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STUDENT PLAY FEST
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
Fall 2023
Performing in the Student Play Fest taught me some very tangible theatre skills. Through my role as the squirrel, I learned how to explore puppetry. This involved figuring out how to hold my body and focus when handling a puppet. I also experiment with different ways a puppet can engage with the physical space, objects, and people on stage. I also, learned a lot about new play development. Specifically how to hold space for new playwrights and how to intentionally bring their work alive. Overall, this process taught me new theatre making skills and left me reflecting on my relationship with acting.
DIRECTED BY EMILY RIGTER
ROLE: ONE/SQURRIEL/FLOOD
ACTING III
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
Fall 2023
This class focused on exploring and establishing our acting process. We specifically explored psychological realism focusing on plays from modern and contemporary texts. The coursework includes play analysis, contact work, and physical embodiment exercise, focusing on principles of listening and motivation. In this class, I performed two scenes. First, I played Kristen in A Doll's House and then Harper from the Angels and American hallucination scene. This class challenged my fears and pushed me to make specific choices and listen to my scene partner.
TAUGHT BY TIM KANE
COMING OF STARS
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
November 19th-20th 2022
A retelling of the original Filipino Visayan folk tale of the mythological origins of the sun and moon. In the myth, the sun and moon are represented as a married couple and the stars as their children. The play’s staging was highly ensemble based and included moments of traditional Filipino folk dance. I was drawn to this piece because it was a story from a culture not prominently shown on a Loyola stage. I wanted to be a part of supporting the sharing of culture in any way I could. With working on this piece I grew a strong appreciation for ensemble work and became increasingly aware of how it can be essential even when the characters remain silent.
DIRECTED BY MIKAYLA DE GUZMAN
ROLE: CHILD (ensemble member)
DOES IT FEEL LIKE HOME?
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
March 3rd-4th 2022
Sometimes home is as simple as a feeling, a song, a recipe, a roof, a culture, and often it is more complicated than that. Does it Feel Like Home is a reflection of home’s complexity, comfort, and permanence. In a two-week workshop participants used moment work and object theatre to create and perform original scenes, spoken word and puppetry pieces to examine their personal definitions of home. In this workshop I drew from my experience growing up as a third culture kid living between two cultures. I wrote a paired monologue and filmed scene critiquing the oversimplification of the definition of home as being the answer to “where are you from?”, that examined the complexities and ignorance of that question.
DIRECTED BY MINH HÀ (MILLIE) LÊ
ROLE: WRITER AND ENSEMBLE MEMBER
NONE OF THE ABOVE
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
November 2021
A group of students is forced to use their wits after making a risky mistake. This original student film was my first encounter with full fledge film production. I learned a lot about the process of filming from sitting on set. In this piece, I play Felix the laid-back caring friend, trying to get her friends out of one and then another stressful situation.
DIRECTED BY SAM FABLO
ROLE: FELIX
ACTING II
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
Spring 2022
A semester dedicated to Shakespearian acting taught by Ross Lehman. This course dove into the theory and application of the First Folio Technique. Provided tips and tricks to understanding and memorizing Shakespeare as well as how to use scansion and employ pacing. I applied these skills to Adriana’s monologue from Comedy of Errors, a scene as Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing, and various parts in As You Like It. I applied theoretical knowledge learned in this class to a written piece about failure and quitting in the theatre industry using fragments from a collection of Shakespeare’s plays.
TAUGHT BY ROSS LEHMAN
ACTING I
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
Fall 2021
An introduction to the fundamentals of performance. Exploring character analysis, objectives, motivations, wants, needs, movement, and stressing the specificity of decisions. This class taught me how intellectual acting can be, and the importance of time, practice, and thought when it comes to performance. Now in all my art, on stage and off, I try to be as specific and thoughtful as possible. In this class, I practiced these skills using Georgia’s monologue from I Used To Write On Walls by Behak Brunstetter and the scene 8 Minutes.
TAUGHT BY TIM KANE