Drama Strand (7 workshops – you get them ALL!)

ONE:  Acting with Cat Haggquist 

 

 

 

 

 

TWO:  Physical Improvisation with Miriam Cummings

Miriam (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who makes performance, plays, poetry, and prose on the ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Nation. A graduate of Concordia University’s Acting program and the University of British Columbia’s Master of Fine Arts program, she teaches acting, devising, and voice at Concordia University, Tempest Theatre, with the Embodied Voice Collective, and coaches people one-on-one. Based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal for more than a decade, Miriam co-founded Hopegrown Productions and has developed four new plays. Her essay, Words I don’t say aloud, was published in 2023 by broke press.
 
Physical Improvisation Workshop

In this workshop, we will explore telling stories with the body, the space, and objects. We will engage the imagination, strengthen somatic
(mind/body) connection, and build confidence. This playful, ensemble-based physical improvisation session will draw from the work of Keith Johnstone, Mary Overlie, and Tectonic Theater Project’s Moment Work.

THREE:  Musical Theatre with Will Cullin 

FOUR:  Preparing Your Audition with Shaughnessy O’Brien

FIVE:  Using your local museum as a resource

SIX:  something arty…. stay tuned

SEVEN:  something amazing … stay tuned

 

 

Intensive Strands 

(Choose ONE of these and work on project that will be presented at the Gala Showcase on the last day of the festival)

OPTION ONE:  CHORAL INTENSIVE with Brian Tate

Our beloved Brian is back for another year of making music magic!!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

OPTION TWO:   AFFAIR of HONOUR BATTLE INTENSIVE with Jackie and Nathania

Affair of Honor is a fight and movement based theatre company from Vancouver and is thrilled to be invited back to the Goodwill Shakespeare Festival.  Come fight, move, and play with Affair of Honor. Three days of training in physical theatre and stage combat with a showcase on the final class. This workshop is all about moving and having fun while doing it. With stage combat, we will focus on the safeties and building trust with a partner to execute a dynamic and hard hitting fight sequence.  Through physical theatre, you will be following simple to complex movements and explore how your body can move while delving into the Bards text.  This Company class is an inside look into how Affair of Honor creates and prepares actors for big fight shows.  This will all culminate in a big group number full of movement and fight choreography that will be presented at the Gala Showcase!

 

 

OPTION THREE:  IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARIAN MUSICAL INTENSIVE with Peter and Zach

“To B♯ or to B♭, that is the question”. Push your skills to the limit with some of Vancouver’s top improvisers. Learn how to improvise Shakespeare and musicals and then put both skills together to create something incredible! Join Zach Wolfman and Peter Abando in the creation of an Improvised Shakespearean Musical.”

When he’s not teaching K-7 music in West Van, you can find PETER ABANDO composing, improvising, directing, or performing music somewhere around Metro Vancouver. Select music direction credits includes Spring Awakening (Phantom Moon Collective, 2017), Dogfight (Semper Fi Collective, 2016), the Jessie nominated production of Edges (Two Monkeys Production, 2015), the Ovation nominated Connected: The Musical (Whirlwind Theatre, 2013), an adorable workshop of [title of show], and Mary Poppins (RCMT, 2024). Some favourites include a special charity concert of Dear Evan Hansen with Laughing Matters Theatre, 9 to 5: The Musical at Capilano University, and the Ovation nominated 2019 Vancouver Fringe hit, Amélie, with West Moon Theatre. You can find him regularly conspiring with Jennifer Pielak, Chris Lam, and Nicole Roberge. Upcoming: Monster with Direct Theatre Collective!

 
 
 
ZACH WOLFMAN is an actor, improviser, and teacher in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Zach performs with the Spontaneous Shakespeare Company and Sin Peaks the Improvised Soap Opera. Zach is also an alumni of Off Key musical improv. Zach has a BFA in Acting and BEd from UBC. He has completed Canada’s National Voice Intensive and was a finalist at the Canadian Improv Games.