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Actor Barry Kraft has acted in all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays in more than 100 roles in 82 full productions.
He is the author of "After-Dinner Shakespeare," "Thy Father is a Gorbellied Codpiece" and "On the Theatrical Worth of Discarded Words in On-Stage Studies." And he has even played chess with Bobby Fischer, grandmaster and first American chess player to win the FIDE World Chess Championship.
Appearing in his first Shakespearean play at the age of 12, Kraft went on to become a unique treasure of the American Shakespeare theater.
He returns to the Marin stage in 2009 in the title role of Marin Shakespeare Company’s production of “Julius Caesar.”
Kraft had a distinguished career at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, where he performed numerous roles during his 20 seasons and was also the dramaturg there for 37 Shakespeare productions and several non-Shakespeare plays. His official title at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, from which he retired after the 2005 season, was “Shakespeare Dramaturg and Gadfly.”
Kraft also taught at the American Conservatory Theater and the Denver National Theater Conservatory.
Kraft appeared with the original Marin Shakespeare Festival in 1968, playing Macduff in "Macbeth" and Octavius Caesar in "Antony and Cleopatra."
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