Temple
Temple Crocker was born in Georgia, grew up in North Carolina and after earning her BA from the College of Charleston in South Carolina moved to San Francisco, where she lived for eleven years. During this time she performed, designed and created theatre with a variety of directors, writers, choreographers and musicians. Some of those artists include Loy Arcenas, Sean Hayes, Mark Jackson, Philip Gotanda, Tom Ontiveros, Pearl Ubungen, Sommer Ulrickson and Will Waghorn. It was in San Francisco that she met her long-time friend and collaborator Annie Kunjappy. Together they founded Strangefruit Theatre Ensemble with Rowena Richie and from 1996 to 2003 created six original performances, including Heat Death of the Universe based on the short story by Pamela Zoline, and Sewing Lessons based on the art and lives of surrealist painters/writers Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. Both projects were supported by the Zellerbach Family Fund, and Sewing Lessons was honored with a Bay Area Critics Circle award nomination in 2001 for best direction and costume design.
In 2003 Temple moved back to the east coast to attend Towson University’s Theatre Arts graduate program in Maryland. While living in Baltimore, she became involved in the performing and visual arts community creating work with artist Jackie Milad, building the installation Tell Me Window for Cindy Rehm’s alternative art space spare room and performing her solo piece The Shallows at the 4th annual Transmodern Festival. She has also performed in the plays of Tom Shade, Ric Royer and Daniel Nelson. In 2005 she spent the year in New York presenting woof nova’s performance project veils/vestiges: the aesthetics of hidden things at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre’s summer series and acting in Richard Foreman’s first film/performance project Zomboid.
Temple teaches acting and movement classes at UMBC, and Towson and Stevenson Universities. She is currently training to be an Alexander Technique teacher at AT Mid-Atlantic.
