Shakespeare In The Hills

PETER YOUNG studied Shakespeare with Paul Cubeta at Middlebury College in the 1970’s. From 1982-2000, he owned and ran an organic dairy and sauerkraut farm (Hill Farm of VT) in Marshfield.

He has directed the drama program for teenage students at Twinfield Union School in Marshfield, VT for the past 5 years, where he has produced Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. This Spring's Twinfield production of The Tempest is scheduled for May 15,16,17, 2009 7 PM, Twinfield School Twinspace.

Pete has been a co-director at all 3 Shakespeare in the Hills camps. Recent acting credits are Master Page in SitH's March 2009 The Merry Wives of Windsor, Polixines in SitH's Feb. 2008 The Winter's Tale, and Editor Webb in Unadilla's 2006 Our Town.

He is father of Carson (20) a junior at Swarthmore, near Philly, Noah (17) bass player in Evan Crandell and the Too Hot to Handle and Ian (15), who acts in almost all SitH plays (Who can forget his Abraham Slender in Merry Wives?) who serves as roof ball and stage combat director at the Camps. He maintains a vigorous minor interest in Shaggy Dog Stories. You can see him as the drunken butler Stephano in The Tempest.

His blind cat, Cuthbert, has his own following, and will probably beat Pete to having a Facebook page.

NAOMI FLANDERS has performed, directed and produced in Central Vermont for the past 30 years with Vermont Opera Theater, Plainfield Little Theater, Monteverdi Music School, and Unadilla Theatre. She founded Echo Valley Community Arts in 2002 and directed The Magic Flute in 2003, Hansel and Gretel in 2005, Don Giovanni in 2007, and The Winter’s Tale in 2008.

As a voice faculty member of Monteverdi Music School for ten years she developed summer Shakespeare camps for children.

TOM BLACHLY has acted in several Shakespeare plays, including the title role in 'Henry V', Benedick in 'Much Ado About Nothing', Bottom in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', Buckingham in 'Richard III', and Leontes in 'The Winter's Tale.' He spent two summers interning with the Champlain Shakespeare Festival in the late 1970's.

Tom is currently running an after-school drama program at Rumney Memorial School in Middlesex, Vermont, as well as a monthly Shakespeare reading group every third thursday of the month in Marshfield, Vt. If you are interested in any of these programs, contact Tom.