Bethany Ford
Bethany moved to the Twin Cities in May, 2005, prior to which she worked as an actor in Tennessee, Oregon, and South Carolina. Her first Cromulent show was King Lear in June, 2006. After that, she performed in Robin Hood (2006), Cyrano (2007), Love's Labour's Lost (2008), Three Sisters (2008),and the Mid-Winter Rep (2009). Bethany directed Fairy Tale Network 2007), Sense and Sensibility (2008), and The Tempest (2009). Since moving to the Twin Cities, Bethany has worked with a number of local theatre companies, including Starting Gate, Nimbus,
Theatre in The Round, 20% Theatre, and others.
Mitchell Fay
Mitchell Bucky Fay is a founding member of The Cromulent Shakespeare Company. He has played Hamlet and Macbeth in the plays of that name, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors. He has directed Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. As a playwright, he has written Fairy Tale Network, Robin Hood, Theatre 101, an adaptation of Lysistrata, and What I Wil: or As I Like It (Shakespeare's "autobiography.") All were produced by the CSC.
Work outside of the company has included Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor for both Theatre in the Round and Pig's Eye, Friar Lawrence in Big City Production's Romeo and Juliet, and as the writer of "Shakespeare Guy" for ProGroup Players.
Bucky has volunteered as an English instructor in Kosovo, worked with aspiring college students as part of the Upward Bound program, taught on bases and a naval carrier in working with U.S. service-members, and advised speech and debate teams around the country.
This fall, he begins teaching in the communication department at Century College and will adapt and direct Three Sisters, by Anton Chekov.
Helen Donnay
After a long absence from theatre to raise a family, Helen joined Cromulent in a performing and administrative capacity. Her background includes broadcast production, newspaper editing, advertising copywriting and strategic marketing and brand management.
Since the fall of 2008, she has appeared in four Cromulent productions including Three Sisters, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Tempest and Bottom's Dream.
Derek Washington
Derek "Duck" Washington has been involved in the Cromulent Shakespeare Company since 2002, and has sat on the Cromulent Board of directors for since 2004. Derek has directed multiple plays for Cromulent, including Much Ado about Nothing, King Lear, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Love's Labour's Lost. He has appeared onstage in eight Cromulent productions. Derek graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1999; he received the Charles-Nichols Service Award given to the graduating senior who contributed the most to University theatre department during their time as a student. He has also has independent training in the areas of stage combat and playwriting. Derek has interned at the Guthrie in the areas of Stage Management and Audio Design, and upon graduating held the position of Resident Audio Design Assistant. He has various backstage and onstage credits with a number of other Twin Cities area theatrical companies including The Penumbra, The Jungle, Park Square, Theater in the Round, Ronin Theatre, Climb Theatre, and others. Derek works for Novations Group, Inc., which does theatrically based diversity training across the country.
