ACADEMY 2025: Getting to Know Cymbeline

Special Academy Offering:
Getting to Know Cymbeline with Dakin Matthews

As a companion to our own production, currently onstage at Antaeus, Company Member Dakin Matthews shares his online class exploring Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Take a deep dive into this rarely produced but fascinating play in 32 short videos, ranging from 5 to 10 minutes each, that examine the play from many angles. Each chapter focuses on a particular character, historical and literary perspectives, the structure of the play, and more. For a complete list of chapter headings, please click HERE.

Go at your own pace: Four hours of enlightenment and instruction for $25.00, designed for both actors and the general public.

This virtual masterclass is being offered through Monday, November 24. The videos will remain available to students through December 31, 2025.

About Dakin Matthews:

At ANTAEUS: The Wood Demon, Mysteries and Mayhem, Of Mice and Men, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Mercadet, The Liar, The Proof of the Promise, Swansong, King Lear. Broadway: Camelot, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Iceman Cometh, Waitress: The Musical, The Audience, Rocky, The Best Man, A Man for All Seasons, Henry IV. Off-Broadway: Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare in the Park); The Winter’s Tale, The Cherry Orchard (Bridge Project); The School for Scandal, The Hostage (Acting Company).

Regional: over 200 productions for (among others) Center Theatre Group, Old Globe, South Coast Rep, California Actors Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Dallas Theatre Center, and various Shakespeare Festivals. Film: over 25 films, including Lincoln, True Grit, Zero Charisma. TV: over 250 episodes, recurring on Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, King of Queens. Also an Emeritus Professor of English, former Juilliard Instructor, Shakespeare scholar, and award-winning playwright, translator, and dramaturge.