Two millennia ago, in late republican Rome, Brutus chooses to take part in the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar, his ally who is slowly consolidating power and public support against the senate. His fellow conspirators are wisecracking, violent young men including the petty Cassius, the clever Casca and the enraged Metellus Cimber. It’s all fun and games until the assassination plot goes through; that is when the comedy unravels and the real tragedy starts.

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Cast

Joseph DePaula (Julius Caesar) is a fourth-year Medieval Studies & History major with a TAPS minor. In his time at the College, he has served as UT’s Outreach Chair for 2 years; Cup of Theater’s Artistic Director for 2 years & Events Manager for 1; and Attori Senza Paura/UChicago Commedia’s Production Manager for 3 years & Outreach Coordinator for 1. He has directed, stage managed, production managed, dramaturged, liaised, written for, and acted in myriad productions in all of these organizations, and he couldn’t be happier to have spent so much of his time at UChicago with them. These organizations, and the people in them, have improved his time here immensely. He’d also like to note how very lucky he is to be making his farewell with such great company. If he were a Roman emperor, he’d like to be deposed as a boy-princeps like Romulus Augustulus probably. Or something ironical like a statue of himself being rigged (ideally in a Rube Goldberg-sort-of fashion) to kill him. Either would be cool, though he reckons he’d prefer the former.

Anya Moseke (Brutus) is a fourth-year Creative Writing and Art History major & TAPS minor and is very excited to be returning for one last Dean’s Men show! Recent credits include TAPS BA theses, Endling/Ensemble in Happy Birthday Mars Rover (TAPS), Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well [RADA], Barbara in The Arsonists [UT], and Queen Margaret in Richard III [The Dean’s Men]. Catch her next at Oak Park Festival Theatre this summer, understudying Laertes in their production of Hamlet, and serving as an acting apprentice! If she were a Roman emperor, she would be deposed for taking too long to make a decision.

Emily Curran (Cassius) is a fourth-year Public Policy and Sociology major and TAPS minor. She has just finished her term as UT Committee Chair and a Theater[24] Curator! Her UT/TAPS credits include: 12 Theater[24] Performances (Curator and Participant); Altered Perception(s) (Lighting Designer/Director); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre); 35mm: A Musical Exhibition (Vocalist); Cactus Flower (Committee Liaison); 2025 BA Thesis Projects (Lighting Designer); If/Then (Committee Liaison); 13th Morning (Lighting Designer/Asst. Director); Arcadia (Asst. Lighting Designer); Much Ado About Nothing (Margaret); Strings Attached (Lighting Designer); Falsettos (Charlotte); Twelfth Night (Lighting Designer); Be More Chill (Asst. Lighting Designer); Macbeth in Space (Lighting Designer); and Romeo and Juliet (Asst. Lighting Designer). She would love to thank all of her wonderful friends and loved ones for the past four years and will preemptively thank them for the next two as she will be here for grad school (huzzah!). If she was in put charge of anything, she would be deposed for asking for one too many subcommittees and making people write things down for institutional knowledge.

David Wang (Mark Antony) is a fourth-year Chemistry and Math major. He previously performed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius). Working on Julius Caesar has been tremendously fun and rewarding for him, and he apologizes for always breaking into fits of laughter at inappropriate places in the script. Being in this production has been absolutely amazing, and he is filled with admiration for his castmates’ performances. If he were a Roman emperor, he would be deposed after his legions realize how wimpy he really is. To close, he would like to thank the cast and crew of Julius Caesar: his new friends, Romans, countrymen.

Alexandra Wilson (Casca/Claudio)

Robert Stimpson (Metellus/Cimber/etc.) Robert is a third year Sociology and Human Development Major who is considering dropping the TAPS Minor. He has performed in many Deans Men shows, including the Tempest, As Y’all Like It, and Much Ado About Nothing, as well as dancing in a Dance Pro Show and 35mm, and performing Dallas Richman in the famous musical Strings Attached. If he was a Roman emperor, he would be deposed via strangulation in the bathtub, after multiple failed assassination attempts, like Commodus. He would be murdered for megalomaniacal rule which ends a golden age of peace and growth, also like Commodus.

Ilie Sturhan (Trebonius/Third Citizen/Varus) began acting as a child in Texas, appearing in her first feature length film, Shilo, at the age of ten. At UChicago she has appeared in Arcadia (Valentine Coverly) and Cactus Flower (Toni Simmons). She currently is pursuing both her acting career and her undergraduate degree in Theater and Performance Studies. If she was a Roman Emperor she would be deposed for malicious sorcery.

Alex Flores (Portia/Cicero/Fourth Citizen/Titinius) is a fourth year MENG major. He has previously appeared in Pericles (Pericles), As Y’all Like It (Le Beau/Jacques), The Tempest (Alonso), and The Arsonists (Policeman/Dr. of Philosophy). There would be no need to depose him if he were a Roman emperor since that job sounds like a nightmare and he would much rather go out in a blaze of glory than actually have to govern.

Maya Bond (Calpurnia/Servant 2/Poet/Clitus) is a second year and hyped to be participating her second spring Dean’s Men show. Now that her teenage years are over, she is no longer playing young women like Emily Webb in Our Town or Miranda in The Tempest. Please celebrate her first time playing an old brooding wife. She would like to thank the cast and crew for all of their hard work. If she were a Roman emperor, she would be deposed for not serving meat at her banquets.

Charlie Robinson (Flavius/Lucius/Second Citizen)

Logan Carlson (Marullus/Cinna/Octavius Soldier 2)

Carrie Semmel (Soothsayer/Cinna the Poet/Messala) is a third year political science and psychology major. Previously, she has acted in Pericles (Fisherman, Pirate, Knight, Bolt), We’re Live (Amanda), and Cactus Flower (Customer, Waiter), alongside four Theater 24s and several shows in high school! She is very happy and honored to be on stage with many graduating fourth years who have helped her in her college acting journey, and wishes them all the best in their future endeavors (without getting too sappy)… If she were to be deposed, it would probably be for cheating/hacking on Minecraft servers when she was but a wee lass… She has since reformed, but some people really do hold grudges!

Maela Mazzone (Octavius/Popilius) is a first-year English and Creative Writing major. This is his second Dean’s Men show, as he was previously in As Y’all Like It (Orlando). If he were a Roman emperor, he would be deposed because the mandatory Senate Meetings were interfering too much with his D&D campaign. Huge thank you to his parents, friends, and the incredible cast and crew of this show!

Production Staff

Simon Tsuchiya Lenoe (Director) is a second-year East Asian Languages and Civilizations PhD. You may remember him from such Dean’s Men shows as Richard III (Buckingham) and Much Ado About Nothing (Don Pedro). He wishes to thank everyone in company for making this show possible- together we’ve created something bigger than any one of us. If Simon was a Roman emperor, he would probably be deposed after his problematic tweets resurfaced.

August Petry (Production Manager) is a second-year TAPS and Public Policy major, who is very excited to see this production come to life! They currently serve on UT Committee as the Secretary, and their UT credits include Spelling Bee (Director), Arsenic and Old Lace (Committee Liaison), this is as good as it gets (Dramaturg), Cactus Flower (Assistant Lighting Designer & Assistant Production Manager), If/Then (Assistant Director), and many Theater [24]’s and Staged Readings. They are so grateful to this incredible company for a great first Dean’s Men show, and if they were a Roman Emperor, they’d likely not realized they were deposed for a few months, as they fear they’d be multi-tasking too much to notice.

Jasmine Li (Stage Manager) is a third-year Anthropology and Linguistics major. She has previously worked on Red Rex (ASM), As Y’all Like It (Stage Manager), Cactus Flower (ASM), Troilus and Cressida (ASM), Strings Attached (APM), and Taming of the Shrew (ASM). If she were a Roman emperor, she would be deposed because she keeps getting caught napping at inopportune times and has allocated too much money towards providing grapes for herself to snack on at senate meetings.

Cami Delgado (Scenic Designer) is a third-year Astrophysics and Visual Arts major. Their previous UT credits include Taming of the Shrew (Assistant Lighting Designer), Richard III (Lighting Designer), The Play That Goes Wrong (Assistant Stage Manager), Much Ado About Nothing (Lighting Designer), Troilus and Cressida (Lighting Designer), As Y’all Like It (Assistant Director/Dramaturg), and Red Rex (Lighting Designer).

Natalie Williams (Costume Designer) is a second year Psychology, Public Policy, and Human Development major. She has previously worked on As Y’all Like It (Assistant Costume Designer) and Pericles (Assistant Costume Designer). If she were a Roman emperor, bound for deposition, she would simply preemptively depose herself (aka retire/jump ship/ride off into the sunset). She would prefer to avoid the messy confrontation.

Seth Wang (Props Designer) is a third year Anthropology and Gender Studies Major with a minor in visual arts. He has previously worked on As Y’all Like It (Co-Director), Red Rex (Co-Props), Troilus and Cressida (Props), The Play That Goes Wrong (Asst. Props), Arcadia (Asst. Props), and Much Ado About Nothing (Asst. Scenic).

Soph Franklin (Sound Designer) is a third-year Classics and Philosophy major. They previously worked on Pericles (Asst. Lighting Designer) and are very excited to finally put their degree to good use for Caesar! If they were a Roman emperor, they would be deposed for the excessively pedantic enforcement of Latin grammatical and syntactical rules, as seen in Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

Eleni Lefakis (Dramaturg) is an alum of the TAPS and RLLT majors and a former UT Treasurer. Her UT mainstage credits are The Heirs (Stage Manager); The Trail to Oregon! (Assistant Director/Dramaturg); Romeo and Juliet (Co-Production Manager); Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood (Assistant Director/Dramaturg); MacBeth in Space (Dramaturg); The Laramie Project (Stage Manager Collective™); Be More Chill (Co-Director); Twelfth Night (Pre-Production Manager); The Taming of The Shrew (Stage Manager/Assistant Dramaturg); Falsettos (Dramaturg); Richard III (Assistant Costume Designer); Strings Attached (Co-Director); The Play That Goes Wrong (Committee Liaison/Stagehand); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dramaturg); Much Ado About Nothing (Director/Co-Dramaturg); Troilus & Cressida (Co-Production Manager); and 35MM: A Musical Exhibition (Co-Production Manager), Cactus Flower (Dramaturg/Botticelli’s Springtime). Eleni currently works full-time as an administrative apprentice in the Vocal Arts department at Juilliard while running an indie production company called Fourth Culture Collective with the great Nathalie Lam. She’s very proud of her little friends who continue to make UT something she can be proud of from afar! If Eleni were to be deposed, she would like to be poisoned very publicly and dramatically and say a memorable though historically contested set of final words.

Alasdair Dodd (Assistant Director) is a fourth-year EALC and Religious Studies major. Previous credits include Falsettos (Lighting Designer), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stage Manager), The Arsonists (Lighting Designer), Troilus & Cressida (Production Manager), The Tempest (Production Manager), As Y’all Like It (Production Manager), and the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Lighting Designer). He could not imagine a better team and show to end his UT career with and is maybe feeling sad about it. After his awesome yet perhaps authoritarian reign as emperor, he would be dramatically assassinated in a narratively compelling and objectively cool manner.

Jac Davies (Assistant Production Manager) is a 1st year Biology and (hopefully) Music Major. This is his second show in UT succeeding The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Chip). Outside of UT you can catch him doing shows in his hometown of Olathe, Kansas! If he were a Roman emperor, he’d be deposed slowly as somebody more qualified takes over more of his responsibilities and he realizes it’s way easier to just not be an emperor.

Nica Fairweather (Assistant Stage Manager)

Maddie Mathes (Assistant Costume Designer)

Ryan Witter (Assistant Props Designer) is a third-year Linguistics, Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies major. He’s previously appeared in Arsenic and Old Lace (Mortimer Brewster), Red Rex (Greg), Richard III (Clarence/York/Derby), and The Taming of the Shrew (Vincentio/Curtis). He’s also worked on As Y’all Like It (Co-Director), Troilus and Cressida (Director), The Play That Goes Wrong (Props Designer), and Arcadia (Asst. Props). He’s excited to finally have a low-commitment role. If he were to be deposed as a Roman dictator it would be for living too fast and then not dying young.

Jack Zirin-Hyman (Assistant Dramaturg)

Josiah Rubio (UT Committee Liaison)