A course for actors and directors to learn what?!
Undergraduate: DRAMA 426, 3 units
Graduate: DRAMA 626, 3 units
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Actors and Directors of all levels of experience who have demonstrated a serious commitment to learning their respective crafts and who understand the importance of the relationship between actors and directors.
Professor Bernardo Solano
bsolano@pomona.edu
909-869-3952
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Actors: Multiple acting styles/techniques from Classical to Contemporary! How to work with almost any director! Practical aspects of acting in professional regional/repertory theatre!
- Directors: Multiple approaches to directing! How to direct actors in almost any style! Practical aspects of directing in today’s professional regional/repertory system!
- Professional actors and directors from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the largest regional/repertory theatre company in the United States!
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Actors will learn multiple acting styles and techniques; for example, classical theatre such as Shakespeare, Moliere, Restoration comedy, etc. Contemporary drama, farce, commedia, naturalism, etc. Also, movement-based techniques such as Viewpoints, Suzuki, and stage combat. Also covered will be the practical aspects of working in professional regional theatre; for example, how to collaborate with living playwrights, auditioning techniques, resumes, and living out of a suitcase.
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Directing students will learn various approaches to directing: classical, contemporary, Viewpoints, improvisational, imagistic, presentational, and epic. Like the actors, directing students will learn about the practical aspects of working in today’s professional regional/repertory system—the course will greatly contribute to students being competitive theatre professionals upon graduation.
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Approximately two-thirds of the students’ time will be dedicated to workshops with the guest artists and one-third will be workshops in which the directors and the actors work closely together in order to put to practice what they have been covering in class.
- Culmination will consist of fully rehearsed scenes representing the styles and techniques covered in the course.
Undergraduate: DRAMA 426, 3 units
Graduate: DRAMA 626, 3 units
none
Actors and Directors of all levels of experience who have demonstrated a serious commitment to learning their respective crafts and who understand the importance of the relationship between actors and directors.
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A current resume of your work-university or otherwise- as either an actor, director, or both. A letter of intent, describing you and your interest in the course.
- Send the materials listed in Step 1 with your completed Registration Form to the Summer Arts Registration Office by Friday, May 1, 2009. THE DEADLINE TO APPLY TO THIS COURSE HAS PASSED.
Professor Bernardo Solano
bsolano@pomona.edu
909-869-3952
Christopher DuVal
Christopher DuVal has been an actor, fight director, and guest instructor at a variety of regional theatres, colleges, and universities throughout the west. He was an actor for ten seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where he appeared in 25 productions, and is currently serving the company as the Associate Fight Director.
Check out his website at: www.christopherduval.com
Christopher DuVal has been an actor, fight director, and guest instructor at a variety of regional theatres, colleges, and universities throughout the west. He was an actor for ten seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where he appeared in 25 productions, and is currently serving the company as the Associate Fight Director.
Check out his website at: www.christopherduval.com
Tracy Young
Actor and director. Her credits include work with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Actor’s Gang, and Cornerstone Theatre Company. She has received several awards, including Ovation and LA Weekly Awards for direction and the P.E.N. West Playwriting Award.
Actor and director. Her credits include work with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Actor’s Gang, and Cornerstone Theatre Company. She has received several awards, including Ovation and LA Weekly Awards for direction and the P.E.N. West Playwriting Award.
Evie Peck
Award-winning actor Evie Peck is also a writer, director, producer. For more than twelve years, she was a member of Tim Robbins' theatre company, The Actor's Gang. Her film and television credits include Friends, Seinfeld, Tenacious D, 10 Items or Less, Brothers & Sisters, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ms. Peck is also co-founder, director, writer, and drama teacher for the children's musical theatre company, Dansworx. She is also a question writer and "kids" producer on the Fox network game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Award-winning actor Evie Peck is also a writer, director, producer. For more than twelve years, she was a member of Tim Robbins' theatre company, The Actor's Gang. Her film and television credits include Friends, Seinfeld, Tenacious D, 10 Items or Less, Brothers & Sisters, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ms. Peck is also co-founder, director, writer, and drama teacher for the children's musical theatre company, Dansworx. She is also a question writer and "kids" producer on the Fox network game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Kimberly Scott
Nominated for a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for the role of Molly in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, a role she created at Yale Repertory Theatre while she was still a student at Yale School of Drama. She has been working in theatre, film and television consistently for the past twenty years. In addition to her work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and South Coast Repertory, she has a myriad of film and television credits.
Nominated for a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for the role of Molly in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, a role she created at Yale Repertory Theatre while she was still a student at Yale School of Drama. She has been working in theatre, film and television consistently for the past twenty years. In addition to her work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and South Coast Repertory, she has a myriad of film and television credits.
Ken Roht
Ken Roht is the Producing Artistic Director of Orphean Circus, a Los Angeles-based music theatre collective dedicated to continually challenging its audiences with original, thoroughly instinctual sights and sounds. He was the recipient of the 2003 Audrey Skirball Kenis TIME Grant, awarded to only five other people in the country. His holiday series, the 99¢ shows, is now in its sixth year and performs to sold-out audiences.
Ken Roht is the Producing Artistic Director of Orphean Circus, a Los Angeles-based music theatre collective dedicated to continually challenging its audiences with original, thoroughly instinctual sights and sounds. He was the recipient of the 2003 Audrey Skirball Kenis TIME Grant, awarded to only five other people in the country. His holiday series, the 99¢ shows, is now in its sixth year and performs to sold-out audiences.
Stephanie Beatriz
Stephanie Beatriz's theatre roles include Lydia in Lydia directed by Juliette Carrillo (Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, and the World Premiere at the Denver Center Theatre Company), Catherine in A View from the Bridge directed by Libby Appel, Bianca in Othello directed by Lisa Peterson (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Rosa in Summer and Smoke directed by Michael Wilson (Paper Mill Playhouse, Hartford Stage), and Amazing Voice in The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! directed by Liesl Tommy (Summer Play Festival, New York).
Check out the Orphean Circus website at: www.orpheancircus.com
Check out the Oregon Shakespeare Festival website at: www.osfashland.org
Stephanie Beatriz's theatre roles include Lydia in Lydia directed by Juliette Carrillo (Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, and the World Premiere at the Denver Center Theatre Company), Catherine in A View from the Bridge directed by Libby Appel, Bianca in Othello directed by Lisa Peterson (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Rosa in Summer and Smoke directed by Michael Wilson (Paper Mill Playhouse, Hartford Stage), and Amazing Voice in The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! directed by Liesl Tommy (Summer Play Festival, New York).
Check out the Orphean Circus website at: www.orpheancircus.com
Check out the Oregon Shakespeare Festival website at: www.osfashland.org
BACK TO 2009 COURSES
CHECK OUT THE OTHER THEATRE COURSES:
San Francisco Mime Troupe
Chicago Style Comedy
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