Workshop dates:

2-6pm, on 6 consecutive Sundays from July 14th through August 18th; and participants can sign up for 2, 4 or 6 weeks at a time

 

Sunday July 14th,  July 21st, July 28th, August 4th, August 11th August 18th

 

Workshop location

First United Methodist Church – separate building to church. 

To find the entrance to the space, enter this address into Google Maps:

464 E Green St, Pasadena, CA 91101

 

The parking is in the church parking lot, which is entered off Green Street behind the church.  The workshop space is upstairs, and will be signposted

 

Workshop fee for all 6 classes

$600

 

Workshop fee for 4 weeks

$440

 

Workshop fee for 2 weeks

$240

 

Payment information sent with confirmation letter,

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Rob Clare was originally an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), then a Staff Director at the UK National Theatre, and Associate Artistic Director of the major UK touring company, Compass, for whom he directed the first major revival of Amadeus.  He was also one of the pioneers of using drama to work creatively with inmates in the UK prison system.  Becoming increasingly interested in differing approaches to working with Shakespeare, he completed a doctorate in the subject at Oxford University and has since become an internationally recognized Shakespeare specialist.  He has worked in numerous training institutions within the UK, and established the MA Classical Acting course at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, which he also led for its first three years, as well as also teaching at the Globe. 

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Since resuming his freelance career he has directed and/or taught Shakespeare in Ireland, Austria, Germany, Australia, China, and the USA.  In India, he directed Hindi productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet.  Before moving to the US, he worked regularly for almost a decade as a freelance specialist verse and text coach with the RSC’s core acting ensemble, leading annual workshops, and working in and alongside rehearsals for productions of Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V and Hamlet.  In the US he has been visiting faculty at The Juilliard School, Brown, UCLA, USC Los Angeles, CSU Long Beach and NYU Tisch (both graduate and undergraduate acting).  He has also directed productions of As You Like It (Antaeus Theatre Company, Los Angeles), Cymbeline (New Orleans Shakespeare Festival), Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor (American Shakespeare Center, Staunton VA), Love’s Labour’s Lost and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (Marin Shakespeare Company), King Lear (Luna Stage, Orange NJ), The Winter’s Tale (Hang A Tale Productions, NYC), As You Like It (Kentucky Shakespeare), Richard III (Idaho Shakespeare Festival), Pericles (USC Los Angeles), The Duchess of Malfi (CSU Long Beach), and Richard III (American Academy of Dramatic Arts, LA).  He has worked regularly at the NYC Actors Center, the Academy for Classical Acting in Washington DC, and with the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theater Company, Chicago, for whose ensemble he led Shakespeare workshops, and also provided specialized verse and text work for Tina Landau’s production of The Tempest. 

 

Current projects include developing a production of King Lear for underserved communities in and around Los Angeles, and Troilus and Cressida for UCLA.  He is married to the actress Reiko Aylesworth, and they now live in Pasadena CA, with their son, Andre.