Course Dates: July 1 to July 28, 2013
Application Deadline: May 3, 2013   The application deadline has passed. 

• ENSEMBLE – The joy of group dynamics.
• VIEWPOINTS – A new way of approaching your art and life.
• INTENSIVE PLAY STUDY – In-depth work with the plays/writings of Sam Shepard.
• WORK WITH TONY AND PULITZER AWARD-WINNING COMPANY – Steppenwolf Theatre Company – America's Premier Ensemble Theatre.
• This workshop will culminate in a public performance of student work.

  Undergraduate: DRAMA 422, 6 units
Graduate: DRAMA 622, 6 units
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  This workshop is open to all students who have a passionate desire to pursue theatre as a meaningful part of their life.
 

1. Submit a letter of interest and a recent photo.
2. Send the materials listed in step one with your completed Registration Form to the Summer Arts office by May 3, 2013. Applications may be mailed or emailed. See the Registration, Scholarship & Fee Payment page for more information. The application deadline has passed. 

  Professor John Mayer
playgoing@aol.com
209-617-5081

  Jeff Perry – www.steppenwolf.org
Co-Founder of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company (along with Gary Sinise and Terry Kinney) and long-time CSU Summer Arts guest artist, Jeff currently stars on the hit television show, Scandal. In addition to serving as Steppenwolf’s Artistic Director for a number of years, Jeff was integral to the founding of The School at Steppenwolf, where he continues to teach and direct. His many acting credits at Steppenwolf include the Tony Award-winning production of August: Osage County, The Time of Your Life, The Grapes of Wrath, The Caretaker, and Streamers. Other television and film credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Lost, Prison Break, The West Wing, The Grifters, The Human Stain, The Practice, thirtysomething, and My So-Called Life, which he occasionally directed.

Kim Rubinstein – theatre.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/KimRubinstein
Kim Rubenstein was most recently Long Wharf Theatre's Associate Artistic Director where she directed Guys and Dolls, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Private Lives, Santaland Diaries and The Cocktail Hour. She was Associate Director with Michael Mayer and Tour Director of the National Tour of Angels In America. Her teaching credits include ten years as acting/directing faculty at Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Brown/Trinity Consortium, Wesleyan University, NTI at The O'Neill Center, and an ongoing teaching gig with the School at Steppenwolf. Ms. Rubinstein is a recipient of the TCG/NEA directing fellowship and was nominated for the Alan Schneider Directing Award, among other awards, for her directing and teaching.

Alexandra Billings – www.alexandrabillings.com
Alexandra Billings is a freelance actress/performer. Since 2003, she has taught Viewpoints in Los Angeles with Steppenwolf Classes West, along with Tom Irwin, Shannon Cochran, Jeff Perry, Laurie Metcalf, and Emmy Award-winning casting director Linda Lowy. Alex will complete her MFA at CSU Long Beach in June 2013.

David Razowsky – www.davidrazowsky.com
David Razowsky is returning to Summer Arts once again! He is one of the top teachers of theatrical improvisation and acting. David has been called “the guru of improvisation, an improviser’s improviser” who connects the mindfulness of Buddhism with improvisation’s core principals of being in the moment, taking care of your partner, and groundedness. In his 30-year improvisational acting career David has worked with The Second City, iO West, The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, as a consultant to Dreamworks, BBC’s Whose Line Is It Anyway, and Amsterdam’s Boom Chicago Theatre. He was Artistic Director of The Second City Training Center Los Angeles, and is adjunct faculty in the California State University system. He has been a featured performer and lecturer at the Chicago Improv Festival, The San Francisco Improv Festival, the Vancouver Improv Festival, and The Kennedy Center. David continues to act and direct professionally in Los Angeles.

Evelyn Carol Case – www.fullerton.edu/arts/theatredance/faculty/case
Evelyn Case holds BFA and MFA degrees in acting and has performed extensively throughout the United States as a member of the Actors' Equity Association. She was a member of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's resident company for eleven seasons where her tenure included seasons of rotating repertory as well as major American tours of Romeo And Juliet, Arms and The Man, and The Comedy Of Errors. Evelyn has appeared in leading roles at the Laguna Playhouse, Shakespeare Orange County and Theatre on the Green and nationally she has appeared in such professional theatres as the American Stage Company, Pennsylvania Stage Company, and Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Evelyn is certified as a Fitzmaurice Associate in Fitzmaurice Voicework and is certified in the Alba Emoting technique. She is the co-editor of the Shakespeare collection, Snippets From Shakespeare, published by WaterMark Press in 1990 and Shakespeare: A Lover's Tale, also commissioned by WaterMark.

Monica Payne - www.monicapaynedirector.com
Monica Payne is an American director of theatre and film.  She recently directed her own adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother. Other recent projects include the rarely produced Elektra by Euripides and William Inge’s Natural Affection. She is committed to creating work that brings beautiful imagery, music, and movement together to support the emotional life of the story. Monica trained with the Chicago-based Steppenwolf Theatre Company and graduated with an MFA in Directing from the renowned UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television. She has been mentored by directors Jose Luis Valenzuela and Kim Rubinstein and is inspired by the work of European director/choreographers Ariane Mnouchkine and Pina Bausch. She is the recipient of the James Pendleton Foundation Prize and participated in the 2008 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, as well as the 2012 Director’s Lab West in Los Angeles.For many years, Monica was a freelance Meisner instructor, teaching for the School at Steppenwolf, the Artistic Home, The Audition Studio as well as owning her own studio in Los Angeles. Her students have gone on to work in television, film, and regional theatre.  She is Director of the MFA in Acting program and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  She is currently directing Huck Finn for Playhouse Jr., in an adaptation by Eric Coble.  Upcoming directing projects include Hecuba by Euripides, translated by Kenneth McLeish and the Ted Hughes translation of Racine’s Phedre.  She can also be seen in the upcoming short film, Burn Brightly, directed by Lauren Ludwig.