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
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Insta: @stonedshakespeare
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Art by Lizzy Colandene
Music by Constantino Fernandez
Sound by Jonathan Miot
Podcast by Micaela Mannix
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