In hono(u)r of Shakespeare's 450th birthday...

SHOW US YOUR WILLIE [SHAKESPEARE]! Join the #Shakes450 collaboration by uploading your own monologue at: http://www.TheDigitalStage.org or by emailing us a video at thedigitalstage@gmail.com The Digital Stage celebrates Shakespeare's birthday by collaborating across the internet to collectively upload over 450 monologues and sonnets before April 23rd, 2014.

This month marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. To mark this special occasion, my friend Brendan Bradley put together a wonderful challenge: to capture 450 monologues from the works of Shakespeare by April 23rd.

I am so pleased to participate and pay tribute to this amazing playwright who has left us with some of the deepest, cleverest plays that the world has ever known. As an actor, I don't always get a lot of lines or character development, so doing Shakespeare gives me great joy and satisfaction because he left us so much to play with in the text. The work of Shakespeare is a gift to humanity, so what better gift from we remaining humans than to continue performing it to hono(u)r its creator!

In addition to my own monologue from Henry IV Part 1, you can also see some brilliant monologues from a number of my friends including Tara Platt, Yuri Lowenthal, David Nett, Ashley Clements, Bradley himself, and many more!

Join us. Help us get 450 monologues on YouTube in time to celebrate the birth of The Bard! Click here for information on how to submit your own video monologue!

Happy birthday, Shakespeare! I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.