2010 Conference Update
from General Manager Bobbi Nidz |
2/22/10
The 2010 National Puppetry Conference application process is underway and accepting applications! Please check out our four pre-conference strands. We have added two additional options this year – Writing for the Puppet Theater, with Robert Smythe, and Focus on Design: Character, Set and Sound with Paul Andrejco, Miguel Romero, and Paul Rudolph.
Additionally, we are excited and pleased to announce Scott Hitz as our Artist-In-Residence who will be working on his company’s production of The Little Prince.
The scholarship page has been updated with new additions. Remember there are always many other roads to explore for funding including your community, library, Rotary, Kiwanis, Women’s Club, local businesses, and more!
We are delighted to see many past participants return and apply across the strands! The National Puppetry Conference is here to help participants feel safe to explore, generate, shape and launch new works of art for the puppet theatre. It is the staff’s pleasure and honor to help make your visions reach the stage.
So we welcome you to join us at the O’Neill for our 20th Anniversary!
-Bobbi Nidzgorski, General Manager
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Matt Rineveld Scholarship Announced |
2/22/10
This year the O'Neill is proud to offer a new scholarship in the name of Matt Rineveld. Dan Matthew “Matt” Rineveld, of Portage, Michigan, consumed life, taking in as much as he could. He was eager to experience what was around him, and his natural talent to make others around him laugh with his witty sense of humor and sarcasm was addicting. In his all too short thirty-three years, Matt surrounded himself with people who shared in his childlike view of the world. Whether it was having his campers do a sock puppet show as a camp counselor or handing out circus peanuts to his colleagues at work in a purple elephant suit, Matt knew that life was too short not to make the people around him smile.
The Matt Rineveld Scholarship will be awarded to similar souls whose number one passion in life is to make others happy through their diverse talents in the creative arts. To learn more about Matt, please read his life legacy at http://www.lifestorynet.com/memories/55033/ |
 Matt Rineveld |
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Welcome to the 20th Annual
O'Neill National Puppetry Conference |
2/1/10
We proudly welcome you to the 20th Annual National Puppetry Conference at the O’Neill Theater Center.
We are delighted to be continuing in our efforts to raise awareness and share our love of the Art of the Puppet.
The National Puppetry Conference at the O’Neill Theater Center provides a venue in which to collaborate, experiment, explore and develop ideas and talents relating to Puppet Arts. Open to puppeteers, theatre designers, actors, musicians, directors, artists, producers, playwrights and students, our goal is to develop new works for the Puppet Theater, while advancing the standards and skills necessary for the puppet artist.
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These eight days are an intense experience of being with puppet artists committed to the art form and to the creation of new works. The conference attracts preeminent guest artists, a professional staff, and provides the physical support to assist and guide the puppet artist. This summer we are honored to celebrate and highlight the achievements of our staff, who will be creating the main stage shows for us this year. We remain committed to creating that nurturing and supportive environment in which your visions can be realized.
I invite you to dream, explore, invent, express, create, learn and grow with us this summer, as we move into our next decade of creating new puppet theater.
I promise you an experience that you will never forget.
Pam Arciero
Artistic Director |
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