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WOOLLY MAMMOTH'S ADVANCEDCLASSES FOR PROFESSIONAL ACTORS
FALL AND WINTER CLASSES:ACTING FOR THE CAMERA
Instructor: John Vreeke This course is an intensive, on your feet scene and monologue workshop that compares and contrasts the demands of acting for stage and screen. Pieces will be rehearsed and performed first for a live audience, then staged for the camera and shot with video equipment for playback and analysis. Note: This course is for intermediate to advanced level actors. Students must prepare a 2 minute monologue for the first day of class. John Vreeke, Associate Producer for the hit CBS show Northern Exposure and a stage director with credits at regional theatres across the country, as well as at Woolly Mammoth, Theater J, and the Washington Shakespeare Company in DC, will guide you through the techinical, aesthetic, and philosophical differences between the two mediums, with special attention to how these differences affect the work of the actor. ACTORS AND DIRECTORS UNITED
Instructor: Howard Shalwitz The principle behind this course is that actors begin their work from the most specific impulses and progress gradually toward more general understandings, while directors begin from the most general vision and progress toward specific applications. Ten well-known concepts will be explored in fresh new ways: Impulse, Action, Objective, Character, Emotion, Journey, Story, World, Spine, and Vision. Directors and actors will work together to apply these concepts by working on monologues, scenes, and analyzing whole plays. The goal is to provide experienced theatre artists with a dynamic model for the rehearsal process, helping actors and directors get what they need from one another. Please note: This class is by application only. Class size is limited to 8 actors and 4 directors. Please email a headshot and resume to Howard Shalwitz (Artistic Director) co-founded Woolly Mammoth in 1980, and for 29 years has led the company on a unique path, focused on new plays that ask hard questions, introduce new voices, and challenge theatrical convention. He has helped launch the careers of dozens of our region’s most successful actors including members of Woolly’s renowned acting company. Both a director and an actor, Howard is one of the few artists to receive multiple Helen Hayes nominations in both categories. He has directed over 30 plays at Woolly Mammoth, as well as for Arena Stage, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Milwaukee Rep, and other major companies. NEUTRAL MASK AND CLOWN
Instructors: Sarah Sanford & Dan Rothenberg of Pig Iron Theatre Co. Workshop participants train with members of Pig Iron Theatre Company on the Neutral Mask and Clown, as well as movement analysis and collaborative playmaking. When working on the Neutral Mask, participants are pushed to find a neutral presence on stage, engaged with the space, prepared, alert, alive. Working through improvisation and in small groups on projects, participants gain an appreciation for the body’s capacity for expression. When working on the Clown, participants build on this neutral presence and work to discover their own personal Clown. With little else but a red nose, these Clowns become acutely aware of their environment, of their relationship with the audience, and of their own particular sense of humor. The workshop concludes with presentations of Clown numbers, developed in Clown families and in consultation with the workshop leaders. Note: This course is for intermediate to advanced level actors. Sarah Sanford is an actor and director based in Philadelphia. A member of Pig Iron since 2002, she has performed in six company works including the Obie Award-winning Hell Meets Henry Halfway and Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays at the Public Theatre. Sarah graduated from École Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has taught physical theatre in New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, California, and Poland. Dan Rothenberg is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company. Dan’s directing credits with Pig Iron include Poet in New York, Cafeteria, Gentlemen Volunteers, Flop, Hell Meets Henry Halfway, and many others. Dan has worked and studied with École Jacques Lecoq, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Shakespeare & Co., American Repertory Theatre and Théâtre du Soleil, and received an Independence Foundation Fellowship to study choral voice in Europe as well as a Pew Fellowship in the Arts with his fellow Pig Iron co-founders Quinn Bauriedel and Dito van Reigersberg. BEGINNING NEOFUTURISM
Instructor: John Pierson of The Neo-Futurists The Chicago-based NEO-FUTURISTS are renowned for their engaging, immediate, truthful, and highly entertaining Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. The success of their work stems from the ensemble’s ability to pull uniquely individual material from their own lives and mold it into universally accessible art. In this workshop you will learn the exercises and philosophies behind creating, writing, performing, and directing immediate theatre based on your own life. This class provides specific acting techniques and an opportunity to write and perform pieces for the other workshop students. Note: This course is for intermediate to advanced level actors. John Pierson has been a Neo-Futurist for eleven years. He is also known as John Jughead Pierson, the founding member of the legendary punk band Screeching Weasel and the revolutionary acoustic punk band Even In Blackouts. Under another pseudonym, Ian Pierce, he has written, produced and published over 20 plays and one novel, Weasels In A Box.
To register for classes click here. Fore more information on our classes contact Education & Outreach Assistant Natalie Handel.
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