Acting Shakespeare A Roundtable Discussion with Artists from the Utah Shakespeare Festival's 2024 Production of Henry VIII

Abstract

Shelley: Welcome, everybody. We are delighted to spend a little bit of time with you discussing Henry the Eighth. We’re delighted that that was the common show that people selected as part of the conference, and hopefully you enjoyed that on Monday evening. We have additional actors who will be joining us. They are on their way over. But in the meantime, by way of introduction, my name is Stuart. I’m the education director at the Festival. I’ve been with the Festival full time now for three seasons, with a brief stint in 2016 doing summer camps and classes. We have Alaysia Duncan with us, we have Geoffrey Kent, and we will hopefully have Topher Embrey and Christopher Centinaro joining us shortly. We’ll get started, and I’m going to just give the welcoming question. If you’ll tell us a little bit about yourself, the roles that you play this season, Henry the Eighth and other plays, and where you’re from. We’ll get started there, and then we’ll move forward.