This revelatory new take on Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy drops you inside the fractured mind of the prince. With breathtaking binaural sound design by Tony-Award winner Mikhail Fiksel and starring Daniel Kyri, this is Hamlet as you’ve never heard it.

A Tribeca Festival World Premiere

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HAMLET

By William Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by Jeremy McCarter
Sound design by Mikhail Fiksel
Executive produced by Emilia LaPenta and Jeremy McCarter


CAST

Daniel Kyri - Hamlet
Ayanna Bria Bakari - Ophelia
Terry Bell - Guildenstern/Voltimand
Ronald L. Conner - Gravedigger
Eduardo Curley-Carrillo - Ensemble
Lorena Diaz - Ensemble
Daveed Diggs - Prologue
Charles Andrew Gardner - Rosencrantz/Cornelius
Henry Godinez - Priest
Lawrence Grimm - Captain
Erik Hellman - Horatio
Bill Irwin - Osric
Timothy Edward Kane - Laertes
Delia Kropp - Ensemble
Jacob Ming-Trent - Polonius
Roslyn Ruff - Player Queen
Lorenzo Rush, Jr. - Marcellus/Lucianus
Anna Deavere Smith - Player King
John Douglas Thompson - Claudius/Ghost
Sharon Washington - Gertrude

PRODUCTION STAFF

Associate director – Sydney Charles
Casting director – Laura Alcalá Baker
Voice and text coach – Julie Congress
Script supervisor – Sonya Hayden with support from Jay Black
Press representatives - Chris Boneau and Angela Yamarone, Boneau/Bryan-Brown
Legal services - Carolyn Casselman, Davis Wright Tremaine

MUSIC

Traditional songs adapted and original music composed by Nygel D. Robinson and Mikhail Fiksel
Music performed by Brandon Acker, Eduardo Curley-Carrillo, and Mikhail Fiksel


SOUND

Recorded and Engineered at:
Tightrope Recording in Chicago – Max Fabian, Mikhail Fiksel, and Jaden Ebanks
Renaissance Recording in New York – Angie Teo and Neal Shaw
MediaNoise in New York – Josh Samuels and Quentin Chiapetta

Edited by Max Fabian, Jaden Ebanks, and Susie McCollom 
Mixed and mastered by Mikhail Fiksel and Joe Palermo

ARTWORK

Cover art portrait by Andrea Coleman
Photograph of Daniel Kyri by Alex Hazel Studio
Graphic design by Good Many/Carly Pearlman

MAJOR PRODUCTION SUPPORT

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
Joyce Chelberg
The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
Chris Hayes and Kate Shaw
The Miranda Family Fund
Rocco and Debby Landesman
Conor O’Neil
The board of directors of Make-Believe Association

SPECIAL THANKS

Drew Broussard 
Andrew Emmer
Oskar Eustis
Davy Gardner
Adam Green
Chiara Klein
Michael San Gabino
James Shapiro
Nevin Steinberg

FOUNDING DONOR

The Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Family Foundation

This production was recorded under a SAG-AFTRA Agreement.