Photo by Redd
Our upstairs community bulletin board has many pictures on it, but this is my personal favorite. Highly appropriate, don't you think?
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Bard's Eye View #2 - Caution, Amee Working
Our Art Manager, Amee Vyas putting together information about our Education Programs, and our next Playbill.
Photo by Jeanette
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Are you Ready to Roar on Friday?
This Friday (July 18th) we have a special promotion for you here at The Shakespeare Tavern. Tickets for A Midsummer Night's Dream are two for the price of one in ALL sections! Also, since it's Friday, all pints at our bar are half price.
If you haven't seen A Midsummer Night's Dream yet, you're missing a fantastic production. If you HAVE seen it already, come back and check out our new cast members Nick Faircloth as Flute, Amee Vyas as Hermia (this is your last chance to see her in this role!), Lynna Schmidt as Titania and Hippolyta, Mary Ruth Ralston as Moth and Philostrate, and Tiffany Porter as Snout.
To take advantage of this fabulous offer just call Becky at the Box Office at 404-874-5299 and hit zero. She'll ask you for a password, which is Acorn and don't forget to let her know that you saw the offer on the Tavern Blog!
If you haven't seen A Midsummer Night's Dream yet, you're missing a fantastic production. If you HAVE seen it already, come back and check out our new cast members Nick Faircloth as Flute, Amee Vyas as Hermia (this is your last chance to see her in this role!), Lynna Schmidt as Titania and Hippolyta, Mary Ruth Ralston as Moth and Philostrate, and Tiffany Porter as Snout.
To take advantage of this fabulous offer just call Becky at the Box Office at 404-874-5299 and hit zero. She'll ask you for a password, which is Acorn and don't forget to let her know that you saw the offer on the Tavern Blog!
Friday, July 11, 2008
July Featured Actor - Amee Vyas
Amee Vyas has been with The Shakespeare Tavern since the original Apprentice Company in 2002.
Amee graduated from New York University with a degree in English. After living in New York, she chose to move to Atlanta because it was cheaper and she was tired of being broke. The original Apprentice Company were asked to write essays about Shakespeare as part of their application, and as a strong writer, Amee was very encouraged by this. She was called back based on her essay and auditioned with David Weber and Joshua Howland. The three of them were among the first group selected to be Apprentices at the Tavern.
On the last day of her apprenticeship on the way to her scene showcase, Amee got into a car accident and didn’t think she would make it in time for her show, her car limped over to the Tavern and she managed to get on stage just in time, and did “awesome”.
After her apprenticeship was over, she was called in to audition for Romeo and Juliet, and thus began what she calls her “Juliet Odyssey”; she has played or understudied Juliet every year since then either here at the Tavern, or at another theatre.
Amee made plans to leave Atlanta for California in 2004, but instead was brought on as a full time staff member and was cast in six plays, many of them in lead roles.
Most recently, Amee played Viola in Twelfth Night in January, a role she will reprise in the August-September play repertory.
Her favorite roles so far have been playing Viola in Twelfth Night and Adriana in Comedy of Errors. She particularly enjoyed the latter role because she felt she trusted her own strengths and instincts, and that there were some great unexpected parts of the play that she felt she owned.
Amee would like to one day play Margaret in the Henry VI plays, because she loves how wicked she is. She says she “adores her biting consonants”. She also likes the idea of playing in a 4-play arc. Another dream role for her would be as Ariel in The Tempest.
When I asked her what her favorite quote was, she replied that she didn’t have one because Shakespeare has a saying for everything. In fact the word that resonates most with her is just “Shakespeare”.
Amee’s real acting dream is to perform in a West End show in London. She says that she wants to do it even if she has to wait until she’s 85. She prefers stage to film. Film has more realism and she feels as though theatre holds more possibilities.
Amee will be understudying the role of Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream in July, and playing Viola in Twelfth Night in August and September.
Things you didn’t know about Amee?
She was a pool shark when she was five.
Chris Noth thinks she hates him, she bumped into him four separate times when she lived in New York.
She once mistook Ethan Hawke for a homeless guy.
She was separated from Prince Harry by security in a club in England because she made a scene.
Other previously Featured Actors in A Midsummer Night's Dream are:
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