Creating a Role: Shakespeare in Love - The Theatre Lab

Creating a Role: Shakespeare in Love

Day

Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays

Dates

Mar 11 - Jun 8

Time

See course description.

Instructor

Randy Baker and Madeleine Regina

$760
This double-session course will give students the experience of preparing a complex role from the beginning of a rehearsal process through the moment of performance. Working with both a professional director and an acting coach (Theatre Lab favorites Randy Baker and Madeleine Regina), students will explore all the elements of acting in a full production, including text analysis, dramaturgy, character development, blocking, giving focus, taking direction, connecting to other actors, and dealing with the audience. This offering of the course culminates in four public performances of Shakespeare in Love, the stage version of beloved film. The play features meaty roles for actors of all types at all experience levels, and even offers opportunities for singing, dancing, and playing musical instruments (for those with those skills – no musical ability is required or assumed!). Auditions will be low-key – no monologue required. At over 100 hours of training, with structured rehearsals and live performance, this is one of our most cost-effective courses. 

March 11 – June 8
Tuesdays 7-10pm; Thursdays 7-10pm; Saturdays 1:30-4:30pm

Additional or longer rehearsals:

  • Saturday, May 17: 10am-4:30pm
  • Tuesdays and Thursdays, May 20-29: 6:30-10:30pm
  • Saturday, May 31: 10am-4:30pm
  • Tuesday, June 3, and Wednesday, June 4: 6-11pm

No class: April 19 (Easter), May 24 (Memorial Day)

Performance evenings: June 5, 6, 7, and 8

Audition information coming soon. 

Director: Randy Baker

Acting Coach – Madeleine Regina

Location

onsite

Sessions

Spring I

Creating a Role: Shakespeare in Love

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Instructor

Randy Baker and Madeleine Regina

Randy Baker is a playwright, director and co-Artistic Director of Rorschach Theatre. Recent shows he has directed with Rorschach include Very Still and Hard to See (Five Helen Nominations including Best Director), The Electric Baby, She Kills Monsters, The Minotaur and After the Quake. Recent shows he has directed outside of Rorschach include the seven-room living installation piece, Hello, My Name Is… at The Welders, a shadow puppet gamelan-inspired A Midsummer Night’s Dream at WSC Avant Bard, Big Love at Catholic University, Anon/ymous at Georgetown University and his own adaptation of Rashōmon at American University. Recent playwriting projects include the world premieres of Forgotten Kingdoms and Truth & Beauty Bombs: A Softer World at Rorschach Theatre and workshops and educational productions of The Burning Road (Arena Stage), Monastery (Theater J), Rashōmon (American University and Spooky Action Theatre), Circus of Fallen Angels (NCDA and American University) and wild42hold (George Washington University).

Madeleine Regina is a director, actor, producer, and acting coach who primarily operates out of the Washington D.C. area. Madeleine works in many capacities at The Theatre Lab, including in their youth, adult, and Life Stories programs. Though she works on many different audio drama projects, Madeleine most notably is the co-producer of Feminist Fairytales, an audio drama that reimagines the genre of fairy tales through a feminist lens. As an actor, you will soon be able to see her perform in "How the Light Gets In" at 1st Stage (Kat). In addition, she is a Meisner Acting Coach with the Matthew Corozine Studio in New York, and a Master Teacher with ArtStream's Inclusive Theatre Companies. When not making art, you can usually find Madeleine buried in a book or cuddling her little dog Boba.

 

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