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Guy is the Founder and Artistic Director of Prague Shakespeare Company, the professional English-language theatre of the Czech Republic. His work as actor, director and producer has been seen in the United States, Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Qatar, Egypt and India. He and his productions have been honored with numerous awards and over 100 US theatre award nominations, including many for Best Actor, Director and Production. Guy won the 2020 Houston Theatre Award for Best Visiting production for his PSC production of Hamlet and the 2018 Houston Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance of The Poet in PSC's An Iliad, both presented at Main Street Theater Company in Houston, TX. In 2016, under his leadership, PSC became the first theatre company in the world to present the entire newly accepted Shakespearean canon (41 plays including Sir Thomas More, Cardenio and Edward III as well as all of the sonnets and poetical works) in a single year as part of the historic PSC400 Season. He is a 2015 recipient of the Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Medal of Honor from the Masaryk Democratic Movement in recognition for his work promoting arts and artistic freedom. In 2014 Guy received the inaugural Sidney Berger Award from the Shakespeare Theatre Association in recognition of his dedication to the works of William Shakespeare. He was named "Honorary Houstonian" at the 2013 Houston Press Theatre Awards for his PSC touring productions in collaboration with Main Street Theater Company (MST). PSC/MST productions include An Iliad, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Henry V (Houston Press Theatre Award for Best Director) and Richard III. Notable Shakespeare roles include Macbeth, Henry V, Iago, Richard III, Hamlet, Pericles, Leontes, Jaques, Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Hector, Romeo, Mercutio, Benedick, Bottom, Demetrius, Snug, Puck, Dogberry, and Lucio among others for Prague Shakespeare Company with numerous productions in association with the Czech National Theatre at the historic Estates Theater including also Patrick Doyle's Shakespeare in Concert, Measure for Measure (also Prague Castle), Julius Caesar, his Trojan War trilogy: An Iliad, Troilus and Cressida, and The Trojan Women (co-directed with Rebecca Greene Udden), Amadeus as well as Much Ado About Nothing, Venus in Fur, Twelfth Night among numerous others at Divadlo Kolowrat, Main Street Theater Company, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Austin Shakespeare Festival and the Huntington Theatre Company. Recent stage work as an actor includes the title roles in Richard III on tour to New Delhi and Puducherry, India as part of the Bharat Rang Matosav 2020 Festival, and Prague performances of Hamlet at the Estates Theater in association with the Czech National Theatre and Iago in Othello at Prague Castle and on tour to Ostrava and Brno with the Czech Summer Shakespeare Festival, Letní Shakespeareovské Slavosti. Other PSC international tours include An Iliad in New Delhi and Varanassi, India as part of the Bharat Rang Matosav 2019 Festival; Hamlet in Houston, Texas with Main Street Theater Company and in Alicante, Spain; Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing at the Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt; Patrick Doyle's Shakespeare in Concert with Patrick Doyle, James Shearman and Jessica Boone in Doha, Qatar and Orlando, Florida. As a guest director, his PSC Much Ado serves as the basis for a Czech version, which he directed and has been running for over four years at Divadlo Bez Zabradli in Prague and his production of Midsummer for the Bremer Shakespeare Company in Germany recently celebrated its one year anniversary in the repertory. His on camera work as an actor includes Cyril in the upcoming feature film Medieval directed by Petr Jakl, starring Ben Foster, Michael Caine and Matthew Goode; Missing; Legends; Borgias well as numerous voice overs for Japanese anime and commercials for director Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya). Guy is a longtime member of the Society of American Fight Directors and has choreographed fight sequences and staged violence for over one hundred theatre productions, ballets and operas in Europe and the United States as well as the First National Tour of big! the musical. Guy frequently lectures and trains Executive Leadership in the Corporate world using Shakespeare's history plays as a model for success. His TEDxYouth talk To Lead or Not To Lead: Changing the World with Shakespeare may be viewed online. Guy is also proud member of Actor's Equity Association, The Society of Stage Directors, British Equity, and the Shakespeare Theatre Association. He is married to the actress Jessica Boone and is the proud father of Isabella, Rohan and Landon.
