Whether your preparing for auditions, brushing up your basics or just dipping your toe in the water of Shakespeare, come learn a dynamic and visceral approach to Shakespeare’s Text. Through group exercises and individual work you will learn foolproof tools with which to approach Shakespeare’s text. As we isolate the tools you can put them into your actor’s “toolbox” and have them at your disposal for auditions, rehearsals and performances.
$200.
Or
$150 if you pay by December 16th
$175 if you pay between December 16th and December 26th
ian@ianhersey.com
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Ian is a professional Shakespeare coach, teacher, consultant and director. Currently he teaches at The Stella Adler Studio. Ian received rave reviews for his performance of Bottom the Weaver at The Shakespeare Theater of NJ. He was part of the creative team for R.Evolucion Latina’s Shakespearean Experience at the Harlem School for the Arts and The Tempest at Pregones Theater. Ian was the assistant director of Cymbeline for The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. He also directed Cymbeline at NYU Grad Acting. He has directed multiple shows at The Atlantic School and Stella Adler Studio including As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, MacBeth All’s Well That Ends Well and Comedy of Errors. At The Public he coached shows for The Mobile Unit, a program he helped to develop, and Titus Andronicus. Other coaching credits include, Public Forum at the Delacorte working with actors Alec Baldwin, Annette Benning, and Jessica Chastain; Alex Timbers’ production of The Last Goodbye at The Old Globe in San Diego. Further coaching credits include, The Juilliard School, Williamstown Theater Festival, Shakespeare on the Sound and other venues. Ian has taught classes in Shakespeare at The Public Theater, The Actors Center, the Brown University, Barnard College, New World School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, Atlantic Theater School, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting as well as high schools, prisons, shelters and other institutions. He was the Founding Director of A Midsummer Day’s Camp at The Public Theater where he also developed and leads the educational component of The Mobile Unit. Ian is the Master Teacher of the R.Evolucion Latina Shakespeare Project. He served for many years as the Shakespeare Initiative Associate at The Public Theater where he was also the Assistant Director on King Lear starring Sam Waterston. An alumnus of The Shakespeare Lab and The Actor’s Center, Ian studied with Barry Edelstein, Peter Francis James, Michael Langham, Brian Murray, Lloyd Richards, Ron Van Lieu, Earle Gister, Deb Hecht, Catherine Fitzmaurice, Kevin Kline, Olympia Dukakis and others. He is a recipient of the Fox Foundation Fellowship for professional actors and has a master’s in education from The Harvard Graduate School of Education.