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 »)