Staff
Photo By: Enrico Spada
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Jessie Chapman (Executive Director) has been working with ATTP since
2007 as an actor, teacher, administrator, and behind the scenes. Jessie holds a Master’s Degree in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College. She has worked outside NH with Shakespeare & Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, and the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. Jessie teaches for the Theatre and General Education programs at her Alma mater, Plymouth State University. Jessie lives in Sandwich with her daughter, Lenore. |
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Alicia Edgar (Creative Manager) is a performer and Plymouth State Alumna where received her bachelors degree in Performing Arts Production. Alicia has been working in theatre onstage and off for many years, her passion for theatre having her work whenever she can. Some of her favorite roles have been Cassandra in Cats, Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Viola in Twelfth Night, and some featured dancing roles in Evita and Addams Family. Alicia is the Box Office Manager for Plymouth State University, and teaches dance for Lakes Region Dance and Stages Dance.
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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.
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As a non-profit, we rely on the generous support of our patrons in order to offer and expand our award-winning programs, including classes, workshops, and Summer camps, as well as full-scale professional productions of Shakespeare’s plays.
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Please consider a donation, or join our organization as a volunteer!
©2017 Advice To The Players. All Photography by DFD Photography, Monika O'Clair Photography, and Diana Evans.
Advice To The Players is a unique company of theater professionals, enthusiastic community members and energetic teens that has been performing Shakespeare and offering workshops in New Hampshire's Lakes and Mountains Region since 1999.
Advice To The Players is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit committed to arts, education and community engagement.
Advice To The Players is located in N’dakinna, which is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook and Wabanaki Peoples past and present. We acknowledge and honor with gratitude the land and waterways and the alnobak (people) who have stewarded N’dakinna throughout the generations.
Advice To The Players is located in N’dakinna, which is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook and Wabanaki Peoples past and present. We acknowledge and honor with gratitude the land and waterways and the alnobak (people) who have stewarded N’dakinna throughout the generations.
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