MARK RYLANCE (Robert) is one of Britain’s greatest classical actors.  While attending RADA (1978-1980), the Glasgow Citizens Theatre gave Mark his first job in 1980. He was seen recently in Robert Bly's adaptation of Peer Gynt at The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis and as Sir Thomas Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl for Sony Pictures. Last year he played Robert in the original cast of the new production of BOEING-BOEING at The Comedy Theatre in London’s West End for which he has been nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor and for which he was also nominated for an Evening Standard Theatre Award as Best Actor. He also wrote his first comedy, The Big Secret Live--I am Shakespeare--Webcam Daytime Chatroom Show, which premiered at The Chichester Festival Theatre and toured England. His last appearance in New York was at St. Anne's Warehouse, Brooklyn, as the Duke in Measure for Measure, December, 2005. Mark was the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre for ten years from 1996 through 2006 and is an Associate Artist of the RSC. During his career Mark has acted in 48 productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, playing, amongst others, Richard II, Macbeth, Romeo, Henry V, Posthumus, Cleopatra, Olivia, Ariel, Benedict, Proteus, Touchstone, Iago, Prospero and Hamlet for over 400 performances. He has worked before with Matthew Warchus on Much Ado About Nothing at the Queen’s Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue (for which he won an Olivier Award for Best Actor), True West at the Donmar and West Yorkshire Playhouse and Life x 3 at the National Theatre and Old Vic. Matthew also directed …I am Shakespeare. His other theatre work includes productions for the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Theatre for a New Audience in New York City, the Bush, the Tricycle, and Shared Experience, amongst others. His film and television work includes “The Government Inspector” in which he played Dr. David Kelly and won a BAFTA award for Best Actor; “Leonardo,” “Loving,” “Love Lies Bleeding,” The Grass Arena, Intimacy, Angels and Insects, Institute Benjamenta, Prospero’s Books and Hearts of Fire. Future work includes a revival of his first play and a second play he is writing about Pittsburgh.