Description
Professional Development Workshops
Limited spots: APPLY SOON!
Submissions requirements differ
Please send expressions of interest to: submissions@redbetitheatre.org
Located at Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton
Saturday, October 5th - Donna-Michelle's Spoken Word/Hip Hop Workshop 10 am -1 pm
Poetry in Play: Explore approaches to integrating poetry, hip hop or spoken word into theatrical text with emcee/poet/playwright Donna -Michelle St. Bernard.
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard aka Belladonna the Blest is an emcee, playwright and agitator. Her body of work includes the 54ology (The First Stone, Diggers, Cake, Sound of the Beast, A Man A Fish, Salome’s Clothes, Gas Girls, Give It Up and The Smell of Horses), opera libretti Forbidden (Afarin Mansouri/Tapestry Opera) and Oubliette (Ivan Barbotin/Tapestry Opera) works for young audiences (Reaching For Starlight, Pirate and the Lone Voice) and collaborations (The Only Good Indian with Pandemic Theatre, 501: Toronto in Transit with Theatre Passe Muraille, The House You Build with Gordon Tootoosis Nekaniwin Theatre). She is co-editor with Yvette Nolan of the Playwrights Canada Press anthologies Refractions: Solo and Refractions: Scenes, as well as editor of Indian Act: Residential School Plays. With a focus on finding subtext and nuance in the script, this brief workshop will offer participants tools to deconstruct text and enhance their performances.
Actor Submissions:
Submit A PAGE OF POETRY AND A SYNOPSIS OF YOUR PLAY. Those of interest will be contacted. Must be able to participate in THIS workshop AND ATTEND DYE plays.
