2026 Shakerspeare Playbill - The Tempest

2 July he will be the accordionist for Union Avenue Opera’s Fiddler On the Roof. Crayton is very excited to be ending his year as a piano bar entertainer on the Holland America cruise line! He thanks Vera, Carter, and his parents. Otto Klemp (Mariner) (they/them) is ecstatic to be mak- ing their St. Louis Shakespeare Festival debut! Favorite credits include Bobby/Clarinet in Cabaret (New Jewish Theatre), Josephine Decker’s newest film, Chasing Summer, and Ensemble/Roving Clarinet in Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (Webster University). Education: BFA from Webster University’s Sargent Conservatory, GradCert Applied Shakespeare from University of Colorado at Boulder. insta: otto.klemp ottoklemp.com Eliza Pagelle* (Ariel) (she/they) is an actor, musician, and teaching artist from Greenville, South Carolina. Their furniture resides in New York City. Off-Broadway: All The World’s A Stage (Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical) at Keen Company. Regional: Heroes Of The Fourth Turning, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson Apt. 2B at The Warehouse Theatre; Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire at Tennessee Shakespeare Company; Ellis Island at Lean Ensemble Theater/Hilton Head Symphony; Juliet, Viola, Ophelia, Portia, Bianca, Witch, & many more at the Texas Shakespeare Festival. Developmental: Our Father at Irish Rep/ Manhattan Theatre Club; All The World’s A Stage at the SC New Play Festival. Film: A Complete Unknown. Music: All The World’s A Stage Cast Album streaming everywhere, Eliza is half of a Shakespeare-flavored folk band called Upstartcrows . Training: Fine Arts Center, SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Fordham University, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Juilliard School of Music. Reps: CGF Talent / IG: @elizapagelle / www.elizapagelle.com Reginald Pierre* (Sebastian) is thrilled to be working again with the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival. He previously appeared in last summer’s Hamlet. He is a St. Louis native, who loves TV, owls, and the San Francisco 49ers. His current passion project is counting down the 81 greatest TV theme songs of all time. Much love to Them Frogs. Whit Reichert* (Gonzalo) is very excited to be joining The Shakespeare Festival for his ninth mainstage produc- tion. He was last seen as Verges in Much Ado About Nothing. Other productions include The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Hamlet and Othello. Whit has worked with most of the professional theatres in St. Louis including The Muny, Stages, The Black Rep, St. Louis Actors’ Studio, The Variety Club and 27 productions at The Rep. Regionally, he has performed with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Great Plains Theatre Festival, Fireside Theatre, Casa Manana, The Starlight Theatre, The Riverside Theatre, Great Lakes Festival Theatre, Galveston Grand Opera House, B&B Dinner Theatre and The Little Theatre on the Square. He was recently honored as a St. Louis Theatre Circle MEET THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM *Member, Actor’s Equity Association 26