Coleen MacPherson
Birth Place: Cambridge, Ontario
Latest News on Coleen MacPherson:
Virtual Theatre Today: Monday, July 13- with Lupita Nyong'o, Phylicia Rashad & More! (Jul 13, 2020)
La MaMa Presents the US Debut of THIS IS WHY WE LIVE (Aug 19, 2019)
La MaMa Announces Season Featuring Works by Estelle Parsons Evan Yionoulis and More (Aug 14, 2019)
Virtual Theatre Today: Monday, July 13- with Lupita Nyong'o, Phylicia Rashad & More! (Jul 13, 2020)
La MaMa Presents the US Debut of THIS IS WHY WE LIVE (Aug 19, 2019)
La MaMa Announces Season Featuring Works by Estelle Parsons Evan Yionoulis and More (Aug 14, 2019)
BIO
Coleen is an international theatre artist based in Toronto with training from École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. In 2014 she founded Open Heart Surgery, a company that creates original work inspired by great female voices, rooted in a devised and collaborative practice, where movement and the body is at the core of the process. She works as a playwright, director and voice artist and teaches Devised Theatre at the Randolph College for Performing Arts in Toronto, Canada.
Coleen has developed work in Canada with Bad New Days, Factory Theatre, Why Not Theatre, Theatre Smith-Gilmour, MT Space, Jumblies Theatre and Necessary Angel. She directed and conceptualized This Is Why We Live, a play inspired by the poems of Wisława Szymborska (Plateau 31, Paris; The Theatre Centre, Toronto; Nowy Teatr/OFF Miłosz Festival, Krakow, Poland) and soon this work will find its home at La MaMa as part of the 58th season. Internationally she has worked with Wet Picnic (UK), TinderBox (Northern Ireland), Théâtre de L’Enfumeraie (Alonnes, France) and Old Vic New Voices (UK). Her play First Draft held its European Premiere at Camden People’s Theatre (dir. Sarah Warren), Mimetic Festival in The Vaults (London, UK) and in Cairo, Egypt it was performed in Arabic and English (Falaki Theater/Studio ZAT). Coleen has also adapted The Hearing Trumpet for Dark Matters Theatre (Brighton Fringe, UK) and co-translated Pylade by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Adam Paolozza, which was performed by the Great Jones Repertory Company at La MaMa in 2015 (dir. By Ivica Buljan) and held a European tour. Coleen has toured work to China, Egypt, Poland, Spain, France, UK and U.S.A.
This is Coleen’s U.S. directing debut and she feels elated to be part of the La MaMa family.
UPCOMING: Assistant Directing Claudia Dey’s Trout Stanley (Factory Theatre, Toronto), writing a new work inspired by Glenn Gould at Factory Theatre (Toronto). Open Heart Surgery Theatre is currently developing Like A Messenger to the Deep, a play inspired by the works and life of Leonora Carrington with Martha Ross.
www.coleenmacpherson.com
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Virtual Theatre Today: Monday, July 13- with Lupita Nyong'o, Phylicia Rashad & More!
Today (July 13) in live streaming: Richard II continues, Audra McDonald sings with Seth Rudetsky, and so much more!
Today (July 13) in live streaming: Richard II continues, Audra McDonald sings with Seth Rudetsky, and so much more!
La MaMa Presents the US Debut of THIS IS WHY WE LIVE
'This Is Why We Live' by Open Heart Surgery Theatre, a Lecoq-bred performance troupe from Toronto, brings the poetry of Polish Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska to the stage using movement, poetry-theatre and live music. La MaMa will present the US premiere of this work, running September 19 to 29 in its Downstairs Theatre, 66 East 4th Street.
'This Is Why We Live' by Open Heart Surgery Theatre, a Lecoq-bred performance troupe from Toronto, brings the poetry of Polish Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska to the stage using movement, poetry-theatre and live music. La MaMa will present the US premiere of this work, running September 19 to 29 in its Downstairs Theatre, 66 East 4th Street.
La MaMa Announces Season Featuring Works by Estelle Parsons Evan Yionoulis and More
La MaMa announces its 58th season, featuring more than twenty world and US premieres, and dozens of artists, playwrights, choreographers, directors, award-winning theater companies and composers, including Philip Glass, Andrei Serban, Estelle Parsons, Germaine Acogny, Evan Yionoulis, Theodora Skipitares, Anne Bogart, Charlotte Brathwaite and many more.
La MaMa announces its 58th season, featuring more than twenty world and US premieres, and dozens of artists, playwrights, choreographers, directors, award-winning theater companies and composers, including Philip Glass, Andrei Serban, Estelle Parsons, Germaine Acogny, Evan Yionoulis, Theodora Skipitares, Anne Bogart, Charlotte Brathwaite and many more.
Croatia's Acclaimed PERFORATIONS FESTIVAL Opens Tonight at La MaMa
Croatia's acclaimed Perforations Festival returns to New York November 17 to 26 with a diverse slate of genre-blurring performances by artists from Central and Eastern Europe. The 2017 festival will feature seven productions over ten days including U.S. premieres by Bruno Isakovic? and Mia Zalukar, Via Negativa, Ina Sladic, Magda Stawman-Tuka and Anita Wach, Jasna L. Vinovr ki, and Marta Zi ?ek. The Great Jones Repertory Company's 2015 work Pylade, directed by Ivica Buljan, will also be presented. Perforations is curated by Zvonimir Dobrovic? and presented by La MaMa with an opening performance at Abrons Arts Center.
Croatia's acclaimed Perforations Festival returns to New York November 17 to 26 with a diverse slate of genre-blurring performances by artists from Central and Eastern Europe. The 2017 festival will feature seven productions over ten days including U.S. premieres by Bruno Isakovic? and Mia Zalukar, Via Negativa, Ina Sladic, Magda Stawman-Tuka and Anita Wach, Jasna L. Vinovr ki, and Marta Zi ?ek. The Great Jones Repertory Company's 2015 work Pylade, directed by Ivica Buljan, will also be presented. Perforations is curated by Zvonimir Dobrovic? and presented by La MaMa with an opening performance at Abrons Arts Center.
Pier Paolo Pasolini's PYLADE Makes U.S. Premiere at La MaMa Tonight
La MaMa presents PYLADE -- a play by the late, celebrated Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini -- in its U.S. premiere 40 years after the author's murder. The production directed by Ivica Buljan, director of the Croatian National Theatre, begins performances beginning tonight, December 3 at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) with the press opening set for December 6, it has been announced by Mia Yoo, La MaMa's Artistic Director.
La MaMa presents PYLADE -- a play by the late, celebrated Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini -- in its U.S. premiere 40 years after the author's murder. The production directed by Ivica Buljan, director of the Croatian National Theatre, begins performances beginning tonight, December 3 at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) with the press opening set for December 6, it has been announced by Mia Yoo, La MaMa's Artistic Director.
Pier Paolo Pasolini's PYLADE to Make U.S. Premiere at La MaMa This Fall
La MaMa presents PYLADE -- a play by the late, celebrated Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini -- in its U.S. premiere 40 years after the author's murder. The production directed by Ivica Buljan, director of the Croatian National Theatre, begins performances beginning December 3 at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) with the press opening set for December 6, it has been announced by Mia Yoo, La MaMa's Artistic Director. This contemporary adaptation of the Greek myth, PYLADE will be performed by La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company (GJRC), a multi-faceted company of artists created 35 years ago by Andrei Serban, Elizabeth Swados and La MaMa's founder Ellen Stewart.
La MaMa presents PYLADE -- a play by the late, celebrated Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini -- in its U.S. premiere 40 years after the author's murder. The production directed by Ivica Buljan, director of the Croatian National Theatre, begins performances beginning December 3 at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) with the press opening set for December 6, it has been announced by Mia Yoo, La MaMa's Artistic Director. This contemporary adaptation of the Greek myth, PYLADE will be performed by La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company (GJRC), a multi-faceted company of artists created 35 years ago by Andrei Serban, Elizabeth Swados and La MaMa's founder Ellen Stewart.
New Pier Paolo Pasolini Play to Premiere at La MaMa
La MaMa presents PYLADE - a play by the late, celebrated Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini - in its U.S. premiere 40 years after the author's murder. The production directed by Ivica Buljan, director of the Croatian National Theatre, begins performances beginning December 3 at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) with the press opening set for December 6, it has been announced by Mia Yoo, La MaMa's Artistic Director. This contemporary adaptation of the Greek myth, PYLADE will be performed by La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company (GJRC), a multi-faceted company of artists created 35 years ago by Andrei Serban, Elizabeth Swados and La MaMa's founder Ellen Stewart .
La MaMa presents PYLADE - a play by the late, celebrated Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini - in its U.S. premiere 40 years after the author's murder. The production directed by Ivica Buljan, director of the Croatian National Theatre, begins performances beginning December 3 at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) with the press opening set for December 6, it has been announced by Mia Yoo, La MaMa's Artistic Director. This contemporary adaptation of the Greek myth, PYLADE will be performed by La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company (GJRC), a multi-faceted company of artists created 35 years ago by Andrei Serban, Elizabeth Swados and La MaMa's founder Ellen Stewart .
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