Hello, listeners! This is your host, Annabelle Higgins, and welcome to this episode of A Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare!
Today my wonderful guest is Jacqueline Youm. In this episode, Jackie and I discuss Shakespeare's poetic quality, the emotional evocation of his language, the issue of typecasting, Hamlet without Hamlet and much, much more!
Jacqueline Youm is a Senegalese American actor, lawyer, and French, English, Spanish, Mediation, and Negotiation teacher. She is passionate and insatiable when it comes to theatre & film. Her favorite theatre credits include Stool Pigeon in August Wilson’s King Hedley II; Adenikeh in Jocelyn Bioh’s Nollywood Dreams; Marianne Angelle in Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists; Nora in Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House Part II; Romeo in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; Mrs. Cheveley in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband; and so many more.
You can find many of her virtual productions on Youtube (Cestjackie): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvd4LWK9h1msuj9oeFXHtng
Find her on Instagram at @jy_artiste and on Facebook at Jacqueline Elisabeth.
You can also find Wide And Universal Theatre's King John here: watch
Enjoy!
