Austin, TX – Austin Shakespeare will continue its Bard and Bollywood series with an on-line acting workshop led by Tamil Periasamy on Saturday, Feb. 20, from 2 to 4 p.m. The cost for the program is $15 for participants and $10 for observers. Registration is available via email at info@austinshakespeare.org.

“We’ll look at some scenes from Bollywood Shakespeare films and analyze the text and performance,” Periasamy said. “All experience levels are welcome, MENASA (Middle Eastern/North African/South Asian) participants are preferred, everyone is welcome to observe.”

Each participant will get to work on a two-page scene and receive adjustments from the instructor. The workshop will also include helpful hints and tips to bring the text to life as well as a question-and-answer session.

ABOUT Tamil Periasamy: Tamil Periasamy is a theatre/film actor from Atlanta, GA. He has appeared in Austin Shakespeare’s Indian Ink and The Importance of Being Earnest. Notable career roles include Stanley in Streetcar Named Desire, Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew, Tom Collins in RENT, and Reverend Hale in The Crucible. Other Regional: Arcadia, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Fool for Love, Water By the Spoonful. TV/FILM: MacGyver, Spiderman: Homecoming. He is a member of Society of Fight Directors, and a graduate of the University of Virginia.

ABOUT AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE: “The Bard is only the beginning.” Audiences travel many roads with this professional company for surprising and entertaining theater productions featuring heightened language at The Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre in the fall and spring, Free Summer Shakespeare in Zilker Park and Young Shakespeare at the Curtain Theater replica as well as productions on Zoom and YouTube. Founded in 1984 and the only professional classical theater company in Central Texas, Austin Shakespeare stages performances that are fresh, bold, imaginative, thought-provoking and eminently accessible — connecting the truths of the past with the challenges and possibilities of today.  #ATXTheatre