This multi-pronged event produced in collaboration with Shakespeare in Clark Park included a pre-show pub experience and a professionally acted, five-night run of Henry IV that featured a 30-minute battle/coronation scene performed by nearly 100 volunteer community members.
The production, which bridged community engagement and spectacle, attracted over 5000 audience members to Clark Park for an unprecedented Shakespeare event. A critical, artistic, and popular success, the project relied on the company’s administrative and organizational skills, asked that we devise an original work (in this case, within the context of an existing script), and manifested our desire to build connection and community. Organizationally, HENRY IV enriched and extended Team Sunshine’s audience and raised the company’s public profile, providing a deeply moving and special experience for the artists and volunteers involved.
Cast & Team
Director: Alex Torra
Associate Director: Tommy Butler
Scenic Designer: John McDermott
Costume Designer: Laila Swanson
Lighting Designer: Oona Curley
Sound Designer: Dan Perelstein
Original Music: Alex Bechtel
Pub Experience: Makoto Hirano
General of the Army: Benjamin Camp
Recruitment: Liz Green
Featuring: Adam Altman, Marla Burkholder, Rob Cutler, Charlie DelMarcelle, Darin Dunston, Lori Felipe-Barkin, Daniel Fredrick, Brandon Pierce, Brian Ratcliffe, and Justin Rose, Jerry Rudasill, and Brian Anthony Wilson
Army: Sarah Adeyinka, Aram Aghazarian, David Alexander, Nate Allen, Frances Bartlett, Rin Barton, Tanay Bennur, Edward Brown, Patty Bulack, Tegan Bunsu, Erin Carney, Davon Carroll, Cecily Chapman, Sharon Chestnut, Randall Claney, Rachel Coates-Knowles, Hyresh Corbin, Sam D’Agostino, Brandon D’Augustine, Jesse Delaney, Renee DeStefano, Kimiko Doherty, Susan Edens, Andre Evers, Stephen Field, Avery Finch, Eileen Fisher, Megan Force, Jerene Good, Jesse Gottschalk, Todd Haires, Hannah Hammel, Sean Hanrahan, Stephanie Harmelin, Kathy Herman, Emma Hohenstein, Joe Hohenstein, Maggie Hohenstein, Sarah Hoskins, Frank Innes, Steven Johns, John Kearney, Victoria Kehm, Katelynd Knorr, Corinne Lagermasini, Loretta LaVella, Max Liebersohn, Nani Manion, Brett Mapp, Thaddeus Mayfield, Brandice Mazick, Sasha Alexander McDermott, Sean McGarry, Benjamin Morris, Ahmed Muhamed, Mercy Oyana, Rebecca Ortenberg, Bonnie Paul, Ilena Paul, Kathy Pentek, Thienquan Chris Pham, Patty Pickup, Maria Pino, Gerald Radack, Bobbi Robinson, David Robinson, Laura Rush, Cathy Schmitt, Felice Schwartz, Clifford Schwinger, Abigail Sherburne, Matt Stern, Tom Strube, Jeffrey Tan, Diane Varner, Susan Walker, Meghann Williams, Jay Winston, Jeffrey Womack, Mark Zierden
Pub Co-Creators: Helen Hale, Jenna Horton, Laurel Hostak, Asaki Kuruma, Tessa Young
Lieutenants: Rajeer Alford , Sarah Gladwin Camp, Lauren Harries, Jennifer Nikki Kidwell, Richard Mitchell, Nicole Quenelle, Jahzeer Terrell, Hannah Van Sciver
Special Thanks and Support
HENRY IV: YOUR PRINCE AND MINE was made possible by the generous support of: Charlotte Cushman Foundation, Connelly Foundation, Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, Drumcliff Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Samuel S. Fels Fund, Wyncote Foundation, Knight Foundation, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), Pennsylvania’s General Assembly, The National Endowment for the Arts, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
