Tisch Drama Faculty Shane Ann Younts and Louis Scheeder have been invited to speak at "Speaking of Shakespeare," hosted by John Andrews of The Shakespeare Guild at the National Arts Club. The event is held in collaboration WNDC in Washington and the English-Speaking Union. Louis Scheeder will speak at 8:00pm on Wednesday October 5th and Shane Ann Younts will speak on Wednesday December 20th.
Read more about Louis and Shane Ann below.
Louis Scheeder
Founder and director of The Classical Studio, an advanced training program in the Department of Drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Louis Scheeder is on of America's most influential teachers. During the 1970's he earned plaudits as Profducer of the Folger Theatre Group, a vibrant Capitol Hill ensemble that presented not only Elizabethan classics but cutting-edge work by such 20th-century dramatists such as Edward Bond, Michael Ondaajte, and David Storey. In recent years, Mr. Scheeder has worked in both Canada and England (not only with the Royal Shakespeare Company with with The Factory in London). Meanwhile, he has produced three Off-Broadway shows, among them Amlin Gray's Obie-winning How I Got That Story. And, in collaboration with Shane Ann Younts, he has produced All The Words on Stage: A Complete Pronunciation Dictionary for the Plays of William Shakespeare.
Shane Ann Younts
A master teacher who has become renowned for her voice and text classes, Shane Ann Younts is Associate Arts Professor in the Graduate Acting Program at NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. A protege of Robert Neff Williams, who anchored the Juilliard School's orientation to speech training, Ms. Younts has also studied with such leaders in the field as Cicely Berry of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her own students include such actors as Billy Crudup, Tate Donovan, Debra Messing, and Corey Stoll. She is the co-author, with Louis Scheeder, of All The Words on Stage: A Complete Pronunciation Dictionary for the Plays of William Shakespeare, a widely-used reference tool that is no available as an app for mobile devices. During what promises to be an engaging dialogue, she'll explore the techniqes that are essential to presenting classical drama effectively.