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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