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Drunk Shakespeare is an off-Broadway play created by Scott Griffin and David Hudson[1] currently performing in New York City, Chicago, Washington D.C., Phoenix, and Houston.[2] It premiered at Quinn's Bar and Grill in March 2014. As of Jan 2019, there have been over 2000 performances. It received a New York Times Critic's Pick saying "it seems inevitable that all performing will soon be done either plastered or stoned".[3] Drunk Shakespeare follows a trend of drinking and performing popularized by the Comedy Central series Drunk History.
In 2023, the actors, stage managers, bartenders, and servers unionized as Drunk Shakespeare United. [4]
Premise
[edit]The show has five actors. One has between four and six shots of alcohol in front of the audience. The cast then attempts to perform one of Shakespeare's plays. The drunk actor can do anything they want and the four sober actors must follow their requests.
Cast
[edit]Current NYC cast members include: Sarah Ann Leahy, Craig Jackson, Samuel Adams, Gracie Lee Brown, Ryan Farnsworth, Travis Raeburn, Sky Young, Brandon Salerno, Ali Regan, and Morgan Haney[5]
Past cast members include: Whit Leyenberger, Michael Amendola, Hayley Palmer, Danielle Cohn, Alison Wien, Mike Sause, Aubrey Taylor, Kelsey Lidsky, Scott Watson, Caitlin Morris, Tim Haber, David Andrew Laws, Jack Corcoran, Mariah Parris, Damiyr Shuford (now with Blue Man Group), Josh Hyman (now with Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus), Lindsey Hope Pearlman (Up & Down Theatre), Lucas Calhoun (The Elephant Man), Julia Giolzetti, Josh Sauerman (Three Day Hangover), Brandon Carter (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Phil Gillen, Adam Thomas Smith, Poppy Liu, Tiffany Abercrombie, Kristin Friedlander (The Flea, Chicago Shakespeare), Lou Sallan, Chris Gebauer, Monique Sanchez, Elissa Klie, Carolina Do, Kate Gunther, Michele Danna, and Justin Minchow.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Drunk Shakespeare - Lortel Archives". www.lortel.org. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ↑ "Welcome". Drunk Shakespeare. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
- ↑ Genzlinger, Neil (2016-01-25). "Review: 'Drunk Shakespeare,' Where the Tipsy and the Sober Take Liberties". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ↑ "New York Drunk Shakespeare Joins Three Other Cities to Unionize with Actors' Equity Association · Actors' Equity Association".
- ↑ "Drunk Shakespeare About". Drunk Shakespeare. Retrieved 6 June 2025.