Laugh until you cry and cry until you laugh (yes, we do both in this episode) as I talk with actor, director, and acting teacher David Weber about his critically acclaimed Christmas Carol adaptation: “An Actor’s Carol: One clown’s Dickensian marathon towards redemption.” We talk about regrets, redemption, and one of the most powerful and dangerous things in the world: hope. So let’s talk clowns, fools, and f*ck ups and the windows or mirrors they create to the mess that is humanity. So, cheers! Here’s to being human and a glorious mess.
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Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Dr. Karen Feiner
Co-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle Coffman
Cover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling www.halfmaverick.com
Thank you to our guest David Weber.
David Weber is an actor, director, and acting teacher. He was last seen on stage in Hamlet at Oklahoma Shakespeare as Claudius and Hamlet’s Ghost and this winter he will take his acclaimed one man show, “An Actor’s Carol: One clown’s Dickensian marathon towards redemption” on a national tour this November and December 2024. He is scheduled to direct The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged to open the 41st season of Oklahoma Shakespeare and later this winter he will direct “Small Mouth Sounds” by Bess Wohl for Oklahoma State University’s Department of Theatre. He has been on the artistic and educational staff at Stagedoor Manor for two years, and he loves teaching and directing for that community. He is also a proud member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers and has an MFA in Acting from California State University Long Beach where he studied acting pedagogy under the direction of Alexandra Billings, Hugh O’Gorman, Ezra LeBank, Dr. Shanti Pillai, and Andrea Caban. David is on the performance faculty at Oklahoma State University as an Assistant Professor of Performance where he teaches BFA Acting, BFA Musical Theatre, and BA Theatre students Acting levels, Auditions, Special topics in Comedy, Movement for the Actor, and Contemporary Performance Techniques. www.davidrweber.com #gopokes
