Residencies & MasterClasses & Workshops
Lost Nation Theater can also come to your school! The company’s artistic directors have a long and successful track record of creating curricular-connected theater workshops achieving stated learning and socialization objectives, from working on already scripted plays to creating entirely custom-designed units, kindergarten through college. LNT’s stage manager and technical director are also experienced workshop leaders. Lost Nation Theater is a juried artist of the Vermont Arts Council and New England Foundation for the Arts, which makes grant funding available to subsidize LNT’s residency work. Contact Producing Artistic Director Kathleen Keenan Please Email with any other questions.
Upcoming Workshops, Master Classes, and Coaching:
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PUPPETRY PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
WITH STOPH SCHEER.
It starts TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2025
A Workshop for All Levels
A 3-part workshop, in 3 sessions, for 3 hours/session.
Tuesday-Thursday, April 22-24, 2025
5:30 - 8:30pm.
for ages 14 & up
at LNT
Participants will learn and practice fundamentals of puppetry performance, including breath, focus, weight, movement, and stillness concentrating on individual work.
Participants will move on to learning & experiencing ensemble puppetry as they work in teams to animate puppets that need more than one puppeteer through a focus on Bunraku-style puppetry.
The workshop will cover basic techniques - including lip syncing - for hand-and-rod puppetry (the style popularized by Jim Henson’s Muppets).
Participants will walk away with concrete, practicable puppeteering skills and techniques for animating objects and giving them focus. These techniques are applicable to dance and acting work.
The workshop series will celebrate its conclusion with an informal showing of the techniques covered for friends and family.
About Stoph Scheer:
Stoph Scheer holds a Master’s Degree in Puppet Arts from the University of Connecticut and trained with The Jim Henson Company and with Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel. She is the co-founder of Doppelskope Puppet Theater, a grant recipient from the Jim Henson Foundation, and one of the first openly trans women to puppeteer in Hollywood, notably performing for The Muppets Mayhem on DisneyPlus, Slumberkins on AppleTV, and in Brian Henson’s long running improv show, Puppet Up! She is known to audiences at Lost Nation Theater through many shows (starting in 2009!), including The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged], The Mystery of Irma Vep, The 39 Steps, Eurydice, and, most recently, I Am My Own Wife.
Minimum Class Size: 6;
maximum Class Size: 20
No audition necessary. No pre-requisites.
Protocols for Covid-19 Safety will be followed
This may include masking (depending on community risk levels and contracts) and testing for participants and staff. Participants must be willing to follow these safety protocols to take the workshop.
Cost! This is an incredible opportunity that includes 10 contact hours with master puppeteer, actor & director Stoph Scheer We are offering this opportunity at multiple price points and ask you to choose the price point that best fits your capacity.
The price points are: $95, $154 and $229.
We are able to work with individuals who need to consider scholarships
PURCHASE & REGISTER FOR THE PUPPETRY PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP HERE
Examples of Past Workshops, Master Classes, and Coaching:
GET RICK QUICK: An Introduction to Comedic Longform IMPROV
with Anna Rock
starts Sept 9, 2021
An In-Person, 3-part series with the ridiculously fun Anna Rock.
Anna - who has also been seen onstage with Cecily Strong and Upright Citizens' Brigade - is back in Vermont with LNT to perform Rosalind in As You Like It.
Come play riotous games, team up for collaborative exercises, and harness the art of organized chaos that is improv!
Class is designed for anyone Teen-Adult.
Get all the details by following This Link
Scene Study Master Class
with Director, Actor, Playwright
Erin Galligan Baldwin
Sat April 22. 11:30am-5:30pm
$60 (scholarship may be available)
Join actor, director, and playwright Erin Galligan Baldwin for a Script Analysis Master Class. In this one-day event, we will analyze the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes using the techniques in David A Ball's book, Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays.
To prepare for this class, please read both the play and the book ahead of time, take notes, and come ready to discuss the types of choices actors, directors, producers, and playwrights make while creating a play.
Participants also save 20% on tickets to Pass Over.
Class is designed for Adults (and teens 16+).
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE
Past Workshops, Master Classes, and Coaching:
STAGE MANAGEMENT SEMINAR WITH LAURA KROUCH (Oct-Nov 2020)
An online, 4-part series with one of the best SM's LNT has ever worked with AEA production stage manager Laura Krouch.
From pre-show to post-show, Laura will take you through the process of serious stage managing.
Class is designed for anyone age 13 and older.
Get all the details by following This Link
STORY BOOK 101 - actor training (October-December 2020)
Private coaching & actor training from Lost Nation Theater Artistic Directors Kim Allen Bent & Kathleen Keenan
Can be done either online or in person (under certain circumstances including safety protocols)!
Tailored to the individual. Use your favorite short story or poem and hone your acting style.
Videos of your coached reading will be shared via LNT media. Coaching is available for age 9 and older.
Thanks to a grant from the Montpelier Community Fund, the first 20 students (age 9-18) are free.
Get all the details by following This Link