Musing on the Bard: a Shakespeare & Acting Podcast - Episode 1: Don Bridges

Welcome to the first episode of Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious, hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, and featuring today's guest: beloved Aussie actor: Don Bridges.

Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning role of "Corin" in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles), Don's work in theatre includes performances in London, New York, San Francisco, Melbourne, Adelaide, Darwin, Hobart, New South Wales and Western Australia and he has appeared on stage in over twenty-five productions for Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC). He also has an extensive screen career, with a large range of film and TV credits in much loved Australian, UK and US film and TV. You can catch Don's work playing "Peter Wayne Flood" in Season 3 of The Twelve, starring Sam Neill, now available on BINGE in Australia, with upcoming releases on TVNZ in New Zealand, Amazon Prime in the USA and ITVX in the UK.

Join Don and podcast host, Sally McLean, as they discuss acting, Shakespeare, Don's varied and fascinating career to date, the challenge of open air Shakespeare, living and working in the UK as an Australian actor, accent work, mentorship, the connection between Mad Max and Richard III, repertory (stock) theatre, musical theatre, how they both came to Shakespeare and much, much more in this lively and fascinating conversation.

To find out more about Don and his work, visit him at https://www.donbridges.com

You can also see all his film & TV credits to date on his IMDb Profile: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108725/

You can watch Don playing "Corin" for Shakespeare Republic here: https://youtu.be/m0g_KBR3ANM?si=9ixobzCgUutMU69R

Season One of Musing on the Bard features a plethora of fascinating guests from Australia, the UK and the USA discussing Shakespeare, acting, creativity and more.

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Created, edited and presented by Sally McLean.

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