FEATURED CAMPAIGNS
Anyone who donates between $500 and $999 will receive general admission tickets to It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry featuring Hollywood actor, Chris Noth as George Bailey! Anyone who donates $1000 or more receives two VIP tickets to It's a Wonderful Life. For more information about this upcoming performance click here!
OUR VISION
To advance the overall level of theatre arts in Colorado.
ABOUT US
Visionbox Studio was founded in 2010 by director and acting teacher Jennifer McCray Rincón and NYC/Hollywood actor Bill Pullman. Their mission was to provide student and professional actors in Colorado with graduate-level training based in Earle Gister’s teaching at the Yale School of Drama while also creating new performance work of social relevance. Jennifer came to Denver in 1991 to be the Head of Acting at the National Theatre Conservatory at the DCPA, the only three-year MFA acting program in the state of Colorado. Visionbox was founded, in part, due to the closing of the National Theatre Conservatory which left Colorado with no graduate actor training programs to this day. Visionbox Studio continues to be the only professional actors studio in Denver, founded in the techniques and principles of the Yale School of Drama.
Students and professional theatre artists train at Visionbox at any stage of their professional development. High school students receive high-level preparation in order to be admitted to national and international undergraduate programs and college graduates work to prepare for graduate school admission. Working theatre professionals continue to study technique at Visionbox, having a direct impact on their work in local professional theatre.
The other important application of Visionbox training is the development and production of new performance work. Jennifer and Bill have a long history of creating and producing new works that they developed in Denver and later toured nationally. The company emulates the principles of the Group Theatre, directed by Harold Clurman in the 1930s. Harold Clurman introduced American actors, playwrights, and directors to the teachings of Stanislavski. Stanislavski’s “method” has continued to be the foundation for professional acting technique to this day. The Group Theatre’s performance work focused on the “social and moral preoccupations” of their time and Visionbox continues these traditions today with our commitment to the development of new works by local and national playwrights.
To provide student and professional theatre artists with training rooted in graduate-level curriculum, taught by theatre professionals; and to integrate this training into the development of new intermedia performance work that engages audiences in the social and human issues of our time.
Jennifer McCray Rincón came to Denver in 1991 as the Head of Acting at the National Theatre Conservatory at the DCPA, the only MFA in acting in the state of Colorado. Ms. Rincón is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Drama Directing Program. She remained at the NTC until 2008. Soon after, the DCPA closed the Conservatory.
Visionbox was founded by Jennifer Rincón and actor Bill Pullman to try to fill the void left by the closure of the NTC. Since founding the company, in addition to providing ongoing professional training to actors in Colorado, they have co-produced many workshops of completely new intermedia performance material. The company continues to create and produce workshops of new plays that focus on the social and human issues of our time.
Organization name
Visionbox Studio Theatre
2010
Tax id (EIN)
46-3623430
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities, Education, Youth Development
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
7108 E LOWRY BLVDDenver, CO, US
CO, US