PLAYHOUSE CREATURES PRESENTS
You’re Invited to a very special Town Hall!
Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company invites you to our Town Hall to introduce our 2021 Fellows!
Please join us on Monday, May 17th, Tuesday, May 18th, or Wednesday May 19th at 7 PM for a discussion with our fellows, moderated by Erica Stevens Abbitt and Joseph W. Rodriguez (PCTC Producing Artistic Director).
It's FREE (suggested donation, $10 if that is possible for you).
Please RSVP to Joseph Rodriguez at joseph@playhousecreatures.org if you would like to attend!
In the meantime, please give a warm welcome to, Ride Hamilton, Alexandra Petrullo, and Laura Zlatos! We'll discuss their past and current work-- and, specifically, the work they are creating with PCTC.
Please join us for this interesting, educational, and entertaining conversation.
Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company invites you to our Town Hall to introduce our 2021 Fellows!
Please join us on Monday, May 17th, Tuesday, May 18th, or Wednesday May 19th at 7 PM for a discussion with our fellows, moderated by Erica Stevens Abbitt and Joseph W. Rodriguez (PCTC Producing Artistic Director).
It's FREE (suggested donation, $10 if that is possible for you).
Please RSVP to Joseph Rodriguez at joseph@playhousecreatures.org if you would like to attend!
In the meantime, please give a warm welcome to, Ride Hamilton, Alexandra Petrullo, and Laura Zlatos! We'll discuss their past and current work-- and, specifically, the work they are creating with PCTC.
Please join us for this interesting, educational, and entertaining conversation.
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RIDE HAMILTON Ride lives in New Orleans, and in Santa Fe on the San Ildefonso Pueblo with his sister's family. Their mother is the award-winning ceramist Dora Tse-Pé, a Native American born on the Zia Pueblo, who has developed her art on the San Ildefonso Pueblo, where most of his family lives, also well-known clay artists. The Tewa name Dora gave him is Wo-Peen Tse- Pé, meaning "Medicine Mountain Eagle Cane." Ride is of mixed descent, sometimes called Métis. Ride is a writer, lyricist, co-composer, theatre and documentary photographer, visual artist, and clothing designer. His photography has been seen for two decades: Recording theatre and the Arts, Native American and Santa Fe life, and New Orleans and Louisiana events. Ride has chronicled many topics, from: Life on San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Hurricane Katrina, to the BP oil spill that devastated the Gulf, to recent protests and Black Lives Matter. For Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company (PCTC), Ride won the 2019 Emerging Playwrights’ “Unique Voice Award” for his musical “New Orleans, 1929”. In 2020, Ride won the “Special Citation for a Full- Length Play of Note” for “R-Train / Knees”.
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ALEXANDRA PETRULLO Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Alexandra moved to New York to attend NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she received her BFA in Drama. While at NYU for musical theatre, Alex met and studied with Nora York and discovered a new passion for solo performance. She has performed at Joe’s Pub and has been featured in various PCTC Projects. She cannot wait to debut her solo work as a PCTC Fellow in 2021! All the love and gratitude to Joseph and Playhouse Creatures for their steadfast support. Special thanks to Gretchen Cryer, Tyley Ross, and always Nora York for their mentorship and lighting the way.
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LAURA ZLATOS Laura Zlatos is a Pittsburgh born, Brooklyn-based playwright and librettist. Her play The Blue Whale was the winner of PCTC's 2019 Dr. R.J. Rodriguez Emerging Playwrights Contest. PCTC produced a reading of the play in 2020 directed by Sherri Eden Barber. Laura's other plays include The Even More Lamentable Tragedy of Lavinia (2020 Women are Funny Prize), Happily After Ever (2017 Woodward/Newman Drama Award; 59E59 Theaters; Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Bloomington Playwrights Project; The Advocate’s Top 10 NY Theater of 2016, Honorable Mention), Three Hours (HERE Arts Center), Exposure (Gene Frankel Theatre), and the musical A Problem with the Pattersons (2020 O’Neill Music Theatre Conference, Semifinalist) with lyricist/ composer Andre Catrini. Laura was a member of The Orchard Project’s Greenhouse and was a resident playwright with the Exquisite Corpse Company. She was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award, the Jerome Fellowship, and the Core Writer Program at the Playwrights’ Center. MFA: Playwriting, Columbia University; MA: Performance Studies, NYU. www.laurazlatos.com
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PCTC Fellowship classes
Flex your artistic discipline with PCTC Fellow Alex Petrullo!
As a certified Reiki I and II healer, accountability coach, and artist, Alex created the ultimate accountability program and habit implementation incubator for writers at any stage in their process looking to deepen intentionality in their work.
Meet ACTIVATED ARTISTRY: Magic Hour Sessions.
Magic Hour Sessions meet 1 hour every morning for either 21 or 66 days.
The sessions begins a with 10-15 minute reiki meditation to remove blocks, connect, and catalyze your creativity.
The meditation is followed with active accountability- 40 minutes of writing time!
The sessions close with 10 minutes to share and roadmap for the next day's sessions.
The goal of the program is to create a habit of showing up, of following through, of choosing the work over resistance.
COMMON SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE:
. Decreased Anxiety
. Increased Creativity
. Increased Intentionality
. New Projects
. Finishing Projects
. Breaking through Blocks
. Empowerment over deeper connection to your artistic output
BONUS:
Access to a private Facebook group where you can share your work, your observations, breakthroughs, blocks, etc for support. Guidance and sessions will be tailored to the group.
As a certified Reiki I and II healer, accountability coach, and artist, Alex created the ultimate accountability program and habit implementation incubator for writers at any stage in their process looking to deepen intentionality in their work.
Meet ACTIVATED ARTISTRY: Magic Hour Sessions.
Magic Hour Sessions meet 1 hour every morning for either 21 or 66 days.
The sessions begins a with 10-15 minute reiki meditation to remove blocks, connect, and catalyze your creativity.
The meditation is followed with active accountability- 40 minutes of writing time!
The sessions close with 10 minutes to share and roadmap for the next day's sessions.
The goal of the program is to create a habit of showing up, of following through, of choosing the work over resistance.
COMMON SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE:
. Decreased Anxiety
. Increased Creativity
. Increased Intentionality
. New Projects
. Finishing Projects
. Breaking through Blocks
. Empowerment over deeper connection to your artistic output
BONUS:
Access to a private Facebook group where you can share your work, your observations, breakthroughs, blocks, etc for support. Guidance and sessions will be tailored to the group.
