And yet she’s doing, drumroll please, ANOTHER WORKSHOP ON WEDNESDAY.
Look at that old headshot! She doesn’t know what tired is yet!
This vocal session is a remix of content from workshops I wrote and developed this year at University of York as an instructor on their Theatre-Making and Acting modules. It’s cribbed from various voice teachers I’ve worked with across different forms of voice training (opera singers! Anime voice actors! Oregon Shakespeare Festival folks!), so it’s very multi-purpose!
We’re also gearing up for a Scratch Night at the end of the week! Tickets to that and the vocal workshop are available here.
We’re into week two now of the Friargate Creative Hub event! Friargate Theatre is a gorgeous spot by the river to meet and work and talk theatre with Four Wheel Drive Theatre and our assembled theatre-making community. It’s also delightfully chill; University of York’s TFTI building has lots of fun toys but it gets busy over there!
After this, I’m looking forward to having the summer off (she said, prepping her notes for her first big benchmark assessment on the PhD.) Once the Scratch Night is finished, things will be much calmer (she said, for about the sixteenth week in a row.)
But it has been a good year! In addition to Theatre-Making Workshop and Acting, I also got to teach on a directing course, run seminars on social narratives of interactive media, and run a two-week intensive on queer theory and performance. Uni education here is very different to how my undergrad experience worked back in California, so the learning curve on some aspects has been a little steep! It’s been great to dig a little deeper into this department and reflect on how we teach and communicate about the arts.