Becky Beth Benedict
Becky Beth is a theatre director, actor, and educator based in Connecticut. Becky Beth is very excited to join the teach staff at the Hampshire Shakespeare Company. She most recently performed in Romeo and Juliet at the Valley Repertory Company. This summer Becky Beth is teaching theatre courses for Hartford Children’s Theater and Summer Institute for the Gifted at Yale. Becky Beth has served as the dean of the musical theater department of The Hartford Conservatory and worked with several New England theatre companies including The Valley Repertory Company, The Opera House Players, Connecticut Heritage Productions, Hole in the Wall, The Repertory Theater of New Britain, and Castle Craig Players.

Dan Robert
Dan is excited to be back with Hampshire Shakespeare Company. He is a proud graduate of Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High School. He is currently a Theatre Studies: Acting major at Emerson College in Boston, MA with a secondary emphasis in directing where his co-president of a student-run reparatory theatre company called Mercutio. He spent many years at PVPA as a teacher's assistant and student director. He worked in education at Teatro Vida, Springfield and as a teacher's aide in Holyoke, MA in addition to a slew of camp gigs. His co-written original play Mayflower Plantation made its professional debut last year with Pauline Productions, where this summer he and Lisha Brooks work on a Theatre for Young Audiences program in Ashfield. He is also an actor and loves to go on hikes.

Kelly Norris
Kelly has been teaching Theater and English in the area for ten years. She has performed and/or worked with Hampshire Shakespeare for three summers. She also studied the teaching and directing of Shakespeare numerous times with Shakespeare and Company in Lenox. She is a mom who loves working with young children and exploring the world through improv.

Michael (Miguel) Ringler
Michael has been working as an actor, teacher, director and fight choreographer around the country for over twenty years. As an actor he has worked on television and Off-Broadway, where he worked with Tony winning director, Michael Mayer on the award winning production of Antigone in New York. While working in casting in New York he helped cast Julie Taymore’s The Green Bird on Broadway, and coordinated the youth casting for Paramount Picture’s “Hardball”, starring Keanu Reeves. He also worked on the casting of national ad campaigns for Kodak, the Talbott’s Catalogue, United Airlines, and many others.
His fight choreography has been seen around the country. He staged sword and knife fights for Henry V at Smith College, Marta the Divine at the University of Massachusetts and knife fights for Georgia Mountain Theatre’s national tour of Julius Caesar. He’s also staged rapier/ dagger and hand-to-hand fights in a number of shows at the University of Louisville and California State University, Sacramento.
Ringler has directed youth productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Tempest for the San Francisco Shakespeare Company as well as award winning productions of Beauty & the Beast and Grease for Solano College’s Youth Theatre Program. His previous Hampshire Shakespeare Festival, at Williston Academy productions of Summer Camp, All Because of a Stupid Book and The Quest have all received rave reviews from Ringler’s mother.