2025-26 Teaching Artists

Ashley Wingo, Artist Educator
Ashley Wingo is an Artist Educator who relocated from Jackson Tennessee and was born & raised in the south of Mississippi. After achieving her Associate’s Degree (Hinds Community College) and her BFA in Stage and Screen Acting (The University of Mississippi), Ashley worked professionally in Jackson Tennessee for a year.
She found herself moving to the city of Louisville soon after to begin her new position with Kentucky Shakespeare as a touring artist and actor. Ashley will reprise her position with Kentucky Shakespeare as part of the Summer Education Touring group. Ashley will also be working with Kentucky Shakespeare’s summer acting company as an understudy for the role of Hamlet in the Festival’s 65th anniversary season of Kentucky Shakespeare Festival.
Outside of her college & professional career, Ashley achieved the title as an Actor Combatant through the Society of American Fight Directors, and plans to continue learning as she is a student at heart. In her free time, you can find Ashley with an iced latte, watching her favorite film, or playing her favorite role playing game. Ashley is excited to continue working with Kentucky Shakespeare as she delves deeper into her roles with the company. Ashley is grateful for the constant support she receives from her partner, friends, and family.

Eli Borwick, Artist Educator
Eli just finished his first year as an Artist Educator with Kentucky Shakespeare. He spent the year touring around the state teaching Shakespeare as well as touring four, two actor shows in schools around the state.
Before that, he received his Bachelors in Theatre Arts from Murray State University. He spent his time at Murray State performing in both musicals and plays, as well as being in an acapella group, EQ Blu.
Some of his favorite roles include: Cliff in Cabaret, Leon Czolgocz in Assassins, Serge in Art, Sam Houston in Unto These Hills and Demetrius in both Human and Puppet form in A Midsummer Night’s Dream this year with Kentucky Shakespeare!

Madison Harmon, Artist Educator
Being born and raised in Eastern Kentucky, Madison knows firsthand the profound impact and power the arts can have on people—especially when they reach communities that are overlooked or underserved. That experience is why she is passionate about making the arts accessible to everyone from all walks of life; because the arts are and should be for everyone!

Robert Erdman, Artist Educator
Robert is an Actor, and Artist Educator originally from Melbourne Florida, but has moved here to Louisville! He has spent the past year here as a new artist educator with Kentucky Shakespeare’s Education Team. Traveling all over the state performing, and teaching workshops to students of all ages. Most recently, you may have seen him in our summer library tours of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or Shakespeare Alive! Aside from touring he’s also guided guests as one of our docents in Untimely Ripp’d. Previous credits include the past Three Summers with The Lost Colony playing Father Martin & leading as Puppeteer Captain. As well as two years with ValleyFair as a part of their Tricks & Treats event!
Robert has been educating young theatrical artists since he was a young theatrical artist. He first started in education with The Henegar Center of the Arts in his hometown of Melbourne, Florida. Guiding middle school students in their roles over multiple summers in Shrek Jr. as well as The Lion King Jr. While studying to earn his BFA at Valdosta State University he had his first touring experience with How I Became A Pirate, which toured to schools, libraries, and community centers around Georgia. Since graduation, he has spent time between shows teaching all as Long Term Teacher Replacement at Oak Park Middle School in Leesburg, Florida. Most recently, he’s just finished his first year of touring across Kentucky both performing, educating, and facilitating workshops for students of all ages. Whether the nature of the education be theatrical, or STEM, Robert has experience teaching students of all ages.
Guest Teaching Artists & Instructors

Gregory Maupin, Associate Teaching Artist
Class: Shakespeare Off the Page
Greg is an actor and dramaturg with Kentucky Shakespeare. He and his wife Abigail bring theater into people’s homes as Wingback Productions (at Gmail dotcom), tour as Prohibition ukulele duo Rannygazoo, and in 2004 co-founded Louisville’s Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble. He is a charter member of Brooklyn’s Under the Table Ensemble and co-founder of the Church of Grover’s Corners, which should be self-explanatory. Kentucky Shakespeare appearances include: Twelfth Night (Feste 2022; Malvolio 2016), Much Ado (Benedick), Midsummer (Bottom), Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio), As You Like It (Touchstone), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Guildenstern), Pride & Prejudice (Mr. Bennet, Charlotte). With Actors Theatre: A Christmas Carol: Ghost Story (solo), Luna Gale (Cliff), At the Vanishing Point (Martin), Our Town (Simon Stimson), Midsummer (Flute), Macbeth, 43 Plays for 43 Presidents. Gregory graduated from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.

Keith McGill, Associate Teaching Artist
Keith McGill has been a free-lance theater teacher and workshop leader for over a decade for organizations including Kentucky Shakespeare, Shakespeare Behind Bars, ArtsReach, and Walden Theatre and Actors’ Theatre’s New Voices playwriting program. He has also appeared in productions with various theatre organizations, such as Actors Theatre, Stage One, Louisville Repertory Theatre, and Looking for Lilith Theatre Company. Keith is also a professional stand-up comedian, performing in venues nationwide and internationally for Holland America and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

Mollie Murk, Associate Teaching Artist
mollie@kyshakespeare.comMollie is a proud Louisville transplant from Illinois, and has worked at Kentucky Shakespeare as an actor, teaching artist, and artistic associate. Recent Kentucky Shakespeare credits include The Comedy of Errors (Adriana), The Tempest (Trinculo), Romeo & Juliet (Mercutio), Sense & Sensibility (Elinor), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Pride & Prejudice (Lizzy), The Turn of the Screw, and Twelfth Night (Viola). Other regional credits: Taming of the Shrew at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and Actors Theatre of Louisville’s King John, The Wolves, Dracula, Dracula: the Radio Play, and Are You There? in the Humana Festival. Mollie also recently directed As You Like It at three witches shakespeare, and has performed and taught at companies such as Hope Repertory Theatre, Derby Dinner Playhouse, Louisville Ballet, Ambo Dance Theatre, Louisville Fringe, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Mollie is an alum of Hope College and Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training, a proud member of the Ring of Keys Network.