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👋🎭Sign Language Meets Shakespeare🎭👋Designed for ASL interpreters, interpreting students, Deaf interpreters, and ASL-fluent theatre artists, this intensive combines language study, ASL interpreting, live performance training sessions led by Deaf artists, and practical performance training on the Blackfriars Playhouse stage. No previous experience with Shakespeare is required.
Join the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, for three days of practical training in ASL interpretation for Shakespeare, classical texts, and live theatre.
Participants will explore:
• Acting and directing techniques for theatre interpretation
• Shakespeare’s verse, sonnets, and rhetorical structures
• Performance choices involving character, space, rhythm, timing, and audience connection
• Real-time scene work with evaluation and feedback
• Collaboration with ASC acting understudies
• Practical training on the Blackfriars Playhouse stage
Training moves beyond the classroom. Participants will study Shakespeare’s language, attend a performance, and practice how that language lives through movement, character, rhythm, space, and connection with an audience.
Intensive Details:
🗓️Dates: October 16–18, 2026
📍Location: Blackfriars Playhouse, Staunton, Virginia
⌛Application deadline: Friday, August 28th, 2026
💵Grant-supported tuition: $200 without CEUs; $225 with CEUs
CEUs: Pending approval
🙌Featuring Dr. Lindsey Snyder, PhD, CI, MFA🙌
Dr. Snyder is an ASL/English/International Sign interpreter and educator, Shakespeare and performance studies scholar, and theatre practitioner. She currently lectures at the University of Maryland’s School of Theatre and Performance Studies.
Her interpreting and theatre work has included the White House, the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Southwest Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Stratford Festival.
🚨Enrollment is limited. Apply by August 14.🚨
Sponsored in part by the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.
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