Personnel:
Jeff Watkins, Artistic Director, Board President
Jeanette Meierhofer, Assistant to the Artistic Director and Marketing Manager
Andrew Houchins, Associate Artistic Director
Anné Carole Butler, Costume Designer
Becky Cormier Finch, Box Office Manager
Joe Rossidivito, Company Manager
Laura Cole, Director of Education and Training
Submission Policy:
They hire professional, Atlanta-based performers. You may mail your headshot and resume to the casting Director at The Shakespeare Tavern, 499 Peachtree St., N.E., Atlanta, GA 30308.
Theater Types:
Equity, Classical
Comments:
Mission: The Atlanta Shakespeare Company is a quest for a living theater, a theater whose "raison d'être" is the communion of actor and audience through poetry. To foster that communion, they have built the only Original Practice Playhouse®, The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse, at 499 Peachtree Street in Atlanta, GA. Using this space as a laboratory for the exploration of Elizabethan stagecraft and theatrical techniques, all of their work is guided by a single clarion principle that ASC reveres above all others: the voice of the playwright. This is true whether the company is presenting an original piece, an American classic, or a timeless masterpiece by William Shakespeare. In all cases, each production is a process that begins with the way each play was originally staged in its own time and ends with a modern audience experiencing the play in a manner consistent with its creator's original intent. Thus, when presenting plays by Shakespeare, ASC productions feature hand-made period costumes, live music and sound effects, thrilling sword fights, and abundant "direct address" to the audience, all of which are orchestrated to ensure that the passion and poetry of Shakespeare's genius remains at the heart of the theatrical experience. This is unlike "modern" approaches that routinely update, alter, deconstruct, or otherwise adapt the plays in the service of a 20th-century sensibility. This Core Aesthetic, known as Original Practice, informs and inspires all of their work.
