Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project

Caesar + Antony + Cleopatra showed up and OUT tonight at the Critics Awards. I’m so proud of this whole team - cast and crew were absolutely next level.

Special shout out to
Cody R. Arn - best scenic design winner
Stephanie Crugnola - best direction of a play winner
Andrew Solis - best movement design nominee
Pablo Muñoz-Evers - best supporting actor nominee
Laura D’Eramo - best lead actor nominee

Coriolano: A Texican Tragedy
May 24, 2026

Every time these shows end I'm desperate for a full run - these performers poured their souls into the park for this one and we are so proud of the story they told.

I wish I could watch it ten more times.

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Production Team:
Dramaturg, Music: Demian Chavez Galvan
Director: Andrew Mendoza .men.21
Fight Choreographer: Andrew Solis
Costumes: Katie Crugnola with Lindsay Palinsky
Stage Manager: Kaylynn Yarelle with Andrew Solis and Luis Sandoval
Tech Director: Josh Kavanaugh
Producer: Steph Crugnola with Mike Crugnola
Venue: Pease Park

Here are a few quick backstage shots 📸🤳 of some of our cast & crew getting hyped up before the performance yesterday. What a squad! 🙌🫶🎭 Keep your eyes peeled for some professional shots from our photographers to come!

And just like that, another park show is in the books. Thank you: our incredible volunteers, our incredible community, our brilliant production team, our fabulous cast… and our peerless, fearless leader, .

Goodnight friends; it’s time to go swimming and recharge our batteries before gearing up for THE GREAT AUSTIN SHAKE-OFF. More to come, much more.

Our 8 year retro of one rehearsal shows comes to a close with 2025’s Henry 6.1.

We moved to Pease Park and had a massive cast of 34 actors bringing this history to life. They came from all over the US, ranged in age from 7 to over 70, and put on a stunning show.

It was hot, it was sweaty, and it was amazing.

Tonight we are back at Pease Park for 7pm to give y’all the latest!!!

2024: Troilus & Cressida

Firmly in my ‘daddy I can fix him’ era, we did a cheeky lil rewrite of the ending to this play and it was so beautiful, so powerful, so full of love and action.

This is the year we outgrew a small park venue, affirming how desperately people want, need, and deserve free theatre.

2023: we moved the one rehearsal show to Austin and did my fav play: Cymbeline. What a joy this was: new friends, new faces, same chaos.

This fairy tale was really special, and affirmed how special Austin can be for making art.

2021: another zoom show, this time The Winter’s Tale!

This cast had actors representing several US states, Canada, and England!

This cast was amazing and the show was beautiful - it was a really special send off from digital theatre for us.

We were meant to perform Troilus & Cressida in RI in 2020. We had made some amazing friends in Austin who were going to travel out for the show, but for obvious reasons that didn’t happen.

We did get the group together to perform live on zoom though, and it was so amazing to get to see them still perform.