
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Vince Tycer
Apr 24-May 4, 2025
Nafe Katter Theatre
Shakespeare returns to the CRT stage with the sassy rom-com Much Ado About Nothing. Don Pedro, Claudio, and Benedick have arrived in Messina after a decisive victory on the battlefield. Claudio falls for their host’s daughter, Hero, while Benedict falls into a battle of wits with Hero’s cousin, Beatrice. Beatrice and Benedict want nothing of love, but their friends have another idea. Replete with hijinks, intrigue, mistaken identity, and a conniving ne’er-do-well, this delightful comedy is the most fun you can have onstage without swords.

Vince Tycer
Director
Vince Tycer is an Assistant Professor in Residence within the UConn Drama Department for the Performance/Acting Area. He previously served as the Director of Two Year Studies at Drama Studio London and as a Visiting Lecturer at Westfield State University. He has earned an MFA in Directing from UC-Irvine, MBA from Cal State – Dominguez Hills, a BA in Dramatic Writing from Cal State – Los Angeles and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Acting from Drama Studio London.
He has worked in the UK, Europe and in the US. As a director he staged the first full production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus at the Rose Theatre Bankside since the time of Marlowe and Shakespeare. He has directed a number of Shakespeare’s plays including Titus Andronicus at the Camden Fringe Festival in London. Vince has performed internationally at London’s Leicester Square Theatre, Bournemouth Pavilion, Romanian National Theatre Festival and the Wroclaw Puppet Theatre in Poland. In the US, he has worked in theatre and film. Recent acting roles include Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost for Saratoga Shakespeare Company and David Burke in the feature film Chappaquiddick.

Noah Ilya Alexis Tuleja
Equity Guest Artist
Actors’ Equity Association member Noah Ilya Alexis Tuleja is a professional actor, director, and fight choreographer who has worked with the Bread and Puppet Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth, CBS Television, Long Wharf Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, Actor’s Shakespeare Project, and the Montana Repertory Theatre. Selected Regional Credits: Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Saratoga Shakespeare Company); Gray in The Broken Machine and Nicodemus/Lady Enid in The Mystery of Irma Vep (Silverthorne Theater); Claudius in Hamlet (ArtFarm); Clown #1 in The 39 Steps (New Century Theatre); Hamel in Out of Sterno (Gloucester Stage Company); Sicinius in Coriolanus (Actors Shakespeare Project); He is Chair of the Department of Film Media Theater at Mount Holyoke College and the Founding Director of The Players Project in residence at the UMass Amherst, Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.
Design & Production Team:
Scenic Designer: Christina Garner
Lighting Designer: Cody Tellis Rutledge
Costume Designer: Frederick Windross
Sound Designer: Jake Neighbors
Properties Manager: Aly Schwartz
Original Music Composition and Rearrangements: Travis Lavigne
Production Stage Manager: Alison Savino
Stage Managers: Aurora Courcy and Caelyn Dorsey
Assistant Stage Manager: Anna Tenner

The Cast:
Hero: Sandy Borrero Hernandez
Beatrice: Kat Corrigan
Margaret: Mariangelie Vélez
Ursula: Grace Darling
Leonato: Noah Ilya Alexis Tuleja , Equity Guest Artist
Don Pedro: Bryan Anderson
Count Claudio: Evan Wolfgang
Benedick: Will Naraghi
Don John: Ben Lewin
Borachio: Christopher Cazarin
Conrade: Danny Kelly
Balthasar: Dayo Garritano
Antonio: Siommara Guadalupe-Hill
Dogberry: Katherine Berryhill
Verges: Tyler Ely
Sexton: Donte Warren
Friar Francis, 2nd Watch: Julia Smith
Messenger: Lia Crosby
First Watch: Jiahui Guo
Seacoal: Evelyn Whitley

Show Photography:
©Mattais Lundblad

Promo of the CRT Production:
CRT holds production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
– Pierce Colfer, The Daily Campus