Calling All Readers! Joining the Romantic Movement with playwright and director Erin Woods and actors Charli Mai Henn and Jimmy Pike

<p>Romance is having a moment – and OSP is joining the ranks. Join the Brew Shrew, Michelle Coffman, as she returns to OSP to talk with Erin, Charli, and Jimmy about a brand new production <em>How To Write A Regency Romance</em>. They will be talking about what it means for the cast and audience  to “choose your own journey” and how this play will tell a story of a story. The actors talk about how this play as a reading is SLIGHTLY less terrifying as there is a prospect of many different routes that the play might take - what happens when the audience takes control and the actors must play it “as <em>they </em>like it”? They will talk about experimental theater and the importance of interaction between actors and audience. </p><p>Buy Tickets for OSP’s: <a href="https://www.okshakes.org/play-reading-series#regencyromance"><u>How to Write a Regency Romance</u></a></p><p>PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! <a href="http://www.theshakespeareanshrew.com/"><u>⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠</u></a> </p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew </p><p>Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrew</p><p>TikTok: @theshakespeareanshrew</p><p>The new season of shows for OSP is available <a href="https://www.okshakes.org/"><u>⁠here!⁠</u></a> </p><p>Please donate to OSP: <a href="https://www.okshakes.org/donate"><u>⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠</u></a><u> </u></p><p>Thank you for listening!</p><p>Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen Feiner</p><p>Co-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle Coffman</p><p>Cover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠<a href="about:blank"><u>www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠</u></a></p><p>Intro/Outro Music: “Tangled”  by Nihilore: Creative Commons Music</p><p>Thank you to our guests: Erin Woods, Charli Mai Henn, and Jimmy Pike</p><p><strong>Erin Woods</strong> is a director, playwright, actress, and graphic designer with over 25 years’ experience in Oklahoma Theatre and beyond. Directing credits include <em>Art</em> for Oklahoma City Theatre Company, <em>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</em>, <em>Uncle Vanya</em> for Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, and <em>Pride and Prejudice, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Hamlet, Sense and Sensibility, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Women, </em>and<em> Les Liaisons Dangereuses</em> for Reduxion Theatre Company. As a playwright, Erin has written adaptations of <em>Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Tom Jones</em>, and a holiday play often produced by Oklahoma Shakespeare: <em>Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker</em>. </p><p><strong>Charli Mai Henn</strong> (Millicent Gracestone) They/them. Charli is a Junior BFA Acting major with minors in Lighting and Directing at Oklahoma City University from Richardson, TX, and they are thrilled to be returning to OK Shakespeare! Recent credits include <em>Hurricane Diane </em>(<em>Renee</em>), <em>Puffs </em>(<em>Megan Jones</em>), <em>Bellwether </em>(<em>Doll</em>), <em>Let The Right One In </em>(<em>Eli</em>), <em>June, July, August</em> (<em>Female Swing</em>), &amp; <em>A Midsummer Night’s Dream </em>(<em>Slinky Boi</em>). Enjoy the show!</p><p><strong>Jimmy Pike </strong>(Lord Henry Herbert 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, Mr. Snodgrass, Bartholomew Rudely, Him) was last seen on the garden stage in Shakespeare’s big 3 comedy M’s; Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Perhaps it’s in the cards to branch out of the alliterative alley he’s found himself in. Who’s to say? Playing teachers, preachers, and sometimes creatures, he is happy to have a home at Oklahoma Shakespeare; So happy in fact that he serves as a member of the board of directors. He is also a proud dad and an electrician.</p>