Dear folks,
This is a request from Terry's partner, Donna, for you to let her know if
you can help her with a documentary project she's working on -- "Rewired," a
documentary about Terry with a focus on her life before and after her
cochlear implants.
If you read her notes below, it's clear that she's looking for lots of
different kinds of materials that could flesh out her project. (Her first
note is to me about the mailing list, and I include it in case she mentions
anything there that isn't mentioned in her longer note, also appended here.)
If you can help her, you need to drop her a note directly (rather than on
the weeklong-l list or on the Winedale-l list) so that she can gather and
use your individual email address -- for unnecessary-to-explain reasons she
can't use this mailing list (or anyone's) to make this project work.
Please read this through to the end, and drop Donna a note if you can help.
She's reachable at mickeefaustfilms(a)gmail.com or at dmnudd(a)gmail.com.
--Mike
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From: Donna Marie Nudd <dmnudd(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Subject: Rewired Documentary and Winedale Access Issues
To: mnemonic(a)gmail.com
Mike,
We're making a documentary about Terry and are going to be interviewing
Winedale folks the weekend of August 13-15. I want to be able to invite
all the folks who are performing (i.e. the weeklong group) as well as invite
all Winedale alumni who may be in attendance that weekend.
I know you are the god of the winedale list serves. The email I want to
send is posted below. Because the documentary is a 1-2 year venture, we
are setting up MailChimp for various groups so people can opt to be notified
intermittently of the film's progress. Understandably, we want Winedale to
be one of those groups.
In looking over MailChimp's rules, it notes we can't send emails to
listserves. So I'm hoping you can help us by providing an updated email
address list for both Weeklong Winedale as well Winedale Alums.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
Donna
dmnudd(a)gmail.com
DRAFT
Dear Winedale Weeklong Folks,
Many of you know me, but for the few who don’t, I’m Terry’s life-long
partner (actually “wife” since we got married in San Francisco two years
ago.)
I have a favor to ask of the Winedale Weeklong folks. But first, I need to
contextualize my request. For years, I've been wanting to work on a
documentary about Terry but didn’t quite have the overall production
concept. When she decided to have the cochlear implant, it seemed like such
a life-altering event would be just the ticket. So late spring, we
assembled a production team and started in earnest. The working title of
the documentary is *Rewired*.
*Rewired* focuses on Terry's life before and after the cochlear implant. In
particular, we want to look at the ways that Terry participated in, created,
or recreated various performing communities-- Winedale, Esthers, and Actual
Lives in Austin, as well
as ones in NYC and Florida. For Terry, those communities became a kind of
survival tactic --to create art, to reduce the loneliness of being deaf, to
seem more independent (because isn’t *everyone* inter-dependent in theatre?)
We have probably 20 hours of high definition video already shot, including
pre-cochlear and post-cochlear interviews with Terry, her pre-op and
post-op appointments with the surgeons at Shands, an interview with Terry at
hospital right after the left bundle branch block snafu, and the first
turning on of the cochlear implant with the audiologists.
One of the filmmakers in Tallahassee that we are working with, Diane
Wilkins, also has extensive video coverage of Terry's one person shows, our
early Mickee Faust cabarets, Terry reading her memoir etc. So lots of "B
roll" is already shot. Our Tallahassee-based filmmaking team has worked
together for a decade and our comic video shorts have been shown in hundreds
of queer-themed or disability-themed festivals. So once this feature length
documentary is finished, we have a solid sense of where it can be showcased
nationally and internationally.
I wrote to Jim Ayres about a month ago to apprize him of the documentary.
Doc is on board with the request that follows.
I'm writing to this list serve today because we just can't have a
documentary about Terry without the Winedale community in it, since
*Shakespeare
at Winedale* played such a pivotal part Terry's artistic development and
sensibility.
To that end, I will be coming to Winedale with my film crew on August 13-15.
Since Doc has commissioned Trey to videotape the reunion rehearsals,
production and interviews, our crew will do very little (if any) taping of
Friday rehearsal and the Saturday show.
Instead, our primary operation will take place over the course of two days
– in the hours after the show on Saturday, and Sunday morning prior to,
during, and after the brunch. We will be setting up a small room at Winedale
where we will interview all of you who want to be interviewed about Terry
and *Shakespeare at Winedale*.
Right now, I just have three questions for folks on this list serve. And
I’m asking you to respond to me privately, so as to not clog up the weeklong
list serve.
1) Would you like to be interviewed at Winedale for possible inclusion in *
Rewired*?
2) Do you have any archival material that you be willing to loan us? I’m
thinking here of Winedale photos, posters, and/or videotape with Terry in
them. Videotape can be in almost any format - Betacam, ¾-inch, Hi-8, VHS,
DV. If you are willing to loan us archival materials we would duplicate
them and return them safely to you within two weeks of receipt.
If you answer “yes” to any of the questions above, please contact me at
mickeefaustfilms(a)gmail.com and I’ll be getting back to you personally with
more information.
Thanks for your help! I’ve been in the audience of all of the past reunions
and I can’t wait to be there yet again.
Donna
mickeefaustfilms(a)gmail.com
Donna Marie Nudd
Professor, School of Communication, Florida State University
Executive Director, Mickee Faust Academy for the REALLY Dramatic Arts
I've been thinking about what we might do for music. Can I ask who else has some experience playing one or more instruments. Anybody who can play a brass instrument enough to do bugle calls? other instruments? How about some experience singing in harmony? Don't I remember Alice and Mary singing "Going to the Chapel" in close harmony. Could it be that I remember singing Morley's madrigal "Sing We and Chant It" in about '77 with people from earlier classes for some impromtu performance Doc set up?
I could bring a couple of trombones, a couple of flutes (that I can play very little), recorders in 5 sizes from sopranino to bass, a classical guitar or two, a violin (that I definitely cannot play), and a wire strung harp (or two) that I can play a little. But I probably won't bring all that luggage unless we can imagine a use for them.
I can sing tenor some, though my voice has been cracking lately or bass maybe. I'm trying to figure out whether the cracking voice is an effect of age or of years without much singing. I'l try to find a couple of books of rounds that I have somewhere. How about "Here's a Health to All Them That we Love" ?
Attention all Winedalers (and sorry, I know there is some duplication in the lists and some of you might get this email twice) --
I know only a few of you were able to see the Camp Shakespeare performances, but these photos give you at least a visual sense of the beautiful moments these children brought forth after two weeks of hard work. If only you could "see a voice" like Bottom... I can't bring those to you... but some incredible shots here. And look for my son wearing a furry football helmet festooned with donkey ears!
Titania's mom took these terrific photos and it's lovely to see how the light on the kids changes as the sun goes down and the footlights brighten.
Come see "As You Like It" in three weeks and you won't have to settle for just looking at the photos, you hear?
Cheers,
clayton s.
http://carolinepoe.smugmug.com/Theater/Camp-Shakespeare-2010/12623601_iFtwr…
Clayton Stromberger
Outreach Coordinator
UT Shakespeare at Winedale
College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
www.shakespeare-winedale.org
cell: 512-228-1055/ office: 512-471-4726
Ich auch.
Happy Father's Day, Doc.
michael b
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I'll sign on to this card too.
Happy Father's Day, Doc!
--Mike
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, JOY MARVIN <joyandthomas(a)msn.com<mailto:joyandthomas@msn.com>> wrote:
DOC,
HAVE A SPECIAL DAY.
YOU ARE THE BEST!
LOVE,
JOY
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I have contacted the young man who filmed our Camp Shakespeare Hamlet
several years ago and turned out a remarkable DVD for everyone. He is
now a Junior at Texas Tech in Film, working this summer for a film
company in Houston. He is available to film the performance on Aug
14 and as well do some filming of the group from Aug 12-14. Here is
how he explains it to me:
I am available for a three day shoot, August 12 through the 14. I can
produce two DVD's: one of the performance and one with footage/
interviews/rehearsals . If I factor in all my hours and equipment the
cost of production will be 2,000. I will do it for you at half rate.
So 1,000. I could charge a reasonable rate on the DVDs and have the
rest covered by Windale or we could spread the cost out over all DVD
sales (25 DVDs @ $40). I will be ready to work on it by shoot day.
So what do you think? Would each of you be willing to contribute
$50.00 toward the effort? And have the DVD's free. Or guarantee him
purchase of 25 at $40.00?
Let me know. He is holding the dates open.
Doc
Sure
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I have contacted the young man who filmed our Camp Shakespeare Hamlet
several years ago and turned out a remarkable DVD for everyone. He is
now a Junior at Texas Tech in Film, working this summer for a film
company in Houston. He is available to film the performance on Aug
14 and as well do some filming of the group from Aug 12-14. Here is
how he explains it to me:
I am available for a three day shoot, August 12 through the 14. I can
produce two DVD's: one of the performance and one with footage/
interviews/rehearsals . If I factor in all my hours and equipment the
cost of production will be 2,000. I will do it for you at half rate.
So 1,000. I could charge a reasonable rate on the DVDs and have the
rest covered by Windale or we could spread the cost out over all DVD
sales (25 DVDs @ $40). I will be ready to work on it by shoot day.
So what do you think? Would each of you be willing to contribute
$50.00 toward the effort? And have the DVD's free. Or guarantee him
purchase of 25 at $40.00?
Let me know. He is holding the dates open.
Doc
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Ditto.
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Doc
I will be more than happy to contribute more than my $50 if that will help others who are not in a financial position to do so....
Bruce
>>> James Ayres <jayres(a)cvctx.com> 6/16/2010 6:57 PM >>>
I have contacted the young man who filmed our Camp Shakespeare Hamlet
several years ago and turned out a remarkable DVD for everyone. He is
now a Junior at Texas Tech in Film, working this summer for a film
company in Houston. He is available to film the performance on Aug
14 and as well do some filming of the group from Aug 12-14. Here is
how he explains it to me:
I am available for a three day shoot, August 12 through the 14. I can
produce two DVD's: one of the performance and one with footage/
interviews/rehearsals . If I factor in all my hours and equipment the
cost of production will be 2,000. I will do it for you at half rate.
So 1,000. I could charge a reasonable rate on the DVDs and have the
rest covered by Windale or we could spread the cost out over all DVD
sales (25 DVDs @ $40). I will be ready to work on it by shoot day.
So what do you think? Would each of you be willing to contribute
$50.00 toward the effort? And have the DVD's free. Or guarantee him
purchase of 25 at $40.00?
Let me know. He is holding the dates open.
Doc
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Hey gang,
Thought I should send an update. Once a week we go to Shands in
Gainesville. Terry's progress is incremental. But here's yesterday's
and this morning's highlights.
Two new tests Terry had not done before were done yesterday
by the audiologist. In the first, they'd give her a sentence printed
out (i.e. she could read it). For one word in the sentence there
would be two possibilities that were close in sound, for example, take
or teak, saw or see. Each word made sense in the context of the
sentence. Audiologist covered her face and read the sentence. Terry
got 100% of them correct.
Second test was even more amazing. Audiologist covered her face and
said a common sentence. (In this case, there was no print out, there
was no context.) Sentences were simple, as in "What's your name?"
Want to go to lunch?" Terry got 80% of these correct.
On the way back from Shands, I was on my cell phone talking to my mother.
Terry was driving and from the rhythm of what I said (and some sound
discrimination), she could also make out a number of my sentences.
Our homework this week from the audiologist is that we need to read
aloud together. (I like that kind of homework. )
This morning's minor miracles--
Terry opened the door to let the kitty cat out. "It squeaks" she
squealed. And then she opened the door and shut it multiple times.
And moments ago, she just heard the phone ring.
Amazing really, these small discoveries. Each week's progress is kind
of like a one year old's-- the delight at discovering a new sound in
the world, and then the instant boredom with that sound, hoping to
find some other sound that's new and equally exciting.
Donna