Workshop on Shakespeare by Penny Cherns

Hosted by Theatre Department’s Omar Sangare,
Comparative Literature’s Christopher Bolton,
and English Department’s John Limon

in association with the Lecture Committee
and the Dean of the College

The Director of the MA Program in Classical Acting for the Professional Theatre at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Penny Cherns, will visit Williams College this spring to offer several sessions focused on training in Shakespeare. Her workshops will provide an exciting opportunity for a great number of students interested in theatre, Elizabethan literature, and history.

Professor Cherns has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court Theatre, and the New End Theatre in London and has served as the Associate Director at the Chester, Watford, and Nottingham Playhouse. She has directed dramas for the BBC and Channel 4 television and has taught international workshops in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Oslo, Brazil and Uruguay. In America, she has taught and directed at Brandeis, Juilliard, Yale, and the University of Iowa. She has also taught and directed in England at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the Drama Centre of London, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Professor Cherns’ schedule between April 15-19, 2013 will include several sessions for students in Theatre, Comparative Literature, and English, as well as a session open to students interested in LAMDA’s Study Abroad Program:

Thursday, April 18, 4:00pm – 5:30pm – Open Session: Introduction to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Seminar Room, ’62 CTD)