Join us as we dive into two scenes featuring Olivia and Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. In our FINAL session (just 3 weeks this round), we conclude this great series from 2025 focused on the two Olivia/Viola scenes Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. This will also wrap up SEASON 8 of The Working Actor's Journey! New episodes will start again in January...

🏁 In this session, highlights include:

➤ The transformative exercise of "Dropping In" to deepen connection

➤ Insights into the grief, identity, and power dynamics present in these interactions

➤ An exploration of the First Folio and its clues to Shakespeare's language and intent

➤ A Q&A with the team, including the value of different interpretations

Act 1, Scene 5: Olivia allows Viola (in her disguise as Cesario) to speak with her privately about Orsino's love, though Olivia ends up falling in love with Cesario.

Act 3, Scene 1: Olivia declares her love to Cesario.

Featuring DIRECTOR Edgar Landa, DRAMATURG Miranda Johnson-Haddad, and ACTORS Anne Gee Byrd (Viola) and Shelby Lewis (Olivia). With your host, Nathan Agin.

Join us as we dive into two scenes featuring Olivia and Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

🏁 In this session, highlights include:

➤ The significance of gender fluidity and self-expression

➤ Diving into the themes of love, identity, and societal roles

➤ The role of the fool in Shakespeare's works

Act 1, Scene 5: Olivia allows Viola (in her disguise as Cesario) to speak with her privately about Orsino's love, though Olivia ends up falling in love with Cesario.

Act 3, Scene 1: Olivia declares her love to Cesario.

Featuring DIRECTOR Edgar Landa, DRAMATURG Miranda Johnson Haddad, and ACTORS Anne Gee Byrd (Viola) and Shelby Lewis (Olivia) and Annie. With your host, Nathan Agin.

Join us as we dive into the lovers fight: Helena is pursued by both Lysander and Demetrius, Hermia threatens Helena, and Lysander and Demetrius prepare to duel - from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

🏁 In this session, highlights include:

➤ The intricate dynamics of friendship and betrayal between Helena and Hermia

➤ Insights into the rhetorical richness of Shakespeare's language

➤ The challenge of balancing physicality and text in performance

➤ Plus a Q&A with the team!

Featuring DIRECTOR James Newcomb, DRAMATURG Gideon Rappaport, VOICE Ursula Meyer, HELENA Anne Gee Byrd, HERMIA Maggi Veltre, DEMETRIUS Michael Kirby, LYSANDER Garret Botts. With your host, Nathan Agin.

Join us as we dive into the lovers fight: Helena is pursued by both Lysander and Demetrius, Hermia threatens Helena, and Lysander and Demetrius prepare to duel - from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

🏁 In this session, highlights include:

➤ How to convey action through language

➤ Utilizing plosives and elongated vowels to enhance emotional impact

➤ Vocal dynamics and the use of sound to express conflict

Featuring DIRECTOR James Newcomb, DRAMATURG Gideon Rappaport, VOICE Ursula Meyer, HELENA Anne Gee Byrd, HERMIA Maggi Veltre, DEMETRIUS Michael Kirby, LYSANDER Garret Botts. With your host, Nathan Agin.

Join us as we dive into the lovers fight: Helena is pursued by both Lysander and Demetrius, Hermia threatens Helena, and Lysander and Demetrius prepare to duel - from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

🏁 In this session, highlights include:

➤ The complexity of character relationships and their evolution

➤ Insights into the juxtaposition of love and rivalry

➤ A deep dive into the physicality and emotionality inherent in Shakespeare's text

Featuring DIRECTOR James Newcomb, DRAMATURG Gideon Rappaport, VOICE Ursula Meyer, HELENA Anne Gee Byrd, HERMIA Maggi Veltre, DEMETRIUS Michael Kirby, LYSANDER Garret Botts. With your host, Nathan Agin.

Join us as we dive into the lovers fight: Helena is pursued by both Lysander and Demetrius, Hermia threatens Helena, and Lysander and Demetrius prepare to duel - from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

🏁 In this session, highlights include:

➤ The physicality of emotion

➤ Insights into the shifting dynamics of love

➤ The rhetorical devices used to express passion and conflict

Featuring DIRECTOR James Newcomb, DRAMATURG Gideon Rappaport, VOICE Ursula Meyer, HELENA Anne Gee Byrd, HERMIA Maggi Veltre, DEMETRIUS Michael Kirby, LYSANDER Garret Botts, and host Nathan Agin.

Join us as we dive into the scene where Hamlet confronts his mother, kills Polonius and is visited by the Ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet

🏁 In this session, highlights include:

➤ How two Hamlets navigate the internal conflict

➤ Insights into Gertrude's role as a responder

➤ An exploration of madness and familial bonds

➤ Plus a Q&A with the team!

Featuring J. Paul Nicholas (DIRECTOR), Cassandra Alexander (DRAMATURG), Kathleen Turco-Lyon (GERTRUDE), and Charlotte Northeast and Max Herzfeld as the two sides of HAMLET, and host, Nathan Agin.