MEET THE CREATIVE TEAM | RICHARD II

RED BULL THEATER with MICKEY LIDDELL & PETE SHILAIMON in association with DARYL ROTH, TOM D'ANGORA, and WILLETTE & MANNY KLAUSNER present RICHARD II by William Shakespeare.

CRAIG BALDWIN (Adaptor and Director) is a Sydney Theatre Award-winning Australian director. Previously associate artistic director, Red Bull Theater and artistic associate, Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC). Australia: Eureka Day, Consent, A Case for the Existence of God, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Happy Days, John, The Flick and Benjamin Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw. USA regional: Hamlet featuring Michael Urie, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, and more. Juilliard grad but not overly snooty about it.

ARNULFO MALDONADO (Set Designer). Red Bull Theater debut. Broadway: Buena Vista Social Club (Tony nomination), Real Women Have Curves, Dead Outlaw, Yellow Face, Home, A Strange Loop (Tony nomination), Topdog/Underdog, Trouble in Mind. Off- Broadway: Atlantic, CSC, Lincoln Center, MCC, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Roundabout, Second Stage, Signature, Soho Rep. Regional: Alley Theatre, A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, CTG, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth. Obie Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Princess Grace Faberge Theater Award, Lucille Lortel Award recipient and multiple nominee, Drama Desk nominee, Henry Hewes Design Award nominee

RODRIGO MUÑOZ (Costume Designer) is a New York–based costume designer originally from Mexico City. Recent credits include Sally & Tom (The Public Theater), Beau the Musical (St. Luke’s Theatre), What Became of Us (Atlantic Theater), Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group), Counterfeit Opera (Little Island) and House of India (The Old Globe). He holds a BFA in scenography from the National School of Theatre and Arts (Mexico) and an MFA in costume design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. A recipient of the 1/52 Project.

JEANETTE OI-SUK YEW (Lighting Designer). Red Bull Theater debut. Broadway: Kimberly Akimbo, The Thanksgiving Play. Off-Broadway: Oratorio for Living Things, The Connector, Wine in the Wilderness, Manahatta, cullud wattah, The Nosebleed, Golden Shield, Gloria: A Life. Regional: A Wrinkle in Time, The Reservoir, King Lear, The Odyssey. Other: Madame Butterfly (opera), An American Soldier (opera), The March (Annie-B Parson and Big Dance Theater) and David Byrne’s immersive Theater of the Mind. Awards: Obie for sustained achievement in design, Henry Hewes Lighting Design Award, LIT Design Award, NEA/TCG; NYU Tisch drama arts professor.

BRANDON WOLCOTT (Sound Designer & Composer). With Red Bull: Coriolanus, The Maids. Selected NY: Dance Nation, The Profane (Playwrights Horizons); Home, Good Swimmer (BAM); After the Blast, Kill Floor, Plot Points (LCT); Signature Plays, Everybody, Venus (Signature); The Good Person of Szechwan, Titus Andronicus (The Public); Kiss the Air, Habeas Corpus (Park Avenue Armory); The Record, The Fever (600 Highwaymen); Counting Sheep (3LD); The Nether (MCC); Kansas City Choir Boy (HERE); The Tenant, Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective). Regional: Berkeley Rep, La Jolla, CTG, Mark Taper Forum, Center Stage. Multiple Lucille Lortel, Henry Hewes and TBA award nominations.

JACKSON BERKLEY (Properties Supervisor). Red Bull Theater debut. Off-Broadway: Becoming Eve, The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, Curse of the Starving Class (2024), The Great Privation, The Ghost of John McCain, Strategic Love Play, Babe, All of Me, The Seven Year Disappear.

RICK SORDELET (Fight Director & Intimacy Coordinator) with Christian and Collin Kelly-Sordelet created Sordelet Inc., a Native-owned action movement company with 35-plus years experience. They have done 88 Broadway shows including The Lion King and Stranger Things. 2025 Drama Desk Award for Best Fight Direction for Pirates! They’ve done fights for the Met and Chappel Roan’s VMA debut. Numerous films, operas, national tours and loads of TV. They teach at William Esper Studio, HB Studio, CUNY Harlem, Montclair State and Yale School of Drama. Rick has done many productions for Red Bull and sits on their board. They run Sordelet INK , an e-publishing company. with author David Blixt.

ANDREW WADE (Voice and Speech Coach). Red Bull Theater debut. Theatre for a New Audience: resident voice director. Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (U.S. head of voice and dialect), King Lear with Glenda Jackson (voice coach), Matilda (director of voice) and national tour. Royal Shakespeare Company: head of voice (1990–2003). The Public Theater: director of voice. NYTW: Othello with Daniel Craig. Guthrie Theater: since 2002. Teaching: Juilliard (adjunct faculty, Drama Division), Stella Adler Studio (master teacher voice and speech). Film: Shakespeare in Love. Workshops and lectures: worldwide. Fellow: Rose Bruford College.

JENN MCNEIL (Production Stage Manager). Red Bull Theater: eight years of Revelation Readings, How Shakespeare Saved My Life workshop, Oedipus workshop. Broadway: Hand to God; Constellations; Side Show; The Cripple of Inishmaan; A Christmas Story; Other Desert Cities; The People in the Picture; The Addams Family; Everyday Rapture; Come Back, Little Sheba. Off-Broadway (selected): eight years at Blue Man Group at Astor Place Theatre, Roundabout, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Ma-Yi, Signature, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, NYTW. Training/education: Juilliard Internship Program and SUNY Geneseo.

LEAH MICHALOS (General Manager, Michalos Theatrical Management). Producer: Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits. Off-Broadway GM/producing: Beau the Musical, The Orchard (with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht), The Lucky Star, Renée Taylor’s My Life on a Diet (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle noms.), Terms of Endearment (with Molly Ringwald), Butler, The Road to Damascus, On a Stool at the End of the Bar (GLAAD nominee), Almost Home, Jericho, Murder in the First, Poetic License, The Best of Everything.

GARY LEVINSON (Production Manager). Richard II marks Gary’s 11th year with Red Bull. It’s also his eighth year with WP Theater. Before that, ten years with Pearl Theatre and seven with Shakespeare on the Sound. Also: Strange Interlude, Post Mortem, Betrothed, The Waverly Gallery, Collected Stories, Mrs. Klein. Film: Colin Fitz Lives!, The Dark Half, Basket Case 2, Frankenhooker. TV: “The Street,” “Wish You Were Here,” CBS, PBS; too many commercials and music videos. He teaches at Marymount Manhattan College.

ALEXANDRE BLEAU C.S.A. (Casting Director) has been with Jim Carnahan Casting since 2013. Red Bull Theater: The Imaginary Invalid, The Two Gentleman of Verona, The Country Wife. Broadway: Art, Stranger Things, Harry Potter, Swept Away, Appropriate, The Shark Is Broken, A Doll’s House, The Lehman Trilogy, Moulin Rouge!, Plaza Suite, Betrayal, Burn This. San Francisco: Let the Right One In, Harry Potter, Swept Away. London: Plaza Suite, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Eureka Day, Mad House. Film: Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid.

HEATHER ARNSON (Associate General Manager, Michalos Theatrical Management), Credits include: General Manager: Off-Broadway Ivan T. Productions’ Chekhov + Turgenev, About Love. Associate General Manager: The Lucky Star. Director: Ephraim Sykes' Blessins 'n Lessons. Associate Director: CHEZ JOEY, PAL JOEY/NYCC. 

TV/Film/Digital: Director, Writer, Co-Creator of the docu series "Here's to the Ladies Who...," Director: Writers Guild of America (WGAE + WGAW) Awards. Literary: Writer: "Emma: A Portrait of a Girl Lost and a Woman Found" (debut novella, pub date: any day now).

SCOUT DAVIS (Assistant Director) Recent Directing Credits: The Lightning Thief (Ghost Light Theater Camp), Young Fools (USC), God of Vengeance (Rutgers University), The Apple Tree (Pace University). Recent Performance Credits: An Untitled New Work with Garrett Allen (The Chocolate Factory), The Ashlee Simpson Lip-Sync (The Invisible Dog Center), Fever Dream: A Return Performance Ritual (LaGuardia Performing Arts Center), Witch & The... (HERE Arts Center) Education: John Wells MFA Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon and BA Directing as part of The International Performance Ensemble at Pace University.

JOE BURT (Associate Scenic Designer). BROADWAY: (As associate designer) Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw. (As assistant designer) Real Women Have Curves, A Strange Loop, Home, Yellow Face. OFF-BROADWAY: (As associate designer): The New Group: Curse of the Starving Class, Sabbath's Theater. Signature Theater: Orlando, The Comeuppance, My Broken Language. Education: Emerson College.

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For complete details about Red Bull Theater's production of RICHARD II, visit here. This strictly-limited engagement will run October 28 - November 30, 20245 at Astor Place Theatre, NYC.

When is a king, a king no more?

Ambition and betrayal reign supreme in this electrifying reimagining of Shakespeare’s poetic masterpiece. Set in 1980s Manhattan, the neon skyline and shadowy backrooms become an epic battleground of identity and power, where a king’s divine right crumbles beneath the weight of human frailty. Michael Urie’s virtuosic performance and Craig Baldwin’s inventive adaptation make Richard’s tragic descent freshly immediate, staged a stone’s throw from the site of the historic Astor Place Riots, the original American cocktail of politics, insurrection, and Shakespeare.