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Shana's Resume and Directing Credits
For more about Shana as Community Engagement Specialist and Creative Consultant, visit www.shanabestock.com
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But why penguins?
Penguins became my “thing” - in another culture one might say totem - when I was 10 and worked with a dynamic, hilarious, warm, and wonderful professional actor who I idolized. She collected penguins. I decided I would, too. So penguins have always had a theater connection for me. Also, their goofy nobility and suave klutziness speak to me. There are all sorts of parallels between penguins and theater people. When it came time to find ourselves a name that wasn’t too pretentious and allowed ourselves room to grow and experiment with programming, we were sitting in a room surrounded by the penguins I’ve been given over the years from students and friends. Penguin Productions seemed comfortable. Like slipping on a warm coat. Or tobogganing down an ice sheet. |
Drawing by the Seattle Sketcher
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What else do you do?
I consume words - contemporary world literature of great pitch and moment, fun and freewheeling novels and stories, coolly balanced prose, compressed, rhythmic, linguistically rich poetry. I'm a writer and a coach to individuals and teams. I'm a traveler. I bike. I hike in good weather and walk in the rain. I enjoy tea and oranges. I am likely to steal your pretzels during rehearsal breaks.
No, but what do you do in the theater?
I direct and teach. I freelance and consult, and do staged readings with colleagues as a way to meet new people. I think about acting again occasionally. I spend a lot of time dreaming about future Penguin projects.
I consume words - contemporary world literature of great pitch and moment, fun and freewheeling novels and stories, coolly balanced prose, compressed, rhythmic, linguistically rich poetry. I'm a writer and a coach to individuals and teams. I'm a traveler. I bike. I hike in good weather and walk in the rain. I enjoy tea and oranges. I am likely to steal your pretzels during rehearsal breaks.
No, but what do you do in the theater?
I direct and teach. I freelance and consult, and do staged readings with colleagues as a way to meet new people. I think about acting again occasionally. I spend a lot of time dreaming about future Penguin projects.
What’s in Penguin Productions for you?
I thrive on integration - when I can focus deep and hard on one project or organization and live more fully the multiplicities of daily experience through that lens. I don’t do “creative outlets.” Penguin Productions is where I can spend all week living the connections between Hamlet, astrophysics, the mathematics of budgets and scheduling, and what to cook for dinner.
I thrive on integration - when I can focus deep and hard on one project or organization and live more fully the multiplicities of daily experience through that lens. I don’t do “creative outlets.” Penguin Productions is where I can spend all week living the connections between Hamlet, astrophysics, the mathematics of budgets and scheduling, and what to cook for dinner.