Nothing to Something with Adam Smith
A 3-Hour Creative Hustle
Special 1-Day Workshop
Date: Saturday, March 1
Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Location: The Lyric Hyperion // 2106 Hyperion Ave.
Description:
Nothing to Something
A 3-hour creative hustle
Enter with nothing. Leave with something. This workshop is an all levels speed-run to discover new ideas and build creative process tools. Pulling from personal memory, task-based theatre, chance, and the news, you will develop the start of something.
Expect to be actively engaged in solo and group exercises, fast decision-making, and happenstance challenges that irrevocably change your precious ideas. This workshop fuses anti-pretending techniques developed by the Neo-Futurists with modes of playwriting and devising to stoke creative inspiration.
This is for writers, directors, clowns, and creatives of any experience level. This is not about mastering a specific performance style or genre, but creating a springboard for your next project. Walk away with foundational tools to change up your creative process.
If you agree with any or all of these, then join:
My well of creativity is more of a black hole.
My creative toolbox feels more like a squeaky Fisher Price hammer.
My current idea, while brilliant, feels very similar to my last idea.
My ideas don't feel like they fit anywhere
I want new information; a different creative space than I'm used to; I'm bored; I'm curious; I want to be in a process that blends group and solo activities; I read every word on workshop descriptions.
“Adam is an incredible and generous teaching artist who creates brilliant, one-of-a-kind, striking theatre. A master at “high concept, but make it accessible.” He helps folks transform their work through the simplest, most absurd route forward.” - Natasha Mercado
Bio: Adam Smith is a Los Angeles-based, award-winning writer, director and performer. His work has been charted as "Low Brow/Brilliant" by New York Magazine's Approval Matrix. Together with Arletta Anderson, he devises work that's sometimes theatre, sometimes dance, usually in-between. His interactive theatre experiment, Play about a Woman, has toured the US and can be seen at the Lyric Hyperion, February 2nd at 5:30pm.
He has taught writing, devised theatre techniques and creative process for over 10 years in San Francisco, Los Angeles and beyond.
Adam is a former member of the New York Neo-Futurist collective and was the founding artistic director of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists, most known for their long-running show The Infinite Wrench (fka Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind), an ongoing, everchanging attempt to perform thirty original plays in an hour.
A 3-Hour Creative Hustle
Special 1-Day Workshop
Date: Saturday, March 1
Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Location: The Lyric Hyperion // 2106 Hyperion Ave.
Description:
Nothing to Something
A 3-hour creative hustle
Enter with nothing. Leave with something. This workshop is an all levels speed-run to discover new ideas and build creative process tools. Pulling from personal memory, task-based theatre, chance, and the news, you will develop the start of something.
Expect to be actively engaged in solo and group exercises, fast decision-making, and happenstance challenges that irrevocably change your precious ideas. This workshop fuses anti-pretending techniques developed by the Neo-Futurists with modes of playwriting and devising to stoke creative inspiration.
This is for writers, directors, clowns, and creatives of any experience level. This is not about mastering a specific performance style or genre, but creating a springboard for your next project. Walk away with foundational tools to change up your creative process.
If you agree with any or all of these, then join:
My well of creativity is more of a black hole.
My creative toolbox feels more like a squeaky Fisher Price hammer.
My current idea, while brilliant, feels very similar to my last idea.
My ideas don't feel like they fit anywhere
I want new information; a different creative space than I'm used to; I'm bored; I'm curious; I want to be in a process that blends group and solo activities; I read every word on workshop descriptions.
“Adam is an incredible and generous teaching artist who creates brilliant, one-of-a-kind, striking theatre. A master at “high concept, but make it accessible.” He helps folks transform their work through the simplest, most absurd route forward.” - Natasha Mercado
Bio: Adam Smith is a Los Angeles-based, award-winning writer, director and performer. His work has been charted as "Low Brow/Brilliant" by New York Magazine's Approval Matrix. Together with Arletta Anderson, he devises work that's sometimes theatre, sometimes dance, usually in-between. His interactive theatre experiment, Play about a Woman, has toured the US and can be seen at the Lyric Hyperion, February 2nd at 5:30pm.
He has taught writing, devised theatre techniques and creative process for over 10 years in San Francisco, Los Angeles and beyond.
Adam is a former member of the New York Neo-Futurist collective and was the founding artistic director of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists, most known for their long-running show The Infinite Wrench (fka Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind), an ongoing, everchanging attempt to perform thirty original plays in an hour.
A 3-Hour Creative Hustle
Special 1-Day Workshop
Date: Saturday, March 1
Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Location: The Lyric Hyperion // 2106 Hyperion Ave.
Description:
Nothing to Something
A 3-hour creative hustle
Enter with nothing. Leave with something. This workshop is an all levels speed-run to discover new ideas and build creative process tools. Pulling from personal memory, task-based theatre, chance, and the news, you will develop the start of something.
Expect to be actively engaged in solo and group exercises, fast decision-making, and happenstance challenges that irrevocably change your precious ideas. This workshop fuses anti-pretending techniques developed by the Neo-Futurists with modes of playwriting and devising to stoke creative inspiration.
This is for writers, directors, clowns, and creatives of any experience level. This is not about mastering a specific performance style or genre, but creating a springboard for your next project. Walk away with foundational tools to change up your creative process.
If you agree with any or all of these, then join:
My well of creativity is more of a black hole.
My creative toolbox feels more like a squeaky Fisher Price hammer.
My current idea, while brilliant, feels very similar to my last idea.
My ideas don't feel like they fit anywhere
I want new information; a different creative space than I'm used to; I'm bored; I'm curious; I want to be in a process that blends group and solo activities; I read every word on workshop descriptions.
“Adam is an incredible and generous teaching artist who creates brilliant, one-of-a-kind, striking theatre. A master at “high concept, but make it accessible.” He helps folks transform their work through the simplest, most absurd route forward.” - Natasha Mercado
Bio: Adam Smith is a Los Angeles-based, award-winning writer, director and performer. His work has been charted as "Low Brow/Brilliant" by New York Magazine's Approval Matrix. Together with Arletta Anderson, he devises work that's sometimes theatre, sometimes dance, usually in-between. His interactive theatre experiment, Play about a Woman, has toured the US and can be seen at the Lyric Hyperion, February 2nd at 5:30pm.
He has taught writing, devised theatre techniques and creative process for over 10 years in San Francisco, Los Angeles and beyond.
Adam is a former member of the New York Neo-Futurist collective and was the founding artistic director of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists, most known for their long-running show The Infinite Wrench (fka Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind), an ongoing, everchanging attempt to perform thirty original plays in an hour.