Jack Worthing (Ernest)

Ryder Brewton is a Junior BFA Acting Major from Amarillo, Texas. His recent credits include Vanya in "LIFE SUCKS." And Mitchell in "Daniel's Husband". He would like to thank his friends, family, and God for supporting him on his journey.

Algernon Moncrieff

Jeremy Creek (He/Him) is a senior BA acting major at OCU, from Texarkana, Texas. Recent Credits include: Company (PJ), A Soldier's Play (Capt. Wilcox), Mother Road (Ensemble), and It's A Wonderful Life: A Radio Play (Robert, Harry, Freddie understudy). Jeremy would like to thank his parents Angela and Jasen Creek for their shared love of the stage and constant support.

Gwendolen Fairfax

Ella Martin She/her. Ella is a senior BFA Acting major with a minor in Digital Film and Media at Oklahoma City University from Fort Worth, Texas. Recent credits include The Children’s Hour, Bellwether, and Shakespeare’s Other Women. She would like to thank her family and friends for always supporting her and a special thanks to Amanda for being the best friend and double a girl could ask for.

Cecily Cardew

Taylor Cavazos. She/her. Taylor is a junior BFA Acting major with a Directing minor at Oklahoma City University from Houston, Texas. Recent credits include Circle Mirror Transformation (Theresa US), Dos and Don'ts of Time Travel (Claire), Back When We Felt Clean (Co-Director), Oklahoma Children’s Theatre’s Maddi’s Fridge (Sofia US), and OCU’s The Government Inspector (Assistant Director). She would like to thank her amazing friends and family for their unconditional love and support!

Jack Worthing (Ernest)

Parker McCanham He/Him. Parker is a senior BFA Acting major from Atlanta, GA. Recent credits include It's A Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, John Proctor is the Villain, The Play that Goes Wrong, Exit! Pursued by a Bear, and Gross Indecency. He would like to thank all his friends and family for their constant support.

Algernon Moncrieff

Noah Elsom is a freshman BFA Acting major at OCU. He is a little too excited for his first professionally produced show. He asks you to laugh loud, but to be please do so in earnest.

Gwendolen Fairfax

Amanda Kohutek she/her. Amanda is a senior BFA Acting major with a minor in Directing at Oklahoma City University, and is from Arlington, Texas. Recent credits include Feline Fighters (OCU), Charlotte's Web (OCT), and She Stoops to Conquer (OCU). She wants to thank her family for their incredible support and her best friend, Ella Martin, for being the best double she could ask for!

Cecily Cardew

Kara Nicole Smith She/her. Kara is a junior BFA Acting major with Directing and Dramaturgy minors at OCU from Dallas, TX. Recent credits include Little Women (Amy), King Lear (Cordelia US), John Proctor Is the Villain (Swing), Life of Galileo (Virginia), Rhondda Rips It Up! (Dramaturg), and Back When We Felt Clean (Co-Director). Kara would like to send a huge thank you to her director and cast for making this experience so joyful, and to her friends and family for their unwavering love and support! Thanks be to God!

Lady Bracknell

Jeanie Cooper is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFRA, and is a Certified Michael Chekhov Master Teacher. Regional credits include Kate in Taming of the Shrew and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at South Coast Rep, Lady Hurf in Thieves' Carnival at Boulder Playhouse, Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman at Montana Shakespeare in the Park, Janet in I Can’t Keep Running in Place at Westport Playhouse, Boo Levy in Last Night of Ballyhoo, Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy and Grandma in Grapes of Wrath at City Rep Theatre/OKCRep. Title roles she has played at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma include Irene, Annie Get Your Gun, Mame, Unsinkable Molly Brown and Sweet Charity. In addition, she played Harriet Stanley in The Man Who Came to Dinner at OCU. Film/TV work includes The Mississippi with Ralph Waite, Lethal Justice and Alien Zone. Jeanie has also been in several regional and national commercials, including voiceovers for AT&T and Purina.

Miss Prism

Denise is excited to work in this fun collaboration between OCU and Oklahoma Shakespeare! Favorite shows include “Sweet Delilah Swim Club” and “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” (Jewel Box Theatre), “Heartbreak House” and “Hamlet” (3rd Act Theatre), “The Women” (Reduxion Theatre), “The Library” (Carpenter Square) and most recently “The Merry Wives of Windsor” (Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Paseo). Directing credits include “On Golden Pond”, “Rumors” and “Arsenic and Old Lace” (Jewel Box Theatre) and “Damaged Goods” (3rd Act Theatre). Denise is the Choir Teacher at Bishop McGuinness, owner of Bella Voce voice studio in Edmond and a member of the band Everybody Else’s Girl as well as Bella Voce chamber choir. She is also a performer with Character Connection Co. She wants to thank Lance for trusting her with this character. She would also like to thank her husband David, for his love and support of her “play time” and God, for the gifts He has given her.

Canon Chasuble

Nicholas Bartell graduated in 2009 from the Peggy Dow Helmerich School of Drama at the University of Oklahoma. Performance credits: The Depot: The Polar Sketchspress (Writer / Performer). Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park: A Christmas Carol (Bob Cratchit, Various), The Taming of the Shrew (Gremio), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Peter Quince), Romeo and Juliet (Friar Lawrence). Reduxion Theatre: Antigone (Tiresias). Theatre Crude Festival: The CatMaster Cycle (Cat Jesus, Devereaux). Namron Players Theatre: 24 Hour Play Festival (Various), The Taylor Trap (John Masterson). Directing credits: Lyric’s Thelma Gaylord Academy: Some Assembly Required, Not-So-Grimm Tales, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Realm, Urinetown. Cimarron Opera Company: An Extraordinarily Pleasant, Enjoyable, or Exciting Trip to the Museum, Ruddigore, The Gondoliers, Pirates of Penzance. Nicholas also provides dialect coaching for theatre productions and private lessons in and around the OKC Metro area.

Merriman/Lane/Jack (U/S)

Ryan Smith is a BFA Acting Major at Oklahoma City University, from Marietta, Georgia. He is incredibly excited to be making his OKShakes debut. Previous OCU credits include "Gross Indecency" (Swing) and "Life Sucks" (U/S The Professor/Aster). He has also recently done lighting design for OCU's "White Christmas" and the "Student Choreography Showcase." Love to Mom, Dad, Sean, Pops, Grandma, and Julianna for their unconditional support, all his friends for their kindness and tough love. A-B Thanks be to God. IG: @ryansmith022005

Maid

Ashlynn Long is a junior BFA Acting Major with minors in Directing and Children's Theatre at Oklahoma City University. Recent credits include Circle Mirror Transformation (Lauren) with Out of the Box, Peter and the Starcatcher. (Alf/Ensemble) with OKC Parks and Rec, and Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook (Female Swing) with Oklahoma Children's Theatre. She is originally from Parker, CO, and enjoys reading, baking, and being outdoors. Ashlynn would like to thank her wonderfully supportive family and friends.

Merriman/Lane

Kyle Page, is a sophomore BFA Acting major with a minor in Scenic Design, most recently Kyle work on Government Inspector as an understudy for Hlestakov, and was last seen in A Soldiers Play as Captain Taylor.

Lady Bracknell U/S

Crei Pierson (Lady Bracknell and Prism U/S) She/Her. Crei is a Junior BFA Acting and Directing minor here at OCU. She is from Dallas, TX. This is her first show here at Oklahoma Shakespeare. Her recent credits include Corduroy (Mother) at OCT, Hero’s of the Fourth Turning (Gina), Medea (Nurse), Paradise (Yasmeen). She is so excited to work on another amazing production here at Oklahoma Shakespeare. She wants to say thank you so much to her family, directors, and friends for their love and support.

Maid, U/S Gwendolen

Julianna Bullock is a Junior BFA Acting Major from Chicago, IL. Her recent credits include Louann in Hairspray (James Lumbar Center), Karen U/S in Dusty and the Big Bad World (Oklahoma City University). She would like to thank her family and friends for their constant support and encouragement.

Director

D. LANCE MARSH (he/him/his) is proud to be serving in his seventeenth year as an Associate Artistic Director for Oklahoma Shakespeare and in his twentieth year at TheatreOCU, where he serves as a Professor and Head of Performance (and briefly as an Acting Associate Dean). For OS, he has acted in Hamlet, Emma and Blythe Spirit, and The Merry Wives of Windsor and directed Misalliance, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Merchant of Venice, A Comedy of Errors, The Seagull, Othello, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Blythe Spirit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, GB Shaw’s You Never Can Tell, and Much Ado About Nothing. As an actor, he has appeared at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Western Stage, the California Shakespeare Festival, the Okoboji Summer Theatre, Next Act Theatre, First Stage Children’s Theatre, the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, the Milwaukee Shakespeare Company, the Texas Shakespeare Festival, and the Arizona Repertory Theatre and was a company member for 5 years at American Players Theatre. A proud member of Actors Equity, he has performed in the City Rep productions of Our Town, Hay Fever, Moonlight and Magnolias, August: Osage County, Much Ado About Nothing and as Mark Rothko in Red and in Peter and the Starcatcher. His most recent projects include playing the role of Sam Byck in Assassins, Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon, and Ebeneezer Scrooge (twice) in A Christmas Carol at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma.

DR. AMY S. OSAINSKI is an Associate Professor of Theatre History in the School of Theatre and Head of the BATIE. Amy holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from CU Boulder. Productions include, Director: Spring Awakening (Denver Regional Premiere - Ignite Theatre), Newsies (Theatre Cedar Rapids), She Kills Monsters (OCU). Intimacy Director: The Prom (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), Lizzie the Musical (Forgelight Theatreworks, Tarleton State University), School for Lies, Romeo and Juliet, Head Over Heels, Dracula(OCU). Amy is also a scholar who has written several books and chapters on contemporary theatre and musical theatre. www.amyosatinski.com

Costume Design

She/they. Ella is a junior Costume Design and Technology major from San Antonio, TX. Her recent credits include A Sick Day for Amos McGee at the Oklahoma City Children's Theater and working as a costume assistant for the Oklahoma City Ballet's production of The Nutcracker. She wants to thank the rest of the amazing cast and crew of Earnest for all their hard work, and her mother, sister, and brother for all of their support

Sound Design is a senior Design and Production student with double emphases in sound and technical direction. Recent credits include: White Christmas (Technical Director), Street Scene (Sound Designer), Lyric’s Summer at the Civic Center 2025 (Audio Engineer), A Soldier’s Play (Technical Director), Lyric’s A Christmas Carol 2023 & 2024 (A2), Mother Road (Asst. Technical Director), Footloose (Sound Designer), and more! Josie would like to thank her family, mentors, and friends for encouraging her to pursue her passion.

Props Design is a Sophomore Design and Production major with an emphasis in Scenic Design. Grant has worked as a Scenic Designer for his high school in Dallas, TX, but his OCU credits include Street Scene and A Soldier’s Play as Assistant Scenic Designer, Legacy of Light as Props Artisan, The Drowsy Chaperone as Deck Crew, and Life Sucks as Light Board Operator.