Alexander Sovronsky makes his Shakespeare & Company debut as Dumaine Soldat and a musician (and assistant music director) in All’s Well That Ends Well this summer. He’ll be heading out on the road this fall as Rosencrantz/Fortinbras in Shakespeare & Company’s National Tour of Hamlet.
1. What was your first experience with Shakespeare & Company?
In 2003, I was a sophomore double major at SUNY Geneseo studying theatre and violin performance. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life yet but I knew that before I decided, I wanted to get more training in classical theatre. I wanted to study Shakespeare and there wasn’t much of a classical program at Geneseo. I was hungry for it so I decided to spend my summer at the Summer Training Institute at Shakespeare & Company. The production of King Lear that I saw here in 2003, directed by Tina Packer, changed my life. I had no idea that I could feel that connected to a classical play. I laughed, I cried, I was entertained and I was transfixed. I snuck out of my room in Larry Hall nightly to catch the final hour or so of almost every performance of King Lear that summer. The following season, I returned to Lenox as a participant in the Month-Long Intensive. I made sure to keep in touch with Tina, Dennis [Krausnick, Director of Training] and Dave [Demke, Associate Director of Training]. Continue reading ’7 Questions with Alexander Sovronsky’
Kristin Villanueva steps onto the Shakespeare & Company stage for the first time this summer as Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well (Buy tickets now). Kristin was born and raised in the Philippines and has worked in New York and as far away as the Czech Republic. She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase.
1. How did you come to be with Shakespeare & Company? What did you come in from?
I first heard about the company from my voice teacher of three years, Craig Bacon. Then, last March, I went to their open call [audition] in New York. Continue reading ’7 Questions With Kristin Villanueva’
In his eighth season at Shakespeare & Company, Timothy Douglas, a prolific director, steps back onto the stage (after directing Blue/Orange last summer) to play the King of France in All’s Well That Ends Well (Buy tickets now). Tim will also teach voice in the Shakespeare & Young Company summer session.
1. How did you come to be with Shakespeare & Company?
I first heard about the Company through my voice teachers, Zoe Alexander and Virginia Ness, when I was training as an actor at Yale Drama School. My first audition out of grad school was for Tina Packer’s 1986 production of Antony and Cleopatra. I was cast as the Soothsayer and the Clown (who brings the snake).
Continue reading ’7 Questions with Timothy Douglas’
