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Brooke Shilling
Theatre Artist. Educator. Goofball.__________________________________________________________
Theatre Performances:
| WAKE | Lead Artist/A |
One Year Lease Theatre Company, 59E59 Theaters, NYC Dir. Ianthe Demos |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona | Julia/Speed u/s | Delaware Shakespeare, Regional Tour, Delaware Dir. Hannah Levine |
| Arms | Soldier 2 | One Year Lease Theatre Company, Greece Tour Dir. Ianthe Demos |
| Pirate Queens | Lead Artist/Mary Reed | Cannonball Festival/Philadelphia FringeArts Festival, Philadelphia |
| Pinocchio | Geppetto u/s | Arden Theatre Company, Philadelphia Dir. Rebecca Wright |
| The Crone Chronicles | Chava | Inaugural PhysFest NYC, Stella Adler Studios Dir. Alice da Cunha |
| Wedding Crashers Ball | Ensemble | inFLUX Theatre Collective, Glen Foerd, Philadelphia Dir. Jacinta Yelland |
| Sinky The Pirate | Lead Artist/Sinky | Cannonball Festival/Philadelphia FringeArts Festival, Philadelphia |
| The American Revolution | Ensemble | Theatre Unspeakable, National Tour Dir. Marc Frost |
| Threnody | Lead Artist | Cannonball Festival/Philadelphia FringeArts Festival, Philadelphia |
| Troilus and Cressida | Ensemble | Alterra Productions, Workshop, Philadelphia Dir. Stephen Wangh |
| Survivors | Ensemble | Theatre Ariel, Regional Tour Dir. Jesse Bernstein |
| Penny And The Pinch | Ensemble | Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia Dir. Danielle Defassio |
| Ladies of the Land | Lead Artist/Brooke | Dixon Place, NYC Dir. Parade Stone |
| Eat The Devil | Ensemble | One Year Lease Theatre Company, Staged Reading, The Tank, NYC Dir. Nick Flint |
| Book of Esther | Esther | Joust Theatre Company, Alchemical Studios, NYC Dir. Lauren Z. Adleman |
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:
Broken Mirror Studio
Scene Study
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