Limited Enrollment! Only 12 spots are available to maintain intensive personal instruction and experience. Tuition is $210 ($10/hour). To enroll, please contact Company Manager Lee Davis at LDavis@PhoenixTheatre.org.
Message from the Instructor
In this class, you will learn how to develop and produce your own devised work. I will breakdown the components of producing and how to center people in your process. You’ll learn about what it takes to share resources, be in conversation with other ... view more »
Limited Enrollment! Only 12 spots are available to maintain intensive personal instruction and experience. Tuition is $210 ($10/hour). To enroll, please contact Company Manager Lee Davis at LDavis@PhoenixTheatre.org.
Message from the Instructor
In this class, you will learn how to develop and produce your own devised work. I will breakdown the components of producing and how to center people in your process. You’ll learn about what it takes to share resources, be in conversation with other artists, and build a thriving artistic community in your city. This is a class for people who want to have more agency over their careers and the projects that they are a part of.
This is a very practical course that will give you the tools you need and the questions you need to think about before you start making things happen.
About Olivia Lilley
Olivia Lilley is a playwright, screenwriter, director, and producer who came up in Chicago’s DIY scene. She uses a devised process to create and develop her plays that she’s been honing since 2013. Olivia’s work often ransacks classics or non fiction with a collective and builds a new story for the current moment. Olivia fights American perfectionism by telling stories about complex and messy characters, subverting tropes, and giving alternate endings to women who are traditionally tragic. Olivia is the Artistic Director of Prop Thtr. She was the founding Artistic Director of The Runaways Lab Theatre (Voted Best New Theatre Company in the Chicago Reader’s Best of 2014). She is a Board Member at The National New Play Network, an Artistic Associate with Pivot Arts, and co-produces “Building Our Tables”, a Producers of Color: Panels & Masterclass series with playwright, Riti Sachdeva. She’s also the Executive Director at Pop Magic Productions. Olivia’s feature screenplay “The Snowpeople” was selected for Full Spectrum Features Producers’ Lab 2020. Olivia attended Carnegie Mellon School of Drama for Directing, and Interlochen Arts Academy for Music Composition. She is currently working on her MFA in Screenwriting from The University of Nebraska at Omaha.
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