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Pablo Vela
Adjunct Lecturer
Theatre
Division of Humanities and the Arts
Office: Compton-Goethals 311
Phone: 212-650-6666
E-mail: pvela@ccny.cuny.edu
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About Pablo Vela
My teaching philosophy: To find a balance of structure and spontaneity, freedom and form. To begin to build the "feel" of an ensemble, both in rehearsal and performance. To provide a springboard from which students can discover and develop a personal (and therefore unique) viewpoint and means of expression. To talk about what happens when actor and audience come face to face. To have a good time.
Education
Columbia University, BA, MA
Other Training
Yale Drama School 1964-65
National Theatre School of Canada (Montreal) 1965-66
Mime, Masks, Circus: Jacques Lecoq (Paris, France)
Tony Montanaro (Paris, Maine)
Improvisation: Viola Spolin (Brandeis University, Esalen Institute)
Dance: Anna Halprin (San Francisco)
Teaching Experience
1966-75, Director, Theatre Program, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont (During this time, I was the director of an improvisational theater group, The Northwood Performance Group, which toured New England for two years. I also helped found a theater company still in existence, Foot's Barn Theater, originally based in Cornwall, England.)
1976-Present, I have served as visiting faculty or Artist-in-Residence at the following institutions (partial list):
Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado
The Dell'Arte School of Mime and Comedy, Blue Lake, California
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Theaterakademi, Aarhus, Denmark
Kunstlerhaus, Boswil, Switzerland
National Theatre School, Odense, Denmark
Connecticut College, New London, CT
The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin, Ireland
The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin
Les Ateliers de la Manutention, Bordeaux, France
The Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
I also organize and direct biannual workshops for Meredith Monk/The House Foundation for the Arts
Performing Experience/ partial list
Goddard College
The Duck Variations and Lone Canoe by David Mamet (Original productions directed by the playwright.)
Meredith Monk/The House Foundation for the Arts
Vessel (Obie Award)
Quarry (Obie Award)
Venice/Milan
Chacon
Recent Ruins
Specimen Days
Turtle Dreams Cabaret
The Games
Book of Days (Film)
Ellis Island (Film)
Ping Chong and Company
Humboldt's Current
Nuit Blanche
Lazarus
Peter Schumann Bread and Puppet Theater
Simple Light (Obie Award)
Othello
Wolkenstein, at St. John the Divine, New York
Our Domestic Ressurrection Circus
Seattle Repertory Company: Biography by Max Frisch
LaMama, E.T.C.
Far From Harrisburg by Jean-Paul Wenzel
All About Jeez by Assurbanipal Babilla
Shared Forms Theatre (New York)
Minimum Daily Requirement created by the Company
In the Cage by Henry James
Whitney Museum of American Art: Plaster of Paris by Uwe Mengel
Great Small Works, New York:The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln, created by the company
The City College of New York: West Side Story
Directing Experience
Goddard College
Caligula, Albert Camus
The Infernal Machine, Cocteau
Don Juan, Molière
The Misanthrope, Molière
The Lesson, Ionesco
Jacques, Ionesco
Antigone, Anouilh
Architruc, Robert Pinget
(Most of the plays above were done in my own translations from the French)
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
Private Lives, Noel Coward
My Tutor, My Foot, Peter Handke
Siddartha, Hesse (my own adaptation of the novel)
Happy Days, Samuel Beckett
Metamora, John Augustus Stone
A Taste of Honey, Delaney
Associate Director for Meredith Monk/The House
Atlas: an opera in three parts (Houston Grand Opera)
American Archeology #1: Roosevelt Island
The Politics of Quiet, New York Dance and Performance Award ("Bessie")
A Celebration Service, I also performed in this piece
Ninth Street Theatre
Capricious Marianne by Alfred de Musset, in my own translation and adaption
Cabaret Evenings
Cafe Pablo I, Cafe Pablo II at Goddard College
Ozone Cabaret (Co-director)
das Max cabaret, inspired by the paintings of Max Beckmann
WB Club WB Club WB, a film noir cabaret
Particular People, at LaMama, E.T.C.
Solo Shows in New York City
Tip or Die, by Linda Mancini
No Harm, by Jeannie Hutchins
Amor De Mis Amores and Hysteria Floribunda, by Eva Gateazoro - Also Performed in Washington D.C.and Managua, Nicaragua
Last Updated: 9/4/08
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