Instructor: Rob Salas
Wednesdays, April 18 - May 23 -- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Ages 13 and up
Tuition: $120 upon registration (As an alternative you may pay half upon registration and half at the fourth session for an additional $5)
To sign up call 916-353-1001
Acting Shakespeare:
Get on your feet and make Shakespeare FUN! In Sutter Street’s Acting Shakespeare class, everyone will work together on some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches and scenes, from Henry V to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Along the way, you’ll learn essential technique that will make you not only a stronger Shakespearean actor, but a stronger performer across the board! Our final class is a showcase for friends and family.
Instructor's Bio
Rob Salas
is a founding Artistic Director of Davis Shakespeare Festival where he most recently directed 2017’s
The Three Musketeers
and
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
. Past DSF projects include
Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It,
and
Henry V
. While establishing the Ensemble, Rob received his MFA in Directing from UC Irvine, where he helmed productions including
Mary Stuart, Escape from Happiness, The House of Bernarda Alba, Rhinoceros,
and
Speed-the-Plow
. He has assistant directed at many prestigious theaters including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and most recently for Berkeley Repertory & South Coast Repertory's co-production of
One Man, Two Guvnors
. Other directing credits include
You Can’t Take It With You
at Stockton Civic Theatre,
The Hack
at Capital Stage’s Playwrights’ Revolution,
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged
at New Village Arts in San Diego,
Action: Ecuador
at Dramatic Adventure Theater in New York, and Harvard University’s productions of
The Zoo Story, Julius Caesar,
and
The Tempest
. Rob received his B.A. in English and Dramatic Art at Harvard University and is currently a Theater Arts Lecturer at Sierra College.
