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Teen Acting Workshop - Shake it up with Livermore Shakes
Free Teen Acting Program with Livermore Shakespeare Festival artists.
Shake it Up with Livermore Shakes!
Saturday, September 26th, Noon - 4:00pm at the LIvermore Public Library, 1188 South Livermore Avenue
FREE Teen acting program
Open to the public
Taught by Elissa Beth Stebbins and Maryssa Wanlass, two of Livermore Shakespeare Festival’s leading ladies, the workshop will explore techniques for bringing your passion forward and your characters to life. Learn the tricks-of-the-trade of the professional approach to Shakespeare performance that makes the Livermore Shakes shows so accessible and alive.
Elissa Beth Stebbins appeared in Livermore Shakespeare Festival’s Pride & Prejudicein 2014 as Elisabeth Bennet and played Ophelia in Hamlet in 2012. Elissa works as an actor and as a Teaching Artist all over the Bay Area. She is a proud recipient of Theatre Bay Area’s Titan Award and is a 2013 TBA FACES honoree. She has a BA in Theatre and English from Santa Clara University.
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Maryssa Wanlass appeared as Rosalind in Livermore Shakespeare Festival’s As You Like It last summer and was Rosencrantz in Hamlet and Justice Shallow in Merry Wives of Windsor in 2012. Other credits include Betrayal (Pear Avenue Theatre), Macbeth (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), Persuasion (San Jose Stage), Crime and Punishment (San Jose Repertory Theatre), Enchanted April, Witness for the Prosecution (Center REPertory Company), Much Ado About Nothing, Good Person of Szechuan(Woman’s Will), How I Learned to Drive, Gaslight (Hapgood Theatre Company), Picture of Dorian Gray, All About Eve (Theatre Rhinoceros). As a Teaching Artist, she can be found empowering young women through the Girls’ Leadership Institute, helping at-risk young adults in West Oakland discover Shakespeare’s stories through SF Shakes’ Midnight Shakespeare program, and giving maximum security inmates a voice through improv acting workshops with Red Ladder Theatre Company. She is a Resident Artist with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. She studied acting at Mills College and with the Moscow Art Theatre.
