Richard Baird (Prince of Wales) makes his Chicago debut at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Regional credits include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, title roles in Cyrano de Bergerac and Tartuffe, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, and Iago in Othello (Southwest Shakespeare Company); Macbeth in Macbeth and Leontes in A Winter’s Tale (Kingsman Shakespeare); titles roles in Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and Hotspur in Henry IV, Part One (Poor Players). Mr. Baird served as associate artistic director for Southwest Shakespeare Company from 2008 to 2009 and founded the San Diego based troupe Poor Players, for which he acted and directed in more than twenty productions of Shakespeare.

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