Cleveland Public Theatre presents two workshops this month

IMAGINING ACTIVISM creating work that touches hearts and minds of our community

taught by Tlaloc Rivas, director of Johanna: Facing Forward

A collaborative workshop that combines rigorous physical and creative exercises that focuses on how we can create work based on social / economic / environmental issues.

Saturday, May 30th, 12-5pm
Fee: $60.00*

Tlaloc Rivas is a writer, director, and theatre-maker who creates, develops and directs new plays focusing on the complexity, diversity and history of Latina/os in the United States and abroad. He also directs bilingual plays, classical and contemporary pieces, and new work by some of America’s most exciting writers. Originally from Baja California, Mexico and raised in Northern California, Tlaloc graduated with honors from the University of California Santa Cruz, and received his MFA in Directing from the University of Washington’s School of Drama. He splits his time between Iowa City (as Assistant Professor of Theatre at The University of Iowa) and Pittsburgh, where his wife Megan teaches at Carnegie Mellon University. He also enjoys running and hiking with his dog Xóchitl. Tlaloc is a co-founder of the Latina/o Theatre Commons and serves on the Editorial Board of its online platform, Café Onda.  As former Co-Chair of the LTC’s National Steering Committee, he helped organize the largest gathering of Latina/o artists in 25 years at Emerson College, Boston. He is a member of ATHE’s Latina/o Focus Group, a member of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) and an Associate Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the national union for stage directors and choreographers.


EVERYTHING MOVES: TOUT BOUGEa Lecoq workshop

taught by CPT staff members, Faye Hargate and Cathleen O’Malley

Participants will be introduced to Lecoq theatre exercises as we explore the dynamism of physical forms and their connection with poetic inner life.

Sunday, May 31st, 11-4pm
Fee: $60.00*

Faye Hargate is a performer, installation artist, educator and director. She creates new works, primarily working in devised theatre methods, and focuses on developing semiautobiographical pieces that explore female identity and the tensions between innocence, sexuality and power in American culture. She joined the CPT staff as the Education Associate in 2009, after working at the theatre as an independent artist since 2007. As Education Associate, Faye is the Program Director of CPT’s Brick City Theatre, working with youth who live in public housing, and leads the creation of 3-5 original works every year. She is Program Coordinator of Teatro Publico de Cleveland, working with Raymond Bobgan and local Latin American artists and community members to collaboratively create original plays that authentically share the stories of Teatro participants and reflect the multiplicity of cultures, identities and traditions in Cleveland’s Latin American community. Collaborating with visual artist, and mother, Joan Hargate, Faye has led the creation of performance art installations: She’s Wearing White…, Royal Ann’s Preserve, Echoless Shore and Fellsalie. She is now developing a solo show, Feefer Rising, that explores adolescent female sexuality. As an actor, CPT credits include: Ancestra, Airwaves, Rusted Heart Broadcast, Earth Plays, Akarui, Fever/Dream, Anna Bella Eema, Open Mind Firmament, Don’t Call Me Fat and The Other Shore. Prior to CPT, she was Associate Artistic Director of Cleveland’s Theater Ninjas from 2006-2009 and taught for Cleveland School of the Arts, Laurel School, Art House and Beck Center for the Arts. She is a 2014 Creative Workforce Fellow, a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture created through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. Faye is a graduate of Ecole Jacques Lecoq (Paris, France), a professional theatre training program, and has performed in France and Portugal. She holds a BA degree in Religious Studies and Theatre from Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine) and trained with Cleveland’s Inlet Dance Theatre.

Cathleen O’Malley is an actor/creator with over a decade of experience in the performing arts, education and non-profit sectors. Prior to joining the CPT staff in 2013 at Director of Marketing and Audience Engagement, Cathleen served as the Education Director and Ensemble Member of Touchstone Theatre, where she managed the company’s award-winning education division and collaborated as a performer/devisor on three seasons of original shows. Since relocating to Cleveland, Cathleen has worked as a consultant and teaching artist with PlayhouseSquare’s Community Engagement & Education department, CSU Theatre & Dance, Montessori High School of University Circle, Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio ArtWorks and on the grant-making committee of the Cleveland Foundation’s Neighborhood Connections initiative. She has enjoyed collaborations with companies regionally and abroad, including Relax Your Face (London/Budapest), Zany Umbrella Circus (Amman), Akropolis Performance Lab, PDL, On the Boards (Seattle) and with inmates of the WA State Corrections Center for Women through Freehold Studio’s Engaged Theatre Project. Notable film credits include principal roles in Brand Upon the Brain!, a silent melodrama by Canadian auteur Guy Maddin, and Jenny’s Wedding by Mary Agnes Donaghue, a feature shot in Cleveland starring Katherine Heigl. Cleveland stage credits include the original performance installation Cultivated at Pandemonium ’13, Earth Plays (CPT), Cocopelli (Ensemble), The Emperor’s Ears (Talespinner) and Boston Marriage (Mamai). Cathleen is a graduate of the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) where she trained in Lecoq-based physical theatre, mask, clown, buffoon and ensemble process. She holds an MFA from Naropa University.


*SIGN UP FOR BOTH WORKSHOPS and GET THE SPECIAL PRICE OF $100.00*

Workshops take place at Cleveland Public Theatre. Space is limited and there is a workshop application.

Application is due May 25th 2015.

Contact CPT Education Associate, Faye Hargate, @ fhargate@cptonline.org for application information.

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