Name: tina padgett
Position: production manager, graphic design, props
Why acting? Why Shakespeare?
performance is electric – that energy between audience/actors. you come to the show, dog tired from the day but once the exchange starts...it's exhilarating. tech – i joke that sm'ing is a more healthy outlet for my neurotic tendencies, but i love watching a production evolve over time form audition to strike.
How and why did you get involved with Hampshire Shakespeare & this production?
i started out with hsc in '08 in AYLI as celia. after that i started sm'ing with pauline productions and other one-offs. i sm'd TN and H for hsc and though, this year, it would be a good challenge to PM (kinda of like sm'ing the season).
Tina Padgett, taking notes on a clipboard (Photo by Bill Dwight) |
What is your least favorite word? cuddle (really any words with "uddle")
What sound or noise do you love? coffee brewing
What sound or noise do you hate? static/feedback/whining
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? farmer!
What profession would you not like to do?
corporate anything involving a suit or heels
What is your earliest memory of theater?
first grade..ish? my family used to go on vacation every summer for a week with my cousins so there were 5 kids and 4 parents. so, i'm an aries and the oldest, so i would to "direct & choreograph" a "musical" (read: dancing/singing along into a carrot or hairbrush to footloose) that we made our 'rents watch at the end of the week. i wanted to rehearse every.day... of vacation.
Why is theatre necessary?
i don’t think people innately tap into their own emotions and understanding of the world they live in, or see the big picture of emotions and connecting to others. i think theatre does that (or shows how it can be done). i also think aspects of theatre can be used in the most unexpected places of our lives.
Has performing Shakespeare given you any interesting insights into Shakespeare?
mostly language related - the meter matters and cutting a script can be difficult to do with justice; and once you get used to the language, it starts to make immediate sense.
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Tina Padgett (Production Manager/Graphic Designer) now marks her 4th HSC season (H'10/TN'09/AYLI'08). Recent offstage highlights include "Scaramouche Jones", "Parallel Lives" (Pauline Productions) and "Hide & Seek" (Manhattan Rep). Previously she collaborated on multi-media performance activism in connection with Guerrilla Poets Insurgency and Poets Against The War in Philadelphia and Virginia.
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