Drunk Shakespeare

Drunk Shakespeare is an off-Broadway play created by Scott Griffin and David Hudson currently performing in New York City, Chicago, Washington D.C., Phoenix, and Houston. It premiered at Quinn's Bar and Grill in March 2014. As of Jan 2019, there have been over 2000 performances. It received a New York Times Critic's Pick saying "it seems inevitable that all performing will soon be done either plastered or stoned". Drunk Shakespeare follows a trend of drinking and performing popularized by the Comedy Central series Drunk History.

In 2023, the actors, stage managers, bartenders, and servers unionized as Drunk Shakespeare United.

Premise
The show has five actors. One has between four and six shots of alcohol in front of the audience. The cast then attempts to perform a Shakespearean play. The drunk actor can do anything they want and the four sober actors must follow their requests.

Cast
Current NYC cast members include: Chris Trindade, Christian Roberts, Danielle Cohn, James William Taylor, Mayadevi Ross, Nate Betancourt, Preston Mulligan, and Sarah Goldstein.

Past cast members include: Whit Leyenberger, Michael Amendola, Hayley Palmer, Alison Wien, Mike Sause, Aubrey Taylor, Kelsey Lidsky, Scott Watson, Caitlin Morris, Tim Haber, David Andrew Laws, Jack Corcoran, Mariah Parris, Damiyr Shuford (now with Blue Man Group), Josh Hyman (now with Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus), Lindsey Hope Pearlman (Up & Down Theatre), Lucas Calhoun (The Elephant Man), Julia Giolzetti, Josh Sauerman (Three Day Hangover), Brandon Carter (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Phil Gillen, Adam Thomas Smith, Poppy Liu, Tiffany Abercrombie, Kristin Friedlander (The Flea, Chicago Shakespeare), Lou Sallan, Chris Gebauer, Monique Sanchez, Elissa Klie, Carolina Do, Kate Gunther, Michele Danna, and Justin Minchow.