Derrick Lee Weeden

Derrick Lee Weeden

In 18 seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Weeden has portrayed these Shakespeare roles: Prospero in The Tempest, Cardinal Pandulph in King John,  Boyet in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar, Aaron inTitus Andronicus, Othello in Othello, Duke in Measure for Measure, Edmond in King Lear, Coriolanus in Coriolanus, Bolingbroke in Richard II, Warwick inThe Conclusion of Henry VI, Pericles in Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, among others.

This veteran actor from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival talks about how great actors of the past including Richard Burton, John Gielguld and Laurence Olivier have used their voices.

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