Terri Power!!
Now... Deputy Artistic Director of Full Tilt Theatre Company!
Terri has recently been named Deputy Artistic Director of Full Tilt Theatre Company in Residence at Bath Spa University. She is currently developing a major Shakespeare project that will culminate in a practice-led research tour to many different spaces, venues and sites throughout the UK. Using the play The Taming of the Shrew as a source text, Terri will cross-cast the production and give it a feminist update. The production will seek to offer audiences a highly humourous yet poignant Shakespeare experience, and try to bridge the gap between original Shakespeare practices and contemporary audiences. The production will tour to a variety of spaces and audiences over the Spring and Summer 2009, and the cast will participate in multiple workshops and training sessions with leading practitioners including studying and/or performing at such institutions as The Globe and the RSC.
In addition to the cast getting such valuable experiences Terri has also designed a new module as part of the Drama Studies course at Bath Spa University entitled Staging Shakespeare that will also benefit from the project. Terri secured funding from Artswork to sponsor the entire class of about 30 students to visit study and practice at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London and the RSC. Check out the photos here on this website under Staging Shakespeare!
Taming of the Shrew will have its World premiere at the Bath Comedy Festival running in the University Theatre on the Bath Spa University campus April 2-4 2009 as part of Bath Spa Live and then it will arrive on the streets of Bath! The production will tour throughout the UK in spring and summer and finally take part in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Check out my Full Tilt SHREW page to see our current tour dates and venues! Also Check out our new publicity photos!
UPDATE! Terri has just submitted her PhD in Performance Practice!
Terri has just submitted her PhD in Performance Practice at the University of Exeter in England. The title of her PhD is A Method to Her Manliness: Women Performing Masculinities.
Terri's PhD is focussed on developing a methodology for women to embody male roles in performance, and/or use masculinity as a site for performance investigations. Her work includes extensive self directed projects, workshops, performances, physical training, studies of various actor training techniques, Drag King performance, Gender and Queer theory, underpinned by feminist theory.
In her first year, as part of her ongoing practical work, Terri created a Native American male persona known as Tom A. Hawk. His narrative and the performance was devised through experiments involving, movement, dance, drumming, song, and ethnographic research. The first showing of the work was presented at the Masculinity as Masquerade conference in Wales April 2005. She also presented papers at the the Gender: The Next Generation Conference in Leeds 2006 and at the first annual CISSGE conference in 2007. In June 2005 she performed her drag king character 'Grandfather Hawk' at Club Wotever in London, and Tom A. Hawk: War Within premiered in July 2005. Terri has received several scholarships for her work, including the Exeter Research Scholarship.
Taming a Shrew in NYC and Other Productions!
In the fall of 2005, Terri worked as an Assistant Director and actor in the NYC Queen's Company production of Taming of the Shrew. (Please note the links and pages she has provided. ) ALSO Terri's first Women Playing Men workshop took place over three weeks and ended on Feb 12,2006. Later Terri directed her All-female Romeo and Juliet also in 2006 and in the Spring of 2007 Terri's work culminated in the trans-gender multi-media performance Through A Glass Darkly.
Terri has published several articles and additions from her work in major publications such as the VSR: Gender and the Voice, Studies in Theatre and Performance, and The Encyclopaedia of Gender and Society. Terri will be presenting a paper at the Ending International Feminist Futures? Conference in Aberdeen Scotland.
Former Director and Resident Playwright of the Shake-scene Players!
Terri's Projects Timeline!
1994 - Terri wins Top Speaker Prize at the PHI RO PI California State Community College Championships and goes on to win Two Gold medals at the National Championships in Texas.
1996 - Graduates with a BA in Theatre with honors as part of the Acting Track from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles).
1997 - Terri teaches drama to inner city youth with the Cleveland Public Theatre.
1998 -2003 Terri works for Universal Studios and Disney under various AGVA and IATSE contracts.
2004
Receives MFA in Staging Shakespeare with Distinction from the University of Exeter.
Premiers Drag King Richard III at the Edinburgh and receives many accolades!
Terri begins teaching at the University of exeter Drama Department.
2005
In January 2005, in collaboration with the Dorset Police Department, Terri has written four scenarios on homophobic hate crime (based on real life events) for the Dorset Police Review of Homophobic Hate Crime training sessions.
In July & August 2005 - The Shake-scene Players, ltd. produce two original appropriations written & directed by Terri Power Drag king Richard III and Possession: Macbeth, running in rep at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
2006
Based on her experince working with the Queen's Company production of Taming of the Shrew, Terri writes her first paper to be published in the Women in Performance Journal. And she is currently working on her next publication for the Voice and Speech Review.
Terri is teaching the Research and Performance Module at the University of Exeter that will culminate in the directing/devising of an experimental single-sex (all female) performance of Shakespeare's Classic 'Romeo and Juliet'. Check out the website for updates.
2007
Terri gives her paper Sonic Trans-dressing: Somehwere Inbetweenat the first annual CISSGE conference.
She teaches Techno-feminism to a class of all-women at the University of Exeter.
Terri performs her trans-gender multi-media production Through a Glass Darkly at the University of Exeter.
She becomes a full-time lecturer at Bath Spa University in the department of Performing Arts.
Tammy and Terri marry at the Exeter Steiner School among friends and Family from both continents.
2008
In collaboration with Dr. Sarah O'brien, Terri directs the multi-media interdisciplinary Andy Warhol Project - The Exploding Plastic Inevitable Death Ball at Bath Spa University.
Terri submits her PhD A Method to Her Manliness: Women Performing Masculinities for degree award.
Photo Gallery!
In the photo gallery you will find production photos of Drag King Richard III, including publicity shots, poster designs, promotion, Scotland pics, etc. In my Custom page are Pics of Research & Performance Module and the students...more pics on photo page 2. In my photo page 3 are pics from Love Fought with Hate a one act Laura and Terri were recently involved in. And coming soon production shots, and updates on the Shake-scene Players' newest production Possession: Macbeth.
