Dr. John Gatton, Professor Emeritus of English at Bellarmine University, teaches courses in early British literature and Shakespeare, and has offered classes in modern drama, vampire literature, Lord Byron, and Oscar Wilde.  He directed eleven plays for Bellarmine's Theatre Program.  His publications include essays and book chapters on Byron as poet, prose writer, and playwright; Byron and Delacroix; Wilde; staging violence in Medieval drama; the history of theatre in Louisville; religion on the Broadway stage 1900-2005; American drama 1970-present; play reviews for Shakespeare Quarterly; and a volume on Natalie Clifford Barney and literary Paris in the 1920s.  He has presented papers on Byron and the theatre at academic conferences in Texas, California, New Jersey, Chicago, London, Paris, Venice, Ravenna, Yerevan (Armenia), and Messolonghi (Greece), where Byron died.  In 2016, as part of "Will in the 'Ville," Louisville's year-long commemoration of the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death, he delivered an illustrated talk on touring Shakespeareans on the nineteenth-century American stage, at the Culbertson Mansion, New Albany, Indiana.  He acted with companies in South America, Dublin, and Paris, and, for ten summer seasons, with the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the English-Speaking Union, Kentucky Branch, and the treasurer of the Byron Society of America.

Baron Kelly Bio
International and national performances include Broadway: Salome and Electra, The Royal National Theatre in London, Canada's Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival (Titus Andronicus, The Bacchae, Julius Caesar, Comedy of Errors, Merchant of Venice, Glengarry Glen Ross); National Theatre of Norway (A Doll's House); Yermolova Theatre, Moscow (Prophet of Protest); Bargello, Florence, Italy (Macbeth); Ampitheatres of Papagou and Spetsis, Athens, Greece (Romeo and Juliet, Oedipus); Edinburgh Festival (Waiting for Godot); Dublin's Academy Theatre (Medal of Honor Rag). Numerous classical and contemporary rolesin works ranging from Shakespeare, Wilson, Ibsen, Beckett, Hansberry, Sophocles, Chekhov, Goldoni, Zhu, Euripides, and Kawakamifor over 30 of America's regional/resident theatres including the Oregon, Utah, Dallas Fort Worth, Boston Commonwealth, Playa Vista, Boston Commonwealth, California Shakespeare Festivals; The Guthrie; Yale Rep; Mark Taper Forum; Old Globe San Diego; South Coast Rep; Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company; Baltimore's Center Stage; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Actors' Theatre of Louisville; Missouri Repertory; Huntington Theatre; Portland Stage Company; Portland Repertory; McCarter Theatre; Hartford Stage Company, New Repertory; Berkshire Theatre Festival and elsewhere.  New York credits include the New Federal Theatre and the Public Theatre.  Additionally, Baron played Belize in the world premiere of Angels in America, and he replaced Tom Woppat as The King in the 50^th Anniversary production of The King and I. Television includes Law & Order, Homicide, Majority Rule, Perfect Crimes, The File on Jill Hatch, Loving, Frasier, All My Children, Unwanted Attentions, The Innocent.  Film: Bird, A Day Without A Mexican, Thoughts of Suicide, Looking for Jose, Who Killed the Baby Jesus, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers among others. Dr. Kelly is a four-time Fulbright Scholar and Professor and Head of Acting on the Theatre Arts Faculty at the University of Louisville.  He holds a diploma in acting from London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, an MFA from California State University Long Beach, and a Ph.D. in Theatre Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.