Links Hall Call for Proposals: Charged Bodies - A Mentorship Program with Tim Miller

Queer identified performing artists and artists addressing queer themes in their work are invited to apply to Links Hall for the Charged Bodies Mentorship Program. This program is focused on the development and presentation of original solo performance, under the mentorship of critically acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller, and is an investment in cultivating and supporting queer perspectives in innovative performance practice within Chicago.

TIM MILLER is an internationally acclaimed performance artist. Miller's creative work as a performer and writer explores the artistic, spiritual, and political topography of his identity as a gay man. Hailed for his humor and passion, Miller's performances have been presented all over North America and Europe in such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN , BODY BLOWS, and 1001 BEDS, which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. His solo theater works have been published in the play collections O Solo Homo and Sharing the Delirium. Since 1990, Miller has taught performance in the Theater Dept at UCLA and the Dance program at Cal State LA. He is a co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA.

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Mentorship will include a $500 stipend, free participation in an intensive workshop with Tim July 21st-27th, 2008, long-distance mentoring, another intensive meeting in early October and a presentation of generated work November 21st and 22nd at Links Hall.

DEADLINE for Proposals is 5pm WEDNESDAY, MAY 27th, 2008.

For more information, please contact Erica at 773.281.0824 or emott@linkshall.org