DAI Wins $350,000 ArtPlace Grant
May 20, 2013
ArtPlace America announces today the award of a $350,000 grant to Dell’Arte International for the Mad River Industrial Art Park. This project was chosen from over 1,200 applications as
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DAI School Gets NAST Reaccreditation
May 4, 2013
The National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST) Commission on Accreditation voted to continue DAI School's accreditation in good standing until 2020. NAST also granted its approval
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Prize of Hope to Christian Lollike
April 29, 2013
The 2013 Prize of Hope will be presented to Danish playwright/director Christian Lollike on May 19 at Aasen in North Jutland, Denmark. The Prize is presented annually in a bi-continental
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DISCO PARTY BENEFIT FOR DAI
April 16, 2013
Blue Lake's Logger Bar will hold a disco dance party Friday night, April 19th to benefit Dell'Arte. $1 of every drink bought goes to DAI. The 9 PM party follows the performance of "A Harvest
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SCHIRLE TO TEACH AT CLOWN CONSERVATORY
April 15, 2013
Founding Artistic Director Joan Schirle will be in residence at the San Francisco Clown Conservatory from April 22 - 26, teaching Bouffon in collaboration with SFCC faculty member (and
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 Debbie McMahon
Guest Faculty Summer 2012
Debbie McMahon studied Philosophy and Theater at Connecticut College, earned an MA at NYU in Performance Studies and completed the PTP program at Dell’Arte; she is now on the board of the DAI Alumni Association. As artistic director of Grand Guignolers (www.grandguignolers.com) in Los Angeles, she creates, directs and performs in critically acclaimed productions blending traditional physical theater genres: Commedia dell’arte, clown, melodrama, Grand Guignol, dance, magic, and puppetry (with naughty French finger puppets, les petits guignolers). Decked out patrons enjoy the 1920s Parisian event-like pre-show atmosphere with Pierrots, gypsy jazz and Absinthe served by the resident fairy. In March, the LA Drama Critics Circle presented the Grand Guignolers with an honorary award for special effects for Absinthe, Opium and Magic: 1920s Shanghai, which they graciously accepted with a beheading. The production sold out in Hollywood for three months before a second run at The Actors’ Gang upon invitation of artistic director, Tim Robbins. Past shows include A Very Grand Guignol Christmas and A Grand Guignol Children’s Show* (*NOT for Children). Currently, Debbie teaches “melodrama workouts” with the Guignolers, directed The Green Bird (commedia dell’arte) for USC’s MFA program, and clowns for Cirque du Soleil, promoting their upcoming show, Iris, at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. Upcoming includes: children’s theater with sidekick company, The Punchkins, and a Guignoler spectacle production combining carnival and the French Revolution with sausages, a carousel, giant puppets, a chorus of devils and a guillotine.
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