Toto, We're Not in Oklahoma Anymore.

I am talking with Alissa Branch, director of OU’s upcoming production of As You Like It, which opens this week October 11th and goes until the 20th. Get your tickets because this is going to be a show where you, dear audience, might just end up in the Forest of Arden. In As You Like It where “all the world’s a stage,” Alissa seems to be leaning in and making all the theater a stage. It’s going to get up close and personal. We’ll also talk gender, fools, outsiders and what happens when all the cool kids end up on the outside - does that make the outside “in”? Get ready for a fun conversation and a show you will not want to miss!  PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! www.theshakespeareanshrew.com  https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew  Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrew TikTok: @theshakespeareanshrew Please donate to OSP: https://www.okshakes.org/donate As You Like It runs October 11th through the 20th. Get your tickets for this amazing show.  https://oufinearts.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=LII&linkID=okfa&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode= Thank you for listening! 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 Allisa Branch.  ALISSA BRANCH is a theatrical and visual artist based in Norman, OK, where she serves as Associate Professor of Acting in the Helmerich School of Drama. Favorite directing credits include Oklahoma Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet(2023), Pride and Prejudice (2022); Phoenix Theatre: The Circumference of a Squirrel; Butler University: The Dreaming of The Bones (with subsequent tour of Southern Ireland). OU University Theatre: Twelfth Night, Arcadia, Summer and Smoke, Clybourne Park, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar; OU Lab Theatre: Proof (2023), Miss Evers’ Boys (KCACTF Region 6 Director’s Choice Award, and Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa), Anna in the Tropics; 9 Parts of Desire (KCACTF Region 6 Director’s Choice Award). Alissa also directed the regional premiere of the new play Shakespeare’s Other Women, which received Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 6 awards for Outstanding Work with Heightened Text, and Excellence in Ensemble Acting. Alissa recently created and released a 12-episode video master class for The Great Courses Plus called “Shakespeare: From Page to Stage.” Alissa is also a painter. She and her partner, singer-songwriter Tim Grimm, share a small visual art gallery called Black Chalk Studio. Visit www.alissabranch.com to learn more.