Update 8 — Sustainable Theater Workshop — Teach Me How to Dougie
Hanging out with some really sweet kids in Mirebalais. They tought me how to Dougie. Enjoy! Shelah Teach me how to Dougie.. from Shelah Marie on Vimeo.
View ArticleUpdate 9 — Sustainable Theater Workshop — Visiting schools.
Update 8 — Visiting some schools – Medium from Shelah Marie on Vimeo. We visited L’Ecole De Choix in Mirebalais. It’s pretty revolutionary what they are doing. It’s a tri-lingual school that targets...
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Update 10 — Setbacks & Such — Sustainable Theater Workshop
Going with the flow? August 7th, 2012 We stopped by this waterfall in Mirebalais, Haiti where residents believe the water to have healing purposes. I’m all for it. I arrived to Haiti on July 30th. I...
View ArticleArticle published about The Sustainable Theater Workshop!
Check out this really great article published about the workshop from StageDirections.com. Brooklyn-based performer Shelah Marie created The Sustainable Theater Workshop to help teach Haitian children...
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Update 11 — Sustainable Theater Workshop — Shifting expectations
Shifting expectations – August 8, 2012 So I’m wondering now, was it unrealistic of me to think that a program, any program, especially one running in an agricultural city severely lacking resources,...
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Update 12 — Sustainable Theater Workshop — What I’ve learned
Three weeks doesn’t seem like a long time, but for me, this trip to Haiti felt like years. Maybe it was the sharp shift in lifestyle (easy to get conceptually, much harder to bear experientially) or...
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The Performance of Practice: Dance at DNA
One day at the end of class I heard Sasha say, “Now would be the time to let me know if you’d like to audition.” “Audition for what”, I thought? Without knowing fully what I was getting myself into,...
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Site Specific Theater & Scaring White People
I’m tickled that I got accepted into the Site Specific & Immersive Theater Workshop presented by Kevin Spacey’s Old Vic Theater. Aww sheeeiiit. It’s a workshop specifically for theater...
View ArticleScene study and scene writing
Things in my life always seem to have a weird way of tying together. Through my collaborator Noelle Ghoussaini I heard of Arian Moayed‘s scene study class. It was a really unique experience because...
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Write. Act. Repeat.
LaChrisa & I rehearsing. In my room. I’ve heard it called “authorial acting” once which sounds legit to me. It’s basically working as an author and an actor at the same time (author-actor,...
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Flight 2013. Prepare for departure.
The time is almost here! Samora Suber, LaChrisa Brown and I leave for Iowa in less than one week! Argh! We’ve been in rehearsal non-stop trying to polish the production and I’m very proud of what we’ve...
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Sketch Comedy & LA
I couldn’t stop hearing Tupac’s “To Live & Die in LA” on my six hour flight to Los Angeles last week. Can you believe they don’t even give you cookies anymore? Good thing I packed my rice cakes...
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On-camera audition class!
Keeping in line with my goal of scoring a juicy lead role in an indie film I’ve started taking an on-camera workshop with former Telsey & Co casting director, Heidi Marshall. I received rave...
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Booking a film off Instagram?
I’ve radically changed up my social networking behaviors because I realized that I’ve been routinely underestimating how much these outlets can actually effect your career. “Oh, it’s just Facebook.”...
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The Long Hallway: Third time’s a charm.
Last Saturday there were over 60 people crammed into our Brooklyn apartment. We had the entire living room space full and the hallway was packed as well. We have a long hallway, but apparently not a...
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Update 10 — Setbacks & Such — Sustainable Theater Workshop
Going with the flow? August 7th, 2012 I arrived to Haiti on July 30th. I was supposed to start The Sustainable Theater Workshop that week, but since travel is not that easy in Haiti and multiple people...
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Article published about The Sustainable Theater Workshop!
Check out this really great article published about the workshop from StageDirections.com. Brooklyn-based performer Shelah Marie created The Sustainable Theater Workshop to help teach Haitian children...
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Update 11 — Sustainable Theater Workshop — Shifting expectations
Shifting expectations – August 8, 2012 So I’m wondering now, was it unrealistic of me to think that a program, any program, especially one running in an agricultural city severely lacking resources,...
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On-camera audition class!
Keeping in line with my goal of scoring a juicy lead role in an indie film I’ve started taking an on-camera workshop with former Telsey & Co casting director, Heidi Marshall. I received rave...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Booking a film off Instagram?
I’ve radically changed up my social networking behaviors because I realized that I’ve been routinely underestimating how much these outlets can actually effect your career. “Oh, it’s just Facebook.”...
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