Plays include Looking for Louie (about immigrant family secrets), What She Left (based on Holocaust narratives). Her solo play The Dig (set in the Middle East) received the 2017 Los Angeles Stage Raw award for Solo Performance.
Stacie facilitates the ongoing Los Angeles-based What's the Story? workshop for writers and performers who want to create compelling work, based on personal story.
As a Fulbright Senior Specialist in the field of Performance and Story, she taught acting and solo performance at Tel Aviv University. As artist-in-residence at Hebrew Union College, she created a course for advanced rabbinical students on effective use of personal experience, called Personal Midrash. Formerly on the performance faculty of the University of Southern California School of Theatre (acting, creative process, and solo performance), she continues to teach Master Classes in autobiographical storytelling in the US and abroad.
Community-based devised-theatre projects include the Home Project: El Projecto Mi Tierra with immigrant residents of South LA (Cultural Affairs Department Artist in Residence); the Armenian community in Glendale; and Getting Off the Fence, with residents of Gateways Beit T'Shuvah; LGBTQ youth, and denizens of Downtown LA.
From 2013 to 2014, she served as International Creative Director for the 20th commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda.
Currently, she develops stories with Fellows of New Ground: a Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, whose work is based on the premise that conflict is inevitable, and therefore must become an open door to meeting and conversation. She is writing a book-length memoir, Remember Rwanda: a rainbow of broken glass like teeth. She is in the second phase of development for a site-specific performance project about Downtown LA, called Nuestro Señora de Los Angerles de la Porciuncula [working title].
Chaiken holds a Master of the Arts degree in Dramatic Art (directing) from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MFA in Creative Writing (creative non-fiction) from Antioch University Los Angeles. FULL CV
Stacie facilitates the ongoing Los Angeles-based What's the Story? workshop for writers and performers who want to create compelling work, based on personal story.
As a Fulbright Senior Specialist in the field of Performance and Story, she taught acting and solo performance at Tel Aviv University. As artist-in-residence at Hebrew Union College, she created a course for advanced rabbinical students on effective use of personal experience, called Personal Midrash. Formerly on the performance faculty of the University of Southern California School of Theatre (acting, creative process, and solo performance), she continues to teach Master Classes in autobiographical storytelling in the US and abroad.
Community-based devised-theatre projects include the Home Project: El Projecto Mi Tierra with immigrant residents of South LA (Cultural Affairs Department Artist in Residence); the Armenian community in Glendale; and Getting Off the Fence, with residents of Gateways Beit T'Shuvah; LGBTQ youth, and denizens of Downtown LA.
From 2013 to 2014, she served as International Creative Director for the 20th commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda.
Currently, she develops stories with Fellows of New Ground: a Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, whose work is based on the premise that conflict is inevitable, and therefore must become an open door to meeting and conversation. She is writing a book-length memoir, Remember Rwanda: a rainbow of broken glass like teeth. She is in the second phase of development for a site-specific performance project about Downtown LA, called Nuestro Señora de Los Angerles de la Porciuncula [working title].
Chaiken holds a Master of the Arts degree in Dramatic Art (directing) from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MFA in Creative Writing (creative non-fiction) from Antioch University Los Angeles. FULL CV
Grateful for the generous support of: the Durfee Foundation; the Fulbright Foundation; University of California Dornsife Visions & Voices program; the California Arts Council; Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; the USC Arts Initiative; Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture; Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity; Hebrew Union College Artist in Residency.
Rae Luskin's November 2015 interview
for Creative Activists project.
for Creative Activists project.
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