On Wednesday, April 18, 2012, Cathy Plourde, director of of UNE’s Add Verb Productions, appeared as a guest on the the WMPG show Safe Space. The interview, which is online, is part of the show’ s current focus on domestic violence. Plourde talked about Add Verb’s new play, “Major Medical [...]

This Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Cathy Plourde of UNE’s Add Verb Productions will be a guest on the WMPG (90.9 and 104.1) radio show Safe Space. The interview is part of the show’ s current focus on domestic violence. Cathy will talk about two of Add Verb’s plays: Major Medical Breakthrough, which focuses on the [...]

Written by Sheila Grant

Wednesday, 07 March 2012 09:16

Portland-based actor Brian Chamberlain plays five roles in 30 minutes during “You the Man” and, “Within 15 seconds he has got audience in palm of his hand and you’re hooked for the whole ride,” according to Kris Hall, assistant director. (Contributed photo)
DEXTER [...]

Through the Sprague Foundation, 60 copies of the Out & Allied Anthology are free to schools and congregations in Maine. Single copies will be mailed at no charge, and additional copies for those groups are available for $10 (includes S&H).
The mission of this book is to help groups raise awareness and open conversation about [...]

Cathy Plourde will be awarded with Hardy Girls Healthy Women’s annual Co-Creator Award as part of Girls Rock Weekend this year.
The Co-Creator award is given annually to a Maine woman whose work is advancing the Hardy Girls’ vision that all girls and women experience equality, independence, and safety in their [...]

What Method?: The Different Ways an Actor can Train
Author and friend of Add Verb Jessie Fahay has written a book enumerating the different methodologies by which actors train.  This short and practical guidebook gives you the nuts and bolts of four pinnacle training methods, sample exercises for each method, examples of actors [...]

Do you recall a moment when someone spoke up for you?  You received the message “you matter” and “that’s not fair” and “I stand with you” and it helped.
Recently Add Verb received a gift in the mail in the amount of $1000 from the Phineas W. Sprague Memorial Fund for the distribution of our performance [...]

The Bingham Program, a charitable endowment established in 1932 to promote health and advance medicine in Maine, has awarded the University of New England’s Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) a $20,000 grant to create an online learning tool designed to introduce all incoming graduate students and new faculty to interprofessional [...]

Add Verb Productions, a program of the University of New England (UNE), and colleagues from the UNE graduate program in Public Health, Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) and Maine Medical Center (MMC) will present content from the play Major Medical Breakthrough: The healthcare sector’s role in preventing violence at three conferences this fall. The Maine [...]

In collaboration with the Religious Coalition Against Discrimination (RCAD), Add Verb Productions, a program of The University of New England, will host two writing workshops in Southern Maine. These workshops are opened to youth of faith-based communities and will take place November 6th & 13th from 12:00pm-4:00pm. Add Verb Production’s recent publication of Out & [...]