The Working Actor's Journey
In The Working Actor's Journey, hear from amazing teachers, role models, and mentors about their lifelong careers. Learn from those who have been acting professionally for decades—to see exactly how they approach the work, what decisions and resources have made the biggest impacts on their artistic lives, and to hear their struggles and successes in the business. How do great actors work? What do they actually do? Let’s find out. These conversations are a virtual toolbox for actors, full of techniques, advice, and lessons learned.
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Week 2 - The Winter's Tale - Hermione's arrest/defense - The Rehearsal Room
11/19/2024
Week 2 - The Winter's Tale - Hermione's arrest/defense - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our second week, highlights include: Deciding on the beats of the scene - what each is "called" Bringing Leontes back to sanity vs. punishing him Exploring the meaning of "I'll keep her in the stables" ----- 🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more! 🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM - we have artists in LA, San Diego, Philly, and New York! DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport LEONTES: Christopher Guilmet HERMIONE: Shannone Lee Clair ANTIGONUS: J. Paul Nicholas More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale: Leontes has Hermione arrested for adultery and treason Hermione tries to defend herself in open court Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library and . ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 1 - The Winter's Tale - Hermione's arrest/defense - The Rehearsal Room
11/12/2024
Week 1 - The Winter's Tale - Hermione's arrest/defense - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our first week, highlights include: the play as a tragic comedy and its significance in Shakespeare's career Leontes sudden and irrational jealousy towards his wife, Hermione. the importance of pacing and punctuation in the text. ----- 🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more! 🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM - we have artists in LA, San Diego, Philly, and New York! DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport LEONTES: Christopher Guilmet HERMIONE: Shannone Lee Clair ANTIGONUS: J. Paul Nicholas More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/winterstale-hermione-arrest-defense-week-1 ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale: Leontes has Hermione arrested for adultery and treason Hermione tries to defend herself in open court Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library and . ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Final Session - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
11/05/2024
Final Session - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our fourth and final week, highlights include: The warrior character of Macbeth and comedic moments with Lady Macbeth Diving into the imagery of "spongy officers" Analyzing the power dynamics in relationships A Q&A with the artists! ----- 🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more! 🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Jaelyn, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Nick Cagle DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport MACBETH: Mark Lawson LADY MACBETH: Meaghan Boeing More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/october-2024-macbeth-2-scenes/ ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 1, Scene 7 and Act 2, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We’ll explore the relationship of MACBETH and LADY MACBETH: Macbeth questioning Duncan’s murder and Lady Macbeth creating a plan Macbeth returning from Duncan’s murder, horrified by what he’s done Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library and . ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 3 - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
10/29/2024
Week 3 - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our third week, highlights include: The use of hypotheticals and future tenses What "the poor cat in the adage" really means The staccato delivery in Lady Macbeth's lines Plus - could "Macbeth" become a Christmas play?? 🎄🤶 ----- 🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more! 🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Jaelyn, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Nick Cagle DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport MACBETH: Mark Lawson LADY MACBETH: Meaghan Boeing More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/october-2024-macbeth-2-scenes/ ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 1, Scene 7 and Act 2, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We’ll explore the relationship of MACBETH and LADY MACBETH: Macbeth questioning Duncan’s murder and Lady Macbeth creating a plan Macbeth returning from Duncan’s murder, horrified by what he’s done Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library and . ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Director Robert Goldsby from 2019
10/28/2024
Director Robert Goldsby from 2019
From 2019, our interview with prolific director Robert Goldsby, on the aliveness of Molière, making clear transitions, and being blissfully happy. Bob took his final curtain call on October 27, 2024 at age 97. With a career spanning 60+ years, he accomplished so much and he'll be missed by all who knew him!
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Week 2 - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
10/22/2024
Week 2 - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our second week, highlights include: Macbeth's soliloquy and chaotic dialogue Lady Macbeth's role in the scenes Macbeth's influence on Halloween and Harry Potter ----- 🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more! 🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Jaelyn, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Nick Cagle DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport MACBETH: Mark Lawson LADY MACBETH: Meaghan Boeing More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/october-2024-macbeth-2-scenes/ ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 1, Scene 7 and Act 2, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We’ll explore the relationship of MACBETH and LADY MACBETH: Macbeth questioning Duncan’s murder and Lady Macbeth creating a plan Macbeth returning from Duncan’s murder, horrified by what he’s done Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library and . ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 1 - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
10/15/2024
Week 1 - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our first week, highlights include: speech transitions and symbolism exploring power, ambition, and moral sacrifice Shakespearean nuances ----- 🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more! 🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! Special welcome to Jaelyn as a new GUEST STAR member! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Nick Cagle DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport MACBETH: Mark Lawson LADY MACBETH: Meaghan Boeing More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/october-2024-macbeth-2-scenes/ ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 1, Scene 7 and Act 2, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We’ll explore the relationship of MACBETH and LADY MACBETH: Macbeth questioning Duncan’s murder and Lady Macbeth creating a plan Macbeth returning from Duncan’s murder, horrified by what he’s done Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library and . ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Final Session - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
10/08/2024
Final Session - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our fourth and final week, highlights include: The Great Vowel Shift and Shakespeare's pronunciation Exploring Mistress Ford's emotions and actions Q&A with the creative team ⭐️ And a special thank you to Juls Hoover for hosting this month! ⭐️ ----- 🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more! 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: J. Paul Nicholas DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport FALSTAFF: Todd Scofield MRS. PAGE: Michele Schultz MRS. FORD: Corinna Christman More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on two scenes where the wives plan revenge on Falstaff! Act 3, Scene 3 (Falstaff's first visit to Mrs. Ford), ending before Mr. Ford arrives Act 4, Scene 2 (Falstaff's second visit to Mrs. Ford), again ending before Mr. Ford arrives Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library and . ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 3 - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
10/01/2024
Week 3 - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our third week, highlights include: Focusing on the nuances of language, meaning, and dynamics How different approaches to lines could affect the overall humor and relationships Adjustments made to clarify character interactions ⭐️ And a special thank you to Juls Hoover for hosting this month! ⭐️ ----- 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: J. Paul Nicholas DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport FALSTAFF: Todd Scofield MRS. PAGE: Michele Schultz MRS. FORD: Corinna Christman More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on two scenes where the wives plan revenge on Falstaff! Act 3, Scene 3 (Falstaff's first visit to Mrs. Ford), ending before Mr. Ford arrives Act 4, Scene 2 (Falstaff's second visit to Mrs. Ford), again ending before Mr. Ford arrives Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library and . ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 2 - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
09/24/2024
Week 2 - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our second week, highlights include: Discussing lines like "kiln-hole," "loons," and "still swine eats all the draff," clarifying meanings and exploring delivery options Figuring out transitions, with characters entering and exiting, and experimented with different line delivery for comedic effect ----- 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: J. Paul Nicholas DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport FALSTAFF: Todd Scofield MRS. PAGE: Michele Schultz MRS. FORD: Corinna Christman More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on two scenes where the wives plan revenge on Falstaff! Act 3, Scene 3 (Falstaff's first visit to Mrs. Ford), ending before Mr. Ford arrives Act 4, Scene 2 (Falstaff's second visit to Mrs. Ford), again ending before Mr. Ford arrives Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library and . ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 1 - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
09/17/2024
Week 1 - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our first week, highlights include: Detailed analysis and debate of character motivations and intentions Several linguistic nuances and potential stage directions were clarified Discussion of whether certain actions were scripted or improvised ----- 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: J. Paul Nicholas DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport FALSTAFF: Todd Scofield MRS. PAGE: Michele Schultz MRS. FORD: Corinna Christman More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on two scenes where the wives plan revenge on Falstaff! Act 3, Scene 3 (Falstaff's first visit to Mrs. Ford), ending before Mr. Ford arrives Act 4, Scene 2 (Falstaff's second visit to Mrs. Ford), again ending before Mr. Ford arrives Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library and . ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Final Session - Measure for Measure (2.2) - The Rehearsal Room
09/10/2024
Final Session - Measure for Measure (2.2) - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our fourth and final session, highlights include: conveying the characters' emotions effectively bringing out the depth and complexity of the characters finding the humanity in the text Q&A with the creative team Session released from the Rehearsal Room ARCHIVE - August 2023. ----- 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Stefan Novinski DRAMATURG: Miranda Johnson-Haddad ANGELO: J. Paul Nicholas ISABELLA: Charlotte Northeast PROVOST / LUCIO: Rachel Dilliplane More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 2 – Angelo’s first meeting with Isabella, where she comes to plead for her brother’s life. Measure for Measure scene from the Folger Shakespeare Library: ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 3 - Measure for Measure (2.2) - The Rehearsal Room
09/03/2024
Week 3 - Measure for Measure (2.2) - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our third week, highlights include: Looking at the Provost, his role as a guide and mediator, and his interactions with Angelo Comparing the Provost and Lucio, highlighting how they are foils for each other The actors question whether the Provost and Lucio could be played by women Session released from the Rehearsal Room ARCHIVE - August 2023. ----- 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Stefan Novinski DRAMATURG: Miranda Johnson-Haddad ANGELO: J. Paul Nicholas ISABELLA: Charlotte Northeast PROVOST / LUCIO: Rachel Dilliplane More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 2 – Angelo’s first meeting with Isabella, where she comes to plead for her brother’s life. Measure for Measure scene from the Folger Shakespeare Library: ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 2 - Measure for Measure (2.2) - The Rehearsal Room
08/27/2024
Week 2 - Measure for Measure (2.2) - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our second week, highlights include: Themes of power, authority, temptation, and morality The idea that those in authority often act oppressively Isabella's use of bribery and prayer to persuade Angelo, and Angelo's internal struggle and attraction to Isabella Session released from the Rehearsal Room ARCHIVE - August 2023. ----- 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Stefan Novinski DRAMATURG: Miranda Johnson-Haddad ANGELO: J. Paul Nicholas ISABELLA: Charlotte Northeast PROVOST / LUCIO: Rachel Dilliplane More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 2 – Angelo’s first meeting with Isabella, where she comes to plead for her brother’s life. Measure for Measure scene from the Folger Shakespeare Library: ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 1 - Measure for Measure (2.2) - The Rehearsal Room
08/20/2024
Week 1 - Measure for Measure (2.2) - The Rehearsal Room
Session released from the Rehearsal Room ARCHIVE - August 2023 🏁 In our first week, some highlights include the participants: speaking about their locations, past experiences in theater, and the current state of the industry sharing their excitement about working on scenes from the play and discussed the purpose of the project, which is to provide learning opportunities for young professionals exploring the character of Angelo and his complicated past, as well as the role of the Provost in revealing Angelo's true nature analyzing Isabella's entrance and her high status as she pleads with Angelo. discussing an upcoming monologue by Angelo and the importance of exploring different approaches to the material ----- 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM Measure for Measure Team: DIRECTOR: Stefan Novinski DRAMATURG: Miranda Johnson-Haddad ANGELO: J. Paul Nicholas ISABELLA: Charlotte Northeast PROVOST / LUCIO: Rachel Dilliplane More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 2 – Angelo’s first meeting with Isabella, where she comes to plead for her brother’s life. Measure for Measure scene from the Folger Shakespeare Library: ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Final Session - Acting the Role: Beatrice - The Rehearsal Room
08/06/2024
Final Session - Acting the Role: Beatrice - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 In our final session, the group: discussed the idea of a bookish, nerdy Beatrice and how age can influence the portrayal of the role. refined the dynamics of key scenes, considering Beatrice's quick wit and the layers of meaning in her dialogue with Benedick. evaluated Beatrice as the fool of the house and contemplated her growth from defensive barb-thrower to a woman discovering love. delved into how the rehearsal context and current events can shape a performance. Plus, what about a web series of Beatrice as a childless cat lady in 2024?! Who's in? 🙋♀️😹 ----- 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! You can also WATCH the full sessions on YouTube: ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM - DIRECTOR: Erika Rolfsrud -DRAMATURG: Cathleen Sheehan -And the PLAYERS: Juls Hoover, Anu Bhatt, and Shannon Lee Clair More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENES Our group will be working on various sections from Shakespeare’s "Much Ado About Nothing": -First scene group: Act I, Scene I, lines 30-92 and Act I, Scene I, lines 111-143 -Second scene group: Act II, Scene I, lines 1-81 and Act II, Scene I, lines 123-152 -Third scene group: Act IV, Scene I, lines 269-350 Much Ado scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library: ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: -Appreciating Shakespeare: -Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: -William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #beatrice #muchado #shakespeare --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 3 - Acting the Role: Beatrice - The Rehearsal Room
07/30/2024
Week 3 - Acting the Role: Beatrice - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 This week, the group discussed Beatrice's emotional state, and the play's thematic elements like gender roles, public perception, and the use of wit. They also explored the historical and cultural context of the play, and theorized about its inspiration. ----- 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! You can also WATCH the full sessions on YouTube: ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM - DIRECTOR: Erika Rolfsrud -DRAMATURG: Cathleen Sheehan -And the PLAYERS: Juls Hoover, Anu Bhatt, and Shannon Lee Clair More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENES Our group will be working on various sections from Shakespeare’s "Much Ado About Nothing": -First scene group: Act I, Scene I, lines 30-92 and Act I, Scene I, lines 111-143 -Second scene group: Act II, Scene I, lines 1-81 and Act II, Scene I, lines 123-152 -Third scene group: Act IV, Scene I, lines 269-350 Much Ado scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library: ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: -Appreciating Shakespeare: -Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: -William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #beatrice #muchado #shakespeare --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 2 - Acting the Role: Beatrice - The Rehearsal Room
07/23/2024
Week 2 - Acting the Role: Beatrice - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 This week, the group watched a few different versions of the opening scene and discussed the various takes on performances by Catherine Tate and David Tennant (Wyndham's), Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh (Branagh's film), Danielle Brooks and Grantham Coleman (Public Theatre), and Dame Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens (Zeffirelli's film). They discussed the significance of food references and the implications of being "too cursed." They explored the Elizabethan context, character dynamics, and the rhythm and meaning of the text, with an emphasis on understanding Beatrice's perspective, her humor, repartee with Benedick, and her stance on marriage and men. ----- 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! You can also watch the full sessions on YouTube: ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM - DIRECTOR: Erika Rolfsrud -DRAMATURG: Cathleen Sheehan -And the PLAYERS: Juls Hoover, Anu Bhatt, and Shannon Lee Clair More about this group: ----- 😮 THE SCENES Our group will be working on various sections from Shakespeare’s "Much Ado About Nothing": -First scene group: Act I, Scene I, lines 30-92 and Act I, Scene I, lines 111-143 -Second scene group: Act II, Scene I, lines 1-81 and Act II, Scene I, lines 123-152 -Third scene group: Act IV, Scene I, lines 269-350 Much Ado scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library: ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: -Appreciating Shakespeare: -Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: -William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #beatrice #muchado #shakespeare --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Week 1 - Acting the Role: Beatrice - The Rehearsal Room
07/16/2024
Week 1 - Acting the Role: Beatrice - The Rehearsal Room
🏁 We dive into the first week of work on the character BEATRICE: exploring the dynamics between Beatrice and Benedict; the concept of wit as a form of communication; and addressing themes such as gender roles, societal expectations, and love. You'll see the group analyze key scenes, including the gulling of Beatrice and Benedict, the wedding scene, and the pivotal confrontation where Beatrice demands Claudio's death. 🛑 Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! 🤗 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! You can also watch the full sessions on YouTube: 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM - DIRECTOR: Erika Rolfsrud -DRAMATURG: Cathleen Sheehan -And the PLAYERS: Juls Hoover, Anu Bhatt, and Shannon Lee Clair More about this group: 😮 THE SCENES Our group will be working on various sections from Shakespeare’s "Much Ado About Nothing": -First scene group: Act I, Scene I, lines 30-92 and Act I, Scene I, lines 111-143 -Second scene group: Act II, Scene I, lines 1-81 and Act II, Scene I, lines 123-152 -Third scene group: Act IV, Scene I, lines 269-350 Much Ado scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library: 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: -Appreciating Shakespeare: -Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: -William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: #workingactor #rehearsal #beatrice #muchado #shakespeare --- - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Final Session - Shakespeare and Stoppard - The Rehearsal Room
07/02/2024
Final Session - Shakespeare and Stoppard - The Rehearsal Room
In our final week of looking at the scenes of Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the group used "Italian run-thrus" (rapid line delivery) and continued to work on the scenes switching roles. The group discussed the benefits and challenges of role-sharing and switching between the language styles of Shakespeare and Stoppard. During the Q&A, a number of artists mentioned their growth in understanding and portrayal of these characters. Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: You can also watch the full sessions on YouTube: About the Scene Our group is working on sections of Act 2, Scene 2 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare's Hamlet - AND they will also look at the beginning of Act 2 in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport And the PLAYERS: Marcelo Tubert, Nick Cagle and Dan Cordova Hamlet scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library: More about this group: BOOKS Dr. Gideon Rappaport has written three books on Shakespeare: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: Thank you to our current patrons Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! #workingactor #rehearsal #shakespeare #stoppard #hamlet
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Week 3 - Shakespeare and Stoppard - The Rehearsal Room
06/25/2024
Week 3 - Shakespeare and Stoppard - The Rehearsal Room
This week, the actors practiced delivering lines from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" using a technique that involved looking at the camera when speaking and looking at the screen when listening to capture the feeling of direct engagement. Emphasis was placed on understanding the meaning behind the words, which sometimes led to emotional revelations. They worked on specific lines to bring out operative words and discussed the implications of ambition within the text. The exercise aimed to illuminate nuances of the text by slowing down and emphasizing clarity in delivery. Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: Watch the session on YouTube: About the Scene Our group is working on sections of Act 2, Scene 2 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare's Hamlet - AND they will also look at the beginning of Act 2 in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport And the PLAYERS: Marcelo Tubert, Nick Cagle and Dan Cordova Hamlet scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library: More about this group: BOOKS Dr. Gideon Rappaport has written three books on Shakespeare: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: Thank you to our current patrons Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! #workingactor #rehearsal #shakespeare #stoppard #hamlet
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Week 2 - Shakespeare and Stoppard - The Rehearsal Room
06/18/2024
Week 2 - Shakespeare and Stoppard - The Rehearsal Room
Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: Watch the session on YouTube: About the Scene Our group is working on sections of Act 2, Scene 2 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare's Hamlet - AND they will also look at the beginning of Act 2 in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport And the PLAYERS: Marcelo Tubert, Nick Cagle and Dan Cordova Hamlet scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library: More about this group: BOOKS Dr. Gideon Rappaport has written three books on Shakespeare: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: Thank you to our current patrons Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! #workingactor #rehearsal #shakespeare #stoppard #hamlet
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Week 1 - Shakespeare and Stoppard - The Rehearsal Room
06/11/2024
Week 1 - Shakespeare and Stoppard - The Rehearsal Room
Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon - get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more: Watch the session on YouTube: About the Scene Our group is working on sections of Act 2, Scene 2 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare's Hamlet - AND they will also look at the beginning of Act 2 in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport And the PLAYERS: Marcelo Tubert, Nick Cagle and Dan Cordova Hamlet scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library: More about this group: BOOKS Dr. Gideon Rappaport has written three books on Shakespeare: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: Appreciating Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: Thank you to our current patrons Joan, Michele, Christion, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! #workingactor #rehearsal
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The Rehearsal Room YouTube Announcement
06/04/2024
The Rehearsal Room YouTube Announcement
The Rehearsal Room has been our successful workshop series beginning in June 2020 - and now it's time for something different! For the first time, I’ll be releasing the weekly rehearsal sessions on YouTube for ALL to enjoy. The goal here is to reach more actors, artists, and theatre lovers who would benefit from: a deeper examination of material insight into how the collaborative process brings a show to life I’d love for you to follow along, so – and then click the bell icon to get notification of when new videos are released! You can also watch this update . There’s no reason our Rehearsal Room can’t be its own weekly “show”. I’m inspired by all of the participants who have been willing to come together to do this in a “down and dirty fashion” – a la public access channels! – and time will tell how large and popular this could become – but I have high hopes. 😁 Thank you to our group of artists in June willing to experiment here! I’m very excited to share our sessions with a much larger audience and thrilled that you’re here for the next step. Oh – and if you’d like early access to the sessions BEFORE they go live on YouTube AND you’d like priority for sending questions in to the artists (ahead of YouTube comments),
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Acting the Role: Uncle Vanya with Tony-winner Reed Birney
11/22/2022
Acting the Role: Uncle Vanya with Tony-winner Reed Birney
Reed Birney played Uncle Vanya at SoHo Rep in 2012 in a translation by Annie Baker, with a cast that also included Michael Shannon. He joined us in December 2021 to discuss the character in depth. You’ll hear Reed and I talk about: his ideas going into Chekhov what he discovered and connected with about the role trusting the script challenges in the production and playing trapped characters We also learn lots more about Reed in our lightning round with a couple special New York questions! This episode marks our third installment in our Chekhov series as we focus on Reed playing the role of Uncle Vanya. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out two most recent episodes of our and . I suspect you’ll have an even deeper appreciation of and curiosity for the works of Chekhov. This episode also concludes Season 5, which began way back in March! , from interviews to workshops to text work and Q&A’s. Thank you to everyone listening and I hope you’ve enjoyed this season as much as I have. I’d love to hear below if you have a favorite episode, guest, or moment. I’m also excited to share that we just passed 40K downloads and the show regularly appears in the top 100 of arts podcasts around the world! Reed and I first spoke on the podcast back in about his life and career. He has over 130 credits on stage and screen over the past 45 years. He is a Tony Winner for The Humans, a Tony nominee for Casa Valentina, and you can see him in the film Mass (now streaming on Hulu and elsewhere), HBO’s Succession, Apple’s Home Before Dark, and currently in theaters in The Menu with Ralph Fiennes. He also just closed a production of Chester Bailey with his son Ephraim at Irish Rep in New York. This guy just keeps working! -- See additional content on , , , and .
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Q&A with director Libby Appel (OSF, Indy Rep, Cal Arts)
11/01/2022
Q&A with director Libby Appel (OSF, Indy Rep, Cal Arts)
This is a wonderful follow up to with an even deeper discussion with the director! You’ll hear Libby and I talk about what she looks for in auditions, what she expects in rehearsals, her inspirations, what things went well, what scared her, and yes, we have another lighting round! Libby Appel is the author and translator of Five Chekhov Plays, the former Artistic Director for Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Indiana Repertory Theatre, and former Dean of Cal Arts Theatre. It was a great honor that she gave so much of her time to both the workshop and this Q&A. Gaining insight into “the other side of the table” is always valuable and few directors have accomplished as much as Libby, so I’m sure it’ll be a fun and very informative hour for you. Learn more about Libby @ -- - plus you'll receive 2 other bonus guides with lessons and wisdom from professional actors! See additional content on , , , and .
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Uncle Vanya Presentation with Alberto Isaac, Deidre Henry, and Libby Appel
10/18/2022
Uncle Vanya Presentation with Alberto Isaac, Deidre Henry, and Libby Appel
We have our first workshop scene NOT from Shakespeare, and there’s a great reason! From October 2021, we present a deep dive into the first half of Act 2 from Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya with director Libby Appel - who wrote the translation along with our dramaturg! Uncle Vanya - excerpt of Act 2 DIRECTOR: Libby Appel () DRAMATURG: Allison Horsley VOICE: Ursula Meyer PROFESSOR: Alberto Isaac () SONYA: Deidrie Henry MARINA: Jully Lee VANYA: Howard Leder YELENA: Sara Mountjoy-Pepka ASTROV: Corey Hedy One final thing I’ll leave you with before we get to it is that Sara mentions toward the end that Libby asks such great questions, which is really the basis of any deep work, creative or otherwise. What questions do you need to be asking yourself, and as an actor, how far are you willing to push yourself to find answers? Fantastic work after only a few weeks of rehearsals; listen in to the cast and director continue to discuss the process. Part of The Rehearsal Room series. Prefer to watch the session? See additional content on , , , and . --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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Acting the Role: Dogberry with Geoffrey Wade
10/04/2022
Acting the Role: Dogberry with Geoffrey Wade
Geoffrey has played Dogberry twice, at very different times in his life, and finds it's a fascinating character to dissect. He first performed it as a student at Amherst College and then again at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. You’ll hear Geoffrey and I talk about rehearsals, preconceived ideas, and discoveries. How to ground characters that seem eccentric, bizarre or over the top, and how to trust yourself and the script. He’ll talk about working on roles that people think are “funny” and dealing with any sense of obligation an actor might have to be comical. And as some of these guests have been mentors to me and perhaps even to some of you (even by listening to these conversations), you’ll hear a defining conversation in Geoffrey’s life with a mentor about this very role. Plus, don’t miss the lighting round where you’ll learn even more about Geoffrey! -- See additional content on , , , and .
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As You Like It Presentation (3.5) with James Newcomb and Erika Rolfsrud
09/20/2022
As You Like It Presentation (3.5) with James Newcomb and Erika Rolfsrud
We have another “all pro” group—all the actors in the scene are professionals, so the work has been so fun and rich! Our dramaturg Philippa said that she found it so mind-blowingly good how fully the actors and director jumped into this scene, that it’s not something she usually experiences—and I don’t think I could have said it better myself. In the scene today, Silvius tries in vain to get an answer from Phoebe regarding her love. Rosalind chides Phoebe about her treatment of Silvius and Phoebe ends up falling in love with “Ganymede” (which is, of course, Rosalind in disguise as a man). After Rosalind departs, Phoebe convinces Silvius to bring a letter to this Ganymede, and Silvius is delighted to do so. As You Like It - Act 3, Scene 5: “Sweet Phoebe” DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Dennehy () DRAMATURG: Philippa Kelly SILVIUS: James Newcomb () PHOEBE: Erika Rolfsrud ROSALIND: Meaghan Boeing Fantastic work in Shakespeare's As You Like It from May 2021. After only a few weeks of work, the cast and director continue to work on and discuss the process. Part of The Rehearsal Room series. Prefer to watch the session? -- See additional content on , , , and .
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Ep #30: Veralyn Jones on Feeling Like a Fraud, Circuitous Paths, and Saying Yes
07/12/2022
Ep #30: Veralyn Jones on Feeling Like a Fraud, Circuitous Paths, and Saying Yes
Today’s guest grew up on a tiny island in the Caribbean, studied fashion and dance in New York, often felt like she never had the right background or training, and yet found success in several careers. Veralyn Jones is an award-winning actress who has been working professionally for over 30 years across theatre, film and TV. She has worked at The Denver Center, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, The Kirk Douglas Theatre, and internationally at LaScala Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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