Artistic Statement
According to a personality test I took the other day, I am a “Dreamer.” The world is a thing of beauty, magic, and Romance in my eyes. I’m empathetic, soulful, and happiest when I can roam the landscapes of my mind, and like Hamlet, I too could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. But these bad dreams are still fonts of knowledge and creation, and not all dreams have to be good to be useful.
It’s fitting that I’m a dreamer personality, because dreams are exactly what I’m interested in as a theatre maker. As a playwright and as a director, I seek out the gritty, the raw, the magical, the fantastic, the different in the characters and worlds I find or create. I look for characters with ambitions, characters with flaws, characters that are authentically themselves. Realism is not a “must” for me--what is a “must” is authenticity of story and character. Plays with elements of magical realism and absurdism excite me and challenge me to continue thinking and dreaming.
I got my start in theatre at a very young age, but it wasn’t until college that I found my calling to be a director and playwright. Working as an actor on several adaptations of classic works kindled in me a fierce love for old stories and old plays, works that could be updated for today’s audiences and still ring true. My studies abroad in the UK showed me the magic of Howard Barker’s Theatre of Catastrophe, as well as the beauty of Romantic poetry. The combination of these forms, my love for music and movement in theatre, and my own experiences as a queer woman have informed me as an artist and collaborator, and I seek to amplify minority voices in all of the work I do, onstage and off.
And of course I have dreams of my own. I dream of running a theatre company one day, I dream of writing and directing my own work, I dream of having a family, though maybe not in the most traditional sense. These dreams are what sustain me and propel me forward. I believe that dreams are just unrealized truths--with hard work and chutzpah, we can achieve them. And I fully intend to.
It’s fitting that I’m a dreamer personality, because dreams are exactly what I’m interested in as a theatre maker. As a playwright and as a director, I seek out the gritty, the raw, the magical, the fantastic, the different in the characters and worlds I find or create. I look for characters with ambitions, characters with flaws, characters that are authentically themselves. Realism is not a “must” for me--what is a “must” is authenticity of story and character. Plays with elements of magical realism and absurdism excite me and challenge me to continue thinking and dreaming.
I got my start in theatre at a very young age, but it wasn’t until college that I found my calling to be a director and playwright. Working as an actor on several adaptations of classic works kindled in me a fierce love for old stories and old plays, works that could be updated for today’s audiences and still ring true. My studies abroad in the UK showed me the magic of Howard Barker’s Theatre of Catastrophe, as well as the beauty of Romantic poetry. The combination of these forms, my love for music and movement in theatre, and my own experiences as a queer woman have informed me as an artist and collaborator, and I seek to amplify minority voices in all of the work I do, onstage and off.
And of course I have dreams of my own. I dream of running a theatre company one day, I dream of writing and directing my own work, I dream of having a family, though maybe not in the most traditional sense. These dreams are what sustain me and propel me forward. I believe that dreams are just unrealized truths--with hard work and chutzpah, we can achieve them. And I fully intend to.
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Hannah Ruth Wellons
Artistic Statement
According to a personality test I took the other day, I am a “Dreamer.” The world is a thing of beauty, magic, and Romance in my eyes. I’m empathetic, soulful, and happiest when I can roam the landscapes of my mind, and like Hamlet, I too could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. But these bad dreams are still fonts of knowledge and creation, and not all dreams have to be good to be useful.
It’s fitting that I’m a dreamer personality, because dreams are exactly what I’m interested in as a theatre maker. As a playwright and as a director, I seek out the gritty, the raw, the magical, the fantastic, the different in the characters and worlds I find or create. I look for characters with ambitions, characters with flaws, characters that are authentically themselves. Realism is not a “must” for me--what is a “must” is authenticity of story and character. Plays with elements of magical realism and absurdism excite me and challenge me to continue thinking and dreaming.
I got my start in theatre at a very young age, but it wasn’t until college that I found my calling to be a director and playwright. Working as an actor on several adaptations of classic works kindled in me a fierce love for old stories and old plays, works that could be updated for today’s audiences and still ring true. My studies abroad in the UK showed me the magic of Howard Barker’s Theatre of Catastrophe, as well as the beauty of Romantic poetry. The combination of these forms, my love for music and movement in theatre, and my own experiences as a queer woman have informed me as an artist and collaborator, and I seek to amplify minority voices in all of the work I do, onstage and off.
And of course I have dreams of my own. I dream of running a theatre company one day, I dream of writing and directing my own work, I dream of having a family, though maybe not in the most traditional sense. These dreams are what sustain me and propel me forward. I believe that dreams are just unrealized truths--with hard work and chutzpah, we can achieve them. And I fully intend to.
It’s fitting that I’m a dreamer personality, because dreams are exactly what I’m interested in as a theatre maker. As a playwright and as a director, I seek out the gritty, the raw, the magical, the fantastic, the different in the characters and worlds I find or create. I look for characters with ambitions, characters with flaws, characters that are authentically themselves. Realism is not a “must” for me--what is a “must” is authenticity of story and character. Plays with elements of magical realism and absurdism excite me and challenge me to continue thinking and dreaming.
I got my start in theatre at a very young age, but it wasn’t until college that I found my calling to be a director and playwright. Working as an actor on several adaptations of classic works kindled in me a fierce love for old stories and old plays, works that could be updated for today’s audiences and still ring true. My studies abroad in the UK showed me the magic of Howard Barker’s Theatre of Catastrophe, as well as the beauty of Romantic poetry. The combination of these forms, my love for music and movement in theatre, and my own experiences as a queer woman have informed me as an artist and collaborator, and I seek to amplify minority voices in all of the work I do, onstage and off.
And of course I have dreams of my own. I dream of running a theatre company one day, I dream of writing and directing my own work, I dream of having a family, though maybe not in the most traditional sense. These dreams are what sustain me and propel me forward. I believe that dreams are just unrealized truths--with hard work and chutzpah, we can achieve them. And I fully intend to.