Monday, December 21, 2009

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Thanks for checking out A Collection of Shiny Objects and for reading more about the fantastical trifecta of theater pieces I am developing for presentation in Summer 2010, along with my collaborators Jennifer Barclay, Maureen Huskey, Colin Wambsgans, Katie Shook, Sean Cawelti and Rogue Artists Ensemble, and some yet to be named.



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"for the glorious vision" -- Liz E

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Petie DeLarge


The internet is a fascinating place.  I went looking for inspiration and I found a picture of Petie.

Original artwork by Rik Rawling (via 'Rik Rawling's Psych Skull')

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Announcing the Director for THE EXILE OF PETIE DELARGE

Beautiful, exciting, ground-breaking Maureen Huskey, who I had the pleasure of working with previously at CalArts, has agreed to lead the workshop of The Exile of Petie DeLarge by Jennifer Barclay!

More about Maureen:

Maureen Huskey is an award-winning theater director based in Los Angeles since 2006.   Most recently, she was the Assistant Director for Lenka Udovicki for UCLA Live's Medea starring Annette Bening. Maureen received the 2008-09 Princess Grace Honorarium Award for Theater Directing.  As co-creator and director of the New York based, site-specific theater group Red Dive (1996-2006), she brought audiences down Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal via pontoon boat (Peripheral City), through narrow streets of Lower Manhattan, and to historic landmarks like the Lower East Side Tenement Building to re-envision the buried stories of New York landscapes.  This cross-disciplinary, experimental work that incorporated the work of dozens of New York's emerging artists garnered her a Bessie Award for 'performance installation and new media' and support by the Creative Capital Foundation, Franklin Furnace Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Meet the Composer's Fund, The Heathcote Foundation, and the Foundry Theatre's Emerging Artist Award among others.
 
Maureen's original movement-theater projects in New York have been supported by Voice & Vision's Envision Development Program for Women theater artists, New Dance Alliance, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange and the New York State Council for the Arts, BRIC Studios, the Brooklyn Arts Council and through independent artist residencies through The Field, and others. Her New York directing collaborations with dance artists and small companies have been presented in such venues as The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, Joe's Pub, Joyce SOHO, PS122, New Dance Alliance and HERE Arts Center.  In addition to New York and Los Angeles, Maureen's directing work has been presented in festivals in Chicago, Vancouver, San Francisco and Vienna, Austria.  She is currently a national workshop leader for the Creative Capital Foundation's Professional Development Program.  As a Rotary Fellow she received a Diploma with Merit in Drama from the University of Kent at Canterbury in England.  She holds a MFA in Theater Directing from California Institute of the Arts (2009).

Maureen has taught directing to undergraduate and graduate students at the California Institute for the Arts and led workshops in acting, movement/voice and site-specific installation to students at Western State College in Colorado, Bard College in New York through the Voice & Vision Envision Retreat, and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange.

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I'm tellin' you folks, when we get this whole thing together, it's gonna be a show you ain't gonna wanna miss.   
I'm not sayin', but I'm just sayin'.  -- Liz E