Robert Campbell's ASYLUM 11,
a: theatrical one-man show /
movie / comic book / concert,
is previewed in this promo
trailer. The show has
performed at the Philadelphia
Fringe Festival, Gretna
Theatre's 'Monday Night
Series,' at Gamut Theatre
Group as a 'Core Company
Spotlight' Production (the
first such production at this

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Robert Campbell's ASYLUM 11,
a: theatrical one-man show /
movie / comic book / concert,
is previewed in this promo
trailer. The show has
performed at the Philadelphia
Fringe Festival, Gretna
Theatre's 'Monday Night
Series,' at Gamut Theatre
Group as a 'Core Company
Spotlight' Production (the
first such production at this
company) and in an educational
theatre residency experience
at Cornell College in Mount
Vernon, Iowa. The show was
workshopped at Penn State's
Outlaws Playwright's Workshop
and State College, PA's Boal
Barn Playhouse. It was
developed as Campbell's Honors
Thesis in Theatre. The show
was a collaborative effort
between Robert Campbell
(Writer, Director, Editor,
Designer, Producer, Actor),
PSU Communications professor
T. Martin Camden III
(Cinematographer, Co-Editor,
Story Consultation, Video
Technician... 'Marty' to his
friends), and Marty's wife
Kelly (Producer, Story
Consultation, Actor). It
first appeared in workshop
form in 2002 and had its
professional debut (Philly
Fringe) in 2003. In each
subsequent performance,
Campbell has revised, reshot,
re-staged and re-edited in a
(probably neverending) cycle
of 'tweaking' the show's
theatrical effectiveness.
While Campbell tries to
incorporate a contemporary
entertainment sensibility to
the experience, the narrative
is dense and the show is best
experienced by media-saturated
culture obsessives. The merit
of the show is most strongly
felt in the world of academia,
where it is a unique
experience for undergraduate
and graduate majors in Theatre
(Artistic and Technical),
Film, TV, Art, and the liberal
arts / contemporary culture
crowd in general. Future
plans include to (hopefully)
take the show to The Edinburgh
Fringe Festival in Scotland
and The NYC International
Fringe. One ideal audience
for ASYLUM 11 would be Comic
Book Conventions. Another
would be as an indoor sideshow
attraction at large-scale
music festivals and arts
festivals.The best hands-on
experience for students in an
ASYLUM 11 residency experience
is for technical theatre
students, who can design
lights and sound with an 'on
the fly' / jazz idiom
technique which encourages
them to be confident,
on-the-spot designers, much
like the time trial projects
of design-oriented reality
television. Other workshop
experiences connected to the
show include class
lecture-demonstrations
'Creating Your Own Multimedia
Monograph: A Short Handbook
for Student Actors' and 'The
Asylum Experience,' a
point-by-point lecture on the
creation of this unique
theatrical piece.Campbell was
for five years (2002-2007) a
professional actor in regional
theatres in his home area of
Central Pennsylvania, playing
roles like Mozart in AMADEUS,
Hamlet, King Henry V, Kent in
KING LEAR, and Frog in A YEAR
WITH FROG AND TOAD. He has
worked for the Illinois
Shakespeare Festival, Gretna
Theatre, the Fulton Opera
House, Pennsylvania Centre
Stage, Open Stage of
Harrisburg, and Sight & Sound
Theatres as an actor. His
most recent full-time
theatrical employment was a
two-year contract at Gamut
Theatre Group in Harrisburg,
PA as actor, teacher and
fundraiser for this
up-and-coming company devoted
to 'the classic story and the
classic idea.' He has a BA in
Theatre Arts from Penn State
University's School of Theatre
(2002, Schreyer Honors) and is
currently in a one-year
Master's of Ed. program
getting his Secondary English
certification. He hopes to
teach theatre somewhere in the
lovely Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and continue work
towards furthering his
education in theatre, film,
communications and cultural
studies. This fall he will
play MacDuff in the premiere
film from Sycamore
Productions, an adaptation of
William Shakespeare's MACBETH,
directed by North Carolina
School for the Arts film
school alumnus Patrick
Siler.Campbell's next work of
multimedia theatre will be a
one man show (including fan
interviews, historical trivia
and personal commentary) about
being a lifelong fan of the
City of Pittsburgh and its
championship-laden
professional football team,
The Steelers.

Category Film & Animation

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