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This morning Phillip Cherry, former
GSA Drama faculty member, performed for the school for Drama
Immersion Day. Mr. Cherry lives in Louisville and has taught at
DuPont Manual’s Youth Performing Arts School for the Young Actor’s
Institute, has served as Walden Theatre’s Education Director, has
worked in schools throughout Kentucky in the New Performing Arts
programs, and he spent 10 years on faculty at GSA. In addition to
television and movie credits, Mr. Cherry has also acted in the
Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. Today he performed a monologue from
Macbeth, but for the
bulk of his performance he recited poems written by the great
African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.
When Mr. Cherry was in college, his
father gave him a book of Dunbar’s poems and asked him to memorize
one and recite it for him the next time he came home from school.
Mr. Cherry agreed, but soon realized that he could hardly
understand the poems because of the distinctive dialect in which
they were written. He asked a professor to help him, and that was
the beginning of Mr. Cherry’s lifelong fascination with Dunbar’s
work.
After his performance, Mr. Cherry
taught a workshop for the Drama students. Dionne Griffiths taught
a Masterclass for the Dance students, and the Creative Writers
took a fieldtrip to the Freedom Center in Cincinnati.
Today’s Drama Smorgs were:
Stage Combat—taught by Tim Soulis
It’s ALIVE! Create your own 10 min.
“B movie Flick” for the stage—taught by Carrie Nath
Shakespearian Curses—taught by Bill
Caise
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