Star Crossed Lovers, Acting Holiday Programme

A Four Day Acting Intensive for 15 - 24 year olds

Do you want the chance to learn how to perform on the Pop-up Globe stage these school holidays? Do you want to take your Shakespearean acting skills to the next level by learning from one of our expert company actors? Join our four day acting intensive workshop and learn the art of acting Shakespeare Pop-up Globe style!

Students aged 15 to 24 with some prior experience in learning and performing Shakespeare will have the unique opportunity to enter the world of the Bard and his works at Pop-up Globe, an exact replica of the space in which Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed.

Using a concise edit of Romeo & Juliet, students will learn the vocal and physical skills required to perform in this space as well as gaining a practical understanding of iambic pentameter, status of characters, placing intentions and the baton to include the audience in the action of the play. The four day rehearsal process culminates in a small performance on stage for invited friends and family.

Information about our facilitator

Jess graduated from the Conservatory Program at Atlantic Theatre Company in NYC in 2012. Her Australian theatre credits since then include: Measure for Measure and The Servant of Two Masters (Sport for Jove), The Dream and The Players (Bell Shakespeare), Grin and Tonic Schools Tour, The Women (New Theatre), Vice (King St Theatre), The Big Funk (Suspicious Woman Productions), Youth Monologues (Digi Youth Arts), Machina (La Boite), and The Taming of the Shrew (Brisbane Shakespeare Festival).

Jess has also performed extensively Off-Broadway. Her Off-Broadway credits include Rhinoceros (Atlantic Stage 2), Belgrade Trilogy (Whitelisted Theatre Company), The Comedy of Errors (EBE Ensemble), Women and Wallace: Throwing Your Voice (Atlantic Black Box Theatre), Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues (KADM Productions), and This is for You (The Bower Group).

Jess produced and performed in The Works of William Shakespeare by Chicks for the Sydney Fringe Festival 2018 with an all-female cast and crew.

She made her Pop-up Globe debut as Queen Elizabeth in Richard III and Steph in The Taming of the Shrew.