Masterclasses and Workshops
Creating New Work – Taught by Greg Pierotti
Open to the Public, limited to 16 participants. First come, first serve. There is no cost to participate.
This 2-day workshop will focus on the Tectonic Theater Project’s technique of moment work and the interview process to create new work. Participants should come ready to move – so please dress accordingly.
Greg Pierotti is a writer, actor, teacher and has been a member of Tectonic Theater Project for 13 years. He is an associate writer of The Laramie Project, and was a writer on the teleplay adapted for HBO (emmy and GLAAD award nominations). He has performed the The Laramie Project, at Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Denver Center, and The Union Square Theater in NY. He is the head writer of The People’s Temple, for which he and the playwright Leigh Fondakowski, along with their other collaborators, received the Will Glickman Award for best New American play. He performed The People’s Temple at Berekely Repertory Theater, Perseverance Theater, and The Guthrie. As a writer/actor he has developed and/or performed original and classical work at Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, The Magic, The Atlantic Theatre Company, The Sundance Theatre Lab in Utah, New York Theatre Workshop, and the NYTW summer writer’s lab at Dartmouth. Most recently he is collaborating on and epilogue to The Laramie Project, which revisits the town ten years after the murder of Matthew Shepard. Greg is one of four master teachers of moment work technique – a technique of writing performance developed by Moises Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project. He has taught this work at high schools and colleges around the country and in Naropa University’s MFA for contemporary performance.
October 8 & 9, 2009
6-9 pm
Center for Creative Arts – Metropolitan Campus
To register: please contact Dorothy Hirsch at 216-987-4940 or dorothy.hirsch@tri-c.edu
“Backstage With” L.A. Theatreworks
October 15, 2009
6 pm
Idea Center – PlayhouseSquare
More information to come!