Specializing in Shakespearean text, audition preparation, and theatre for youth, Tim is an experienced workshop leader, teacher, and coach.
He had the privilege of apprenticing under Text Coach and Master Teacher Ian Watson.
He had the privilege of apprenticing under Text Coach and Master Teacher Ian Watson.
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TEACHING AND COACHING EXPERIENCE:
Stratford Festival | current
National Theatre School of Canada | current
Ryerson University | current
University of Western Ontario in partnership with the Stratford Festival | 2020
Secret Shakespeare | 2017
Shakespeare in the Ruff | 2017
Talk is Free Theatre | 2015
University of Alberta | 2014
George Brown College | 2010
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PRIVATE COACHING:
Private session rates vary, depending on location and individual needs of the artist or production.
Please contact Tim to arrange a session, or to inquire about audition, rehearsal, in-studio, and on-set coaching.
ONLINE COACHING AND VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS:
Tim offers a variety of workshops, focusing on text analysis and acting the language of Shakespeare. If your institution or group is interested, please contact Tim for a consultation. The workshop length, delivery platform, and class size can be customized according to your needs. Tim's experience teaching online includes synchronous courses and workshops for the Stratford Festival, University of Western Ontario, Ryerson University and the National Theatre School of Canada.
Online coachings and workshops can be easily held through:
Private session rates vary, depending on location and individual needs of the artist or production.
Please contact Tim to arrange a session, or to inquire about audition, rehearsal, in-studio, and on-set coaching.
ONLINE COACHING AND VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS:
Tim offers a variety of workshops, focusing on text analysis and acting the language of Shakespeare. If your institution or group is interested, please contact Tim for a consultation. The workshop length, delivery platform, and class size can be customized according to your needs. Tim's experience teaching online includes synchronous courses and workshops for the Stratford Festival, University of Western Ontario, Ryerson University and the National Theatre School of Canada.
Online coachings and workshops can be easily held through:
- Zoom
- FaceTime
- Google Meet
As someone living in Canada in 2020, my world view is considerably different from someone living in Elizabethan England in the late 1500s. Four hundred years of cultural shifts makes working within the images and references of the text sometimes feel like a herculean task. Often when read for the first time, the grammar seems awkward, the sentence structure appears backwards and the words sound archaic. So I well understand why confusion and frustration is a common reaction when first approaching Shakespeare.
But Shakespeare’s words were never originally intended to be read. They were meant to be spoken aloud and performed, designed for a stage, and intended for ears. This is why the language comes alive in a listener’s ear, crackling and popping into being.
While it sometimes takes serious study to understand the meaning, the work of embodying how a character thinks, speaks, feels and imagines is a simpler, more practical process of allowing the language to inspire your imagination and affect your mind, body, heart and soul. This is how an onstage Shakespearean character is created: through the sounds of the words, and how they affect the imagination of both the actor and audience. This is, of course, more difficult than it sounds, but the brilliance of Shakespeare’s writing makes it possible. By allowing the words to affect the actor, the character is birthed into being, and a unique imaginative sonic world is created in turn for the audience.
The language, and the images the words conjure, must always be the starting point when working on Shakespeare’s texts. A Shakespearean character is just like any other human being: they have a wide vocabulary to articulate their incredible humanity – and that is a gift for any actor.
– Tim
