Performers in Wales
| Category: Actor |
| Beverley Prentice |
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| Beverley started her performing career as a dancer. She trained at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London. After graduating she moved to New York where she has been developing her career as a performing artist. Her professional career began with the New York based dance/theatre company 'Urban Bush Woman' which toured in the US and internationally. Beverley's love of theatre led her to study classical acting (Shakespeare) with Master teachers David Hammond and Kristin Linklatter. She trained at the prestigious Actors Center in New York. With the all-female New York based classical theatre company, the 'Queen's Company' Beverley has performed such roles as: Hortensio (Taming of the Shrew) (reviewed in NY Times) Spencer (Edward II) Lucio (Feign'd Courtesans) She has also played: Portia (Julius Caesar) Mara (Song for Mara) Ntianu (Udu) (reviewed in NY Times) Salome (Salome) directed by Tony Award winning actress Trazana Beverley. Oedipus Plays (Chorus) directed by Michael Kahn, Shakespeare Theatre of DC, performed in Washington DC and Athens, Greece. Her latest role was as Scylla in the 2006 production of 'Darker Face of the Earth' which was performed at the American Theatre of Actors in New York. |