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Archive for April, 2010

London Bound

It’s official! I will be moving to London in the fall to study theatre. I very recently mailed my paperwork and deposit check to Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London in order to accept my place in their MA Advanced Theatre Practice program. This program is one designed for people who want to learn to create experimental collaborative theatre. In this program I’ll be able to strengthen my existing set of theatre-making skills and learn new ones, all while meeting lovely folks who want to do the same. It’s a one year full-time program that will culminate with me and a group of my peers putting up a show anywhere in the wide world we choose. I’ve already started meeting my future classmates via the internet. I’m feeling excited and nervous and impatient and amazed all at once. It’s sure to be an experience that I’ll never forget!

If you’re curious to know more about the program or the school, check out their website: http://www.cssd.ac.uk/content/ma-advanced-theatre-practice

If you’ve got any suggestions for me, be they for great places to eat, live, or play in London; people I need to meet while I’m there; or any leads on grants or scholarship opportunities, then please drop me a line or leave me a comment.

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Improv(e)ment

Next week I’ll be exploring a new form of dramatic improvisation in an Interactive Performance Workshop led by Jeff Wirth and produced by Shea Elmore of Ignited States Production Company. In this workshop I’ll be learning to perform in a StoryBox, an interactive performance stage in which the performers and inter-actors cooperatively become creators of stories. The workshop will last four days and will culminate in a closed StoryBox-style performance on day five. I’m excited to add some new tools to my improvisational toolbox (toolbox supplied in large part by the good folks at ComedySportz Houston), and to meet new people who are passionate about creating new work.

Check out what Ignited States is all about at their website: http://www.ignitedstates.com/mission.html.

Haven’t ever experienced ComedySportz? Remedy it: http://www.comedysportz.com

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