Do we want to put King Lear on Freud's couch or just watch some down and dirty tragedy? Presenter Louis Fantasia examines why we watch tragedy in the first place. Watch the free live-stream webinar Saturday, April 25 at 10am pacific. Register Now >>

Louis Fantasia has produced and directed more than a 150 plays and operas worldwide. Director of the Shakespeare Globe Centre's Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance Institute from 1997 to 2002, and President of Deep Springs College (2007), Dean of Faculty and Chair of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the New York Film Academy's Los Angeles campus, Louis is currently the Director of the Shakespeare Institute hosted by Shakespeare Center LA and the William Andrews Clark Library.
He was heard regularly on NPR's KCRW (89.9 FM) as a theatre critic and arts commentator. His book Instant Shakespeare and collections are widely distributed.

 Louis Fantasia has taught at the Juilliard School and the University of Southern California School of Theatre, the London Theatre School (Head of Acting and Director of Studies) and Schiller College-Europe University (Chair and Artistic Director of Theatre Programs). He holds a BA from Georgetown and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts