Back by popular demand…
the converstion continues
May 20th at 7pm
An online panel discussion exploring the challenges, joys, and possiblities of directing Shakespeare in America and how to best serve the diverse audiences of today’s and tomorrow’s theater. Including directors: L. Peter Callender, Carl Cofield, Antonio Ocampo Guzman, Madeline Sayet, and Dawn Monique Williams.
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Peter Callender is native of Trinidad, Peter trained at the Juilliard School & Webber/Douglas Academy and is the Artistic Director of African American Shakespeare Company in San Francisco, CA. He has appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway, in regional theaters across the US, & internationally in Japan, England, & France. New York credits include: Prelude to a Kiss, Helen Hayes Theater; The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Public Theater; The Tempest, Classic Stage Company; Twelfth Night, Delacorte Theater. An Associate Artist at the California Shakespeare Theater for 20 years, favorite roles include: the title roles in Julius Caesar & Cymbeline; Oberon, Midsummer Night's Dream; Capulet, Romeo & Juliet; Orsino,Twelfth Night; Leonato, Much Ado About Nothing; Polixenes & Leontes. Winter's Tale; Navarre, Love's Labor's Lost; Bolingbroke, Richard II; Duke Solinus, Comedy of Errors; Laertes, Hamlet. Mr. Callender became Artistic Director of the African-American Theater Company in 2009, & received the Paine Knickerbocker Paine Award for continued contribution to Bay Area Theater.
Carl Cofield was appointed Associate Artistic Director of the Off-Broadway award winning Classical Theatre of Harlem in 2018. For CTH he has directed: The Bacchae (New York Times Critic’s Pick), Antigone, Macbeth, The Tempest and Dutchman. He directed the award-winning world premiere of Kemp Power’s One Night in Miami for Rogue Machine Theater in Los Angeles, Miami New Drama and Denver Center. Other regional credits include A Raisin in the Sun and Afro-futuristic Twelfth Night at Yale Rep, Henry IV at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Disgraced at Denver Center, The Mountaintop at Cleveland Play House, August Wilson’s Radio Golf at Everyman Theatre and many others. For the McCarter Theatre, he collaborated with seven playwrights: Nathan Alan Davis, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Dipika Guha, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Emily Mann, and Regina Taylor, and directed The Princeton and Slavery Plays. Honors include an N.A.A.C.P theater award, L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award and many AUDELCO nominations. He was in the founding class of The New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida and B.F.A in theatre performance from the University of Miami. He holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia University and has also taught at Columbia, NYU and the New School.
RAPHAEL MASSIE Artistic Associate, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Drama League of New York Classical Directing Fellow (2013), OSF Killian Directing Fellowship Finalist (2019) Regional: Elm Shakespeare Company: Director, Romeo and Juliet; Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Assistant Director, How to Catch Creation; Shakespeare and Company: Assistant Director, Cymbeline, Merchant of Venice, Mother Courage and her Children; Co-Director, Romeo & Juliet (Fall Festival of Shakespeare); Collective Consciousness Theatre: Director, Detroit ’67; England: Northcott Theatre: Director, Measure for Measure, Exeter Fringe Festival: Director,Titus Andronicus, Elysium Theater Company: Assistant Director, Henriad/War of the Roses; Southern Connecticut State University: Director, Julius Caesar; Polaroid Stories, Stop Kiss, Lysistrata; UC Riverside: Director, Dr. Faustus; Trinity College: Director, Measure for Measure; Training: BA in Theatre/BS in Education from SCSU, MFA in Staging Shakespeare from the University of Exeter (UK)
Antonio Ocampo-Guzman is an actor, director, and theatre teacher originally from Bogotá, Colombia. He trained as an actor with Teatro Libre and with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. He received an MFA in Directing, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Voice, from York University, Toronto and has participated in over 50 productions in several countries. He is a Designated Linklater Master Voice Teacher and is the author of La Liberación de la Voz Natural: El Método Linklater (UNAM, 2010). He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Northeastern University, where he teaches all levels of acting, Improvisation and voice. He serves on the Board of StageSource (the professional theatre alliance in the Greater Boston area) and is President-Elect of the Voice & Speech Trainers Association. See more at by clicking HERE
Madeline Sayet is a citizen of the Mohegan Tribe and the Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program. For her work as a director, writer, and performer she has been honored as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment, TED Fellow, MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow, National Directing Fellow, Native American 40 Under 40, and recipient of The White House Champion of Change Award from President Obama. Her solo performance piece Where We Belong, first shown in London at Shakespeare's Globe, will have its US Premiere in DC as part of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's coming season. Recent directing work includes: Staged at Home: a Virtual Benefit Concert (Long Wharf Theatre), Henry IV (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), Midsummer Night's Dream (South Dakota Shakespeare), Whale Song (Perseverance Theatre), She Kills Monsters (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), As You Like It (Delaware Shakespeare), The Winter’s Tale (Amerinda/HERE Arts), Poppea (Krannert Center, Illinois), The Magic Flute (Glimmerglass), Miss Lead (59e59). www.madelinesayet.com
Dawn Monique Williams is the Associate Artistic Director of Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, CA. She was previously the Artistic Associate at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she directed Merry Wives of Windsor in 2017. Her recent directing credits include Aurora’s Bull in a China Shop, Earthrise at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, TiJean and His Brothers, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Secretaries (Willamette Week’s Top 10 Portland Theatre Productions of 2018), Romeo & Juliet, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, and Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Stark. She’s directed a range of plays including the English language premiere of Gracia Morales’ NN12, Othello, Twelfth Night, In the Blood, Steel Magnolias, Children of Eden, The 25 th Annual Spelling Bee, Little Shop of Horrors, Burial at Thebes, Medea, Antigone Project, and La Ronde; international directing credits include Edinburgh Festival Fringe productions of Scapin the Cheat, Anna Bella Eema, and The Tempest. Dawn was a 2016 Princess Grace Theatre Fellowship recipient, was awarded a TCG Leadership U residency grant, funded by the Mellon Foundation, and was a former Killian Directing Fellow at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is an alum of the Drama League Directors Project and holds an MA in Dramatic Literature and an MFA in Directing. Dawn is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
