Trinity College

Richard Digby Day will give a talk and workshop on Shakespeare

This event has been re-scheduled for a date yet to be determined.

Richard Digby Day

What: The Trinity College Department of Theater & Dance welcomes Richard Digby Day, the Artistic Director of the London Dramatic Academy, to campus for a talk and workshop on William Shakespeare. Those interested are encouraged to bring a few lines of Shakespeare text to work on. Digby Day, one of Britain’s great directors, will focus on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and the London Dramatic Academy. This event is free and open to the Trinity community.

When: Tuesday, September 22 2009 ~ 5 p.m.

Where: The Performance Lab at Trinity Commons on the campus of Trinity College
300 Summit Street, Hartford, Conn. 06106

Background:
British stage director Richard Digby Day, Artistic Director of the London Dramatic Academy, has directed many of the United Kingdom’s leading actors and is credited with giving Ralph Fiennes, Hugh Grant, and Imelda Staunton their first professional work.

Since fall 2003 he has been Artistic Director of the London Dramatic Academy. Digby Day has served on the faculty of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, the National Theatre School of Canada, the graduate program of Columbia University, where he directed the Shakespeare Project for two years, and at Connecticut College.

He has been artistic director of five British regional theatres, the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park London, and in the U.S., director of the National Theatre Institute at the O`Neill Center (1990-98).

This event is free and open to the Trinity community. For more information, please contact Susan Hood at 860-297-5190 or by email at Susan.Hood@trincoll.edu.