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Susan Dibble
Susan Dibble is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and painter. She graduated from SUNY College at Purchase with a B.F.A. in Dance in 1976. In 1979, Susan was a participant in the first Shakespeare & Company January Intensive. Susan is a founding member of Shakespeare & Company where she has worked for the past 39 years as a master teacher of movement and dance for actors, movement director and choreographer. In 1987, after teaching at a variety of universities including NYU moreTina Packer
Tina Packer is the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company. She has directed most of Shakespeare’s plays (some of them several times), acted in seven of them (never when directing) and taught the whole canon one way or another at over thirty colleges in the U.S., including Harvard, M.I.T. and NYU. At Columbia, she taught in the M.B.A. program for four years, resulting in the publication of her piece, Power Plays: Shakespeare’s Lessons in Leadership and Management with Deming moreKevin G. Coleman
Kevin is a founding member of Shakespeare & Company, a member of its Board and is involved in all three branches of the company: he acts, directs, teaches and choreographs in the Performance Program, he is one of the master teachers in the Training Program, (teaching Basics, Text, Stage Combat, Clown and Wit), and serves as the director of Shakespeare & Company’s Education Program. Since 1979 he directed most of the Northeast Regional Tour productions (reaching schools, colleges and moreSarah Kate Anderson
Sarah Kate is an actor, director, and theatre educator who teaches in the Film and Theatre Department at San José State University. She has taught a variety of classes, ranging from Classical Acting and Acting for Animation Majors, to Theatre Appreciation and Voice and Movement for the Actor at various institutions including De Anza Community College and The Art Institute in Sunnyvale. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, completed her Bachelor's in Theatre Arts from moreAriel Bock
Ariel is the Producing Associate at Shakespeare & Company. Roles include: Rose in The Children, Mom in Ugly Lies the Bone, Mistress Quickly in Henry IV pts 1&2, Goneril in King Lear, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Elizabeth in Richard III, Audrey in As You Like it, Hippolyta in Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Mistress Quickly in Merry Wives of Windsor, Paulina in The Winters Tale, Ruth in Private Eyes, the Woman in Laughing Wild, moreAndrew Borthwick-Leslie
Andrew Borthwick-Leslie is a member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, where he has taught, directed, and acted for twenty years. He is also the co-Artistic Director of The Humanist Project in NYC. He has taught acting and voice at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Emerson College, DeSales University and the University of Maryland among others. Andrew has run workshops for the Center for Renaissance Studies, the American Bar Association, the New England Homeless Veterans shelter and many moreJenna May Cass
Jenna May found her way to Shakespeare & Company while training in Linklater Voice. After taking both the Month-Long Intensive and the Conservatory in 2012, she immediately returned to begin teacher training, ultimately falling in love with the sonnet progression, which she now teaches, along with text. Originally from Washington State, Jenna May earned a degree in dramatic arts from Western Washington University, trained further with RADA, Theatricum Botanicum, Louis Colaianni, and Natsuko Ohama. Now based in the Berkshires, Jenna moreMerry Conway
Merry Conway is a teacher, and performer. She teaches workshops in a range of subjects: Movement for Actors, Clown, and has developed original pedagogy on The Embodied Humors, Wit and Wordplay and The Fool. Merry trained with Trish Arnold in London and her work has continued to provide a strong foundation for Merry’s thought. Merry is a Founding Teacher at Shakespeare & Company, having taught at the first January workshop, bringing movement as well as Clown into the Company pedagogy, moreMary Coy
Mary is a Designated Linklater teacher with many years experience acting and teaching voice, acting and improvisation in universities and professional theatre training programs all over the United States including Shakespeare & Company, University of Maryland, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, University of Mississippi, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Syracuse University. She has an M.Litt/MFA in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance from Mary Baldwin College and the American Shakespeare Center. Mary has coached voice and dialects at Arena Stage, morePaul D'Agostino
Paul D’Agostino is an assistant professor of theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he’s been on faculty since 2014. Additionally, he serves as the resident voice teacher for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Boston University Summer Theater Institute (both since 2013). A Designated Linklater Teacher and a certified teacher of The Alexander Technique, he holds a Master of Music in Musical Theater from The Boston Conservatory and an M.F.A. in Theatre Education with a concentration in voice and moreDave Demke
Dave Demke is a Shakespeare & Company Senior Faculty member and aTom Giordano
Tom Giordano is an actor, teacher and director based in New York City. His training as an actor at the Shakespeare & Company January Intensive was the springboard to receiving his MFA from Columbia University. While at Columbia, he trained extensively in voice and Shakespeare with Kristin Linklater and Andrea Haring, inspiring him to pursue and complete his designation as a teacher of Linklater Voice. He has worked in the Education and Training programs at Shakespeare moreRebecca Kemper Goodheart
Rebecca Kemper Goodheart has been a director, actor, and teacher specializing in Shakespeare and Voice for over 25 years. She is a Designated Linklater Voice teacher who has directed over 30 professional and 50 educational productions. Currently serving as the Producing Director of Elm Shakespeare Company in New Haven, CT, she has worked with a dozen Shakespeare theaters around the world, and is a proud lifetime member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association. Other leadership positions have included Director of Training moreCharls Sedgwick Hall
Charls Sedgwick Hall (Actor, Movement Teacher, Director) ) Charls’s acting credits include performances in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged, Revised), Romeo and Juliet, A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Shakespeare & Company; The Color Purple (The Musical) Los Angeles Ovations Award winning production, The Next Fairytale, The Escape Artist’s Children, and Follow with Celebration Theatre; Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing with Southern California Shakespeare Festival; moreRory Hammond
Rory has studied Shakespeare her entire life and has also worked as an Education Artist at Shakespeare & Company since 2015. She has spent the last three years focusing on directing and teaching Shakespeare to kids from ages 7-18. Directing Credits: Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing, and Macbeth for the Fall Festival of Shakespeare. New York acting credits include: Pericles, directed by Edward Berkeley at SoHo Rep, Measure for Measure at Circle in the Square also moreSarah Hickler
Sarah Hickler is an actor, deviser, director and theater educator. She has directed, choreographed and taught with the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Co., Sedona Shakespeare, Sun Valley Shakespeare, and Actor’s Shakespeare Project. She is an Associate Professor and Head of Acting at Emerson College in Boston, where she teaches Movement, Action Theater and Shakespeare. Sarah has an MFA from Boston University and is a Certified in Authentic Movement facilitation and Action Theater™. Sarah has a long association with Shakespeare & Co., moreTom Jaeger
Tom Jaeger has been teaching, acting, training, managing and directing at Shakespeare & Company since 1991. Before coming here he trained at Washington University in St. Louis with Hollis Huston, a Lecoq trained theatre maker and performance theorist. While in St. Louis he was also the managing director of the Holy Roman Repertory Company, a live radio theatre. He has also done stints at MIT and Harvard, including the first Shakespeare production done in the Sanders Theatre at Harvard in moreEdgar Landa
Edgar Landa is an actor/director from Los Angeles. He also creates fights & violence for theatres large and small. He has been a guest director at Off Square Theatre/Thin Air Shakespeare for the past five summers. He has directed at theatres in L.A. and beyond and has also been a guest director at USC, Long Beach State University and Loyola Marymount University. As a fight director Edgar has created mayhem at numerous theatres across Southern California and elsewhere including: morePaula Langton
Paula Langton - Actor and Designated Linklater Voice Teacher - is honored to return to teach at Shakespeare & Company where she encountered powerful teaching mentors, including Master Voice Teacher, Kristin Linklater, who was in residence when she participated in her first "intensive" in 1986. It was here that Paula received some of the most transformational training of her career. She is currently an Associate Professor on The School of Theatre faculty at Boston University where she has taught since moreCorinna May
Corinna is a 30-year member of Shakespeare & Company, took her first Intensive in 1990, went on the education tour right afterwards, and has been working here ever since both as an actor (33+ roles and counting), and faculty member in and Education. Corinna has acted in NY and regional theatre in classical, modern, and new plays, appeared in film, on television, in radio plays and audio books. She stars in the indie feature Split Ends, directed by Dorothy moreJane Nichols
Jane Nichols is an actress, director, and teacher. She first studied with Shakespeare & Company in 1983, and has taught and acted with the Company off and on since then. Inspired by the work of Merry Conway at the 1983 workshop, Jane developed a passion for Clowning. Her teaching today brings together skills and techniques of Le Jeu, Physical Comedy, Clown, Bouffon, Improvisation, and Mask.
In addition to Merry Conway, she has studied with Philippe Gaulier (Ecole Gaulier), Clive
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One of the premier voice teachers in the world, Natsuko trained under legendary Master Kristin Linklater at the Working Theatre in New York. She is a founding member and permanent faculty of Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, MA), a senior artist at Pan Asian Rep NewYork, a certified Joy of Phonetics teacher trained by Louis Colaianni and was the Director of Training at the National Arts Center of Canada. She has taught at numerous institutions all over North America, including NYU, moreVictoria Rhoades
Victoria Rhoades, PhD is an educator, actor and director, specializing in Shakespeare and girls’ and boys’ development. Tori is a senior faculty of Movement and Text in the Training Program and has worked for years in various areas of the Education Program. She currently serves as founder and Executive Director of the newly developing, SAGE Center, (Shakespeare, the Arts, Gender and Education). Tori strives to create spaces where young women and men can respectfully and playfully learn from, and alongside moreRebecca Schneebaum
Rebecca Schneebaum is a Boston based actor, Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, and loving dog mama with a focus on making voice training accessible for all humans. In this fraught and scary world, Rebecca strives to build community, understanding, and activism through communication. It was at Shakespeare & Company’s training intensive many summers ago that Rebecca encountered the profound impact the voice work can have and from there she dove head first into teacher training. She currently teaches voice at Emerson moreGwendolyn Schwinke
Gwendolyn Schwinke has served as voice and text coach at Shakespeare & Company for The Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Or, Ugly Lies the Bone, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, The Unexpected Man and Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World, and created and directed Worse than Wolves for Henry VI.6. Gwendolyn has worked as vocal coach for other professional companies including Oxford Shakespeare Company (MS), Atlantic Stage (SC), Cheap Theatre and Frank Theatre in Minneapolis, and moreMichael F. Toomey
Michael has been company member at Shakespeare & Company for nearly twenty years where he is an actor, director and faculty member. He is the Co-Artistic Director of the NYC based theatre company The Humanist Project. He also a founding member and trustee of Split Knuckle Theatre, which devises new works of theatre and is currently touring throughout the world with recent performances in Bangkok, Athens and Paris. Michael has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Binghamton University teaching Clown, moreKevin Vavasseur
Kevin Vavasseur is a theater artist whose credits include work at Highways Performance Space, Theater @ Boston Court, Odyssey Theater, Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, H.E.R.E, Company of Angels, Los Angeles Theater Center, Sacred Fools, Edinburgh International Arts Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, London Shakespeare Studio and Lincoln Center. An NAACP Image, GLAAD Media and Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle Award nominee for acting, he is a Lincoln Center Directors' Lab alum and a Stage Directors and Choreographers Union moreClaire Warden
Claire Warden first came to Shakespeare & Company in 2008, having relocated from the UK, taking the Rhetoric and Month-Long Intensive workshops. After a few years establishing herself in New York City and building her acting and teaching career across America, she returned in 2013 to begin teacher training in the company’s fight work. In 2016 she joined the faculty as a Fight and Text teacher. Along with teaching for Shakespeare & Company, she also teaches Acting, Fight and Verse moreSarah Weatherwax
Sarah Weatherwax, originally from the US, has an honours BFA in Acting from Emerson College. She now lives with her family in Toronto. Along with private voice/audition coaching, she's worked as an on-set acting coach and taught at various places: Humber College Comedy Program; Workman Arts, a company devoted to fine arts training for people struggling with addiction and/or mental illness; Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts; and Straeon Acting Studios in Toronto, Montreal and Boston. She's done voice work on moreRyan Winkles
Ryan Winkles has been a company member at Shakespeare & Company since 2006 as an actor, fight choreographer, and teacher. He has acted in, or choreographed stage fight for, over 30 productions with S&Co, the majority of which were productions of Shakespeare plays. He has taught in the Summer Training Institute, the January Intensive, and nearly every S&Co Education program.Kristin Wold
Kristin Wold first trained and acted with Shakespeare & Company in 1987, playing Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Abhorson in Measure for Measure. Acting roles with the company since then include Shakespeare’s Will (Anne Hathaway), Julius Caesar (Portia, Calpurnia, Lucius), King Lear (Regan), Dibbledance (Dancer), The Tempest (Ariel), The Memory of Water (Teresa), Sea Marks (Timothea), Othello (Emilia), Ice Glen (Sarah), King Lear (Cordelia), Twelfth Night (Viola), Measure For Measure (Isabella), Berkeley Square (Helen), Macbeth (Witch, Lady Macduff), moreDennis Krausnick (1942-2018)
Dennis Krausnick was a founder of Shakespeare & Company and served as its Director of Training from 1993 to 2018. Krausnick was central to the creation and development of the Company’s internationally acclaimed actor training programs. He also developed a number of training programs utilizing theater training methods for corporate and other non-theater clientele. Krausnick held an MA from St. Louis University and an MFA in Acting from NYU. As a Master Teacher of text and rhetoric, Krausnick provided residencies and moreAll of the vocal and physical training we did enabled me to see how much freedom and availability are possible, which raised my expectations of myself. But for the first time I felt that I had the tools to move forward with those expectations. I can hone, clarify and broaden my Shakespeare monologues (and other pieces, too!), and I gained more
I attend at least one workshop at Shakespeare & Company each year as it always allows me an opportunity to grow as actor, to continue to free my actor’s instrument, to meet exciting new artists from around the world, and to spend time in an environment I love, with a faculty whom I deeply respect. more
I’ve kept busy over the past year, and I have to say that weekend intensive has proven to be very effective! Everyone always asks about it when they see it on my resume and I love waxing poetically about it! Not only that, friendships that I made during my weekend have been long-lasting, I love running into folks at auditions more
My experience at the 2007 Summer Training Institute was absolutely priceless….I learned to bring a sense of play to everything I do. Play might be the most important tool for an actor but it’s surprising how quickly we forget to play because we try to be ‘right.’ There is no such thing as ‘right.’ To me, this is what the more
The most important thing I’ve taken from the Conservatory has been a sense of professionalism. I used to consistently walk into auditions feeling the terror of unpreparedness: even if I’d rehearsed my monologue or sides forwards and backwards, I would arrive at an audition and suddenly feel overtaken with a sense of not knowing what the hell I was doing, more
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