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A nationally respected training center for over 50 years, Piven Theatre Workshop has been honored with numerous awards and has produced a panoply of celebrated theatre artists such as John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Shira Piven, Aidan Quinn, Kate Walsh, Lili Taylor and many more.
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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 theatre company and a training center for children and adults.
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For over 45 years, the Piven Theatre Workshop has maintained both a professional theatre and a nationally acclaimed theatre workshop for children and adults. The mission of Piven Theatre Workshop is to encourage a process of creative exploration that celebrates each individual’s unique voice through an ensemble-based, community-oriented approach to...
Piven Theatre has beenproducing highly acclaimed productionsthroughout its history and has evolved into a performance model that yearly includes a youth season, multiple laboratory productions, and an Equity capstone. In recent years, Piven Theatre has received mutiple Recommendations for Joseph Jefferson Awards, an After Dark Award for Outstanding...
Piven Theatre Workshop is well known for its exemplary history of theatre community partnerships, consistently providing extensive aid through its scholarship program, offering training at little or no cost to under-served and underrepresented communities. During a school year, the Workshop grants approximately $50,000 worth of need-based theatre t...
Stagebill designated the Pivens “Chicago’s first family of acting” and praised them for founding “one of the most successful theatre training programs in the country.” The Pivens have received the Evanston Arts Council Youth and Education Award, the Evanston Mayors Award for the Arts, the Chicago Drama League’s Crystal Award, and the University of ...
The Power of Piven Theatre Workshop and the Piven Training Technique. For over forty years, Piven Theatre Workshop has helped thousands of students celebrate play while finding their unique creative voice through the study of improvisation, theatre games, scene study, and story theatre.
For over 50 years, Piven Theatre Workshop has been a part of the Evanston community, giving young artists a place to explore their creativity. Join us this summer to develop your improv and acting skills, creating fun improvised and scripted pieces in a supportive ensemble environment.
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Piven’s cohesive approach to theatre training, including training in improv, theatre games, scene study, and Story Theatre adaptation, produces alumni who are fluid thinkers who have the tools to be life-long learners in our ever-changing cultural landscape.
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Piven Theatre Workshop, Evanston, Illinois. 3,394 likes · 48 talking about this · 2,595 were here. For 50 years, Piven has remained a nationally respected acting school and theatre.