Jessica Behar

Jessica Behar has been with the company since 2007 and is proud to serve as its manager. Roles with SFP include Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Feste in Twelfth Night, Peter Quince in A Misummer Night’s Dream and Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors. In addition to working with SFP she performs in local theaters throughout Baltimore.  She received her BA in Theatre Arts with a concentration in acting from McDaniel College in 2007.  She is also a proud company member of The Maryland Playback Ensemble.  She plans to graduate with a Master of Arts in Teaching with a focus in Elementary Education in May of 2011.

Kerry Brady

Kerry Brady is a Maryland native who studied acting at Towson University.  Since that time, she has worked with several local companies including The Mobtown Players, The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre and the former Top Floor Theatre in Hamilton, where she was a company member.  Before joining The Shakespeare Factory Players, Kerry appeared in the Summer 2009 production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream playing the role of Hermia.  To quote Cole Porter, Kerry is excited for the opportunity to “brush up” on her Shakespeare in future productions.  She is also an accomplished singer and an amateur flautist.

Joe Sauthoff

Joe Sauthoff is an Interdisciplinary Arts major at Shippensburg University, where he is President of Act V Productions. Notable roles he has taken are Sir Evelyn Oakleigh in Anything Goes, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Papa in I Remember Mama, and Private Wambess in Rally ‘Round the Flag Boys! Joe has acted, sung, and danced for Act V Productions, Cockpit In Court, and The Shakespeare Factory. Along with performing Joe has worked as a professional light operator and electrician, and a semi-professional set designer and constructor. He can also play the baritone and juggle clubs.

Christopher Jones

Christopher Jones is an actor, writer, and comedian roaming the streets of Baltimore, MD. A passion for writing and reading fueled his degree in English, while he is also an avid theater goer and participant.  At Dartmouth College, he was president of the improvisational comedy troupe the Dog Day Players, sang, and acted in numerous theater productions. He is currently a company member of The Shakespeare Factory Players and works for the Children’s Theater Association, both based in Maryland.  While pursuing a professional career in acting and writing for the screen and stage, he’s always on the lookout for exciting new theater experiences in the Baltimore and DC areas.

is a founding member in all three Shakespeare Factory troupes (Shakespeare Factory Players, Touchstone Players, and the Rude Mechanicals). Past SFP roles include: Claudio (Much Ado About Nothing), King (Love’s Labor’s Lost), Antonio (Twelfth Night), and Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). He is a senior at McDaniel College, currently seeking a BA in both Theatre and English. McDaniel theatre credits include: Salieri (Amadeus), Prince (Snow White), Rocky (Rocky Horror Picture Show), Cyrano (Bring Me Giants), Peter (The Zoo Story), and Bill (Hot L Baltimore). Andrew sends his love to his family and friends, especially those who remember Romeo & Juliet, and Syd, for her undying support and love.

Barbara Hauck

Barbara Madison Hauck, Baltimore born and bred, has been acting locally since the age of six. Graduating in 2008 with a BFA in Acting from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Barbara has since been pursuing acting as a profession. Her relationship with the Shakespeare Factory began this past summer with the role of Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other previous roles include Sergeant Dana in the North American premier of For A Better World, Kiki in Silence, Cunning, Exile, Layla in the world premier of Heather MacDonald’s The Two Mary’s, and Miss Neville in She Stoops To Conquer. To quote Stella Adler, Barbara believes “as [an actor], you must realize that what you see is a miracle simply because it exists. After all, you chose this profession because other ways of life seemed impossible to you. In acting you would be more alive.”

Kelly Dowling

Kelly Dowling: While Kelly spends most of her time maintaining a shaky peace between her twin sons and their sister and fulfilling the role of head wife in charge of her traveling salesman husband, she enjoys occasionally escaping to pursue her theatrical interests.  In her LBK (Life Before Kids) Kelly graduated from Catawba College with a BA in Theater Arts.  She spent her final semester in London, where she focused on the study of Shakespeare and attended an obscene amount of pub theater. After college Kelly did a variety of jobs at a variety of venues, working most often in education and Children’s Theater.  Favorite jobs that generated a steady paycheck include Technical Director of Discovery Theater at the Smithsonian Institute and The Children’s Theater of Arlington and Drama Teacher at The Madeira School and Winters Mill High.  Favorite past roles include Mrs. Malaprop (The Rivals) Witch, Doctor, Banquo’s Ghost (Macbeth), Terry (Extremities), and Lt. Munoz (City of Angels).  Favorite Directorial work includes The Menaechmi, and Ten Little Indians. Kelly’s hidden talents include puppetry, stage combat, and cake decorating, but not (as attendees of this summer’s SFP production of Midsummer can attest) French Horn playing.  Kelly’s most recent work for Shakespeare Factory was directing a crazy talented cast of young actors in the Touchstone Players Production of The Taming of the Shrew. She is looking forward to many wonderful Elizabethan experiences in the future.

Bess Kaye

Bess Kaye is a young actress based in DC, and has appeared for The Shakespeare Factory as Luciana in “The Comedy of Errors”.  A 2009 graduate of William and Mary, Bess studied classical acting and stage combat.  William and Mary Theater credits include the Countess in “All’s Well that Ends Well”, Lady Macbeth in “Macbeth”, and The Nurse, Tybalt, and Balthazar in “Shakespeare’s R&J”.  Professional theater credits include Emilia in “The Winter’s Tale”, Ursula in “Much Ado About Nothing”, and touring with the Virginia Shakespeare Festival as Lady Anne (Richard II) and Regan (King Lear) in “Great Shakes II: The Villains”.

Robert Hitcho

Robert Scott Hitcho made his Shakespeare Factory Players debut last summer as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.  Other Shakespeare credits include Sebastian in Twelfth Night and Horatio in The Tragedy of Hamlet, both at Spotlighters Theatre.  Favorite roles include Mason in Journey’s End, Joe Pitt in Angels in America: Perestroika, Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank, Martin O’Malley in Baltimore Observed, Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, Albert Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and Norbert in Letters to S.A.N.T.A. Robert wrote, directed and starred in his one man piece The Ideal Candidate and starred as Jason Walker in the film Never Lie to Your Mother… for Between the Lines Films.  He has degrees in Mechanical Engineering (UMBC) and Theatre (Towson University) and currently studies at The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory in Washington D.C.