MASON ROSENTHAL

Back from presenting at the NET Intersection symposium. Check out the Lightning Rod Special Instagram for some pics.

This weekend I go on retreat in Connecticut to start thinking about One Way Red, the Medium Theatre Company's Philadelphia Fringe Festival offering.

Once I'm back, I'll be gearing up for a dance performance with Group Motion. (NO)E(XIT)N-TRANCE: Inter-terrestrial Sightings is a new multi media dance theater work directed by Manfred Fischbeck and created in collaboration with Nick Jushchyshyn, Westphal's Program Director for Animation & Visual Effects at Drexel.

Other summer plans include teaching an experimental theater camp for 6-8th graders at The Philadelphia School, and training intensives with Lightning Rod Special in butoh, bouffon, and musical theater for a new project in the works.

I'm headed to Chicago on Thursday for the Network of Ensemble Theater's Intersection: Ensembles and Universities Symposium at Columbia College. I'll be teaching a workshop with Haverford College Professor John Muse.

Check out the description below:

Making is Thinking: Lightning Rod Special & Haverford College
Presenters:
John Muse, Visiting Assistant Professor, Haverford College
Mason Rosenthal, Co-Director, Lightning Rod Special

Bring your familiar research methodologies and render them strange through performance. Like adding salty to the sweet, or looking sideways at the sun, we will take an oblique approach and make new discoveries. This thinking on (and with) your feet workshop will include exercises, discussion, and creation.

In fall 2015, Philadelphia-based devised theatre company Lightning Rod Special served as guest artists for Haverford College course “The Rhetoric of Argument” with Professor John Muse. In spring 2016, LRS worked with Haverford students in two courses: “Experimental Media - Theory, History, Practice” (Professor John Muse); and “Performance, Literature and the Archive” (Professor Jaclyn Pryor).

Underground Railroad Game returns to FringeArts this week! Jenn and Scott have been working hard on the piece before it heads over to Ars Nova in the fall. Be sure to check out all of the extra programming including:

Opening night party with ILL DOOTS after the show on Thursday, May 12th
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner​, a post show panel hosted by R. Eric Thomas on Friday, May 13th
Lie with Me, a story telling event and drinking game on Monday, May 16th

Hope to see you at one or all!