The Shakespearean Shrew

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This podcast is going to be a decorum-be-damned entrance into understanding Shakespeare’s stages (for there are many) and all the players on it. We will be delving into the ever-pressing question: Why Shakespeare? Or, sometimes: Why, Shakespeare?!

  1. 1D AGO

    Kissing Cousins: Amanda Kohutek and Ella F. Martin

    **Clarification: these ladies are not cousins and nor do they kiss. Today we get to talk to Amanda Kohutek and Ella Martin about their experiences as best friends being double cast as Gwedolen in The Importance of Being Earnest, their concerns with the current obstacles confronting the arts, and their way of overcoming those obstacles. And what happens when you end up kissing your cousin?! We’ll talk about energy between cast members, what they learned from the more experienced members of the cast, and the different approaches they took towards call backs. Get ready to get some insight into the production, cast, changing locations, and secrets of the stage.  The Importance of Being Earnest is running at OSP from February 19th to March 1st. If you are looking for a Valentine’s Day present that sparkles, look no further than this romantic comedy. Also, with two different casts, you can see the same (but very different) show twice!  Synopsis: Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy sparkles with wit, charm, and razor-sharp satire. The Importance of Being Earnest follows two young gentlemen, Jack and Algernon, who create elaborate double lives to escape social obligations and pursue romance. But when their deceptions collide, the result is a whirlwind of mistaken identities, outrageous revelations, and Wilde’s trademark epigrams that still dazzle over a century later. Audiences are treated to a delightful romp through Victorian society, where cucumber sandwiches, handbags, and the pursuit of “earnestness” become hilariously entangled. Beneath the laughter lies Wilde’s clever critique of class, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention. The arts are under attack, and buying tickets and books is a great way to show your support and fight back.  Buy Tickets for OSP’s: The Importance of Being Earnest — Oklahoma Shakespeare PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠  https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew  Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrew TikTok: @theshakespeareanshrew The new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠  Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠  Thank you for listening! Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen Feiner Co-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle Coffman Cover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠ Intro/Outro Music: “Tangled”  by Nihilore: Creative Commons Music Thank you to our guests: Amanda Kohutek and Ella F. Martin Ella Martin (Gwendolen) She/her. Ella is a senior BFA Acting major with a minor in Digital Film and Media at Oklahoma City University from Fort Worth, Texas. Recent credits include The Children’s Hour, Bellwether, and Shakespeare’s Other Women. Amanda Kohutek (Gwendolen) she/her. Amanda is a senior BFA Acting major with a minor in Directing at Oklahoma City University, and is from Arlington, Texas. Recent credits include Feline Fighters (OCU), Charlotte's Web (OCT), and She Stoops to Conquer (OCU).

    57 min

  2. FEB 11

    Getting Wilde: On Taking Risks with Lance Marsh

    Let’s get Wilde – Oscar Wilde! (Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.) This episode allows me the opportunity to talk to amazing director, actor, and human Lance Marsh as we delve into directing not one cast but TWO in the co-production of The Importance of Being Earnest. We discuss the difference between directing and acting in a production, why Marsh is directing The Importance of Being Earnest once again and why he decrees it the all-time funniest play. We talk about the tragic history of Wilde and how it might impact Wilde’s comedy and our reception of the play. We discuss the similarities and differences between Shakespeare and Wilde, the outrage of a society when you take them out of their comfort zone, and maybe even talk about a certain halftime show.  **Listen up as Head of Performance from Oklahoma City University gives some important advice to all our auditioning actors out there on how to get the part - especially when returning for call backs.  This show is running at OSP from February 19th to March 1st. If you are looking for a Valentine’s Day present that sparkles, look no further than this romantic comedy. Also, with two different casts, you can see the same (but very different) show twice!  Synopsis: Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy sparkles with wit, charm, and razor-sharp satire. The Importance of Being Earnest follows two young gentlemen, Jack and Algernon, who create elaborate double lives to escape social obligations and pursue romance. But when their deceptions collide, the result is a whirlwind of mistaken identities, outrageous revelations, and Wilde’s trademark epigrams that still dazzle over a century later. Audiences are treated to a delightful romp through Victorian society, where cucumber sandwiches, handbags, and the pursuit of “earnestness” become hilariously entangled. Beneath the laughter lies Wilde’s clever critique of class, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention. The arts are under attack, and buying tickets and books is a great way to show your support and fight back.  Buy Tickets for OSP’s: The Importance of Being Earnest — Oklahoma Shakespeare PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠  https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew  Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrew TikTok: @theshakespeareanshrew The new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠  Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠  Thank you for listening! Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen Feiner Co-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle Coffman Cover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠ Intro/Outro Music: “Tangled”  by Nihilore: Creative Commons Music Thank you to our guest, D. Lance Marsh.  D. LANCE MARSH (he/him/his) is proud to be serving in his seventeenth year as an Associate Artistic Director for Oklahoma Shakespeare and in his twentieth year at TheatreOCU, where he serves as a Professor and Head of Performance (and briefly as an Acting Associate Dean). For OSP, he has acted in Hamlet, Emma and Blythe Spirit, and The Merry Wives of Windsor and directed Misalliance, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Merchant of Venice, A Comedy of Errors, The Seagull, Othello, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Blythe Spirit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, GB Shaw’s You Never Can Tell, and Much Ado About Nothing. A proud member of Actors Equity, he has performed in the City Rep productions of Our Town, Hay Fever, Moonlight and Magnolias, August: Osage County, Much Ado About Nothing and as Mark Rothko in Red and in Peter and the Starcatcher. His most recent projects include playing the role of Sam Byck in Assassins, Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon, and Ebeneezer Scrooge (twice) in A Christmas Carol at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma.

    39 min

  3. FEB 4

    Redefining the Undefinable: Throwing Words with Kestral Gaian

    Welcome back! Season three is under way and we are starting out with a bang with British author Kestral Gaian, novelist, playwright, poet and professional over thinker. Join us as we discuss Gaian’s new book The Boy From Elsewhere and their poetry from their collection, Tubelines, along with genre, the politics of language, time (and how the construct almost changed completely), and authentic LGBTQ+ characters. Is kissing a political action? Is someone’s identity an attack on someone else? We’ll talk about the human propensity to put words and people in boxes - the human need to define the undefinable. How are you defined? Who defines you? How would you redefine yourself?  There is a challenge in this episode that can win you a signed copy of Kestral Gaian’s new book The Boy From Elsewhere so listen up, post the challenge, you can just post it on social media OR email it to us at theshakespeareanshrew@gmail.com, and tag three people who you think would want to complete the challenge.  Find out more about Kestral Gaian’s work at: https://kestr.al/ Purchase The Boy From Elsewhere Purchase Tubelines The arts are under attack, and buying tickets and books is a great way to show your support and fight back.  Buy Tickets for OSP’s: The Importance of Being Earnest — Oklahoma Shakespeare PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠  https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew  Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrew TikTok: @theshakespeareanshrew The new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠  Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠  Thank you for listening! Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen Feiner Co-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle Coffman Cover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠ Intro/Outro Music: “Tangled”  by Nihilore: Creative Commons Music Thank you to our guest: Kestral Gaian  Kestral Gaian is an author, poet, and playwright whose work refuses to sit neatly inside a box. Their writing inhabits the places where genres overlap and come undone: the personal and the political, the digital and the human, the soft and the furious. Kestral’s work is defined by a deep belief that stories can help us practise being better humans. Or at least weirder, kinder ones. Kestral's background is wide ranging, from psychotherapy to technology to community activism, and this diversity infuses their art. Audiences and readers often describe being moved not just by what Kestral writes, but by how it feels to inhabit the worlds they create: playful, thoughtful, deeply human. Whether writing poetry, plays, lyrics, or fiction, Kestral Gaian is committed to work that challenges, delights, and endures. Their voice is one of defiance and tenderness, of systems questioned, and of humanity held close.

    57 min

  4. 11/26/2025

    Peering at the Edge of Things: “Strange” Poetry with Mitch

    Why bother saying something if it’s impossible to understand? Join me as I talk to Mitch Laman, poet and academic, as he explains mediums, language, and genre and why we should push boundaries in the disciplines we work in and perhaps even the spaces in society that we inhabit. Find out how the conditions and creation of our language impacts our everyday lives. So let’s take a look at the edge of things. Find Mitch’s work on Instagram: @mitchpoetics  Send me and Mitch your weird, impossible poetry or just write it and keep it for yourself! #writeyourweird The arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back.  Buy Tickets: Jane Austen's Christmas Cracker — Oklahoma Shakespeare PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠  https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew  Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrew TikTok: @theshakespeareanshrew The new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠  Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠  Thank you for listening! Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen Feiner Co-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle Coffman Cover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠ Thank you to our guest: Mitch Laman Mitch Laman is a poet and professor based out of Norman, Oklahoma. Instagram: @mitchpoetic

    38 min

  5. 11/19/2025

    “Pimping Us In”: Coffee Queens Dish On the Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker

    Join writer and director Erin Woods and improv and music director Amanda Lee along with Brew Shrew Michelle Coffman as we talk coffee, ice cream, improv, and holiday traditions. This conversation is quite the romp so come frolic through the conversations with us and join us at OSP from the Jane Austen Christmas Cracker from December 4th through the 21st. There is also a Brunch with Jane Austen and friends on December 14th before the matinee show to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday.   In the comments, please let us know which Disney or Austen character you would be or meet.  OR What is your favorite smutty book? We need recommendations…. The arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back.  Buy Tickets: Jane Austen's Christmas Cracker — Oklahoma Shakespeare PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠  https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew  Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrew TikTok: @theshakespeareanshrew The new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠  Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠  Thank you for listening! Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen Feiner Co-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle Coffman Cover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠ Thank you to our guests: Erin Woods and Amanda Lee  Erin Woods is a director, playwright, actress, and graphic designer with over 25 years’ experience in Oklahoma Theatre and beyond. Directing credits include Art for Oklahoma City Theatre Company, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Uncle Vanya for Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, and 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, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses for Reduxion Theatre Company. As a playwright, Erin has written adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Tom Jones, and a holiday play often produced by Oklahoma Shakespeare: Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker. Look for a workshop of her upcoming work: on a new play (not an adaptation!) based on her favorite book genre called How to Write a Regency Romance coming in 2026. (Bridgerton fans are gonna love it!) Amanda Lee worked as a performer all over the country and the world for 10 years before settling down in 2014 in Norman, OK near her hometown of Noble. She can now be seen onstage with Whodunit Dinner Theater and occasionally at Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park where she also directs and music directs for various productions. Amanda has a degree in music theater from the University of Central Oklahoma which has somehow also garnered her entry into the world of broadcasting as she can currently be heard in the mornings on KJ103 as a co-host on the show TJ, Amanda, and JRod In the Morning. Amanda also runs a Facebook page called The Central Oklahoma Theatre Calendar where she updates her followers on which shows are playing on which stages all over the central Oklahoma region. She is passionate about supporting theater and the arts.

    54 min

  6. 11/12/2025

    A One Man Actor’s Carol With David Weber: A Social Enema

    Join David Weber, friend, clown, professor, director, and amazing human, and the Shrew as we talk about not only the stages of a play but the stages of recovery in terms of sobriety and surgery. What does it take to heal? What does it take to push past our own boundaries? Can we even push the boundaries when we are in debt to our jobs, to the economy, and socially indebted? What happens to our communities when the clown cannot afford to push back? We will discuss the inherent discomfort that is part of life and the hope that audiences and students alike will play along. So when David Weber asks, “Shall we dance?” Do yourself a favor – get up and dance!  So join David Weber for 70 minutes of joy, laughter, and redemption in An Actor’s Carol: One Clown’s Dickensian Marathon Towards Redemption on November 28th or 29th at 8pm at Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park. Just maybe you will walk away with your why. Maybe you will walk away just a little braver.  The arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back.  Buy Tickets: An Actor's Carol — Oklahoma Shakespeare PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠  https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew  Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrew TikTok: @theshakespeareanshrew The new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠  Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠  Thank you for listening! Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen Feiner Co-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle Coffman Cover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠ Thank you to our guest DAVID WEBER David Weber is an actor, director, and acting teacher.  He was last seen on stage in Merry Wives of Windsor at Oklahoma Shakespeare as Master Ford and this winter he will once again take his acclaimed one man show, “An Actor’s Carol: One clown’s Dickensian marathon towards redemption” on a national tour this November and December 2025.  He has been on the artistic and educational staff at Stagedoor Manor for three years, and he loves teaching and directing for that community.  He is also a proud member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers and has an MFA in Acting from California State University Long Beach where he studied acting pedagogy under the direction of Alexandra Billings, Hugh O’Gorman, Ezra LeBank, Dr. Shanti Pillai, and Andrea Caban. David is on the performance faculty at Oklahoma State University as an Assistant Professor of Performance where he teaches BFA Acting, BFA Musical Theatre, and BA Theatre students Acting levels, Auditions, Special topics in Comedy, Movement for the Actor, and Contemporary Performance Techniques. www.davidrweber.com  #gopokes

    55 min

  7. 11/05/2025

    Finding Possibility: A Literary Legacy

    Are you an author? Do you want to be? Listen up for tips and how to find a writer community as we talk with Charles Martin about his new book and the foundation and future of Literati Press.  With a dismal education ranking, Oklahoma can feel like a literary desert but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Oklahoma City has become a bookstore oasis for book lovers with many independent bookstores each with an identity of its very own. And now, we can boast the first bookstore in the state that is publicly owned by a co-op of writers and readers. Charles Martin, founder and creative director of Literati Press, is stepping aside as owner to promote the legacy and longevity of the beloved Paseo bookstore. As both an avid reader and writer, Martin will still be a big part of Literati.  In fact, he just published a new novella In a Town Where All Things Are Possible. This book is a delightful mystery filled with hope and, of course, possibility, but possibility comes with a price. If you are looking for all the answers, keep looking. True to life, this book brings more questions than answers, but they are questions that are worth pondering and stories that continue on long after the last page. If you are looking for a present, preparing for the holidays, or just love a great book (and love it even more when it’s signed), signed books will always be the way to a book lover’s heart. Charles Martin will be signing his magical book during the Paseo First Friday event THIS Friday, November 7th and next month on December 5th.  The arts are under attack, and buying books from independent bookstores is a great way to show your support and fight back.  Learn more about Literati: https://www.literatipressok.com/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠  https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew  Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrew TikTok: @theshakespeareanshrew The new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠  Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠  Thank you for listening! Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen Feiner Co-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle Coffman Cover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠ Thank you to our guest CHARLES MARTIN.

    34 min

  8. 10/08/2025

    Brotherly…Love: The Lion in Winter

    Keeping it all in the family, yeah, always a creepy aspect of royal families, but how does a fraternal relationship off stage impact a familial relationship on stage? Is the competition real, an act, or something in between? How do actors find camaraderie and community in spite of, or perhaps because of, the fierce competition for roles? Find out in this episode as we sit down to talk with fan (and shrew) favorite Justin Marlow, and bright, shiny, and new faces to OSP and seniors at OU, Ethan Walker and Granger Lusk. We’ll also talk about the sibling dynamics in The Lion in Winter: the momma’s boy, his father’s son, and of course, the middle child. Each of these actors learned under Alissa Branch, our queen, so we’ll get the inside scoop into what it’s like transitioning from student to peer.  Please come see The Lion in Winter at OSP opening October 9th and closing the 19th. See the links below for tickets to the show, Tim Grimm’s #1 Folk song “Broken Truth,” and tickets to Theatre Crude’s performances playing through the 11th.  The arts are under attack, and buying tickets is a great way to show your support and fight back.  Broken Truth by Tim Grimm Buy Tickets — Oklahoma Shakespeare: The Lion in Winter  Theatre Crude Tickets PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! ⁠www.theshakespeareanshrew.com⁠  https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew  Please follow us on Instagram: @theshakespeareanshrew TikTok: @theshakespeareanshrew The new season of shows for OSP is available ⁠here!⁠  Please donate to OSP: ⁠https://www.okshakes.org/donate⁠  Thank you for listening! Host/Shakespearean Shrew: Karen Feiner Co-Creator/Brew Shrew: Michelle Coffman Cover Art Creator/Artistic Shrew: Katie Kimberling ⁠⁠⁠www.halfmaverick.com⁠⁠⁠ Thank you to our guests ETHAN WALKER, GRANGER LUSK, and JUSTIN MARLOW.  Ethan Walker is a BFA Performance major at the University of Oklahoma's Helmerich School of Drama. Previous credits include: Julius Caesar, Waiting for Lefty, Radium Girls, and Marie Antoinette (University of Oklahoma) Lascaux, D.D.M.C. (Co.llective Arts Productions) and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Everywhere). Ethan is thrilled to be making his Oklahoma Shakespeare debut, and wants to thank his family and his friends for their unwavering support and love! Granger Lusk is an Actor and Educator from Houston, TX. He is currently pursuing his BFA in Acting from the University of Oklahoma and cannot wait to graduate in May '26. Some of his previous works include William, As You Like It; Joe, Waiting for Lefty; and Adrian, oh, to be pure again (collegiate premier) at the University of Oklahoma. You can see him next as the director of The Effect by Lucy Prebble this spring at OU. Granger would like to thank his family and friends for their constant support. As well as the cast, crew, and creative team for this amazing opportunity. BOOMER SOONER! @grangerlusk Justin Marlow: Originally from Los Angeles, California. Graduate from the University of Oklahoma with a BFA in drama. Credits include Oklahoma Shakespeare: Born with Teeth, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Much ado about Nothing, Midsummer Night’s dream, Christmas Cracker, Hamlet, Emma, and Shakespeare in Love  University: Burn This, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Great Expectations, and Red Bike Film: Ultraviolet, The Squatter, Waiting on You, and, Unkind Insta: @Justinmichaelmarlow

    42 min
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This podcast is going to be a decorum-be-damned entrance into understanding Shakespeare’s stages (for there are many) and all the players on it. We will be delving into the ever-pressing question: Why Shakespeare? Or, sometimes: Why, Shakespeare?!

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    The Shakespearean Shrew
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    2024 - 2026
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