Quarrelling Couple Cast for “Much Ado”

Much Ado About Nothing Casting
Matt Shimkus (recently seen in “Twelfth Night”) and Jennifer Lee Taylor (recently seen in “Pygmalion”) to play Benedick and Beatrice in “Much Ado About Nothing.”

Jennifer Lee Taylor and Matt Shimkus are matched as the argumentative and amorous couple Beatrice and Benedick in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s indoor season opener “Much Ado About Nothing.”

Artistic Director George Mount will stage the production set in a coastal resort area in 1953.

Taylor recently played Eliza Doolittle in Seattle Shakespeare Company’s production of “Pygmalion,” and Shimkus was Sir Andrew Augucheek in last summer’s “Gilligan’s Island” inspired Wooden O production of “Twelfth Night.”

Also cast in the “Much Ado About Nothing” company are Brenda Joyner (Hero), Jay Myers (Claudio), Peter Jacobs (Leonato), Jim Gall (Don Pedro), Nick Rempel (Don John), David Quicksall (Dogberry), Heather Persinger (Verges), Noah Greene (Borachio), Olivia Hartshorn (Margaret), Keith Dahlgren (Friar), and Bill Higham (Antonio).

“Much Ado About Nothing” runs Oct. 23 to Nov. 17. Tickets go on sale in mid-September.