster. He has received two SAG/Ensemble Awards as a cast member of Orange is
the New Black on Net昀氀ix.
KATHLEEN SIMMONDS (Assistant Director)
Kathleen Simmonds is an Australian/Slovenian actress, 2-time Emmy-winning producer
and reformed attorney, who holds a MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School and is a
Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio. Select theater credits: Venus in Fur (Vanda) dir
Chris Clavelli at Florida Repertory Theater, Herself (Maureen) dir by Hamilton Clancy at
ART New York, Golden Boy (Lorna) dir by Aaron Latham, A Winter’s Tale (Hermione),
Twelfth Night (Olivia) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena) for Shakespeare in
Bryant Park by The Drilling Company, The Dark Outside dir by Jack Serio at Theater for
the New City, A Measure of Doubt dir by Paul Schwartz at Hudson Guild Theater.
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LIZABETH ALLEN (Aegea)
Lizabeth Allen is an actor working bicoastally in NY and LA. She is thrilled to be rejoining The Drilling Company again this summer! She was a co-founder of the The Drilling
Company in 1999 and performed in the 昀椀rst seven productions, including the beloved
inaugural In the Car with Hamilton Clancy. Most recently, Lizabeth has enjoyed being in
Drilling Company productions of Twelfth Night (Sir Andrew Aguecheek), A Comedy of
Errors (Dromio of Ephesus) as well as Two Noble Kinsmen and The Winter’s Tale, both with
Bryant Park Shakespeare and Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. Off-Broadway credits include Offerings at The American Place Theatre and the New York premiere of the Declan
Donnellan/Nick Ormerod adaptation of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair as Amelia Sedley. Select
TV credits include: American Crime Story; The Assassination of Gianni Versace, Private
Practice, Justi昀椀ed and Without a Trace. Training, most notably, Wynn Handman. Lizabeth
is a member of The Actors Gym, founded and led by Bobby Moresco. She is represented
by The Carry Company, Mystery Row Management and BBR.
