I have just worked out my schedule for 2012.
I am offering classes and workshops in Santa Fe and Albuquerque in 2012. Also, I will be accepting submissions for the Santa Fe Solo Performance Festival.
There is a StoryHealers Therapeutic Monologue Training beginning in April for those who want to professionally facilitate this process for healing in their communities.
Lastly, for solo performers from everywhere: If you can get yourself out to Santa Fe, New Mexico for 4 days with me, you will have a stage worthy script ready to go into production at theaters, Fringe Festivals and conferences. I have worked with hundreds of actors and writers who have gone on to do shows all over the world!
Here are some more details for the upcoming year...Love, Tanya
January, 2012 "Solo Performance Intensive" a 3
day weekend INTENSIVE in
Albuquerque, N.M. for writing and performing a 10 minute original monologue.
Details: Tanya Taylor Rubinstein,
Artistic Director, Project Life Stories and The Santa Fe Solo Performance
Festival will be partnering up with The Filling Station Theater to offer an
intensive for actors and other creative people to explore the writing and
performing of original monologues. Participants in the workshop will be given
consideration for The Filling Station’s 2012 SoloFest and the 2012 Santa Fe
Solo Performance Festival in terms
Dates: January 27( 6:00-8:30), 28 (10:00-4:00)
and 29 10:00-4:00 and 8:00-9:30 p.m.)
Place: The Filling Station
Cost: $295 (includes performance)
Class limited to ten. Receive a 10%
discount for signing by December 30,2011
"Tanya
combines an impressive range of proficient theater skills with the deepest
humanity for your personal story. With easy going grace Tanya gets it, and
helps you fully embody your truth so that ultimately- the audience gets
it."
- Doug
Vincent, playwright and performer of "Dad"
January, 2012 "Create Your One Person Show" 4-6 Month
Process with New Mexico Students. Shows from this process will be under
first consideration for the September, 2012 Santa Fe Solo Performance Festival.
This one on one process with Tanya
Taylor Rubinstein is intended as an exploration of stories, characters and
themes through improvisation and guided writing. The process is designed for
the performer to create an embodied script ready to go into production.
A quote from one of Tanya’s Solo
Performance Bootcamp clients:
“After
researching various workshop options around the country, I decided that a one
on one intensive program was the right platform for me to complete my one woman
show. I was interested in creating a high quality product. The creative process
is extremely personal and writing your own story to present to the world is an
even more complicated business. If you make the decision that you want to put
your story in a form that can be successfully delivered to an audience, then
Tanya Taylor Rubinstein is who you should be working with. Tanya is supportive
and creates a safe environment for an artist to express and shape their work,
but more importantly she is a highly competent with form and structure and
story telling, to ensure that your work is represented in the highest and best
light. Tanya provides guidance around shaping, editing, crafting and delivering
your work so you are supported throughout the entire process. I highly
recommend Tanya if you are serious about creating a one person show. What ever
is standing in your way can easily be overcome with the Tanya's guidance and
talent. Even good writers require the trained eye of an expert. Tanya's
expertise will help you move from idea to reality. I did Tanya's bootcamp in
March of 2011 and in September of 2011 I performed my one woman show Renegade
Princess and it's the best gift I've given myself in a decade.”- Ann Marie
Houghtailing
Solo Performance Bootcamps: 4 Day One
on One Intensive for out of state actors and writers who want to create a
script for performance at a theater, conference and/or festival. Solo
Performance Bootcamp clients will also be under first consideration for the
Santa Fe Solo Performance Festival.
Note: Create Your One Person Show AND Solo Performance Bootcamps
are scheduled individually. Cost of each process which included aprox. 24 hours
one on one “in person” time with Tanya plus up to 10 hours online/phone follow
up time is $2,600 all inclusive.
April 2012, “StoryHealers
Facilitation Program” 3 weeks; April, June and July
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Description
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Professional Training to
become a Therapeutic Monologue Facilitator/StoryHealer
The Invitation:
After eleven years
creating and working in a wholly original, therapeutic/artistic process,
Tanya Taylor Rubinstein will be, for the second time, offering a training (4
weeks, M-Fr., in 2011-2012) in Santa Fe, New Mexico for ten people to become
Professional Therapeutic Monologue Facilitators. The three weeks will cover
all aspects of supporting others in writing and performing their original
monologues This is experienced in a group modality in a way that supports
integration and healing of trauma, loss, change or illness.
Week One: Participants
will be taken through the process they will eventually offer to others. You
will write and perform an original monologue in a workshop setting and offer
it to a live audience in a theater. As a group, we will deconstruct the
process as a first step in learning how to lead a group and produce shows.
Week Two In the second
week we will cover sacred space, holding the container, how to deal meet
trauma in this modality, improvisational listening and feedback, focus and
surrender, your role in healing, dealing with conflict, role playing ,
direction and production basics/ We also cover business and non profit
financial models to support the process in your community.
Week 3: For you last week
you will come to New Mexico and co-facilitate and co-direct a Therapeutic
Monologue Performance with a group of 6-8 participants. Every aspect of the
process will be supervised by Tanya Taylor Rubinstein and you will have daily
discussions with her about the experience. By the time this week is over, you
will have been offered all the skills necessary to run a successful
therapeutic monologue business/non-profit in your neck of the woods.
Dates will be weeks in
April, June and July 2012…When we have the ten participants signed up, we
will choose weeks that best work with schedules.
Package Price $3,500
Training Groups limited
to 10 people
Follow Up for Year Long
Participants: You will have support after the training by being added as a
facilitator in good standing on the Project Life Stories website, you will
have access to monthly phone sessions with Tanya and be able to e-mail any
questions related to the process for the first year to her. Additionally, we
are setting up a closed part of the website for message/discussion boards for
the facilitators who have taken the year long training to share their ongoing
experiences with each other.
Tanya Taylor is the
originator of the Therapeutic Monologue Process ™ She studied acting
professionally at Carnegie Mellon University, Emerson College and HB Studios
in NY. Spalding Gray was an inspiration and mentor and she began performing
her own monologue shows in 1995. Since then she has worked with people all
over the world to heal trauma and to address the psycho/spiritual effects of
life challenging illness and/or loss. When she was at her lowest point in her
own life after losing her husband to a schizophrenic break with a small child
to support, she prayed and asked to be shown her life’s work and purpose.
That night she had a dream and saw the words “The Cancer Monologues” floating
over Lincoln Center in NYC. She knew that she was being guided to utilize her
training as a solo performer, writer and facilitator to offer workshops to
people as a healing experience. From humble beginning in Santa Fe, “The
Cancer Monologues” became a phenomenon and shows and workshops were performed
with local participants in NYC, LA, San Diego, Boston, Dallas and more. A
collection of monologues from the performances was published by MacAdam Cage
and her book was featured in over fifty publications including “O” Magazine
and on the CBS Early Show.
After working with over one
hundred people who had experienced cancer through the writing and performing
of their stories, Tanya suspected that this process would work for other
populations who had experienced trauma and/or illness. That is how “The AIDS
Monologues” were born. She partnered with organizations, began receiving
funding and many other shows were to follow. Next came “The Mothering
Monologues” and “Birth: The Monologues” as a celebration/validation for
mothers to process the experiences of becoming a mom in an open and life
affirming way.
Tanya next became
interested in utilizing the Therapeutic Monologue Process as a way to support
reconciliation when 2 opposing sides were in conflict by allowing both to
tell their personal stories when she worked with Palestinian and Israeli
teens in 2 shows entitled “Peace: The Monologues” and “The Soul of Peace” In
both shows, the participants shared deeply and were brought together in the 4
day process that culminated in public performances.
Tanya has gone on to
facilitate and produce over one hundred productions including shows with the
survivor’s of sexual abuse, monologues with people who have mental illness
and/or addictions, gay, lesbian and transgender monologues, shows with
veterans from Iraq, the Gulf War and Vietnam, Hospice Monologues for those
who recently lost a loved one, caregivers and more.
The amazing thing about
this process is that if done with clarity and integrity, it translates into
all realms of possibility. There is no group that Tanya has worked with who have
not had a life-changing experience around the process regardless of the life
issue being addressed.
Since, 2000, Tanya has
partnered with organizations including Cabrini Hospital,(NYC) Odyssey
Hospice,(Dallas and Ca.) Gilda’s Club, Creativity for Peace, Southwest Cares,
New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, College of Santa Fe, The Writers
Guild Theater, Wellness Community (Southern Cal.), Second Stage Theater(NYC),
Lensic Theater, Temple Beth Shalom, National Alliance for Mental
Illness(NAMI), Mothering Magazine, Veterans for Peace, Many Mothers, United
World College, Water Tower Theater (Dallas), San Diego Rep Theater, Santa Fe
Performing Arts, Theaterwork, Railyard Performance Space and Dana Farber
Cancer Center (Boston)to support people going through challenging life issues
of all kinds to write and perform their stories and experience
psycho/social/emotional healing and empowerment through the act of sharing
their stories in a theatrical setting.
Mission Monologue: “Since
the very first performance of “The Cancer Monologues” at the Santa Fe
Playhouse in 2000, when I thought the roof might blow off the theater because
the energy was so powerful and transformative that night for both audience
members and performers alike, I have wanted to see Therapeutic Monologues
take their rightful place beside other forms of healing all over the world.
The monologues are a gift for humanity and they will support you as you offer
them to others. I have has the privilege of walking people into their deepest
fears and walking back into the light to share the stories and wisdom found
in the shadows of life. I have has the opportunity to explore my own darkness
and light as I have offered this process to others. The monologues have
become my path to my own Soul. There is no greater devotion that could offer
my life to. It is a blessing beyond even the stories. It is the path of the StoryHealer.
If these words resonate with your Soul as well….I offer you my hand”
Tanya Taylor Rubinstein
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