School Residencies
“Your energy, enthusiasm, and the way you drive them out is fabulous.”
— 7th grade teacher
Let us bring our expert faculty into the classroom! Our skilled teachers and theatre professionals are available to teach workshops and master classes on any of the following topics:
- Commedia dell’Arte
- Character mask improvisation (as seen in above photo)
- Improvisation (short and long form)
- Acting techniques (a variety, inluding Stanislavsky and Viewpoints)
- Understanding the world of a play (text analysis)
- Shakespeare
- Movement for the actor
- Directing 101
- Classical Literature & Imbedded Bias (Racism & Misogyny)
Price
- Master Class — $150/hour
- Mask use (Commedia Dell’Arte or character) — $40/day
- Transportation (to come out to you) — $50/day
We know from experience how tricky it has been to create theatre that is safe for our actors without sacrificing their clarity as storytellers.
That is why Traveling Players created an innovative technique that combines character mask with safety masks. Check out this example from our recent production of Carlo Gozzi’s The Blue Monster!
Developed through multiple templates by Artistic Director Jeanne Harrison (MA, MFA, Director, Actor Trainer) an expert in character mask with over 30 years of teaching experience, and Technical Artists Morgan Shotwell (BA, Director, Designer) and Wallace Crehan (BA, Sculptor, Textile Artist, Designer), our technique translates the characters in your plays into mask archetypes that are easily understood by audiences and enhance your production.
If you are interested in learning more and would like to talk to us about how we can customize a mask program to fit your productions’ needs, please email us at outreach@travelingplayers.org.
Traveling Players can direct and produce your school play! We can do classical or contemporary, comedy or tragedy (or somewhere in between). Musicals might be a good fit, on a case-by-case basis.
Please contact programassistant@travelingplayers.org with details — we can discuss what would be a good fit, and write you a proposal.
- $150/hour — Master Class
- $40/day — Mask use (Commedia Dell’Arte or paper character)
- $50/day — Transportation to come out to you
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