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Brooke Shilling
Theatre Artist. Educator. Goofball.__________________________________________________________
Theatre Performances:
Pirate Queens, Philly Theatre Week
Pirate Queens, Cannonball Festival/Philadelphia FringeArts Festival
Pinocchio, Arden Theatre Company, Understudy, Dir. by Rebecca Wright
The Crone Chronicles, Chava, PhysFest NYC, Dir. by Alice da Cunha
Wedding Crashers Ball, inFLUX Theatre Collective, Dir. by Jacinta Yelland
Sinky The Pirate, Cannonball Festival/Philadelphia FringeArts Festival
The American Revolution, Theatre Unspeakable, Dir. by Marc Frost, Tour
Threnody, Philadelphia FringeArts Festival
Troilus and Cressida, Alterra Productions, Dir. by Stephen Wangh, Workshop
Survivors, Theatre Ariel, Dir. by Jesse Bernstein, Tour
Penny And The Pinch, Please Touch Museum, Dir. by Danielle Defassio
Say It Out Loud, Please Touch Museum, Dir. by Danielle Defassio
Ladies of the Land, Dixon Place, Dir. by Parade Stone
Ladies of the Land, Shoe Box Short Theatre Festival, Dir. by Parade Stone
Eat The Devil, Penny, One Year Lease Theatre Company, Dir. by Nick Flint, Workshop Reading
Richard III, Blunt Ensemble, Dir. by Rachel Matusewicz
Book of Esther, Esther, Joust Theatre Company, Dir. by Lauren Z. Adleman
Finger Lakes Residential Center Devised Play, Ensemble, Civic Ensemble, Dir. by Vernice Miller
Film Performances:
Trivial Conspiracies, Dir. by Sam Dellert
In the Garden of Thoughts, Magus Muse Company/Dir. by Gustav Cairo
Orange You Glad?, Dir. by Sam Dellert
Intervene, Photosynthesis Productions/Dir. by Dane Cruz
Mime and Punishment (Grand prize-2016 Endless Mountains Film Festival), Dir. by Walker Dowd-Wipple
Residencies and Grants:
One Year Lease Theatre Company’s Annual Residency in Greece, Japan and India - 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2025
- Invited as a company member to devise and, later, commissioned to write the play WAKE
Illuminate the Arts Individual Artist Grant, 2021, 2022 & 2024 from the City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy
MAAS Open Call Residency, MAAS Building Philadelphia, PA - February-March 2025
- For the further development of my original play Standardized
Little Pond Arts Retreat, Nazareth, PA - May 2022
- For the further development of Threnody with the Threnody Collective
The Drama League Fourth Friday Art + Party Residency - 2018
- For the further devlopement of my solo show Ladies of the Land
Training:
University of the Arts/Pig Iron School Devised Performance MFA 2021
Performance: Quinn Bauriedel, Emmanuelle Delpech, Sarah Sanford, Dan Rothenberg, Dito van Reigersberg, Aram Aghazarian
Ithaca College BFA Acting 2017
Acting: Norm Johnson, Paula Murray Cole, Greg Bostwick
Voice: Kathleen Mulligan, Catherine Weidner, Bill Langan, Erica Steinhagen
Movement: Paula Murray Cole, Norm Johnson, Susannah Berryman
Rasa Boxes Intensive: Paula Murray Cole; Stage Combat: Bret Yount
One Year Lease Theatre Company Apprenticeship in Northern Greece 2014
Performance: Ianthe Demos; Clown: Richard Saudek
Greek Chorus Workshop with National Theatre of Greece: Georgia Tsangaraki
Teaching:
Lead Artist, One Year Lease Theater Company Apprenticeship Program
June-August 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
- Designed and taught physical theatre workshops in Clown and Comic Mime for OYL Apprentice Program in Greece, Japan and India
Integration Specialist, makeSPACE Philly
February 2025-Current
- Worked with Philadelphia School District teachers to integrate theatre arts exercises and routines into their class curricula.
Guest Artist, Arcadia University November 2024
- Designed and taught Clown class for university students
Lead Instructor, Actors’ Center July 2024
- Designed and taught online Clown class
Lead Instructor, Broken Mirror Studios January 2024
- Designed and taught four a week intensive, Clowning and the Art of Play
Guest Lecturer, Lecoq and Theatrical Creation at The University of the Arts August-December 2021
- Co-designed and taught an undergraduate course focused on Lecoq-based principles and Devised Performance
Guest Lecturer, University of the Arts Pre-College Program July 2020, July 2021
- Designed and taught Zoom workshops in Verbatim Theatre and Devised Performance
Lead Teaching Artist, Philadelphia School District: PSTV November 2022-June 2024
- Designed and taught Acting for the Camera workshops for high school students with the Philadelphia School District TV station
- Created a comprehensive catalogue of performance related games and exercises for all educators
Lead Teaching Artist, Theatre Horizon February 2022-Current
- Designed and taught theatre workshops for students ages 6 to 85
- Taught in the Autism Drama program and facilitated workshops for community play, TOWN
Lead Teaching Artist, Philly ASAP (After School Activities Partnerships) October 2022-June 2024
- Designed and taught theatre workshops for students ages 5 to 12
Guest Artist, Philadelphia School of Circus Arts October 2022
- Taught theatre workshops for circus students
Guest Artist, Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School: Center for Performing and Fine Arts
February 2022
- Designed and taught workshops in Devised Performance for high school students in a competitive performance high school
Teacher, Yes! And… Collaborative Arts June- August 2022
- Instructed Yes! And…’s high school theatre company in a two week Devising intensive
- Assisted with Yes! And…’s Imagination Camp for ages 5-9
Teacher, Friends’ Central School Pig Iron Virtual Workshop March 2021
- Co-designed and taught a full-day workshop with my Pig Iron School MFA class
Teaching Artist, Irondale Theatre Center, New York City June-August 2018
- Taught workshops in Improvisation and Communication Building for middle and high school students as a part of the New York Public School summer STEAM program
Teaching Assistant, Dialects for the Stage at Ithaca College Dept. of Theatre Arts
January-May 2017
- Assisted Professor Kathleen Mulligan
- Taught and coached Dialects students
Writing:
Smart Casinos
Shoe Box Theatre Festival, Philadelphia - May 2025
Standardized
The Lemonade Stand Fresh Squeezed Play Festival, Philadelphia - May 2025
MAAS Building Open Call Residency, Philadelphia - February 2025
Pirate Queens
Philly Theatre Week - April 2025
Philadelphia Fringe Festival/Cannonball Festival - September 2024
*Week Two Fringies Frontrunner*
*Honorable Mention by The Philadelphia Inquirer*
Philadelphia Theatre Company 2024 Terrence McNally Award Semi-Finalist - March 2024
Cannonball Crash, Philadelphia - March 2024
WAKE, One Year Lease Theatre Company, co-written with Leon Ingulsrud
World Premiere, 59E59, NYC - November 2025
OYL’s Annual Residency in Northern Greece - July-August 2022, 2023 & 2025
Workshop, Theatre Lab, NYC - April 2022
Workshop Reading, Open Jar Studios, NYC - November 2021
Residency at ArtFarm Recording, Accord NY - November 2021
Conceived at OYL’s Annual Residency in Northern Greece - July-August 2021
Ladies of the Land
Shoe Box Theatre Festival, Philadelphia - May 2019
Dixon Place, NYC - March 2019
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Special Skills:
Dialects: British (RP & Cockney), Southern, and Guilty Jewish mother, IPA Proficient; 3 Ball Juggling