Acting Out!

Act One - Students ages 4-10 perform nursery rhymes and fairy tales directed by Deirdre Budzyna.Act Two - Students ages 10 and older in a dark comedy about the revenge of the Grimms' Stepmothersas written and directed by Mara Flynn. ACTING OUT! PRODUCTIONS is dedicated to the study ofcreative and expressive theater arts for people ages four and older. Located in a sunny, newly renovated studio at The Tannery in Newburyport, Acting Out! offers weekly classes and workshops. There are auditions and performance events open to all students.Deirdre Duggan Budzyna has been an elementary school teacher in both public and private settings for ten years. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in theatre and education and received a Master's Degree from Lesley University in Creative Arts in Learning. Deirdre is currently an early childhood education professor atNorthern Essex Community College. She has directed children's theatre at the Page School in West Newbury, the Bresnahan School in Newburyport and The Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport.Mara Flynn is co-director of Acting Out, an actress, musician and teacher. For twenty years she has performed in the seacoast area, as well as New York, the west coast, and abroad. She graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in theater. Mara has over ten years of teaching experience and has taught theater workshops at The Governor's Academy, Newburyport Montessori, the BrownSchool, New Hampshire Theater Project, as well as thirteen years of her own summer programs in Newburyport and Groveland. "Play is democratic! Anyone can play! Everyone can learn through playing! Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind and body, intelligence and creativity, spontaneity and intuition - when all, teacher and students together, are attentive to the moment "Viola Spolin, author of "Theater Games for the Classroom" Presented bythe Firehouse Center for the Arts.Tickets: $10