The time for Shakespeare Festival auditions is fast approaching, are you prepared? In this class, we’ll learn what is expected of a Shakespeare audition and how to craft your piece so it best represents you. Each student will be coached on their audition piece, and Antaeus’s Artistic Director Nike Doukas will share her knowledge as an actor and director of Shakespeare to give you a framework for this specialized skill that you can use this season and for seasons to come.
Required: Please bring a memorized, rehearsed monologue from Shakespeare, about 15-20 lines of text.
At ANTAEUS: Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, many ClassicsFests, The Liar, and The Wood Demon, plus countless readings. She is well-known to both California and regional audiences, having performed at South Coast Rep, The Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater, , A.C.T, Berkeley Rep, A Contemporary Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and Shakespeare Festival LA, among others. Her TV credits include Modern Family, NYPD Blue, Numbers, and recurring roles on Desperate Housewives and Almost Perfect. She also teaches and privately coaches actors; she was the co-teacher of the Antaeus Academy for two years, and also teaches Shakespeare at The Art of Acting and A Noise Within. Additionally, she is an accent coach for television and theater, including Antaeus, A Noise Within, South Coast Repertory, The Pasadena Playhouse, LA Theatre Works, Boston Court, Rogue Machine and Sacred Fools. She was the recipient of the 2011 Lunt Fontanne Fellowship, a national award to regional theatre actors. MFA, The American Conservatory Theatre.
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*member, Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule
