Shakespeare Workout!

Come work out the Bard with two of ASP's Founding Company Actors, Jennie Israel and Paula Plum. Delve into the text with your voice, body and breath through an intensive six-session scene study. Explore one scene with an assigned scene partner (or sign up with your partner!) and approach it in a myriad of ways. You will learn how to use scansion, poetic devices and line endings effectively in your acting. You will receive voice and text coaching, rehearse scenes and increase your facility with Shakespeare. There will be a small showing of scenes for the final class.

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Jennie Israel is an actress, teacher and director, as well as a founding member of the Actors' Shakespeare Project where she served for five years as the associate artistic director. Most recently Jennie played Helena in ASP's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She also played the title role in ASP's The Duchess of Malfi, Constance in King John, Helena in All's Well that Ends Well, Goneril in King Lear and Elizabeth in Richard III. Other local credits include Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Pheobe in As You Like It for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Jennie received her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama.

Paula Plum is the recipient of four IRNE Awards, the 1995 Eliot Norton Award for Best Actress (Lost in Yonkers), the 2007 Eliot Norton Award for Best Actress (Miss Witherspoon), the 2004 Eliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, and the 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University. She is an actress, director, writer, and teacher and has created seven one-person shows for the Undadilla Theatre of Vermont, most notably Plum Pudding. She played Beatrice in ASP's Much Ado About Nothing, is the recipient of a Fox Fellowship, a two-year fellowship awarded to distinguished artists.