Welcome to Oregon Stage Works

Instructor Biographies
Eve Smyth received her degree in theatre from San Francisco State University, and has performed and taught classes running the gambit from scripted theatre to improvisation. Before moving to Southern Oregon in 2002, Eve taught and performed with Bay Area TheaterSports and was director at the Young Audiences program at BATS Improv, where she facilitated improvisation workshops and performances in schools throughout the Bay Area. She has appeared with several other Bay Area improv groups, including a writing performance group called “First Draft.” She also co-founded a theatre company which performed original comedies and toured throughout the Northwest for more than ten years. Eve currently performs with Oregon Stage Works, Free Range Theatre, and the comedy improv troupe, The Hamazons. Bruce Wallace Hostetler has directed opera, musicals, and theatre productions from New York to Santa Cruz, including numerous world premieres. His credits include productions for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Insight Out Theatre, Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival, Southern Oregon University, Rogue Opera and Carnegie Mellon Schools of Drama and Music. Bruce co-created and directed the first four of the Rogue Opera’s highly acclaimed children’s touring shows, and is currently working on the fourth. He served as Producing Artistic Director of the Backporch Theater Company in Indiana; as Producing Director for the Carnegie Mellon Summer New Plays Project; and, most recently, as Assistant Producer for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. He was a guest artist/visiting faculty member at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, and has taught master classes at universities across the country. Bruce holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

Instructor Biographies

Eve Smyth received her degree in theatre from San Francisco State University, and has performed and taught classes running the gambit from scripted theatre to improvisation. Before moving to Southern Oregon in 2002, Eve taught and performed with Bay Area TheaterSports and was director at the Young Audiences program at BATS Improv, where she facilitated improvisation workshops and performances in schools throughout the Bay Area. She has appeared with several other Bay Area improv groups, including a writing performance group called “First Draft.” She also co-founded a theatre company which performed original comedies and toured throughout the Northwest for more than ten years. Eve currently performs with Oregon Stage Works, Free Range Theatre, and the comedy improv troupe, The Hamazons.

Bruce Wallace Hostetler
has directed opera, musicals, and theatre productions from New York to Santa Cruz, including numerous world premieres. His credits include productions for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Insight Out Theatre, Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival, Southern Oregon University, Rogue Opera and Carnegie Mellon Schools of Drama and Music. Bruce co-created and directed the first four of the Rogue Opera’s highly acclaimed children’s touring shows, and is currently working on the fourth. He served as Producing Artistic Director of the Backporch Theater Company in Indiana; as Producing Director for the Carnegie Mellon Summer New Plays Project; and, most recently, as Assistant Producer for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. He was a guest artist/visiting faculty member at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, and has taught master classes at universities across the country. Bruce holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

Fall Classes 2007
8-Week Session
September 24 - November 17
Improv classes will culminate in a showcase performance for family and friends on the last day of class.
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Make Believe Explorers
Ages 4–6 · $70 · Eve Smyth, Instructor
Fridays, 2:30-3:15 pm
September 28 through November 16

Fractured Fairy Tale Theatre
Ages 10–16 · $165 · Eve Smyth, Instructor
Fridays, 3:30-5:30 pm
September 28 through November 16

Teen-Prov
Ages 12 –17 · $165 · Eve Smyth, Instructor
OSaturdays, 1:00-3:00 pm
September 29 through November 17

Young Academy Production:
The Great Wave
Adapted by Jan Acord
Ages 6-9 · $190 · Eve Smyth, Instructor
Wednesdays, 3:30-5:00 pm
September 26 through November 7
Mondays, 3:30-5:00 pm
October 15 through November 5
Dress Rehearsal: Thursday, November 8, 3:30-5:30 pm
Performances: Friday, November 9 & Saturday, November 10 at 7:00 pm; and Sunday, November 11 at 2:00 pm

Academy Production:
A Thousand Cranes
By Kathryn Schultz Miller
Based on Sadado and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr
Ages 10-17 · $270 · Bruce Wallace Hostetler, Instructor
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:30-5:30 pm
September 25 through November 8
Saturdays, 10:30-12:30 pm
October 20, 27, and November 3
Performances: Friday, November 9 at 7:00pm
Saturday, November 10 at 2:00 and 7:00pm
Sunday, November 11 at 2:00pm
Special School Performances:
Tuesday, Wednesday, 11/13 and 11/14 at
9:00 am and 10:30 am
Limited enrollment.
Auditions: Tuesday, September 18, 3:30-6:00 pm
Please call for appointment, 482-2334 x2

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All classes and performances held in the
Oregon Stage Works theater at 191 A Street, Ashland.

Scholarships available for all classes.

Call Ashland Children's Theatre Co-director Kate Sullivan
541.482.2334 x2