Fredi Olster

Between them, Fredi Olster and her co-author/husband, Rick Hamilton, have appeared in over 60 productions of Shakespeare's plays. Their extensive work in regional repertory theater includes several seasons at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco where Fredi was Kate and Rick was Tranio in Bill Ball's widely acclaimed production of The Taming of the Shrew, televised for Theatre in America on PBS and available on DVD at amazon.com. They also spent several seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Alley Theatre. and the Dallas Shakespeare Festival.

Rick has directed plays for the Commonweal Theatre Company in Minnesota, the California Theatre Center, Shakespeare in the Park in Fort Worth, the Pacific Repertory Theatre, the Plays in Progress series at ACT, the New Play Festival/OSFA, and the University of North Carolina.

Rick was in the original Broadway production of Amadeus directed by Sir Peter Hall and has appeared on TV and film in "The Principal", "Babylon 5", "Dumber than Dirt" and Horton Foote's "Main Street". Fredi's TV/film work includes appearances on "The Lou Grant Show", "Cagney and Lacy", "Babylon 5", a recurring role on "Walker, Texas Ranger" and the soon to be released film "Bolden".