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A nationally respected training center for over 50 years, Piven Theatre Workshop has been honored with numerous awards and has produced a panoply of celebrated theatre artists such as John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Shira Piven, Aidan Quinn, Kate Walsh, Lili Taylor and many more.
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The Piven Theatre Workshop is located in Evanston, Illinois and was founded by Joyce and Byrne Piven. For over 30 years, it has existed both as a professional theatre company and a training center for children and adults.
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For over 45 years, the Piven Theatre Workshop has maintained both a professional theatre and a nationally acclaimed theatre workshop for children and adults. The mission of Piven Theatre Workshop is to encourage a process of creative exploration that celebrates each individual’s unique voice through an ensemble-based, community-oriented approach to...
Piven Theatre has beenproducing highly acclaimed productionsthroughout its history and has evolved into a performance model that yearly includes a youth season, multiple laboratory productions, and an Equity capstone. In recent years, Piven Theatre has received mutiple Recommendations for Joseph Jefferson Awards, an After Dark Award for Outstanding...
Piven Theatre Workshop is well known for its exemplary history of theatre community partnerships, consistently providing extensive aid through its scholarship program, offering training at little or no cost to under-served and underrepresented communities. During a school year, the Workshop grants approximately $50,000 worth of need-based theatre t...
Stagebill designated the Pivens “Chicago’s first family of acting” and praised them for founding “one of the most successful theatre training programs in the country.” The Pivens have received the Evanston Arts Council Youth and Education Award, the Evanston Mayors Award for the Arts, the Chicago Drama League’s Crystal Award, and the University of ...
Oct 31, 2020 · It is with great pride we announce Piven Theatre Workshop’s 2020–2021 season of art, activism, and community conversation: The Resilience Season. ( Read more about why we chose this theme.) Midsummer Project. The Midsummer Project is a special Virtual Shakespeare Performance by our youth this spring. This show’s run is complete.
Oct 24, 2023 · Open to new and returning students. Taught by Senior Teacher, Robin Chaplik. Options for classes at Piven Theatre Workshop for adults include basic and intermediate technique, or a more specific theatre workshop for adults this fall.
