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Text Work: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 with Tony Amendola

Published March 26, 2019 | Last Updated November 4, 2021 Leave your thoughts »

Tony Amendola Lear

The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Tony. In this excerpt, Tony discusses Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare. As Tony shares, it’s almost like an “anti-love” sonnet, that it makes fun of sonnets that are too flowery, as it has a very different tone and style with its message. You’ll hear […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: antaeus, berkeley, california, classical, connecticut, directing, film, iago, lear, mfa, oregon, san francisco, shakespeare, sonnet, text work, theatre, tv

Ep #18: Tony Amendola (Regional Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Stargate SG-1) on Stamping Your Own Passport and Following the Work

Published March 12, 2019 | Last Updated May 11, 2019 2 Comments - add more!

Tony Amendola as Shylock

Being an actor in Los Angeles can be—if you’re not careful—living off the interest of your talent and experience. And every so often, you need to make a deposit, and that can be doing theatre in LA, New York, in the regions, or it can be a self-generated project, but you do need to do […]

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Ep #17: Robert Goldsby (Columbia/ACT/UC Berkeley; Directed 150+ plays, 60+ years in theatre) on the Aliveness of Molière, Clear Transitions, and Being Blissfully Happy

Published February 12, 2019 | Last Updated January 30, 2021 4 Comments - add more!

Plays are intensely personal to the writers—when they write them, they’re imagining something that’s very vivid to them. You have to get into their head and try to find another vividness that’s truthful to the original. I’m all for the playwright; that’s where you go to study. — Robert Goldsby   On the show today is […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: ACT, antaeus, army, berkeley, california, classical, columbia, directing, moliere, new york, san francisco, shakespeare, text work, theatre, war

Ep #10: Gigi Bermingham (Solo Show, Master Class, SoCal Theatre) on Being a Misfit and Living Her Dream

Published February 27, 2018 | Last Updated February 9, 2021 Leave your thoughts »

Gigi Bermingham as Maria Callas

Maintain and foster your relationships: make an effort to stay in touch with people who might connect you with work. — Gigi Bermingham   I’m thrilled to welcome Gigi to the show! She’s an actress and singer whom I first saw onstage in a LA production of Tartuffe and I’ve since been fortunate to work with […]

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