Teaching Artist
Juliet has spent most of her adult life helping the next generation to become the artists they were meant to be through her innovative workshops. She has taught alongside Broadway and fellow industry artists as a faculty member at The Performing Arts Project, Broadway Theatre Project, the Key West Theater, and the Drama Club, sponsored by Williams Hall. Juliet has also twice received the prestigious Art Builds Community Grant (ABC) from the Florida Keys Council of the Arts, with which she identified civic challenges and addressed them through an artistic lens.
Juliet’s workshops can be tailored to the needs of the students. Click here to inquire about bringing Juliet to your school, theater, or community!
In addition to Adapting Aesop, Juliet’s workshops on offer include: The Art of the Audition, How to Write Your Own Stories, Making Your Own Art and Getting it Out There, So You Want to be a Producer?, and many others, including those which can be tailored to the current needs of your students. Click HERE to reach out to Juliet about coming to your community!
About Juliet’s Adapting Aesop Workshop
During the Adapting Aesop workshop, which can take place in an afternoon or expanded to a week-long experience with a full performance at the end, students adapt classic Aesop’s fables into hilarious hyper-local theatrical works and perform them for younger students, creating their own exciting original Theater for Young Audiences show. Adapting Aesop is purposely designed to be performed anywhere for audiences of all ages, with minimal props and no set required. Past shows have been performed in a local theater, cafeteria, park, museum, playground, and even at a backyard awards ceremony.
Click HERE to email Juliet about bringing Adapting Aesop to your school, nonprofit, theater, or community!
Above all, the goal of Adapting Aesop is to collaborate throughout the process as students take artistic risks and come together to create a completely original work of theater as unique as the people making it.
The Adapting Aesop Experience
As students move through the experience during the Adapting Aesop workshop, they self-identify which role they want to fill as there are a variety of opportunities, like adapting their own fables, creating movement and music for the works, performing numerous roles, or narrating as they read the fables aloud. Whatever their needs, there is room in Adapting Aesop for all kinds of people. This show can be created and performed by as few as five and as many as fifty.
Interested in bringing Adapting Aesop into your school or community? Contact Juliet at hello@julietgray.com for more info.
Adapting Aesop in Key West: Bubba’s Fables
Juliet received the prestigious Art Builds Community (ABC) grant from the Florida Keys Council of the Arts with support from Williams Hall and The Studios of Key West to create Bubba’s Fables in Key West based on her idea of addressing civic issues, like building cultural equity, through an artistic lens.
Why is it called “Bubba's Fables”? “Hi, Bubba” is a popular greeting between Conchs (people who have been born-and-raised in Key West). Each of the stories in Bubba's Fables was created within the one-week workshop and showcased Key West history, locations, and characters like:
Captain Tony and the Flamingo
Coffee Butler and the Spring Breakers
The Crocodile and the Kid in the Dry Tortugas
The Fighting Conchs and the Old Fisherman
Hercules and the Caroline Street Hot Dog Vendor
The Pelican and the Starfish
The Snowbird and the Conch
...and so much more
