Book Club - Not Without Right: Shakespeare in the Public Domain ep5

Join host Dawn Monique Williams for another episode of Not Without Right: A Shakespeare in the Public Domain podcast. Book Club is featured this week on the pod. Since 2020, Dawn, Roberta, and Graham have read a robust selection of books ranging from fiction to memoirs to history. Here they discuss some highlights of James Shapiro's Shakespeare in a Divided America and other works on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Roberta Inscho is a director/choreographer from Modesto, California, with a deep passion for musical theatre and Shakespeare. She has her MFA in Directing from the University of Memphis, where she recently directed The Rocky Horror Show. Roberta has been a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) for three seasons, including recent productions of Jane Eyre and Twelfth Night (Associate Director/Movement Director), and 2017's Merry Wives of Windsor (F.A.I.R Assistant Director). During the pandemic, Roberta directed and produced a virtual 10-episode series of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida with her company All the Web’s A Stage. Recent productions include Romeo and Juliet (Director; Tennessee Shakespeare), Legally Blonde (Choreographer; Occidental College), Paradise Blue (Intimacy Choreographer; Aurora Theatre), Beehive (Associate Choreographer; Center Rep), Mama Mia (Choreographer; College Prep), and Dance Nation (Intimacy Choreographer; UMass). IG @_robertaevelyn_ M. Graham Smith is a freelance Director, Educator and Producer. He was raised just outside New York City and has been based in San Francisco since 2004. Recent directing credits include World Premieres of Obie winner Christopher Chen’s Home Invasion, Kevin Rolston’s Deal with the Dragon at Magic Theatre & Edinburgh Fringe, and Kait Kerrigan's Father/Daughter at Aurora and the West Coast premieres of Mia Chung’s You for Me for You at Crowded Fire and James Ijames’ White at Shotgun. His most recent World Premiere is the new musical, The Mortification of Fovea Munson, which premiered at The Kennedy Center in March ‘23. He is currently developing a new play, FDR’s Very Happy Hour for The Perelman Center for the Arts in NYC, centering d/Disability and Access in an immersive environment. He teaches at American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He’s a graduate of the Dell’arte School of Physical Theater and Wesleyan University where he directed the first workshop of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights. Book Club Reading History https://amzn.to/40CC3D9 | #ad For bonus content, consider a paid subscription to the Blackfuturist Shakespearean https://substack.com/@dawnmoniquewilliams