Who’s in the Company?

Neil Hellegers

Neil Hellegers (Founding Member) is an actor & audiobook narrator who lives in Brooklyn, NYC. Neil has performed and taught Shakespeare internationally, and as he was also born on April 23rd, being both Shakespeare’s birth day and death day, he plans to spend his 52nd birthday safely out of the rain. Neil has narrated over 500 books, with a focus on LitRPG, SciFi/Fantasy, Literary Fiction, and poetry. He be seen playing bearded professionals on HOUSE OF CARDS, MADAM SECRETARY, BLINDSPOT, a variety of goofy dads in a spread of commercials, and also professors and vigilantes in some video games.

Carey Van Driest

Carey Van Driest (Founding Member) has performed Shakespeare in more bars than she cares to mention. Shakespeare Credits: Much Ado About Nothing, Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She produced 130 films based on Shakespeare’s Sonnets with New York Shakespeare Exchange’s acclaimed endeavor, The Sonnet Project. Regional: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, City Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arrow Rock Lyceum. Selected Film and TV: Song Sung Blue, Yes, God, Yes, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Law and Order, The Walking Dead: World Beyond. Her extensive voiceover work can be heard at www.careyvandriest.com. IG: @cavandriest

Gabra Zackman

Gabra is an actress, author, and audiobook narrator living in Queens, New York (the very best borough of all). She got her MFA at the Academy for Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theater in DC and considers Shakespeare to be one of the great touchstones of her life. Her graduate work enables her to do yoga while drinking bourbon while tying a cherry stem in a knot with her tongue. She will be dragged out of Queens feet first, hopefully with a bagel trapped between her brightly lipsticked lips.

Gabriel Vaughan

Gabriel Vaughan NYC theater credits include: Ross, House of Desires and The Shoemaker’s Holiday with The Storm Theatre and Members of the Tribe with Producers Club Theaters. Regional Theater credits include: Hamlet (Hamlet) with American Stage Theatre Company, King John, A Tanglewood Tale and Much Ado About Nothing with Shakespeare & Company, and Romeo & Juliet with Princeton Rep. Gabriel is a founding member of Tennessee Shakespeare Company (As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Henry V, Twelfth Night and Macbeth). Gabriel is an Audie award winning narrator of over 350 audiobooks. He is a proud member of Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA. @obivaughan

Jess Nahikian

Jess Nahikian is a British trained actor and voice artist with their Honors degree in Acting for Classical and Contemporary Text from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. They have voiced characters in video games like Game of Thrones: Kingsroad (Cersei Lannister), Nintendo's Fire Emblem: Shadows (Erma), Blumhouse's Sleep Awake, Smite, Synced: Off Planet and more and can be seen on TV shows like Blue Bloods, Law and Order: SVU, and The Blacklist. They are an Audie nominated, SOVAS and Earphones Award winning narrator of more than 200 audiobooks.

Taylor Harvey

Taylor is a classically trained actor with a deep love of both Shakespeare and silliness. When not at the mercy of Shakesport audience member improv prompts, she is typically narrating and producing audiobooks. Learn more at www.taylorharveyonline.com or on Instagram @taytayharvs.

Jessica Frey

Jessica Frey is an actor, teacher, sketch comedian, writer… you name it! When she was 10, she started reciting Shakespeare longingly into the air at parties. So… she’s pretty cool. She hasn’t stopped reciting Shakespeare, but less at parties. Off-Broadway: RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR, The Hearth; Sense & Sensibility*, BEDLAM; Clown Bar*, Pipeline Theatre Company. Other Theater: Giant Killer Slugs, Pipeline Theatre Company. Film/TV: “The Characters” (NETFLIX); “BASIC WITCH”. (*NYT Critics’ Pick) Proud member of Uncle Function, a sketch group @unclefunction. @jay_frey • www.jessicafrey.com

Rob Eigenbrod

Rob is extremely excited and grateful for this opportunity to return to performing Shakespeare! Previously, he performed with Heart of America Shakespeare Festival (Demetrius/Tranio), Great River Shakespeare Festival (Paris/Fabian), and Russian State Theater Koleso (Romeo, partly in Russian). Recent credits: The 39 Steps (Hannay) at Elmwood Playhouse; Clue (Wadsworth) and Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot (Gillette), both at Bergen County Players. He also originated the role of Jeffrey in Celadine with Amy Irving (World Premiere) at George Street Playhouse. He enjoys playing the piano and walking his dogs. BFA: TCU; MFA: University of Missouri-Kansas City. Love to Christina and Viola.