collaboration
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Despite directing a showcase of three short plays this month, I still managed to get to 12 other performances in September (6 of them in the same weekend!!). For more on the showcase I directed, She Writes: What’s Through the Door? check out the project page on my website, or the 17Percent site with links…
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What a week! Dare I say I spent the last seven days pioneering a new way of making theatre? I love living in the future! Directors Lisa Szolovits, Wolfgang Wachalovsky and I met at Directors Lab West in May 2012. Having known each other a grand total of four days, we began to make plans…
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It’s been a while since I last gushed about the sublime insanity of collaborating with Megan Cohen on The Helen Project. We’ve been pretty busy gearing up for our developmental workshop at DIVAfest this May. In the last couple of months, we’ve revised our notion of who/when our five Helens are, tried out a few…
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Megan and I are getting pretty excited about our upcoming workshop of The Helen Project at DIVAfest this May! One of the many things on our to-do list – along with assembling our creative team, budgeting, brainstorming on the form and functionality of the “online interactive CyberJourney” and you know, continuing to write, edit, and…
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The San Francisco Olympians Festival Phoebe & Theia by Amy Clare Tasker directed by Annie Paladino starring Siobhan Marie Doherty and Marilet Martinez December 7, 2012 at 8PM As is the case with many female figures in ancient history and mythology, not much is known about Phoebe and Theia beyond the names of their husbands…
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Megan and I are pulling together found text for the incarnation of Helen we’ve come to call “The Face,” who speaks only in language handed down to her through the ages from epic poetry to contemporary academia. This poem is a contender for one of these found text Odes. Helen of Troy by Sara Teasdale,…
AMY CLARE TASKER 