Free Workshops in the Parks
All are welcome for a series of FREE theatre-based workshops in Evanston parks this summer. Choose one or all, no experience required!
Eco-Theatre Workshop
Description: Create puppets from found/recycled materials! Materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own additions such as newspaper, magazines, a plastic bottle, a wire hanger or any other reusable material!
AGE: All Ages!
WHEN: Saturday, July 26 from 2:00pm-3:15pm
WHERE: Noyes Cultural Arts Center, greenspace
Site-Specific Theatre-Making
Description: Using news articles from the Evanston RoundTable as inspiration, we’ll begin the process of creating a short site-specific ensemble piece of theatre.
AGE: 13+
WHEN: Saturday, August 30, 2:00-3:15pm
WHERE: Fleetwood Jourdain Community Center, Foster Park
Personal Story, Personal Myth
Description: Learn to theatricalize your story and life experiences using the style of myth and fantasy.
AGE: 18+
WHEN: Sunday, September 7, 2:00-3:15pm
WHERE: Levy Center of Evanston, James Park
SIGN UP
Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please complete the form below for each participant. Contact Dinah at dberkeley@northlight.org with any questions.
Faith Hart
Education Apprentice
Faith Hart (she/her) is a Chicago-based director, teaching artist, arts administrator, and Education Apprentice at Northlight Theatre. She is part of site-specific theatre collective Snails on a Bike, where she co-directed Eurydice alongside Jill Marlow and produced Untitled (Blood, Marble). Select additional directing credits include Constellations (Clarendon Cottage, London), Krapp’s Last Tape (Haven Chicago), and her play Maintenance, a narrative experience centering sanitation workers staged in an alley (Pivot Arts). Assistant directing credits include Fool For Love (Steppenwolf); Pussy Sludge (Facility Theatre); The Band’s Visit and Every Brilliant Thing (Writers), and Art (Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis). Other recent projects include serving as the dramaturg for Art at Remy Bumppo and directing a staged reading of Dread Merchants as part of Theatre L’acadie and Pocket Theatre’s VR 2024-2025 new play incubator. Faith teaches at schools throughout Chicagoland with Idea Box Arts. She is an alumna of the Theatre School at DePaul University, the Kennedy Center Directing Intensive, and training with the Neo-Futurists, Remy Bumppo, and Theatrical Intimacy Education.| @faith_hart | faithhart.com
Mady McCabe
Education Apprentice
Mady McCabe is a Chicago-based director, actor, and teaching artist. Originally from Toledo, Ohio, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wright State University earning a degree in Acting. Since moving to Chicago in August of 2022, she has performed and directed at various venues across the city. In summer of 2023, Mady co-founded Lady Dog Theater Company and directed its inaugural production: the US premiere of the play ZOO by Lily Bevan at The Edge Off-Broadway. Additionally, Mady is a resident artist of Two Chairs Theatre Company. When Mady is not directing or acting in shows, she works as a teaching artist throughout the Chicagoland area.