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National Shakespeare Competition 2013 30th Season The English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition is a school-based program designed to help high school students develop their speaking and critical thinking skills and their appreciation of literature as they explore the beauty of the language and the timeless themes in Shakespeare works. In the Competition, students read, interpret, and perform monologues and sonnets in three qualifying stages—at the school, community, and national levels. Since its beginnings with 500 students in NYC, the ESU National Shakespeare Competition has given more than 250,000 young people of all backgrounds the opportunity to discover Shakespeare’s writings and to communicate their understanding of his language and message. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the Competition currently involves 59 English-Speaking Union Branch communities nationwide. Every spring, the winners of the local Branch Competitions come to New York City to take part in the ESU National Shakespeare Competition semi-finals held at Lincoln Center. In the semi-finals, all contestants perform a monologue and a sonnet onstage. In the last phase of the Competition, those students selected as finalists present a cold reading of a monologue from one of Shakespeare’s plays in addition to their prepared monologues and sonnets. The winner of the ESU National Shakespeare Competition receives a full tuition scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art’s Young Actors Summer School in London, England. The runner-up receives a full tuition scholarship to the American Shakespeare Center’s Theatre Camp in Staunton, Virginia, and third place is awarded $500 by The Shakespeare Society. The ESU National Shakespeare Competition has been recognized by the Globe Center (USA), the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America, and the American Academy of Achievement. Judges for the Competition have included Andre Braugher, Kate Burton, Maurice Charney, Blythe Danner, Barry Edelstein, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Helen Hayes, Edward Herrmann, Dana Ivey, Peter Francis James, Kristin Linklater, Peter MacNicol, Jesse L. Martin, Cynthia Nixon, Tina Packer, Sarah Jessica Parker, Nancy Piccione, Phylicia Rashad, Christopher Reeve, Louis Scheeder, Carole Shelley, Richard Thomas, Courtney B. Vance, Sam Waterston, Dianne Wiest, and Irene Worth. THE ESU NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION STAFF Alice Boyne: President & Executive Director Carol Losos: Director of Educational Programs Katharine Moran: Manager, Shakespeare Education Programs Tanzilya Oren: Education Department Manager Karen Ruelle: Education Department Manager Alice Uhl: Education Department Manager Caitlin Murphy: Education Department Coordinator Christian Acevedo: Program Intern (NYU) For more information on programs and membership, please visit: www.esuus.org The English-Speaking Union, 144 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 Tel: 212-818-1200 | Fax: 212-867-4177 11 The English-Speaking Union 2013 National Shakespeare Competition Semi-Finalists Student Branch Teacher School Student Branch Teacher School Rebecca Vangelos Los Angeles Christopher Tulysewski Sierra Canyon School Rachael Buchanan Syracuse Nichole Kuriatnyk Cicero-North Syracuse Hannah McNew Monroe Beckie Huckaby Cedar Creek School & Lisa Lynch High School Zachary Krietemeyer Naples Denise Gosselin-Rubiano Naples High School Josiah Price New Orleans Daniel LeBoeuf Early College Academy Sarah Feist Oklahoma City & Tulsa Kevin Hurst Jenks High School Brandon Paris Jacksonville, FL Dave Thomas Middleburg High School Augustus Cuddy Rochester Marcy Gamzon School of the Arts Thomas Bowden Albany Adam Collett The Albany Academies Annie Barbour Denver Shawn Hann Denver School of the Arts Levi Prudhomme Washington, DC Delilah Morris South Lakes High School & Kimberly Small Veronica Slater Delaware Liz Slater Padua Academy Anna Bortnick Boston Stephen Wrobleski Wellesley High School Xavier Pacheco New York City Gabriel Silva Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts April Davis Colonial North Carolina Matthew Clay Raines Kinston High School Roxanne Snider Greensboro Lindsey Clinton-Kraack Weaver Academy Dylan Wade Southwest Virginia Rebecca George Salem High School Matthew Nelson Memphis John Maness Arlington High School Mary C. Taylor San Diego Kim Strassburger Coronado School of the Arts & Sara Lyn Archibald Katherine Warnusz-Steckel Saint Louis Kelley Weber Clayton High School Sara Costello Central Florida Patti Magee Timber Creek High School & Justin Seiwell Krysteen Hammond Columbus Jessica Sharp Reynoldsburg High School Teresa Gilstrap Nashville Alana Wortman Pope John Paul II High School Lucas Reilly Austin Johanna Whitmore Round Rock High School Eliza Hopkins Niagara Frontier/Buffalo Susan Drozd Buffalo Seminary & Charles Hobby Jay San Luis Desert (Palm Springs) Christian Kiley Etiwanda High School Hannah Antman Chicago Hilerre Kirsch New Trier High School Annabel Hope San Francisco Phillip Rayher Ruth Asawa San Francisco Stoan Maslev Palm Beach Wade Handy Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts School of the Arts Breanna Bloom Indianapolis Scott Garvin Goshen High School Abigail Van Horn Atlanta Eric Brannen The Lovett School Benjamin Ellsworth Phoenix David L. Gardner Mountain View High School William (Liam) G. Rowland III Charlottesville Bridget Mitchell Renaissance School Brandon Glaser Fort Lauderdale Julia Perlowski Pompano Beach High School Carter Ford Princeton Kirsten Lynch-Walsh Gloucester County Ryan Brophy Houston Paul Shaffer Clements High School Institute of Technology Benjamin Briggs Seattle David Grosskopf Roosevelt High School Emily Sullivan Cincinnati Julia St. Pierre Wyoming High School Holly Strother Sandhills Adam Faw Pinecrest High School Emily Shue Central Pennsylvania Susan C. Biondo-Hench Carlisle High School Colton Ryan Kentucky Paul Thomas Lafayette High School Aric Floyd Cleveland Julia Griffin Hawken School Jacob M. McHugh Charlotte Heidi Breeden Ardrey Kell High School & Peggy Smith Eric Yanes Tucson Cathy Simon Desert Christian High School Wyatt McCall Kansas City Robin Murphy Olathe Northwest High School Hunter Morton Lexington, VA Michael Villacrusis Turner Ashby High School Alvaro Soto Providence Deloris Grant Central Falls High School Casey R. Pressler Jackson, MS Dr. Robert Brooks Mississippi School of the Arts Emily M. Schmid Research Triangle, NC Christine Northrup William G. Enloe Magnet High School Madelyn Monaghan Monmouth County, NJ Joe Russo Red Bank Regional High School Daniel Wisniewski Philadelphia Marlene Goebig The Philadelphia High School for Davis Tate Savannah DJ Queenan Savannah Country Day School Creative and Performing Arts Lea DiMarchi Hawaii Edward Moore Punahou School Madelynn Pedersen Portland Matthew Wilson Tigard High School Rachel Pride Dallas JE Masters Highland Park High School Eunjeong (Hannah) Jeong Toledo Kevin J. Hayes Maumee Valley Country Henry Ayres-Brown Greenwich Carolyn Ladd Educational Center for the Arts Day School Troy Henry Fort Worth James Venhaus All Saints’ Episcopal School 1 2 Semi-Finals Judges The English-Speaking Union MAURICE CHARNEY is past President of the Shakespeare 2013 National Shakespeare Competition Association of America. He is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and a Shakespearean scholar. Dr. Charney is Semi-Finals | April 22, 2013 | 8:30 a.m. the author of many books, including Shakespeare’s Roman Plays, Style in Hamlet, Hamlet’s Fictions, and How to Read Shakespeare, as well as other books on modern drama and contemporary The Judges literature. He has also edited numerous plays in addition to the book, Bad Shakespeare. Dr. Charney has had three books Maurice Charney Melinda Hall Wendy Halm-Violette published by Columbia University Press—one of commentaries, Distinguished Professor of English Actor, Writer, Director & Producer Teacher Trainer All of Shakespeare, a critical analysis, Shakespeare on Love and Rutgers University Willful Pictures The Shakespeare Society & Lust, and Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare. Dr. (Shakespeare’s Birthday Sonnet Slam) Lincoln Center Institute Charney has published a two-volume work entitled Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide, an analysis of The Comic World of the Marx Brothers’ Movies, and, most recently, an exploration Alexandra López Geoffrey Owens of Shakespeare’s Villains. Associate Director of Education Actor & Director Lincoln Center Theater PROGRAM MELINDA HALL is a writer, director, producer and actor who lives in New York City. She is producing the 3rd annual Welcome by Alice Boyne Shakespeare’s Birthday Sonnet Slam which will take place President & Executive Director, The English-Speaking Union of the United States ~ on April 23rd from 1-4 pm at the Bandshell in Central Park. Introduction of the judges and summary of competition rules Come hear all 154 sonnets read aloud by people of all ages. ~ It’s free! For the Shakespeare Series at the New York Public Presentation by Regina Ríos Gudiño, Library 2013, Ms. Hall was honored to give a talk on the style ESU Mexico Shakespeare Competition of directing for Shakespeare for the stage. She is a member ~ The Competition, First Session of SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity Association, the Dramatist Twenty contestants present a monologue and sonnet Guild and the Independent Filmmaker Project. Her current ~ film project is How Shakespeare Changed My Life, which The Competition, Second Session interviews people sharing a pivotal moment when Shakespeare literally changed their lives. Twenty contestants present