Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield

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Adam Long 

Adam Long is a founding member of The Reduced Shakespeare Company. He directed and performed in the West End production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) which ran for nine years at the Criterion Theatre. 

As a writer/director for television and film, Adam has worked for Disney, Netflix, BBC, PBS, Nickelodeon and Lucasfilm. His feature film The Barn won a British Independent Film Award (the Raindance Award). 

Adam is the voice of Mr. Small in the BAFTA and Emmy award winning The Amazing World of Gumball. 

Daniel Singer   

Daniel “Rover” Singer originally trained as a theatrical artist, creating set designs, props, graphics and costumes for a wide variety of live entertainment, as well as producing, directing, writing, teaching and performing.  At 17 he produced a year of youth performance under the banner General Amazement Theater in Santa Rosa, California, and at 21 founded the Reduced Shakespeare Company, whose three-man comedy The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) has become one of the world’s most popular and oft-produced shows, and one of the longest-running comedies in London’s West End.

During his long association with California’s Living History Center, Daniel contributed design, direction, educational programs, and performance at the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire and Dickens Christmas Fairs, at which he portrayed literary greats Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.

At 28 he joined Walt Disney Imagineering, where as a model-maker, production designer and art director, he contributed to the design of new attractions at Disney theme parks worldwide, including Disneyland Paris, Splash Mountain, Toontown, Indiana Jones, Animal Kingdom, California Adventure and Tokyo DisneySea. Daniel also served on the board of WDI’s in-house theater company the Flower Street Players, which provided performance opportunities for employees while raising over $30,000 for underprivileged art students.

In 2000 Daniel left Disney to become a freelance designer, sculptor, event producer and writer based in California.  His latest plays include A Perfect Likeness (2013) about an intense encounter between Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens, and Louisa at Fruitlands, the true story of the Alcott family’s disastrous decision to join an experimental farm commune organized by Transcendentalist philosophers (world premiere 2026).

Jess Winfield

In 1981, Daniel Singer cast 20-year old Jess in the title role of a half-hour version of Hamlet, making him a founding member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Shortly after, Jess recommended his high school chum Adam Long to fill in for an injured (female) cast member, and the long development and evolution of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) had begun. 

Twelve years and thousands of RSC performances later, having helped establish the show’s first run in London’s West End, he finally hung up his tights in 1992. Jess remains intimately involved with the play. He directed its first off-Broadway production in 1995, edited and comically annotated all of its resulting print editions, and, with Singer, has overseen its major revisions, most recently 2023’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]. 

Bard aside, as an animation Writer/Producer for Disney, Jess was a showrunner on Stitch!– The Movie, Lilo and Stitch: The Series, and (his favorite) Leroy and Stitch, and won two Daytime Emmy Awards for Disney’s Teacher’s Pet. Other cartoon credits include Sonic the Hedgehog, Transformers: Beast Wars, The Incredible Hulk, Mickey Mouseworks, and Penguins of Madagascar. 

His many voice acting roles include playing the soundalike for the late, great, stentorian David Ogden Stiers in the role of Jumba Jookiba in the English language versions of the Japanese anime Stitch! (which he also executive produced) and the Chinese series Stitch and Ai. 

In 2008, Twelve Books (Hachette) published Jess’s bestselling debut novel, My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare, a California Book Award nominee and New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice.” 

He lives in Los Angeles with his spouse, original RSC Props and Costumes Goddess Sa Winfield. Now semi-retired, he’s busy fighting fascism with his other half.