Solo monologue
Lifeboat Six
1 performer. 20 minutes.
At a fundraiser after the Titanic disaster, Margaret Tobin Brown tells the story of Lifeboat Six without the legend that later swallowed her. Fear,…
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Teaching
Workshops and
Workshops and
Residencies
An hour after a performance, a single afternoon in a studio, a week with a company, or a term built around a play your students are reading. Jeanmarie has worked this way since her first school residency at twenty four, in person and online.
Five formats
From one hour to a full term
Guest discussionOne hour
A talkback after a performance, or a visit to a seminar reading one of the plays. Questions from the room, answered by the person who wrote it.
A single workshopHalf a day
One subject taken seriously: audition technique, playing a solo piece, staging with nothing, or writing from testimony.
A multi day intensiveTwo to five days
A group works one text from first reading to a showing, with the technique taught as the need for it arises.
A full residencyOne to several weeks
She becomes part of the building, teaching daily, making an original piece or an adaptation with the group, and leaving a performance behind.
A staged readingWith the writer in the room
Your actors read a play aloud, she listens, and the afternoon becomes a conversation about what the text is doing and why.
Who it is for
Rooms she has worked inThe work scales down as readily as it scales up. A class of eleven year olds and a graduate conservatoire get the same attention, in different language.
How a residency runs
Four stages01
A conversation first
What you are studying, how many people are in the room, and what you would like to exist at the end of it.
02
Material chosen
An existing play, an adaptation, or an original piece built from what the group brings in.
03
Daily work
Sessions on their feet, with technique introduced at the moment the group needs it rather than in advance.
04
Something shown
A showing, a staged reading, or a full performance, staged with whatever the building already owns.
Two ways to do it
In person and online
In person is better for contact work, for ensemble building and for anything that ends in a performance. Online is genuinely good for text work, for audition coaching and for guest discussions, and it removes travel from the budget entirely.
Through Arizona Theatre Matters and Universal Access Productions she has spent years making theatre in digital spaces, so an online session is a considered format rather than a compromise.
The high school students from her first residency, taught when she was twenty four, are now over forty.On residencies
What it costs
Quoted per engagementThere is no rate card. Every engagement is quoted on its own terms and scaled to the organisation asking.
- A university programme and a rural school are not quoted the same figure
- Travel and accommodation are listed separately and honestly
- Online sessions cost less, because most of the cost of a residency is getting there
- If a grant deadline is driving the timing, say so and she will work to it
Booking enquiry
Tell her about the roomAnswer what you can. A rough budget range and an approximate date are far more useful than a perfect description, and she will reply herself.
Pair it with a play
A visit lands better with a text behind itResidencies work best when the group has already read something. These three suit a short visit, a scene unit and a full staging respectively.
Solo monologue
Lifeboat Six
1 performer. 20 minutes.
Clara Barton looks back across the wounds that shaped her life, from a brother’s childhood accident and Civil War battlefields to the Missing Soldiers…
Read the playShakespeare’s dead are not finished with one another. In Purgatory, Hamlet, Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius, Polonius, Laertes, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and the old king must climb…
In the collection Read the playI met Jeanmarie when I was about 13 years old when she was an Artist in Residence at my school in Virginia City, Nevada. She was incredibly patient with us rowdy teenagers and never failed to show compassion towards each of us.Amber Noelle Burg
Jeanmarie’s work with my son changed his life for the better. His disability made him a target for bullying. She gave him opportunities to interact with his classmates in ways he never had before.Jeff Osten
Keep in touch
New plays, new productions, twice a year
A short letter when a play is finished, when a production opens, or when new classroom material becomes available. Nothing else.