True North Theatre is proud to present a day of Intimacy for the Stage Workshops with D Granke
Intro to Consent and the Performing Artist
Saturday, April 8, 2023
University of Maine Black Box Theatre, Class of 1944 Hall
Intro to Consent: 10 AM-1 PM
This workshop will cover the basics of consent, boundaries, and relationships for the performer and how to approach these principles in the rehearsal process.
Acting Theatrical Intimacy and the Performing Artist: 2-5 PM
Acting theatrical intimacy will explore a broad variety of physical acting tools such as tension, focus, breath as applied to a moment of theatrical intimacy. (Note the choreography offered in class will involve touch on the arms and hands, and can be altered to suit any boundaries. If time permits we may explore the principles applied to a hug, hugging is not required to participate.)
Cost: $50 for one class, or $80 to take both
Discounts available for UMaine Students
To Register: Please email info@truenorththeatre.org. Non refundable deposit required to confirm space.
D is a New England based Director, Fight Director, Intimacy Director, and Movement Specialist.
Directing Credits include: A Clockwork Orange (Jobsite Theatre) Ready Steady Yeti Go (Stageworks) Macbeth and Richard III (Tampa Shakes) Beruit and Blue Surge (Cena/Cenari) Bethany and Tender Napalm (TRT2) and US Drag, They Don’t Pay We Won’t Pay, The Wolves, and She Kills Monsters (Theatre USF) As well as two seasons of Unto these Hills Outdoor Drama.
Selected Fight Direction credits include: The Black Suits (Joe’s Pub), Born Yesterday, Morning After Grace, and The Little Foxes (Asolo Repertory Theatre), FLY and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Florida Studio Theatre), The Piano Lesson, The Mountain Top, and Dearly Departed (Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe), Vietgone, The Invisible Hand and Bad Jews (American Stage), The Niceties, Dry Land, Dike, and Pilgrims (Urbanite), Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard the III (Tampa Shakes), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety and In the Blood (Stageworks), As You Like It, A Skull In Conemarra, and Gloucester Blue (Jobsite Theatre), Don Giovanni, Faust, Il Trovatore, Carmen, Tales of Hoffman, and La Boheme (St Petersburg Opera), Voodoo Macbeth and Take Me Out (Studio 620), A View from the Bridge (Tampa Rep), Appropriate (Three Bone Theatre) and Unto these Hills and Time of War (Cherokee Historical Association)
Intimacy Direction Credits include: The Cake and In the Next Room (Studio at Tierra Del Sol) Carmen (Opera Orlando) Vietgone (American Stage), Sender and Pilgrims (Urbanite Theatre), Ruby (Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe), and Stupid F!@#ing Bird (Tampa Rep)
They hold a BFA from the University of Michigan, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. They currently teach Acting, Directing, Voice, and Movement at the University of Maine, and previously served on faculty at the University of South Florida. They are certified as a teacher and fight director by the SAFD, and as an intimacy director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators.