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Dakin Matthews is familiar to audiences the world over.\\xa0 He\\u2019s an actor, playwright, dramaturge, teacher, director, translator, emeritus English professor, and Shakespeare scholar.\\xa0

He\\u2019s been a leading actor in over 250 professional plays\\u2014eight on Broadway, including recently Waitress and To Kill a Mockingbird.\\xa0

Dakin is a member of both the Motion Picture and the Television Academies and has appeared in over 30 feature films, including: True Grit, Bridge of Spies, and Lincoln; and over three hundred television episodes, including shows such as: The Gilded Age, The King of Queens, Desperate Housewives, The Office, and Gilmore Girls.\\xa0

He\\u2019s been the Artistic Director of four professional theatre companies. His multiple award-winning scripts \\u2013 adaptations, translations, and originals \\u2013 have been performed across the country. Dakin won a Drama Desk Award for his Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare\\u2019s Henry IV. His eleven rhyming verse translations of Golden Age comedies are currently being published by LinguaText.\\xa0

He's taught and directed across the U.S., and has dramaturged Shakespeare for the country\\u2019s leading directors. Dakin\\u2019s also given workshops in Shakespearean verse-speaking across the country and around the world, based on his handbook Shakespeare Spoken Here.

Dakin was a Founding Member of John Houseman\\u2019s The Acting Company and of Sam Mendes\\u2019 Bridge Project and The Antaeus Theatre Company.\\xa0