Studio Shakes: Julius Caesar
Feb 27 - Mar 7 | Arthur Wagner Theatre
By William Shakespeare | Directed by Kieran Beccia
About the Show
Rome is about to have a new leader, but when Brutus and a group of senators take violent action to prevent what they view as an impending dictatorship, the state is fractured and their home is plunged into civil war. This 16th century drama serves as a startling parallel to the current political climate in the U.S. and by applying a contemporary (and unabashedly queer) lens to this piece I want to poke at the question: when liberation for one group is viewed as tyranny by another can democracy survive?
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The Cast
BRUTUS: Ricky Lozano
CASSIUS: Clay Man Soo*
ANTONY: Yuchi Chiu
CASCA: Maliyah Gramata-Jones
CAESAR: Griffin Hanson
LUCIUS / SERVANTS: Tyler Martinez
PORTIA / SOOTHSAYER /LEPIDUS: Ella Geonzon
CALPURNIA / CICERO / POETS: Joseph Hunt
CINNA: Chris Avery
DECIUS / OCTAVIUS: Sophia Dagestino
CAIUS LIGARIUS: Molly Wazna-Blank
TREBONIUS: Cassidy Morgan
*Appears by permission of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Understudies:
U/S BRUTUS: Tyler Martinez
U/S CASSIUS: Chris Avery
U/S ANTONY: Joseph Hunt
U/S CASCA: Sophia Dagestino
U/S CAESAR / LUCIUS / SERVANTS: Ozea J Alvarado
U/S PORTIA / SOOTHSAYER / LEPIDUS: Georgia Horton
U/S CALPURNIA / CICERO / POETS: Ian Amick
U/S CINNA /DECIUS / OCTAVIUS: Sadie Muzzo
U/S CAIUS LIGARIUS: Georgia Horton
U/S TREBONIUS: Joann Li
Stage Management
Production Stage Manager: Ziyi Fang
Assistant Stage Manager: Isabel Rademaker
Assistant Stage Manager: Ryn Styrlund
Production Assistant: Chiara Londono
Creative Team
Director: Kieran Beccia
Scenic Designer: Rachel Nguyen
Costume Designer: Natalia Darwish
Lighting Designer: Dylan Keener
Sound Designer: Nataly Ceniceros
EDI Faculty Advocate: Andrea Caban
About the Director
Kieran Becca is a California-based director and dramaturg. Their work has been produced at The Forum Collective, Cutting Ball Theater, Quantum Dragon Theater, FaultLine Theater, Fuse Theater, Dragon Theater, Utopia Theater Project, and more. Kieran is a company member at the Oakland Theater Project, a 
former Artistic Director of U.C. Santa Cruz’s Barnstorm Theater, a founding member of The Forum Collective, and a recipient of Theatre Bay Area’s TITAN Award.
Kieran has worked in Literary Management for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Parity Productions, and The Forum Collective. A fierce champion of new plays and living writers, they are drawn to plays that poke at the seams of our social fabric to expose contradictions and challenge entrenched bias.
As a Casting Director, Kieran has cast productions for many Bay Area theatres including San Francisco Playhouse, Aurora Theatre Company, and Panto in the Presidio. They received acclaim for SF Playhouse's 2023 production of A Chorus Line, which received numerous Critics’ Circle awards and was the first musical in nearly four decades to receive an Isadora Duncan dance award.