Semi-Finals Judges - English-Speaking Union of the United States
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Semi-Finals Judges - English-Speaking Union of the United States
Hayley Allen Colonial North Carolina Drew Weaver The Oakwood School Claire Metusalem Houston Matthew Hune & Cynthia Ogden High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Tristan Whitney Nashville Kara Kindall Nashville School of the Arts Hayden Haupt Savannah Richie Cook St. Andrew’s School Madison Breske Delaware Anne Marie Eanes Saint Mark’s High School Cortlun Melton New Orleans Micheal Cato Breaux Bridge High School Hayden Davis Charlottesville Fay Cunningham Albemarle High School Jack Steiner Seattle Kathryn Dorgan Olympia High School Zara Barrett Palm Beach Kimberly Patterson Oxbridge Academy Winston Cannon Oklahoma Kevin Hurst Jenks High School Bailey Smith Phoenix Maureen Dias Xavier College Preparatory Brooks Eikner Memphis Elizabeth Crosby Memphis University School Julia Rojas Fort Lauderdale Carol Spears South Broward High School Jordan Ford San Francisco Rodney Franz Marin School of the Arts Gwyneth Strope Southwest Virginia Mary Edwards Franklin County High School Rachel Hartner Research Triangle, NC Laura Levine Apex High School Zoë Oliver Greenwich Carolyn Ladd & Ingrid Schaeffer ACES-Educational Center for the Arts Jalicia Lewis Jacksonville, FL Amy Johns Stanton College Preparatory School G. Grace Neiswander Cleveland Leighann DeLorenzo Laurel School Nicholas Long Cincinnati Chad Weddle Anderson High School Jesse Hernandez Austin Christina Burbank Crockett High School Steven Rosario Castillo Newport Daniel Lee White Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts Patrick Moran Central Pennsylvania Maria Malek Pottsville Area High School Grace Goheen Kansas City Maureen Davis Blue Valley High School Emma Muller Philadelphia Abigail Martins Perkiomen Valley High School Sydney Jones Syracuse Bernard Scahill Altmar-Parish-Williamstown High School Davan Francisco Central Florida Ben Fottler Winter Park High School 1 Semi-Finalists Benjamin Troy Walton Kentucky Paul Thomas School of Creative and Performing Arts at Lafayette High School Carlo Zenner Chicago Erin Lundin Hinsdale Central High School Rob Kellogg Rochester Maria Scipione The Harley School Jinji Martine Naples Jennifer Tomlinson Fort Myers Senior High School Kaylee DeFreitas Monmouth County, NJ Amy Myers Howell High School Abigail Hopkins Niagara Frontier (Buffalo) Susan Drozd Buffalo Seminary Devin Bean Boston Judy Hession Winchester High School Kyaa Torrence Sandhills Judy Osborne Union Pines High School Emerald Greene Miami-Dade-Monroe Marielva Sieg Miami Springs Senior High School Paul Ferguson Indianapolis Scott Jackson John Adams High School Cecilia Harchegani San Diego Kim Strassburger Coronado School of the Arts Isabella Phelps Charlotte Arthur R. Baum Myers Park High School Mausam Mehta Lexington, VA John Fregosi Robert E. Lee High School Tristan Odenkirk Tucson Mary Dickson Ironwood Ridge High School Jaye Cooney Denver Timothy Brown Smoky Hill High School Hannah Thien Albany James Yeara Bethlehem Central High School Abby Burris Greensboro Lindsey Clinton-Kraack Weaver Academy Jake Mulé Desert (Palm Springs) Susie Zachik Palm Valley School Caroline Garnett Dallas Charlton Gavitt Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Brittany Mills Atlanta Candace Lambert DeKalb School of the Arts Hannah Ryan Saint Louis Kelley Weber Clayton High School Abel Garcia New York Gabriel Silva Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts Edwin Andalon Portland Bethany Mason McMinnville HIgh School Grace Wallis Los Angeles Laurie Riffe Westridge School Ari Dalbert Hawaii Eden Lee Murray Hawaii Homeschool Association Ronee Goldman Washington, DC Kelly O’Connor Montgomery Blair High School Connor Vasile Princeton Sharon Garry Morris Knolls High School 2 SEMI-FINALS | May 2 | 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. THE JUDGES Kelley Curran Joy Jones Alexandra López Geoffrey Owens Sid Ray | Actor | Actor & Teaching Artist | Associate Director of Education | Lincoln Center Theater | Actor & Director | Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies | Pace University THE PROGRAM WELCOME Christopher Broadwell | Executive Director | The English-Speaking Union of the United States ––––– Introduction of the judges and summary of competition rules ––––– PRESENTATION Gabriela Manuell Barrera | ESU Mexico Shakespeare Competition ––––– THE COMPETITION, FIRST SESSION Twenty contestants present a monologue and sonnet ––––– THE COMPETITION, SECOND SESSION Nineteen contestants present a monologue and sonnet ––––– THE COMPETITION, THIRD SESSION Fifteen contestants present a monologue and sonnet ––––– JUDGES retire to deliberate ––––– CLOSING REMARKS 3 Semi-Finals Judges Kelley Curran, an alumna of the 2002 ESU National Shakespeare Competition from New York State, is honored to be an adjudicator this year. In the fall following the competition, Kelley began her degree in Theatre next door at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. Kelley began her career as a professional actress with The Acting Company. Over the last 10 years she has worked at theaters in New York City and across the country, on classic and contemporary plays, including work in New York with The Signature Theatre Co, Red Bull Theatre Co, The Pearl Theatre Co, New Victory Theatre, The Drama League, The Public Theater, and The Shakespeare Society. Regionally she has worked with The Shakespeare Theatre of DC, Shakespeare & Company, The Guthrie, Portland Center Stage and the Alabama and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festivals. In 2014 she was named as a Best Actress by D.C. Metro Arts for her work as Lady Percy in The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2. In 2015, Kelley was awarded the Joseph A. Callaway Award for Best Performance by an actress in a classic play in New York City for her role as Hippolita in Red Bull Theatre Company’s ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore. And most recently Kelley was nominated for a Drama League Distinguished Performance Award, for her work in The DingDong with the Pearl Theatre Company, which is currently running off-Broadway until May 15th. Joy Jones is an actor and master instructor. She has performed classical roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Denver Center, PlayMakers Repertory, Arkansas Repertory and others. She has taught classical acting (including acting, text analysis and period movement) for American Globe Theatre, Arkansas Repertory, PlayMakers Repertory, The Shakespeare Project, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Theatre for a New Audience and WSC-Avant Bard. Joy has an Acting MFA from UNC-Chapel Hill, a BA in Theatre & International Relations from the University of Virginia, a Certificate in Classical Acting from the British American Drama Academy, a Certificate in Arts in Education from the Actors Fund, and a Certificate in Curriculum Development from the University of North Carolina. 4 Semi-Finals Judges Alexandra López has worked as a theater director, producer and educator. As Lincoln Center Theater’s Associate Director of Education, Alexandra devises and implements performance-based curriculum for NYC students with a team of teaching artists and plans professional development workshops for teachers. She administers the High School Program, the Middle School Shakespeare Program, and the Songwriting in the Schools Program and supports the Learning English and Drama (LEAD) Project. LCT’s Middle School Shakespeare Program is based on the belief that students learn best when they approach Shakespeare as actors and work towards a final creative product that explores collaborative ways of retelling Shakespeare’s stories. Previously, Alexandra worked as a teaching artist for the Creative Arts Team, NJPAC, and the Wolf Trap Institute with students in New York and New Jersey. She was also a drama teacher and theater director at private schools in New York City. Geoffrey Owens recently appeared on Broadway as Prince Escalus in Romeo and Juliet (directed by David Leveaux and starring Orlando Bloom) and played Jaques in As You Like It at the Two River Theatre. He has performed numerous Shakespeare roles including Puck, Romeo, Orlando and Bottom at theaters such as The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Long Wharf Theater, The Two River Theater, Circus Theatricals, and Shakespeare Festival LA. He has also directed productions of King Lear, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and As You Like It. He has taught Shakespeare (at HB Studio and through private workshops) for over twenty years. He recently directed Henry VI, Part II at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He currently teaches Shakespeare and Modern Drama at Pace University. Sid Ray, professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Pace University received her BA from Wesleyan University and her MA and PhD from the University of Rochester. She has published two books on Shakespeare’s plays, Holy Estates: Marriage and Monarchy in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (2004) and Mother Queens and continued on page 6 . . . 5 Semi-Finals Judges Princely Sons: Rogue Madonnas in the Age of Shakespeare (2012), and co-edited three essay collections, The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy (2004), Shakespeare in the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings (2009), both with Pace colleague Martha Driver, and Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage (2015) with Catherine Loomis. Her articles on Shakespeare and other early modern writers have appeared in numerous collections and journals including Shakespeare Quarterly and Conradiana. She also freelances as a dramaturg and text coach for directors and actors of early modern playwrights. This year, Sid won the Kenan Award for Excellence in Teaching at Pace. 6 FINALS | April 27 | 4:00 p.m. FINALS | May 2 | 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. THE JUDGES Ralph Alan Cohen | Founding Executive Director and Director of Mission | American Shakespeare Center Heidi Griffiths | Casting Director | The Public Theater Dana Ivey | Actor Peter Francis James | Actor Louis Scheeder | Director of the Classical Studio | Tisch School of the Arts, New York University THE PROGRAM WELCOME Christopher Broadwell | Executive Director | The English-Speaking Union of the United States ––––– Introduction of the judges and summary of competition rules ––––– THE COMPETITION | The finalists present a monologue, sonnet and cold reading ––––– JUDGES retire to deliberate ––––– READING of a Proclamation from The Honorable Bill de Blasio | Mayor of the City of New York by Danny Lopez | The British Consul-General New York ––––– PRESENTATION of certificates to the participants by Dr. Paul Beresford-Hill MBE | Chair | The English-Speaking Union of the United States ––––– RECOGNITION of the Competition teachers ––––– ANNOUNCEMENT of third, second and first place winners ––––– PRESENTATION of prizes First prize: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Young Actors Summer School in London, England Second prize: American Shakespeare Center Theatre Camp in Staunton, Virginia Third prize: $500 awarded by The Shakespeare Society ––––– CLOSING REMARKS 7 Finals Judges Ralph Alan Cohen is Founding Executive Director and Director of Mission at the American Shakespeare Center and Gonder Professor of Shakespeare and Performance and founder of the Master of Letters and Fine Arts program at Mary Baldwin College. He was project director for the building of the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton Virginia. He earned his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College and his doctorate at Duke University. He has directed 35 productions of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including America’s first professional production of Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle. He is the author of ShakesFear and How to Cure It: A Handbook for Teaching Shakespeare. He founded the Studies Abroad program at James Madison University, where he won Virginia’s first award for outstanding faculty. In 2001 he established the Blackfriars Conference, a bi-annual week-long celebration of early modern drama in performance. In 2008 he won the Commonwealth Governor’s Arts Award. In 2009 he was the Theo Crosby Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, where he is on the architectural review committee. In 2013 he received the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Shakespeare Steward Award for outstanding contribution to the innovative teaching of Shakespeare. In June of this year he was the first American to receive the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Award for pioneering work in Shakespearean theatre. Heidi Griffiths has worked for more than twenty years at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in NYC, where she has cast over 250 productions Off-Broadway and at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, including Shakespeare, new plays and musicals. On Broadway: Shuffle Along, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Delicate Balance, A Raisin in the Sun, Lucky Guy, Chinglish, The Mother-f**ker with the Hat, The Merchant of Venice, Hair, Passing Strange, Caroline, or Change, Take Me Out (Tony Award, Best Play 2003), Topdog/ Underdog (Pulitzer Prize, 2002), The Wild Party, Bring in ‘ Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk, on the Town and The Tempest. She also cast the films The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, Murder and Murder and Saving Face. 8 Finals Judges Dana Ivey has worked in the US and Canada since 1965. She has received five Tony nominations: for Heartbreak House and Sunday in the Park in the same year, and for The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Rivals, and Butley. She received an Obie Award for creating the role of Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy, for Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and for Quartermaine’s Terms. On Broadway she also appeared in Present Laughter, Waiting in the Wings, Pack of Lies, Henry IV, Sex and Longing, The Rivals, Heartbreak House, Major Barbara, and The Importance of Being Earnest. She played Gertrude to Kevin Kline’s Hamlet, and was Big Mama at the Kennedy Center in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. She is currently playing Mrs. Candor in School for Scandal for the Red Bull Theatre. In 2008, she was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame, and received an honorary doctorate from Rollins College. Among her films are Addams Family, Legally Blonde 2, Rush Hour 3, Ghost Town, Sabrina, Two Weeks Notice, The Color Purple, and The Help. Peter Francis James was nominated for a Lortel award for his performance in Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque at the Signature Theater (he appeared previously in The Lady From Dubuque with Dame Maggie Smith at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket), and he starred as Colin Powell in Stuff Happens at The Public Theater (OBIE, Lucille Lortel, and Drama Desk Awards). On Broadway: The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, On Golden Pond, Drowning Crow, Judgment at Nuremberg. Other: August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (Mark Taper Forum, L.A.), House of Flowers (Encores!), Claire in The Maids (OBIE Award), Scent of the Roses with Julie Harris, and Jean in Miss Julie at the McCarter. He has performed many Shakespeare roles including: Othello in Othello, (Baltimore Center Stage), Oberon in Sir Peter Hall’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ahmanson, L.A.), Coriolanus in Coriolanus (McCarter), Casius in Julius Caesar (Mark Taper, L.A.) Pisanio in Cymbeline (RSC/TFANA), and Aenas in Troilus and Cressida and Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing in Central Park. continued . . . 9 Finals Judges Mr. James’ film and television credits include: The Humbling, Song One, True Story, The Losers, The Pack, The Rebound, The Messenger, recurring on Boardwalk Empire as Milton Crawford, The Rosa Parks Story with Angela Bassett, Thurgood Marshall in Simple Justice, and The Ruby Bridges Story. He has also worked on the television shows: Oz, Gossip Girl, Kings, Third Watch, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and all three Law & Order series. Mr. James is a graduate and an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and he teaches at Yale School of Drama and BADA at Oxford. Louis Scheeder is an Arts Professor and founder and Director of the Classical Studio, an advanced training program in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He also serves as Associate Dean of Faculty. He has directed on, off, and off-off Broadway, and at regional theaters in the US and Canada. He has produced three off-Broadway shows, most notably Amlin Gray’s Obie-winner How I Got That Story. He has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company, was associated with the Manitoba Theatre Centre, and served as producer of Washington’s Folger Theatre Group. He also teaches and coaches privately in New York City. He is a member of The Factory UK and the associate director of its long-running Hamlet and The Odyssey. In addition to the RSC, he has taught in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Singapore, and Shanghai. On the West Coast, he teaches each summer for Shakespeare at the Huntington, a program for teachers (co-sponsored by ESU Los Angeles Branch) and worked for many years as part of Shakespeare Santa Monica. He has contributed two chapters to Training of The American Actor, published by TCG, and with Shane Ann Younts, is the co-author of All the Words on Stage: A Complete Pronunciation Dictionary for the Plays of William Shakespeare, published by Smith and Kraus. He was most recently awarded New York University’s Distinguished Teaching Award. 10 Coordinators Albany Atlanta Austin Boston Central Florida Central Pennsylvania Charlotte Charlottesville Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colonial North Carolina Dallas Delaware Denver Desert (Palm Springs) Fort Lauderdale Greensboro Greenwich Hawaii Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville, FL Kansas City Kentucky Lexington, VA Sharon B. Calka Pamela Sellman Rory Roberts Paul Bogosian & Julia Perlowski Ginger Bryant Alyce Baker & Bonnie M. Resinski Dr. Allison Lenhardt C. Brian Kelly Victoria Arnold Bob Amott & Janice Flanagan Lisa Ortenzi & Dr. Sherri Routman Bob Husson Gwen Dixie & Ann Maddox Martha E. Pfeiffer Cynthia Poinsett David Richardt Bill Parsons & Michelle Terl Anne N. Jones & Shirley Spears Anne Hall Elser & Caterina Kavanagh Prof. Mark Lawhorn Mary Koenig Dr. Toni Morris Catherine B. Baum Daniel Bukovac & Deborah McArdle Megan Burnett & J. Andy Perry Suzanne Rice & Lisa Tracy Los Angeles Memphis Miami-Dade-Monroe Monmouth County, NJ Naples Nashville Dr. Leigh Hansen Carla Loveless & Charlotte Neal Vanessa Strickland Janet Pitman & Janet Smuga Ellen Stephens Dr. Ann Cook Calhoun & Rickey Chick Marquardt 11 New Orleans Clare Moncrief & Chaney Tullos New York ESU Education Newport Martha Douglas-Osmundson Niagara Frontier (Buffalo)Susan Drozd & Albert Franco Oklahoma City Paul Stevenson Palm Beach Patricia Bates & Peggy L. Phillips Philadelphia Diana Evans & Barbara Murray Phoenix Kent Burnham & Mary Way Portland Susan M. Ferris Princeton Sonja Hertzinger & Kathryn Marmion Research Triangle, NC Ian Finley & India Whedbee Rochester Wendy Low Saint Louis Paula Heller & Barbara Lewington San Diego Courtney Flanagan San Francisco Jo Ellis Sandhills Allis Reenie Savannah J. Wilson Morris & Linda Morris Seattle Susan Wilson Southwest Virginia Ann Drew Gibbons Syracuse Wendy Davenport & Susan T. Jarosz Tucson Jerry Helm & Sherry Weiss Tulsa Paul Stevenson Washington, DC Susannah Patton In Appreciation The English-Speaking Union of the United States gratefully acknowledges the following supporters whose generosity makes the 2016 ESU National Shakespeare Competition and all ESU educational programs possible: American Shakespeare Center The Morgan Library & Museum* The Richard Anderson Charitable Foundation The New York Public Library* Henry E. Niles Foundation Axe-Houghton Foundation Andrew Romay Classic Stage Company* Herb and Ann Rowe Charitable Foundation Brooklyn Academy of Music Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Richard D. Donchian Foundation The Shakespeare Society English-Speaking Union of New York Theatre for a New Audience* The Folger Shakespeare Library Andre Bishop, Producing Artistic Director & Lincoln Center Theater* Foundation for Open Society Paul J. S. Haigney The Hearst Foundation, Inc. F. M. Kirby Foundation, Inc. Tisch School of the Arts, New York University* The Elizabeth & Stanley D. Scott Foundation Simon & Schuster* Christopher Medalis Walkers Shortbread* Mary Ann Moran *In-kind donation Support list information as of April 28, 2016 Special thanks to the many ESU Branches, members, volunteers, judges, teachers, and parents across the country who, in addition to providing financial support, contribute their time, talent, and passion. 12 13 14 National Shakespeare Competition 2016 The English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition is a school-based program designed to help high school students develop their speaking and critical thinking skills and their appreciation of literature as they explore the beauty of the language and the timeless themes in Shakespeare’s works. In the Competition, students read, interpret, and perform monologues and sonnets in three qualifying stages—at school, community, and national levels. Since its launch with 500 students in New York City, the ESU National Shakespeare Competition has given more than 300,000 young people of all backgrounds the opportunity to discover Shakespeare’s writings and to communicate their understanding of his language and message. Now celebrating its 33rd season, the Competition currently involves 55 English-Speaking Union Branches nationwide. In spring, the winners of the local ESU Branch Competitions come to New York City to take part in the ESU National Shakespeare Competition semi-finals held at Lincoln Center. In the semi-finals, all contestants perform a monologue and a sonnet onstage. In the last phase of the Competition, those students selected as finalists present a cold reading of a monologue from one of Shakespeare’s plays in addition to their prepared monologues and sonnets. The ESU National Shakespeare Competition has been recognized by the Globe Center (USA), the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America, and the American Academy of Achievement. Judges for the Competition have included Andre Braugher, Kate Burton, Maurice Charney, Blythe Danner, Barry Edelstein, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Helen Hayes, Edward Herrmann, Dana Ivey, Peter Francis James, Kristin Linklater, Peter MacNicol, Jesse L. Martin, Cynthia Nixon, Tina Packer, Sarah Jessica Parker, Nancy Piccione, Phylicia Rashad, Christopher Reeve, Louis Scheeder, Carole Shelley, Richard Thomas, Courtney B. Vance, Sam Waterston, Dianne Wiest, and Irene Worth. The ESU Shakespeare Competition Staff Carol Losos: Director of Education Katharine Strobel: Manager, Shakespeare Education Programs | Diandra Kalish: Education Department Assistant The English-Speaking Union of the United States Board of Directors Dr. Paul Beresford-Hill CBE KSt.J, New York, NY Christopher Hodgkins, Greensboro, NC Charles D. Reaves, Memphis, TN Donald Best, San Francisco / Los Angeles, CA James W. Kerr, Jr., Dallas, TX Jeffrey L. Schnabel, Kansas City, MO Karen Blair-Brand, State College, PA Ellen M. LeCompte, Richmond, VA Susan D. Sinclair, Nashville, TN M. Christine Carty, New York, NY William B. Maschmeier, Seattle, WA Philip A. Sjogren, Boston, MA Loveday L. Conquest, Seattle, WA Christopher Medalis, New York, NY Jan Slee, Newport, RI Polly W. Cox, Denver, CO Donna M. Miller, Central FL Roger F. Stacey, Boston, MA Peter Frey, New York, NY William R. Miller CBE, New York, NY Hollister Sturges, Greenwich, CT Paul J.S. Haigney, San Francisco, CA E. Quinn Peeper, New Orleans, LA Marie Dora Thornburg OBE, Chicago, IL Julia Hansen, Aspen, CO Mary Alice Phelan, Jacksonville, FL George T. Williamson, Palm Beach, FL Darrell W. Hill, Chicago, IL Laura J. Phelps, San Francisco, CA ––––––––––– Christopher Broadwell: Executive Director The English-Speaking Union | 144 East 39th Street | New York, NY 10016 | Tel: 212.818.1200 | www.esuus.org
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