OUR VISION
To advance the level of theatre arts in Colorado.
OUR MISSION
To provide students and professional theatre artists with training rooted in graduate-level curriculum, taught by theatre professionals; and to integrate this training into the development of new inter-media performance work that engages audiences in the social and human issues of our time.
Season 15
A Note from Our Founding Artistic Director
" Visionbox Studio was founded in 2010 out of my long term collaboration with actor Bill Pullman. We had developed a way of working we came to call “Low Friction”. We collaborated on many original pieces including devised work where the physical design and world of the play was extremely minimalistic. We used folding chairs, tables and an overhead projector (the “visionbox”), to create the imagery and physical life of each project. Over time the overhead projector became projection design including VR and AR components through a long collaboration with Yale/NYC designer Phillip Baldwin.
The other essential part of my collaboration with Bill was the training and practice I came from at the Yale School of Drama: The 5 Questions Acting technique articulated and taught by Earle Gister (Head of Acting 1988-1999 and the development of new plays. One of the main reasons I returned to Yale was my relationship with the playwright Richard Greenberg, who was a third year playwright, while I was in my first year. I had directed Bill Pullman in a production of Bloodletters, one of Rich’s first plays, in New York before attending the MFA directing program.
Visionbox Studio continues to be my artistic home and represents all of my training, experience, and life in the theatre. I have come to understand over 50 years in professional theatre, that artists who are committed to process over product, and who are passionate students of the human condition, will create work with more depth and detail, than artists who only come together for a four week rehearsal process. Through my work with playwrights at the Yale School of Drama, and everything since then, I have also experienced first hand how understanding and studying great writers from the past, help us to create important new works.
In Season 15, we will continue our program based in graduate level study while also recommitting to the development of new plays. We will revitalize our Playwrights and Directors Lab where writers and directors can collaborate on new scripts with the actors at Visionbox.
Finally, we are living in a very challenging time in history, characterized by mental health issues, financial challenges and a rise in political conflict all over the world. Theatre is a vehicle for social change, but more importantly, a way of connecting us as human beings while helping us find meaning and hope."
Jennifer McCray Rincón
Meet Our Founding Artistic Director
Jennifer McCray Rincón received her BA in Theatre Studies from Yale University and an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama. She was recipient of an NEA Directing Fellowship at Playwright’s Horizons in NYC and a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Bogota, Colombia. After many years in New York, Ms. Rincón came to Denver as the Head of Acting at the National Theatre Conservatory, where she remained from 1991 through 2008. At the DCPA Ms. Rincón taught acting in the 3-year MFA Acting program and directed over 100 productions including Equus, Othello, The Laramie Project, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, The 365 Project, Monte Carlo, and Expedition 6 by Bill Pullman. Locally, Ms. Rincón has directed for El Centro Su Teatro, Shadow Theatre, The Historic Old Elitches Theatre, and was Founding Artistic Director of the Lizard Head Theatre Company in Telluride.
Since founding Visionbox Studio Theatre in 2010 Jennifer McCray Rincón has taught acting to Denver student and professional actors in five week sequences culminating in performances. She has also developed and directed a number of workshops and productions for Visionbox including: The Wild Hunt by Bill Pullman, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley, Lydie Breeze by John Guare, After the Fall by Arthur Miller, 2xTENN by Tennessee Williams, A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas with William Youmans, The Othello Project, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, My Two Sisters, an adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters, and Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams.
Take a moment to listen to this inspiring short message from Bill Pullman on his collaboration with Jennifer and the team at Visionbox Studio.
Bill Pullman has film credits that span ninety features including - Independence Day, Spaceballs, Lost Highway, Casper, Sleepless in Seattle, and more.
Please consider supporting us in our Vision for the Advancing the Level of Theatre Arts here in the Denver area, and supporting this most important work.
Message from Co-Founder & Resident Artist
Actor Bill Pullman
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At Visionbox Studio Theatre we offer 5 week scene study classes for actors of all ages, levels and backgrounds that culminate in a performance. While the focus of the class is on acting technique, each sequence can also be taken as a playwright or director with assignments and work tailored to these disciplines. We also offer ongoing audition classes on Saturday mornings and a Directors Lab on Saturday afternoons.
As an extension of the training program, Visionbox Studio Theatre has produced workshops of new performance work by nationally and internationally acclaimed writers, directors, designers and actors. These public performances of new work featuring multi-media design have included The Othello Project by Visionbox, Commedia D'amore, a new play by British Actor Daniel Gerroll, The Wild Hunt by Bill Pullman, a world premiere of Seeking Charlie Russell written and performed by Bill Pullman and A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas with Broadway Actor Bill Youmans and most recently American Addict a devised piece by Jennifer McCray Rincón and Visionbox. Visionbox is a Tier III project of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) and part of the McNichols Civic Center Building Cultural Partnership Program.
Why Theatre Training Matters
"Like most theatre artists I knew from a very young age that theatre was going to be my life. We talk a lot in theatre about how theatre is a ‘calling,’ and to me what this means is that most young emerging artists know from a pretty young age that this is what they want to do with their lives. Everyone and everything will fight against it, but real artists ultimately are not influenced by what other people think. It’s a strange paradox that as artists we..."
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