Shakespeare Workshop for Teachers - Summer 2021

Macbeth & The Problem of Evil

Are you a middle school or high school English or Drama teacher looking for ways to improve your Shakespeare curriculum? Want to see your students on their feet and inspired by Shakespeare’s timeless play MACBETH? In this workshop you will learn from an international faculty of scholars, educators and theatre professionals techniques to engage youth with Shakespeare’s MACBETH through performance.

Classes during the three-day in-person workshop include: voice and movement, classroom pedagogy; improvising and devising Shakespeare; scene and sonnet study; text analysis; theatre history and criticism, practical tips for staging Shakespeare and curriculum development sessions on Shakespeare Center LA’s new MACBETH: A Live-Action Graphic Novel. Attendees will present a short performance on the final day and be signed up to receive free tickets to screen MACBETH: A Live-Action Graphic Novel in their classroom this October.

Check out the workshop schedule, faculty, and tuition information below as well as the registration and payment forms. Enrollment is limited due to health and safety protocols. Register today!

shakespeare center la &
Drama teachers association of southern california
PRESENT

Macbeth & The Problem of Evil:
An In-Person Intensive
Shakespeare Workshop for Teachers

Dates: Friday- Sunday, July 16-18, 2021 | 9:30 AM - 5 PM Daily
Location: Shakespeare Center LA Downtown Studio Theatre
1238 W. First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY 7/16

9:30-11:00 AM Welcome | Louis Fantasia, Baron Kelly, Skip Nicholson and staff
11:00-12:00 AM Voice | Kellynn Meeks
12:00-1:00 PM Shakespeare Improv | Brian Lohman
1:00-2:00 PM Lunch (+ Breakouts)
2:00-5:00 PM Sonnets & Scenes & Soliloquies | Louis Fantasia & Jessie Lee Mills

SATURDAY 7/17

9:30-10:30 AM Voice | Kellynn Meeks
10:30-11:30 AM Alexander Technique | Frances Marsden
11:30-1:00 PM Folio Macbeth | Charles Duff
1:00-2:00 PM Lunch (+ Breakouts)
2:00-5:00 PM Sonnets & Scenes & Soliloquies | Louis Fantasia & Liz Swain

SUNDAY 7/18

10:00-11:30 AM Narrative Improv & Visual Literacy | Susan Todd
11:30 -1:00 PM Lesson Plan Development & Planning Session
1:00- 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 4:30 PM Sonnets & Scenes & Soliloquies | Louis Fantasia & Kellynn Meeks
5:00 pm Showcase & Reception

Schedule is subject to change.

FACULTY

The international faculty is lead by writer and director Louis Fantasia, formerly Director of the International Shakespeare Globe Centre's Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance Institute and former President of Deep Springs College. Louis is the author of Instant Shakespeare, and Talking Shakespeare. Staff includes master teachers and theatre practitioners, as well as guest speakers and visiting scholars. Planned faculty for 2020 includes:

Charles Duff, international theatre and opera director, teacher and author, has been involved with the rebuilt Shakespeare's Globe and Globe Education from its inception. He is the author of The Lost Summer (Nick Herne UK and Heinemann USA), which chronicles the heyday of the British theatre between the two world wars.

Baron Kelly is a four-time Fulbright Scholar and Professor of Theatre in the Theatre and Drama Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his Ph.D. in Theatre Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a diploma from London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and an MFA in Acting from California State University Long Beach.Before joining the Theatre Department at UW-Madison, he was Head of Acting and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Louisville. Dr. Kelly has served on review panels for the NEA, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and Fulbright Commission. He is also a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation.

Frances Marsden is a certified Alexander Technique teacher who trained in London under the tutelage of Walter Carrington, who was in turn certified directly by the method’s developer, Frederick Mathias Alexander. She teaches both privately and as faculty of the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles and part-time faculty of the Occidental College Department of Applied Music.

Kellynn Meeks: MFA in Acting, Penn State University, BFA in Acting, University of Minnesota Duluth. Lessac Certified Trainer. Studied under Arthur Lessac. Performed extensively with Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company. Commercial and television credits including “The West Wing.” ABC Digital’s “Boondoggle”.

Jessie Lee Mills is an Assistant Professor of theatre at Pomona College and a professional director. She directs, adapts, and devises theater, opera, musicals, films, and new works in venues throughout the United States and abroad, including with the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC; The Lincoln Center & The Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York; The Goodman Theatre & The Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago; and The Sala Beckett Institute in Barcelona, Spain. She received her MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and is a John Wells Fellow. She is currently the Associate Artistic Director of The Vagrancy which creates works to touch the human spirit by forging new, lesser-known, and classical works with that ineffable something - DUENDE.

Skip Nicholson has taught English for 20 years at South Pasadena High School where he was Head of English. He has worked as a master teacher in Folger Shakespeare Library/NEH summer institutes, and for conferences of the Shakespeare Globe Center and the English Speaking Union.

Elizabeth Swain is an English born actor, director and teacher. She made her Broadway debut in Charley’s Aunt, opposite Louis Nye and Maureen O’Sullivan. Besides Broadway her acting credits include opera, regional theatre, national tours and plays off and off off Broadway as well as television’s One Life to Live, As the World Turns and five years on The Guiding Light. She is currently Professor Emeritus at Marymount Manhattan College and has taught at the Michael Howard and T Schreiber studios and at NYU, CCNY, Hunter College, Barnard College, Huntington Library, and Antaeus Academy. She was awarded an NEH fellowship to study Shakespeare’s staging at the Blackfriars in Virginia and Shakespeare’s Globe in London. She is a member of the Antaeus Company in Los Angeles.

Dr. Susan Gayle Todd is Producing Artistic Director of Austin Scottish Rite Theater and cofounder/director of The Weird Sisters Women’s Theater Collective in Austin, Texas Her playwriting credits include Sycorax, and numerous cross-cultural adaptations for young audiences. She received a 2016 B. Iden Payne award for her direction of Rosita y Conchita. Her play Sycorax was recently produced at University of Kansas.

INCLUDED

Lunch will be provided all three days. All attendees will receive FREE tickets (online access links) to MACBETH : A Virtual Live-Action Graphic Novel to screen in their classrooms in October (tickets are regularly $25 each). Up to ten teachers may book an in-classroom visit from a guest artist from MACBETH: A Virtual Live-Action Graphic Novel.

WHY ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP

Middle and High School English and Drama teachers will develop lesson plan components and techniques to engage youth with Shakespeare’s Macbeth. All teachers will get free access to the MACBETH : A Virtual Live-Action Graphic Novel to screen in their classrooms in October. Up to ten teachers may book an in-classroom visit from a guest artist from MACBETH: A Virtual Live-Action Graphic Novel.

Enrollment

Enrollment is limited to 20 fully vaccinated teachers for this in-person workshop.

TUITION INFORMATION

Workshop Tuition is $75
Tuition is FREE for DTASC (Drama Teachers Association of Southern California) Members
DTASC Membership Form to join or renew >>

WORKSHOP registration

All attendees must register using the registration form below. Please fill out the form completely and click “Submit”. Then, if your tuition fee is due, click “Pay Tuition” and complete payment. Questions? Please email education@shakespearecenter.org

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A one-paragraph statement explaining why you wish to attend the course and how you would share what you have learned with your school community.

I will be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by July 16

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I understand that this workshop will be indoors at the Shakespeare Center LA Studio Theatre and City of Los Angeles applicable COVID-19 guidelines will be observed.

I understand

I understand that I will receive a temperature check each day before I may enter the theatre studio for the workshop.

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I will stay home if I am sick or have COVID-19 symptoms, have been in contact with someone known to be or suspected to have been infected with COVID-19 within the last 10 days, or if I am subject to a quarantine or isolation order.

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Pay Tuition

Thank you! We’re looking forward to seeing you! Check out the recommended reading below in preparation for the workshop.

what Teachers said about
shakespeare teacher training

““This experience permeates ALL areas of my pedagogy.”

”This course is a gift to every educator and student it touches”

”This is an excellent, incredible opportunity for all
involved.”

”To teachers coming next year: pay attention! It’s a goldmine.”

”This has fundamentally changed how I will teach Shakespeare.”

”Fantastic course.”
”

— Participating Educators 2017

For more information contact:

Marina Oliva, Director of Education

Shakespeare Center LA | 1238 West 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026

education@shakespearecenter.org (213) 481-2273