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A nationally respected training center for over 50 years, Piven Theatre Workshop has been honored with numerous awards and has produced a panoply of celebrated theatre artists such as John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Shira Piven, Aidan Quinn, Kate Walsh, Lili Taylor and many more.
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The Piven Theatre Workshop is located in Evanston, Illinois and was founded by Joyce and Byrne Piven. For over 30 years, it has existed both as a professional theatre company and a training center for children and adults.
- Decades of Award-Winning Theatre
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- Nationally Acclaimed Theatre Workshop in Chicago
For over 45 years, the Piven Theatre Workshop has maintained both a professional theatre and a nationally acclaimed theatre workshop for children and adults. The mission of Piven Theatre Workshop is to encourage a process of creative exploration that celebrates each individual’s unique voice through an ensemble-based, community-oriented approach to...
Piven Theatre has beenproducing highly acclaimed productionsthroughout its history and has evolved into a performance model that yearly includes a youth season, multiple laboratory productions, and an Equity capstone. In recent years, Piven Theatre has received mutiple Recommendations for Joseph Jefferson Awards, an After Dark Award for Outstanding...
Piven Theatre Workshop is well known for its exemplary history of theatre community partnerships, consistently providing extensive aid through its scholarship program, offering training at little or no cost to under-served and underrepresented communities. During a school year, the Workshop grants approximately $50,000 worth of need-based theatre t...
Stagebill designated the Pivens “Chicago’s first family of acting” and praised them for founding “one of the most successful theatre training programs in the country.” The Pivens have received the Evanston Arts Council Youth and Education Award, the Evanston Mayors Award for the Arts, the Chicago Drama League’s Crystal Award, and the University of ...
For over forty years, Piven Theatre Workshop has helped thousands of students celebrate play while finding their unique creative voice through the study of improvisation, theatre games, scene study, and story theatre.
Specialties: Registration is NOW OPEN for Youth Summer Camps! Claim your spot now! 1, 2, 3 and 4 week options available. Email info@piventheatre.org or call directly at 847.866.6597 for more information. Established in 1972. The Piven Theatre Workshop now annually trains approximately 1,000 students from age nine to adult. By focusing on the creative process rather than the pre-patterned ...
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Piven Theatre Workshop, Evanston, Illinois. 3,394 likes · 48 talking about this · 2,595 were here. For 50 years, Piven has remained a nationally respected acting school and theatre.
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927 Noyes Street. Evanston, IL 60201. (847) 866-6597. [email protected]
