Today I'm delighted to introduce my first guest speaker, professor and theater director Leslie Reidel. Leslie shares his strategy of using Shakespeare's sonnets as training exercises for professional and student actors.

Resources:

Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 29 ("When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"). https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds

---. Sonnet 71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead"). https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45098/sonnet-71-no-longer-mourn-for-me-when-i-am-dead

---. Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds"). https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds

Leslie Reidel:

Leslie Reidel is a professor of theater at the University of Delaware, where his projects with the Resident Ensemble Players have included Love Letters, The Little Foxes, and Shakespeare's Macbeth.

He was a founding member of the Professional Theater Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Delaware.

His directorial credits include the Walnut Street Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, the Madison Civi Rep, and the Utah, Colorado, and Fort Worth Shakespeare Festivals.

He is the Co-Artistic Director of Philadelphia's Enchantment Theatre Company. And he has recently directed the Two Gentleman of Verona Project with undergraduates at the University of Delaware.

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