2024-25 Teaching Artists
Ashley Wingo, Artist Educator
Ashley Wingo is an Artist Educator who is relocating from Jackson Tennessee and is originally from Kosciusko Mississippi. Ashley was born and raised in the south of Mississippi where she proceeded to acquire her Associate’s degree (Hinds Community College) as well as her Bachelor’s degree through the Acting for Stage & Screen program (The University of Mississippi). Ashley finds comfort in learning to master her skills in theatre production either through acting, designing, or directing, not to mention her backstage & shop skills. Outside of her previous college career, she’s acquired the title as an Actor Combatant through the Society of American Fight Directors with hopes of further advancing through the organization in the future.
In her free time, Ashley likes to enjoy her favorite hobbies as a gamer & coee connoisseur. Outside of work, you can find her with an iced caramel macchiato watching her favorite show or playing her favorite role playing game. Ashley is proud to delve into her new role through Kentucky Shakespeare, and she sends her greatest thanks to her friends and family back home.
Eli Borwick, Artist Educator
Eli Borwick is a recent graduate of Murray State University with a B.A. in Theatre Arts. He has discovered his love for teaching throughout his college career.
He is excited to teach young people through his work with Kentucky Shakespeare!
Madison Harmon, Artist Educator
Madison Harmon is an actor, artist, and storyteller with a passion for sharing stories that resonate with audiences and inspire them to think, feel, and believe. She recently graduated from Western Kentucky University with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Some of her roles include Charlotte in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Percy Jackson in The Lightning Thief, and Yenchna in Fools.
She is so excited to be working with Kentucky Shakespeare to bring theatre to the youth within our community and region. Madison is very passionate about making the arts accessible to everyone, so working with Kentucky Shakespeare is a dream come true!
Robert Erdman, Artist Educator
Robert is thrilled to be a part of the educational performance program with Kentucky Shakespeare Company this year! Recent credits he’s done include the 87th season at The Lost Colony portraying Father Martin as
well as working as the Puppet Captain this past summer. And this last Fall he worked as Dimitri Winmore in the Clean-Up Crew at ValleyFair Amusement park for their tricks and treats event. Robert Studied Theatrical Performance at Valdosta State University where he received a BFA.
Robert’s passion for education of the youth goes beyond theater, as between contracts he’s worked the past year as a long term substitute teacher in Lake County, Florida!
Guest Teaching Artists & Instructors
Mollie Murk, Artistic Associate
mollie@kyshakespeare.comMollie has worked with Kentucky Shakespeare for the past several years as an actor and teaching artist, recently playing Viola in Twelfth Night, Juliet in KSF’s touring production of Romeo and Juliet, as well as The Woman in KSF’s 2021 Halloween thriller, The Turn of the Screw. Mollie is an alum of Hope College and Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training, and is a proud member of the Ring of Keys Network: www.RingofKeys.org/keys/Mollie-Murk.
They also have performed at Actors Theater of Louisville (The Wolves, Dracula, Dracula: the Radio Play, and Are You There?) Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Derby Dinner Playhouse, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Suspend Aerial Arts, and have enjoyed teaching at Commonwealth Theatre Center, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Lookingglass Theatre Company.
Keith McGill, Guest Teaching Artist/Director
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.
Gregory Maupin, Guest Workshop/Class Instructor
Class: Shakespeare Off the Page
Gregory has appeared in many Kentucky Shakespeare productions since 2004, and he is our resident dramaturg. He has appeared in Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Guildenstern), The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Launce), The Tempest(Stephano), Hamlet (Polonius), Twelfth Night (Malvolio), Henry V (Fluellen), and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (Shakespeare), among others.
He and his wife Abigail co-founded Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble in 2004, co-creating many original works, adapting classics, and building masks; they also perform as Prohibition-era ukulele duo Rannygazoo and co-wrote The Glorious Adventures of the Mighty Robin Hood, produced locally at StageOne Family Theatre. With Actors Theatre: Macbeth, Luna Gale, At the Vanishing Point, Our Town, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 43 Plays for 43 Presidents, among others. With the Dell’Arte Company: Vaudeville (co-creator); Paradise Lost. With ImprovBoston: Musical! The Musical. Gregory is a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.