2013 National Semi-Finalists
2nd Place:
Boston’s Anna
Bortnick (above)
performed one of
Julia’s monologues
from The Two
Gentlemen from
Verona
and Sonnet 57.
3rd Place:
Greenwich’s Henry
Ayres-Brown
(above) performed
one of Angelo’s
monologues from
Measure for
Measure and
Sonnet 138.
The 2013 National Semi-Finalists (above) came to New York City
in April and performed onstage at Lincoln Center’s Vivian
Beaumont Theater. The semi-finalists were dynamic and talented
young performers, who had all previously won their local ESU
Branch Shakespeare Competitions. They are pictured here with
Danny Lopez, The British Consul-General in New York.
2013 ESU National
Shakespeare
Competition
Pictured below,
clockwise from top:
Finalists
Lucas Reilly (Austin), Dylan
Wade (SW Virginia),
Madelyn Monaghan
(Monmouth County, NJ),
and Aric Floyd
(Cleveland).
“I will a round unvarnish’d
tale deliver...”
-Othello 1.3
Pictured below,
clockwise from top:
Finalists Sarah Feist
(Oklahoma City & Tulsa),
Benjamin Ellsworth
(Phoenix), and Casey Rae
Pressler (Jackson, MS).
A program of
The English-Speaking Union
The winner was Xavier Pacheco (below center) from New York,
NY. His performance of one of Benedict’s monologues from Much
Ado About Nothing and his delivery of Sonnet 29 won him a
scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art’s Young Actors
Summer School in London, England. The runner-up received a
full tuition scholarship to the American Shakespeare Center’s
Theatre Camp in Staunton, VA. The third place winner was
awarded $500 by The Shakespeare Society.
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“Meeting all the other talented contestants who share a common love
of Shakespeare was incredible.”
-Past Participant
Mr. Mark Thompson,
President & CEO of The
New York Times Company
(above) reads a proclamation from the Mayor of
New York City.
Above: The top ten national finalists.
Above: Students
working in groups
during a workshop at
NYU Tisch School
of the Arts
See the 2013 Finalists’ Performances at
www.YouTube.com/EnglishSpeakingUnion
Below: The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners
pictured with the Competition judges.
Photographs
by: Elena
Olivo
Above: Students at the William Shakespeare
Statue in New York City’s Central Park.
Pictured above:
Annie Barbour (Denver).
Pictured Below: Daniel
Wisniewski (Philadelphia).
Above: Attending Teachers and ESU Branch
Pictured above:
Hunter Morton (Lexington)
Pictured Below: Hannah
Antman (Chicago).
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“Studying Shakespeare
opens your eyes to
society and the human
condition.”
-Past Participant
Pictured
Left:
April Davis
(Colonial NC)
Pictured
Right:
Alvaro Soto
(Providence)
“The Competition gave
me a whole new
perspective on the
Bard.”
-Past Participant