Our Executive Director

Lucy Randall-Tapply is an actor, teaching artist, and school librarian based in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. She studied literature, Romance languages, and theater education at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, and linguistics at Sarah Lawrence College, receiving a BA in Liberal Arts from the latter in 2012.

Lucy first joined Advice To The Players as a volunteer, then as Trinculo in 2016’s The Tempest, and the rest is history. Favorite acting roles with the company include Witch/Lady Macduff (Macbeth, 2017), Regan (King Lear, 2018), Bianca (The Taming, 2018), Paulina (The Winter’s Tale, 2020),
Jaques (As You Like It, 2020), Robin Goodfellow (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2021), and Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing, 2023). Favorite non-acting roles include directing high school productions for the New Hampshire Shakespeare Festival and advising ATTP’s teen company, Queen Mab.

Lucy is a word nerd with a particular affinity for historical linguistics; the text is always her first and favorite entry point into the work. She inherited her love of Shakespeare from her grandmother, Dorothy Randall, and bequeathing that love to others is her greatest joy.

Our ​Board of Trustees

Martha Nichols, Chair
Ethan Fifield, Secretary
Sarah Corbyn Woolf, Treasurer​
Jessie Chapman
Vicky Dworkin​
Eliana Weiss

Our Founder

Caroline Nesbitt (Founding Artistic Director) started Advice To The Players in 1999, in response to a need for an accessible resident theater that involved students and community at all levels. As an actor Caroline has appeared with New Art Theatre, Mount Washington Valley Theatre Company, New Hampshire Performing Arts Center, Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Hackmatack Repertory, etc., as well as in film and voice-overs. As a writer, her work has appeared in American Theatre, Teaching Theatre, The Boston Globe, TheaterMania.com, etc. She taught Theatre & Drama at The Community School (Tamworth, NH) for 13 years, was an adjunct professor of Acting at New Hampshire Institute of Art (Manchester, NH) for 2, and conducts many acting workshops for groups ranging from schools to libraries. Besides her work with Advice To The Players, Caroline directs Shakespeare productions for other companies. Her acting education includes two previous generations of acting Nesbitts, as well as Shakespeare work with David Perry (RADA, London Shakespeare School, etc.) and with Tina Packer, Dennis Krausnick, and Kevin Coleman at Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, MA. She has been honored by the New Hampshire Theatre Awards for her work with youth and children.