THE DAKIN MATTHEWS PRIZE

Four $200.00 cash awards for the winners of the Antaeus Company Shakespeare Competition.

The prize is named in honor of DAKIN MATTHEWS, the Founding Artistic Director of the Antaeus Company. Mr. Matthews was previously the Artistic Director of the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival and the California Actors Theatre. He taught under John Houseman in the Juilliard Drama Division and was a founding member of The Acting Company. He is the resident dramaturge and an Associate Artist of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. He has enjoyed a forty year career onstage, appearing with most California professional theatres. Most recently he appeared on Broadway in his own adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV. He has had a busy career on screen, appearing in over twenty feature films and as a recurring or regular character in twelve different series, and is a member of both the Motion Picture and Television Academies. He is also a playwright, director, translator, Shakespeare scholar, and Emeritus Professor of English from Cal State.