skidmore theater living newsletter
New Works Lab: Things We Both Like and Why
STLN writer Joe Newman-Getzler ’21 reflects on his experience watching the New Works Lab “Things We Both Like and Why”
Visiting Artists: The Living Theatre
This past weekend, Skidmore Theater welcomed Jerry Goralnick and Lois Kagan Mingus, members of The Living Theatre, to teach a three day workshop.
Studio Lab #1: The Zoo Story
Staff Writer Billy Winter ’18 covers the JKB’s first studio lab of the semester.
Leading Ladies: The Direction is Female
Editor-in-Chief, Ziggy Schulting ’18, gives Living Newsletter readers the run-down on this season’s fierce female directors and their projects.
Summer Spotlights
Read about what Skidmore Theater students have been up to this summer in the field, with experiences that span from right here in Saratoga to all the way across the country.
Spring 2017 New Works Lab #2: Adore
Staff Writer Kallan Dana ’19 on our final New Works Lab of the semester “Adore,” written and directed by Jack Mulheron ’17.
5 Questions for Writer/Director Jack Mulhern ’17
“Adore,” the final New Works Lab of the semester, is a multi-media approach to a homecoming story. STLN writer Nina Slowinski talks with writer/director Jack Mulhern about his experience combining media and theater.
Spring 2017 Mainstage: “Balm in Gilead”
Three Rules of “Balm in Gilead”:
1.) There is an 85 cent minimum to sit at a booth.
2.) A junkie never falls off his stool.
3.) Dopey is our guide in this world of chaos, and the audience’s only hope of knowing where to look.
Spring 2017 Studio Lab #3: “Four Ten Minute Plays”
By Zoe Lesser “Ultimately, we are looking to tell four distinct truths—a task difficult enough to achieve with just one story. Yet, we also acknowledge that we cannot mask our theatrical setting, nor will we try to—we will only reveal it further.” Director Nina Slowinski ’19 prefaces Four Ten Minute Plays with this excerpt […]
Minute-to-Minute: “Balm in Gilead” takes Compton’s
Philip Merrick ’19 attends guerilla marketing “Balm in Gilead” event at Compton’s and gives the Living Newsletter a minute-to-minute debrief of what went down.
Creating Character in Chaos: How to Exist within Balm in Gilead
Staff writer Kallan Dana ’19 investigates how the world of Balm in Gilead acts as a petri dish for the company and characters to grow and evolve—or, rather, devolve, in this semester’s upcoming Mainstage production.
Accenting Authenticity: An Inside Look at Studio Lab #3
STLN staff writer Anabel Milton sits down with director Nina Slowinski ’19, actor Philip Merrick ’19, as well as stage manager and light/sound designer Miranda Coble ’19, to discuss the collaborative, and sometimes unconventional, rehearsal process thus far.
Spring 2017 Studio Lab #2: “Knights of the Sales Office”
This production of Knights of The Sales Office, written by Hank Greene and directed by Mira Lamson Klein ’18, demonstrates the rigidity of corporate office culture and simultaneously displays how monotony can collapse with the slightest prod.
5 Questions for “Knights of the Sales Office” Director Mira Klein ’18
STLN staff writer Zoe Lesser ’19 sits down with Studio Lab director Mira Klein ’18 to discuss her upcoming production of “Knights of the Sales Office”
Spring 2017 Black Box: “Fragments”
“Common sense should determine the stage movement. Let groups form and un-form, but let it be so casual we’re not aware of it. Do not be specific about ‘where we are’ or who the characters ‘are’; they are who they portray, and they are where they are.” – Edward Albee
Spring 2017 New Works Lab #1: VOX: WOM(A)N
VOX: WOM(A)N, directed by Lebo McKoena ’18, is a devised piece that serves as an exploration of womanhood.
Inside “Fragments” with Director Shea Leavis ’17
Staff writer Philip Merrick ’19 sits down with student director Shea Leavis ’17 to get the inside scoop days before the opening of this semester’s Black Box production.
9 Questions for “VOX: WOM(A)N” Director Lebo McKoena ’18
STLN staff writer Sarah Marlin ’20 talks with director Lebo McKoena ’18 about her upcoming New Works Lab
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