Barry Kraft Shakespeare Explorations
Barry’s previously recorded Shakespeare sessions available for purchase:
2025: Julius Caesar and As You Like It: 3 hours (in two sessions): $50
2024: Much Ado and Macbeth: 3 hours (in two sessions): $50
2023: Exploring the First Folio: 3 hours (in two sessions): $50
2022: The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Much Ado: 4 ½ hours (in three sessions): $100
2021: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet: 5 hours (in three sessions): $100
Entire collection: $300. Email: contact@roguetheatercompany.com
Barry Kraft has had a lifelong immersion in Shakespeare, both page and stage. Few people on this planet know the Bard as well as Barry. Join him for an engaging exploration of these two ever-resonant plays, where he'll share unique insights and discoveries in his signature style.
Barry Kraft
Actor, dramaturg, Shakespeare scholar
Barry has been an actor and lecturer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 31 seasons, including dramaturging nearly 60 productions. Other acting credits include Colorado and Utah Shakespeare Festivals, Old Globe at San Diego, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, A Contemporary Theater in Seattle, American Conservatory Theater, and Marin Shakespeare Company, among others. He has acted in 88 full productions of all Shakespeare's 38 plays, more than 100 roles. Barry has written After Dinner Shakespeare and Shakespeare Insult Generator. He has recorded several books on tape, including Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Barry Kraft’s Completed Canon
(excluding understudies or non-speaking roles)
All’s Well That Ends Well: Parolles, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) Antony and Cleopatra: Octavius Caesar, Marin Shakespeare Festival (MSF) ; Enobarbus, Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC); Scarus/Philo, OSF As You Like It: Amiens, Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF); Duke Frederick and Duke Senior, CSF; Oliver, Old Globe San Diego (Globe); Corin, OSF The Comedy of Errors: Dr. Pinch, OSF Coriolanus: Coriolanus, CSF; Citizen/Senator/ Soldier, OSF Cymbeline: Iachimo, OSF Hamlet: Prologue, Laguna Beach Playhouse (LBP); Hamlet, CSF; Ghost of King Hamlet, OSF; Ghost of King Hamlet/Prologue/First Gravedigger/ Player King, Marin Shakespeare Company (MSC) Henry IV, Part One: Hotspur, OSF; Sir John Falstaff, Augusta College; First Carrier/Owen Glendower, OSF Henry IV, Part Two: Bardolph/Page, Globe; Rumor, CSF; Justice Shallow, CSF Henry V: Michael Williams, Globe; Chorus, OSF; Duke of Burgundy, OSF; Sir Thomas Erpingham, OSF; Archbishop of Canterbury, OSF Henry VI, Part 1: Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge, CSF Henry VI, Part 2: Jack Cade, OSF Henry VI, Part 3: Tutor/Lord Hastings, OSF Henry VIII: Cranmer, OSF Julius Caesar: Cassius, University of Colorado; Caesar, Marin Shakespeare Company; Mark Antony, OSF; Brutus, SSC King John: Philip Faulconbridge (the Bastard), CSF; Lymoges, Duke of Austria, OSF King Lear: Edmund, UOC; King of France, California Shakespeare Festival; King Lear, American Conservatory Theater (ACT); King Lear, MSC; King Lear; Southern Oregon University, King Lear Love's Labor's Lost: Marcade, Globe; Berowne, OSF Macbeth: Macduff, MSF Macbeth, UOC; Measure for Measure: Elbow/Friar Peter, Globe The Merchant of Venice: Prince of Morocco, CSF; Gratiano, OSF The Merry Wives of Windsor: Sir John Falstaff, CSF; Pistol, Globe; Ford, OSF A Midsummer Night's Dream: Oberon, Orange Coast College; Snout, Globe; Bottom, CSF and OSF Much Ado About Nothing: Don Pedro, CSF; Claudio, Globe; Dogberry, OSF and MSC Othello: Cassio, Globe; Senator, OSF; Duke of Venice, OSF; Senator/Lodovico, OSF Pericles: Gower/Chorus, Berkeley Shakespeare Richard II: Murderer, California Shakespeare Festival; John of Gaunt, OSF; Lord Berkeley, OSF; Gardener, OSF; Groom, OSF Richard III: Tressel (Gentleman), Globe; 2nd Murderer; Earl of Richmond, King Edward IV, OSF; Sir James Blunt, OSF; Cardinal Bourchier, OSF Romeo and Juliet: Romeo, (LBP); Benvolio, Globe The Taming of the Shrew: 2nd Servant, Globe; Curtis, Globe The Tempest: Caliban, CSF; Sebastian, Globe; Prospero, Utah Shakespearean Festival Timon of Athens: Poet, OSF Titus Andronicus: Marcus Andronicus, CSF Troilus and Cressida: Thersites, CSF; Hector, Globe; Twelfth Night: Priest, ACT; Orsino, Globe The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Proteus, OSF The Two Noble Kinsmen: Gerrold and Hymen, OSF The Winter's Tale: Dion, Globe; Leontes, CSF; Leontes, OSF; Antigonus, OSF
Trinculo (Michael Renner), Stephano (Christian Hedemann), Caliban (Barry) in THE TEMPEST at Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Barry playing a simultaneous exhibition
Scarus (Barry) and Antony (Henry Woronicz) in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at OSF
Geoffrey Ridden (Gloucester) and Barry as King Lear at SOU
Brenda Hubbard (Imogen) and Barry (Iachimo) in CYMBELINE at OSF
Luciana (Gloria Biegler), Antipholus of Ephesus (Daniel Mayes), Adriana (Joyce Harris), Dr. Pinch (Barry), The Kid (Steven Patterson) in THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at OSF
Mark Meddle (Barry) and Mr. Cool (Richard Esterbrook) in LONDON ASSURANCE at OSF
George Page (Richard Elmore) and Frank Ford (Barry) in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at OSF
Hamlet (Barry) and Gertrude (Ricky Weiser) at Colorado Shakespeare Festival
The Chorus in HENRY V at OSF
Leonato (Toby Anderson) and Dogberry (Barry) in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at OSF
Jay Karnes (Brutus) and Barry (Caesar) in JULIUS CAESAR at Marin Shakespeare Company
John of Gaunt (Barry) and Henry Bolingbroke (Stuart Duckworth) in RICHARD II at OSF
King Lear at Marin Shakespeare Company
Mark Antony (Barry) and Philip Davidson (Brutus) in JULIUS CAESAR at OSF
Prospero in THE TEMPEST at the Utah Shakespearean Festival
Romeo (Tim Matheson), Mercutio (John Glover), and Benvolio (Barry) in ROMEO AND JULIET at Old Globe Theatre
Mark Antony in JULIUS CAESAR at OSF
Romeo (Barry) and Juliet (Julie Haas) at Laguna Playhouse
Barry as Thomas Jefferson reciting the Declaration of Independence
Leontes (Barry) and Hermione (Amy Thone) in THE WINTER'S TALE at the Utah Shakespearean Festival