EVDIV 072 - Shakespeare Intensive

Brian McManamon
This rigorous and imaginative exploration of playing Shakespeare will focus on the relationship between the structure of verse, the intellectual argument, and releasing a character’s thoughts and emotions through text. Students will experience how the form, rhythm, and meaning of Shakespeare’s verse can lead the actor to find specificity, impulsivity, and expressivity in their work. The class will offer tools not rules, clues not constraints. Pleasure will be taken in taking Shakespeare off his proverbial pedestal and discovering how these plays can live through and speak to us at this moment in time.

This course requires an online application to be considered for placement.

Biography: Brian McManamon, an actor, teacher, and acting coach based in New York City, teaches advanced acting at Syracuse University’s Tepper Semester Program. In addition to running a private acting studio, he has taught and/or directed at Juilliard, the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Powerhouse Theater Training Program at Vassar College, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University’s MFA Acting program, and the Public Theater. From 2015 to 2018, McManamon served as artistic director of the Shakespeare Academy at Stratford. As an actor, he has trained with some of the most respected acting teachers in America and abroad, including Ron Van Lieu, Evan Yionoulis, Mark Wing-Davey, Austin Pendleton, Peter Francis James, and John Barton. McManamon received a BFA in acting from Boston University, an MFA in acting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and a full scholarship to attend the Midsummer in Oxford program of the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University. McManamon is a proud member of the Actors Center Workshop Company and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers.

Wednesday, June 12

Thursday, June 13

Friday, June 14

3:30-6:30pm ET

In Person Only

$405

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