Interactive Workshop Experience

Shakespeare in
Translation:
We All Do It!

An exploration of making modern sense for Actors & Audience

🕛 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

📆 Saturday, October 11, 2025

Join world renowned dramaturg and founder of Play On Shakespeare LUE DOUTHIT for a fascinating afternoon exploring interactive ways to access Shakespeare through a new lens. Perfect for actors, directors, educators, and audience, the Play On team will explore MACBETH through CHARTING – a unique interactive analytical tool that cracks open the text to discover new insights.

Then, participants will get the chance to try translation for themselves. Everyone is part of the process in an afternoon filled with practical tools, deep insight, and fascinating conversation with one of the world's most respected Shakespeareans.

Join us for the culmination to our year-long conversation in partnership with Play On Shakespeare! about what translating Shakespeare looks like and how modern theatre makers can best serve today's world.

Meet Your Faculty

LUE DOUTHIT

Founder, Play On Shakespeare

During her 25 years at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Douthit oversaw a full service literary department as Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy. Play On! began in 2012 as a pilot program under her supervision.

She was the Production Dramaturg for more than 50 productions, including 15 world premieres including: Hannah and the Dread Gazebo; Head Over Heels; Family Album; The Unfortunates; Throne of Blood; and Equivocation.

Douthit is the recipient of the 1999 LMDA Prize in Dramaturgy: The Elliott Hayes Award. She received a PhD at the University of Washington, an MFA from Trinity University, and an MA from University of Arizona.

GINA DANIELS

Actor/Educator

Gina Daniels is an Actor/Educator who has taught, studied, and performed Shakespeare for over 30 years. She has appeared in 24 of his 39 plays (several more than once).

As a long time company member of The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Gina brought performances and workshops to students in seven states through the School Visit Program. Her work with Play On Shakespeare began in 2015 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Her acting career includes Broadway, Off-Broadway and Regional Theatre, along with Film, Television, Voice Over, and Audiobooks.

MEG O'BRIEN

Director of Education, The Huntington

Meg O'Brien (she/her) is in her 18th season at The Huntington where she has been the Director of Education since 2017. She has worked professionally as an actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, finance director, arts administrator, access coordinator, and stage manager.

For more than 20 years Meg's career has focused on educational theater, training and development for students of all ages, and ensuring schools have access to The Huntington's stage productions.

Under Meg's leadership The Huntington's Education Department serves more than 20,000 students each season and holds national championship titles in the former August Wilson New Voices Monologue Competition (2014) and the current National Narrative Monologue Competition (2023).