Student Wisdom: Matt Noll

This is my second year with the Old Globe's Summer Shakespeare Intensive, and this is going to be another exciting summer. This year's Monday classes in the spring and our monologue work are a great addition to the program. We have started thsi week with staging Pericles, and last week we had some special classes with actors Patrick Page and Bruce Turk. I also enjoyed the opportunity of seeing all three shows performing on the Festival Stage this summer (Coriolanus, Twelfth Night and Cyrano). Shakespeare is inspirational and good training ground. I hope to mature into a Renaissance man of sorts, with a career as a performer, voice actor, and using my years of cartooning to also become a storybook artist and video game designer. I am a sophomore at SCPA and hope to return next year to continue my adventures at the Globe. Also, I hope to continue the tradition started by my great-grandfather (Mort Altman), who performed in Galileo years ago at the Globe and was directed by Craig Noel.

One of my favorite pictures was taken at Shakespeare's birthplace at Stratford-upon-Avon, about three years ago.