Ausgebildet / Trained Bühne / Stage Dramen / Dramas Salon / Parlor Shakespeare Theater / Theatre Tschechow / Chekhov
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.
I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.
You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'
I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.
In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.
