When Mike Dooly takes on a role, he immerses himself in it, almost to the exclusivity of anything else. He wasn’t always so diligent. In fact, Mike was on the verge of dropping out of high school when his grandmother signed him up for acting classes at the Northwest Actor’s Studio. It was after an […]
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Seattle Actor Profile – Therese Diekhans
The last time Seattle Shakespeare Company audiences saw Therese, she was the sly Mistress Quickly in our production of The Merry Wives of Windsor (and you may have seen her brief cameo as Queen Elizabeth). In Coriolanus, she’s playing a character three times as cunning, Volumnia, the mother of Coriolanus. Reading “I was reading Tree […]
Director David Quicksall on the challenges of Coriolanus
Director David Quicksall talks about the challenges of staging Coriolanus when the main character is so seemingly unlikable.
Seattle Actor Profile – David Drummond
When they say you’ve got to start out as a spear carrier in the theatre, well, that was David Drummond’s first professional acting job in Seattle for a production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Since then he’s gone on to bigger and better things, but, now that he has a family (a son and a daughter), […]
Amy Thone on Performing Shakespeare
Actress Amy Thone on why she loves performing Shakespeare.