The Shakespearean Shrew

Is acting like riding a bike? Like doing yoga after not stretching for a few years? In this episode, I get the opportunity to talk with Alissa Branch and Tim Grimm, two amazing actors, artists, and humans who haven’t tread the boards in a few years and see what their comeback really feels like as they prepare for The Lion in Winter opening October 9th at OSP. We also discuss collaborative efforts on the stage and as a married couple, the impact of art across mediums, and the consequences of technology reliance on art. Please come see The Lion in Winter at OSP opening October 9th and closing the 19th. See the links below for tickets to the show, Tim Grimm’s #1 Folk song “Broken Truth,” and tickets to Theatre Crude’s opening performances. The arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back. Broken Truth by Tim GrimmBuy Tickets — Oklahoma Shakespeare: The Lion in Winter Theatre Crude TicketsPLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guests Tim Grimm and Alissa Branch. ALISSA BRANCH is a theatrical and visual artist based in Norman, OK, where she serves as Associate Professor of Acting in the Helmerich School of Drama. Favorite directing credits include Oklahoma Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet(2023), Pride and Prejudice (2022); Phoenix Theatre: The Circumference of a Squirrel; Butler University: The Dreaming of The Bones (with subsequent tour of Southern Ireland). OU University Theatre: Twelfth Night, Arcadia, Summer and Smoke, Clybourne Park, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar; OU Lab Theatre: Proof (2023), Miss Evers’ Boys (KCACTF Region 6 Director’s Choice Award, and Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa), Anna in the Tropics; 9 Parts of Desire (KCACTF Region 6 Director’s Choice Award). Alissa also directed the regional premiere of the new play Shakespeare’s Other Women, which received Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 6 awards for Outstanding Work with Heightened Text, and Excellence in Ensemble Acting. Alissa recently created and released a 12-episode video master class for The Great Courses Plus called “Shakespeare: From Page to Stage.” Alissa is also a painter. She and her partner, singer-songwriter Tim Grimm, share a small visual art gallery called Black Chalk Studio. Visit www.alissabranch.com to learn more.Tim Grimm is a bit of a Renaissance man in the performing arts world, forging a rich and varied career that blends his love of songwriting, travel, and acting in theatre, film and television. For most of his 25-year career as a storytelling balladeer in the tradition of John Prine, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Tim has written primarily about community, history, family, and social issues - often framed by his strong sense of place and the many years he spent on the family farm he built in rural Indiana. His songs are filled with rural characters and landscapes, written and sung with vivid warmth and intimacy.  

In a political war rife with ugly rhetoric, Alix Golden brings a “new” weapon to the table: song. In this episode, we are talking to actor and writer of the new show Belters–where the broads of Broadway take on Fascism. Join us as we talk about the importance of theater, music, immigrants, religion, and divorce. Listen to how Alix wrote this production from the inside out - being part of the production as she is creating it, and finding the external pressure to fight against the powers of procrastination. And be on the look out for Alix’s next show, There’s a Penis in There Somewhere. Just kidding…maybe…Alix, make it happen. So everyone, go see Belters this October at 3rd Act Theater:October 4th: 5:30pmOctober 5th: 1pm October 10th: 5:30pmOctober 11th: 2:30pm And let me know how many shows you get to on the Theatre Crude list! Get tickets here: Theatre Crude TicketsThe arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guest Alix Golden. Alix Golden (Writer/Zsa Zsa) is a graduate of Classen SAS where she studied theatre with Terry Veal and Michael Payne. She attended Adelphi University to earn her BFA in theatre. As a student, she co-wrote and directed This is What We’ve Got So Far. Recent acting credit: She Kills Monsters (Carpenter Square Theatre), Mother Road, Lyric’s A Christmas Carol (Lyric Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare in Love (Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park), Inherit the Wind (3rd Act Theatre), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Jewel Box Theatre, Gem Winner). She is so excited to share this play with you. 

When we think “women gone wild,” we tend to think of wet t-shirt contests. That is not these women. These women (and one man, sorry, Caylor Peterson - they love you and spoke of your glory) have gone off the beaten track (this play is being performed in Yellow Dog Coffee Company), co-produced by three individuals, directed as a company, and are performing a play that pushes the boundaries of actors and audience alike. In this episode, Laura Burguete, Anna Halza, Hannah Haddad, Katy Kendall, and Isabella Woodson talk about some of the restrictions of university theater and making this opportunity for themselves has pushed their knowledge of themselves as actors and forced them out of their comfort zones as they take on characters that would never be brought to stage in a university setting (university politics are real). These women are as delightfully unapologetic as the play; as they say in this episode, “you either get it or you don’t.” This play has a history; it’s a protest piece;  it’s been fought for in the courts, and now it’s coming to Norman. So come see this show; come support these amazing actors, and be part of the history (and maybe even the performative protest). The show is September 12th, 13th, and 14th at 8pm and there is a matinee on Saturday the 13th at 2pm. Students (all students) can get discount tickets! The arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back. Tickets for The Secretaries: www.isabellawoodson.com PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guests Laura Burguete, Anna Halza, Hannah Haddad, Katy Kendall, and Isabella Woodson!Laura Burguete is a Mexican-American actress from San Antonio, TX currently pursuing a BFA in Acting from The University of Oklahoma. Her most recent onstage appearance was Sage in Go. Please. Go. directed by Madison Neiderhauser. She is currently playing Peaches in The Secretaries.Anna Halza is an actor, writer, and theater maker based in Texas and Oklahoma. She is currently pursuing her BFA in Drama at the University of Oklahoma. Her most recent projects include the role of Sarah in Hadley Shipley's Camp Contrition, produced by SheDFW, and co-authorship of How To Smoke Three Cigarettes at Once, produced by Co.Arts Theater Company. The play has just received its fringe debuts at Kansas City Fringe and Omaha Fringe. She is currently playing Susan in The Secretaries.Hannah Haddad is an Assyrian-American actress from Texas, currently pursuing her BFA in Acting at the University of Oklahoma. She recently appeared as Decius in Julius Caesar directed by Livy Scanlon in Prague, the Stenographer in Waiting for Lefty directed by Seth Gordon, and is currently playing Ashley in The Secretaries.Katy Kendall is a junior acting major at the University of Oklahoma from St. Louis, Missouri. Her most recent roles include Voice in the Crowd #2 (Waiting for Lefty—Weitzenhoffer Theater), and Celia (As You Like It—Divadlo Bez zábradlí). She is currently playing Patty in The Secretaries.Isabella Woodson (she/her) is an Oklahoma and Texas based director, producer and actor. She is currently pursuing her B.F.A in Drama at the University of Oklahoma. Recent Credits: Waiting for Lefty (Assistant Director), Another Beginning (Director/Co-Producer), Dearly Departed (Production Dramaturg). She is currently playing Dawn in The Secretaries.

S2 Ep 19: You had questions; we have answers! Cast Q&A: Love’s Labour’s Lost Hello all! You came up with some amazing questions so, in the shortest introduction ever, here are the cast and director’s answers! Thank you all for your questions - on to the roll call!  Erin Woods: PLAY DIRECTOR AND MARKETINGBen Kahre: BEROWNEOlivia Akers: KATHERINE / ASST. DIRECTOR / PROPS DESIGNTeegin Hacker: LONGAVILLE / DULLAriana Sanchez: MARIA Jimmy Pike: DUMAINE / SIR NATHANIEL / MUSIC DIRECTORJessa Schinske: ROSALINEThomas Chavira: DON ADRIANO DE ARMADOLily Marsh: JAQUENETTACorey Whaley: BOYETElla Howard: MOTH / MARCADEPlease come see Love’s Labour’s Lost at OSP; this is the final weekend (August 14th-17th)! It’s an amazing show and cast with a fabulous soundtrack. See Shakespeare mix it up with the musical works of Alanis Morisette, The Doors, and more. And if you are looking to get a little creeped out, don’t miss GRŒNLAND: Stalked by dark and mounting horrors, an isolated religious colony must survive until spring. GRŒNLAND runs at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center in Oklahoma City on August 15th, 16th, and 17thThe arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Tickets for Love’s Labour’s Lost opening August 7th: Love's Labour's Lost TicketsTickets for GRŒNLAND: GRŒNLAND by Chip Keebaugh — Co.ArtsPlease donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to the director and cast! 

When everyone else has gone mad, the fool alone is left with reason. Welcome to a look at Costard in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Denton Meehan, the actor who is taking him on in OSP’s upcoming production. (It opens tomorrow, August 7th, get your tickets - go, go, go!)  In this episode, Denton and I discuss the history of the fool, the balance fools bring to the world (and why we cannot afford to get rid of them), the difference between a clown and fool, and why we laugh. Please come see Love’s Labour’s Lost at OSP; it’s running August 7th through August 17th. It’s an amazing show and cast with a fabulous soundtrack. See Shakespeare mix it up with the musical works of Alanis Morisette, The Doors, and more. And if you are looking to get a little creeped out, don’t miss GRŒNLAND: Stalked by dark and mounting horrors, an isolated religious colony must survive until spring. GRŒNLAND runs at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center in Oklahoma City on August 15th, 16th, and 17thThe arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Tickets for Love’s Labour’s Lost opening August 7th: Love's Labour's Lost TicketsTickets for GRŒNLAND: GRŒNLAND by Chip Keebaugh — Co.ArtsPlease donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guest: Denton MeehanDenton Meehan is a recent graduate from Oklahoma City University, from Kansas City, MO. This is his third show at OK Shakes. Recent credits include A Midsummer Nights Dream, Life Sucks, and Legacy of Light. Special thanks to friends and family.

In this episode we will be talking to Alleese Eldridge and Paxton Kliewer about the challenges and rewards of teaching OSP’s summer camp, what theater does for us as actors and audience, the importance of play, and how yo-yos are the ultimate Brooklyn ice-breaker. Hear about their final productions in OKC (for now) before this dynamic duo heads off to NYC to pursue greatness (even though we would argue that they are already AMAZING). So get your tickets to Love’s Labour’s Lost and Grœnland. This is your last chance to get their autographs and say you knew them when. Please come see Love’s Labour’s Lost at OSP; it’s running August 7th through August 17th. It’s an amazing show and cast with a fabulous soundtrack. See Shakespeare mix it up with the musical works of Alanis Morisette, The Doors, and more. And if you are looking to get a little creeped out, don’t miss GRŒNLAND: Stalked by dark and mounting horrors, an isolated religious colony must survive until spring. GRŒNLAND runs at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center in Oklahoma City on August 15th, 16th, and 17thThe arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Tickets for Love’s Labour’s Lost opening August 7th: Love's Labour's Lost TicketsTickets for GRŒNLAND: GRŒNLAND by Chip Keebaugh — Co.ArtsPlease donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guests: Alleese Eldridge and Paxton KliewerAlleese uses performance as a site for community organizing and uplifting ideas of collective prosperity. Alleese Eldridge is a founding member of Co.Arts, a company dedicated to producing and developing new works, and currently serves as their Co.Artistic Director. Previous Credits: Men on the Line (Co.Arts, Director), The Great Leap (OKC Rep, Asst. Director), Much Ado About Nothing (OSP, Production Dramaturg). “Every act of art brings us one step closer to our collective liberation.”- Kelli ShermeyerPaxton is an actor from Bethany, Oklahoma. He received his BFA in Drama with an emphasis in Acting from the University of Oklahoma in 2020. His credits include Jaxton-The Thanksgiving play-OKCREP, Captain Wentworth-Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker!-Oklahoma Shakespeare, Laertes-Hamlet-Oklahoma Shaspeare in the Park, Banquo-Macbeth-Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, Oberon/Theseus-A Midsummer Night's Dream-Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, Sebastian-Twelfth Night-Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, Captain Georg Von Trapp-The Sound of Music: Interactive-Lyric Theatre, Dr. Capt. Kaw-Thee Hidden Claw-Louisiana Art Station,Paul Bratter-Barefoot in the Park-Jewel Box Theatre.

What role does music play on the stage? Can music make theater more accessible? Can it change the roles of players? Find out the answers to these questions and more as we talk to Ella Howard and Lily Marsh who are both performing in OSP’s upcoming production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. We discuss the different music that director Erin Woods has brought into the production and listen all the way to the end for a jaw dropping performance from these amazing actors and musicians as they sing “Hi Lili Hi Lo” - I cannot get it out of my head and I don’t want to. You want to get to know these actors because they haven’t even graduated from college yet and they are already astound. Keep an eye on them; I have a feeling we will see them on many more stages in the decades to follow.  Please come see Love’s Labour’s Lost at OSP; it’s running August 7th through August 17th. It’s an amazing show with a fabulous soundtrack. See Shakespeare mix it up with the musical works of Alanis Morisette, The Doors, and more.  The arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Tickets for Love’s Labour’s Lost opening August 7th: Love's Labour's Lost TicketsPlease donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guests: Ella Howard and Lily Marsh Ella Howard (she/her/hers) is a rising third year acting student at the University of Oklahoma in the Helmerich School of Drama. This is Ella’s third year working with Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, and Love’s Labour’s Lost is her on-stage debut! Her previous theatre credits include As You Like It, Oklahoma!, and Waiting For Lefty. Ella would like to thank her friends and family for their constant encouragement and support. Lily Marsh (she/they) is a rising junior at Oklahoma City University, pursuing a BFA in Acting with a double minor in Directing and Dramaturgy. Her recent university credits include Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Emily u/s) , Gross Indecency (Carson & Others), Puffs (Swing), and Romeo & Juliet (Swing). She is delighted to be working with OSP again, following her previous work in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Assistant Director), Macbeth (Lennox), and Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker (Elinor Dashwood).

For so long we have lauded the relationship of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as the healthiest relationship amidst an an unhealthy plot, but Lady Fenton and Anne Page topple the Macbeths in Merry Wives of Windsor and OSP shows that, in Windsor (as should be everywhere), everyone gets a seat at the table. Join me as I talk with Kit Rasmussen in his debut role as Lady Fenton (yes, you read that correctly) and Bell Reeves, a very familiar face and voice in this podcast, in her role as Anne Page as we talk about gender, strong women, and blurring the lines. Shakespeare ascribed his players many traditional parts, but he often mocked them as quickly as he assigned them. Join us in this episode in a traditional mocking of our “parts.” Don’t forget that this is the last week of Merry Wives at OSP so get your tickets and join us from the 12th through the 15th. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Tickets for Merry Wives of Windsor opening June 5th: Merry Wives of Windsor — Oklahoma ShakespearePlease donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Dr. Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guests: Kit Rasmussen and Bell Reeves Kit Rasmussen (Fenton, Pistol) is an Oklahoma-based artist who recently graduated from Wichita State University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Performance. This is their first show with OSP. Previous credits include Prentiss in Peter and the Starcatcher (WSU) and Valvert in Cyrano de Bergerac (Kechi Playhouse) Bell Reeves is an Oklahoma based actor, and founding member of the Emerging Artists Collective. She is passionate about Theatre's ability to ignite change and foster impactful conversation.  Originally from Houston, Bell graduated from The University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre with an Acting Emphasis Some of her OSP credits include Twelfth Night (Viola) Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Much Ado about Nothing (Hero),and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena).

**This is a fun and raucous interview so choose your volume accordingly! For this episode we are going to talk size - no, not that kind of size - though there will be some talk of “eggplant emojis” in this episode. I mean the size of the role versus the impact of the part. Join us as we talk with Jimmy Pike, Denton Meehan, and Lucas Schrantz who are well-versed in playing many parts (sometimes within one play or even a single scene!). These actors (and their characters) will literally muscle their way into your hearts with their sword flourishes and straining biceps. We will talk about conveying different persons through physicality and voice, audience engagement (the good and the bad),  advice to those of you who are pursuant of something against parental (or random stranger’s) advice, and why Merry Wives is a perfect introduction to Shakespeare’s works. It’s mostly prose, people! He left the verse at home. So join us to talk about Merry Wives and come see it at Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park in the Paseo. It opens June 5th and closes June 15th so bring some chairs, blankets, and a picnic worthy of a knight. Also, at the end of the episode, we will tell you about some opportunities to see Merry Wives for FREE. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Tickets for Merry Wives of Windsor opening June 5th: Merry Wives of Windsor — Oklahoma ShakespearePlease donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Dr. Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Jimmy Pike has been working with Oklahoma Shakespeare since 2005. He’s been seen on the OSP stage as Slender in Merry Wives of Windsor, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux in Cyrano, Snug and Snout in Midsummer Nights Dream, Friar Francis in Much Ado About Nothing, and many more. He currently serves on the Board of Directors. Jimmy is a father to Gigi and SamLucas Schrantz (Slender, Host, Servant) is a mama’s boy who has been doing theatre since the wee age of ten. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2022 and has been acting around the state since. This will be the third time he is performing at Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park. Recent roles include Plankton in Pollard Theatre’s SpongeBob Squarepants the Musical and Lysander in Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s Midsummer Nights Dream. He would like to thank his parents, all five of his siblings, and partner for supporting him.Denton Meehan is a recent graduate from Oklahoma City University, from Kansas City, MO. This is his second show at OK Shakes. Recent credits include A Midsummer Nights Dream, Life Sucks, and Legacy of Light. Special thanks to friends and family.

The Merry Wives of Windsor is one of the lesser known and lesser performed plays of Shakespeare - but that certainly doesn’t make it less than. Join Lance Marsh as John Falstaff, and our Merry Wives - Lindsey Rollins as Mistress Ford and Denise Hughes as Mistress Page - as we discuss why this play is under performed and the big characters (emphasis on big - like fat suit big), big ideas, and big personalities that make this play a BIG deal. Women and women’s friendship take center stage, and for once, in Shakespeare, we get more than a messy marriage - we get a happy ending. So get ready for chaos to hit the stage and spill right into the audience; join us for Merry Wives opening Thursday, June 5th. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Tickets for Merry Wives of Windsor opening June 5th: Merry Wives of Windsor — Oklahoma ShakespearePlease donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Dr. Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠D. Lance Marsh (he/him/his) is proud to be serving in his sixteenth year as an Associate Artistic Director for Oklahoma Shakespeare and just finished his nineteenth year at TheatreOCU, where he serves as a Professor and Head of Performance.  For OS, he has acted in Hamlet, Emma and Blythe Spirit and directed Misalliance, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Merchant of Venice, A Comedy of Errors, The Seagull, Othello, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Blythe Spirit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, GB Shaw’s You Never Can Tell, and Much Ado About Nothing.  Lindsey Rollins is thrilled to be returning to the OK Shakespeare Garden stage. Other recent credits include Twelfth Night (2019 & 2024), Jane Austen’s A Christmas Cracker (2019, 2022, & 2023), Hamlet, As You Like It,Sense & Sensibility, and A Midsummer Nights Dream (Oklahoma Shakespeare); Medea, Outward Bound, The Wonder (3rd Act Theater Company); Matilda the musical (KidsAlive! Theater); Beauty & the Beast (Sooner Theater); The Addams Family: A New Musical (2022 & 2018), King Lear, Little Women: the Musical (Rose State College); and Is He Dead? (Carpenter Square Theater).  Lindsey is an associate professor of Voice at Rose State College, teaches music at Messiah Lutheran School, and is the Director of Music at Messiah Lutheran Church. Lindsey would like to thank her biggest fan, her mother, for her constant support and love and her canine true love, Bullwinkle, for listening to her when no one else would.Denise Hughes (Mrs. Page) is excited to make her Oklahoma Shakespeare Gardens debut! Favorite shows include “Sweet Delilah Swim Club” and “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” (Jewel Box Theatre), “Heartbreak House” and “Hamlet” (3rd Act Theatre), “The Women” (Reduxion Theatre) and “The Library” (Carpenter Square). Directing credits include “On Golden Pond”, “Rumors” and “Arsenic and Old Lace” (Jewel Box Theatre) and “Damaged Goods” (3rd Act Theatre). Denise is the owner of Bella Voce voice studio in Edmond and a member of the band Everybody Else’s Girl as well as Bella Voce chamber choir. She is also a performer with Character Connection Co. She wants to thank Kris for trusting her with this character. She would also like to thank her husband David, for his love and support of her “play time” and God, for the gifts He has given her.

How do you play yourself while playing another actor while playing characters across Shakespeare’s 37 plays? Let’s find out! Join me as I talk with Kris Kuss, M. Smith Fraser, and Holly McNatt as we discuss how these actors survive this fast paced, high energy, whirlwind of a play, The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised) (Again). We’ll discuss acting outside your comfort zone, messing with the Bard (with love), and messing with the audience. As Kris Kuss says, “Theatre is at its best when it’s messy, sweaty, and explodes all over the stage.” So, yeah, you’re not going to want to miss this show. This is the last weekend so get your tickets for April 24th, 25th, 26th, or 27th! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Tickets for Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) opening April 17th: ​​https://www.okshakes.org/complete-works-abridgedPlease donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠ Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Dr. Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guests: Kris Kuss, M. Smith Fraser, and Holly McNatt Kris Kuss teaches Acting and Dialects for Oklahoma City University's School of Theatre. Kris is a director, fight director, actor, and educator from Niceville, FL. He received his MFA in Directing from the University of Southern Mississippi and BAs in Theatre Performance and Philosophy from the University of Mobile. He is committed to supporting and developing the performing arts within our community, having worked with Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Painted Sky Opera, and 3rd Act Theatre Co. Kris has worked for regional theatres and universities around the country as an actor, director, fight director, intimacy choreographer, and dialect coach on productions including Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, The 39 Steps, Blood Wedding, Newsies, The Tragedy of Carmen, She Kills Monsters, Les Misérables, and Young Frankenstein. Kris is a member of Dueling Arts International and the Society of American Fight Directors. He has also trained extensively with Theatrical Intimacy Education.M. Smith Fraser is an Actor, Director and Fight Choreographer originally from Minnesota. He holds the position of Visiting professor of Acting at Oklahoma State University. He is also the Fight Director for Viking Encampment and is a Certified Teacher with Dueling Arts International.Holly McNatt has returned to the OSP stage, where she performed her first ever Shakespearean role as Miranda in The Tempest. She was last seen at OSP (many moons ago) as Anne in The Three Musketeers. Some other favorite Shakespearean turns include playing Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost (Reduxion Theatre). Last year, Holly paid homage to the Bard in her original show “Bromeo & Juliet” at Theatre Crude. She’s coming up on her 20th year as a local performer & loves to see the OKC scene thrive. If you know anyone nice, Holly is single and looking to mingle. On socials @thelilfox.

Once again, I’m giving up the microphone as my student, Frederick Turner, takes over the show. He is talking to director, actor, and amazing human David Weber about his upcoming production of Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged Again taking place at OSP. They will talk about how to turn comedy to laughter and the importance of props, costumes, and actors with synergistic energy to create the fast paced and ridiculously delightful show (emphasis on the ridiculous). We will talk about how this bastardization of Shakespeare’s works might be truer to Shakespeare’s style than you might first think. Join us as we explore the madness of putting all of Shakespeare’s known plays on the stage at the same time.

Join me in a conversation with owners Kathryn Lynn and Britni Brecheen of Second Story Books in OKC, Steve "Echo" Gooch, owner of The Floating Bookshop in Automobile Alley, and Kim Mieda, owner of The Lore, in Norman. We are going to talk about the historical connection between coffee (and beer) and books, discuss how locations dictate the books and customers, options when trying to separate asshole authors from their works, and how to join us for the Central Oklahoma Independent Bookstore Crawl on April 25th, 26th, and 27th: Central Oklahoma Independent Bookstore Crawl (@centralokbookstorecrawl) • Instagram photos and videos.  Each bookstore will be offering deals and prizes and collectively you can win additional prizes, and you just might find a golden ticket (which means 12 free audiobooks from Libro.fm). Please join us, and if you see the Shakespearean Shrew in the wild, stop me, and if you are the first to do so,  you will get yourself a Shakespearean Shrew mug to add to your swag. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Tickets for Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) opening April 17th: ​​https://www.okshakes.org/complete-works-abridgedPlease donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Dr. Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guests: Kathryn Lynn and Britni Brecheen, Steve “Echo” Gooch, and Kim Mieda

Join me with educator and game master Brook Bullock as he shares with us the history of RPG and the social and psychological implications of “playing” different roles. We’ll learn about “the satanic panic” and how RPG has been brought out of the dungeon/basement and into the light - enhancing empathy and understanding our history through fantasy. Is RPG a new kind of improv? With the game master cast as the director, they shape the experience and allow their players agency. What do we do with the choices afforded us? Does it matter if the choice is real or just an allusion? Who thought RPG would take us this far down the rabbit hole? But like the Queen of Hearts asks Alice, “Do you play?” PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Dr. Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guest: Brook BullockBrook has taught English for over 30 years, served as an Advanced Placement Consultant for the College Board since 1997, and has played D&D since the 1980s.  He grew up in a small OK town, giving him a chance to experience a “little bit of everything” when it came to extracurriculars as well as the ability to travel between different social cliques with relative ease - a skill he now uses to move between professionalism and whimsy. Currently married for 20 years, Brook enjoys trips with his wife and family, riding motorcycles, and reading into the wee hours of the night, usually in preparation for the next RPG podcast episode or classroom lesson.On the Socials at @BrookBullock.bsky.social 

For my Lynyrd Skynyrd fans out there, you’ll have to watch on YouTube if you want to know how to sign “free bird”. Watch or listen; either way, you don’t want to miss the hilarity that ensues. Join a pair of marvelous guests (and guest hosts) as we discuss ASL accessibility in theater! Actor Amanda Lee meets with actor and translator Michaela McCall to discuss the nuances of signed translation after their recent ASL-translated performance of Penelope at OSP. This episode is also guest hosted by two of my students, so get ready for some new faces (or voices, depending on your preferred medium). Make sure you catch the end of the episode on YouTube to see Amanda perform a segment of the song “Drunk Iliad” with live translation from Michaella: https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew The one-woman musical Penelope is showing at OSP until March 2nd, and this is not a show to be missed. The link for tickets is below! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrewTikTok: @theshakespeareanshrewThe new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠ Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠Thank you for listening!Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Dr. Karen FeinerCo-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle CoffmanCover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠Thank you to our guests: Amanda Lee and Michaela McCallAmanda Lee worked as a performer all over the country and the world for 10 years before settling down in 2014 in Norman, OK near her hometown of Noble. She can now be seen onstage with Whodunit Dinner Theater and occasionally at Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park where she also directs and music directs for various productions. Amanda has a degree in music from the University of Central Oklahoma which has somehow also garnered her entry into the corporate world of experiential marketing where she currently holds the position of Field Marketing Producer for the New York City-based firm JetFuel. Amanda also runs a Facebook page called The Central Oklahoma Theatre Calendar where she updates her followers on which shows are playing on which stages all over the central Oklahoma region. She is passionate about supporting theater and the arts and is a proud member of Actors Equity.Michaela McCall is an Oklahoma City born and bred American Sign Language interpreter. At 19 years old she earned her Oklahoma QAST certification (level III/III) one month before graduating from OSU-OKC with a degree in ASL interpreting. She also earned an Associate of Arts in Theatre from Oklahoma City Community College at the age of 17. While at OCCC, she was heavily involved in the theatrical department, both on stage and behind the scenes. She then transferred to Oklahoma City University where she is currently a Junior working towards her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. She has had a passion for both theatre and linguistics since childhood, and is always stoked when they crossover!