Inspired by the original practices and direct address techniques practiced at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, Goodly Frame Theatre consistently models innovative staging choices that open minds and challenge typical conceptions about the relationships between texts, actors, and audiences. By rediscovering and redefining the boundaries of performing Shakespeare, we reconnect with all forms of theatre, classical and contemporary, and encourage sustainable dialogues among the voices of Greensboro, the region, and across “this goodly frame," the earth.
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Meredith DiPaolo Stephens (Founder/Executive Director), previously assistant managing director of the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival and managing and producing artistic director of Shared Radiance Theatre, is the founding artistic director and current executive director of Goodly Frame Theatre. Meredith's training in Shakespeare’s language and performance includes work at UNC Greensboro, Oxford University, the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Lives!, the American Shakespeare Center, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her recent acting credits include several roles in an original adaptation of Macbeth called To Be Thus, several roles in Caryl Churchills' The After-Dinner Joke, the solo radio drama Sparrow, Grumio/Biondella in The Taming of the Shrew (RCS); Lucio in Measure for Measure (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre/RCS); Venus in Dido, Queen of Carthage, Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, Duchess of Gloucester in Richard II (TSMGO London); Banquo in Macbeth, Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol, Janis Curtis in Hands on a Hardbody, Ebenezer Scrooge in An Old Salem Christmas Carol, Feste in Twelfth Night, Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NC Regional Theatre). Directing credits: To Be Thus, Sparrow (RCS), Much Ado About Nothing, Affairs of the Heart, Finding Shakespeare, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NC Regional Theatre); Reboot, A Simple Jester (NC Short Films). Produced plays: To Be Thus (RCS), Apologize, Changed (NC Regional Theatre). Meredith has recently received her MFA Acting Classical and Contemporary Text from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. SAG-AFTRA, AEA, Equity UK. www.meredithdipaolostephens.com