TAPS/UT Residencies
While in residence at the University of Chicago in Spring 2009, Fiona Shaw conducted a master class with TAPS/UT students and participated in a seminar-style workshop focused on Euripides’ Medea and other works that deal with the Medea story. Her visit was a part of the University's ArtSpeaks series.
University Theater has been host to some fantastic theater talents. One of our most recent residencies has been with the group 500 Clown. 500 Clown was in residency with UT/TAPS from Summer 2005 to Spring 2007 with mutual benefit from our student staff, our facilities, and our support.
Molly Brennan, Adrian Danzig and Leslie Danzig are members of 500 Clown in residency with us, and their productions (Macbeth, Frankenstein and Christmas) have played on and off in Chicago for the past 6 years and now tour to theaters and universities nationally and starting in June, internationally. One or more of them have trained in clown and physical theater with Jacques Lecoq, Philippe Gaulier and Ronlin Foreman, among others, and work for The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit. Molly performs with the House Theatre (Jeff Award) and Barrel of Monkeys, and appeared in Tina Landau’s Theatrical Essays at Steppenwolf. Adrian was a founding member of Redmoon, an early Neo-futurist and has performed with Lookingglass, Second City, the Goodman and at various NYC and Chicago theaters. Leslie has toured nationally and internationally with NYC’s Elevator Repair Service, has worked at a lot of Chicago and NYC theaters, and is completing her PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern.
