Elizabeth Elias Huffman
Director, Playwright, Actor, Theatre Instructor
Alumni of Directors West
Member of SDC: Stage Directors & Choreographers Society
Member of SAG/AFTRA/ACTORS EQUITY
Elizabeth Elias Huffman is the Artistic Director of Chain Reaction Theatre. She is an acclaimed international actor, award winning director and playwright, highly regarded for her visionary and racially diverse productions. She teaches worldwide and offers online classes and coaching for actors in film, television and theatre.
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
By William Shakespeare
Lee Strasberg Theatre
PRODUCTION NOTES
The Merry Wives of Windsor was set in Windsor, Kentucky in 1955. The play opened at a town picnic with games of chance, pie eating contests, beauty contest (judged of course by Falstaff the beloved rascal of several plays by the bard) along with live Appalachian banjo music. Shakespeare's only domestic comedy is stylistically suited to the twang and brash of the deep south and the relative innocence of the 1950's. A small town where everyone knows each other and meets at the local beauty salon, barber shops and of course the local bar to trade gossip and plot revenge on Sir John Falstaff for attempting to court two married best friends, who will put him through hell before they are satisfied that he has learned his lesson.
CAST
Falstaff
Paul Wilson
Mistress Page
Rachel Bailit
Mistress Ford
Lisa Bjerwald
Mr. Ford
Robb Padjett
Mr. Page
Ajay Vidure
Simple
Matthew Edwards
Justice Shallow
Austin Stoker
Dr. Caius
Alex Mermaz
Pistol
Wally Moran
Boy/Rugby
Michael Perez
Slender
Bryan Smith
Mistress Quickly
Marianne Stone
Anne Page
Mandana Rothschild
Karen Aranky
Fairies
Rita Rani Ahuja
Susanna Kaisar
Fenton
Jared Vallejo
Sir Hugh Evans
Glen Anthony Vaughn
Host of the Garter
Will Womble
All Servants
Giovanni Ferrari
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director
Elizabeth Huffman
Set Designer
Robb Padgett
Lighting Designer
Juan Carlos Malpeli
Costume Designer
Juan Carlos Malpeli
Composer
John Keller