Mahayana Landowne
Mahayana Landowne (Theater Director)
Impossible Country (Mudbone Collecive), Medea, Antigone and Tartuffe (Baruch), Fairytale Experiment (Rubulad), MIXED (Baruch), This is Way Beyond My Remote Control (Wild Project), Picasso Project (Luna Stage), The Heiress, (Mint), and Machinal (U. of Rochester). Favorite past productions include The Skriker, Antony and Cleopatra, The Seagull, brass logic, Streetcar Named Desire, Obgynt, King Lear, and Mud. NYU-BFA-acting Yale School of Drama-MFA-directing. She is also currently working on Lush Valley, as collaborator and dramaturg with Kristin Marting. Lush Valley is performance piece about the American Dream and how it shapes and twists our lives.
She leads Workshops in Creativity through Radiant Axis (Radiantaxis.com). For more info: mahayanalandowne.org. As a Director, she is using her skills to do creative grass roots organizing for social issues including Metropolis in Motion, working to overturn the Cabaret Laws, http://www.metropolisinmotion.org, the NYC Dance Parade which brings together over one hundred dance organizations to dance down Broadway. http://www.Danceparade.org, and many art action activities that promote participatory art culture. The next event on June 11th is womenstagetheworld.org.
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I was able to meet Conner and am very inspired by him and his journey.
We have bonded and I am very excited to help his process.
I was able to go to the lab for 3 days.
Conner picked me up from the train station and we spoke of anticipation and each others life experience. I learned a lot about where he was coming from and we found many connections. I am very interested in his experiences.
Our next conversation was about the first day of the lab and leadership, his living situation, and what has been coming up for him so far in the process.
Next Conner did a presentation about his project, he was very articulate and inspired and it was excellent to get an idea about metamaps and for him to introduce the project to the whole group, people were interested and asked lots of questions. i was able afterwards to see his notebook and thought process.
Next we had a conversation about goals for next week and he shared about his family life. He was able to have a connecting conversation with his housing host, in these three days he has moved from feeling lonly and isolated there to really appreciating the santuary of his home.
Work wise the plan is to have space set up by the end of the first week, take time to relax and play over the weekend. To offer a mapping session to the whole group next thursday to further connect them to the project and to test out ideas.
I feel there is a strong level of trust and connection between us and I am delighted for the opportunity to have met him in person. Our plan is to have our weekly call on wednesday mornings at 10am.
We are an excellent match and I am honored to be working with Conner.