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King Lear in The Rehearsal Room for June 2023 with Annie Occhiogrosso, Randall Duk Kim, Jeanne Sakata and more!

Published June 1, 2023 | Last Updated June 2, 2023 Leave your thoughts »

We had a great time with Henry V last month and now onto King Lear! King Lear Team for Act 2, Sc 4: Get access to watch the REPLAYS of all sessions for only $5 per month! Sessions will be held on Tuesdays: June 6, 13, 20, and 27. Recordings typically available the following day, […]

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Henry V in The Rehearsal Room for May 2023 with Elizabeth Dennehy, Kwana Martinez, and more!

Published May 3, 2023 | Last Updated June 1, 2023 Leave your thoughts »

We had a great time with The Winter’s Tale last month and now onto Henry V! Get access to watch the REPLAYS of all sessions for only $5 per month! Sessions will be held on Mondays May 8, 15, 22 and Tuesday, May 30. Recordings typically available the following day, for 30 days! Want to […]

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The Rehearsal Room is BACK with The Winter’s Tale workshop for April 2023 with Liz Swain, Marcelo Tubert, and more!

Published March 29, 2023 | Last Updated May 3, 2023 Leave your thoughts »

What was clear to me during 2020-2022 was how much FUN the workshops scenes were to produce and how much it seemed others enjoyed them too! I was also consistently blown away at the quality of the work in such a short period of time. So I’m bringing the Rehearsal Room workshops back, starting in […]

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Cast Announced for KING LEAR in The Rehearsal Room – April 2022

Published April 5, 2022 | Last Updated April 5, 2022 Leave your thoughts »

We’ve kicked off The Play’s the Thing with our First Folio investigation of Shakespeare’s King Lear! The great joy of these programs is that we get to: spend SO much time diving deep on a scene and characters bring together lifelong professionals with newer/younger actors cast roles while being totally open to race, gender, and […]

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Cast and Creative Team Announced for THE BELLE’S STRATAGEM in The Rehearsal Room – February 2022

Published February 3, 2022 | Last Updated March 29, 2023 Leave your thoughts »

In our first ever session focusing on the work of Hannah Cowley, we have selected excerpts from TWO scenes from her popular play The Belle’s Stratagem: Act 3, Scene 1 and Act 5, Scene 5! The great joy of these programs is that we get to: We are thrilled to welcome so many new professionals […]

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Cast and Creative Team Announced for CHEKHOV in The Rehearsal Room – Fall 2021

Published August 5, 2021 | Last Updated March 29, 2023 Leave your thoughts »

In our first ever session focusing on the work of Anton Chekhov, we have selected a scene from Act 2 of UNCLE VANYA! The great joy of these programs is that we get to: We are thrilled to welcome so many new professionals to our group, including Libby, Allison, Alberto, Deidrie, and Jully! Want to […]

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Virtual Shakespeare Workshop Registration opens July 22 at 12 pm PT

Published July 21, 2020 | Last Updated July 21, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Anne Gee Byrd

What if your scene partner were a professional actor? How might that up your game and what might you learn from someone who has been working for decades? Well now you can make that happen. We’re opening up registration on Wednesday, July 22nd at 12 pm PT for a series of Virtual Shakespeare Workshops to […]

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Text Work: Jessica Dickey’s The Rembrandt with Francis Guinan

Published November 20, 2018 | Last Updated June 3, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Francis in The Rembrandt

The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Francis. In this excerpt we discuss performing a speech from Jessica Dickey’s The Rembrandt, which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago in 2017 with Francis in the cast, alongside John Mahoney (known by many as the dad on Frasier), and who was also another longtime ensemble […]

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Ep #14: Francis Guinan (30 years with Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, Boss with Kelsey Grammar) on Being Blue Collar and Slightly Undisciplined

Published November 6, 2018 | Last Updated January 29, 2019 Leave your thoughts »

in THE BOOK THIEF at Steppenwolf

You don’t have to act so much. Over the course of [August: Osage County], I ended up doing less and less and less, and ended up revealing more and more and more about the character.  — Francis Guinan   We continue with season two and today on the show is Francis Guinan, a Chicago-based actor who has […]

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