Today I’m delighted to be talking to playwright, theatre director, teaching artist and museum educator Mary Hall Surface about her work. We’re talking all things creative and reflective writing through art.
As a museum educator, Mary Hall uses both theatre and creative writing to expand perspective, uncover complexity and deepen understanding.
She is the founding instructor of National Gallery of Art’s Writing Salon in Washington DC, and a six-summer faculty member of Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom. Her plays have been produced at major professional theatres, museums, and festivals throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and Canada, including 4 art-inspired productions at the National Gallery of Art.
Mary Hall has an impressive online presence too, facilitating creative and reflective writing workshops and classes, all inspired by art for museums, schools, and arts centres throughout the US.
Mary Hall and I have a lot in common and in today’s chat we talk about our love of close looking, thinking routines and how you can use artworks to inspire writing.
Mary Hall shares 4 wonderful tips for how you can improve your writing through art &#; so make sure you don’t mis
March 25,
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Winds of Change:
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Mary Hall Surface is an award-winning playwright, director and producer devoted to theatre for multigenerational audiences. In , she received the Medallion Award from the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America for being “a foundational leader and mentor for more than a generation of Theatre for Young Audience artists.” Her plays have been produced at major professional TYA theatres, museums, and festivals throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and Canada, including 19 productions at the Kennedy Center. With her longtime collaborator, composer David Maddox, she wrote and directed five musicals which reimagined classic stories through diverse American roots musical forms. Their "Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales," "Perseus Bayou," "Mississippi Pinocchio," and "Lift: Icarus and Me" were each nominated for the Charles McArthur Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play. She received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical for her Perseus Bayou. Since , she has been commissioned by the National Gallery of Art to write, direct, and produce five plays for family audiences. In , she received the Charlotte Chorpen
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