Stacie Chaiken

This is a seminar for students who might want to be actors, writers, filmmakers, poets -- or doctors, lawyers, and business tycoons. It's for anyone who is grappling with personal story and meaning. You'll be invited to cruise the galaxy of your own (uncensored) personal opinion and deeply personal meaning. For those of you looking to develop a "product," we'll guide you through the morass (mess) of information into the kernel of the story you want to tell. We'll be asking, What really means something to you?

Through a group process, students will write - or find some way to embody (bring into the room) - a personal (not necessarily autobiographical) story. We'll open the room to a friendly invited audience at the end of our session.

Actor-writer Stacie Chaiken is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the USC School of Theatre, where she teaches Acting and Solo Performance. She has performed on and off-Broadway, on television and film, in the US and abroad, and is the writer-performer of the acclaimed solo play Looking for Louie. Chaiken has served as a visiting Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar on the faculty of the Theatre Department of Tel Aviv University, and has lectured at Bar Ilan and New York Universities.

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