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. At ATTP, Chapman’s work comprises a dual focus of leadership and arts education. Her vision for the future of the company centers on a commitment to serving the community with a particular emphasis on expanding meaningful programming for engagement of local teens. Jessie has been running all education programs at ATTP since 2015, including hiring and training of dozens of teaching artists. Chapman has expanded ATTP’s education program offerings by engaging in partnerships with local schools and non-profits serving at risk youth, and by designing dozens of workshops specifically tailored for groups of public, private, and homeschooled students. Chapman forms a link between ATTP and PSU where she teaches and serves as a member of the Cluster Pedagogy and Learning Community, a grassroots effort to develop coherence and community around open, project-based, and interdisciplinary learning. Jessie lives in Sandwich with her daughter, Lenore. |
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Lucy Randall-Tapply (Associate Producer) is an actor, teaching artist, and aspiring 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. |
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Julia de Avilez Rocha (Marketing Manager) is an actor and teaching artist who was first seen with ATTP the summer of 2020 on the company’s radio show Hamlet Noir. Upon returning, she taught the Sandwich cobble and directed them in their rendition of A Midsummer Nights Dream - a socially distant film ( for socially distant times). ATTP Credits: Twelfth Night (2020-2021), Daphnis and Chloe (2022), and Much Ado About Nothing (2023). Regional credits: Pussy sludge (RLT), Cherry Orchard (Quantum), Tempest (Pittsburgh Public) Educational Credits: Macbeth // Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare & Company Northeast Regional Tour), Young Playwrights Festival (City Theatre). Julia was trained with Shakespeare & Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Phillippe Gaulier School in Paris, and received her B.A in English at the University of Pittsburgh. Through ATTP and Shakespeare & Company, she has taught at various middle schools and high schools local to the East Coast, as well as the University of Pittsburgh where she was an adjunct lecturer in the Spring of 2023.
Julia has recently joined the team as ATTP's Marketing Manager and follows a long legacy of writing copy, social media posts, ad sales, etc. She hopes to bring ATTP's story online and narrate the journey through various transitions, trials, and triumphs. Julia is Mama to a cat called Cat (i.e Gata, Gatinha, Kitty, or Mani) and Tia to four human children. |
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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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