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Austin Tichenor

is the co-artistic director of the Reduced Shakespeare Company; a writing and acting coach at The Shakespeareance; the co-author of ten stage comedies, including William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) and The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel); the co-creator of the illustrated children’s books Pop-Up Shakespeare and Daisy, the Littlest Zombie; a contributor to The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare and Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen (from Arden Shakespeare); and the host of the world’s oldest and longest-running theater podcast, the Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast.
Shakespeare in a bar
Backroom Shakespeare Project
Shakespeare and Beyond

Shakespeare in a bar

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Austin Tichenor

There’s a newish trend in Shakespeare performance, which is to situate the play in a bar and have least one of the actors be drinking.

Playing Richard Burbage
Austin Tichenor as Richard Burbage
Shakespeare and Beyond

Playing Richard Burbage

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Austin Tichenor of the Reduced Shakespeare Company shares what it’s like to play Richard Burbage onstage in Lauren Gunderson’s “The Book of Will.”

Making Shakespeare Pop
Pop-Up Shakespeare
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Making Shakespeare Pop

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Austin Tichenor Reed Martin

The tricks of this pop-up Shakespeare book, written by the Reduced Shakespeare Company and illustrated by Jennie Maizels, are a perfect way to express the theatricality of Shakespeare’s plays.

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