Sheila Kerrigan

Sheila Kerrigan, The Juggler Who Drops! The Mime Who Talks!, performs and teaches mime, communication, conflict resolution, collaborative creative process, juggling, and theater. In her performance for adults, Mime Explains String Theory, she starts before birth, ends after death, and in the middle she discovers the meaning of life and valiantly struggles to communicate it. 

She wrote the Performer’s Guide to the Collaborative Process. She works with youth to create original performance about issues important to the youth. She taught Community-Based Performance at Duke, served on Alternate ROOTS’ Resources for Social Change, integrates English, Social Studies and Theatre Arts curricular goals as a teaching artist for Charlotte’s ArtsTeach, Raleigh’s Artist-in-Schools Program, and Durham’s Creative Arts in the Public Schools, and conducts professional development for teachers and teaching artists as a Fellow with the A+ Schools.

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The Performers' Guide to the Collaborative Process

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This book demystifies the collaborative creative process and gives performers, directors and teachers practical tools and information to work happily and efficiently in the creation of original work. The first half--the creative process--starts with finding an initial idea and walks through the creative process. The second half is about open power-sharing, peaceful communication, critical response processes--all the stuff about working in groups we didn't learn in art school. Available at: amazondotcom and heinemanndramadotcom