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The Shakespeare Showcase returns with new characters!

Posted September 19, 2020 by Shaxspear | Leave a Comment

To continue our motto that “we do Shakespeare all year ’round”, we’ve asked members to share a sonnet or speech in our second online Showcase!

We hope you enjoy all the performances!

Kevin G. Manley has acted in dozens of San Diego stage and film productions over the past several years. He is a full time math teacher who developed a love of theatre by going to his high school’s productions. This eventually led to becoming the theatre program’s assistant director. He also teachers film production. Kevin is also our Readings Coordinator here at SDSS!

Wrapping up our first week of the Showcase is Kevin as Cassius, attempting to get a read on Brutus and plant the seeds…

Posted by The San Diego Shakespeare Society on Thursday, September 17, 2020

Maggi Veltre has been a regular reader at our monthly meetings as well as at Shakespeare and Tea. She has appeared in five showcases of the Point Loma Playhouse, three of them topping off the annual summer Shakespeare workshop.

Our Showcase continues with Maggi and this wonderful story from the Nurse!Ever do something like 11-year-old Juliet? Let us know below!#shakespeare #romeoandjuliet

Posted by The San Diego Shakespeare Society on Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Phillip Magin is an actor, writer, producer, and director. He has acted in several Shakespeare plays, playing roles such as Mercutio, Macduff, Grumio, and Prospero. In our 2016 Student Shakespeare Festival, he won a Best Actor in a Duo Scene award for playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors.

Our Shakespeare Showcase returns! Kicking things off is Phillip Magin with a speech from Richard (later King Richard…

Posted by The San Diego Shakespeare Society on Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Elizabeth Dennehy is a graduate of Hofstra University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. She lives in LA, where she is an educator and director of Shakespeare at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. She has performed in The Humans at San Diego Rep, in Cyrano at Independent Shakespeare Co, as Hostess Quickly/Vernon in Henry IV pt 1 at the Antaeus Co, as Stella in Streetcar at South Coast Rep, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, as Audrey in As You Like It at Shakespeare & Co, as Hostess Quickly in Henry 5 with The New York Shakespeare Festival starring Kevin Kline, at the Kennedy Center.

Our showcase continues with Elizabeth Dennehy as Mistress Quickly from Henry V!As she recounts Sir John Falstaff…

Posted by The San Diego Shakespeare Society on Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Rob Crisell is an author, actor, teacher, and Shakespearean in Temecula, CA. He teaches poetry and Shakespeare with the Murrieta Valley Union School District as part of its Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) program. He is a Shakespeare lecturer with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. He has acted in The Merchant of Venice, Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest (Prospero), Macbeth, Othello (Iago), and others.

We conclude our 2020 Fall Showcase with Rob Crisell and some very serious questions from The Merchant of…

Posted by The San Diego Shakespeare Society on Thursday, September 24, 2020

Thank you to all our Showcase Performers and to YOU for watching!


Directed by Patricia Elmore Costa and John Tessmer

Category iconPerformances Tag iconcassius,  coronavirus,  covid,  henry vi,  julius caesar,  online,  richard,  romeo and juliet,  san diego,  sheltering,  showcase,  sonnet

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