Meet the Team
Executive Director
Lucy Randall-Tapply
Lucy 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.
Marketing & Development Director
Sarah Corbyn Woolf
Sarah is a theater maker working at the juncture of body, mind, and language. She is a director, actor, teacher, and producer. She has worked with companies across the northeast US and Washington, D.C., including Shakespeare Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Company, and New York Classical Theater. Locally, she has worked with Junkyard Shakespeare, Community Shakespeare of New England, Deerfield Academy, and Majestic Theatre in West Springfield. Sarah is also certified with the Association of Mental Health Coordinators where she holds the position of Director of Communications. SCW headshot.jpeg Sarah Corbyn Woolf founding artistic director She earned her MFA from the Academy at Shakespeare Theatre Company/GWU and has co-founded three companies now, including The Woolgatherers Theater Group. She is dedicated to finding better practices in this industry, as well as the ongoing research and practice of applying expressive movement and somatic modalities to Shakespeare training and performance. Favorite acting credits include Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Helena (All’s Well That Ends Well); Elvira (Blithe Spirit), Sir Toby Belch (Twelfth Night); Mistress Page (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Hero (Much Ado About Nothing); Lucy (The Rivals); Friar Lawrence (Romeo and Juliet); Adriana (Comedy of Errors); and Gertrude, Ophelia, Osric, and both gravediggers (Hamlet). Directing credits include War of the Roses p. I: She-Wolves and Queens, and War of the Roses p. II: Curses and Queens, and Romeo and Juliet summer 2025.
Board of Trustees
Martha Nichols
Board Chair
Sarah Corbyn Woolf
Vice President
Ethan Fifield
Secretary
Eliana Weiss
Treasurer
Jessie Chapman
Trustee
Emily Hyde
Trustee
Debbi Finkelstein
Trustee
Our Founder
Caroline Nesbitt 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.