Arts Directory
Sheila Kerrigan, The Mime Who Talks!
SCAD ID - #131

Certification
Certified Teaching Artist
Contact
kerrigan@mindspring.com
919-360-0690
www.MimeWhoTalks.com
Chapel Hill NC
Discipline
- • Theatre
Geographical Availability
- Upstate
- Midlands
- PeeDee
- Low Country
About
Sheila’s show for adults (especially seniors), “Mime Explains String Theory,” starts before birth, ends after death, and toddles through thirteen stages of Woman. Author of “The Performer’s Guide to the Collaborative Process,” she uses drama to teach communication, creativity, and collaboration. She works with youth to create issue-based performances. President of the SE Center for Arts Integration, she leads professional development for teachers and artists. She served on Alternate ROOTS’ Resources for Social Change, which uses the arts to spur progressive change. She taught Community-Based Performance at Duke and Creating Original Performance at Bennington College’s July Program. She performed with TOUCH Mime Theater for seventeen years, and with Jelly Educational Theater for four. She has performed and taught in 22 states, in schools, prisons, juvenile detention centers, senior centers, hospitals, and festivals.