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    Upcoming: Greg sound designs Mad Mad Mad with The Humanist Project at Target Margin Theater in Brooklyn. This summer Greg performed in a number of projects including in Shake It Up: A Shakespeare Cabaret , two readings at The Adams Theater; Iodine & The Refuseniks, and Tableaux Vivants at Chesterwood. Greg began 2024 shooting Subnivian, a short film by filmmaker Yonah Sadeh of Sadeh Studios, and continues leading workshops across Berkshire County through Community Access To The Arts. In March, Greg played Jimmy in The Ladyslipper by Danny Eaton, directed by James Warwick at Majestic Theatre in West Springfield. Also this Spring Greg stepped in as sound designer for Barrington Stage's Playwright Mentoring Project!

 

In 2023, Greg returned as a director at Taconic Hills High School as part of Shakespeare & Company's Fall Festival of Shakespeare, performed as Orlando in As You Like It directed by Sydney Berk with Catskill Mountain Shakespeare, released his full-length album, Rain or Shine  January 2023, and returned as a faculty artist at Community Access To The Arts

 

In 2022, Greg played Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Kelly Galvin at Shakespeare & Company in the summer. In the Spring, Greg served as a faculty artist at Community Access To The Arts in Great Barrington, taught ukulele in Berkshire schools through the Berkshire Music School, and taught poetry at W.E.B. DuBois Middle School in Great Barrington through Shakespeare & Company's Education programming. 

 

In 2021, MoonCaps released their second album, Man In My Eyes. Greg  performed in The Umbrella Stage Company's production of The Old Man And The Old Moon by Pigpen Theatre Co. directed by Julia Deter, was in a production of Mary's Wedding by Stephen Massicotte at The Theater at Woodshill, directed by Kelly Galvin, was in residency with the rig at Camp Hill Ghent as a part of Our Stories Our Songs, performed live acoustic sets with music partner David Joseph, and worked on poetry and Shakespeare with students in Berkshire county on Zoom via the Shakespeare & Company Education Program's school residencies 

 

Please stay tuned for new projects, and take care. 

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Much ado about nothing

directed by Kelly Galvin

The old man and the old moon

 

directed by Julia deter
 

As I watched The Old Man and the Old Moon I thought to myself, who wouldn’t want to see this mashup of so many of the really fun ideas in fiction and storytelling”…”The performers are adept in their crafts of acting, comedy and music.”

 

Tom Boudrot, New England Theater Mirror

 

At the conclusion of the performance, it did not take long for the audience to get to their feet and robustly applaud this beautifully assembled amalgam of music, dance, deception and delight.

 

C.B. Wismar, MainStreet Magazine

 

Every once in a while a production comes along in which all of its elements coalesce perfectly, creating a whole world in which you’d like to remain long after the lights dim.  Kelly Galvin’s production of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare & Company is such a one.

 

Barbara Waldinger, Berkshire OnStage

Claudio, sweetly played by Gregory Boover, was an idealized romantic lead in this comedy with music, some of which he performed. In his best Broadway manner, Boover sang “Sigh No More”…

 

J. Peter Bergman, Berkshire Edge

The feast

 

directed by Brendan Regan
 

Gregory Boover did a good job of conveying Matt's initial detachment, as well as his slide toward madness in a visceral manner that's very engaging for the audience.”

 

Dennis Maley, The Bradenton Times

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The Merry wives of windsor

directed by kevin g. coleman

...(Anne) is in love with a gentleman named Fenton, played by the ubiquitous and endlessly inventive Boover.

-Barbara Waldinger, Berkshire On Stage

Gregory Boover's portrayal of the foolish and fumbling Abraham Slender was outstanding and entirely contrary to his portrayal of Master Fenton, a dashing gentleman who, like Slender, is vying for the hand of Anne Page.

-Angelica Potter, OnStage Blog

 

Gregory Boover embodies a most charming suitor (or suitors) to Anne Page...

-Jason Velázquez, The Greylock Glass

Twelfth Night
Directed by Allyn Burrows

The (1959) conceit allowed for some fancy dancing, along with a display of the talents of the musical director, Gregory Boover, who also portrayed Feste as a jazz musician, giving weight to his character’s foolery.

 

- Edward Rothstein, Wall SJ

 

Special recognition also goes to Gregory Boover (Feste) as the gangliest, goofiest court jester/crooner/guitarist on this or any boardwalk... As a comic actor who specializes in herky-jerky dork roles, he gets a workout in this play.

 

- DL Simmons, CurtainUp

The three comedians kind of steal the show — Nigel Gore finds all the laughs in Sir Andrew, Gregory Boover’s musical Feste provides the backbeat of the show, and Watertown’s own Steven Barkhimer is excellent as Toby Belch, one of the driving forces of this “Twelfth Night.”

- Alexander Stevens, Worcester T&G

Gregory Boover and Ella Loudon as Silvius and Phebe in As You Like It directed by Allyn Burrows at Shakspeare & Company. Photo ©Nile Scott Studios
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As You like it

directed by allyn burrows

Ella Loudon and Gregory Boover all but steal the show as the native Ardenites Phoebe and Silvius, the wooed and wooer respectively.

 

-Ed Siegel, WBUR The ARTery

 

 

Gregory Boover as shepherd Silvius, who desperately pines for Phoebe, leads the ensemble on his guitar in folksy ballads about pastoral life, which contrasts nicely with inter-scene background music of café-society tunes from the Twenties.

-Dan Dwyer, The Berkshire Edge

Boover is appealingly hapless as the crooning shepherd Silvius...

-Steve Barnes, Times Union

 

Gregory Boover makes a touching Silvius, and his guitar-led music is one of the delights of the play.

-Alexander Stevens, Wiked Local

4000 Miles

directed by Nicole Ricciardi

Gregory Boover gives a powerful and emotionally dynamic portrayal of a heartbroken and lost young man struggling to deal with tragedy. As Leo, he delivers an intense and heart wrenching performance with characterizations and quirks that were meticulously well placed and often subtly executed.

 

-Angelica Potter, Onstage Blog

As played, exquisitely, by Gregory Boover, Leo is an immensely likable, decent, gentle, almost pure and innocent soul who, at the same time, is not inexperienced with life...

The relationship that develops between Vera and Leo is a subtly crafted exercise in patience, trust, acceptance...

 

-Jeffrey Borak, Berkshire Eagle

Separated by a yawning gulf of age and experience, they manage to meet somewhere in the middle, and the uneasy but nonetheless loving relationship that results proves to be powerfully moving.

 

-Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

Lean and lanky Gregory Boover’s Leo begins convincingly as an independent and confidant traveler with few obvious cares and naturally evolves into an emotionally giving young man. His delivery of the biker’s pivotal monologue — in which Leo opens up about the accident and his deep love for Micah — is heart-wrenchingly moving.

- Jules Becker, Worcester T&G

Boover's range is on display as Leo's defenses break down and he has to drop his brave front. He shares great chemistry with each of his scene partners, showing different sides of Leo with each of the three women.

 

-Nancy Grossman, BroadwayWorld

As performed by the perfectly cast Gregory Boover and Annette Miller, the distance between them, as well as their familial chemistry, is palpable...

The contrast (and considerable distance) between these two closely-observed lead characters — their age, points of view, habits, styles, and elemental assumptions — are a continual source of pleasure in 4000 Miles.

 

-Helen Epstein, ArtsFuse

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As he planned what he’d do for college, Greg Boover ‘13 found himself pulled toward UMass Amherst instead of a conservatory so that he could study a range of things. Once on campus, he initially joined the student-run UMass Theatre Guild, working as an actor and on the tech crew for shows during his freshman year. Soon, however, he declared theater as his major and dove into the Department of Theater. He initially also minored in education, but Boover decided to focus more fully on Theater. He started doing all that he could within the department, and he has carried on this way in his professional life with the renowned Shakespeare & Co., contentedly dividing his efforts between on- and offstage work that also allows him to tap back into his education interest.

Through the Department of Theater, Boover was exposed to the wider scope of all of the aspects that go into creating a production. Boover serving on costume and sound crews, stage managing, and more. He valued learning from professors who were invested in having student learn the real backgrounds of Theater history, as well as getting unique opportunities to practice voicework and performance techniques with artists who boasted vast histories of training. An amazing thing about UMass Theater professors, Boover recalled, was their continuous professional engagement — directing professors who continued to direct and sound designers who designed outside of the school, for example.

Boover’s main focus was on acting, and as he developed his skills in other, broader Theater disciplines, he was taking all the performance classes that he could get his hands on and auditioning for every performance he could. He cited luck, opportunity, and ‘putting himself out there’ as factors that allowed him to perform with creators in the department who were “always doing really cutting edge work, looking for something to devise [and] something to recreate, how to tell a story in a new way.” 

Boover had lived most of his life intimidated by Shakespeare. But in his time with UMass Theater, he gained confidence and grew to love The Bard, especially through in his experience acting in Twelfth Night in his sophomore year, directed by Dawn Monique Williams, as well as in a course dedicated to the language of Shakespeare with now undergraduate Program Director, Milan Dragicevich. 

He also seized the opportunity to work with visiting professors from beyond the department, many of them working artists, and it was one such guest artist who directly influenced what he’s doing today. When Boover was a Junior, then-Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Co. Tony Simotes visited to direct A Midsummer Night’s Dream and teach stage combat. Galvanized by those experiences, Boover auditioned for the company’s summer program and found himself deep in the world of professional repertory theater. 

Boover has worked with Shakespeare & Co. ever since. Most recently, in his very first gig as a member of the Actor’s Equity Association professional union, Boover decided that he absolutely had to play Leo, the male lead in Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles, under Nicole Ricciardi’s direction. He described a new clarity he had reached coming out of the Shakespeare & Co.’s month-long Intensive Actors Training Program. In rehearsing for the show, he said, his new insight allowed him to reach new emotional presence and consistency in character development, both in rehearsal and on stage. Reviews of the show agreed with his assessment, with his performance being described by The Berkshire Edge as “near perfection,” while Boston Broadway World called attention to his range in his nuanced portrayal and the great chemistry shared with each of his scene partners. This first AEA experience confirmed for Boover that acting was the right choice as a post-graduate pursuit.

Although he’s identified this passion, Boover is not leaving other paths of theater unexplored. He continues as an educator, helping others find their theater passions as part of the Shakespeare & Co. Fall Festival of Shakespeare. This festival brings Shakespeare and theater  to over 500 students in 10 highs schools across Massachusetts and New York engaging them over the course of nine weeks in creating and performing his works. Boover most recently worked with 50 students at Taconic Hills High School in New York on a 90 minute cut of As You Like It. The piece was performed Nov. 16-19 on the Shakespeare & Co. mainstage. 

Boover wants to continue this kind of work alongside his passion of acting; he sees it as paying it forward.

- Emma Waldman, UMass Amherst Theater Dept.

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The Emperor of the Moon

directed by Jenna Ware

The bulk of the physical shtick and word play is in the very capable hands of Boover and Kearns as the leading servants. They don disguises, change their voices, do physical and verbal battle, dance, sing and drive the show.

 

-Macey Levin, Berkshire Onstage

Their complete embodiment of their characters is apparent from start to finish with each facial expression, every act of physical comedy and musical display. Boover and Kearns are truly talented performers with long careers ahead of them.

 

-Angelica Potter, Onstage Blog

The very talented Marcus Kearns' rubber-jointed Harlequin is the perfect foil to the equally gifted Gregory Boover's lovably roguish Scaramouch. The two command the stage with their verbal and physical comedy, some of it ad libbed and all hysterical fun.

-Gloria Miller, CurtainUp

‘An Iliad’ — chilling reminder of humanity’s affection for war

Toomey is the only actor in the play but the music of Gregory Boover helps to guide us through the emotional turmoil of the story. On stage and in full sight the musician, with his own compositions, takes us through the action and the moods of the moments related by Poet. This is not a creation for this production for the script calls for such a duo on stage, always with the composer and performer being one and the same. This has helped to underscore the mighty differences in the three productions I’ve seen. Boover’s music is as essential as Homer’s tale to the telling of the history presented here. His work is wonderful, and his use of unusual performance techniques on his electrically amplified acoustic guitar, highlights the changes in the script.

- J. Peter Bergman, Berkshire Edge

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