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Resident at CHYRO ARTS VENUE
1330 North Scottsdale Road Scottsdale, AZ
Located on the SW corner of McDowell and Scottsdale Road in Papago Plaza
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Progressive Theatre Workshop is a 501(c)3 non-profit performance group founded in May of 2007 by John J. Caswell, Jr. as a creative forum for the development of new works of theatre rooted in non-traditional methods of staging.
THE COMPANY (complete bios coming soon):
John Caswell, Jr. Founding Artistic Director
 John is a theatre artist whose work seeks to drive audience to response via the path of unexpectedness and greatest resistance. His aesthetic has been likened to that of Richard Foreman by T. Nikki Cesare of The Drama Review. John holds a BA in Theatre with an emphasis in performance from Arizona State University where he studied with acclaimed theatre director Marshall W. Mason and partook in several resident workshops with Anne Bogart and The SITI Company. He and PTW are the recipients of a grant from p.a.v.e., the arts entrepreneurship program of The ASU School of Theatre and Film as well as a grant from The Arizona Commission on the Arts. He is the author of four original texts for the stage including Shots: A Love Story, Britney Spears 4 President: a pop culture disaster, closet.drama: a homo/hetero collision, and Eat Your Peas/DIE DIE DIE. His work has been presented at The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street in NYC as part of The New York International Fringe Festival, Desert Rose Theatre, The Mesa Arts Center, Chyro Arts Venue, The Prism, The Lyceum, and at Space 55 Theatre as part of The Phoenix Fringe Festival. In 2009, John will serve as a production intern working with Ontological Hysteric Theatre. Additionally, he is developing several projects including a solo performance piece titled Transexual Linebacker Named Heat as well as movement based piece tentatively called Banksy's Bodies inspired by the work of English graffiti artist, Banksy.
Interim Managing Director: Anne Hightower Wareing
Technical Director: Candace Brayer
Photographer: Leslie Rugg
Associate Artists and Collaborators: John J. Caswell, Jr., Gavin Brown, Johanna Carlisle, Caitlyn Conlin, Jannese Davidson, Dane de Bruin, Louis Farber, Mark Hopkins, Teresa Kopaz, Kate Kugler, April Lira, Wolfram Ott, Emily Pelzer, Chris Peterson, Vesica Piscis, Alex Raines, Jamie Sandomire, Natalie Schmidt, Brittany Schoenborn, Chris Todaro, Michael Thompson, Paul Tibbles, Anne Hightower Wareing, Kyle Wills, Elina Zavala.
AWARDS AND RECOGNTION:
Invited to perform SHOTS: A LOVE STORY at 2008 New York International Fringe Festival
Invited to perform SHOTS: A LOVE STORY at 2008 Phoenix Fringe Festival
Recipients of a grant from p.a.v.e., the arts entrepreneurship program of the ASU School of Theatre and Film
East Valley Tribune: TOP TEN 2007 PRODUCTION (SHOTS: A LOVE STORY)
VISION STATEMENT:
Progressive Theatre Workshop serves as a malleable forum for the creation, development, and performance of highly original pieces of theatre. The work
produced by PTW must always ask specific poignant questions regarding the dynamics
of human existence and relations while simultaneously stretching the boundaries of live theatre as an art form. We seek
to fulfill these requirements through the integration of carefully selected subject matter and the organic development
of performance text and design. Additionally, we will utilize methods of theatricality that will ask our audiences
to consider the stage as a place of evolution where experimental methods are married with historical standards in order
to progress the art form of theatre into the future.
MISSION STATEMENT:
PTW will produce tomorrow's theatre . . . today.
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