HAMLET

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet explores a young prince caught between avenging his father's murder and whether revenge is moral.

Theatre for a New Audience’s new production, directed by David Esbjornson, features Christian Camargo in the title role, with Alvin Epstein as Polonius, Patrick Page as Claudius, Alyssa Bresnahan as Gertrude, Graham Hamilton as Laertes and Jennifer Ikeda as Ophelia.

Camargo played the title role in Theatre for a New Audience’s production of Coriolanus. He most recently appeared on Broadway in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons directed by Simon McBurney and previously in David Hare’s Skylight with Michael Gambon. Other appearances include London’s Shakespeare’s Globe with Mark Rylance and the Showtime drama “Dexter,” in which he played the role of Rudy Cooper.

Bresnahan was in Off-Broadway’s Necessary Targets and the RSC’s Tantalus; Epstein starred in Broadway’s The Threepenny Opera, A Kurt Weill Cabaret, Waiting for Godot and Off-Broadway’s King Lear; Hamilton’s Old Globe credits include All’s Well That Ends Well and Romeo and Juliet; Ikeda was in TFANA’s Coriolanus and Manhattan Theatre Club’s Top Girls; Page starred in Broadway’s A Man for All Seasons, Julius Caesar, The Lion King, and The Kentucky Cycle.

Director Esbjornson was the artistic director of the Tony Award-winning Seattle Repertory Theatre. Other credits include Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at the Delacorte; the Broadway productions of Edward Albee’s Tony Award-winning play The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and Arthur Miller’s Ride Down Mount Morgan. Off-Broadway, he staged the acclaimed revival of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and at Classic Stage Company, where Esbjornson was artistic director, his productions included Therese Raquin (OBIE for Direction), The Entertainer (Drama League nomination, Best Revival), and Endgame (Drama Desk nomination, Best Revival).