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Josie Tierney-Fife

English Teacher/Drama Director,
Gorham High School

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English Teacher/Drama Director,
Gorham High School
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Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 09-29-2023 10:20
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Hi all, I need to take a Methods of Teaching Theater class to complete my theater teaching credential in Maine. (I teach English and theater, and direct my school's straight plays and Thespian troupe. I recently finished a Masters in Theater, but even so my teaching credential is in still English. I'd ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 09-21-2022 08:53
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Me please! I've ordered the book because of the enthusiasm on this thread! ------------------------------ Josie Tierney-Fife Theater Director Gorham High School Gorham, Maine ------------------------------
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 09-10-2022 09:11
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Hi all -- my students and I have performance rights for Clue (non-musical) this fall, and have been having a hard time getting questions answered from Playscripts -- or Broadway Licensing, honestly I can't even tell who is in charge. I'm stuck in a cycle of talking to their "spot bot" chat online, sending ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 12-10-2021 08:33
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Hi there! This is always an issue for me -- in the past I've had 3-5 boys in a good year, and right now I have ZERO for straight theater. Luckily for straight plays you can have a lot of fun with gender bending, and it's less of an issue, since you don't need to worry about actors being able to sing ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 09-26-2021 17:04
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Hi there, I replied to Laurie privately, but wanted to say that I think the kids are right, and share their discomfort.  Our collective understanding of what is and isn't ok regarding cultural appropriation is shifting, and our kids are often better attuned to that shift than their elders, especially ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 12-02-2020 06:37
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It's like I wrote this post myself - this was my exact experience with Showshare and this show two weeks ago, and I was getting pretty frustrated. In the end it all worked out - their timeline was just a lot later than they had originally said. My impression was that they might have more business than ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 11-14-2020 08:02
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I've got a show up (a live radio play, livestreaming via Broadway on Demand using zoom webinar) with some fun sound -- lots of transitional music and effects from QLab, some foley from the actors' zoom tiles. Early on we found that we couldn't ever have sounds from more than one device at a time -- so ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 08-28-2020 09:27
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John Rowe, I'm a terrible person to explain this because I haven't gotten my head around it yet, BUT to stream it (at least this script) I had to buy a streaming and archival video license, which is from ShowShare, by Broadway on Demand. They'll be managing ticketing, which I believe means that they ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 08-28-2020 08:56
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Following...  I'm working with Playscripts  for our fall show, and planning to zoom... BUT at some undetermined point this fall my school will lose zoom access.  Google Meets (and the rest of GSuite) is getting a big upgrade in October, and in theory will be more similar to zoom. I've gotten the required ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 01-08-2020 10:30
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My name is Joshua Hurd and I am currently directing the musical BIG FISH for Gorham High School in Gorham, ME.  At Gorham High we have a very limited space to store props and set pieces once the show has ended.   If you are at all interested in some of our pieces that we have created for the show, ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 07-30-2019 10:40
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Wow, thank you!!  My goal is to make sure at least half of my plays are by women, and/or adapted or co-written by women.  This is really helpful!  We've already done Radium Girls -- loved it so much. ------------------------------ Josie Tierney-Fife English Teacher/Theater Director Gorham, Maine ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 05-14-2019 09:55
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Hi all, I've been appreciating reading the responses to the recent "Acting Techniques II" post, so I thought I'd throw this one out there too -- this past Fall for the first time we offered a one semester Intro to Acting class at my school.  It was a blast, but I feel like I have a LOT of revision ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 05-14-2019 08:03
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Good morning!  I made a cut script when I did this a few years ago -- I included a right hand column with some of the trickiest bits "translated" for the kids as they worked with it, but we performed the left hand original language.  It worked pretty well.  I can't remember what the run time ended up ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 04-26-2019 08:03
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There's an IE Clark adaptation that I'm kind of interested in at Dramatic Publishing -- it's set in the Globe Theater and includes an intro/frame with the "characters" of Shakespeare and Burbage, who offer background info and sort of fast forward over bits of the play, and then step in as characters ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 04-24-2019 19:41
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For what it's worth, my students and I LOVE the new script!  We did the old one a few years ago, and we had concerns about a couple of scenes where there were consent issues.  When the new script came out we were really excited to see that the spirit of the characters and play overall remained the same, ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 02-13-2019 12:24
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I'm looking at the Hamill script for next year -- I saw it a while ago at the Bedlam in NYC and loved it!  @Cassy Maxton-Whitacre, how big was your cast?  I'd have a much larger one than the script calls for, so we'd lose the fun doubling... how did that work out for you?​ ------------------------------ ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 12-06-2018 10:30
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YAS to Ellie McIvor-Baker.  Theater artists play a role in shaping the way we see and talk about all aspects of our culture, including beauty standards.  We have a choice about whether or not we feed destructive and limiting narratives, both in our wider community and in the hearts of our own students. ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 06-13-2018 08:46
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I'm a big fam of Marvel and Antigone both, and I see connections between the Marvel characters and ancient Greek lit in terms of characterization.  Aside from the copyright issues though, it seems like the pervasive optimism of the Marvel universe (we all know there's a part 2 coming to Infinity War, ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 03-26-2018 18:16
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That's funny -- I'm also starting planning to do the London Theater tour with Explorica for that summer with my group!  I did notice in shopping around that ACIS seems to be really well reputed, and probably offers better hotels/maybe better food.  It's more expensive, though it does include a bit ...
Posted By Josie Tierney-Fife 12-30-2017 10:13
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Hi all -- we're building a couple of 3x8 periaktoi for our one act festival show, and wondering if anyone has design advice.    We can make "permanent" prisms, but I'd rather have pieces that could be folded/collapsed/assembled on site for easy transportation.  I also like the idea of being able to ...