The next Launch Pad Casting Workshop will be hosted by Andrew Hobgood, founding Artistic Director of The New Colony, at The Greenhouse Theatre Center.

Under Andrew Hobgood’s direction, The New Colony has quickly become a creative force all its own in Chicago’s theater scene. This year, The New Colony won the 2011 Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theater Award. The New Colony has produced a string of original hits, including FRAT (and its recent revival), That Sordid Little Story, and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche.

Of all the companies that strive to produce organic, original work, The New Colony has demonstrated its mastery of a collaborative process. The New Colony’s method of storytelling trusts each collaborator as an expert in their domain.

Actors participating in this Launch Pad Casting Workshop will experience Andrew’s implicit trust in — and big challenges for — the actor.

Andrew Hobgood is the founding Artistic Director of The New Colony. For TNC, he has directed Amelia Earhart Jungle Princess, FRAT, Hearts Full of Blood (formerly Calls to Blood), co-wrote and directed Tupperware: An American Musical Fable and That Sordid Little Story, and directed the performances in the company’s inaugural film So Many Days.

He won a 2006 FringeNYC award for Outstanding Musical for 58! A Comedy about Bike Messengessengering, a 2008 FringeNYC award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for Love is Dead: A NecRomantic Musical Comedy, which he also co-wrote and directed, and which went on to win three After Dark Awards in Chicago. In 2010, he took Hearts Full of Blood to FringeNYC where it won Outstanding Playwright and extended its run as part of the Fringe Encore Series. He and The New Colony were featured at Collaboraction’s Sketchbook Festival for the last two years, winning critical praise for A Domestic Disturbance at Little Fat Charlie’s Seventh Birthday Party, and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, which also won the Audience Favorite award.

He has created shows for Victory Gardens Theatre’s Fresh Squeezed Series and was recently asked to create a short, audience-interactive play for Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Outside of theater, he has spent the last ten years of his life as a business consultant, working with clients to inject creativity into American business.

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