This is an online talk offered via Zoom Webinar. Please register here. I Am William

Join director Esther Jun as she shares insight into her direction for the Stratford Festival’s 2021 production of I Am William, a joyful musical for young people with text by Rébecca Déraspe and music by Chloé Lacasse and Benoit Landry (which will be presented in an English Translation by Leanne Brodie).

I Am William tells the imagined story of Margaret Shakespeare, a young writer of great skill and imagination who, with the help of her brother William, navigates a dangerous time to become one of the world’s greatest writers.

Esther Jun originally trained as an actor in NYC and completed her directing degree at Drama Centre London in 2006. She currently is an Artistic Associate in Planning at The Stratford Festival and was the Assistant Artistic Director at Tarragon Theatre from 2016-18. Esther was part of the 2020 & 2016 Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at The Stratford Festival, and was the 2015 Neil Munro Intern Director at the Shaw Festival.

Selected Credits: Planet Munsch (GBTS); Pal Joey (Talk is Free); The Promised Land (Soulpepper); The Omnibus Bill (Counterpoint Players); The Gamblers (Talk is Free); Theory (Tarragon); The Private Life Cabaret (Theatre ARTaud); Girls Like That (Tarragon); Amadeus (Talk is Free); The Last Wife (The Belfrey, GCTC);Tales from Folks-Laos & Mongolia (Soulpepper); Rococo (Shaw Festival); And Now, The End (Ante Up); Bremen Rock City (Song Trolley); Cowboy Mouth (Heart In Hand); Yellow Face (Hart House), Trout Stanley (Heart in Hand) Fear & Misery of the Third Reich (DeusXM), First Hand Woman (Fire Up Productions).

The Stratford Festival is transforming, for this summer, into an outdoor festival offering a season of six plays and five cabarets reflecting on the theme of Metamorphosis, with performances held under beautiful canopies that will hark back to the Festival’s founding under a tent back in 1953.