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Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock Star Rachel Dratch Joins the Cast of Shakespeare in the Park’s Love’s Labour’s Lost

Dratch will joins previously announced cast members Daniel Breaker, Colin Donnell, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and more.

Bethany Rickwald

New York City

July 9, 2013

Television favorite Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock) will is set to join the cast of Shakespeare in the Park’s upcoming production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. The previously announced show is a new production by Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson creators Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers. Performances begin July 23, with an official run from August 12-18.

Other announced Love’s Labour’s Lost cast members include Daniel Breaker (King of Navarre), Kevin Del Aguila (Dull), Colin Donnell (Berowne), Andrew Durand (Boyet), Kimiko Glenn (Maria), Jeff Hiller (Nathaniel), Rebecca Naomi Jones (Jaquenetta), Justin Levine (Moth), Patti Murin (Princess), Lucas Near-Verbrugghe (Dumaine), Bryce Pinkham (Longaville), Charlie Pollock (Costard), Caesar Samayoa (Don Armado), Maria Thayer (Rosaline), and Audrey Lynn Weston (Katherine). Alex Timbers will direct.

Love’s Labour’s Lost features scenic design by John Lee Beatty, costume design by Jennifer Moeller, lighting design by Jeff Croiter, and sound design by Acme Sound Partners.

Dratch’s previous theater credits include last season’s FringeNYC production of Tail! Spin! as well as Sylvia and Promise Keepers. She is a frequent guest in the New York production of Celebrity Autobiography.

For more information and tickets to Love’s Labour’s Lost, click here.