With Host Lorie Heald
and Guest Claire Marie mannle

Wed Sep 23rd, 2020 @ 5:30 pm

SPECIAL PREMIERE & TALK

Our September salon is our artist spotlight on Wolfe Bowart, one of the creative minds behind the wildly popular OAF and the triple-threat writer, director, and actor in the smash hit Cloud Soup. Inspired by early cinema and stage magicians, Wolfe has traveled the world pursuing his art, from busking on the streets of Europe, to screenwriting in Hollywood, to performing his acclaimed, award-winning, physical theatre one-man shows across the world to crowds of thousands.

In June the Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre received a PIVOT grant from the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona to create new innovative content in the time of COVID. One of the resulting projects is a series of short interviews to tell the stories about the incredible lives of the Artistic Associates of The Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre.

For this salon we share with you a conversation with Wolfe Bowart.

We will learn about the inspirations, the history and the vision of this loved artist. For this salon Wolfe will be joined by Dell'Arte International trained performer and scholar Claire Marie Mannle for a panel discussion. The event is hosted by Marcel Marceau trained physical theatre performer and educator Lorie Heald.

The event will run a little more than an hour.
Best enjoyed by Scoundrels ages 12+.  

Ticket Prices:
Free Admission with donations encouraged.

Questions? Call our Box Office at 448-3300. 

Like all our shows,
this show is also free for The Scoundrel Society.
Scoundrels can reserve a ticket
by calling our box-office at (520) 448-3300
or by using our online box-office.

Thank you, AFTSA!

Physical theatre playwright and performer Wolfe Bowart is devoted to creating and presenting theatre productions that engage cross-generational audiences in theatrical experiences that evoke thought, wonder, and laughter.

Under the banner of his company SpoonTree Productions, Bowart performs and tours internationally his original works The Shneedles, LaLaLuna, Letter’s End and The Man the Sea Saw. The company is a two-time Australian Helpmann Award nominee – in 2010, Letter’s End was nominated in the category of Best Touring Production following a national Australian tour encompassing 70 venues, and in 2012 The Man the Sea Saw was nominated in the category of Best Visual/ Physical Theatre Production. Bowart's productions have been seen in 20 countries worldwide.  Highlights include seasons of LaLaLuna and Letter's End at the London International Mime Festival, the leading festival for contemporary visual theater, and a national tour of France.

"An enchantingly loony dreamscape ... Wolfe Bowart specializes in a magical realism.' - The Australian

Lorie Heald is a Tucson-based mime, director and educator. Lorie is the Production Designer for the S&S upcoming production of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins. Lorie has studied with Marcel Marceau, Polish mime Stephan Neidzialkowski, and Anne Bogart. Her expertise in mime theatre and experience in dance, stage combat, mask, and puppetry all influence her teaching. Ms. Heald has toured with Alithea Mime Theatre, and with Theatrical Mime Theatre throughout North America, Puerto Rico, Poland, China, and Macedonia. She is the former co-director with Rick Wamer of the School for Mime Theater—an international center for mime and physical theater for youth and adults.

Claire Marie Mannle is the Associate Artistic Director at the The Scoundrel & Scamp. At The S&S she directed The Thanksgiving Play, Eurydice and Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play and performed in The Yellow Wallpaper. Outside of the S&S her recent directing work includes an adaptation of Euripides’ The Bacchae (SITI Company’s Skidmore Intensive) and Nor Any Drop to Drink, a devised play about water issues in the Southwest (UA Studio Series). As an actor, she has performed around town in King Lear, The Grapes of Wrath, Macbeth, and The White Snake at The Rogue Theatre and in The Tempest andThe Comedy of Errors for Arizona Repertory Theatre. She is an Instructor for the School of Theatre, Film, and Television at The University of Arizona. A New York City native raised in the Midwest, she came to Tucson via Los Angeles where she worked with The Grand Guignolers, Cornerstone Theater Company, A Noise Within, The Antaeus Academy, and SITI Company. She has her MFA from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater and her BA from Smith College