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Theater director Troy Heard is Neon Museum’s next artist in residence

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The Neon Boneyard at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas on Thursday, October 18, 2012.
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After hosting its first artist residency this month, the Neon Museum has announced that theater director Troy Heard will be its next artist in residence, using the Boneyard and its historic signs to lead a drama workshop May 9.

The community event, “Dramatic Signs: Bringing Neon to Life,” will have Heard coaching participants on using “creative drama skills to invent new stories about the legendary signs housed in the Neon Museum.”

Heard’s storytelling activities follow artist David Sanchez Burr’s citizen speak, a community radio experience last week in which the artist invited guests to interact with his multi-instrument apparatus that broadcast the sounds through tiny radios spread around the museum’s North Lot. The residency was a partnership with the Barrick Museum that will be exhibiting some of the audio and instruments from citizen speak at the museum beginning April 27.

A writer/actor/director known for producing and directing works at Onyx Theater and for Cockroach Theatre (and directing Pawn Shop Live! at the Golden Nugget), Heard is currently director of the Simpsons-based Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play​, opening this week at Art Square Theatre.

Dramatic Signs: Bringing Neon to Life May 9, 10 a.m.-noon, Neon Museum, free (registration is required), 702-387-6366.

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