Richmond Shakespeare's February Workshop

"Playing Multiple Characters"
with Jill Bari Steinberg
February 12, 2008, 7:00-9:30
Second Presbyterian Church (5 N. 5th Street)
$20

Richmond Shakespeare is delighted to welcome local star Jill Bari Steinberg to our training faculty for this month's workshop.

Playing multiple characters in the same play, or even the same scene, can be an intimidating challenge--or it can be a heck of a lot of fun. Jill Bari Steinberg could be considered Richmond's resident expert, having played every role in the 2004 award-winning Theatre Gym production of The Syringa Tree, which was revived at the Barksdale in 2007. This workshop will impart techniques to create distinct physical and vocal character choices, as well as directing focus changes to establish each person. Each participant will finish the workshop with a complete multi-character scene performance. You don't have to be working on a one-person show (or five-actor Shakespeare) to benefit from these character-building tools!

Instructor Jill Bari Steinberg has been called "a civic treasure" by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She is a two-time recipient of the Times-Dispatch’s Phoebe award and was one of the first recipients of The Firehouse Theatre’s Wall of Flame awards for her body of work there over the past 10 plus years. Recent highlights include Barksdale's The Member of the Wedding, Brooklyn Boy and The Man Who Came To Dinner, the Firehouse's As Bees in Honey Drown, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Bat Boy: the Musical, and Theatre Gym's My Children! My Africa, A Devil Inside and How I Learned to Drive (just for starters).

The class is open to high school age and up. Space is limited. Participants should, as always, bring a bottle of water and be prepared to move.

Contact Director of Training Andrew Hamm at Andrew@richmondshakespeare.com or 804-855-4998 for more information or to make a reservation.