Khalid Gonçalves Houseman Theatre in New York City. In 2000, Gonçalves played the role of Borachio in the William Shakespeare comedy "Much Ado About Nothing", which was produced and performed by The Boomerang Theatre Company. The company performed the play in Central Park, Stuyvesant Square, Prospect Park, and at Theatre 22 in Manhattan. On September 22, 2013, Gonçalves returned to theatre for a benefit fundraiser for the Abingdon Square Theatre, sharing the stage with fellow actors Michael Barbieri, Anthony DeSando, Alfredo Diaz, Gina Ferranti, Nick Fondulis, Steven LaChioma, Tom Alan Robbins, Scott Seidman, and Johnny Tammaro. The group read from three plays
Joan Shakespeare is ultimately rejected because of her sex. She becomes pregnant, is abandoned by her partner and commits suicide. A teenage Joan appears in Laurie Lawlor's novel "The Two Loves of Will Shakespeare" (2006), in which she is presented as an aspirant poet who resents the restrictions placed on her as a woman. She writes sonnets, one of which her brother plagiarises. She is in love with Richard Field, but he pursues Anne Whateley. In "Shakespeare's Will", Vern Thiessen's speculative biographical play about Anne Hathaway, Joan is a "bitch" who is constantly interfering in Anne's life. Joan Shakespeare Joan Shakespeare (baptised