Casey Kaleba Guest Lecture
Shakespeare: Text and Performance
Location
Online
Date & Time
November 2, 2021, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Description
The Department of English's 416/616 course, "Shakespeare: Text and Performance," will host a series of guest lectures over the fall 2021 semester.
For the third lecture, Casey Kaleba, a fight choreographer, will discuss his work on a production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.
Casey Kaleba is the co-founder of Tooth & Claw Combat Arts. He has coordinated violence for opera, television, music videos, and more than 500 productions with professional, community, and academic theatres. That work includes arranging fights at regional theaters, including Ford's Theatre, Folger Theatre, Signature Theatre, Wolf Trap Opera, and Washington National Opera; and has trained internationally, including Fight Directors Canada, the Society of Australian Fight Directors, British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat, Dueling Arts International, Dell'Arte, Combat Circus, Rapier Wit, and the British Academy of Dramatic Combat.
Kaleba holds an MA in Theatre History from the University of Maryland, was host and creative contributor to the two-time Emmy Award-winning Experiencing Shakespeare through the Folger Library and Alabama Public Radio, and he helped carry the Irish flag in the 1994 World Cup opening ceremonies.
Kaleba holds an MA in Theatre History from the University of Maryland, was host and creative contributor to the two-time Emmy Award-winning Experiencing Shakespeare through the Folger Library and Alabama Public Radio, and he helped carry the Irish flag in the 1994 World Cup opening ceremonies.
To attend these events, please email Dr. Michele Osherow for a Zoom link to join the ENGL 416/616 class session. These requests should be made by 5PM the day prior to the scheduled event.
Co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities.
[Image description: Two men are practicing a scene in a play that involves a sword fight. Photo by Alexandra Herstik.]
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