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2011 Robert Porterfield Graduate Award Winner
Francesca Chilcote
Francesca Chilcote will begin her graduate work for an MFA in Physical Theatre at the Accademia dell'Arte in Arezzo, Italy, this Fall of 2011. Chilcote earned a BA in Theatre, with a concentration in Acting, from The College of William and Mary, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. While at the College, she has served as the President of the Theatre Students Association from 2010-2011 and appeared many productions, including Eurydice, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, The School for Wives, Rhinoceros, and The Rover. As part of her upperclassmen research project, she studied Commedia at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy, completing a thesis which analyzed the importance of comic technique in the post-modern world. It was this project that led to her senior thesis, the study of the female clown. In addition to research and performance, she is also a mask-maker and a playwright, recently wining the W&M Alumni Association’s Howard Scammon Drama Prize for her one-act, Fragments. She is the Assistant Artistic Director of Moonlit Wings Productions, a children’s theatre company based in Northern Virginia. With her research partner, Professor Laurie J. Wolf, she has founded another production company, Unruly Women, to produce shows that feature women in strong roles. This Summer 2011, Unruly Women will produce Chilcote’s senior thesis project, a feminist adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, will premiere at the Capital Fringe in Washington, D.C. |
