OUR VISION
To advance the overall level of theatre arts in Colorado.
OUR MISSION
To provide student 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.
Important News from Jennifer Rincón
Founding Artistic Director
Dear Friends,
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I am writing to you today with some very bad news. On December 26, my son and both of my daughters and both daughters’ husbands were in a car crash on the way to ski in Winter Park. My son-in-law Williams Herrera, 29 years old, was killed instantly. And my middle daughter Sonia, his wife, was rushed to Denver Health in a coma. She never regained consciousness and died on January 4. My eldest child Catalina, her husband Jack and my youngest child and only son Carlo were all seriously injured. We have a long road to their physical recovery, but all will eventually recover physically.
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For now we will pause Visionbox Studio operations and aim to resume with our Shakespeare class and solo pieces sometime in February. We are deep into Season 14 and will continue with plans to produce “American Addict” at the Eisenhower Chapel through the Lowry Foundation, and to continue the Queer theatre project sponsored by Bonfils Stanton, as well as continue our MFA-inspired classes in acting, directing and playwriting.
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Thank you for being a supporter of our work. Thank you for your kindness in these difficult times. For information or to connect for any reason including scheduling meetings with me or staff please email us at info@visionbox.org.
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And finally from me personally... this horrific nightmare reminds me why I am an artist. This is my calling, and I know that theatre is a way to experience the universal truths of the human condition while perhaps most importantly to find connection in this disconnected technological world where we live inside these screens. Theatre ultimately helps us all find healing and hope. I read the end of Chekhov's “Three Sisters” as we said goodbye to Sonia and Willy. I met Sonia's father Carlos Rincon while I was directing this play in Bogota, Colombia in 1990, and the rest is history. At the end of the play Tusenbach has been killed in a duel and all the sisters are heartbroken, and Irina the youngest sister says:
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"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."
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Jennifer 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
2024 Classes and
performances
January 8th, 2024: Shakespeare Class (Performance @ Cactus Club - Feb. 8th)
February 12, 2024: Contemporary Acting Scene Study (Performance @ Cactus Club - Mar. 14th)
March 18th, 2024: American/British Comedy (Performance @ Champa Studio - April 18th)
April 22nd, 2024: Solo Shakespeare Projects (Performances @ Denver Fringe - June 7th, 8th, & 9th)
July 8th - July 19th: Shakespeare Summer Intensive (Performance @ Cactus Club - July 19th)
June 18th - June 28th: Realism Intensive (Performance @ Cactus Club on June 28th)
July 29th - August 5th: Audition Acting Intensive (Showcase @ Cactus Club - August 7th)
Sept. 9th - October 14th: Chekhov, Ibsen, & Strindberg (Performance @ Cactus Club - October 14th)
October 15th - November 14th: American Classical Realism (@ Cactus Club - November 14th)
October 26th: Why Theatre Matters Today w/ David Hyde Pierce (@ JCC Mizel - October 26th)
November 18th - November 25th: Locker Room Talk (@ Champa Arts Studio - November 25th
December 2nd - December 15th: IAWL w/ Chris Noth (@ JCC Mizel - December 15th)
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Up Next
Upcoming​
AMERICAN ADDICT PERFORMANCE
TBD
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Eisenhower Chapel 293 Roslyn St, Denver, CO 80230
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Information coming soon.
American Addict: A Devised Piece is a new performance that addresses the current crisis of drug and alcohol addiction in our community and our nation as a whole.
By interviewing addicts in recovery, their friends and family, healthcare workers and professionals, and by studying the disease of addiction in depth, Jennifer Rincon and the Visionbox Ensemble has developed a script with the primary purpose of removing the social stigma and shame that keeps so many addicts from finding recovery.
WHAT IS A PEER-TO-PEER CAMPAIGN?
Maximize Your Support of Our Vision
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VISIONBOX STUDIO THEATRE
Professional actor training classes in Colorado.
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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.
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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 SPONSORS
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.
VISIONBOX STUDIO SOCIAL MEDIA
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Visionbox Studio Theatre is 501(c)3 non-profit and all donations are fully tax deductible to the extent allowable by law.