UNTangled Shakespeare Festival 2027
A new theatre company operating under the auspices of the University of North Texas Department of Dance and Theatre, UNTangeled Shakespeare Festival is launching its inaugural season, presented in partnership with Fair Assembly. The summer 2027 season features Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Nathan Autrey and Macbeth directed by Sara Romesberger performed in repertory. The festival runs from June 4 through June 28, 2027, with evening shows starting at 8pm and matinees at 2pm. You can find us at the University of North Texas, located at 1179 Union Circle, Denton, TX 76203, performed in the University Theater.
UNTangled Leadership
Donna Marquet
Executive Director, UNTangled Shakespeare
Scenic designer for both productionsMs. Marquet's scenic designs have been seen locally at the Dallas Theater Center, Shakespeare Dallas, Casa Manana, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Jubilee Theater and Lyric Stage. Regionally, she has designed for South Coast Repertory, Center Theatre Group, Theatre @ Boston Court, Sacred Fools, Open Fist Theatre, Colony Theatre and The Evidence Room. She has won numerous awards including the Bob Z Career Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.
She has been a scenic painter for the LaJolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Cincinnati Opera among others. Her television credits include Art Department Coordinator and graphic designer for various Nickelodeon shows including All That, The Amanda Show and Drake & Josh. Ms. Marquet earned her BFA from Miami University in Ohio and her MFA from University of California, San Diego.
Nathan Autrey
Artistic Director, UNTangled Shakespeare
Director, A Midsummer Night's DreamNathan Autrey holds a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of North Texas and an M.F.A. in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. Nathan has worked as Director, Fight & Intimacy Director, Movement Specialists and Actor. His recent Directing/Fight/Intimacy credits include: The Handless King by Harley Elias (Amphibian Stage); The Diary of Anne Frank (McKinney Rep Theatre); Legally Blonde (Junior Players); The Curse of the Puerto Ricans (Bishop Arts Theater); Fiddler on the Roof, Donner Party, American Idiot, Seven Guitars (UNT); Twelfth Night, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest (Shakespeare Dallas); The Producers, Something Rotten, The Wedding Singer (Stolen Shakespeare Guild); The Great Gatsby, A Christmas Carol, Sweeney Todd, Little Shop of Horrors, Boeing, Boeing, Almost, Maine, Christmas Story (Breckenridge Backstage Theatre); Does This Woman Have a Name, Ivy Walls (3-Legged Dog); Shining City (The Irish Rep); Through the Cracks (HERE Arts). Nathan currently serves as a member of the acting faculty here at UNT, Managing Artistic Director for Inkspark Theatre Company, Artistic Associate for Stolen Shakespeare Guild and is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Union & a member of the Society for American Fight Directors. www.nathanautrey.com
Sarah Rutah
Education Director, UNTangled Shakespeare
Appearing in both productionsSarah Rutan is a Regional Theater actor currently based in the DFW area. She recently appeared in Theatre Three’s Deathtrap(2024) and in a one-woman show Spaceman(2023) at Amphibian Stage. She has appeared in Amphibian's 2017's The Trap and as the title role in 2019's Babette's Feast.
Sarah spent seven seasons as a member of the acting company at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her work at OSF included: Othello, Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, The Diary of Anne Frank and many others. Other regional theaters include: Circle Theatre (Stage Kiss), Dallas Theatre Center (The Book Club Play), Theatre 3 (Les Liaisons Dangereuses) Trinity Shakespeare Festival (King Lear, Richard III), Milwaukee Repertory Theatre (Pride and Prejudice) and Pasadena Playhouse Hothouse Series (A Footnote to the Iliad). She has an MFA from Southern Methodist University and is currently on faculty at the University of North Texas.
The First Artistic Team
Fair Assembly was Co-Founded by Emily Ernst (Dallas), Joshua Peugh (Las Cruces, NM), Christopher Rutherford (Baltimore, MD), Sara Romersberger (Dallas), and Brandon Walker (New York City). Our vision was to bring SMU alums back to Dallas to train together, and produce theatre the way we did as students in the Meadows School of the Arts basement: no frills and only the essentials.