Gillian Shelly (World Premieres: Audrey Cefaly’s Maytag Virgin (Lizzy - Quotidian); Richard Byrne’s Nero/Pseudo (Chrysis – WSC Avant Bard); The Brontës (Gypsy – Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Review – NY Musical Theatre Festival/DC Fringe). Frederick Shakespeare Festival: Timon of Athens (Timon); The Comedy of Errors (Adriana); Romeo and Juliet (Nurse); Hamlet (Gertrude); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Page). Credits include: The Awakening (Edna – Endangered Species (theatre) Project); Private Lives (Sybil – Olney Theatre); A Man of No Importance (Lily - Bay Theatre); Shear Madness (Barbara - Kennedy Center); The Bridges of Madison County (Marge – Red Branch); Grease (Rizzo – Toby’s), Rapunzel (Witch – Imagination Stage), NY/DC Fringe appearances include: Landless Theatre’s Diamond Dead (Pussy), ClassiqueNouveau’s One Thousand and One Days (Scheherazade), and the award-winning premiere of Super Claudio Bros. Gillian was Helen in the original concept album cast of Night of the Living Dead (The Musical). AEA and Factory 449 Company Member.

Aaron Angello is an actor, director, writer, and teacher. Favorite recent roles include Antony (Antony & Cleopatra), Kent (King Lear), Leonato (Much Ado), Benedick (a different Much Ado), John of Gaunt and Duchess of York (Richard II), Darcy (Pride and Prejudice), and Jack (The Designated Mourner). Recent directing credits include Good Actors, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, I and You, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is a founder of the Frederick Shakespeare Festival and is currently Professor of English at Hood College in Frederick, MD, where he directs the theatre program. aaronangello.net

Sam White is a theater artist based in western Maryland that has been pursuing stage management and theatrical design in the area for over a decade. They are incredibly proud to join the Ardeo Theatre Company team as the Marketing Director and have been working with the company since its second main stage production, The Baltimore Waltz. Sam is also a Company Member and Ensemble Secretary with Maryland Ensemble Theatre. Previously, they also served as a member of Maryland Entertainment Group's Artistic Committee.

Sam has enjoyed collaborating with many theatres and artists in the area both on stage and off, including groups such as Ardeo Theatre Company, Unstrung Harpist Productions, Frederick Shakespeare Festival, Endangered Species theatre Project, Red Hill Theatre Group, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Maryland Ensemble Theatre, The Comedy Pigs, Shakespeare on the Spot, Potomac Playmakers, SilverVox, Maryland Entertainment Group, and more. “Love your process.”