Tara Turnbull

Statement

My practice, my praxis is Acting, its performances, preparations and processes, emphasizing auteur actions. My creative research practice spans textual landscapes and a performative spectrum. I analyze aesthetics as actional / gestural vernaculars and vocabularies. My roles are reflexes of one another, reflect upon one another. My current art / research interests include story, scholarly portraiture, Situationism, architecture, biographical film, practice as research, performance philosophy, contemplative poetics and healing practices.

GlogauAIR Project

My GlogauAIR project is a stage of character study contemplating character creation. I work with love stories at philosophy’s centers, academia as an action, gestures as genealogical, the Actress as auteur, sketching inside and outside the lines of stock character. My performative spectrum spans and sculpts from autotheory and autoethnography to metabiography. Script and character are research artefacts. Residency is a resource influenced by the forces that orbiting events exert on a role, showcased in window space.

Perfomance

CV Summary

CV Summary

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, advised by Dr. Mairead Case
• British American Drama Academy In Assn. With Yale School Of Drama, Oxford University, Magdalen College
• Master of Fine Arts at University of California Los Angeles’ School of Theatre, Film and Television
• American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, California, Summer Training Congress
• Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Philosophy from Bard College at Simon’s Rock, advised by Karen Beaumont and Dr. Brian Conolly
• Moscow Art Theatre School USA, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stanislavsky Summer School
• Neighborhood Playhouse, New York, New York

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