{"id":9228,"date":"2025-09-02T18:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9228"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:53:00","slug":"curt-l-tofteland-about-the-artist-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9228","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Hickox-Young: About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:46.64701%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Isaac-Hickox-Young-1024x683.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Isaac-Hickox-Young-1024x683.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Isaac-Hickox-Young-1024x683.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Isaac-Hickox-Young-1024x683.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Isaac-Hickox-Young-1024x683.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1800&#038;ssl=1 1800w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Isaac-Hickox-Young-1024x683.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=2000&#038;ssl=1 2000w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1707\" data-id=\"9208\" data-link=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?attachment_id=9208\" data-url=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Isaac-Hickox-Young-1024x683.jpg\" data-width=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Isaac-Hickox-Young-1024x683.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 1 of 3 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:22.20562%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1058742-2-729x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1058742-2-729x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1058742-2-729x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1058742-2-729x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1058742-2-729x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1800&#038;ssl=1 1800w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1058742-2-729x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1822&#038;ssl=1 1822w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"2560\" data-id=\"9239\" data-link=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?attachment_id=9239\" data-url=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1058742-2-729x1024.jpg\" data-width=\"1822\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P1058742-2-729x1024.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 2 of 3 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:31.14737%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/images.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=225&#038;ssl=1 225w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"225\" data-id=\"9210\" data-link=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?attachment_id=9210\" data-url=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/images.jpg\" data-width=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/images.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 3 of 3 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=9206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">listen to his interview<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Isaac Hickox-Young (Romeo)<\/strong> is in his eighth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. He is also serving as the Education Associate and Leading Teaching Artist at the Shakespeare Theater&#8217;s Education Department.  He has also appeared at the Fireside Theatre, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley with Shaker Bridge Theatre, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story with The Argyle Theatre, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Peter and the Starcatcher with the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and many more, including Romeo and Juliet with the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, and A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream with Merry War Theatre Group. He is a proud graduate of the Acting Program at the University of Cincinnati: College-Conservatory of Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to listen to his interview Isaac Hickox-Young (Romeo) is in his eighth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. He is also serving as the Education Associate and Leading Teaching Artist at the Shakespeare Theater&#8217;s Education Department. He has also appeared at the Fireside Theatre, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley with Shaker Bridge Theatre, Buddy:<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9228' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2oQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9243,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9228\/revisions\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}