HUMAN RACE SUMMER STOCK TEENS

THE LOVEWELL EXPERIENCE

This is our third time partnering with The Lovewell Institute of Florida in providing students ages 13 - 19 with the best interdisciplinary summer program in town.

June 28 - July 16
Performance Weekend - July 16, 17 and 18

Lovewell is about collaboration, the desire to be part of the creative process from the ground up and finding your own authentic voice through whatever art form suits you. It is a place to bring all your wildest ideas and biggest dreams. It is a place where every idea spurs another thought that may become the basis of an entire show. Come write, choreograph, compose, perform and find something that you never knew was inside of you!

More information and registration forms below.

This project is sponsored, in part, by the Miriam Rosenthal Memorial Trust Fund.

LISTEN WELL! CREATE WELL! LOVEWELL!!

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Pay the Full Enrollment Fee of $575 via PayPal
(To pay the Minimum Enrollment Fee of $150, please download the registration forms and mail with your payment)

Lovewell Institute creates new realities - in education, in the arts, in the community and in personal lives. Through the Lovewell Method, aspiring artists learn to collaborate in a nurturing and exhilarating environment; sharing a personal growth experience that will impact them for the rest of their lives. We are artists, educators, business people and parents who value the creative process as a tool for transformation. Through the Lovewell network, we are redefining the role of the arts, and creating a cultural community through innovative programs, partnerships, international exchanges, festivals of new works, training programs and research.

Employing the Lovewell Method, our staff guides students through the rough waters of bringing order out of chaos, meaning out of data, and resolution out of random events. The themes, characters, dialogue, plot, music, lyrics, design and dances in our productions are generated directly from the imagination, experience, and innate wisdom of the students. The Lovewell Method utilizes creative problem solving, and anyone watching our process knows the high degree of critical thinking that occurs as we develop our projects. The process of creating our shows is a training ground for group dynamics, team-building, organizational strategy, emotional intelligence, and vocational skills.

For more information, visit www.lovewell.org.

Broward County (FL) Cultural Quarterly: Lovewell Institute: Channels Chaos in the Name of Creativity

LOVEWELL INSTRUCTORS

JESSE CARLO has spent his lifetime dedicated to the performing arts. From his early childhood, Jesse was immersed in the arts. An instrumentalist, singer, and actor by elementary school, he knew full well his calling and he pursued it with diligence and unlimited abandon. Carlo sought out every opportunity to grow; school drama departments, choral groups, statewide orchestras and soon a professional career. By the time he entered the esteemed LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts, he had worked in film and television and graced some of the world’s most renowned stages, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. And, as his high school experience introduced him to new and exciting opportunities, Jesse found himself headed in a new direction; musical theatre.

By the age of 19 Carlo had been involved in his first Broadway production and was affiliated with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. His career from here seemed to take flight. Over the following years, Jesse completed his bachelor’s degree in Musical Theatre and performed in another Broadway production. He then began his life on the road performing in national touring productions, regional theatre and theme parks. Carlo was fortunate to have toured the world with such companies as Walt Disney and Royal Caribbean and recorded for such labels as Capitol Records and Sony Latin.

Along the way, he was often invited as a guest-teaching artist and soon developed a passion for arts education. And, much to his surprise, shortly after taking up residence in Fort Lauderdale, FL, he would soon transition away from the stage and into the studio. Carlo has served as artistic director and theatre director for local, regional and international arts organizations. He has been noted for his directing and choreography and involvement with youth in local and international publications. Carlo has been invited to teach at Asolo Conservatory, The University of Tampa, and Nova Southeastern University. Recently, he completed his M.S.Ed in Interdisciplinary Arts and has embarked on his new endeavor, opening a non-profit conservatory for the performing and visual arts.

This project is near and dear to his heart, for were it not for public and scholarship programming, most of the training that led to such success would not have been possible. It is his belief that it is his turn to give back. With the major decline of the arts in public schools and arts related programming in private sectors, Carlo has set out to revive the arts with a heart for the community. Currently Carlo is working meticulously on completing the 501 (c) (3) application process so he might open doors and begin serving the community by August 2010.

MICHAEL FINKE is a composer, actor, sound designer and musical director located in New York and is elated to be in a home he calls Lovewell. He will be finishing his final year at NYU, where he has trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute, the Steinhardt School of Music, and three years at Playwrights Horizons Theater School in Tisch School of the Arts. He has musically directed NYU productions of LaChiusa’s The Wild Party, Brecht’s The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent, Children of Eden, and The Good Ship Apple Ship, as well as five previous Lovewell workshops.

Some of Michael’s favorite opportunities with performing onstage include David Spangler’s Nefertiti: A Musical Romance (Parker Playhouse), Pippin (PJPII, in which he won two Cappie Awards for Best Choreography and Best Lead Actor in a Musical) A Hunter’s Moon (Caldwell Theater Company), The Nerd (Stage Door Theater Company), and last November was privileged to play Anthony in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Robert Moss Theater, NYU).

He has composed/written two full length musicals to date which both have had New York premieres. His first, Goodnight, Stranger received a workshop reading at the Helen Mills Theatre. However, he most recently directed his latest work, Reporting Live in association with NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Shop Theater. Reporting Live is scheduled for a full cast recording this September. Lovewell Dayton will be Michael’s 10th Lovewell process. He sends all his love to his extraordinary family and friends and of course the beautiful Lovewell family.

CASSIE SPANGLER has been participating in workshops with Lovewell Institute for the Creative Arts for over ten years in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, and Oskarshamn, Sweden. She is currently entering her final year at University of Florida, where she is majoring in English with a focus in Creative Writing and Poetry and minoring in Italian. She has taken workshops with such distinguished writers as Debora Greger, William Logan, and Michael Hofmann and has had her poems published in The Literary Magazine at the University School of Nova Southeastern University and the Mangrove Literary Review at the University of Florida. Some of her favorite roles include Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly, Irene Roth in Crazy for You, Mrs. Hannington in A Rebel Without A Cause (for which she won a South Florida Cappie Award for Best Cameo Actress), Mrs. Stanley in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Ruby in Forget-Me-Not. She is looking forward to spending the summer in Dayton with the talented and creative people at Lovewell and the Human Race Theater.

2009 HUMAN RACE/LOVEWELL
SUMMER STOCK TEENS

June 29 – July 18, 2009
SUPERPOWERLESS – an action-packed musical
A SUPER Success created by 22 Amazing Teens

The staff included Carrie Gilchrist and Michael Finke from Lovewell,
and Human Race Artists/Instructors Marilyn Klaben and Scott Stoney.
Also on board were Hannah Lenae Grizz (dance), Carol Finley (costumes),
Ray Zupp (set), John Findlay (lights) and Nathan D. Dean (sound).