Two River Theater Company Welcomes HS Students To Audition For Two Programs

Two River Theater Company welcomes high school students from around the state to audition for two upcoming programs: PlayBack and its Metro Scholar program.

PLAYBACK is a conversation through the creative and collaborative art of playmaking. It is an intensive twelve-week program and an opportunity for students from different schools to work together to create and perform a play on the Two River stage. Selected high school students attend a TRTC performance (this year, Picasso at the Lapin Agile), meet and interact with the professional actors from the show, work with our teaching artists to create their very own original play inspired by, in response to, and in conversation with Picasso, and then perform it on the Picasso set. More information is available on the Education Programs page of the Two River website: www.trtc.org

Auditions are on Saturday March 6, 2010 from 1pm onwards, with a make up day on Sunday March 7. To set up an appointment, students must contact Director of Education, Kate Cordaro, at 732.345.1400 x.1814 or katecordaro@trtc.org.

The TRTC METRO SCHOLAR PROGRAM is an in-depth exploration of professional theater: from acting to administration and theater design to technical theater. The program is in its fifth season and has received rave reviews from its participating students, many of whom have gone on to prestigious undergraduate theater programs around the country. The theater seeks ten bright, dedicated, talented young people who will thrive in a creative atmosphere. High school sophomores who live in New Jersey may apply to be a TRTC Metro Scholar. Accepted students will participate in the program during their junior year (the 2010-2011 school year). More information and applications are available on the Education Programs page: trtc.org.

An Information Session will be held on Monday, February 22, 2010 from 4 - 6pm. Open to any student, parent, family member, or teacher. Current students and alumni of the program will be on hand to answer questions and give a tour of the theater.

All inquiries should be directed to Kate Cordaro, Director of Education at katecordaro@trtc.org or 732.345.1400 x.1814.

BIOGRAPHIES

KATE CORDARO has served as Director of Education for Two River Theater Company since August of 2004, creating their education department from the ground up. Kate's education initiatives include an extensive student matinee program, including study guides, pre-and post-show discussions, and workshops; summer theater classes for students in grades 1-12; the Metro Scholar program, a yearlong immersion in professional theater for advanced high school students; Young Voices 732, a collaboration between TRTC and Red Bank Borough Schools; and PlayBack, TRTC's artist-in-residence program (formerly called The Heroes Project). An accomplished teaching artist and director, Kate has taught acting, scene study, monologues workshops and audition technique for over twenty years. Kate was classically trained at the Stella Adler Conservatory through New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and was the recipient of the 1993 Stella Adler Outstanding Achievement Award. She went on tour shortly after NYU playing Lady Anne in a production of Richard III, performing all over the east coast, including at the Folger Theatre in Washington D.C. Kate was also featured in Janeane Garofalo's short film Housekeeping, which premiered at the New York Comedy Film Festival.

LAUREN FELDMAN (PlayBack Teaching Artist/Playwright) is a current playwright, a past performer, and a native Miamian. She has written five full-length plays (including one in English and American Sign Language, and one in rock-climbing - if that's a language), a dozen short plays and one-acts, a solo piece she performs, and three company-devised collaborative works (her favorite of which is the THE APOCRYPHAL PROJECT). Her plays have been produced internationally. She was a U.S. playwright delegate with The Royal Court Theatre and with World Interplay Australia, and she has been an artist-in-residence at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Missoula Colony, Sewanee University of the South, Theater Emory's Brave New Works Festival, and (now) Montana Artists Refuge. She has received two Downstage Miami Playwriting Grants, a State of Florida Individual Artist Grant, the Agnes Ranjo Capps Award for an Emerging Female Playwright, two Carbonell Award nominations, and nominations for the 2009 Wasserstein Prize and the 2009 ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award for her play GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING. Her one-acts have been published by Applause Books and Broadway Play Publishing. She received her M.F.A. in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama in 2008 working with Richard Nelson, spent a post-graduate year studying with Paula Vogel and Ken Prestininzi, and she's now writing, collaborating, and teaching playwriting.

PIRRONNe YoUSEFZADEH (PlayBack Teaching Artist/Director) is a director based in New York City. Her work has been seen at The Public/Joe's Pub, Playwrights Horizons (Samuel French Festival), Ars Nova (2009 ANT Fest), Collective: Unconscious, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Rep, Power Plant Productions, Walnut Street Theatre, and Hangar Theatre, where she was a 2006 Drama League Directing Fellow. Pirronne has assisted Anne Bogart, both on Who Do You Think You Are (SITI Company), and at the 2007 Training Intensive in Saratoga Springs, where she trained extensively in Suzuki and Viewpoints. She has also assisted Leigh Silverman, Tina Landau, Anne Kauffman, Kip Fagan, Eleanor Holdridge, and Joseph Hardy, among others. Pirronne received her M.F.A. in Directing from Columbia University, where she was a Shubert Presidential Fellow and Matthews Fellowship recipient. She studied with Anne Bogart, RoBert Woodruff, and Brian Kulick, and directed Big Love, Fool for Love, and several devised pieces. Pirronne has been a guest artist at the UCSB Summer Theater Lab, led by Naomi Iizuka, and a teaching artist at McCarter Theatre and Play Group Theatre. She trained at Shakespeare's Globe in London, and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Theatre and English Literature from Washington University. She is a member of the 2009-10 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Old Vic New Voices Network.

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