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This month we are excited to share the following:
We always appreciate your input. Please feel free to contact us at (206) 323-7499 x14 or kate@freeholdtheatre.org.
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| Interview with George Lewis | ||
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George, we're thrilled to have you back teaching at Freehold this summer and fall after your time in Buenos Aires. Can you share with our readers what your time was like in Buenos Aires? It is a magnificant city - truly is, as it is called, the Paris of South America - with beautiful old architecture, an enormous European influence. It's a big city - 13 million people - with distinct sections, very flat and certainly not as green as Seattle - I kept looking to the horizon for mountains, and they just aren't there. It is a great city of museums, outdoor statuary, and lovely vast parks. GREAT FOOD - there is a huge Italian population and the Italian restaurants are out of this world. And theatre - I was told there were up to 200 productions running at all times - what I saw was really bright, edgy, well acted and directed. My own time there - well, I met two friends-of-friends right away and we became very close immediately. At the same time, my language skills were not great, and I spent enormous amounts of time alone. Some time was joyous and some was very lonely. That part of it was challenging and very much what I wanted - a chance to look at myself outside of the familiar. After three months I decided to stay another three - I felt like I was just getting started. The whole thing was a profound experience.
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| FREEHOLD NEWS | ||
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FREEHOLD'S FALL OPEN HOUSE Come to Freehold's fabulous fall Open House on Sunday night, September 14th from 7:00-9:00 pm.
*Meet Freehold's phenomenal faculty FREE!
Open House will be at Freehold Theatre New Play Lab Showcase The New Play Lab will showcase 8 new plays. The 20-minute excerpts from the plays of Freehold's summer New Play Lab will receive staged readings directed by local professionals Valerie Curtis-Newton, Scot Auguston, Dawson Nichols, and Desdemona Chiang. Sept. 18 - 20, at Freehold Theatre, 2222 2nd Avenue, upstairs. There will be two programs - an A and a B Program.
The performance times are: There is also an Open Call Audition on Wednesday, September 3rd from 5:30 pm-on, for Freehold's New Play Lab Showcase performance, with scenes directed by Valerie Cutis-Newton, Dawson Nichols, Desdemona Chiang. You are committing to two 3-hour staged reading rehearsals. Performances Sept 18 - 20. All types, ages encouraged to apply. To schedule an audition time, contact Jenny at Freehold at info@freeholdtheatre.org or 206-323-7499. Rehearsal and Performance's Upcoming Show The Man Who Came To Dinner Freehold Theatre is excited to announce our upcoming performance of The Man Who Came to Dinner performed by students as part of Freehold Theatre's Rehearsal and Performance training class. George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's play is set in the 1930's in a small Ohio town at Christmas time. The play follows a renowned radio personality who gets invited to dinner at a factory owner's house and slips on some ice outside their house and gets injured requiring him to stay with the factory owner and his family for an extended period of time. The result of this misadventure is a fast and furious comedy with incredibly rich and eccentric characters. Come see fresh, new talent including Eva Abram, Bill Begorre, Morrie Bills, Fred Cassidy, Jennifer Hamblin, Jonathan Locke, William Hardyman, Jesse Putnam, Nathania tenWolde, Assistant Director/Stage Manager Jeff Woodbridge and led by Freehold Theatre's talented instructor and the play's Director George Lewis. Don't miss your opportunity to see this very funny and witty work!
Open Dress Rehearsal: Thursday, September 11 at 8:00 pm Assistant Needed for Fall Voice-Over Class - Significant Discount on Class! Gin Hammond is seeking a computer assistant for her upcoming fall Voice-Over class. In exchange for assisting her with computer needs, the assistant will receive the Voice-Over class at a substantial discount. Qualifications desired include computer expertise and MP3 experience. Please send a resume to us at info@freeholdtheatre.org. For more information, call us at (206) 323-7499 or email us at info@freeholdtheatre.org. Freehold's STUDIO SERIES Returns - February 6-February 28, 2009 Part of Freehold's educational mission is to encourage those who study with us to experiment in a performance situation with the process and tools developed in the classroom. As a result, we created the Studio Series: four weeks of performances presenting work created by current and former Freehold students and faculty. We regard the Series primarily as an opportunity for you to study with us to investigate work in a "studio" setting and then to experience the evolution of the work through performance. It's also a great chance to learn more about stagecraft, to interact with other performers, and to experience the process of self production. The performances will take place in our new theatre at our new home on 2nd Avenue in Belltown. Freehold will provide - at no cost to the participants (except for a $40.00 mentor fee) - performance space, technical support (lights, sound system, and a stage manager), and publicity for the event. Each piece will have two performances: a Friday and Saturday night. In the past, projects in the Series have included: plays, scenes, monologues, original pieces, movement/dance pieces, vocal pieces, marionette shows, clown pieces, and improvisation. In short, anything with dramatic relevance that fits our criteria.
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Paul, a big congratulations for winning the Stranger's 2008 Genius Award for Theatre. What was your first reaction upon hearing? Cool! But damn, does this mean I'm going have to stop bad-mouthing THE STRANGER? Upon further reflection, what does it mean to you to receive this recognition? Well, it's nice to get an award that recognizes a body of work versus this or that play. I don't think I've ever gotten something like that. Of course, the flip side of that means that I'm getting old. I just hope my body of work doesn't suffer the same ignoble fate that my actual body is undergoing. What are you working on currently? I'm currently putting the last touches on my play The Sequence which is about the race to decode the human genome. It will be premiering in Pasadena in October at Theatre @ Boston Court. John Langs is directing and William Salyers will starring in one of the lead roles. Bill also premiered the lead role in my first major play in Seattle, Tuesday, back in 1996. It's so fabulous and fruitful to be able to work with someone over and over again like that. Beyond that, I have no imminent productions. I am planning to take The Ten Thousand Things on a college tour around Washington State in early 2009. And I'm in the very earliest stages of sketching out a new play, a farce, which as you may know, is the hardest kind of play to wright. Paul Mullin is on faculty at Freehold teaching Playwriting. For more information about the complete list of the Stranger's 2008 Genius Award Winners, go to: www.slog.thestranger.com
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George Lewis is one of the founding members of Freehold Theatre as well as being a Freehold faculty member.
George's background includes extensive study in corporeal mime with Etienne Decroux in Paris, in the Biomechanics of
Meyerhold with Russian master teacher Gennadi Bogdanov, and circus skills at the National Circus School in Paris.
George recently returned to Seattle and to Freehold after living in Buenos Aires for six months.
Paul Mullin is a renowned playwright whose works includes Tuesday as well as Louis Slotin Sonata, which won the
L.A. Drama Critics Award and was read by invitation before scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His play,
The Sequence, about the race to decode the human genome, was commissioned by Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation and won First Prize for Stage Play in the 2005 Writers Digest Competition. Paul's latest play
The Ten Thousand Things was produced by WET last spring.
Mary Sea Kaminski has written, produced, and performed more than twenty solo performance pieces. Her original work
has been seen at La Mama ETC and Performance Space 122 in New York City and in venues all over Seattle. She is a performer,
director, and teacher, holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Washington and is a founding member of the Washington
Ensemble Theatre. Marya Sea Kaminski was on The Stranger's 2006 and 2007 Genius Shortlist for Theatre and "Best Local Performing Artist"
by The Seattle Weekly. The Stranger's Brendan Kiley has said that "Marya is all kinds of artist - she has directed, acted and written shows.
Marya is the rare creature who can do it all." Marya was recently seen in the title role of the Seattle Repertory Theatre's production of
My Name is Rachel Corrie and at On the Boards in Blah Blah Blah Bang! Marya was chosen by Seattle Weekly readers as the Best Local Stage
Performer for 2008.
Gin Hammond received her MFA from the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard
University/Moscow Art Theatre School. A native of San Diego, she has worked steadily across the country at theatres
such as The Guthrie, Arena Stage, The Longwharf Theatre, ACT, The Pasadena Playhouse, ART, The Berkshire Theatre
Festival and The Studio Theatre. Gin has also appeared on radio stations as part of Imagination Theatre and was recently seen in an Off-Broadway play
called NoonDay Sun.
More information about Gin can be found at her website: