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Professional Development Workshops
Limited spots: APPLY SOON!
Submissions requirements differ
Please send expressions of interest to: submissions@redbetitheatre.org
Workshops will run from October 4th - 6th 2024
Located at Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton
Schedule:
Friday, October 4th - Makambe's Solo Show Creation Workshop 10 am - 1 pm
Saturday, October 5th - Donna-Michelle's Spoken Word/Hip Hop Workshop 10 am -1 pm
Sunday, October 6th - Anand's Acting Workshop 9 am - 12 pm
Sunday, October 6th - Aaron's Directors Workshop 1 pm - 4 pm
Our Workshop Facilitators
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Actor Submissions:
Submit A PAGE OF POETRY AND A SYNOPSIS OF YOUR. Those of interest will be contacted. Must be able to participate in THIS workshop AND ATTEND DYE plays.
Poetry in Play: Explore approaches to integrating poetry, hip hop or spoken word into theatrical text with emcee/poet/playwright Donna -Michelle St. Bernard.
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard aka Belladonna the Blest is an emcee, playwright and agitator. Her body of work includes the 54ology (The First Stone, Diggers, Cake, Sound of the Beast, A Man A Fish, Salome’s Clothes, Gas Girls, Give It Up and The Smell of Horses), opera libretti Forbidden (Afarin Mansouri/Tapestry Opera) and Oubliette (Ivan Barbotin/Tapestry Opera) works for young audiences (Reaching For Starlight, Pirate and the Lone Voice) and collaborations (The Only Good Indian with Pandemic Theatre, 501: Toronto in Transit with Theatre Passe Muraille, The House You Build with Gordon Tootoosis Nekaniwin Theatre). She is co-editor with Yvette Nolan of the Playwrights Canada Press anthologies Refractions: Solo and Refractions: Scenes, as well as editor of Indian Act: Residential School Plays. With a focus on finding subtext and nuance in the script, this brief workshop will offer participants tools to deconstruct text and enhance their performances.
Anand Rajaram
Actor Submissions:
Tell us a joke, anecdote or story (60-90 seconds). Those of interest will be contacted. Must ALSO be able to participate in Directors’ workshops AND ATTEND dye FESTIVAL plays.
With a focus on finding subtext and nuance in script, this brief workshop will offer ACTORS tools to deconstruct text and enhance their performances.
Anand Rajaram is an improviser, actor, playwright, director, musician, teacher & puppeteer. Recently, he was in A Public Reading Of An Unproduced Screenplay About The Death Of Walt Disney (Outside The March/Soulpepper), Mahabharata (Shaw Festival), Uncle Vanya (Crow’s/Mirvish), Buffoon by Anosh Irani & Mustard by Kat Sandler (Tarragon, Dora award for both), adapted/performed Rohinton Mistry’s The Scream, (SummerWorks, Best Production), and has performed at Second City, Stratford, VideoCabaret, and others. He's an accomplished film & tv performer, with notable roles in I Like Movies, Suits, Men With Broome (TV series), and others, as well as a voiceover artist for video games & cartoons. He directed As You Like It (Canadian Stage's Dream in High Park), Low Pay Don't Pay (George Brown theatre school), and 3 Penguin Audiobooks (Swimming in the Monsoon Sea & Mansions of the Moon by Shyam Selvadurai, Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality by Lindsay Wong), and narrated novels, including Kill The Mall by Pasha Malla and Tell It To The Trees by Anita Rau Badami. He is artistic director of @N@f@N@ (theatre) and Cardboard Dreams (digital media). Social media: HRH Anand Rajaram.
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Aaron Jan
Actor Submissions:
Submit a letter: Who you are, why you want to do this and what you hope to gain from this workshop. 3 spaces.
An interactive workshop led by award winning theatre director, Aaron Jan, where directors will learn how to work with actors at the table and on their feet.
Aaron Jan is a director, playwright and dramaturg. He has worked as a director with Factory Theatre, Canadian Stage, Theatre Aquarius, The University of Winnipeg, Theatre Direct, Theatre Erindale, and most recently with Theatre Passe Muraille. Aaron is one third of the Dora Mavor Moore Award winning Silk Bath Collective, whose production of Woking Phoenix, enjoyed a sold out run as a part of TPM's 2023/2024 season. He is the 2019 winner of the Ken McDougall directing award, the 2021 co-winner of the Rita Joe Playwriting Award, a 2021 co-recipient of Musical Stage Company's Aubrey and Marla Dan Fund for New Musicals, a 2021 Johanna Protege Recipient, and the 2022 winner of Tarragon Theatre's Urjo Kareda Award for Emerging Artists. Aaron is currently serving as a casting associate for the Stratford Festival's 2025 season.
Makambe K Simamba
Actor Submissions:
Questions for Applicants Do you have any experience with solo work (either performance or writing/creation)? (Max 100 words) What would you like to learn in the workshop? (Max 100 words) Tell me a little bit about your artistic practice. This can include things you've done, things you're currently doing, and things you aspire to do (Max 100 words) MUST BE ABLE TO ATTEND dye festival presentations!
Let's explore the possibilities of a one-person show! This Intro to Solo Creation workshop will focus on content generation and presentation, as well as tips and tools to create the most dynamic and engaging performance possible.
Makambe K Simamba is a multiple award-winning playwright and actor, and a graduate of the University of Lethbridge. Select stage acting credits include Three Sisters, (Soulpepper Theatre, Dora Award-Winner for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble and Outstanding Production), The First Stone (New Harlem Productions), Serving Elizabeth (Thousand Islands Playhouse), GIANT (Ghost River Theatre), Winners and Losers (Chromatic Theatre), Bea (Sage Theatre), inVISIBLE (Handsome Alice Theatre) and SIA (Pyretic Productions). On screen, she can be seen in projects such as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Titans, True Dating Stories, Grand Army and more. As a playwright, her solo work includes the multiple Dora Award-Winning Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers, A Chitenge Story and Makambe Speaks. Her works in progress have been supported by The Stratford Festival, Banff Playwright’s Lab, Downstage Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, b current performing arts, Citadel theatre, Obsidian Theatre, and Green Thumb Theatre. Makambe is Zambian-born and Caribbean-raised. Her intention is to be of service through her ability to tell stories.
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