Shakespeare’s What You Will at Ave Maria: a jester who seriously enjoys acting

April 2, 2014 at 5:09 pm · Filed under Observations and tagged: Ave Maria University, Nicholas Ciavarra, Performing Arts, Shakespeare, Travis Curtright

Name: Nicholas Ciavarra

School: Ave Maria University

Major: Humanities

Graduation: 2015

Troupe: Shakespeare in Performance at AMU

Play: What You Will (aka Twelfth Night) (click here for tickets April 16-27)

Years with the troupe and various jobs and roles: This is my second year with the troupe. Last year, I played the role of Claudio and this year I am playing the role of the clown, Feste. I performed at the Ave Maria Scholarship Dinner too.

How did you discover and become part of Shakespeare in Performance? I transferred to Ave Maria in the fall of 2012 from a prestigious Liberal Arts college in Massachusetts, where I was pursuing a theatre minor. Whenever I told someone at Ave Maria about my interest in theatre,

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