ACTING SHAKESPEARE: A Roundtable Discussion with Artists from the Utah Shakespearean Festival's 2008 Production of Othello

Flachmann: Welcome to the culminating event in our Wooden O Symposium, the Actors’ Roundtable Discussion about Othello. I’d like to begin with a question for the actors, and then we’ll come back to Mr. Sullivan for his opinion. With a play produced as frequently as Othello, how do you make these roles your own? How do you balance the demands of the script, the director’s vision, and your own innate ability and life experiences to take ownership of these roles? We’ll start off with Jonathan, please. You’ve done the role twice before, right?