Announcing some of the special guests that will be speaking / presenting workshops at TheatreFest 2015! Join us at our annual convention for an opportunity to learn from these and other exceptional individuals.
Presenter - Adam Noble
EXTREME PHYSICALITY:
Staging Intimacy & Violence
Adam Noble has worked as professional actor and movement
specialist for nearly 20 years, performing regionally across the United States,
and abroad.
He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Dynamic
Presence Project, a company focused on the revitalization and proliferation of
movement theatre and physical storytelling.
As a freelance movement consultant, Adam has helped to shape
characters, build ensembles, and construct movement vocabularies for operatic,
cinematic and theatrical projects. He is a trained stuntman who has taught
movement and stage combat both nationally and internationally, and he has
choreographed the intimacy and violence for over 100 stage and film
productions.
Adam currently serves as Associate Professor of Acting and
Movement at the University of Houston.
He is a member of the Actors Equity Association, a Fight Director and
Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, and the
Treasurer for the Association of Theatre Movement Educators.
Special Guest - David Rainey
DAVID RAINEY is in his 15th season as a Alley Theatre
Resident Company member. He is also
founder and Executive Artistic Director of The Landing Theatre Company. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he
received the Drama Division’s highest honor, the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis
Prize.
Nationally, he has performed for
Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage Company,
Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the National Actors Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre,
Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Acting Company, New
York Shakespeare Festival, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Ford’s Theatre, Asolo
Theatre Company, Dallas Theatre Center, Shakespeare Festival LA, Crossroads
Theatre Company, Stark Naked Theatre Company, HSF, Houston Grand Opera, among
others.
He served as adjunct professor
at the University of Houston-Downtown from 2005-2013, and was its first
Artist-in-Residence in Drama. He has
received numerous awards and nominations for acting and directing, and he
teaches privately.
Featured Guest - Karen Kohlhaas
Fearless Audition Technique
A co-founder of the Atlantic Theatre Company, Karen has directed many Atlantic mainstages as well as for the New York Shakespeare Theatre/Public Theatre, Ars Nova, St. Luke's Theatre, Naked Angels, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Live Arts, IRT, Culture Project, Alley Theatre in Houston, Menagerie Theatre in Cambridge, UK and the Practical Theatre in Sydney.
Karen is a senior teacher in Atlantic's NYU and Conservatory programs and teaches her own advanced acting, directing, monologue and audition classes. She guest teaches in the US and internationally and is developing teacher training programs for her monologue technique.
She's the author/creator of three books and a DVD on her unique approach to rehearsing audition monologues, including a Teacher's Manual. Her new website is www.art-and-audition.com, and you can also find her through www.monologueaudition.com. She is currently directing a documentary, "Tennessee Williams In The Mississippi Delta: The Love of Things Irreconcilable" (www.TennWmsDelta.com).
Presenter - Claremarie Verheyen
Tricks for Middle Age Make-Up
During her forty years as a theatre artist, Claremarie
Verheyen has designed over 400 productions including drama, opera, dance,
high-fashion, film, video, television, circus, and commercials. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre at
The University of Houston where she teaches costuming and makeup design on the
graduate and undergraduate levels.
She serves on the advisory board of the
Houston Community College Fashion and Marketing Program. She is the costume
designer for the Houston Children’s Theatre Festival, The Notre Dame
Shakespeare Initiative, and Shakespeare by the Book.
Her costume designs have
been produced by many theatres including: The Alley Theatre, The Country
Playhouse, The Classical Theatre Company, Main Street Theatre, The Ensemble
Theatre, The Lab Theatre, Mildred's Umbrella, Houston Community College, Stages
Children’s Theatre, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, and World Wide Stage in
China.
A recent production of "The Vibrator Play" earned her the
award as Houston’s "Outstanding Costume Designer". She has been the featured costume designer in
our own Texas Education Theatre Associations' convention and has been the
recipient of TETA's “University Educator of the Year Award.” She will be the featured, guest
designer at the spring USITT. SW regional symposium. Ms. Verheyen offers seminars in resume and
portfolio preparation and makeup technology and design.
Presenter - Dr. Robert Shimko
Introducing Dramaturgy
Dr. Robert B. Shimko is the co-editor, with Dr. Sara
Freeman, of the book Public Theatres and Theatre Publics. Dr. Shimko’s
scholarly writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and he is
the Book Review Editor for the journal Theatre History Studies. Additionally,
he is the Literary Director of the Houston Shakespeare Festival and has worked
as a professional dramaturg in theatres across the country, including several
productions each at the Guthrie and Alley theatres.
Dr. Shimko is an Associate
Professor of Theatre History & Dramaturgy at the University of Houston
where he heads the BFA program in Playwriting/Dramaturgy.
Dr. Shimko recently
received the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award, UH’s top teaching
honor.
Presenter - Jonathan Middents
Sound editing and playback & LED Lighting Instruction
Jonathan Middents has worked on over 330 productions at a
variety of theatres and has consulted on the design or renovation of ten
theatres. His recent design work includes sets for the Houston Shakespeare
Festival 2013 productions of As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, lighting
for the 2014 HSF productions of Henry IV Part 1 and Two Gentlemen of Verona,
sound for The Philadelphia Story, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and the 10-Minute
Play Festival, all at The University of Houston, and scenery and lighting for
Little Shop of Horrors at UH-Downtown.
A Rice University graduate, Jon received
his MFA from Florida State University and has served as Designer/Technical
Director at University of Texas at Austin, UH-Clear Lake, and Indiana State
University.
Jonathan has been the Production Manager and a designer at the
University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance since 1983, and is head of
the School’s Production Area.
Presenter - Paige Willson
Mask
Making
Paige
A. Willson started her mask making as a dancer and performer, influenced by
many different mask cultures, styles and construction techniques; she creates
lightweight, wearable works of art.
She
was the crafts master/ milliner at the Alley Theatre, where her mask work could
be seen in productions such as: A
Christmas Carol, The Crucible, The
Pillowman, Cyrano De Bergerac,
Eurydice and Much Ado About Nothing.
Her masks have been on display at Art on
Broad, in Augusta, Georgia and in the Faculty Exhibit at Rice University.
Some of her costume design credits are, Houston
Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night's
dream 2010, 2002, Much Ado about Nothing, Othello The Tempest, As You Like it,
The Taming of the Shrew 2011, 2004, The Winter’s Tale, Two Gentleman of Verona and Henry 4 Part 1. Sweeny
Todd for Generations, a Theatre Company, Kimberly Akimbo for Mildred’s Umbrella, the premier of Now This by Scott Kaiser, Purple for Karen Stokes Dance and Natural acts in Artificial Water by
Stephan Koplowitz Task Force.
Paige is currently an Assistant Professor of Costume Design and
Technology at the University of Houston.
To register for TheatreFest, visit the TETA website at www.tetatx.com.
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