
Pivoting with ... Tara Falk
Local actor Tara Falk was flying high when COVID attacked her entire family. Now she is mentoring prison inmates with their non-fiction writing.
Local actor Tara Falk was flying high when COVID attacked her entire family. Now she is mentoring prison inmates with their non-fiction writing.
Local video whiz happens to be in the one theatre industry that is thriving during the COVID shutdown. But he's been busy all the while his wife has been undergoing chemotherapy.
The young actor, musician, filmmaker and Arvada native has found many ways of staying creatively engaged during the COVID shutdown, mostly through his jazz band LAPOMPE, and just by creating silliness with his roommates.
Actor Jenna Moll Reyes, who appeared in the Arvada Center's 2016 production of 'Bus Stop,' has taken a temp job with the Denver Elections Division. 'This job has been so fascinating, and it makes me feel like I'm making a difference,' she says. 'Knowledge is power, and voting is power."
Longtime costume designer Meghan Anderson Doyle, faced with an 18-month furlough from the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, is now working as a one-on-one Special Education Paraprofessional for Denver Public Schools. "I am incredibly grateful that DPS looked at my transferable skills and took a chance on me," she said.
Young sound designer is (for now) an unemployment angel by day and spooky tour guide by night, telling eerie tales of Capitol Hill and its scandalous past.
Film and theatrical prosthetics master Todd Debreceni says as long as we're all having to wear masks, why not have some fun with it? He's created a line of 3D masks for Halloween in the time of COVID.
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is focusing this fall not on live plays but rather on creating a commissioned, 12-episode audio-play series called 'Of Spacious Skies' that focuses on the history of Colorado Springs and is employing 60 local actors.
Local director Christy Montour-Larson has teamed with comedian, playwright and actor Edith Weiss on a new gardening podcast called “Upside Down Tulips.” The pair have audio fun talking about the mistakes they have made while getting down in the dirt.
The Aurora Fox has become the first major metro theatre to reopen to live indoor theatre wiith Cameron Mackintosh’s musical revue “Tomfoolery," a salute to songwriter Tom Lehrer. Producing Artistic Director Helen R. Murray talks about it.
The pandemic forced the Town Hall Arts Center to reimagine its planned indoor staging of the John Denver musical revue 'Almost Heaven.' Now it's come to life as a botanical, outdoor experience at Hudson Gardens.
"Pivoting With ..." is our new, ongoing series about how Colorado creatives are adapting to changes in their professional lives as the COVID pandemic continues. The owners of the Curtain Playhouse are using their theatre space to host learning pods to help families with remote learning when parents have to work.
"Pivoting With ..." is our new, ongoing series about how Colorado creatives are adapting to changes in their professional and personal lives as the COVID pandemic continues. The longtime Arvada Center actor and her husband have launched a marriage podcast.
"Pivoting With ..." is our new, ongoing series talking with members of the Colorado theatre community about how they are adapting to changes in their creative, professional and personal lives as the COVID pandemic continues.