Theatre--Performance

Shylock, a one-man show
by Mark Leiren-Young, featuring M. Brady McKellar

Lafayette, Louisiana - Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 7:30 PM
Burke Theatre, University of Louisiana at Lafayette campusAdmission is $5

Shylock is an award winning one-man play about a Jewish actor who finds himself condemned by the community for his portrayal of the world’s most controversial villain.  The piece addresses and incites discussion about censorship, historical revisionism, and whether certain plays should be produced for contemporary audiences.  The Merchant of Venice is often chief amongst those hotly debated.  This performance is one in a series of performances in the southeast, and will additionally be performed in November at the New Orleans Fringe Festival and will be hosted in the spring by the Shakespeare Behind Bars program in Louisville, Kentucky.

M. Brady McKellar is currently on faculty in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.   Previously, Brady served as a theatre professor at Dillard University, as an instructor at Tulane University, as well as concurrently serving as a Teaching Artist with the Young Audience/Arts for Learning program. He has been a guest artist throughout the southeast, such as at Roanoke Island’s The Lost Colony, an invited panelist with Creative Time’s Democracy in America, and as a recurrent lecturer at the Southeastern Theatre Conference. Brady is a regular respondent for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival as well as an adjudicator for the SETC’s annual Young Scholar Award.  Brady is a member of the Costume Society of America, Puppeteers of America, UNIMA-USA and has studied with former Muppeteer Michael Earl.  Brady was recently featured as a performer at the 2008 and 2009 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festivals. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Performance and his Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Technology from the University of Southern Mississippi.

This show is a Wanderlust Theatre Co. production.