DECEMBER FIRESIDE CHAT: TOYS, CREATIVITY, PLAY & INTELLIGENCE. Bree Luck is a performer, director, educator, and community activist who has led acting and storytelling workshops with children and adults for more than 15 years. She has developed and directed performances for social change with refugee, inmate, hospitalized, at-risk youth, and homeless populations. Currently, she is the Lead Teacher/Drama Therapist for The Voice Project, guiding the inmates of Fluvanna Women’s Correctional Facility to create full-length theatrical pieces based on their own personal stories. Bree has produced several large scale projects, including Shentai, a multi-media circus in Charlottesville, VA and the Mini-Rep Touring Company, taking plays and workshops to public parks, community centers, schools, and detention centers throughout Southeast Georgia. In addition she has directed numerous productions. Favorites include Adding Machine: A Musical and Eurydice. Bree has performed in Off-Broadway, Off- Off Broadway and regional theaters across the Eastern Seaboard, playing Miranda in The Tempest at the Savannah Shakespeare Festival and performing in the New Plays festival at the Harold Clurman Theater. She has appeared in numerous commercials and films, including Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, directed by Clint Eastwood and The Gingerbread Man, directed by Robert Altman. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Association of Theater Educators, and received her Master’s degree in Drama Therapy from New York University. She is Education Director at Live Arts in Charlottesville, VA.
Website: www.livearts.org
Director’s blog: www.voiceprojectusa.com