George Contini
  • About George Contini
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    • Philosophy and Aesthetic
  • Research
    • The Crinoline Girl-Continuing the Journey
    • Put it In the Scrapbook Research and Process
    • Scrapbook Synopsis, Videos, Selected Scenes
    • Put It in the Scrapbook Script
    • Critical Response to Put It in the Scrapbook
    • Scrapbook -Research Bibliography, Other Supporting Documentation
    • Always Knew LGBTQ Oral History Project >
      • Always Knew Article
    • Publications >
      • Theatre Journal Review
      • Chapter in "Acting Lessons for the CG Animator" on Michael Chekhov
  • Creative Activities (Professional)
    • The Explorers Club
    • Don't Dress for Dinner
    • Hidden Man
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    • The 39 Steps (Stage Door Players)
    • Dad's Garage Solo Performance Guest Artist
    • Theatre Emory Brave New Works Festival
    • Quick Overview of What Critics Have Said.....
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    • Happy Days
    • Niagra Falls
    • Young Frankenstein
    • Detroit
    • The Skin of Our Teeth
    • The Misadventures of Uncle McBuck
    • Sweeney Todd
    • A Lesson Before Dying
    • Pride and Prejudice
    • The 39 Steps (UGA)
    • 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
    • The Grapes of Wrath
    • Dangerous Liaisons
    • Trojan Women
  • Teaching
    • Pandemic Pedagogy
    • I love Rehearsal
    • Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship
    • Study Abroad in London
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I always knew. What have you always known?  From as far back as you can remember?  What were those first things you were certain of?   I always knew that I was different from the others.   I always knew there had to be others like me, somewhere.   A community.  The performance you are seeing tonight is about that community and could not have been created without the participation of that community.  I want to thank everyone who took the time to share their stories with us.  If we had never done a performance; your simple act of telling your stories and allowing us the opportunity to listen would have been an amazing gift.  Always (K)new is not theatrical storytelling in the traditional sense. The stories we’ve collected provided an amazing wealth of images, anecdotes, and emotions around the issues of gender and identity.  Always (K)new serves to weave them as a tapestry using spoken word, animations, music, and movement.  Similar to the formation of a personal identity, sometimes the words and images attract and other times they repel one another.   These are stories of people you know and people that live thousands of miles away from you, and yet they seem familiar in their uncertainty, fears, strength, and wisdom.    Grab a seat.  Listen to the stories.  Tell us one of your own.  It’s always new.
George Contini, Dept. of Theatre and Film Studies
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