This week it gets weird. We welcome back Noelia Antweiler and Ilana DeAngelo from last week and introduce Devi Reisenfeld to talk about the weird sisters from Macbeth! Devi Reisenfeld (She/Her/Hers) is an Actor/Singer/Pisces based here in Denver! After earning her Master’s Degree in Acting from the University of Southern Mississippi, Devi moved to Chicago where she worked professionally for four years playing roles such as Prudence in Beyond Therapy and Edwin Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood....
Aug 07, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This week we talk about the other women of Windsor, Mistress Quickly and Anne Page, with 2024 Colorado Shakespeare Festival actors, Noelia Antweiler and Ilana DeAngelo! Noelia Antweiler (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Denver! As an actor, she has worked extensively in New York City and around the country. She is also a fine art model and a circus performer, specializing in aerial silks and dance trapeze. She believes in the healing power of creativity and the arts. Fol...
Jul 31, 2024•21 min•Season 3Ep. 5
This week we chat with Lizzie Conrad Hughes and Valentina Vinci about their cue based Shakespeare company, Shake-Scene Shakespeare. We dive into zoom theatre, working with actors from around the world, and what it's like to work at a female led Shakespeare company. LIZZIE CONRAD HUGHES (she/her) A lifetime theatre professional (actor, writer, director, producer and teacher), Lizzie is the founder and Artistic Director of Shake-Scene Shakespeare, currently the UK’s only exclusively cue-based teac...
Jul 16, 2024•37 min•Season 3Ep. 4
This week we chat with Charlene V. Smith about one of Shakespeare's most badass broads: Margaret of Anjou. Charlene V. Smith (she, her, hers) is a director, actor, and scholar with an MLitt and MFA in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University. Formerly the artistic director of Brave Spirits Theatre, her directing credits include Antony and Cleopatra, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Coriolanus, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and the first modern professional production of The Bloody Banquet. She ...
Mar 06, 2024•31 min•Season 3Ep. 3
This week we chat with Fawzia Istrabadi about the challenges and rewards of translating Romeo and Juliet into Arabic. Fawzia Istrabadi (She/They) is a Shakespeare actor and the creator of Arabic Shakespeare. A half-Iraqi actor who has a passion for creating representation for Arab/SWANA theatre artists. This passion is what led her to team up with Prague Shakespeare Company's Guy Roberts and ShakeSphere's Adham Sayed to create Romeo & جولييت. You can find ArabicShakespeare on Instagram and F...
Feb 28, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Members of our company of Cymbeline give their thoughts on the leading lady who makes our play tick! In order of appearance, Cakes chats with Alison Talvacchio (she/they), Natalie Edwards (she/they), Steph House (she/they), Paige Flores-Medrano (they/them), and Linda Swanson-Brown (she/her). In the episode, Cakes references a past guest who mentioned that Imogen is the only woman in Shakespeare who cross dresses but does not come up with the idea to do so herself. This thought was originally fro...
Feb 21, 2024•44 min•Season 3Ep. 1
A new season is here and it's for the girls! Broads and the Bard will span the entirety of 2024 and we can't wait to cover the incredible woman and non-binary folks who make Shakespeare possible. Tune in on 2/20 for our first conversation about Imogen!
Feb 19, 2024•2 min
Bowls with the Bard is excited to announce the United State's first ever stoned Shakespeare experience! September 21=24 we will be producing A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Coffee Joint in Denver. Actors and audience alike will be allowed to indulge in marijuana during the show. Check out the Coffee Joint here: https://thecoffeejointco.com/ Donate to our production of Midsummer: https://gofund.me/9bf72345...
Jul 05, 2023•5 min
How could we possibly talk about problem plays without mentioning Titus Andronicus? In this week’s bonus episode, Megan Skye Hale and Myrrh Larsen take a look at Shakespeare’s most violent play and talk about what it was like to produce it in 2023! Myrrh Larsen (they/them) is a stage director, musician, songwriter and sound designer based out of Portland, Oregon. As a founding member of Speculative Drama, Myrrh has directed multiple immersive Shakespeare productions including A Midsummer Night's...
Jun 28, 2023•52 min
Is all’s well that ends well? This week Karen Shantz and Jackie Madejski try to untangle the tricky web that is All’s Well That Ends Well. Karen Shantz (she/her) is a writer and performer in Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theatre from The Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America, and has also studied at the Second City Chicago Conservatory and Sketch Programs, and at The London Dramatic Academy. When not writing or performing, she’s probably k...
Jun 20, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 10
The Merchant of Venice is officially categorized as a problem play… and boy does it present problems. This week we go down the habit hole that is the Merchant of Venice with Terry Burnsed and Stephen Reinstein. Terry Burnsed (He/Him/His) has been acting in Denver and environs for over four decades. He has a Masters and a PhD from CU Boulder, and served as Dramaturg for (the now defunct) CityStage ["CityStage" is one word here] Ensemble in the 1990s. CSE produced his first play The Heretic's Wake...
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 9
The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays... It's also one of his most problematic. This week Renea Brown and Aloha Rasmussen explore what it means to safely and responsibly produce The Tempest in 2023. Renea Brown (she/her) used to hate Shakespeare, so it’s a bit ironic this little black girl from Kentucky, turned into a broadsword-wielding-elizabethan-dancing-classical-actor. She also twerks and uses Megan The Stallions music as a vocal warm up, so you can trust that she's a well ...
Jun 06, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Never heard of Troilus and Cressida? You’re probably not alone! This week Stephanie Crugnola and B talk up this lesser known Shakespeare gem. Stephanie Crugnola (she/her) is a Jack of all trades and Master of Early Modern English Literature. Shakespeare is her passion, her boyfriend, her degree credentials, and her main podcast - Protest too Much, but there is so much more in the world of wholesome niche nerd chaos content that she loves! She has a D&D podcast - Adventure Incorporated, a soc...
May 30, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Sometimes the Winter's Tale can feel more like two tales... This week we explore all the weird and wild the Winter's Tale has to offer with Brendan Edward Kennedy and Regine Vital. Brendan Edward Kennedy (He/Him) is an actor, singer, and VO artist based out of Silver Spring, MD. He holds a double degree in Vocal Performance and English from the University of Maryland College Park. He is a company member of Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. His voiceover work through Gumption Voiceovers can be hear...
May 23, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Twelfth Night isn't technically a problem play, but it is a melancholic comedy... and we think that's close enough.This week we untangle the more challenging aspects of producing Twelfth Night with new friends of the podcast Emily Sucher and Kai Tawil-Morsink! Emily Sucher (they/she) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist and educator. A Helen Hayes Award nominated intimacy director, they have had 30+ intimacy choreography and consultation credits in the regional DMV theatre scene, as well as sev...
May 16, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Join Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp as we explore the many possibilities of producing the Taming of the Shrew and decide whether we still need to produce it at all. Kourtney Smith (she/her) is an actor, educator and amateur Shakespeare scholar living in Los Angeles. Due to covid-19, she's taken a little break from performance. While she hopes to return to the stage soon, she's happily nerding out over Shakespeare and early modern studies and plans to return to school in the fall for her masters ...
May 09, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Othello isn't technically a problem play, but it certainly fits the bill. Join Shaq Stewart and Navi as we grapple with whether we still need a play like Othello in 2023. Shaq Stewart (he/his) is a DMV local actor, musician, and playwright. Previous credits include Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged (CSC) Macbeth(Banquo, PG Shakespeare in the Park) Do You Feel Anger(Howie, Theatre Alliance) Mlima's Tale(1st Stage). Creator by nature, he's three rap albums deep, been on two local tours and a ...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Measure for Measure is the textbook definition of a problem play: too sad to really be a comedy, but too many funny moments to be fully tragic. Join Dillon Greenberg and Joan Raube-Wilson as we explore how to tackle this play without giving an audience whiplash. Dillon Greenberg (she/her) is an actress and content creator living in NYC. She is known for her Latina comedy, MARIAS: The Web Series, on Youtube which won at many film festivals all over the world. She also has her brand and blog, Behi...
Apr 25, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 2
What the heck is a Timon of Athens? Join friends of the podcast, Jeff Miller (He/They) and Elizabeth Ung (She/They) as they crack open this lesser known problem play and explain why we should produce it more! Elizabeth “Liz” Ung (she/they) is a mixed-race queer Chinese American actor and theatre artist, born in the cultural hubs of what was once the Cienega, now southern California; originally from the Piscataway Conoy & Susquehannock lands, colonially known as Baltimore/Washington, D.C.; an...
Apr 18, 2023•50 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Kick off season 2 with an introduction to your host and the problem plays! Your host for today is Liz Colandene: Liz Colandene or Lizzy Pasta (They/She) is a multidisciplinary artist in the DMV. They have worked as an actor, singer, director, producer, choreographer, set painter, and designer in over 50 shows. Some of their favorite moments of working in the field have been playing Janet Weiss in the Rocky Horror Show, learning puppetry from Bill Diamond for Little Shop of Horrors, and producing...
Apr 11, 2023•45 min
Cakes is taking you Around the Canon in 80 Days! What does that mean? Cakes has challenged herself to read all of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets in the first 80 days of 2023 and to share her thoughts daily. This is a collection of her thoughts over days 21 through 40 of the project. Follow Cakes on TikTok and Instagram @10kshakespeare Follow Bowls with the Bard: Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Music by Constanti...
Feb 28, 2023•47 min
Cakes is taking you Around the Canon in 80 Days! What does that mean? Cakes has challenged herself to read all of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets in the first 80 days of 2023 and to share her thoughts daily. This is a collection of her thoughts over the first 20 days of the project. Follow Cakes on TikTok and Instagram @10kshakespeare Follow Bowls with the Bard: Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Music by Constantin...
Feb 28, 2023•49 min
What does August Wilson's Seven Guitars have to do with Shakespeare? Find out as we chat with multi-hyphenate Shakespearean, Regine Vital about her experience working on the play with Actors' Shakespeare Project in Boston. Who is Regine? REGINE VITAL ( she/her/hers ) is a theatre artist, administrator, educator, scholar, and storyteller from Somerville, MA. As an actor, director, dramaturg, and coach, she has worked with several Boston area theatre companies, including The Huntington, Actor’s Sh...
Jan 31, 2023•46 min
"We know what we are but know not what we may be." -Hamlet Ashley Marie Chavez (she/they) and Logan UhiwaiO'Alohamailani Rasmussen (she/her) talk about what it was like to work toward their BFA in acting with a pandemic looming and discuss how the Shakespeare industry can do better by indigenous communities. Follow Aloha on Social Media Instagram: @aloha.rasmussen Follow Ashley-Marie on Social Media Instagram: @ashleymarie.chavez Follow Bowls with the Bard Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @Bowl...
Dec 27, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 17
"Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts." - Henry V Riley Turner (She/her) talks about creating a Shakespeare community on TikTok over the pandemic and shares how the Shakespeare industry can do better by women. Follow Riley on Social Media TikTok, Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter: @lungthief Follow Bowls with the Bard Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Music by Constantino Fernandez Art by Lizzy Colandene Podcast by Mica...
Dec 20, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 16
"And many maiden gardens yet unset, with virtuous wish would bear you living flowers." -Sonnet 16 Jon Jon Johnson (They/He) teaches us how the Shakespeare and Theatre industries are falling short for AAPI communities and emphasizes the importance of cultivating local Asian talent. Follow Jon Jon on Social Media Instagram & Twitter: @burnjonjonburn Follow Bowls with the Bard Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Music by Co...
Dec 13, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 15
"My love is thine to teach: teach it but how, and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn." - Much Ado About Nothing Terrance Fleming joins us to talk about his love for sports, how they're not so far away from theatre in practice, and how the Shakespeare industry can do better by the Black community. Follow Terrance on Social Media Instagram: @teeerrance Follow Bowls with the Bard Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Music by ...
Dec 07, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 14
"Dost thou love me?" -Romeo and Juliet Katie Rey Bogdan (she/her) talks about her experiences as a freelance dramaturg and discusses how the Shakespeare industry can improve in regards to body diversity. Follow Katie on Social Media Instagram: @katiereybogdan Twitter & TikTok: @theboggyden Follow Bowls with the Bard Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Music by Constantino Fernandez Art by Lizzy Colandene Podcast by Micae...
Nov 29, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 13
"Be not denied access, stand at her doors, and tell them there thy fixed foot shall grow til thou have audience " -Twelfth Night Zack Walsh (He/Him) tells us all about how he became a bestselling author, introduces us to his podcast, The Brady Bros, and discusses how the Shakespeare industry can do better by disabled people. Follow The Brady Bros on Social Media Facebook & TikTok: @TheBradyBrosPodcast Buy Zack Walsh is a Bad Man Who Took Your Money: https://www.amazon.com/Zack-Walsh-Took-You...
Nov 15, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 12
"I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably." -Hamlet Joan Raube-Wilson (she/her) chats about her new journey with voice acting and educates us on how the Shakespeare industry can do better by fat people. Follow Joan on Social Media Instagram, Twitter, & TikTok: @joaniepbaloney Follow Bowls with the Bard Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Music by...
Nov 08, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 11
