11th Grade Classes and Video Fun
Nick from Atlantic Theater Company, here! Atlantic's Staging Success program has been going well this year, and I can hardly believe that the school year will be coming to an end in the next few...
View ArticleIntroducing the Artist-Investigator Program
The Triangle Lab -- a joint program of Cal Shakes and Intersection for the Arts -- brings theaters, artists, and communities together to make change. When we started thinking about how performance can...
View ArticleMeet Senior Class President: Arely Diaz-Loza
Arely Diaz-Loza as Mia in Lunch Lady Courage. Photo by Kevin Michael Campbell. We love working with youth, gardens and food and we've thoroughly enjoyed connecting with the students at LAHSA. We're...
View ArticleMarilin Lopez-Bermudez on portraying a silent character
Photo by Kevin Michael Campbell. We love working with youth, gardens and food and we've thoroughly enjoyed connecting with the students at LAHSA. We're observing this play transform into a powerful...
View ArticleA-ha Artisan Exchange: Josh Kelly Comes to Ashland
Hello from Oregon! My name is Josh Kelley and I am the lead crafts artisan at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC. As The Shakespeare Theatre's costume painter/dyer, I hold a year round position...
View ArticleJosh Kelly: Living in Oregon
Being a Midwesterner living on the East coast for 13 years, SW Oregon is a whole new ballgame. I've come at the changeover from spring to summer. The spring rains and leftover snow in the mountains...
View ArticleJosh Kelly: Getting Fresh Ideas
I'm spending the majority of my time here in the dye/paint area. When I first arrived, I was the fourth person in the space. The range of experience is broad, with a combined total of more than 60...
View ArticleJosh Kelly: Shows, Shows, Shows!
In my time here, I will have seen 10 of the 11 shows being produced at OSF this season. I started with the Elizabethan Stage shows. Having done two of the shows in the recent past, I was very familiar...
View ArticleKate Lucibella: DC to Ashland and All of I-80 In Between
OK, so I didn’t exactly drive the entire length of I-80, but I came close. My name is Kate Lucibella and I traveled from the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC to participate in an A Ha!...
View ArticleJosh Kelly: How to Be Better
Over the past four weeks I've been able to observe two important management events. The costume staff participated in end of the year performance reviews. The process is simple with a single-page...
View ArticleJosh Kelly: My Last Week
I leave for home in just a few short days. I'm already looking forward to working with Chris and being her tour guide to DC. (Chris Carpenter is the OSF crafts artisan who will travel to DC early in...
View ArticleKate Lucibella: Tech, Crater Lake, the 4th of July, and San Francisco
Stagehand Kate Lucibella is participating in an A Ha! Artisan Exchange at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The last couple weeks have been busy. I spent about a week and a half backstage for the tech...
View ArticleKate Lucibella: Automation and the Pacific
This past week I was lucky enough to spend some time with OSF automation programmer Jennifer Hanson and electrical designer Ryan Poethke. Jennifer was kind enough to take me through the typical OSF...
View ArticleDanielle Richter: The Coldest Place on Earth with the Best People on Earth.
Being from Texas, I have a different definition of the word “cold” and “winter.” I thought living in Ashland, Oregon, working for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, I’d experienced cold weather. Ashland is...
View ArticleDanielle Richter: Tech Tech and More Tech
The past couple of weeks have been crazy. In three weeks, we’ve had tech for two shows and opened two shows. I’ve never done tech back to back like that before. At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, we...
View ArticleDonna Memmer at the Alliance Theatre
I arrived in Atlanta on Sunday January 5th and took the MARTA train into midtown. Easy, fast, cheap and clean. I was immediately thrown into the Alliance Theatre’s production of The Geller Girls,...
View ArticleMike Hamer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Greetings! My name is Mike Hamer, and I am participating in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Artisan Exchange Program. I am from Denver, Colorado and have lived there my entire life. I studied...
View ArticleMike Hamer at OSF: Week 2
I have now been in Ashland for two weeks working in the scene shop for OSF. I continue to work on a few notes as they arise for the shows. One of the greatest challenges of operating in a repertory...
View ArticleChris Carpenter at the Shakespeare Theatre
Chris Carpenter is a dyer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is participating in an A Ha! funded artisan exchange at The Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington DC. Greetings from Washington...
View ArticleDonna Memmer at the Alliance Theatre
When I first arrived at the Alliance, I wanted to find all the ways that our two theatres were different. Halfway through my exchange, I started seeing the ways we are similar, if not the same....
View ArticleChris Carpenter at Shakespeare Theater Company
At Shakespeare Theater Company, it is so nice to be able to work on one show at a time, unlike OSF which had nine shows in the shop when I left. It allows for the privilege of concentration. This is...
View ArticleChris Carpenter at STC - Painting Costumes
In the process of of looking at sketches to determine the painting of racks of costumes for Henry IV, I was very surprised to come across this one. Look closely......who is that playing The Lord Chief...
View ArticleArtisan Exchange: Matt Wolfe at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
I've come to Ashland Oregon for the A Ha! Artisan Exchange program and it is absolutely beautiful here. There's a mountain that looks over the town; at least I'm calling it a mountain. I'm not sure if...
View ArticleA Ha! Artisan Exchange: Erin Chesnut
I'm Erin Chesnut and I've been a scenic carpenter at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the past 7 years. I started working at OSF when I was barely out of college. At the time, I had one year of...
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