BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Denver X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11-16036@theatre.colostate.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20210122T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20210122T213000 DTSTAMP:20241015T153016Z URL:https://theatre.colostate.edu/events/on-the-brink-reading-series-hir-b y-taylor-mac/ SUMMARY:ON THE BRINK Reading Series: HIR by Taylor Mac DESCRIPTION:Spring 2021 ON THE BRINK Reading Series\nCurated by Professor S affron Henke\n\nWhat have we learned from 2020? How do we as theatre artis ts respond to this moment?\n\nThese are multifaceted times we are facing\, not just in terms of the political\, social and cultural upheavals that 2 020 brought upon us\, but also the challenges the pandemic has brought to live performance as well. In response\, this Spring\, the Colorado State U niversity Theatre Department will begin a series of readings of new works addressing the hot topic themes of our times – issues that have pushed o ur culture to the brink...and that reveal whole new worlds of possibilitie s. A collaboration of professional theatre artists\, faculty members\, cur rent students and CSU alumni\, On the Brink will explore works representin g a variety of underrepresented voices and perspectives.\n\nHIR by Taylor Mac\n7:30pm-9:30pm Reading\n9:30pm Facilitated post-reading discussion\nDi rected by guest artist Lauren Ellis\nFeaturing performers: Saffron Henke\, Mace Archer\, Jaye Cooney\, and Tony Carr\n\nSomewhere in the suburbs\, I saac has returned from the wars to help take care of his ailing father\, o nly to discover a household in revolt. The insurgent: his mom. Liberated f rom an oppressive marriage\, with Isaac’s newly-out transgender sibling as her ally\, she’s on a crusade to dismantle the patriarchy. But in Tay lor Mac’s sly\, subversive comedy\, annihilating the past doesn’t alwa ys free you from it.\n\nReading Event Link\n\nLauren Brooke Ellis (Directo r)is a playwright\, director\, and stage manager from Aiken\, SC. She earn ed a certificate in New Play Directing and her M.F.A. in playwriting from Hollins. She has devoted a significant amount of time in recent years to t he development of new plays\, most notably as the award-winning director o f She Made Space by Meredith Dayna Levy\, Community Garden by Ben Joli vet\, and Arachnothology by Kimberly Patterson. Lauren serves as the cha ir for both the Ten Minute Play Festival and the Charles M. Getchell New P lay Contest for SETC. She currently is an adjunct faculty member and virtu al production manager for the Hollins Theatre Institute.\n\nMace Archer (A rnold) is currently the Artistic Director at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham\, Oregon\, a suburb of Portland.  A native of Montana\, Mace was a founder and the Producing Artistic Director of Venture Theatre in B illings\, MT\, now the NOVA Center for the Performing Arts.  Mace serve d as Assistant Professor of Theatre at Randolph College\, where he was app ointed Chair of Theatre in his second year.  Mace has worked around the nation as an actor and director\, including stops at Kentucky Repertory Th eatre\, The Clarence Brown Theatre\, Arizona Broadway Theatre\, and the Springer Opera House.  Favorite roles include Henry Higgins in Pygmalio n\, Captain Walker in Tommy\, and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream.   Directorial credits include Spring Awakening (Randolph College)\, M an from Nebraska (MHCC)\, Speech and Debate (Clarence Brown Theatre)\, and Annie Get Your Gun (Thin Air Theatre Company).\n\nSaffron Henke (Pai ge) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Colorado State University. A l ongtime member of the Actor’s Equity Association\, Saffron has performed at many regional theatres\, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival\, R iverside Theatre\, and the Furious Theatre Company. She was also an Associ ate Artist and acting company member for four seasons at the Sacramento Th eatre Company\, and served as Director of STC-2\, a training conservatory. She has taught at the University of Southern California\, the Center Thea tre Group\, and at A Noise Within Theatre\, St. Ambrose University\, the U niversity of Iowa\, and is the Artistic Director of The Brink Theatre Comp any\, a company focused on doing site specific new work. www.saffronhenke. com\n\nTony Carr (Isaac)- Tony is a Senior Theatre Performance major at C olorado State University. He is looking forward to working on another prod uction at CSU and is thankful for this wonderful opportunity in these unce rtain times.\n\n \;\n\nJaye Cooney (Max) Jaye is a 23 year old trans a nd queer actor. Their credits include The Laramie Project\, Alice in Wonde rland\, Dead Meat and more. When they are not chasing their dreams in perf ormance\, you can find them reading a good book or writing plays. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://theatre.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads /sites/11/2021/01/2021.01.22_OnTheBrinkReadingSeries_Screen.jpg CATEGORIES:College of Liberal Arts Featured Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR