Bowls with the Bard

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. Devi is a Certified Theatrical Combatant with Dueling Arts International in multiple weapon disciplines and a pretty good little tap dancer but, like castmate Ilana, will always live in the shadow of her portrayal of Gertrude McFuzz in her high school’s production of Seussical circa 2009. Devi is currently performing in CSF’s Macbeth and the Merry Wives of Windsor running until August 11th. Follow Devi on Instagram @devialyse 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. Follow Noelia on Instagram @noelia.antweiler See Noelia in Dracula at the Arvada Arts Center September 27 - November 3: https://arvadacenter.org/events/dracula-a-feminist-revenge-fantasy-really Ilana DeAngelo (She/Her/Hers) is a performer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her recent credits include Ophelia in Kentucky Shakespeare's Hamlet and Diana in CSF's All's Well That Ends Well- however, nothing compares to her portrayal of Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical when she was 14. Ilana is currently performing in CSF's Macbeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor running until August 11th. Follow Ilana on Instagram @lanilooooo Purchase tickets to the 2024 Colorado Shakespeare Festival here: https://cupresents.org/series/shakespeare-festival/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwnqK1BhBvEiwAi7o0X_Qmu1Jp3auHAkZg-JD1ao1IEJLcd_gdcQbf6GuUeWaLTRI7MWmSwRoCb2IQAvD_BwE Bowls with the Bard: Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Art by Lizzy Colandene Music by Constantino Fernandez Sound by Jonathan Miot Podcast by Micaela Mannix

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. Follow Noelia on Instagram @noelia.antweilerSee Noelia in Dracula at the Arvada Arts Center: https://arvadacenter.org/events/dracula-a-feminist-revenge-fantasy-reallyIlana DeAngelo (She/Her/Hers) is a performer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her recent credits include Ophelia in Kentucky Shakespeare's Hamlet and Diana in CSF's All's Well That Ends Well- however, nothing compares to her portrayal of Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical when she was 14. Ilana is currently performing in CSF's Macbeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor running until August 11th.Follow Ilana on Instagram @laniloooooPurchase tickets to the 2024 Colorado Shakespeare Festival here: https://cupresents.org/series/shakespeare-festival/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwnqK1BhBvEiwAi7o0X_Qmu1Jp3auHAkZg-JD1ao1IEJLcd_gdcQbf6GuUeWaLTRI7MWmSwRoCb2IQAvD_BwEBowls with the Bard: Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Art by Lizzy Colandene Music by Constantino Fernandez Sound by Jonathan Miot Podcast by Micaela Mannix

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 teaching and performing company producing Shakespeare contemporaries from cues only. Lizzie is researching a practice-led PhD at the Shakespeare Institute. Her experience as an actor, director, producer and book-holder for Shake-Scene, as well as her professional acting career, inform her research interests. Follow Lizzie on X: @lizziecanttweet VALENTINA VINCI (she/her) Valentina Vinci is an Italian actor and technical producer based in the UK. She represented Italy in the 2015 International Actors' Fellowship at Shakespeare's Globe and has appeared in over 40 Shakespearean productions both in the UK and Internationally. Valentina is a partner in Shakes-Scene Shakespeare, and has been part of the new online action choreography’s development and artistry. Follow Valentina on X: @valen.vinci.tina Donate to Shake-Scene's crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-shake-scene-shakespeare-going-up-north Patreon - search for Shake-Scene Shakespeare LINKTREE - https://linktr.ee/shakesceneshakespeare Tickets for August shows at SHAKESPEARE NORTH PLAYHOUSE - https://shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk/event/shake-scene-shakespeare/ Follow Shake-Scene Shakespeare: TikTok: @shakesceneshakespeare Twitter: @shakescenery Instagram: shakescene.shakespeare Threads: shakescene.shakespeare Facebook: Shake-Scene Shakespeare BlueSky: @shakescenery.bsky.social Visit their website at www.shake-sceneshakespeare.co.uk Bowls with the Bard: Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Art by Lizzy Colandene Music by Constantino Fernandez Sound by Jonathan Miot Podcast by Micaela Mannix

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 is one of the few women in the world to have directed a full cycle of Shakespeare’s Henriad. Brave Spirits Theatre’s project to become the first professional American company to stage the eight English histories in repertory was interrupted by the pandemic, but over the past two years, they have been reimagining this project into audio. The resulting twenty-four episodes will be released later this year. She has essays published in The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens, Arden Shakespeare’s The Changeling: The State of Play, and the forthcoming The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton.Follow Charlene on all social media @charlenevsmithVisit her website at www.charlenevsmith.comBowls with the Bard: Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Art by Lizzy Colandene Music by Constantino Fernandez Sound by Jonathan Miot Podcast by Micaela Mannix

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 Facebook. Bowls with the Bard: Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Art by Lizzy Colandene Music by Constantino Fernandez Sound by Jonathan Miot Podcast by Micaela Mannix

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 from Will Shakespleens in season 1. Find out how to purchase tickets to Stoned Cymbeline here: https://bowlswiththebard.com/stoned-cymbelineFollow Bowls with the Bard on Social Media:Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Twitter: @stonedshakespea

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!

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

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 Dream (2017) featuring circus aerial performers, the "Lake House" Hamlet (2019) staged immersively in a private home, Macbeth (2020) as a hybrid live & digital show including text and video messages to audience members, an all-queer Comedy Of Errors (2022) and a Hellraiser-inspired Titus Andronicus (2023), as well as designing musical scores for the company's innovative wordless "movement plays" based on lesser-known fairytales.Myrrh’s work as a performer explores the intersection of music with other performance disciplines through a series of full productions that feature live rock music alongside collaborators such as dancers, circus performers, and movement actors. You can find examples of this work at pieceofmefairytale.com and ilikedeadthings.com.Follow Myrrh@attheendofeverything on TikTok@myrrhlarsen on Instagramhttps://myrrhmusic.com/https://patreon.com/myrrhMegan Skye Hale (she/her) is a classically trained actor (LAMDA), movement director, and teacher whose interests include movement and site-specific theatre, and how those intersect with classic stories. Megan is a graduate of the London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts classical acting program where she studied classical acting, physical theatre, mask, and Lecoq style clowning.Follow MeganTikTok: @skyesidhe Insta: @speculativedrama Website: meganskyehale.comBowls with the Bard: Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Art by Lizzy Colandene Music by Constantino Fernandez Sound by Jonathan Miot Podcast by Micaela Mannix

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 knitting matching sweaters for herself and her 9 year old rescue dog, Penny. Catch her performing every third Wednesday of the month with her house sketch team, Night Coffee, at the Pack Theatre in Hollywood. Connect with Karen on all platforms @karen_shantzLunaris Podcast: @lunarispodcast on InstagramJackie Madejski (she/her/hers) is an actor, singer, dancer, puppeteer, and all-around swell gal. A proud Western New Yorker (go Bills) currently living in the DC area, Jackie has performed in plays, musicals, immersive theater, puppet shows, and of course Shakespeare. You can find Jackie on TikTok (@jdayskee) performing with an ever-growing cast of puppets (most of which were gifts from Cakes.) When not running between in front of her laptop, in-person rehearsals, and her spare bedroom filled with puppets, Jackie enjoys tuning out the world by listening to music and podcasts with her noise canceling headphones (much to her partner’s chagrin).Follow Jackie on Social Media: @jdayskee (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube)website: www.jackiemadejski.comBowls with the Bard: Insta: @stonedshakespeare TikTok: @BowlswiththeBard Facebook: Bowls with the Bard Twitter: @stonedshakespea Art by Lizzy Colandene Music by Constantino Fernandez Sound by Jonathan Miot Podcast by Micaela Mannix