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    Content Love Knowles
     

    920 Cardinal Ln Austin, Tx 78704


    E-mail: contentlove@yahoo.com
    Phone: 512.945.9816

    composer + director + writer + singer + actor + improviser    

    mostly benevolent force of nature    

               production/collaboration/facilitation/management          

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    To create innovative, meaningful theatre, music and events in collaboration with artists of all varieties worldwide, and to facilitate and empower all beings to discover and amplify their artistic voice and vision. Join me!  

    Objective/Mission
    Theater + Music

    Theatrical Highlights: 

    2010 - Sleeping Beauty by Bonnie Cullum and Content Love Knowles 
               Co-Recipient of NEA MAPS Grant. Wrote book and music, Musical Director/ Live Band                      Leader. Nominated for multiple B Iden Payne awards, including Best Musical Theater/Austin).            Won BIPA for Musical Direction. 
    2009 - Murder Ballad, Murder Mystery Tutto Co
               Singer/Actress - won B Iden Payne Award for Featured Actress In a Musical

    2009 - Oceana by Bonnie Cullum and Content Love Knowles 
               Wrote book and music, Musical Director/ Live Band Leader. Nominated for multiple B Iden                Payne awards
    2008 - Troades

               singer/actor - Won B Iden Payne Award for Ensemble Performance Chorus

    2007 - Trickster

               Collaborative composer, Musical Director, Musical Design
    2007 - Unhinged w Barry Pineo
               Co-Produced for Frontera Long Fringe
    2007 - Catfish by Mick D'arcy

               Co-Produced and Directed for Frontera Long Fringe

    2006 - Dark Goddess '06 

              Collaborative Composer, Musical Director, Actor

    2006 - The Visit 
              Lead Actor 
    2005 - Sleeping Beauty by Bonnie Cullum and Content Love Knowles    

              Wrote book and music, Musical Director/Live Band Leader/Featured Performer. Nominated                for Austin Critics Table Award for the score

    2005 - Vitriol & Violets
               Directed for VORTEX Summer Youth Theater - 2 B Iden Payne Nominations 
    2004 - Dark Goddess 2004 

               Musical direction, collaborative composition, and performance. Nominated for Austin Critics             Table Award for Sound Design
    2002 - Dark Goddess 2002 

                Musical direction, collaborive composition, and performance 
    2001 - Dark Goddess 2001 
               Musical direction, collaborive composition, and performance
    ONE WOMAN SHOW

    Time Alphabet, Frontera Fest ATX
               Wrote, directed, co-produced, and performed one woman musical. Advanced to "Best of                  Week" Frontera Short Fringe. 

    PERFORMANCE INSTALLATIONS 

    Criminal Argot, Symphonic Taint, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro 2013 
    Pie & Rye, Symphonic Taint, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro, 2014 
    Conceived, Directed, Co-Produced, and Performed

    SCORE + SOUND DESIGN 

    Highlights: 

    2014 - Circle the Wagons, Exchange Artists, Austin, Tx
               Designed and created sound and music, Composed and Musically Directed, Executed Live
    2012 - The Time Machine, Sky Candy, Austin, Tx. 
               Composed and recorded score for the show, did sound design. 

    2010 -  Eurydice - Different Stages Co 
                Composed and recorded score for the show, did sound design. Nominated for Austin                       Critics Table Award for Sound Design.

    2006 - Bent - Dash Mammoth, Austin, Tx

                Composed song and underscore, did sound design, played live, won Austin Critics Table                Award for Sound Design.

    PRODUCTION 

    Rites of Eleusis, Austin Tx - 1995 - 2001 
    Produced and co-directed a seven year production encompassing 49 pieces of devised/scripted ritual theater in Austin, Tx. Responsible for all publicity, fund raising, and creative content review in addition to directing one play each of the seven years.

     

    BIG LOVE PRODUCTIONS - 2007
    Produced two plays for Frontera Long Fringe in Austin, Tx
    Produced all Symphonic Taint shows 2013, including various theaters, variety shows,  and 4 month residency at the Butterfly Bar, Austin, Tx.  

     

    Recent projects: 


    Above and Below, Frontera Short Fringe, Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, Tx Jan 2016

    A collaborative work involving musical interpretation of text by Wayne Allen Brenner and images by Roy Moore (Control Images) by Content Love Knowles and Emily Breedlove. 
    (Collaborative composer and live performer).

    Paramount Theater's Story Wranglers - Austin, Tx
    Musical Director/Song Writer Oct - Dec 2015

    This innovative program takes stories written by third graders as part of Paramount Theater's Education Program and turns them into an SNL type show of sketches and songs performed for the elementary schools where they were written, with a one week turnaround per show/school.  

    As Musical Director, responsibilities included weekly songwriting for full cast w one day turnaround, musical direction of cast, weekly live performance accompaniment. 

    14:48 Festival ATX
    (house band/musician)  
    2 days, 14 plays. Scripted, staged and scored on the spot. 


    Created all necessary scoring and underscoring for same day performance.

    Juke Box Musicals I, II, III - Institution Theater  Spring/Summer 2015
    These quickly produced shows were written to feature the music of a given band (Smashing Pumpkins, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead) in a new context. 5 rehearsal turnaround.  


    Rearranged the songs for piano and accompanied the live shows/ 

     

    Associations: 

    VORTEX Rep Co, (company member)

    IMPROV 
    EDUCATION: 

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    Merlin-Works 2011 - 2013 (graduate) 
    Hideout Theatre Improv School 2013 - 2015 (graduate)
    Institution Theatre Improv Training program 2013/20

    TEXT ANALYSIS:

    Barry Pineo/Austin Acting Workshop


    WORKSHOPS/INTENSIVES/Teachers of Note: 
     

    Organic Improvisation with Todd Stashwick (2012 and 2013)
    Improv Intensive with 3-for-All (2013)
    Jeff Griggs (2012) 
    Stephen Kearin Physicality Workshop (2013)
    Tim Orr (2012) 
    Deanna Fleyscher Naked Comedy(2012, 2013)
    Mark Belzman's The Art of Allowing

    David Razowsky

    Baby Wants Candy
    NYC Neo-Futurists Writing Workshop
    PGraph Intensive w Parallelogramaphonograph (2012)
    Steve Jarand Trance Mask Workshops
    Viewpoints in Improv w Sarah Marie Curry

     

     

    SHOWS: 
    Highlights

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    Breaking Beckett, Institution Theater (musical improvisor) review 
    Leng In Wonderland, Lucky Chaos Theater, improvised opera w Leng Wong. 2015
    The ReSet Project, Lucky Chaos Theater (musical improvisor) 
    ReFramed, Lucky Chaos Theater (musical improvisor) review
    Tarantula
    , Institution Theater (guest musical improvisor)
    Maestro, Fancy-Pants Mashup, Pick Your Own Path - Hideout 2012/13 (imp)


     

    PRESS: 
    reviews, interviews, publicity

     

    Improv … Tragedy? Absurdity? WTF, Institution Theater?, Wayne Allen Brenner, Austin Chronicle 2014

     

    BREAKING BECKETT Will Forever Change How You Think About Improv - Frank Benge, Broadwayworld.com 2014

     

    'Circle the Wagons' Exchange Artists' latest site-specific theatre piece...Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle 2014

     

    Reframed -Photography provides the impetus for improv...Stacy Alexander Evans, Austin Chronicle 2014


    Home Is Where the Art Is - Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle 2013


    Frontera Fest 2013 - Performance Jam's 20th...Robert Faires Austin Chronicle 2013


    RADIO: Off Stage & On the Air - The Reset Project Interview Lucky Chaos Theater w Lisa Schepps

     

    Culture Flash!...Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle 2010

     

    Vortex Production Reimagines Sleeping Beauty - Jean Claire van Ryzin Austin American Statesman 2010

     

    2010 B. Iden Payne Awards - Honoring Last Season's Fab Four of Theatre - Robert Faires Austin Chronicle 2010

     

    A Year's Cheers: the Nominees for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Awards - Robert Faires Austin Chronicle 2010


    Sleeping Beauty: the Strength of the VORTEX's Original Musical... - Elizabeth Cobbe Austin Chronicle 2010


    REVIEW: Eurydice - Elizabeth Cobbe Austin Chronicle 2010

     

    Austin Arts Groups: Grants In Their Stockings - Robert Faires Austin Chronicle 2009


    REVIEW: Murder Ballad/Murder Mystery - Barry Pineo Austin Chronicle 2009


    REVIEW: Oceana - Robert Faires Austin Chronicle 2009


    2008 B Iden Payne Awards - Many Honors...Robert Faires 2008


    REVIEW: Trickster - Patty Hadad Austin Chronicle 2007


    Summer Youth Theater's The Visit Hanah Kenah Austin Chronicle 2006

     

    I'd Like To Thank...Robert Faires Austin Chronicle 2006


    Frontera Fest Short Fringe - Best of Week One - Patty Hadad Austin Chronicle 2006


    Top 10 Most Memorable Theatrical Offerings of 2005 - Barry Pineo Austin Chronicle 2006

     

    Getting Kids Into the Act - Barry Pineo Austin Chronicle 2005


    Applause, Applause: Austin Critics Table Nominations 2004/2005 Season Robert Faires Austin Chronicle 2005


    Working Beauty - Robert Faires Austin Chronicle 2005

     

    Payne Pleasures - Robert Faires Austin Chronicle 2004

     

    ARTS REVIEW: The Black Tower - Robert Faires Austin Chronicle 2003

     

    The Wizards of Austin's Webzines Behind the Curtains, Sam Martin, Austin Chronicle, 1999

     

     
    Instruments

    Voice
    Keyboards 
    Percussion

    Synths
    Diverse Gadgets
    Toy Instruments

    Skills

    Improvised song
    Improvised Theatre
    LARPING
    Versatile Character Work
    Direction
    Composition
    Musical arrangement
    Musical Direction
    Arts Project Management
    Devised Theater Assembly
    One on One Theater
    Theatrical Installations

    Score + Book

    Symphonic Taint

    ​2013 - present
    Director/Member

     

    Symphonic Taint is a self accompanied 2 person improv troupe, directed by Content Love Knowles. Members Content Love Knowles and David DeMaris do shows as "The Captain and Muerte" during which all songs are made up from seeds/titles suggested by the audience, based on themes proposed ST.

    Produced, directed, and performed over 40 shows in 2013, including a 4 month weekly residency at the Butterfly Bar in Austin, Tx, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro/Frontera Fest, and Frontera Fest Short Fringe 2014.

     

    Austin Mongoose Collective
    Member

    ​2013 - present

     

    Based on John Zorn's Cobra, Mongoose encorporates theater into rules based musical chaos.

     

    Performed as multi-instrumentalist and improvisor in multiple live shows for various festivals, theaters, and venues. 

    CHILDREN of JACK EVENINGS FOR NEW MUSIC
    Series of house concerts in service to Capital Area Food Bank in Austin, Tx. 2010 - 2016

     

    Produced, publicized and performed house concerts

    PAST PROJECTS INCLUDE: 
    Criminal Cabaret 
    So Wrong Johnson
    Alien Time Ensemble

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