Creative Collaboration
with Kyle Secor
Exploring Story and Form
Helping artists discover the form their story wants to take.
Artists often carry an idea, a memory, a question, or an image that feels like it wants to become something — a performance, a story, a conversation between two people, or something not yet named.
I collaborate with artists to listen for what the work is asking for and help shape the form that allows it to live.
The Work
Personal and story-driven performance can take many forms — memoir, autofiction, fiction, or work led purely by imagination.
Solo performance work explores the full mind–body–heart of the individual.
Two-person work explores relationship more explicitly — separate and distinct, yet something singular emerges between them.
I help artists:
• locate the core of the material
• shape a structure that can be sustained through performance
• remove what obscures rather than clarifies
• bring the work into the body and the room
• prepare it for an audience
The aim is not perfect autobiography or a perfect show.
Process is the aim.
Insight and cohension follow.
This work allows artists to remain actively engaged with their creativity even when external momentum slows.
Process
The work unfolds in stages — though those stages often shift.
Excavation
Digging around.
Identifying what you want to express and what is essential.
Letting go of what is not.
Structure
Building form through questions, prompts, and conversation.
Embodiment
Performance as exploration.
Identifying strengths and the jewels of vulnerability — through movement, listening, expansion, and restraint.
Attention will often replace effort.
Readiness
Preparing the work for presentation if desired.
Nothing is rushed.
Each phase informs the next.
And often, there is laughter.
Together, we find the form that freely expresses the work.
Scope
This is a private collaboration, not a class.
For performers
Those with a story to tell, images to express, or a desire to challenge themselves — who want an outside eye and a collaborator.
For mid-career actors
Those between cycles — no longer emerging, but not finished.
This work supports authorship, presence, and craft without waiting to be cast.
For writers
Those with the language but without a clear path to embodiment the words.
Performance will reveal what the writing requires to live onstage.
The Listening Room
Most stories begin as fragments.
A moment that keeps returning.
A relationship that is still unresolved.
A question that refuses to settle.
Often the work already exists in some form.
It simply hasn’t found its structure yet.
My role is not to impose a vision.
My role is to listen.
Through conversation, rehearsal, and exploration
we begin to notice what the material is asking for.
Nothing is forced.
We remove what is unnecessary, follow what has energy,
and allow the work to reveal itself.
Every project will move at its own pace.
About
I’ve spent decades working inside stories — on stage, on screen, and in rehearsal rooms.
As an actor, director, and teacher, my work has ranged
from long-form television and film to theatre, performance art,
and solo work.
Across these forms, I’ve learned that what
matters most is not display, but listening — being present
with the audience and discovering the structure
that allows the work to live.
My greatest pleasure comes through collaboration.
That experience informs a simple approach:
clarity over cleverness
presence over performance
structure over excess
Working Together
I work with a limited number of artists to allow focus and depth.
We work primarily in person — either in Los Angeles, in a rehearsal space, or occasionally through hybrid/Zoom conversations that lead to in-person sessions.
Collaborations begin with a conversation.
If you’re carrying a story and wondering what form it might take,
feel free to reach out.
Please include a short note describing:
• who you are
• the nature of the work
• where the idea currently lives
• why now?
Contact
A story usually knows what it wants to be.
The work is learning how to listen..