Our friends at Shaksper have compiled a listing of Summer Shakespeare plays and festivals. Check it out for summer fun!
Summer Shakespeare Plays and Festivals
Reply
SHAKESPEARE IN PRISONS CONFERENCE
Shakespeare at Notre Dame is pleased to announce the Shakespeare in Prisons Conference hosted by the University of Notre Dame on Friday, November 15, and Saturday, November 16, 2013.
Featuring keynote addresses and film screenings by Curt Tofteland (founding director of Shakespeare Behind Bars) and Tom Magill (founder of the Educational Shakespeare Center and director of the Irish film Mickey B), the conference aims to bring together artists and educators engaged in transformational arts programs using Shakespeare in prisons across the USA (and the world) for an exploration and study of the effects such programming has on prison populations. The goal is to promote a collaborative learning forum where participants will be exposed to a diverse array of programs that all strive for a common result: the habilitation of the inmate’s mind, heart, body, and spirit.
Departing from the traditional academic conference structure, the Shakespeare in Prisons conference will focus on the craft and experiences of the practitioner—while allowing ample time for one-on-one networking and collaboration.
In addition to the keynotes and film screenings (and Q&A’s), attendees are invited to participate in workshops that explore innovative methodologies, as well as panel discussions that are designed to stimulate discussion about practitioner experiences and best practices within the industrial prison complex.
Registration is $25 and includes a dinner/reception on Friday night, lunch and dinner on Saturday, and admission to all workshops and film screenings. Online registration begins on Monday, June 10 via www.conferences.nd.edu. More information regarding the conference schedule, lodging information, and the availability of a limited number of bursaries to help with attendee expenses will be made available on June 10. In the meantime, please contact Scott Jackson at scottjackson@nd.edu for more information.
We hope that you will join us for this unique gathering of like-minded individuals.
Reduced Shakespeare podcast with Peter Holland
Austin Tichenor of the Reduced Shakespeare Company stopped by the Shakespeare at Notre Dame offices the other day and had a conversation with Peter Holland. We think you’ll enjoy the resulting podcast:
http://www.reducedshakespeare.com/2013/05/episode-337-professor-peter-holland/
Our Richard III poster
I hope we’re not stealing thunder from The Shirt, but we’re very excited to unveil our poster for Richard III designed by Chantelle Snyder, photo by Paul Cerro, Richard – Michael Gotch
Tickets for Richard III go on sale on April 26, 2013 at Noon.
Elizabeth Ledo as Anne in Richard III
Elizabeth Ledo
Elizabeth Ledo returns for her fifth season at the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival having appeared last year as Ophelia in Hamlet, and previously as Narissa in The Merchant of Venice, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Adriana in The Comedy of Errors. Elizabeth grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but has been based in Chicago for the past 18 years. Chicago credits include As You Like It, Amadeus, A Midsummer Nights Dream and Funk It Up About Nothin’ (Chicago Shakespeare); The Comedy of Errors, The Illusion, Titus Andronicus, Uncle Vanya and The Real Thing (Court); Homebody/Kabul and Morningstar (Steppenwolf); Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple (Drury Lane Oakbrook); Boleros for the Disenchanted (Goodman); The Homosexuals and Say You Love Satan (About Face Theatre); Arms and the Man (Writers’ Theatre), The Chalk Garden (Northlight); and The Old Curiosity Shop (Lookingglass Theatre). Her regional credits include Arcadia (Indiana Repertory) and over 20 productions with Milwaukee Repertory. Elizabeth is also a voice-over talent and can be heard on numerous commercials, video games and The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas produced by Falcon Picture Group. She is a proud graduate of Loyola University of Chicago. We are looking forward to her portrayal of Lady Anne.
Hunter Paul as Richmond
Hunter Paul
Hunter Paul will be performing the role of Richmond in Richard III. Recent credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (Algy), The Tempest (Ferdinand), Macbeth (Angus) and Woyzeck (ensemble).
Matt Daniels to make his NDSF Debut in Richard III
Matt Daniels
Matt Daniels makes his Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival debut in the roles of Clarence and Tyrell in our upcoming production of Richard III. Based in Milwaukee, his recent credits include the title role in Jeeves in Bloom at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents at Forward Theater, The Chosen at In Tandem Theater, and A Wrinkle in Time at First Stage. He has also appeared at Milwaukee Shakespeare, the Illinois and North Carolina Shakespeare Festivals, Lake Geneva Theatre Co., Shakespeare Project of Chicago, Kentucky Rep., Seven Angels Theater, and on many independent stages in New York. His directing work has been seen in Milwaukee and New York, and he is Associate Director of First Stage Theater Academy’s Young Company, where he teaches Viewpoints, Shakespeare, and Voice. An avid ukulelist, Matt enjoys Ukulele Hour with Il Bazzone’s Wondrous Jumping Flea Circus. Training: Juilliard. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Meet Laura Gordon
Laura Gordon
Our director for Richard III, Laura Gordon, is currently receiving rave reviews for her performance in Forward Theater’s Good People. Check out one of the reviews here. And here is some more information about Laura: Laura Gordon joins the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival for the first time this season. An Associate Artist at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Laura works both as a director and an actor. Her directing credits include: Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Winter’s Tale (Utah Shakespeare Festival); The Royal Family and Old Times (American Players Theater); Twelfth Night (Optimist Theater); Well (Milwaukee Chamber Theater); Going to St. Ives (Forward Theater); Skin Tight (Renaissance Theaterworks); In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Actors Theater of Louisville); and Speaking In Tongues, Laurel and Hardy, Almost Maine, Seascape, and I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda (Milwaukee Rep). As a long time member of the Resident Acting Company at the Milwaukee Rep, Laura has appeared in over 75 productions including The Diary of Anne Frank (Edith Frank), Death of a Salesman (Linda Loman), Doubt (Sister Aloysius), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Maureen), Mary Stuart (Queen Elizabeth), Richard III (Elizabeth), Twelfth Night (Olivia), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Princess of France), Copenhagen (Margrethe) and The Crucible (Elizabeth). She was honored with a Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship in 2010.
Jonathan Weir as Lord Stanley in Richard III
Jonathan Weir
Jonathan Weir makes his NDSF debut this summer in the role of Lord Stanley in Richard III. Chicago based, he recently appeared as Geronte in The Liar at Writers Theatre. Other Writers Theatre credits: Frederik Egerman in A Little Night Music, Arms and the Man, Misalliance, Bach at Leipzg, Doctors Dilemma, The Father and Booth. Chicago credits include The Governor in Candide, Ten seasons of A Christmas Carol, The Visit (Goodman Theatre) The Emperor’s New Clothes
(Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) Sunset Blvd. and Ragtime (Drury Lane Oakbrook) Stepping Out (Steppenwolf Theatre) The First, State Fair (Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre) Regional credits include performances at Shakespeare Theatre Co in DC., Skylight Opera Theatre and Next Act Theatre. National tours include; Mob Boss Gyp DeCarlo and other in Jersey Boys, Scar and Pumbaa in Disney’s The Lion King and Scrooge the Musical (US premier). Jonathan is an adjunct professor of theatre in the Dept. of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago.
Maureen Gallagher to Play The Duchess of York in Richard III
Maureen Gallagher
Maureen Gallagher returns to the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival in the role of The Duchess of York. She has been a member of the companies of Cymbeline (Belaria), The Comedy of Errors (Emilia), and Romeo and Juliet (the Nurse). As a long-time Chicago actor, she has performed at many of the city’s theatres including Chicago Shakespeare, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Victory Gardens, Northlight, and Court Theatre. Roles include Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, Goneril in King Lear, the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Peggotty in David Copperfield, Meg in The Birthday Party, Helen in The Infidel, and Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, for which she received a Joseph Jefferson Award. Playwriting has become a big part of her work in the theatre. Her play Martin Furey’s Shot, about a photojournalist, was produced at TimeLine Theatre in Chicago. Her new play, Comrades Mine / Emma Edmonds of the Union Army premiered in April at City Lit Theate as part of their five year project marking the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.