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JENNY WANASEK
3321 North Cramer Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
(414) 403-6338
contact@center-for-applied-theatre.com
EDUCATION
BFA University of Wiconsin – Milwaukee 1980
Acting – Sanford Robbins, Leslie Reidel
Movement – Jewel Walker (Decroux)
Voice – Patricia Crump, Robert Chapline (Linklater)
Speech – Penelope Reed (Skinner)
APPLIED THEATRE TRAINING Trained with Augusto Boal and Doug Paterson in New York, Omaha, and Milwaukee
FACILITATOR TRAINING Healing Racism by Healing Our Nation
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Professor - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1999-present
Guest Artist, advanced acting technique – University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2000
Theatre Workshops in hundreds of locations throughout Southeastern Wisconsin for children, teens, and adults
Theatre Technique – Teen University, UW-Milwaukee
Theatre Classes – University School of Milwaukee
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Co-Founder – Center for Applied Theatre
With Mark Weinberg. Duties include management, facilitating performances, conducting workshops, co-authoring scripts, and directing productions.
Stage Director – Professional credits include shows with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act Theatre, First Stage Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public Theatre, Theatre Tesseract
University credits include shows with UW-Milwaukee, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Whitewater
Actor – Professional theatre credits include shows with Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Skylight Opera Theatre, Next Act Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, First Stage Milwaukee, Theatre Tesseract
Actor – Commercials, training videos, voice-overs
Director – The Modjeska Youth Theatre, Premier summer program, 1998
Duties included director of musical, production and staff management, outreach workshops for recruitment of teen talent
Director – “2000 Dreams”, a musical for and by teens of the north, south, and east sides of Milwaukee administered by the Boys and Girls Club of Milwaukee and Milwaukee Public Theatre. Duties included production management, play development, script writing, and directing the show.
REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATIONS and WORKSHOPS
““Striking the First Blow: Theatre for Social Change in K-12.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, 2003.
“Creating TO Performance Pieces: From Full Forum to the One-Line Play.”. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference, 2003.
“Introduction to Image Theatre.”. PTO Conference, 2002.
“Loosing” Control”: Passing Power from the Joker to Participants.” PTO Conference, 2001.
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