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| Alison C. Vesely is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder (with her husband David Rice) of First Folio Shakespeare Festival. Earlier this year she directed the Jeff Recommended production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" for First Folio in their new Chamber theatre space. In 2004 she directed a critically acclaimed production of "Hamlet," as well as serving as Text Coach and Choreographer for the Jeff Nominated "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." Additionally she directed staged readings of "The Playboy of the Western World," "The Seagull," and "The Importance of Being Earnest" in the spring of 2004. Previous directing credits for First Folio include: "The Comedy of Errors," "Twelfth Night" (Jeff Recommendation), "Antigone," "As You Like It," "Macbeth," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Romeo and Juliet," "The Taming of the Shrew," "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" and First Folio’s inaugural production of "The Tempest." She also directs all four of First Folio’s school touring shows: “The Fifty-Minute Midsummer,” “Shakespeare’s Warring and Wooing,” “The Forty-Minute Macbeth,” and “Master Shakespeare and His Stories,” which have played to over 50,000 students in the past eight years. Before founding First Folio, Alison was the Classics Project Director for Footsteps Theatre, a women’s theater company specializing in all-female productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Alison worked as the Folio Director and Dramaturg on many productions at Footsteps, including "Romeo and Juliet," "A Midsommer Night’s Dream," and "Macbeth." She also performed in these productions, earning an After Dark Award for the title role in their production of "Macbeth." Additionally, Alison directed a critically acclaimed production of "Richard III" for both Footsteps and Shakespeare’s Herd at the Chicago Cultural Center. Other directing credits include "Real Human Dialogue," "Riders to the Sea," "Kiss Me Kate," and "Scrooge." As an actress, Alison appeared in "Richard II" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and as Exeter in the Jeff- Recommended "Henry VI: Blood of a Nation" (Bailiwick). Other performances include roles in "Precious Bane" (Lifeline); "Macbeth" (First Stage Milwaukee); "The Tempest" (Oak Park Festival); "A Chorus Line" (Little Theatre On the Square); "The Skin of Our Teeth" (Bailiwick); and, with her husband, as “Burbage and Burbage-Shakespeare Scenes” (The Bristol Renaissance Faire). Alison has a B.F.A. in Theater from Illinois Wesleyan University and has studied with Patrick Tucker (RSC), Barbara Gaines (CST), Kate Buckley, Bob Scogin and Kristine Thatcher. For more information, visit their website: http://www.firstfolio.org
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