I’m excited to invite you to sit in on a NEW online event happening LIVE on Thursday, June 18th: we’re doing an open workshop of Shakespeare’s Richard III, bringing together both veteran and rookie actors! Grab your spot here! First up are a couple of scenes from Shakespeare’s Richard III with Tony Amendola (ep […]
FULL Production of our LIVE Online Reading of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” with Harry Groener
Today you’ll hear the FULL production from our recent LIVESTREAM reading of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (more info and watch the show here). It’s an all-star cast of past guests from the podcast, including Harry Groener, Dawn Didawick, Peter Van Norden, Anne Gee Byrd, Tony Amendola and many more! For this “Merry Wives” […]
May 14th: Livestream Reading of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” with an All-Star Cast!
Things went very well with our first reading, so welcome to the “Much Ado About Something” series, as we all do our part to fight this pandemic and stay entertained at the same time. Next up is our online reading of William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor with an all-star cast of past […]
Scenes from our LIVE “Much Ado About Nothing” Online Reading with Dakin Matthews
Today you’ll hear some excerpted scenes from our recent LIVESTREAM reading of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (more info here). It’s an all-star cast of past guests from the podcast, including Dakin Matthews, Robert Pine, Geoffrey Wade, Anne Gee Byrd, Alan Mandell and many more! This whole thing came together within about two weeks after […]
April 2nd: Online Shakespeare Reading of “Much Ado About Nothing” with an All Star Cast!
In these times of much ado about SOMETHING, you’re invited to an online Shakespeare reading of Much Ado About Nothing with an all-star cast of past podcast guests! The broadcast will be April 2nd at 3 pm Pacific / 6 pm Eastern, and yes, you can WATCH all of this too. Head over here to […]
Text Work: Hamlet’s “Advice to the Players” with Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso
The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Randall and Annie. In this episode, Randall and Annie share insights into working on Shakespeare through the appropriately chosen piece, Hamlet’s “Advice to the Players”—the one that begins “Speak the speech I pray you”. You’ll hear Randall and Annie discuss: Some of the […]
Ep #25: Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso (American Players Theatre founders, Shakespeare actors/teachers, Kung Fu Panda, The Matrix, John Wick) on Pursuing Crazy Ideas, Shakespeare’s Clues, and Your Own Discretion
If you have a dream and you love these plays, don’t let anyone tell you it can’t happen. It will break your back and tear your heart out at times, but if you have that dream, please don’t give up on it because the theatre needs you—we need the people who won’t take “no” for […]
Behind the Podcast: Mike Moreno of Actor CEO (Run Your Career Like a Business)
So don't be surprised!
“Instead of thinking of yourself as a freelancer, think ‘I am a business that partners with other businesses to tell stories. That’s what I do.’ So when I go into an audition, I’m representing my business, and you think that my business might partner well with your business on this project.” — Mike Moreno […]
Ep #22: Jeanne Sakata (Actress/Playwright, Hold These Truths, Regional Theatre, Dr. Ken) on the Joy of Discovery, Eagerness, and Redemptive Writing
What fuels it all for me right now is gratitude, because I’m grateful all these things are happening, and that there are so many more opportunities than there used to be, and when I’m tempted to feel overwhelmed as sometimes I do, I really try to go back to that place of gratitude, and I […]
Text Work: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale with Richard Riehle
The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Richard. In this excerpt, Richard discusses one of Leontes’ speeches in The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare—it’s in the first act where he has his suspicions about his wife and his best friend having an affair. Leontes is speaking with his trusted advisor Camillo, […]
