The 17-member cast includes Nikki Ameling as Julius Caesar Mahaffa Thompson as Brutus Lindsay Parpart as Cassius Ashleigh Happer as Antony Emma Johnson as Portia Jami Anderson as the Soothsayer, Titinius and also ensemble Caroline Herrera as Calphurnia Rudy Parmigiano as Casca and Lepidus Kat Webber playing Cinna and Pindarus Josh Thompson as Decius and Strato Erik Gollnick as Octavius and Trebonius Jamie Landrum as Metellus Cimber, Cato and ensemble Jason Summer as Cicero, Flavius and ensemble Olivia Lozano as Lucius, Volumnius and ensemble Samuel Alger as Cinna the Poet, Lucilius and ensemble Perrin Carisiti as Messala, Marullus and ensemble and Waverly Clark as Carpenter and ensemble.
I continued to cast Cassius, Brutus, Caesar and Antony all to be played by women, and as I did, I saw the narrative subtly shift.” I liked the idea of the soothsayer also being a female, since all these characters each have a special ‘feminine awareness’ for a chance to experiment with gender and the motivations of the actions of these leads. The career of Julius Caesar before his consulship in 59 BC was characterized by military adventurism and political persecution. “This idea is what led me to how different the play would be if all the main characters were women. Marcus Porcius Cato, byname Cato The Younger, (born 95 bc died 46, Utica, Africa now in Tunisia), great-grandson of Cato the Censor and a leader of the Optimates (conservative senatorial aristocracy) who tried to preserve the Roman Republic against power seekers, in particular Julius Caesar.
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