[NEohioPAL] CPT's Summer Training Intensive w/ Raymond Bobgan

[Faye Hargate]

CPT'S SUMMER TRAINING: ACTION & AUTHENTICITY

Taught by Raymond Bobgan

Deadline for application is June 5th 2014

Join us for a no-frills-tough-love theatre training workshop. Raymond Bobgan, internationally recognized theatre-maker and Cleveland Public Theatre's Executive Artistic Director, will lead participants through a week-long rigorous exploration of ACTION & AUTHENTICITY. Don't expect air conditioning. If you are willing, do expect deep creative exploration. All adventurers and artists welcome.

ACTION & AUTHENTICITY
ACTION & AUTHENTICITY is a rigorous week-long intensive that explores the challenges of creating original performance. This is for directors, writers, designers and actors. In this intensive, everyone will create and everyone will perform.
Director/Creator Raymond Bobgan's work centers on collaborating with performers to create performance that is bold, daring and rooted in the unique imagination of each actor. Deep work on the creation of physical, mental and emotional scores, montaging these scores with original text, layering elements of song and movement, storytelling, and engaging with objects to transform the theatrical space are all hallmarks of this approach to theatre creation.
Focused on the actor-as-creator and the ensemble-driven process, Mr. Bobgan and teaching team will guide participants through techniques that will lead to the creation of original work, which will be performed and shared in a constructive, collaborative workshop environment. Participants will engage in physical and vocal exercises as well as writing explorations in an investigation of individual and group imagination. This is a unique opportunity to explore the process of devising new work and experience working as an ensemble.
Space is limited to 12 participants. We are seeking a class with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. Class enrollment will be based on an application process.

DATES
Sunday, July 19th - Saturday, July 26th
Orientation begins promptly at 12 noon on Sunday, July 19th. Class will be held during the evenings Monday - Friday with 5 hours of on-site class-time per day and longer hours scheduled for the weekend. There may be additional rehearsal time needed for creation assignments. The workshop concludes with a presentation of work created during the intensive and will be complete by 8pm on Saturday, July 26th.

FEE
The full tuition for the intensive is $400. Pay your full balance by June 15th for a discount of $25.00.         CPT will accept up to ½ of this fee to be paid in "sweat-equity" volunteer work.

TRAVEL and HOUSING
Students are responsible for arranging their own travel and housing for the duration of the workshop. We recommend The Cleveland Hostel<http://theclevelandhostel.com/> which is within walking/biking distance to Cleveland Public Theatre. One-week sublets may be available on Craiglist Cleveland<https://cleveland.craigslist.org/> and bike rentals can be found at Ohio City Bicycle Co-op<http://www.ohiocitycycles.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=53>.

TEACHING TEAM
RAYMOND BOBGAN is now in his eighth year as Cleveland Public Theatre's Executive Artistic Director. He was the founding Artistic Director of Wishhounds (aka Theatre Labyrinth) and has directed and collaboratively conceived and created more than thirty new theatrical works. Raymond's theatrical work has been seen in Romania, Brazil, Denmark, Serbia, Turkey, The United Kingdom and Canada and featured in American Theatre Magazine, Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre Journal and in Lisa Wolford's book "Grotowski's Objective Drama Research." He was an inaugural Creative Workforce Fellow of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, funded by the Cuyahoga Arts and Culture in 2011 (Theatre) and again in 2014 (Music Composition). Raymond is an alumnus of Theatre Communications Group/Pew Charitable Trust's National Theatre Artist Residency Program and the TCG/NEA Career Development Program for Directors. Recent creations include: Rusted Heart Broadcast, Year 25 Vigil with Karin Randoja for Humber College at Theatre Passe Murraille (Toronto), Insomnia with Holly Holsinger and Chris Seibert, Cut to Pieces with Chris Seibert and Open Mind Firmament: An Evening of William Butler Yeats. Raymond is also known for his reinterpretations of classics including Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Skin of Our Teeth, and Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke. In 1994, Bobgan initiated the Student Theatre Enrichment Program (STEP), a job training program that engages at-risk youth in writing, producing and performing new plays. Raymond was the premiere director of CPT's Y-Haven Theatre Project, working with men who live in transitional housing to create, perform and tour original plays based on the men's own stories and experiences.
FAYE HARGATE is a performer, installation-artist, educator and creator of original work. She primarily works in devised theatre methods, and focuses on developing semiautobiographical pieces that explore female identity in American culture. Recent works include Royal Ann's Preserve and Echoless Shore at CPT. In 2009, she became the Education Associate at CPT where she aids in the creation and production of the ensemble-driven education theatre works. She is the program director of CPT's Brick City Theatre, working with youth who live in public housing, and has also taught with CPT's STEP. As accomplished performer, notable acting credits at CPT include: Rusted Heart Broadcast, Anna Bella Eema, Open Mind Firmament and The Other Shore. She was Associate Artistic Director/ensemble member of Cleveland's Theater Ninjas from 2006-2009. She is a graduate of the two-year professional theatre program at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris, France, where she specialized in physical theatre, and she earned a BA from Bowdoin College. Faye is a 2014 Creative Workforce Fellow of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, funded by the Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
DARIUS STUBBS is an actor, writer, educator and creator, whose work centers whose work centers on the importance of individual truth and the beauty of interpersonal connection. He is also an accomplished vocalist and teaching artist. In 2007, he began his path as an actor-creator developing original work and adaptations with Cleveland Public Theatre and has collaboratively created over a dozen new works. He has also taught and directed with Cleveland Public Theatre's education programs: STEP, Brick City Theatre and Y-Haven Theatre Project. As a performer, he has appeared in a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional performance venues including Cleveland Public Theatre, 78th Street Studios and Playhouse Square, and notable acting credits include Rusted Heart Broadcast (CPT), 13 Most American Dreams (CPT), Into the Woods (Near West Theatre), Comedy of Errors (Great Lakes Theatre), The Other Shore (CPT), Inoculations (Theater Ninjas) and The Boys Next Door (Medina Showbiz).

APPLICATION
Thank you for your interest in ACTION & AUTHENTICITY week-long summer training intensive. Please complete the application and submit it with your supplemental materials to CPT Education Associate, Faye Hargate, fhargate at cptonline.org<mailto:fhargate at cptonline.org>. Applications will only be accepted by email.

Deadline for application is June 5th 2014


General Information

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Cell Phone (or best number):
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In the past selection for workshops have been quite competitive. We want this training intensive to have a strong impact so we are seeking people who have interesting weaknesses and who will most benefit from working with Raymond. We are also looking to "cast" a good mix of people who will create a strong environment and may play well off each other.
Attach up to two sheets for the following questions:

1.       How do you define yourself in theatre? (i.e.: "director first, playwright second" or "primarily an actor")

2.       Why do you want to take this intensive and what do you hope to learn?

3.       What is your prior experience in creating new work?

4.       If not answered in #2, what are the most important things you are working on as an artist? What's really exciting you? What weaknesses are you addressing and what strengths are you building on?

5.       If you would like to apply for a sweat-equity scholarship (up to $200 of the $400 workshop price) please list skills you could offer or ideas for volunteering.
Supplementary Materials
Include a complete theatre resume.
Application Materials will not be returned to applicants

Faye Hargate
Cleveland Public Theatre
Education Associate
216.631.2727 x207
www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org/>

Faye is a 2014 Creative Workforce Fellow for theatre. The Creative Workforce Fellowship is a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture. The Fellowship program is supported by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.


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