tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40825934199106638692024-03-05T00:00:30.094-05:00Think It, Do It, Blog itTrack the progress of the MetLife/TCG A-ha! grant recipients.tcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02448486531753627689noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-90903177210424715692014-04-30T13:16:00.004-04:002014-04-30T19:09:31.897-04:00A Ha! Artisan Exchange: Erin ChesnutI'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 carpentry experience in a tiny theatre company that numbered 15 people from the artistic director down to me, the carpentry intern. Going from that to OSF, a company of hundreds of talented theatre Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-68321477769448536552014-04-15T15:33:00.006-04:002014-04-15T15:39:03.332-04:00Artisan Exchange: Matt Wolfe at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalI'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 it's tall enough to qualify or not, but it had snow on it on a day when the rest of the town was warm and sunny, so I'm calling it a mountain. I can't get a good picture of it. I keep trying, but Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-11893156011316580162014-03-18T12:10:00.000-04:002014-03-18T12:11:47.115-04:00Chris Carpenter at STC - Painting CostumesIn
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 Justice? Derrick
Weeden! Such a small world.
Costume designer Anne Hould-Ward has requested a final painting touch be given to the costumes. It is a flick of a Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-29760388307482830162014-03-13T19:46:00.000-04:002014-03-13T20:03:18.842-04:00Chris 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 certainly needed with the show we are
working on now, Henry IV, Parts One & Two; yes both parts at the
same time. The costume designs are by Anne Hould-Ward, who I worked with at the Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-86443405269812151732014-03-03T19:20:00.006-05:002014-03-04T16:04:49.231-05:00Donna 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.
Since my last blog, I attended the opening of The Geller Girls, a
well done production of a new play set in Atlanta 1895. I hadn't realized
how long it had been since I had seen another Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-5041103226326083462014-02-27T19:34:00.001-05:002014-02-27T19:38:31.822-05:00Chris 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 DC,
It's snowing!
It's beautiful. Here is my little apartment two blocks from the costume shop.
The
first thing that hits you upon entering the Shakespeare Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-50302327511558936272014-02-19T13:18:00.000-05:002014-02-19T13:36:54.014-05:00Mike 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 schedule is to find the time and opportunity
to do set notes. Many of
those notes need to be done while the scenery is in its proper place on
stage. However, in a rep scheduleOregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-10742287834820099272014-02-10T13:23:00.001-05:002014-02-10T13:23:36.069-05:00Mike 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 Technical Theatre at the
University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. While attending UNC, I began working as an
over-hire carpenter at the Denver Center Theatre Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-20818408367277464202014-01-22T19:37:00.004-05:002014-01-23T12:50:36.687-05:00Donna 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,
finishing the clothes needed for tech rehearsals. Costumes are designed by Linda Roethke. The play is about two
sisters (one a dressmaker), their father who runs an Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-53022639621207912332013-12-02T18:11:00.002-05:002013-12-02T18:11:21.109-05:00Danielle 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 normally don’t work on two shows that open back to
back. At Milwaukee Rep, as soon as we got into Noises Off tech, we were building, setting, and
styling wigs and facial hair for A Christmas Carol Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-30323329122110124242013-11-14T12:04:00.002-05:002013-11-14T12:04:38.954-05:00Danielle 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 nothing
compared to Milwaukee… In my first week working at Milwaukee Repertory Theater
I feel like I’ve experienced it all weather wise. My first day it was 40
degrees and pouring rain, and the nextOregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-8673933517284369102013-07-22T11:37:00.000-04:002013-07-22T11:37:06.936-04:00Kate 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 automation training as well as a walk-through of
the operating system as well as the physical pieces that are used on a regular
basis.
The software and operating system are developed Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-49853741072319164962013-07-09T19:09:00.003-04:002013-07-09T19:10:28.248-04:00Kate Lucibella: Tech, Crater Lake, the 4th of July, and San FranciscoStagehand 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 of The Liquid Plain; a new
work by Naomi Wallace. It’s a beautiful
piece that takes place during the years of the transatlantic slave trade. It also has some of the best use of
Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-15158398916725763092013-07-03T12:38:00.000-04:002013-07-03T12:38:04.863-04:00Josh Kelly: My Last WeekI 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 2014 for an exchange.) I plan on
introducing her to the other crafts artisans and costume shops around town as
well as the DC that tourists come to see. This past Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-78845128114797077272013-06-25T11:53:00.001-04:002013-06-25T11:53:42.017-04:00Josh 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 document of questions, filled out by the employee and the costume shop management and discussed in a meeting. In discussion with the staff, I get the impression that it's the time to talk Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-86583738254181850242013-06-25T11:44:00.001-04:002013-06-25T11:44:11.883-04:00Kate 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! Artisan Exchange with th Stage Operations department at OSF.
You only get so many opportunities to drive across country and I felt
like I couldn’t pass this one up. It
tookOregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-26835902767428546122013-06-19T11:39:00.004-04:002013-06-19T11:40:03.100-04:00Josh 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 with them. I honestly
preferred The Shakespeare Theatre productions, however my work was involved to
say the least so I had a lot invested. I saw an evening performance of
The Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-7420999848688574962013-06-17T14:45:00.002-04:002013-06-17T14:45:29.184-04:00Josh Kelly: Getting Fresh IdeasI'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 years of textile modification. I started by
going around the room and saying things like, "What's this used for? Where
do you buy that? Which do you prefer? How on earth did you doOregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-44588786524366046922013-06-12T11:33:00.004-04:002013-06-12T11:33:48.618-04:00Josh 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 made for beautiful cool and sometimes cold
evenings and mornings. As we've transitioned to summer weather, the dry heat
can take your breath away. And the sun! There hasn't been a cloudOregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-4361468956970144752013-06-11T13:04:00.002-04:002013-06-11T13:07:14.319-04:00A-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 to create all costume props or crafts for all of our 7 original productions. My A-ha Artisan Exchange has
brought me to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival costume shop, which has Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14268224827835436564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-51506745886135429932013-05-06T20:59:00.003-04:002013-05-16T15:01:08.081-04:00Marilin 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 and truly meaningful apart of their lives. Through our weekly interviews with them, we have learned about their motivations and appreciation for theater, their Cornerstone Theater Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17582214889911303116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-6277354096874889292013-04-25T16:01:00.001-04:002013-04-25T16:03:32.542-04:00Meet 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 observing this play transform into a powerful and truly meaningful apart of their lives. Through our weekly interviews with them, we have learned about their motivations and appreciation Cornerstone Theater Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17582214889911303116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-31948634750996599902013-04-15T13:16:00.002-04:002013-04-15T13:16:33.463-04:00Introducing the Artist-Investigator ProgramThe 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 play a role in making change, solving urban problems, and engaging broader participation from more different people, we knew we wanted to ask artists to tell us what they think the Rebecca Novickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01766562397524657501noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-85294516318574227362013-03-20T16:39:00.002-04:002013-03-20T16:39:32.639-04:0011th Grade Classes and Video FunNick 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 months.
Right now, classes are underway for 11th graders at Park Slope Collegiate (PSC) in Brooklyn. This is the most comprehensive year of our Staging Success program. Over the course of ten weeks, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082593419910663869.post-20188655131911640242013-03-14T13:34:00.002-04:002013-03-14T13:34:26.742-04:00Chris Perme: Rep in DC<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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