Shakespeare's Sister Company will present Tony Award-winning actress, Shirley Knight as she works with students on monologues & techniques to use as actors. Shirley KnightS SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP - "It's Not About the Monologue," will be held on Saturday, November 7th from 2-5pm at the Producer's Club's Grande Theater. Participants must prepare a Shakespeare verse monologue & each will work with Shirley in front of an audience. Observers are welcome to ask questions at the end of the workshop.
Shirley Knight, currently appearing in Arthur Laurents new play Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are, at the George Street Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey, from October 6 - 31, 2009, was born in Kansas on the 5th of July & began studying to be an opera singer at age eleven. She then studied at the Pasadena Theatre School before launching her film career in 1959 & went to New York to begin a career in the theatre, studying acting with Jeff Corey & Lee Strasberg, as a member of The Actor's Studio. She has received many honors from her home state of Kansas, including the Kansan of the Year Award in 2000 & the Governor's Distinguished Artist Award in 2007, both given to her by Governor Kathleen Sebelius. Miss Knight was married to the writer John R. Hopkins until his death in 1998 & has two daughters, Kaitlin Hopkins, an actress-singer-director & Sophie C. Hopkins, a writer. Shirley has a Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Lake Forest College
Artistic Director Kris Lundberg founded the Shakespeare's Sister Company in 2008 to give female artists a venue to keep the great works of our literary heroines alive. Dedicated to celebrating works by women & with an all-female artistic team, SSC revives works & highlights new pieces by literary heroines. Shakespeare's Sister Company takes its name from one of the most prominent female literary figures to this day - Virginia Woolf. At the turn of the century, Mrs. Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society & a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Included in her book-length essay, A Room of One's Own (1929), was her famous dictum, "a woman must have money & a room of her own if she is to write fiction." It is in this essay that Woolf argued that if William Shakespeare had a sister of equal genius, as a woman she would not have had the opportunity to make use of it. She examined women, their struggles as artists, their position in literary history & their need for independence.
DATE: Saturday, November 7th @ 2pm - 5pm
PLACE: Producers Club ~ Grande Theater
358 West 44th Street (bet 8th & 9th)
TICKETS: $100 Participants/$20 Observers (10% Discount for AEA Members)
RESERVATIONS: (212)868-4444 or www.SmartTix.com
Visit: www.shakespearessister.org
