TTHE SIX VIEWPOINTS


Mary Overlie, the creator of the Viewpoints approach to theater creation and training is a brilliant teacher and innovator. Mary offers a distinct look at deconstructing and reconstructing theater, and reimagining the roles of the performer and the audience. This workshop will spark your creativity, broaden your toolbelts, and empower you with new ways of relating to your actors, and the audience for whom they perform.

About Mary Overlie

MARY OVERLIE has had a long and respected career as a performer, choreographer, teacher and theater collaborator working extensively in both the United States and Europe. She had the pleasure of working Paul Langland, Nina Martin and Wendell Beavers who formed her core company from 1976 to1980 and continue to be close friends to this day. She has collaborated with theatre directors Lawrence Sacharow, Lee Breuer, Joanne Akailitis, Brian Jucha and Anne Bogart. She is immensely proud that many of these productions have won Obies, one of New York's theatres Award.

Ms Overlie is a founder of: Danspace at St. Mark's Church a dance presenting organization and theatre in New York; Movement Research, a dance co-operative now in its twenty fifth year of operation, sponsoring workshops and presenting performances serving the community of New York City dancer; The Experimental Theatre Wing; a studio in the department of Undergraduate Drama Tisch School of the Arts; The Pro Series, experimental dance workshops designed for the Tanz Wochen the summer dance festival of Vienna and has taught and advised at schools in France, Holland, Denmark, Brussels and the USA. She was the director of ETW from 1989 to 1991 and was awarded the Bessie dance and theatre award in 1999.

She is currently teaching at the Experimental Theatre Wing, working on a book for The Six Viewpoints, designing a certificate program for The Six Viewpoints, performing occasionally and raising a cat and dog that are now just one year old.