My First Year students in the Graduate Acting Program at NYU have been very enthusiastic about using the Audio Shakespeare Pronunciation App as they rehearse “Hamlet” and “Macbeth”. They told me that at the beginning of the rehearsals, they used it every night to check the pronunciations of the unusual words and the character and place names in Shakespeare plays. …
Shakespeare Voice and Text Class
Last class with my NYU Graduate Acting Third Year students in Techniques of Voice and Text class. Their work this semester on their Shakespeare monologues was excellent. They put all of the pieces together – voice, speech, breathing, scanning the verse, using the techniques they have been learning for two years, and acting. It has been a joy to be …
As You Like It
It has been exciting to work on the OP (Original Pronunciation) production of scenes from “As You Like it”. The Workshop was part of the Studio Tisch Summer program. Pictured are some of the cast members.