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Interview with Kyu Choi, producer with Yohangza Theatre Company, Korea

Interview with Kyu Choi, producer with Yohangza Theatre Company, Korea

Interviewed by Steve Rowland Kyu Choi a producer of Asia Now from Korea. With Yohangza Theater Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe. Part of The Globe to Globe International Shakespeare Festival. Kyu Choi started his professional carrier as a festival manager with a focus on international programming and artist development. He founded AsiaNow productions in 2005 in order […]

Interview with Rick Boynton, Creative Producer of Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Interview with Rick Boynton, Creative Producer of Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Interviewed by Steve Rowland Rick Boynton, creative producer of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe. Part of The Globe to Globe International Shakespeare Festival. Rick Boynton focuses on current and future artistic planning and production, as well as the development of all new plays, musicals and adaptations for CST. Recent projects include: A Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol, Cadre (co-director) […]

Q Brothers Perform Their “Othello: The Remix” inside Chicago’s Cook County Jail

Q Brothers Perform Their “Othello: The Remix” inside Chicago’s Cook County Jail

Chicago: Shakespeare Central Exclusive: This re-telling of the Othello story, completely re-written in hip hop rhyme was one of the sensations of 2012’s Globe to Globe Festival in London.  Produced by The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, “Othello: The Remix is a stunning and powerful telling of Shakespeare’s story.  Othello is portrayed not as a soldier, but as ‘the world’s greatest rapper’. […]

Interview with Giamdonmenico Cupaiuolo, actor in Italy’s I Termini Company

Interview with Giamdonmenico Cupaiuolo, actor in Italy’s I Termini Company

Interviewed by Steve Rowland   Giandomenico Cupaiuolo, Brutus in I Termini Company’ Julius Caesar, at the Shakespeare’s Globe.  Part of the Globe to Globe International Shakespeare Festival. Interview conducted with simultaneous translation between English (Rowland) and Italian (Cupaiuolo) London, May 2nd, 2012.     Rowland:  Do you recommend acting as a profession for young people?   Cupaiuolo: It’s a really […]

Interview with Wole Oguntokun, Director of Renegade Theatre from Nigeria

Interview with Wole Oguntokun, Director of Renegade Theatre from Nigeria

Interviewed by Steve Rowland   Wole Oguntokun, director of Renegade Theatre’s “The Winter’s Tale” at the Shakespeare’s Globe.  Part of The Globe to Globe International Shakespeare Festival.   Wole Oguntokun’s career as a major producer, director and writer has spanned more than a decade. The recipient of an award for artistic excellence from the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts […]