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Don’t miss the weekly sessions!
We work on another play for the first time – one of Stoppard’s best!
January’s Workshop
Our group will be working on the following scenes:
- Act 1, Scene 1 – with Septimus and Thomasina
- Act 2, Scene 6 – with Septimus, Jellaby and Lady Croom
Follow along with the play here.
Arcadia Team – with artists across the US in CA, NY, and MA!
- DIRECTOR: Brendon Fox
- DRAMATURG: Kathryn Moncrief
- SEPTIMUS (1.1): Geoffrey Wade
- THOMASINA (1.1): Téa Guarino
- SEPTIMUS (2.6): Christopher Guilmet
- LADY CROOM (2.6): Jennifer Le Blanc
- JELLABY (1.1 and 2.6): James Newcomb
REPLAYS (both video and audio) will be available weekly starting January 14th.
As a PATRON (starting at just $5), you can also get:
- Viewing of the sessions early (3-4 days before they go public)
- Priority access to ask questions of the artists
- And other perks
Get EARLY access and more via Patreon!
Want to be in the Room where it happens? 😉
These sessions are always filled with amazing scene work, and you’ll learn:
- how professional artists approach material
- what questions to ask
- what the director expects from actors
- how to find character clues from the text
- how the exploration never stops!
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 age
Artist Bios
Brendon Fox (Worcester) is currently Artistic Director for Peterborough Players, and a director, teacher, adapter and producer who has worked nationally and internationally at a number of prominent regional theaters, universities and training programs, including Prague Shakespeare Company, The Julliard School, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Long Wharf Theater, Portland Center Stage, and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Website.
Dr. Kathryn Moncrief (Worcester) is the Paris Fletcher Distinguished Professor and Head of Humanities and Arts at WPI. She is co-editor of Shakespeare Expressed and has published widely. Dramaturgy/text coaching at the Utah and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, Prague Shakespeare Company, and Chesapeake Shakespeare. She has also worked professionally as an actor, intimacy choreographer, and director, and was the Literary Seminar Director at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.
Geoffrey Wade (LA) has performed on Broadway and off-, and continues to work extensively in regional theater and in national tours. He has done episodic television and several films, including Steven Spielberg’s The BFG. Geoffrey has directed critically acclaimed productions of A Walk in the Woods and The Crucible.
Téa Guarino (New York) is a graduate of Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. She recently made her Off-Broadway debut at the Public Theater in Good Bones by James Ijames. Other credits include: A Hundred Words for Snow at Connecticut Rep. and Law and Order: SVU.
Christopher Guilmet (Buffalo) has performed Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and regionally at 3D Theatricals, Musical Theatre West, Antaeus Theatre, Reprise Theatre, Colony Theatre, Stages St. Louis, Musicals Tonight!, 5th Avenue Theatre, and the Village Theatre.
Jennifer Le Blanc (Bay Area) has performed, instructed students, and directed at Prague Shakespeare Company (Associate Aritst), and has performed recently at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Pacific Repertory, and San Jose Stage Company. She received her MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, Colorado and is also an Associate Artist with the SPARC Theatre in Livermore. Website.
James Newcomb (San Diego) has performed in over 60 Shakespeare plays and 75 other productions. He worked for 14 seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is a founding company member of Shakespeare & Company, and was an inaugural company member of The Denver Center Theatre, where he remained for 7 seasons. He is also an Instructor for the UCSD Graduate Theatre Program, and has worked at Utah Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz.
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