WildWind Performance Lab
Students participating in WildWind Performance Lab (WWPL) are immersed in a non-traditional and process-oriented developmental laboratory. WWPL concentrates much more on the dissecting and questioning the how rather than working on the what, the product; that's why we call it a lab, a place to experiment with what we know already and what we don't know.
Students' theatrical skills are challenged and develop in their primary discipline as well as across the entire theatrical spectrum. Students work with guest artists who work not as actors, directors, or designers, but as theatrical ambassadors, entrepreneurs, and storytellers. The guest artists help develop a student's artistic integrity in addition to techniques and methodologies.
The productions during WWPL should not be viewed as simply productions. Most academic theatre focuses on a four to six week production process in which a script is worked on solely to create a final product. WildWind is a process of exploration: a reaction to material, form, idea, and technique. There are performance aspects, but the process of exploration is far more valuable.
WWPL gives students an opportunity to learn and grow by encouraging a different point of view toward theatre: process over product, workshops over the classroom.
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WILDWIND 2019 NEW PLAY READINGS
june 7 @7p | maedgen theatre
seneca falls
playwright | jean ann douglass
june 14 @2p | maedgen theatre
black girl, interrupted
playwright | lyanisha gonzalez
june 14 @7p | maedgen theatre
in his hands; or the gay christian play
playwright | benjamin benne
june 21 @7p | maedgen theatre
the haunting at wunderland
playwright | mara nelson-greenberg
june 28 @2p | maedgen theatre
rock egg spoon
playwright | noah diaz
june 28 @7p | maedgen theatre
forcing, or i've been spending a lot of time in my wonderland
playwright | sam myers
2019 WILDWIND GUEST ARTISTS
Michael Legg
Montana Repertory Theatre
Sarah Lunnie
Jungle Theater
Jim Wren
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kelly Quinnett
University of Idaho
Billy Sy
Hong Kong Performing Arts Academy
Rich Brown
Western Washington University
Thom Weaver
Die-Cast
Brenna Geffers
Die-Cast
Pratik Motwani
Dell'Arte International
Janice Poon
Hong Kong Performing Arts Academy
Benjamin Benne
Playwright
Mara Nelson-Greenberg
Playwright
Sam Myers
Playwright
Jean Ann Douglass
Playwright
Noah Diaz
Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow
Knud Adams
Director
Melissa Ng
Designer
Dominique Hill
Designer
Carolyn Mraz
Designer
Katherine Altman
Kennedy Center Directing Fellow
Xiomara Cornejo
Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Fellow
School of Theatre and Dance
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