''Complete Works'' is a

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web series first aired on the subscription website Hulu in 2014.

Background

''Complete Works'' was written, produced and directed by Joe Sofranko and Adam North. It starred Joe Sofranko, Lili Fuller, Kevin Quinn,

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, Chase Williamson, Ben Sidell, Lizzie Fabie, Alex Skinner, Michael Keenan, Laurie O'Brien, Daniel Montgomery, Robert Merrill, Jason Greene and Jessica Pennington. The series aired on Hulu and is available to

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subscribers. The series premiered on Hulu on

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450th birthday. The competition is modeled after the English-Speaking Union's National Shakespeare Competition, won by Sofranko in 2004. The entire series was shot in 20 days and originally created to be a 14-episode webseries and was later re-edited into five 30-minute episodes.

Plot

''Complete Works'' is a half-hour

series set in the world of a collegiate

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competition. Hal, a naive Midwesterner attending community college, has been obsessed with Shakespeare since his Henry the Fourth birthday party. Winning the American Shakespeare Competition could pull him out of his boring life and give him the performing career he has always dreamed of. The only problem: he has never done an arts competition before. As he deals with the crazy challenges and the challenging crazies, Hal discovers that the road to victory is often paved with douchebag-ery.

Cast

Main cast

* Joe Sofranko as Hal Evans * Lili Fuller as Pauline Williams * Kevin Quinn as James *

as Ashley Spitzer * Chase Williamson as Oliver Belrose * Ben Sidell as Ian Greenblatt * Lizzie Fabie as Regan Conrad * Alex Skinner as Leo Wood * Michael Keenan as Damien George * Laurie O'Brien as Deborah Hunterschmidt * Daniel Montgomery as Loren Dalton * Robert Merrill as Jonathan Taylor Turner

Recurring cast

* Jason Greene as Giorgio * Jessica Pennington as Maria

Episodes

References

External links

Complete Works on Hulu
* {{IMDb title, 3439236, Complete Works
Complete Works
2010s American comedy television series 2014 American television series debuts American comedy web series Works about William Shakespeare