I am enough of a theater conservative to assume plays will have directors. It was not until I began working with Pigeon Creek that I learned that Elizabethan acting companies often did not have a director. They might have a company manager, stage manager, rehearsal coordinator, and so on, but for the most part the actors directed themselves. Furthermore, in the case of those groups of whom Shakespeare was a part, the playwright was part of the cast, too. While comforting from

Hey everybody! My name is Alex Weiss. I’ve been doing theater (or otherwise performing) for most of my life, but “She Stoops to Conquer” is my first production at Pigeon Creek! For my blog, I’d like to talk about one of my favorite parts of acting: “discovery”. The process of discovery is something that everyone experiences when they’re preparing for a show, and this show is no exception! When you’re given a character and a script, you’re given an opportunity to create someth

SO FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW... Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration, but I have felt that way now and then since beginning rehearsals for my first show with Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company. I knew, of course, that this is an original practices ensemble and that we would be presenting the majority of our performances of She Stoops to Conquer on the thrust stage of Dog Story Theater, but I had not thought ahead of time how those realities would affect me as an actor. How o