andrew s codispoti

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Theatre/Film

Status: Actor, Director, Playwright Location: New England

I’m the instigator of Vicious Mole Theatre Collective, a founding member of The Shakespeare Ensemble, founding producer with The Bridge Ensemble, an Associate Artist with Incite Shakespeare Company, and an Artistic Associate with Elsewhere Shakespeare.

Theatre

for Shakespeare North Playhouse: co-facilitator, Angus (Macbeth, 2026)

as one half of Cod & Karp:

with Incite Shakespeare Company Santa Fe (associate artist):

  • 2026: Ariel (The Tempest); Marcellus/Bernardo, Laertes, Rosencrantz/Guildenstern, Players (Hamlet)
  • 2025: Iago (Othello); Egeus, Flute/Thisby, Cobweb, (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
  • 2024: Friar Laurence (Romeo & Juliet); Tranio (The Taming of the Shrew)
  • 2023: Queen Margaret (Richard III); Deviser & performer (Shakespeare’s Duets: Turn & Change)

with Theater in the Open: facilitator and player for Bar(d) Crawl (2025+); Sebastian, facilitator (Twelfth Night, 2024); Macduff, facilitator (Macbeth, 2023); John Proctor, facilitator (The Crucible, 2022)

with Elsewhere Shakespeare (artistic associate): Mercutio (Romeo & Juliet, 2025); Bolingbroke, production co-facilitator (Richard II, 2024); Daupin (King Fucking John, 2024)

with The Bridge Ensemble (founding company member and co-producer): Ebeneezer Scrooge (Christmas Carol, 2022 & 2025)

for The Shakespeare Ensemble:

for Advice to the Players:

  • Artistic Director during ‘16 - ‘17 Seasons
  • Roles: Hamlet, Romeo, Orsino/Belch, Brutus, Aguecheek, Lysander, etc – 11 seasons
  • Directed: Tempest, Hamlet, Richard III, Measure for Measure, co-directed Romeo & Juliet for ATTP’s pilot program bringing The Fall Festival of Shakespeare to New Hampshire!

for Seven Stages Shakespeare Company:

  • Roles: Viola1 (What You Will, or Twelfth Night), Edgar / Poor Tom (LEAR), MacDuff (Macbeth), Clown (Winter’s Tale), Hamlet Players ensemble, and a great many ShakesBEERiences (and very proud of it, indeed!) – 8 seasons
  • Directed: Taming of the Shrew

for The Barnstormers Theatre:

  • Roles: horses, agéd waiters, secret klansmen, silent visitors, murderers, dead bodies, police constables… – 8 seasons

for New Art Theatre:

  • Roles: Teiresias, Mercutio, Horatio, lots of E. A. Poe

Also:

  • Manus, Translations by Brian Friel, Theatre KAPOW
  • Edmund Tyrone, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Threshold Stage Company
  • Dead Body2, The Real Inspector Hound, Publick Theatre Boston

See My Work!

I’m rarely captured on camera, but there are a few places where you can see filmed examples of my work:

  • Myth Play: Finality – a semi-mono-logue excerpt from my drama Myth Play (2015, I think; big thanks to Tim Ahern who filmed & produced it)
  • Meat, a “barely-feature-length film” (2010)
  • The Dude, Vermont Lottery spot (2009)

  1. Nominated for a Spotlight Award for Best Actor ↩︎

  2. for an hour-and-a-half, curtain up to curtain down, through intermission… ↩︎

andrew codispoti headshot
Headshot by Ben Kramer
picture of me playing Pericles
as Pericles with 7 Stages Shx, photo: Ben Kramer
picture of me playing Hamlet
Hamlet with ATTP, photo: Monika O'Clair Photography
a picture of a marked-up page of script
my scroll for King John
picture of me playing Mercutio
as Mercutio, photo: Duane Dale Photography
picture of me playing Mercutio
as Viola-as-Cesario, photo: Matt Lavigne Photography
picture of me taking a stick for a walk
taking the stick for a walk, photo: Matt Reznek