Flip the story.
Making theatre accessible through movement-based storytelling.
“There’s an artist you need to know about…
“She’s telling the story with bodies in a way we don’t see much of ‘round these parts. Her name is Paige Conway. Keep her on your radar. She is the future.”
-Lynn Lammers; Artistic Director of the former Kickshaw Theatre
Paige Conway is a Flint, MI native. She’s now a Cleveland-based theatre artist. She has worked as a Director, AEA Stage Manager, and Educator all over Michigan, occasionally working elsewhere in the midwest. With over 12 years in the competitive gymnastics world, it’s no surprise Paige found her niche in physical theatre and movement-based storytelling. She is passionate about physical theatre’s ability to make theatre safer, healthier, and more accessible for all artists, wherever they’re at in their theatrical journey.
A playwright herself, Paige’s other passion is in new work and play development, always eager to tell new stories in unique ways. Her plays center women’s stories, their fierceness and flaws, and the unique ways they connect with the world. To read some of her plays, visit her New Play Exchange page here.
With a decade of work as an educator behind her, Paige’s early teaching experiences were in prisons and youth homeless shelters. These experiences broke open her idea of what art is, and what it can be. Whether working with younger children, teens, or adults, Paige focuses on instilling consent-based work into daily practice, and accepting and acknowledging our individual limitations, while still leaving space to discover new personal abilities we never imagined possible.
Paige currently serves as the Associate Producer with Cleveland Public Theatre, assisting artists in bringing their work to new audiences. She has also begun training as an Intimacy Choreographer with TIE (Theatrical Intimacy Education), and looks forward to bringing this knowledge into rehearsal spaces, and production administration. Consent work should begin well before we’re ever in a rehearsal space, after all.
Select directing credits include Funny, Like An Abortion* (Cleveland Public Theatre), Lungs (Kickshaw Theatre), The Collaboratory Presents: Dreamscape (Young Peoples’ Theater), These Mortal Hosts (Williamston Theatre), New Releases* (Williamston Theatre), Broken (Boxfest Detroit), Clue (Chelsea High School Theatre Guild), Mamma Mia! (Chelsea High School Theatre Guild).
Select stage management credits include: Songs For a New World (Flint Repertory Theatre), Medusa* (imaGEN Project/Wharton Center), Milvotchkee, Visconsin (Kickshaw Theatre), The Wolves (Flint Repertory Theatre), Dr. Fox and the Impossible Cure for Death* (imaGEN Project/Wharton Center), Gruesome Playground Injuries (Kickshaw Theatre), 1984 (Williamston Theatre), Out of Orbit*, (Williamston Theatre)