Plays include Looking for Louie (about immigrant family secrets), The Dig (set in the Middle East) and What She Left (based on Holocaust narratives).
Stacie facilitates the ongoing Los Angeles-based What's the Story? workshop for writers and performers who are wrestling with reading compelling work, based on personal story. 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.
As a Fulbright Senior Specialist in the field of Performance and Story, she taught acting and solo performance at Tel Aviv University. 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 is developing a national story project for 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, and finishing a book-length memoir, Remember Rwanda: a rainbow of broken glass like teeth.
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 are wrestling with reading compelling work, based on personal story. 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.
As a Fulbright Senior Specialist in the field of Performance and Story, she taught acting and solo performance at Tel Aviv University. 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 is developing a national story project for 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, and finishing a book-length memoir, Remember Rwanda: a rainbow of broken glass like teeth.
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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