Workshop Date: Monday, March 18, 2024

Text work should be challenging and fun, but never scary! This workshop is for all levels of experience, offering tools and guidance either to begin your journey with Shakespeare or to help you brush up old skills that you haven’t flexed in a while. We will dive into text work using clues from the First Folio, breaking down the steps to approach a piece of Shakespearean text from the ground up. No preparation required; instructional materials will be provided and we will work with sample monologues together as a group.

Instructor

Beth Wolf (she/her/hers) is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Midsommer Flight, where her credits include critically acclaimed productions of Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2022 and 2012), The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet,  As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and Romeo and Juliet. Other recent credits include Outside Mullingar (Citadel Theatre, Equity Jeff nomination, Best Director and Best Production), The Roommate (Citadel Theatre), Non-Player Character (Red Theater, Non-Equity Jeff nomination for her Projection Co-design); and The Suffrage Plays (Artemisia). Beth is also a co-founder and the former Artistic Director of Promethean Theatre Ensemble. Previously an actress, favorite Shakespearean credits include Isabella in Measure for Measure (Promethean Theatre Ensemble) and Lucentia in Taming of the Shrew (GroundUp Theatre), among others. As an arts educator, Beth offers private coaching and classes to actors both in acting and in Shakespeare’s First Folio work. She is a proud Northwestern University graduate with a double major in theatre and gender studies.