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Joel Riggs

JOEL RIGGS, Ft. Stockton, Tex., is in his first Ashland season. With the Globe Theatre in San Diego, Calif., he played Polonius in Hamlet and in the Milton Leech production of As You Like It at the Texas Western Play Festival he appeared as Touchstone. Under the direction of B. Iden Payne at the University of Texas, he was Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Pompey in Measure For Measure, and the Gravedigger in Hamlet. He has studied with Michael Redgrave, John Neville, and Herbert Berghof.

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Credited as cast

  1. Antony and Cleopatra (1959, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Attendants
  2. Antony and Cleopatra (1959, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Thidias
  3. Life and Death of King John (1959, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Executioner
  4. Life and Death of King John (1959, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Robert Faulconbridge
  5. Life and Death of King John (1959, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... English Lord
  6. Life and Death of King John (1959, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Monk
  7. Measure for Measure (1959, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Abhorson
  8. Twelfth Night (1959, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA) .... Attendants

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