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Matteo Pangallo

Matteo Pangallo began his life-long adventure with Shakespeare as a student in some of the first Rebel Shakespeare Company productions, appearing as Duke Senior in As You Like It and Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing. Later, he returned to work as an assistant for Rebel productions in 2000 and 2001 (including Winter's Tale, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night) and to serve as director for the 2006 Teen Intensive of Merchant of Venice.

For over twenty years, Matteo has worked onstage and backstage as an actor, director, producer, and teacher of Renaissance theatre from Australia, to England, to the United States, working on such Renaissance gems as The Spanish Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear (for radio), Measure for Measure, and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

From 2002 to 2005 he served as the founding Artistic Director of the Salem Theatre Company, for whom he directed highly acclaimed productions of The Tempest (2004), The Burial at Thebes (2005), and Macbeth (2007).

Matteo holds a BA in English and Theatre from Bates College (2003) and an MA in Shakespearean Studies (Text and Playhouse) from King's College London (2006). During his studies in London, he also worked as a dramaturgical assistant for the Research Department at Shakespeare's Globe. The recipient of both a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship and a Jacob Javits Fellowship, he is currently enrolled in the PhD program in English at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His areas of study include Renaissance drama, performance, and textual studies; his work in the field has been heard on National Public Radio and appeared in journals such as Notes & Queries and Early Theatre (forthcoming), as well as in the Oxford Complete Works of Thomas Middleton and the book Divining Thoughts: Future Directions in Shakespeare Studies. He is also working towards publishing new editions of Renaissance plays, including Thomas May's Antigone (1631) and Walter Mountfort's The Launching of the Mary (1632).