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The Piven Theatre Workshop is located in Evanston, Illinois and was founded by Joyce and Byrne Piven.[1][2] For over 30 years, it has existed both as a professional theatre company and a training center for children and adults. Famous alumni to come out of the program include Jeremy Piven, John Cusack, Aimee Garcia, Joan Cusack, Ann Cusack, Aidan Quinn, Laurel Holloman, Lili Taylor, Ann Lippert, Julian Bailey, playwright Sarah Ruhl and Kate Walsh.

  1. ^ Showalter, Thea (April 11, 2019). "Piven Theater continues dialogue of mass incarceration through new play detailing experiences of incarcerated women". The Daily Northwestern. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  2. ^ Adler, Tony (June 21, 2013). "Veteran theater teacher Joyce Piven talks about her new book". Chicago Reader. Retrieved June 5, 2020.

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The Piven Theatre Workshop is located in Evanston, Illinois and was founded by Joyce and Byrne Piven. For over 30 years, it has existed both as a professional...

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Joyce Piven

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Piven, were actors in the Compass Players. Later, they founded the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, Illinois and became teachers to a generation of stars...

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Jeremy Piven

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played Bernardo in West Side Story. In Illinois, he trained at Piven Theatre Workshop, founded by his parents. He also attended Drake University in Des...

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Byrne Piven

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Bernard Piven (September 24, 1929 – February 18, 2002) was an American actor, director and the co-founder of the Playwrights Theatre Club, a forerunner...

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Aidan Quinn

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Quinn realized he wanted to become an actor. He trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop. He has three brothers and a sister. His older brother, Declan Quinn...

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Ann Cusack

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writer. With her sister Joan and brother John, she trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston and the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts...

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Retrieved April 7, 2018. "Hope VI". Theatre In Chicago. Chicago. Retrieved March 24, 2018. BWW News Desk. "Piven Theatre Presents NUMBER OF PEOPLE 3/6-4/11"...

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Harand Camp of the Theatre Arts

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Martha Graham, taught dance; and Byrne and Joyce Piven, future founders of the Piven Theatre Workshop, helped with the acting program. Staff would soon...

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Shira Piven

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on Lake Michigan. Her parents, Joyce Piven and Byrne Piven, founded the Piven Theater Workshop in Evanston. Piven performed with the theater company during...

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Lili Taylor

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attended The Theatre School at DePaul University before being cut from the acting program for a policy violation, and the Piven Theatre Workshop. Taylor has...

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Aimee Garcia

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graduating in 1996. While in school, she took acting classes at Piven Theatre Workshop. She appeared in local plays and musicals during her time at Northwestern...

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Eddie Jemison

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'Bad Moon'), Christopher Holloway (of DePaul University and the Piven Theatre Workshop) and Eddie Jemison in his acting debut." Weiss, H. (1988, September...

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Sarah Ruhl

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received dramatic training at the Piven Theatre Workshop, in Evanston, Illinois. On the occasion of a 2015 production at Piven of her Melancholy Play, Ruhl...

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Dick Cusack

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converting it into the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, which houses the Piven Theatre Workshop where his famous acting children trained. Two weeks before his death...

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Melancholy Play

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Contemporary Farce is a play by Sarah Ruhl that premiered in 2002 at the Piven Theatre in Evanston, Illinois. It follows the sometimes melodramatic bank teller...

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The New Actors Workshop

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throughout the year in which students participated. Students of the workshop played Spolin theatre games for an audience. These shows were free and open to the...

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Arielle Nobile

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began studying at Piven Theatre Workshop and then, during high school, went on to become a part of the Young People’s Company at Piven. Nobile then went...

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Laurel Holloman

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graduating from UNC, Holloman moved to Chicago to work with the Piven Theatre Workshop. She studied with John Lynn in Los Angeles, and was cast in David...

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Ann Lippert

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classes at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, Illinois, where she studied for 8 years with her biggest influence, director/teacher Shira Piven. Lippert...

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Billy Dec

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Nominees[permanent dead link] "Actress Kate Walsh receives award from Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston". Archived from the original on 2010-10-23. Retrieved...

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Greg Hirte

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for Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Court Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, and Piven Theatre Workshop (Jeff Award Nomination...

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List of New Trier High School alumni

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2009. Sarah Ruhl – emerging young playwright, New Trier graduate, Piven Theatre Workshop alumna and now certified MacArthur genius ... Vinson, Michael (August...

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List of Theatre Communications Group member theatres

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Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Piven Theatre Workshop, Evanston, Illinois PlayGround, San Francisco, California Playhouse...

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Chicago High School for the Arts

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People's Music School, Piven Theatre Workshop, Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, Ravinia Festival, Redmoon Theater, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, River North Chicago...

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Thom Cox

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production of “A Christmas Carol”. He has directed for Eclipse Theatre Company, Piven Theatre Workshop, and his own Joseph Jefferson-nominated adaptation of The...

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