HOLDEN & ARTS ASSOCIATES

Sample Study Guide

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• Fine Arts: Dramatic Performance, Performance & Technology

• Language Arts: Page to Stage – Adapting a Novel into a Play, Narrative, Reading, Comprehension, Writing, Vocabulary

• Science: Animals & the Environment,

• Emotional/Social Development: Adapting to new circumstances, Resilience, Endurance, Survival

In addition to the performance, there is a 10 minute performer-led talk-back (unless otherwise requested by the venue.)

Workshops
The company can offer post-performance student workshops that explore character, setting and literary analysis, creating scenes through storytelling, acting, movement, music and rhythm, and ensemble collaboration. Get students excited for the show or delve deeper post-performance. Learn from the performer how the show went from page to stage. Teacher workshops include using theatre and storytelling as tools to teach curriculum and invigorate learning through Readers Theatre activities as well as other theatre and movement exercises and simple visual art activities that align with curriculum standards in Language Arts, Science, Geography, and the Arts.

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Sensory Friendly Performances
This production is available as a sensory friendly performance if requested in advance and with specific direction as to what this means for your venue.

• Load In Time: 4 hours (with lights prehung). Company will need 1 & 1⁄2 hours for show call.

• Crew Needs: 2 stagehands during load in and load out (to help with set up and strike of set), 1 lighting technician, and 1 sound technician

• Min. Stage Size: 35ft wide x 20ft deep x 12 ft height (playing space can be adapted based on venue specs.)

• Sound/Video Needs: All sound will be operated via Q lab. Company will travel with three 9x12 dual projection screens and three short throw projectors for rear setup.

• Load Out Time: 1.5 hours

Based the book by Kenneth Grahame

Adapted by Greg Romero

Performed by Noel Gaulin

Sound Design by K. Elliot Hayes

Illustrations by Annie Bradley McCall

Costumes by Kelli Bland

Media Design by Chris Owen

Lighting By Stephen Pruitt

Music by Mike Vernusky

Movement Consultation by Kelly Hasandras and Olivia O'Hare

Past North American Tours include:  Call of the Wild: Illustrated Edition (6 national tours from 2018-2024)

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Theatre Heroes is a theatre company based out of Austin, TX that creates high quality touring performances for young audiences and those young at heart.

We bring classic stories and adventures to life to promote creativity, inspire innovation and enliven multi-sensory learning experiences  - empowering youth to be their own Hero.  We also believe in inspiring the next generation of theatre makers through our workshops, talkbacks, and residencies.

Noel Gaulin is a four-time winner of Best Actor from the Austin Critics' Table and Austin Revolution Film Festival. He has toured over 250 plus performances across the country with Rude Mechs, Paper Chairs, Glass Half Full, and Creative Action; and he has performed Theatre Heroes' Call of the Wild to over 140 cities for 125,000+ young people across the country. He is also recognized as a revered arts educator for his commitment to excellence and kindness.

For more information, please visit the company’s website.

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About Greg Romero, Playwright

Greg Romero is originally from Louisiana, Cajun blood on both sides. His full-length plays include LARPing, The Most Beautiful Lullaby You’ve Ever Heard, The Milky Way Cabaret, Of Plastic Things and Butterfly Wings, and Delaware Mudtub and the Mighty Wampum, and have been presented in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Austin, SanDiego, Washington DC, Louisville, Baltimore, New Orleans, Anchorage, Victoria (British Columbia), Kingston (Jamaica), and other awesome places.

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Romero enjoys an ongoing collaboration with electronic music composer Mike Vernusky on performance projects including Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms, Big Iron Fires, TheBook of Remembrance and Forgetting, The Eulogy Project, Radio Ghosts, Dallas, Under My Coat is the Truth, and The Babel Project, which have been performed live in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Austin, Baltimore, Phoenix, and Anchorage, and received airplay in Toronto, Ontario as part of New Adventures In Sound Art’s Deep Wireless Festival and in Zürich, Switzerland as part of Digital Art Weeks, produced by Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich. Their collaboration has also been supported by an award from MetLife Creative Connections.

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Romero has twice been a finalist for the Heideman Award, a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award, nominated for the F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Theater Artist, and was selected as the first-ever Resident Writer of the ArtsEdge Residency, created by The Kelly Writers Houseand The University of Pennsylvania. He is one of three playwrights to inaugurate the Philadelphia Dramatists Center/Plays & Players Playwriting Residency and was a pilot member of Hyde Park Theatre’s Playwright’s Group. He is an alum of the WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, the Valdez/Last Frontier Theatre Conference, the William Inge Theater Festival, the Mid-America Theater Conference, and the Midwest Dramatists Conference. His works are published by Heinemann Press, YouthPLAYS, Next Stage Press, and Playscripts, Inc.

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He is currently a member of the Rec Room Arts Writer’s Group in Houston and Visiting Assistant Professor, Playwriting & Dramaturgy at the University of Houston.