"Unless the theatre can ennoble you,
make you a better person,
you should flee from it"
ABOUT US
Our Vision:
To advance the overall level of theatre arts in Colorado.
Our Mission:
To provide student and professional theatre artists with training rooted in graduate-level curriculum, taught by theatre professionals; and to integrate this training into the development of new intermedia performance work that engages audiences in the social and human issues of our time.
WHAT WE DO
Visionbox Studio was founded in 2010 by director and acting teacher Jennifer McCray Rincón and NYC/Hollywood actor Bill Pullman. Their mission was to provide student and professional actors in Colorado with graduate-level training based in Earle Gister’s teaching at the Yale School of Drama while also creating new performance work of social relevance. Jennifer came to Denver in 1991 to be the Head of Acting at the National Theatre Conservatory at the DCPA, the only three-year MFA acting program in the state of Colorado. Visionbox was founded, in part, due to the closing of the National Theatre Conservatory which left Colorado with no graduate actor training programs to this day. Visionbox Studio continues to be the only professional actors studio in Denver, founded in the techniques and principles of the Yale School of Drama.
Students and professional theatre artists train at Visionbox at any stage of their professional development. High school students receive high-level preparation in order to be admitted to national and international undergraduate programs and college graduates work to prepare for graduate school admission. Working theatre professionals continue to study technique at Visionbox, having a direct impact on their work in local professional theatre.
The other important application of Visionbox training is the development and production of new performance work. Jennifer and Bill have a long history of creating and producing new works that they developed in Denver and later toured nationally. The company emulates the principles of the Group Theatre, directed by Harold Clurman in the 1930s. Harold Clurman introduced American actors, playwrights, and directors to the teachings of Stanislavski. Stanislavski’s “method” has continued to be the foundation for professional acting technique to this day. The Group Theatre’s performance work focused on the “social and moral preoccupations” of their time and Visionbox continues these traditions today with our commitment to the development of new works by local and national playwrights.
How We Work
Visionbox Studio Theatre is a 501(c)3 non-profit Professional Actors' training studio in Denver. We pride ourselves on a passion for process and an appreciation for text based training.
Visionbox Studio Theatre training is centered around the Actor's Five Questions, first introduced by Earle Gister, Head of Acting at Yale School of Drama for nearly two decades from 1980-1999. This is a text based technique grounded in the exploration of complex theatre literature including, but not limited to, Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Classical and Contemporary American playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Clifford Odets, Lillian Hellman, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Horton Foote, and John Guare, and finally Shakespeare. All students at DADA are taught by Master Teachers and learn from the same material, regardless of enrollment in the Apprentice Program or the Adult classes.
Visionbox is the ONLY acting studio in Denver to combine students of all ages, levels, and backgrounds in the same classes of rigorous, text based training.
