Wrestling with the Written Word: A Clown & Physical Theatre Workshop with Sheriden Thomas

It is, and is not the words. It’s the situation. You, your partner(s), and imagination in the moment are the situation…. We will be fooling around with written words, using the Dynamics, the Complicities, the Clown Personas, and the Tension States, as a fruitful path for mining the physical and the fun. Very brief texts of Will Shakespeare &amp; Sam Beckett will be supplied…. And you can bring your own. A monologue, a scene, a poem, a manifesto. It’s all grist, darlin’. ARTIST BIO: Over several decades, Sheriden has acted under Actor’s Equity Contracts in the nation’s regional theatres. Starting in the 70’s, playing ingénues for the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis to Boston’s Moonbox Productions, garnering a Boston Critics Award for Kimberly in Kimberly Akimbo. Recently, in film, she played two old ladies. One in Tiffany Paulson’s About Fate and another in Eric Aronson’s Any Day Now about the Gardner Museum heist. It’s now streaming on Amazon Prime. Sheriden has directed and taught acting at Cornell and Southern Methodist Universities. Since arriving in Boston, she directed plays and readings for Another Country, Queer Soup Productions, and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. As Senior Lecturer Emerita, at Tufts University, she taught a variety of acting courses including Advanced Acting Lab, Shakespeare, Mask, Physical Comedy, and Acting as Career. She directed a dozen plays, concluding with an edited video of Jeffrey Hatcher’s delightfully, silly adaptation of The Government Inspector. Sheriden has directed professionally for the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, Mother Jones in Chicago, Company Theatre in Los Angeles, Manhattan Class, and WOW Cafe in New York City. She will be directing The Beauty Queen of Leenane for Theater Uncorked this November at Boston Center for the Arts.

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