Haydn Haring
Haydn Haring is a performer, designer, and writer based in Charlottesville, VA. She received her conservatory musical theatre training from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City from 2009-2011, before relocating to Charleston SC in 2012. Immediately, Haydn immersed herself in the local theatre community, working on a sequence of shows (Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, Boston Marriage by David Mamet, The Liar adapted from Pierre Corneille by David Ives) that would jump-start her interest in dramaturgy and the relationship between theatre and history. After meeting and working with many of the faculty from The College of Charleston, Haydn decided to return to school to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre with a concentration in Performance. She eventually added a History major and a minor in Italian Studies. While attending the College of Charleston, Haydn performed in departmental productions of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage, ENRON by Lucy Prebble, and Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim, and continued to perform in the community.
In the Summer of 2020 at the suggestion of a College of Charleston professor, Haydn applied, interviewed, and was accepted for a position in the University of Virginia Professional Actor Training Program. Over the past three years of intensive study, Haydn has performed in three mainstage productions, God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, 16 Winter’s or The Bear’s Tale by Mary Elizabeth Hamilton, and Sense and Sensibility adapted from Jane Austen by Kate Hamill. She has taught six semesters of Acting 1, starting on Zoom in the Fall of 2020 and moving into the classroom in the Fall of 2021. She designed costumes for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, including the creation of custom-made headdresses for the fairies, nobility, and mechanicals. In her third year of study, Haydn began work on a devised piece of immersive theatre titled Unlocked. This piece is structured to allow for the performative exploration of paintings as informed by poetic texts. The first iteration of this project connects the work of Pre-Raphaelite painters to the plays of William Shakespeare.
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