Shakespeare in Performance: Person
Gerald Bates
GERALD BATES, Chelsea, Mich., graduated from Michigan State University in June with a B.A. in Radio-TV-Film and will continue there with graduate work in the same field this fall. His roles at MSU include Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Kinesias in Lysistrata, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and the title role in the MSU Childrens Theatre production of Robin Hood. On the staff of WKAR-AM-FM-TV at Michigan State he has worked as director, actor, program host, and in costuming. In 1955 he toured Germany as an actor-technician with a 4th Infantry Division theatre group.
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Credited as cast
King Lear (1958, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Soldier
Much Ado About Nothing (1958, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Conrade
Troilus and Cressida (1958, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Calchas
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