Lab Topics & Sessions

Land Dreamaturgy
with Storyweaving
with Jill Carter

Artistic Direction
& Directing The Tempest
with Antoni Cimolino

New Play Development
with Nina Lee Aquino

New Vision, Old Work
with Ray Hogg

Creating Visual Images on Stage
with Soheil Parsa

Anitafrika Method
with d’bi young anitafrika

Bouffon
with Adam Lazarus

Director/Designer Relationship
with Mitchell Cushman
& Anahita Dehbonehie

2026 Playwrights Project
with Britta Johnson, who joined us for a day of sessions
on her musical “Life After”

Labbie-Led Sessions

First-Day Rehearsal Techniques

Glow Points

Folk Storytelling

Viewpoints: Moving Movement from abstraction to clarity

Intimacy Direction

Dropping into Classical Text

How to get the audience to do anything you want

The Rehearsal Room: A Space for Exploration

Physical Dramaturgy – Directing under Constraint

Testimonial Theatre

Devising Techniques

Lab Participants

Sara Bickweat Penner

Claire Ganem

Eliza Palter

Jack Bumbala (Jack Bum)

Micah Jondel DeShazer

Meredith Melville

Laura Kileen

Ophelia Fellhauer

Chris Causer

Toby Vera Bercovici

Andrew (Andy) Cameron

Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas

Mary Tooley

Lacy Post

Madelaine Moore (Maddy)

Matthew Rossoff

Oli Savage

Ava Alavi

Willow Funkhouser

Amir Aram

Chloe Kounadis

Allison Plamondon

Katy Weir

Adam Francis Proulx

S.E. Grummett “Grumms”

Abi Sanie

Gislina Patterson

Genevieve Wilson

Max Kirk

Sarah Dowling

Stage Manager
Taylor Zalik-Young
Nazerah Carlisle

Actors (Lab Experiment)
Christine Horne
Jeff Yung
Hilary Wheeler