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Mike Rores (Feste), Kailea Saplan (Olivia), Alyssa Beasley (Fabian), and Peter Magnus Curry (Malvolio)
Emmaline Friederichs (Priest), Kailea Saplan (Olivia), Zhiyun Zhao (Sir Andrew Aguecheek), and Dara Xiong (Maria)
Kailea Saplan (they/them) is a mixed and non-binary artist-scholar originally from Hawai'i and is serving as the 2025 WE READ Artist-in-Residence for the Dream Bus. They have been lucky enough to call Madison their home since 2016, when they moved here for graduate school. Kailea earned their B.A. in Theatre at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and they graduated this spring with their Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Kailea has been a teaching artist with Madison Public Library for as long as they've lived here and they're thrilled to be returning this summer to work with the Dream Bus for their "farewell tour" prior to moving across country to pursue their M.F.A. in Acting at California Institute of the Arts.
This project is funded in part by a grant from the Madison Arts Commission, with additional funds from the Wisconsin Arts Board secured by the Madison Public Library Foundation.