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= Brooke O'Harra = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brooke O'Harra is a director, playwright, performer, and co-founder of the Obie Award winning Theater of a Two-headed Calf. Throughout her career, O’Harra has continued to explore how audiences interact with a performance, or as she describes it, how “audiences and crowds make meaning and as a maker/speaker, how you engage their imagination, or their power by not dictating the encounter, but you create a kind of space for aliveness.”

Personal Life
'''As a graduate of Tulane University’s MFA program in directing, she has juggled her roles as an experimental theatre director and professor for quite a while now. She taught at Bates College and NYU, until she and her partner, Sharon Hayes, an associate professor of Fine Arts at Penn, moved to Philly with their daughter. '''

Theater of a Two-headed Calf
'''The Theatre of a Two-headed Calf was born in 1999 in New Orleans by co-founders Brooke O'Harra and Brendan Connelly. The Two-headed Calf's work is about layering, a careful consideration of all the formal elements of Theater, from lights and set, to words, music and movement. Brooke O'Harra has developed and directed all 14 of Two-Headed Calf's productions including the OBIE Award-winning Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (HERE), It Cannot Be Called Our Mother but Our Graves a.k.a Macbeth (Soho Rep Lab), Trifles (Ontological Hysteric) and the opera project You, My Mother (La MaMa, River to River Festival). '''

Dyke Division
The Dyke Division of the Two-Headed Calf was founded by Jess Barbagallo, Laura Berlin Stinger, Laryssa Husiak, and Brooke O’Harra in 2008. '''O’Harra conceived, directed, wrote for, and performed in the Dyke Division’s live serial Room for Cream (Four seasons -- 28 episodes) at La Mama, ETC 2008-10 and at the New Museum 2017. '''

'''The Dyke Division stages contemporary queer discourse in the vernacular of “soap,” simultaneously embracing and critiquing what constitutes popular culture in our current moment. The project aims to hold and represent the mess that ensues when a group of folks elect to consciously live against the monolith of patriarchy, sometimes in competing forms of vigilance. '''

A Dating Story, Episode 110
'''Poet and essayist Ross Gay and director and performer Brooke O’Harra will perform a conversation around a 20-minute reality TV show... the duo used subterfuge to undermine, reframe and resist traditional narratives of heteronormativity, seduction and desire – frustrating the producers who assumed the episode to be a total disaster. Ironically, though not surprisingly, it became one of their greatest successes. '''

The Performance Intensive
She is also a co-founder with Sharon Hayes of The Performance Intensive  '''Artists working with performance in the context of visual art, sound, dance and/or theater assemble for generative conversation through a structured set of activities that include workshops, performances, lectures and individual and collaborative praxis. The Performance Intensive includes performances, lectures and workshops by Visiting Artists Jibz Cameron, taisha paggett and Wilmer Wilson IV. '''

I’m Bleeding All Over the Place: A Living History Tour
'The fourth event of her nine-part project, I’m Bleeding All Over the Place: A Living History Tour'' includes written text by Brooke O’Harra and Casey Llewellyn, with Erin Courtney, Kristen Kosmas and Heidi Schreck. Delving into the emotional landscape of everyday conflict, this work examines how gender and sexuality, narrative and story, conflict and resolution, relate and come to form in the dynamic space between the audience and the performer. '''

Time Passes
'''Time Passes is an ongoing collaboration between Brooke O’Harra and Sharon Hayes that takes the audio book of Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse as its spine. The performance is an 8-hour continuous event with Brooke, Sharon, their kid Alice, and their dog, Cosmos. Interested in “time,” they perform with and through To The Lighthouse in its entirety as a proposal-in-performance to occupy Woolf’s deeply gendered containers of time and thought. O’Harra and Hayes are motivated by the way in which To The Lighthouse embraces landscapes of thought over –or as– action, and take up Woolf’s challenge of form to find a new relationship to live performance. '''

Awards
O’Harra’s work has been supported by numerous awards, grants and residencies including several NYSCA grants, a Franklin Furnace performing artists award, an Art Matters grant, the NEA/TCG Directors program, The Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency grant., an OBIE award grant, a residency at The Performing Garage, an LMCC space grant and a Doris Duke Impact Award.

Appearances on Reality Television[edit source]

 * A Dating Story, Episode 110: Jason, Brooke and Ross

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