Production Manager, Tonya Mara, sits down and discusses SVS's upcoming Sanborn production of Measure for Measure with show's director, Doll Piccotto. 

This episode does contain mention of sexual assault so listener discretion is advised.

SVS' 2022 live season starts with a LGBTQ+ version of Romeo & Juliet. To help us kickstart our season, SVS Artistic Director, Angie Higgins, sits down with company Dramaturg, Doll Piccotto, to discuss the history of R&J and LGBTQ+ in Shakespeare. 

SVS Production Manager, Tonya Mara, sits down with Ivette Deltoro (Casting Assistant for City Lights Theater Company), Sara Dean (Executive Artistic Director for South Bay Musical Theatre), and Melinda Marks (Free lance director/artist in the Bay Area) to discuss helpful tips and tricks for actors when going back in to the audition room. 

SVS Artistic Director, Angie Higgins, sits down with company founder, Louis Stone-Collonge, and executive director, Rosalind Sanchez, to chat about the importance of inclusion-based theatre productions, artistic programming, and quality arts education.  

SVS is “flipping the script” and presenting gender-swapped performances of Shakespearean monologues. Featuring pieces from Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Othello and more, this episode will have you seeing these characters in a new light.

Just in time for Halloween, SVS Resident Dramaturg Doll Piccotto gives a spooky new Bard Talk all about ghosts in Shakespeare’s plays. From Richard III to Macbeth, Julius Caesar to Hamlet, ghosts play a significant roles in some of Shakespeare’s most iconic works. Learn about how ghosts were perceived during the Elizabethan Era, and how beliefs during that time molded the way Shakespeare included ghosts as characters in his plays.

Silicon Valley Shakespeare presents Richard III, our final summer Bard audio play.

Directed by Doll Piccotto with sound design & editing by Ryan Lee Short, this riveting production follows one of Shakespeare’s (and history’s) most devious, manipulative villains in his pursuit of the crown. Hear the tale as you’ve never heard it before—as a 1940’s radio drama, complete with era-inspired commercials.

CAST

Richard III… LaMont Ridgell

Buckingham… David Boyll

Queen Margaret, others… Valerie Façhman

Lady Anne, others… Sarah Benjamin

Richmond, others… Kyle Dayrit

Clarence, others… Muse Lee

Queen Elizabeth, others… Sarah Lee

Edward, others… Tom Shamrell

Duchess of York, others… Cynthia Lagodzinski

Silicon Valley Shakespeare presents The Comedy of Errors, our second summer Bard audio play.

Directed by Angie Higgins with sound design & editing by Phil Surtees, this hilarious farce of mistaken identity follows two sets of identical twins who were separated from each other years before but now find themselves in the same city. It will have you reeling with laughter!

CAST

Antipholus of Syracus & Ephesus… Tom Gough

Dromio of Syracus & Ephesus… Evelyn Huynh

Adriana… Regina Kohl

Luciana, Second Merchant… Nicole Javier

Egeon, Officer… Kyle Smith

Emelia, First Merchant… Josie Burgin Lawson

Courtesan, Balthazar… Ambera DeLash

Duke Solinus, Angelo, Servant… James Eric Lucas

Silicon Valley Shakespeare presents Titus Andronicus, the first in our summer Bard audio plays series.

CAST

Titus… Evan Darwin Winet

Tamora… Lucy Littlewood

Saturnius… Arthur Scappaticci

Marcus… Sarah Thermond

Lucius/Martius… Melinda Marks

Lavinia/Aemilius… Stephanie Whigham

Bassianus/Publius… Andre Leben

Chiron/Quintus… Arturo Dirzo

Demetrius/Mutius… Alan Coyne

SVS Marketing Director Laura Domingo sits down with EnActe Arts Artistic Director Vinita Sud Belani and Director of Education Vijay M. Rajan. They discuss how the Silicon Valley theatre company and arts organization is on a mission to be a talent incubator and to tell South Asian stories with universal appeal.