WORKSHOP
Make It A Thing
w/ Aileen Wen McGroddy
Saturday, March 25 + Sunday, March 26
9am - 1pm
$150 / Pay-What-You Can*
*If you need to pay less, pay less. If you can pay more, pay more!
It matters to us that this training is available to anyone who is interested in making work in this way.
Saturday, March 25 + Sunday, March 26
9am - 1pm
$150 / Pay-What-You Can*
*If you need to pay less, pay less. If you can pay more, pay more!
It matters to us that this training is available to anyone who is interested in making work in this way.
Do you have an idea for a performance but you don't know where to start? Do you want to generate ideas in collaboration with other artist? Do you want to make a thing? This workshop focuses on developing tools for the first stages of generating and building performance material.
Pulling from the practices of clown, devising, physical theatre, and ensemble performance, join other making-minded folks in an experimental space to give shape to your artistic notions.
Aileen Wen McGroddy is a Chinese- and Irish-American theatre director, educator, and producer of live events. Her work is imaginative, inclusive, and playfully experimental, coming from a robust background in physical theatre and a deep commitment to hospitality. She became a person in New York; a theatre maker in Chicago; and a Master of Fine Arts in Directing at Brown-Trinity in Providence, RI.
She is currently a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop and the BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage. Upcoming work includes: A Christmas Carol at Trinity Rep and Sense and Sensibility at Northern Stage. Past work includes: The Chinese Lady (Kitchen Theatre and Geva Theatre Center); The Late Wedding, The Dumb Waiter, Summer and Smoke, and The Tempest (Brown-Trinity); Throwback Island, On The Y-Axis, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (Writing is Live); Or, and Dani Girl (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical and The Snowy Day (Emerald City Theatre); Montauciel Takes Flight (Lifeline Theatre); Ulysses (The Plagiarists); A Hero’s Journey, The Hunting of the Snark, Robin Hood, and The Pied Piper (The Forks & Hope Ensemble); The Whiskey Radio Hour, Wake: A Folk Opera, Kodachrome Telephone and Sign of Rain (The Whiskey Rebellion); Gentle, The Edge of Our Bodies, Music Hall, The Anyway Cabaret (TUTA); The Nose and Reika and the Wolves (Mudlark Theatre); and In This Final Century (Theatre-Hikes). She has directed readings with The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, Northern Stage, and Babes with Blades. She has assisted at The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Trinity Rep, Court Theatre, The Actors’ Gymnasium, The Hypocrites, and The House Theatre of Chicago.
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
You must be vaccinated to attend this workshop. Masks are not required, but may be worn at discretion/desire of the participant and/or facilitator. Please don't come if you are not feeling well.
When in doubt - call out! We will provide a refund to anyone who cancels more than 24 hours in advance. After that, we are happy to apply your payment to a future session.
