Unlikely Excursions

The Center for Remembering and Sharing, with Dharma Road, presents Unlikely Excursions: An Evening of Improvisation, created and performed by Cassie Terman and Heather Harpham.

Terman and Harpham, both Senior Teachers in the Action Theater form of improvisation, take audiences on a playful and thoughtful romp through their imaginations. Combining the physicality of dancers and the narrative power of writers, the two create their work together and spontaneously, allowing scenes and situations to develop vividly before their eyes, and the audiences’. Each night is a new and entirely unique piece of theater, crafted in the moment.

Heather Harpham is a writer, solo performer and improviser. As a founding member of the International Action Theater Ensemble, and a Senior Teacher of Action Theater, she has performed and taught improvisation for nearly 15 years. Her original solo theater pieces have been presented in New York City at Judson Church, St. Mark’s Performance Space, Dixon Place, Pratt Institute, and Studio 111. She has taught workshops in Action Theater improvisation at NYU, Sarah Lawrence, Marymount, Pratt Institute, Olgethorpe College, and with the Susan Marshal Dance Company. In 1998 she received an MA in Theater from NYU’s Gallatin School and in 2000 she received an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU’s Creative Writing Program.

Cassie Terman is a performer, writer and teacher, currently living in NYC. She performs improvisations nationally and internationally, both solo and in collaboration. She has worked for over 16 years with Ruth Zaporah in Action Theater, is a Senior Teacher of the practice, and for the last 13 years has taught throughout the U.S. at universities, festivals, and theater and dance organizations. Collaborators include Tanya Calamoneri, Shinichi Momo Koga, etiquette, the composer Keren Rosenbaum, and the International Action Theater Ensemble. Cassie holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University.

Cassie and Heather have been performing for, or with, one another since the age of 10.