Blinders Off, Please

Creating a Color-Sighted Comedy of Errors

Authors

  • Antonio Ocampo-Guzman Northeastern University

Abstract

Cluster: Directors

This article serves as a critical examination of a production of The Comedy of Errors that I directed in the spring of 2007 at Arizona State University's School of Theatre and Film. My main goal was to produce a "color-sighted" production that would implicitly challenge the tenets of colorblindness. I wanted to see if I could be fully "color-sighted" and make casting and directorial decisions based on the ethnicities of my students as well as responding to their training needs and challenges.

Author Biography

Antonio Ocampo-Guzman, Northeastern University

Antonio Ocampo-Guzman is an actor, director, and teacher based in Boston, where he is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northeastern University. He serves as Chair of the Diversity Committee for VASTA and is a VASTA Fellow. A Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, he has adapted the practice into Spanish and is a consultant for the CEUVOZ, a center for voice studies in Mexico City, where he runs a Linklater Voice Teacher training program in Spanish. He has an M.F.A. in Directing and a Graduate Diploma in Voice from York University, Toronto.

ssue Cover text: B&L, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2008. Image: An actress playing Helena in a detailed blouse looks right skeptically.

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Published

2008-09-01

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2008): Shakespeare and Actors of Color

Section

Articles