EVDIV 72 - Shakespeare Intensive Group Class

Brian McManamon
A rigorous and imaginative exploration of playing Shakespeare with a 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 tipping Shakespeare off of his proverbial pedestal and discovering how these plays can live through and speak to us at this moment in time.

Biography: Brian McManamon is an actor, teacher, and acting coach based in New York City. He currently teaches Advanced Acting at Syracuse University’s Tepper Semester Program. In addition to running a private acting studio in New York City, McManamonhas taught and/or directed at Juilliard l, the National Theater Institute (NTI) 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, McManamon has trained with some of the most respected acting teachers in the U.S. and abroad, including Ron Van Lieu, Evan Yionoulis, Mark Wing-Davey, Austin Pendleton, Peter Francis James, and the late John Barton. He 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 (BADA) at Oxford University. McManamon is a proud member of the Actors Center Workshop Company and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers.

10 weeks

Wednesdays 8–10pm ET

February 14–April 24

In Person Only

$850

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