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Caleb Marshall
Assistant director for Romeo and Juliet
Caleb was the Canadian participant in the 2007 International Actor's Residency at Shakespeare's Globe and currently teaches as a Practitioner in the Education Department. He holds a BFA Honours Acting Degree from York University (Canada), trained at the Stratford Festival Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training and recently completed his MFA in Theatre Directing at Middlesex University. Select acting credits include: On the Middle Day (Old Vic New Voices); Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Richard III, Love's Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, Pericles, King John, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens (Stratford Festival of Canada). Directing credits include: Romeo & Juliet (Toronto Fringe); Somme Letters Home (Atlantic Fringe); A Dog A Panic in a Pagoda! and his own adaptation of Nights Below Station Street (Notable Acts Festival); Hope in Every Home (Fredericton Playhouse). Assistant credits: As You Like It (Stratford Conservatory); Cricket on the Hearth (Theatre New Brunswick); UK tour of Wild East (NOT The National). Caleb was named the 2007 Emerging Artist of the Year by the New Brunswick Arts Board and recieved the 2007 Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award.
Read extracts from the assistant director's notebook.
What is an assistant director's job?
After a very welcoming and inclusive rehearsal process with Elizabeth Freestone [the director], that afforded me the opportunity to contribute many ideas and share my text experience with the actors, my primary role with the show began on tour. My responsibility is to acclimatize the actors to each new venue; point out any local landmarks that can be incorporated, appraise them of any vocal challenges, do any necessary re-staging, note the show and support them in any way I can.