Kyla McHale is a Performer, Teaching Artist, Director, Puppet and Mask maker.
She believes in theatre's ability to cross borders, provoke dialogue and transform.
She has worked with theatre artists from all over the world, including Tim Miller, Peter Schumann, Julian Boal, Michael Vogel & Barbara Sanchez.
Her specialites are applied theatre, masks and puppetry, physical theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, site specific work, and devised pieces. She is a founder of Kitchen Sink Arts a physical theatre company.
Kyla McHale has performed in traditional plays, musicals, devised pieces, documentary theatre, physical theatre pieces, as an actor, puppeteer, & dancer.
Kyla McHale has worked as a teaching artist for over
five years; in New York, Philadelphia, and
Allentown. She has worked with students of all ages. She has taught programs focused on
acting, puppetry, commedia
del arte, masks, physical theatre, movement, storytelling, visual art and more. She has also taught programs focused on arts intergration, with specialites in literacy and ELL.
Kyla McHale learned the art of puppet and mask making from Peter Schumann & Ralph Lee.
Kyla McHale has directed, and devised several socially aware
and physical theatre pieces.
These include; Masked Connections, Olly Olly In Free for the
Figment Arts Festival, Speaking Glass Words, and
Who Opens Your Pickle Jar?
Here is one review of her piece Who Opens Your Pickle Jar:
"Kyla McHale and Megan O'Donnell the co-directors of this production, put together a medley of scenes to examine what's hiding behind these (gender) roles we play. From familiar and famous works like Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, to more modern, starkly probing monologues from Maria Irene Fornes's Fefu and Friends and Jacquelyn Reingold's Girl Gone, issues surrounding gender were not just scrutinized and picked apart. They were blown apart.
In the second half of the production, they were totally reversed--a clever and amusing yet very effective and probing way of posing these questions, of challenging the stereotypes and ideologies of gender. The scenes, with the exception of the first and last, were performed by one male and one female; the switches in the second half, therefore, were clear and powerful.
This show, more than others I have seen, was a full, all-encompassing experience..."
-The Muhlenberg Weekly
She has also directed more traditional pieces such as; Just A Play, Mozart and the Grey Steward, and several piece written by her students.
Teaching Artist Resume
Teaching Artist - Active Learning Leads to Literacy/ LEAP
Teach literacy skills using the arts to elementary students.
Teaching Artist -Marquis Studios
Teach physical theatre to elementary students.
Teaching Assistant - New York University
Assistant taught the Introduction to Augusto Boal's
Theatre of the Oppressed course for NYU graduate
students, with Professor Christina Marin.
After School Arts Coordinator - EducationWorks
Provided arts education to students through direct
service and through coordination of external artists and
performing arts agencies. Also created and taught arts
curriculum.
Professional Development - LEAP
Lead workshops for classroom teachers to integrate
the arts into their classrooms and curriculm.
Teaching Artist - A.S.A.P
Taught middle school students improvisation and acting.
Teaching Artist Reader - NJ Young Playwrights Festival
Provided feedback for young playwrights participating in
the contest.
Program Specialties:
Acting, Physical Theatre, Movement, Storytelling, Masks, Puppetry, Mask and Puppetry Making, Forum Theatre, Image Theatre, Newspaper Theatre
Performance Resume
Center for Theatre of the Oppressed: Game On
Theatrix: Strings Attached: Un, Deux, & Trios
Mum Puppet Theatre/Joyce Theatre :Out Of The Shadows
First Person Arts: Sugar Lumps and Black Eyed Blues
Omoba Theatre Company: The Ugly Princess
Car Crash Club: Final Kiss
Car Crash Club: Crime in the Madhouse
Leah Stein Dance Company: GATE
Freestep: Dance Coach
Eastern State Penitentiary (06, 07): Terror Behind the Walls
Figuren Puppet Theatre : Emigre
Bread & Puppet Theatre Company: Summer 2005 Intern
MTA: Live to Tell the Tim Miller Project
MTA: The Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead
MTA:The Message and Jehanne
MTA:Oh My Muhlenberg
MTA:Nickel and Dimed
MDA: 6 Meters Improv Dance Ensemble
Education:
Masters in Educational Theatre
Bachelors in Performance and Performance Studies
Kyla Ferris McHale
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