The Department of Performing & Media Arts and CNY Humanities Working Group MP4: Practice-Based Research invite pedagogues, critical practitioners, researchers, and scholars to attend Master Class: Staging Shakespeare with Catherine Weidner, author of Acting Heightened Text: The Basics.
The master class will take place on Monday, October 5, from 10:00am - 12:00pm in the Black Box Theatre (SB21), Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Catherine Weidner is a teacher, professional director, actor, and author of Acting Heightened Text: The Basics (Routledge Press). Professional directing includes Anastasia for Hillbarn Theatre in Foster City, CA; multiple seasons for Theater at Monmouth in Maine, including Two Gentlemen of Verona, Othello, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Much Ado About Nothing. For the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY, she served as Voice and Text Coach for Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare’s R&J, and appeared on stage there in Little Women, Third and Other Desert Cities, a one-person Henry V for Austin Shakespeare, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma for Nebraska Repertory Theatre; Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, and Merry Wives of Windsor for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Or, by Liz Duffy Adams at Caffeine Theatre in Chicago. At Ithaca College, she has directed Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Company, Cabaret, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
Hosted by PMA Associate Teaching Professor Theo Black.
