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May Newsletter!

May 9, 2016 by Marketing Master

When we’re not in rehearsal, building sets, or teaching on behalf of DCRT, our company members are thriving in (and outside of) the state! HERE’S THE LATEST NEWS:


We’re All About That Shakes!

Ezra Colón is taking the green chile to the cornhusker state and cooking it all up for the Bard this summer — he’ll be working with Nebraska Shakespeare in their productions of The Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth. Click HERE for more info on Nebraska Shakespeare!
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REP TIP: Several DCRT members and friends have worked with Nebraska Shakes, including Frank Taylor Green (who starred in last summer’s production of Othello), John Hardy, and The 39 Steps director Vincent Carlson-Brown (he also happens to be the Artistic Director of Nebraska Shakespeare. #NBD)

Amelia Ampuero has been pulling Screen Shot 2016-05-02 at 6.39.08 PMdouble duty this spring–when she’s not in rehearsal for our upcoming production of The Drunken City, she’s in rehearsal with the Vortex Theatre for Shakespeare on the Plaza’s production of Much Ado About Nothing. 
But don’t be fooled–there’s nothing ado about the workload, as Amelia is portraying one of our favorite Bard heroines: Beatrice! Directed by DCRT superfriend Martin Andrews, be sure to check out the production this summer! More info HERE.


DCRT on the Silver Screen
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We all know our DCRT company is no stranger to film. So it’s no surprise to hear that company member Lauren Myers teamed up with DCRT superfriends Catharine Pilafas (The Nutcracker, The 39 Steps), Elizabeth Dwyer Sandlin (The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Trust) and Amy Baklini to produce a film for the inaugural Flicks4Chicks competition. The festival aims at not only getting women in front of the camera, but behind it as well. With Pilafas directing, Dwyer Sandlin penning the short, and Baklini and Myers acting, they’re proud to have submitted “Pinky Promise” to the competition–stay tuned!


Heading Back to the Farm
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We’re proud to announce that Duke City Rep is teaming up with local favorite restaurant Farm & Table to produce “Theatre on the Farm” again! For three nights in June, we’ll be collaborating with other theatre companies to create a festive night of delicious food and creative theatre.

Amelia Ampuero is directing Katie Becker Colón and Frank Taylor Green in the world premiere of Que Kerastas, Kerastas — a play written by playwright superfriend Georgina Escobar. She wrote the show specifically for this event, with both Colón and Green in mind for the parts.

We can’t wait to see this event on the ground! Performances are on June 2, 9, and 16. Stay tuned for details!


Smile for Duke City Rep

Did you know that Duke City Rep is part of Amazon Smile? amazonsmileDid you also know that whenever you buy on Amazon Smile, a percentage of your purchase goes to Duke City Rep?

IT’S EASY! Simply click this link to make DCRT your non-profit of choice, and now shopping and donating go hand-in-hand!


All Board!

Resident Stage Manager Alicia Webb has a pretty cool job. When she’s not running shows or rehearsals, she’s an engineer on a train!
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That’s right–Alicia and her husband Coleman are bonafide train conductors for the City of Albuquerque. Catch them (and a ride) at the ABQ BioPark and Zoo!


IAC: Early Bird Registration Extended!

Due to extra interest, we’re officially extending our Early Bird Deadline for Imagine Action Conservatory. You now have until May 15th to receive our Early Bird Discount.

Click here to make your student a #SummerChampion!
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I’ll See You On The Other Side, Till We Meet Again

After 5 years as a company member, we are bittersweet to announce Lauren Myers’ departure from Duke City Repertory Theatre at the end of the 2015-2016 season. Lauren and her fiancé (DCRT superfriend Rick Galli) have decided to move to Los Angeles to continue to pursue their careers in film & television.Lo

BUT — this doesn’t mean you won’t see either of them galavanting through the streets of the Burque or hanging out with their favorite DCRT pals. They plan on coming back every once in a while to breathe some high desert air and eat LOTS of chile!

You can also catch them on (or behind) the scenes! **some hints: “The Space Between Us” and “Wish for Christmas”!**

And straight from the fingers of Lauren:rick

“I’ve cherished working with DCRT for the last 6 years, and consider every single moment with them the best education I’ve ever received. It’s also some of the proudest work I’ve done, and where I’ve felt the most connected to this incredible community. I’m beyond grateful to have shared the stage and classroom with these fine professionals.

The members of DCRT are my mentors, my friends, my colleagues, and my teachers. The tools of confidence and bravery were all learned through interacting and bonding with these fearless artists. They taught me to give myself the permission to risk, to set the bar as high as I wanted and then jump for it with abandon, and to understand that the impossible is indeed possible with a little (okay, a LOT of) nerve and imagination.

Most importantly, one of the biggest tools I’m taking with me to California is servitude. Whether I’m working on stage or on film, I’m constantly reminded that my work is for you, the audience, that that is what makes great art, and what makes great art worth fighting for.

Thank you for allowing me to serve you for the past 6 seasons.”

WE WISH LAUREN AND RICK THE BEST OF LUCK ON THEIR NEXT GREAT ADVENTURE!

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Classrooms Alive! enlivens “Julius Caesar”

February 16, 2016 by Marketing Master

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On stage at the KiMo Theatre!

For the last three years, Duke City Repertory Theatre has toured our Winter Classic production to local schools and community centers. This year the program launched under its new name, Classrooms Alive!, with a laser focused mission: to bring literature based, curriculum supported, professional theatre to students in Albuquerque and throughout New Mexico. We even got a snazzy new logo, courtesy of one of our DCRT Super Friends!

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The 2016 Classrooms Alive! tour of Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare and directed and adapted by John Hardy, saw almost 1000 students throughout the state of New Mexico. We performed for students at Bosque School, Menaul School, we performed at the historical Kimo Theatre (which allows schools to come to us and therefore makes it more cost effective for them), we drove to Roswell, we traveled to Española (HUGE thanks to Daniel Garcia and the Los Alamos National Laboratories for making that possible!). We got to meet students from the New Mexico Military Institute, Sidney Gutierrez Middle School, McCurdy Charter School, 21st Century Public Academy, Desert Ridge Middle School, Public Academy for the Performing Arts, New Futures School, and Moving Arts Española. We traveled roughly 600 miles around New Mexico. We got up WAY too early. We ate too many Allsup’s burritos.

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En route to Roswell! We listened to the “Hamilton” soundtrack the entire way down.

One of my favorite things about tour is the chance to talk to the young people for whom we are performing. We learn a little about them, they get to see us as human beings (something that is increasingly difficult for live performers in the digital age), and they get to ask questions about us and the work we do. Here are a few of my favorite questions we got during tour:

“Do you think theatre is a better way to learn?” For the record, yes, I do think theatre is a better way to learn. And there are studies to prove it too!

“If Shakespeare had never written a word, do you think literature today would be different?” How great is this question?? Director of Education Katie Becker Colón answered this question so elegantly and suggested that not only would literature be different, but modern Drama would also likely be a completely different animal.

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Company member Katie Becker Colón warms up the crowd at the KiMo Theatre performance on February 3rd.

“Why in the world did you guys come to New Mexico to work?!” This question pulled my heartstrings because it is a perfect example of why Classrooms Alive! is such an important program. We got this question in Roswell and it provided an opportunity for those of us who aren’t native New Mexicans to talk about what makes this state a great place to live in and, hopefully, instill in some of these students that they deserve to be proud of where they come from.  New Mexico gets a bad rap: people forget that we are part of the Union; when we end up in the national news it’s frequently negative; and people outside of the state think we’re either the Wild West or exactly like Breaking Bad. There is a strong feeling among a lot of people that New Mexico is something to escape rather than something of which to be proud. And in that moment, with those kids, we got to talk about how we have the privilege of living and working in this state. We got to share with them how several of us had willingly made the choice to move here to create art, precisely for people like them. Civic pride is a powerful thing and if we made even one kid think differently about New Mexico, then Classrooms Alive! was an incredible success.

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Artistic Director Amelia Ampuero does a quick sound check before the students of the Menaul School start filing in! We performed for the entire school!

“Why is Brutus a girl?” Gender roles and gender equality!! We were asked this question several times and I assume that we’ll be asked it again while we’re in residence in Albuquerque. Part of the answer is that is was an issue of necessity. The DCRT Acting Company is currently evenly split between male and female (3 females, 3 males) and there is simply no way to do Julius Caesar without some gender bending of the roles, especially with the adaptation written the way that is was. But an extraordinary  by-product of this necessity is that we were able to show the young people a world in which women were held in as high esteem as men. Everywhere you look in our Julius Caesar, women are making choices about their futures, they are leading revolutions, they are fighting in battles. The voices of women are just as important as the men’s, women are just as influential, just as powerful, just as capable of leading. Additionally, neither Brutus nor Octavius nor Metellus Cimber (all traditionally male roles played by women in this production) use sex or their bodies to get what they want. That is an incredibly powerful thing for young women to see. And as this article demonstrates, Representation Matters.

What an amazing thing. We took a 400-year-old play about a 2000-year-old subject matter into schools to perform for middle and high schoolers and they got it. They understood it, they cared about it, they laughed, they gasped, they were transported. Oftentimes, people can easily disregard theatre and other arts as merely entertainment and therefore it can be seen as a luxury. Having dedicated my life to creating art and serving audiences, I fully believe this to be hogwash. The need to come together to tell stories and share a human experience isn’t a luxury–it’s a necessity. It’s a primal need. That’s why humans have been doing it for thousands of years. And no other playwright captures the delicate condition of humanity quite like that Shakespeare fellow. It’s why his plays have survived for as long as they have.

2016 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Our production of Julius Caesar is likely one of thousands of productions by the Bard that will be taking place all over the world this year. I invite you to join us at The Cell Theatre starting March 3rd and be a part of something primal, something ancient, something global. Come sit in the dark with us for 75 minutes and let us tell you a story.

If you are interested in learning more about the work Duke City Rep does with our Classrooms Alive! program or want to know how you can help us reach more students throughout the state of New Mexico, contact Director of Development Josh Heard at josh@dukecityrep.com.

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IAC 2016 – Early Bird Registration Now OPEN!

February 15, 2016 by Marketing Master

Screen Shot 2016-02-15 at 3.20.22 PMREGISTRATION NOW OPEN! GET THE EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT!
CLICK HERE TO BECOME A SUMMER CHAMPION!

Life Skills Through Stage Skills

Confidence | Adventure | Teamwork | Bravery | Improvisation
Public Speaking | Creative Problem Solving

Imagine Action Conservatory is a two week summer program that teaches Life Skills Through Stage Skills to students grades 3rd-12th. Students will have an opportunity to learn from professional actors and theatre practitioners with 40+ years of experience in theatre and film. The program focuses on cultivating confidence, bravery, teamwork, and creativity–all through the powerful medium of theatre. Regardless of where life takes them, students of all backgrounds will benefit from Imagine Action Conservatory’s two weeks of adventure.

WHEN
July 11-22, 2016 (Special Presentation on Saturday, July 23rd)

WHERE
The Menaul School (301 Menaul Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM)

WHO
Students grades 3rd-12th

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Students from IAC 2015

“Emily and Sady are having the time of their lives!! They love all the instructors! They are meeting a lot of great people and learning soooo much! Thank you for bringing this to our city!”
-Parent from IAC 2015

“Thank you Teachers!! Andre LOVES this camp!”
-Parent from IAC 2015 

SAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE:
8:30-9:00 am — Student Drop-off
9:00-9:20 am — Beginnings
9:25-10:15 am — Improv
10:20-11:10 am — Acting
11:15-12:05 pm — Musical Theatre
12:10-12:50 pm — Lunch
12:55-1:45 pm — Voice & Movement
1:50-2:40 pm — Playwrighting
2:45-3:35 pm — Puppetry
3:40 – 4:00 pm — End of Day

MORE ABOUT IAC:
Each day, students will participate in six different classes with six unique teachers. Students are learning about voice, movement, improvisation, as well as specific techniques for theatre scenes and musical numbers. Our teaching artists are skilled at what they do, offering students the best training in the Southwest. They are also people who care about young people and are committed to sharing the joy and craft of theatre.

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CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

Every class is at the centrally located Menaul School (301 Menaul Blvd. NE), and lunch, made in house every day, will be provided. The two-week experience culminates in a high-energy class presentation of class work for family and friends.

Email katie@dukecityrep.com or call 505.797.7081 for questions or more information!

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BLACK FRIDAY DISCOUNT for “The Nutcracker!”

November 22, 2015 by Marketing Master

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Duke City Rep is offering a very special, very limited, and very magical discount on Black Friday!

50% off all Adult, Student/Military, and Senior Tickets for Friday, Saturday and Sunday performances purchased through eventbrite.com between 7am and 7pm on Friday, November 27th!

USE DISCOUNT CODE: “BLACKFRIDAY”

*Child, group rates and other discounted ticket are NOT eligible
*Valid only for tickets to The Nutcracker
*Does not apply to reservations
*Does not apply to Voucher or Subscription purchases

To purchase tickets on Black Friday, visit HERE.

For questions or more information, please call 505.797.7081 or visit www.dukecityrep.com.

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Fall Cleaning Yard Sale!

November 1, 2015 by Marketing Master

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Tired of that dining table?
Ready to revamp your wardrobe?
Want to clear out that storage space? 

Help support Duke City Rep by donating your gently used furniture, decor, clothing, sports equipment, tools–any of those “I-keep-meaning-to-get-rid-of” items–to our Fall Cleaning Yard Sale. Experience the joy of healthy home clearing and receive a receipt for your tax-deductable donation while supporting the best professional theatre in the city.

Don’t have any items to donate? That’s okay! Help support us by stopping by the yard sale, by investing in us with an online donation, or by sending a monetary gift to our mailbox.

DCRT Fall Cleaning Yard Sale Details:

When: November 14, 2015, 7AM-2PM
Where: 345 Aliso DR NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108

How To Donate: Contact Josh Heard by phone: 505.803.2140 or by email: josh@dukecityrep.com

Get ready for the holiday season by making room for guests and gifts by participating in this Duke City Rep fundraising event!

Any items that cannot be sold will be donated to SAFE House New Mexico’s consignment shop, benefiting families recovering from domestic violence and abuse.

Questions?

Contact Josh Heard, 505.803.2140, josh@dukecityrep.com

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Donation Drive for Henderson House!

October 29, 2015 by Marketing Master

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Help DCRT Support Homeless Veteran Women and their Children!

Duke City Repertory Theatre is hosting a donation drive during our holiday production of The Nutcracker to support Henderson House, YWCA New Mexico’s Transitional Living Center for Homeless Women Veterans and their Children.

We ask that patrons interested in supporting veteran women and their children to please bring any of the items on the Henderson House wish list to a production of The Nutcracker, performing at the Cell Theatre December 3 – 20. All donation drive participants will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a gift certificate provided by our generous community partner, The Artichoke Cafe, for a Three Course Dinner for Two, valued at $150.00.

Wish List Items:
-High Efficiency Laundry Detergent
-(new) Socks and Underwear
-Paper towels
-Toilet Paper
-Blankets
-Kitchen Trash Bags
-Outdoor Trash Bags
-Gift Cards- Walmart, Smith’s, Albertsons, Lowes, Gas Cards, Trakphone Minutes
-Entertainment Passes- Movie passes, Museum tickets, Zoo/aquarium/concert/show tickets
-Flashlights
-AA and AAA Batteries
-Pillows
-Composition books
-Coffee
-House Painting Supplies (rollers, brushes, trays, paint)
-Clear plastic totes
-Refrigerator Bins
-Mop
-Kitchen and dish sponges
-Scotch tape
-Masking Tape
-Duct Tape
-Electrical Tape
-Puzzles (for adults)
-Dry erase markers
-Whiteboard
-First Aid Kits
-Ponchos
-Dymo Lablemaker tapeRefills
-Ziplock Baggies (all sizes)
-Tin foil
-Tab Dividers
-Pencil Pouches
-Large 3 ring Binders
-Toilet Brushes
-New Flooring for House!

Henderson House provides a safe, gender-specific facility for homeless veteran women to receive intensive, personalized one-on-one case management to foster educational development, computer literacy, job training, financial management, parenting and childcare classes, holistic healthcare, and stress management while they transition to independent living. To learn more about Henderson House and the important work they do, please visit: www.ywca-nm.org/Womens_Veterans

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