6.10 A Conversation with Tara Cariaso
This week Jimmy talks with Maryland teaching artist Tara Cariaso. She talks about reimagining commedia dell'arte through a DEI lens, marginalized identity harm in theatre classrooms, and masks for actor liberation.
https://www.waxingmoonmasks.com/
Tara's Recommended Resources
My Grandmother’s Hands by LICSW Resmaa Menakem, MSW
Teaching Artist and Mask Maker
Tara is a Filipina-American, Baltimore-based educator of physical theatre, archetypes, somatic acting, mask performance, and is founder/designer for Waxing Moon Masks Education and Fabrication Company. Tara received her MFA from Dell’Arte Int'l School of Physical Theatre, and has been part time faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), CCBC, and Guest Artist at the Pig Iron school in Philadelphia. Her ongoing work with non-profit B4 Youth Theatre uses somatic practices and theatrical masks for social justice play-making in Liberia, West Africa. Tara is in collaboration with Faction of Fools (DC),imagining an anti-oppressive Commedia Dell'Arte framework, and her framework, “Embodying Archetypes,” imagines liberated character creation processes for a next generation of comic actors.
