A Week-Long Intensive Workshop With Richard Corley and Tanera Marshall
Performing the plays of William Shakespeare is an actor’s greatest challenge, requiring not only exceptional emotional and physical resources, but also skills of textual analysis and vocal flexibility beyond the needs of much contemporary theatre.
Schedule:
Tuesday June 25th to Friday June 28th
9.30-14.30h
Saturday June 29th
10-13h and 14.30-18.30h
Price: €295 / €250 Eòlia students
ACTING SHAKESPEARE: A Week-Long Intensive Workshop, taught by Master Acting Teacher Richard Corley and Master Voice Teacher Tanera Marshall, will focus on the core skills required to act in Shakespeare.
Students will work intensively on monologues, participate in individual and group acting and voice work, and acquire a series of guidelines and exercises useful to future rehearsal and performance.
The goal is to demystify Shakespeare’s text, and unlock the power of his words and images. There will be an open presentation at the end of the week. Please note: strong English skills are required.
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Richard Corley is the Producing Artistic Director of Forest Park Theatre, which he founded in the spring of 2020. For FPT, he has directed Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Innogen (adapted from Cymbeline), and Measure for Measure. Richard teaches Acting Shakespeare and the Classics and directs plays at the UIC School of Theatre and Music. Before moving to the Chicago area, he served as the Artistic Director of Madison Repertory Theatre in Wisconsin, and the Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company in New York. Richard has directed new and classic plays and opera at theatres across the U.S. and internationally, including Hartford Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, ACT and The Magic Theatre (San Francisco), Seattle Opera, Arena Stage, Dallas Theatre Center, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Southwest Shakespeare Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, City Theatre (Pittsburgh), Philadelphia Theatre Company, Tennessee Williams Festival of St. Louis, and many others. Richard is the recipient of the TCG Directors Award, and his New York premiere of Tom Dulack’s Incommunicado was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He directed the Russian premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Small Craft Warnings at Moscow’s Sovremennik Theatre, the world premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town with Andre De Shields and Carrie Coon. Richard conceived and was the dramaturg for The Acting Company’s Desire, based on the stories of Tennessee Williams. He has directed eighteen of the thirty-six plays of William Shakespeare.
Tanera Marshall is a voice and accent specialist in theatre, TV, and film and is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Theatre program. She teaches Voice and Accents classes with a holistic approach using a blend of methodologies (Linklater, Fitzmaurice, Rosenburg, Knight-Thompson) to enable actors to integrate their voices with truthful and expressive acting. Current projects include: The Brutalist, Train Dreams, “The Bear,” and “Chicago Fire.” Past credits: last year’s Hunger Games and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Widows, Queen & Slim, Dungeons & Dragons, “Fargo, s. 4” “Station Eleven,” Army of the Dead, Public Enemies,The Immigrant, and the Divergent series. Stage credits include Broadway tours of Hamilton, Billy Elliot, and Dirty Dancing as well as productions at Steppenwolf, Court, and Timeline theatres in Chicago.
Tanera has collected and archived accents from the Caribbean, Alaska, and First Nations/Native American/Alaska Native tribes and communities at The International Dialects of English Archive www.dialectsarchive.com where she is a Senior Editor-at-Large. Her most recent contributions included recordings from Louisiana, Chicago, Arizona. She was a teaching artist in Chicago Public Schools for 10 years.
BA (Oberlin College), MFA in Acting (Depaul Theatre School), Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, VASTA Member, Senior Editor-at-Large (International Dialects of English Archive).
