Woodward Shakespeare Offers Affordable Workshops for Local Actors:
Classes in Shakespeare’s language, audition techniques at a low cost.

Woodward Shakespeare Festival is pleased to sponsor two day-long acting workshops offered to Fresno area actors interested in improving their audition techniques and their use of Shakespeare’s language.

The first workshop will be Audition Techniques: Choices and Language held on Saturday, February 21st– two weeks prior to WSF’s 2009 season auditions.

The second workshop will take place on Saturday, April 4th and will focus on Shakespeare’s Shapely Language, an approach to speaking the language of Shakespeare developed by renowned voice and text coach Jan Gist at the Old Globe in San Diego.

The cost for a single workshop is $20, $15 for students and goes directly to offset the costs of the workshop.

Both workshops will be taught by Jennifer Sampson, a teaching-artist with an M.F.A. from the University of San Diego and a former student of Gist’s.
Sampson has extensive experience in teaching classical acting techniques having taught and performed with the Old Globe in San Diego, the La Jolla Playhouse and the Summer Theatre Institute of
New York City.

To register for workshops or for more information, click to www.woodwardshakespeare.org and choose ‘WORKSHOPS’.