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Workshop Title: Moment Work, Tectonic Theater Project – Workshop 1 Workshop Title: Moment Work, Tectonic Theater Project – Workshop 2 (Repeat of Workshop 1) Tickets Available: 25 Ticket Price: $50/per person Artist: Tectonic Theatre Workshop Description: Bio:
Workshop Title: What a Drag! Tickets Available: 30 Artist: Corey Martin Workshop Description: Bio:
Workshop Title: Tony Walton: “Creative Collaboration” Tickets Available: 30 Artist: Tony Walton Workshop Descriptions: Tony Walton is an award-winning director and production designer for Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, television, ballet and opera. He has been honored with 16 Tony Award Nominations for his Broadway sets and/or costumes, with Pippin, House of Blue Leaves, and Guys and Dolls winning him Tony Awards. Among his 20 films, Mary Poppins, The Boy Friend, The Wiz and Murder on the Orient Express earned him 5 Academy Award nominations. He won an Oscar for Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, and an Emmy for Death of a Salesman.
Walton’s designs for Broadway include Bob Fosse’s original productions of Chicago and Pippin, Grand Hotel, The Real Thing, The Will Rogers Follies, The House of Blue Leaves, Our Town, I’m Not Rappaport, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Uncle Vanya, Annie Get Your Gun, 1776, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes, Harold Pinter’s Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes, and the recent A Tale of Two Cities and Well, among many others. He was the Production Designer for Madison Square Garden’s Christmas Carol for 10 years as well as for Julie Andrews’ 2003 revival of The Boy Friend for Bay Street Theatre and for Goodspeed Opera House, followed by a national U.S. tour in 2005. His film work includes collaborations with directors Bob Fosse, Sidney Lumet, Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Ken Russell, Volcker Schlondorf, and Francois Truffaut. These 20 films include: Mary Poppins, Murder on the Orient Express, Fahrenheit 451, The Wiz, The Boy Friend, All That Jazz, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, Regarding Henry, and Deathtrap. His graphic work includes a great many book and magazine illustrations, as well as caricatures for Playbill, Theatre Arts, Vogue, etc. and posters for many Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows. During the last 17 years, Walton has turned his hand to directing, and has directed productions of Wilde, Shaw, Coward, and others for New York’s Irish Rep, San Diego’s Old Globe, Sarasota’s Asolo Rep, East Hampton’s John Drew Theatre, and the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor. He both directed and designed the smash hit revival of Where’s Charley? for the Goodspeed Opera House and the U.S. premiere of Noël Coward’s After the Ball (a musical version of Lady Windermere’s Fan) for the Irish Repertory Theatre for whom he also directed and designed The Importance of Being Earnest, Major Barbara, Candida and the recent The Devil’s Disciple, which he restaged for the Asolo Rep in Sarasota, Florida. Other direction includes Noël Coward’s A Song at Twilight for Bay Street Theatre, Gen LeRoy’s Missing Footage for San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, and Oops! The Big Apple Circus Stage Show for a 60 city U.S. tour. At the John Drew Theatre, Guild Hall, Easthampton, he staged Orson Welles' Moby Dick Rehearsed starring Peter Boyle and two plays by Peter Shaffer — both starring Alec Baldwin — Equus and The Gift of the Gorgon. Most recently, he staged Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8:30, starring Blythe Danner and Simon Jones, on the same stage. As a producer, Walton has co-presented six productions — plays and musicals — in London; three in association with the legendary Hal Prince. His designs for opera have been seen at London’s Theatre Royal Covent Garden, The Sadler’s Wells Opera Company and throughout Europe and America. His many ballet designs include St. Louis Woman for Dance Theatre of Harlem at Lincoln Center and Peter and the Wolf and the new Sleeping Beauty for American Ballet Theatre at the Met … plus many ballets for the San Francisco Ballet Company. Tony Walton was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1991. He lives in New York City with his wife, author Gen LeRoy Walton. The pair have two daughters, Emma Walton Hamilton and Bridget LeRoy, and five grandchildren.
Workshop Title: Tony Walton: “My Fair Lady Revival: Creating Ascot on a Flower Girl Budget" Tickets Available: 30 Ticket Price: $25/per person Artist: Tony Walton Workshop Description: Bio: Tony Walton is an award-winning director and production designer for Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, television, ballet and opera. He has been honored with 16 Tony Award Nominations for his Broadway sets and/or costumes, with Pippin, House of Blue Leaves, and Guys and Dolls winning him Tony Awards. Among his 20 films, Mary Poppins, The Boy Friend, The Wiz and Murder on the Orient Express earned him 5 Academy Award nominations. He won an Oscar for Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, and an Emmy for Death of a Salesman. Walton’s designs for Broadway include Bob Fosse’s original productions of Chicago and Pippin, Grand Hotel, The Real Thing, The Will Rogers Follies, The House of Blue Leaves, Our Town, I’m Not Rappaport, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Uncle Vanya, Annie Get Your Gun, 1776, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes, Harold Pinter’s Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes, and the recent A Tale of Two Cities and Well, among many others. He was the Production Designer for Madison Square Garden’s Christmas Carol for 10 years as well as for Julie Andrews’ 2003 revival of The Boy Friend for Bay Street Theatre and for Goodspeed Opera House, followed by a national U.S. tour in 2005. His film work includes collaborations with directors Bob Fosse, Sidney Lumet, Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Ken Russell, Volcker Schlondorf, and Francois Truffaut. These 20 films include: Mary Poppins, Murder on the Orient Express, Fahrenheit 451, The Wiz, The Boy Friend, All That Jazz, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, Regarding Henry, and Deathtrap. His graphic work includes a great many book and magazine illustrations, as well as caricatures for Playbill, Theatre Arts, Vogue, etc. and posters for many Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows. During the last 17 years, Walton has turned his hand to directing, and has directed productions of Wilde, Shaw, Coward, and others for New York’s Irish Rep, San Diego’s Old Globe, Sarasota’s Asolo Rep, East Hampton’s John Drew Theatre, and the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor. He both directed and designed the smash hit revival of Where’s Charley? for the Goodspeed Opera House and the U.S. premiere of Noël Coward’s After the Ball (a musical version of Lady Windermere’s Fan) for the Irish Repertory Theatre for whom he also directed and designed The Importance of Being Earnest, Major Barbara, Candida and the recent The Devil’s Disciple, which he restaged for the Asolo Rep in Sarasota, Florida. Other direction includes Noël Coward’s A Song at Twilight for Bay Street Theatre, Gen LeRoy’s Missing Footage for San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, and Oops! The Big Apple Circus Stage Show for a 60 city U.S. tour. At the John Drew Theatre, Guild Hall, Easthampton, he staged Orson Welles' Moby Dick Rehearsed starring Peter Boyle and two plays by Peter Shaffer — both starring Alec Baldwin — Equus and The Gift of the Gorgon. Most recently, he staged Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8:30, starring Blythe Danner and Simon Jones, on the same stage. As a producer, Walton has co-presented six productions — plays and musicals — in London; three in association with the legendary Hal Prince. His designs for opera have been seen at London’s Theatre Royal Covent Garden, The Sadler’s Wells Opera Company and throughout Europe and America. His many ballet designs include St. Louis Woman for Dance Theatre of Harlem at Lincoln Center and Peter and the Wolf and the new Sleeping Beauty for American Ballet Theatre at the Met … plus many ballets for the San Francisco Ballet Company. Tony Walton was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1991. He lives in New York City with his wife, author Gen LeRoy Walton. The pair have two daughters, Emma Walton Hamilton and Bridget LeRoy, and five grandchildren.
Workshop Title: Theatre Design: Effective Communication and Design Management Tickets Available: 100 Grad Student Tickets Available Artist: Caitlin Graham Workshop Description: As an artist she will discuss the trials and triumphs of working with varying budgets and engage in a dialogue on what the future may look like for the upcoming generations of artists and designers who aim to devise design driven theatre and new theatrical work. Bio: Graham's background in fashion and performance has led her to pursue a career in costume design where she can combine current fashion influences and historical research together to develop and translate a character's visual identity to a modern audience. Her academic research focuses on sub-culture fashion, sculpture, historical dress and fashion photography & portraiture.
Workshop Title: La Chica Boom Tickets Available: 50 Artist: Xandra Ibarra Workshop Description: Bio: Ibarra’s work has been exhibited at El Museo de Arte Contemporañeo (Bogotá, Colombia), Broad Museum (LA, USA), Popa Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Joe’s Pub (NYC), PPOW Gallery (NYC), and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF) to name a few. She has been awarded the Art Matters Fund, NALAC Fund for the Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Away Award, ReGen Artist Fund, Theater Bay Area Grant and the Franklin Furnace Performance and Variable Media Award. Her work has also been published and featured in Women and Performance Journal: a journal of feminist theory, GLQ: a journal of gay and lesbian studies, Art Practical, The Drama Review: the journal of performance studies, Art and Architecture in the Americas, Artforum and Hyperallergic among others. As a community organizer, Ibarra’s work is located within immigrant, anti-rape and prison abolitionist movements. Since 2003, she has actively participated in organizing with INCITE!, a national feminist of color organization dedicated to creating interventions at the intersection of state and interpersonal violence. As a lecturer, Ibarra has taught ethnic studies and sexuality studies courses in the Race and Resistance program at San Francisco State University. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the California College of the Arts and teaches philosophy and art history classes in the Critical Studies program. Workshop Title: Cirque Mechanics Workshop Tickets Available: 20 Workshop Description: |
2/8/2017THFG Debut Panel
10/21/2016SYMPOSIUM 2017 Call for Proposals
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