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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 January 7, 2025 Leave your thoughts »

Elizabeth
Gideon Rappaport
Gideon
Kwana
Erika
Michele

We had a great time with The Winter’s Tale last month and now onto Henry V!

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Henry V Team for Act 3, Sc 4 and Act 5, Sc 2 (selection):

  • DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Dennehy
  • DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
  • HENRY: Kwana Martinez
  • KATHARINE: Erika Rolfsrud
  • ALICE: Michele Schultz

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Artist Bios

Elizabeth Dennehy has been acting for 30+ years, across theatre, tv, and film. She has over 50 film/tv credits and has also worked as a dialogue coach on TV shows. Elizabeth enjoys collaborating with actors to create exciting auditions and has been an audition coach for years. (Hear Elizabeth on the podcast, and she has also been part of several previous workshops.)

Gideon Rappaport is San Diego’s premiere Shakespearean dramaturg; he has worked as an English, humanities and Shakespeare teacher in high school, college, graduate school and professional theater. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in literature and art history at Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz, and his Master of Arts and Ph.D. in English and American literature at Brandeis University. He is the author of the book Appreciating Shakespeare and host of a podcast under the same name.

Kwana Martinez regularly appears in national commercials, on stage, and in TV/film. In Los Angeles, she is a board member and company member of the Antaeus Theatre Company. She studied at Vassar, British American Dramatic Academy, and Harvard. (She also played Hamlet in a previous workshop.)

Erika Rolfsrud has appeared on Broadway in The Coast of Utopia, Rabbit Hole, Exit The King. She has appeared Off-Broadway and in regional theatre. In films, Erika has appeared in Alone and Dream Date, and in television she has appeared in Law & Order, Third Watch, All My Children, As The World Turns. She has an MFA from Old Globe Theatre/USD.

Michele Schultz is an actor and business affairs consultant and entertainment attorney in Los Angeles.

Both Erika and Michele participated in our Repertory workshop!



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