Titus Andronicus: A Master Class Staged Reading with James Pickering
James Pickering will take audiences through a Master Class experience of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. James has been working with these actors, sharing all his years of experience with them and crafting a unique experience for audiences. Join the audience for a staged reading of a Maya Danks' adaptation of Titus Andronicus and a unique peak into the way James dives into a script.
The Titus Andronicus workshop is Jim’s first project for Sunstone Studios. He is
grateful to Amber Regan and Maggie Marks for the opportunity to delve into the
work of William Shakespeare. Jim arrived in Milwaukee at just about the same
time as Robin Yount, having received an offer from Milwaukee Rep to join (along
with his late wife, Rose Pickering) the Rep’s Resident Acting Company. They were
part of that group of artists for 39 years. He remains a Rep Associate Artist to this
day, and will soon appear across Wells St. at the Pabst Theatre in Mark
Clements’s adaptation of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Favorite Rep parts
include title roles in Tartuffe, McCarthy, Nixon’s Nixon, and The Nerd. Among
other memorable characters are blind Richard Harkey in The Seafarer, Niels
Bohr in Copenhagen, Hugh Mor O’Donnell in Translations, and Ebenezer
Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, which he performed 450 times. More recently he
was seen as David in “I’m Gonna Pray for you so Hard for The Constructivists,
Robert in A Life in the Theatre for Alchemist Theatre, and Otto the Elder in
Indecent for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, where he will be seen as Phil Hogan in
A Moon for the Misbegotten early next year. He lives in Bay View with his sweet
wife Tami Workentin, actress and massage therapist.