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 intermedia performance work that engages audiences in the social and human issues of our time.
Season 14 Part II: Renewal
A Note from Our Founding Artistic Director
Our 2nd project in 2025 will be a reading of the American Addict. A work that has been with the Visionbox Ensemble since its conception. This play intends to reduce the shame and guilt around addiction and recovery. Written and directed by Jennifer McCray Rincón the one-night performance will be Thursday May 15th at 7pm in the Eisenhower Chapel in Lowry. This performance will be followed by the Brechtian Class in June.
My family, my friends and colleagues have all questioned me about my returning to work so soon after this tragedy. But I am an artist. This is my calling. This is my way of grieving while finding meaning and hope. As we said goodbye to Sonia and Willy in a different chapel I read the end of Chekhov's Three Sisters. I met Sonia's father, Carlos Rincon, while I was directing this play in Bogotá, Colombia in 1990…and the rest is history. At the end of Three Sisters Irina the youngest sister is told that Tusenbach, her future husband, has been killed in a duel and she says:
“A time will come when everyone will know what all this is for, why there is this misery; there will be no mysteries and, meanwhile, we have got to live . . . we have got to work, only to work! Tomorrow I'll go alone; I'll teach in the school, and I'll give all my life to those who may need me. Now it's autumn; soon winter will come and cover us with snow, and I will work, I will work."
Jennifer McCray Rincón
Jennifer McCray Rincón
Former DCPA Head of Acting at the National Theatre Conservatory and MFA graduate in Directing from the Yale School of Drama
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VISIONBOX STUDIO THEATRE
Professional actor training classes in Colorado.
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.
Visionbox Studio Theatre is 501(c)3 non-profit and all donations are fully tax deductible to the extent allowable by law.
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KEEPING OUR MISSION ALIVE
The SCFD allows arts,cultural and scientific organizations to follow their missions. It provides funding to hundreds of organizations every year. Visionbox Studio Theatre is a Tier 3 organization funded in part by SCFD grants.
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation strategically provides grants and fellowships to advance the arts and inspire creative leadership in Denver. Their foundation is richly steeped in Denver’s cultural history, but they are also a contemporary leader in fueling innovation and exploration in the creative economy.
Denver is a diverse, vibrant community where arts and culture are essential, relevant and accessible to all, and nonprofit leaders have the tools and support they need to lead with vision, creativity, compassion and equity.