In rehearsal / in production

In June 2015, I make my Minneapolis directing debut with two small projects, back-to-back. I am directing eight pieces as part of the One Minute Play Festival at the Southern Theatre for performances on June 20th and 21st. The following week, I am staging a scene from Claudia Haas‘ new Hey Baby Hey, Sis Boom Ba for Little Lifeboats’ TEASE event at Nimbus Theatre.

In May 2015, I spent a week training with Kristin Linklater in Orkney, Scotland, deepening my practice with her techniques.

In Fall 2014, I taught Critical Theory & Modern Performance and Women in Theatre at Drew University. I also facilitated a Heightened Language / Learning Life Skills Through Acting workshop at Sing Sing Correctional Facility.

During the first half of 2014, I directed Death of a Salesman at Fishkill Correctional Facility, a men’s medium-security prison.

In January 2014, I completed the Shakespeare & Co. month-long intensive. In August 2014, I returned to Sh&Co. to participate in a week-long teaching artist workshop.

In Fall 2013, I taught Critical Theory & Modern Performance and Show:Business as well as directed the premiere of Rosemary McLaughlin’s Paterson Falls at Drew University. Paterson Falls premiered November 13, 2013. I have been invited to teach at Drew during Fall 2014.

Under the auspices of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, I directed Our Town at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 2013.

You can read Howard Sherman’s thoughtful appreciation of the production on The Huffington Post.

You can read one of my posts on Samuel French’s Breaking Character; you can also read one of my posts at (I’m delighted to tell you) www.thorntonwilder.com.

Here are the first and second of two segments that CBS.com ran about RTA, my 2011 production of Superior Donuts and Sing Sing.

I directed Kia Corthron’s Breath, Boom and taught Fundamentals of Acting & Performance Practicum at SUNY/Purchase in Fall 2012.

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Since 2009, I have worked as a facilitator, teacher and director with Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison north of New York City. In addition to collaborating with Jeff Glaser on his production of Starting Over in spring 2010, I have team-taught two directing workshops at the prison.  This spring, I have directed Tracy Letts’  Superior Donuts at Sing Sing; we performed the play for the population and for an invited civilian audience May 11,12 and 13, 2011.

Photo by Xavier Mascareñas

I invited actor Michael McKean, who created the role of Arthur at Steppenwolf and then on Broadway, to come speak to the men at Sing Sing.  You can read the article about his late April visit here and see additional photos of his visit here.  You can read the post I wrote for 2am theatre here.