Our group will be working on Act 1, Scene 2 – where Cassius urges Brutus to oppose Caesar for fear that Caesar may become king.
Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here.
Julius Caesar Team – bios below:
- Will Block as DIRECTOR
- Miranda Johnson-Haddad as DRAMATURG
- Dennis Renard as BRUTUS
- Kodi Jackman as CASSIUS
- Sarah Garic as CASCA
We’re actually re-visiting this scene after first workshopping it in 2021 – always fun to see how a new group approaches it!
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REPLAYS (both video and audio) will be available approximately each Friday in May for 30 days, beginning May 10th. Attendees can be part of the final “live” session on Thursday, May 30th.
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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 – we have a mostly LA-based crew with one new Chicago transplant!
Will Block (DIRECTOR) is an actor, director and teacher. He is currently the Artistic Director for The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company in LA. With them, he has directed All’s Well that Ends Well, All is True or Henry VIII, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. He was previously the founding Artistic Director of Method and Madness, for whom he appeared as the title character in Richard II and directed productions of Henry IV and Macbeth.
Dr. Miranda Johnson-Haddad (DRAMATURG) is the Resident dramaturg at A Noise Within in LA. She has been a consultant and teacher for The Shakespeare Theatre in DC and a Scholar in Residence at The Folger Shakespeare Library. Miranda has taught Shakespeare and Renaissance literature at numerous universities and is the author of several articles on Shakespeare in performance.
Dennis Renard (BRUTUS) is a Mississippi native and recent theater credits include Come Get Maggie with Rogue Machine, Choir Boy with Dezart Performs, and 12 Angry Men at the Laguna Playhouse. He performed in the Secret Cinema immersive theater shows: Stranger Things and Arcane. Recent TV/Film credits: NCIS (CBS), Book of Queer (MAX, nominated for 6 Emmys). He is a graduate of UCLA and has appeared onstage at The Goodman Theatre and the Illinois Theatre Festival.
Kodi Jackman (CASSIUS) is a classically trained actor with an extensive movement background. Regional Credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (A Noise Within), A Few Good Men (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts), All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Orleans Shakespeare Festival), and Antony + Cleopatra (Shakespeare Orange County. She studied at Guildford School of Acting.
Sarah Garic (CASCA) is an Indian-American playwright and actor based in Long Beach. She developed her first play Bootstraps through the support of Jennie Webb and the Los Angeles Female Playwright’s Initiative. And she has wandered through a lot of degrees … MS in Engineering at IFP School in Paris, a BA in Human Rights and Gender Policy Studies, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rice University. When she is not writing or acting, she is advocating for environmental justice and sustainability. She has studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Antaeus Company.
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