A platform that offers regional theatre directors opportunities to build skills and practice their craft through pick-up classes and seminars.

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Recent (DG) Studio Offerings

                               (DG) Pick-Up Class with Carrie Klewin Lawrence

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021  5:00 - 7:00pm (ET)

​Personal Branding with Carrie Klewin Lawrence
Join this Pick Up Class to explore how our professional image reflected in the eyes of others, and ourselves? What tools do we need to create a strong personal brand and increase our directing opportunities?
Tickets are PWYD (suggested $20)

(DG) Seminar with Malika O. Oyetimein

Sunday, April 11th, 2021  5:00 - 7:00pm (ET)
​Daring greatly in life & ART. 
Through a series of instructor led exercises, participants will learn what it means to 'dare greatly'. In this course they will understand the principles of shame, scarcity and vulnerability. Using their understanding of these tenants they will be shown how to identify them  in their personal lives and ultimately: their art. 
Using the tools of Brenè Brown's text "Daring Greatly"- Director's will see how bringing their full selves to a process yields to the strongest art making. 
Tickets are PWYD (suggested $20)

(DG) Seminar with Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Sunday January 24th, 2021 5:00 - 7:00pm EST
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Join Freelance Director & Associate Artistic Director of Geva Theatre Center, Pirronne Yousefzadeh, in an exploration of best practices to create just, equitable, and safe work spaces. As a director, you have the power to set the culture of a production and encourage institutions to change the status quo. From pitch through previews, we'll discuss how you can set up and implement practices that bring social justice, inclusion, and continued learning to the forefront.

Tickets are PWYD (suggested $20)

(DG) Seminar: Go Where You Are Celebrated: Creating a production process and rehearsal room with honesty, inclusion and radical grace with Tamanya Garza

Saturday, August 15th, 2020 on (DG) Zoom

This workshop will occur on Saturday, August 15th from Noon-5:15pm EST and is open to BIPOC directors only. It will include a candid discussion about the current state of art-making and theatre in Philadelphia, a workshop to build your production process from a place of education, compassion and intersectionality, and a list of action-items for creating theatre going forward. The workshop will focus on building a stronger community through honesty and a customized list of action-items for everyone who attends to strengthen their practice and understand their privilege going forward. This will be a highly collaborative class and will combine practices that are anti-racist, parent-friendly, welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community, disability-friendly, thoughtful and include restorative justice techniques. 
 
The final hour of the workshop, 4:15pm-5:15pm EST,  is open to all, BIPOC and white directors for a wrap up. Attendees will also receive a curated reading list to continue to grow their practice in the future. 

10 seats are open for the first part of the workshop and then an additional 10 seats are open for the second part of the workshop.  Open to all.

(DG) Seminar: Formal Elements with Bill Fennelly

Friday June 5th – Saturday, June 6th, 2020 on Zoom
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A long-form digital seminar and workshop designed for six Tier 3 (DG) members and mid-career directors to engage with a practical and systematic approach to analyzing text and working with exactitude. This class will be led by theatre director and Drexel University professor Bill Fennelly, and will include one-on-one work with actors.
 
6 Seats for Participating Directors.
4 Seats for Observing Directors.

(DG) Workshop: Director-Actor Collaboration Workshop with Michael Goldfried

Saturday, May 30th – Sunday, May 31st, 2020 ​on Zoom
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This online directing intensive offers a supportive and comprehensive deep-dive into the director/actor relationship, focusing on practical directing tools for getting great performances from actors. Utilizing “Angels in America” as the text, each participant in the workshop will have the opportunity to direct professional actors in a scene, and receive feedback and practical instruction from director and teacher Michael Goldfried, a highly sought-after professor of directing in New York. Gain new skills in responding to text and translating directorial choices into a dynamic, collaborative approach. The weekend culminates in a scene showing where participants share their new work in a safe environment of fellow directors.

6 Seats for Participating Directors.
4 Seats for Observing Directors.
We want our programs to be accessible for all, so please do not hesitate to reach out. We are also committed to making these digital offerings adaptive, and welcome observer positions to join via calling-in without video.
​Email (DG) Director of Programming, Brey Ann Barrett
​below below to learn more and let us know how we can assist you.

(DG) Members receive discounts and priority registration for all (DG) programs
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