This entry was posted on 6/5/2007 12:14 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Here in St. Paul, MN participating in the One Theater Festival and the TCG/ASSITEJ-USA (now called TYA-USA) pre-conference. Among my duties while here is to write an article for TYA Today on "the tribe of story" (as inspired by the opening remarks by ASSITEJ/USA now TYA-USA President Kim Peter Kovac) and my mind reels with the many tribes or clans or communities of story within that larger tribe.
One tribe that I am proud to be a part of is those theatrical storytellers in NYC that have come from Western Washington University (with Vikings as their mascot) in Bellingham, WA. Two weeks ago I sat in the audience for Cirkus Inferno (pictured) at the New Victory Theater, beaming with pride and fondness for Amy Gordon, one half of this amazing duo that is CI, a member of this tribe. I sat in the audience with Michelle Matlock, an incredibly talented and innovative storyteller of the stage who I had just seen performing new work at Dixon Place, where I had just completed A Lesson in Art, and is heading now to Brazil to perform her highly impactful The Mammy Project. While we were there we shared stories about the past and the present theatrical endeavors of Stephen Michael Rondel who has developed a highly successful theater for young actors and audiences, The New Acting Company, and of Jacob Sydney who had just recently come to town with The Beastly Bombings, a show first produced in LA that may have a New York life in the fall.
