Guest Artist Residencies
The department regularly
supplements its curriculum with residencies by guest artists from all areas
of theatre practice and scholarship. We welcome these opportunities for collaboration
with some of the top professionals in the field because they are essential
to the training and career development of our students. One of our more popular
programs, the Thurber Playwright-in-Residence, enables a selected playwright
to spend one quarter with the department to teach a course in playwriting
as well as develop a new work of their own. Previous Thurber Playwrights include
Catherine Filloux, Marina Shron, Caridad Svich, Gloria Baxter, Brian Silberman,
Sam Kelley, Lucy Wang, Carlyle Brown, Sally Oswald and Stephen Culp. The Department of Theatre has also
established a strong relationship with the Wexner Center for the Arts which
has allowed us to participate in residencies with many leading performing
artists, including Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, the Gate Theatre of Dublin,
and the Wooster Group.
Additional guest artists from recent years have included: Caroll Spinney, author of the book The Wisdom of Big Bird along with his close friend Oscar the Grouch; Anthony Rapp, from the original cast of RENT; Lynn Redgrave, James Waterston, Charlotte Perry and Miriam Margolyes, from the tour of Peter Hall's production of The Importance of Being Earnest; Jeff Sharp, Broadway and film producer; Leandro Soto, Cuban theatre artist; Bina Sharif, Pakistani playwright and actor; Benjamin Zephaniah, Britain's celebrated performer of Jamaican-styled politicized "dub poetry;" Jaroslav Malina, one of the premier Czech theatre designers and former Rector of the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague; Spiderwoman Theater, Native American theatre company that is also the oldest continually performing women's theatre company in North America; Martha Mountain, professional lighting designer; Jon Farris, Equity actor and Chair of the Theatre Department at Denison University; Ted Lange, actor, director, and playwright; ACTER, a troupe of five professional actors from the London stage; and the renowned mime Marcel Marceau, who ran several master classes and contributed personal documents to the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute before his death in 2007.
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