The Hamlet Project Q&A
Reimagining Shakespeare: A Conversation between Sinéad Rushe (Lead Tutor in Acting, RADA) and RADA President David Harewood, who will lead the upcoming performance of Othello at Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Chaired by Mark Lawson, critic and feature writer for the Guardian, author and broadcaster.
About the speakers
Sinéad Rushe
Sinéad is a theatre director and acting coach. She trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama London, following a degree in English and French at Trinity College Dublin and a DEA at University of Paris 8 and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. She is the author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide (Bloomsbury 2019) and co-translator into French, with Sarah Hirschmuller, of four plays by Howard Barker (Editions Théâtrales). She is co-director of Michael Chekhov UK, Faculty Council member of Michael Chekhov Association USA (MICHA) and patron of Living Pictures theatre company in Wales. She gives masterclasses and talks worldwide on acting, the Michael Chekhov technique and Meyerhold’s Biomechanics and offers regular coaching at Creative Actor Training.
Mark Lawson
Mark is an English journalist, broadcaster and author. Specialising in culture and the arts, he is best known for presenting the flagship BBC Radio 4 arts programme Front Row between 1998 and 2014. Mark is a Guardian columnist.
David Harewood
RADA President and graduate David Harewood is a British actor and presenter. He is best known for his roles as CIA Counterterrorism Director David Estes in Homeland and as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter and Hank Henshaw / Cyborg Superman in Supergirl. David stars in Channel 4’s new legal drama Pierre. He is also leading Othello at Theatre Royal Haymarket which opens later in October.
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