Welcome to the final episode of Season 2, Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, of A Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare!

Today’s phenomenal guest is Robert Myles; I, host Annabelle Higgins, chatted with him about the noblest and most Stoic Roman of them all, the amateur dramatist who sees a dream about a donkey’s head as perfect for a theatrical production and a jealous king entangled in his own devastating beliefs.

Robert Myles is an actor, writer and director. Over his career in Shakespeare, Rob has played over 30 Shakespearean roles in off-west-end and regional touring productions. He directed the 36 First Folio plays of Shakespeare, one a week every week for nine months, with The Show Must Go Online, which he co-founded at the start of the 2020 pandemic. TSMGO became a multi-award-winning pandemic digital theatre project that brought together over 500 actors and creatives from 60 countries.

His book, co-written with Dr. Valerie Clayman Pye, Innovation in Digital Theatre: Rethinking Theatre with 'The Show Must Go Online', is forthcoming with Routledge. He is the creator of The Shakespeare Deck, a powerful, portable text-work tool for actors and creatives, and host of the Owning Shakespeare Podcast, with guests including Adjoa Andoh and Paterson Joseph. He has spoken at Harvard University, taught Shakespeare at East 15 and Wolverhampton University, given seminars at NYU London and done Q+As with King's College London, University of Texas and many more.

Beyond Shakespeare, Rob is also an action designer, and a teacher-in-training with the British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat. In addition to theatre, he has directed several short films, short documentaries, action for camera, and more. He is now exploring the role creative technologies can play in the future of live storytelling with The Stratford Festival, Theatre Royal Bath and others.

You can find him at @rob.myles on Instagram, @robmyles on Twitter and Robert William Myles on Facebook. His website is robmyles.co.uk and his company The Show Must Go Online can be found on Twitter at @TSMGOnlineLive and on Instagram at @theshowmustgoonline.

Additionally, here are links to some of the resources discussed in this episode;
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/2708385 Views of Time in Shakespeare, Ricardo J. Quinones
- https://youtu.be/IMu_tIli6Qg Ballet vs Theatre — Two different interpretations of Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale (The Royal Ballet)

Enjoy!