Ferguson is playing Launcelot Gobbo and Clown (a shepherd’s son) in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park presentations of, respectively, The Merchant of Venice and The Winter’s Tale. He discusses working with Merchant star Al Pacino, handling the Central Park heat, and his work on “Modern Family.”
Ferguson has also appeared in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Shakespeare in the Park, On the Town, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Where Do We Live, Little Fish, newyorkers, The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged),, the Encores! presentation of Hair and the sitcom “The Class.”
The Merchant of Venice and The Winter’s Tale play Central Park’s Delacorte Theater in rep through Aug. 1. To view video of Ferguson’s interview, look below:
— Thomas Peter
