Fearless Creativity is a phrase coined by Roger Holzberg to describe what he experienced at the University of Colorado in 1974. Chuck, Roger and others were inventing Developmental Touring Theatre in CU’s Colorado Caravan and Crown and Clown theatres, and Chuck’s Overland Stage Company. Other graduates of the Colorado Caravan and the University of Colorado’s Developmental Theatre M.A. went on to found or manage/direct/act in theatres all over the world. Other participants in the programs applied their skills successfully in diverse professions, and look back on their Developmental Theatre experiences as essential training.
The belief you have the talent, intelligence, intuition, and passion to solve any creative challenge.
—Roger Holzberg
In the years since then we continued exploring how to define and apply Fearless Creativity to our work. There was a reunion in 2019 of many of those involved, and we decided to work together to give what we learned to those who can use it now. We are developing a website that teaches Fearless Creativity using our theatre games, scripts, and teaching experience.
The ability to leave behind being timid, afraid, faint-hearted or conversely falsely brave, dominant, bullying.
Fearlessly embracing living as a confident, brave, hardy, daring person willing to risk failure to learn, to change, to serve.
The Fearless Creativity team will be making the new material available online in 2023. There will be workshops, play scripts, and theatre games. In exploring how we did the work and what we learned we developed five competencies that form the skeleton of how to be Fearlessly Creative.
Fearless Creativity is a way of life.
—Chuck Wilcox
Three areas where I currently apply my Fearless Creativity are: Riddles, Haiku or Sword-Cut Poems, and Tabor Pipe.
Riddles
Sword-Cut Haiku
