Arts Reporting: Penfold Theatre's Summer Youth Program Goes to Edinburgh in 2013

Feature by Dawn Youngs for www.austin.culturemap.com with interview of program director Patty McMullen, January 26:

ATX TO THE WORLD

Local performance group The Penfold Theater Company set to hit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

By Dawn Youngs

The Penfold Theater Company, a young and ambitious theater serving North Austin and Round Rock, has been making waves in the Austin community since its formation in 2008. [. . .] Now the theater is launching a new education program, Penfold Players, and it is already going global.

Penfold Players has been selected by the American High School Theater Festival (AHSTF) to present a student production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in August 2013. The invitation is an exciting kick-off to Penfold's “Carpe Aestatem” (Seize the Summer) program, which aims to give high school students a theater travel experience every other summer.

Click to go to Penfold's page on its summer programs for teens

Read full text at www.austin.culturemap.com

Austin Shakespeare Classes Based on King Lear, October 11 - November 22

Found on-line:

Shakespeare Acting Studio, October 11 - November 22

Austin Shakespeare is currently accepting actors into the professional Shakespeare Acting Studio. The Fall semester will focus on scenes from King Lear, including cross gender casting. Focusing on interpretive tools, voice and diction, and intense physicalization, we believe that sharpening your skills in expressing Shakespeare's work, you will be a stronger actor in any endeavor.

The Shakespeare Acting Studio will run from 7 pm-9:30 pm Mondays Oct. 11- Nov. 22 in 8 sessions. $35 per session or $200 for all 8 sessions. The studio will include a final showcase performance for professional agents, directors and supporters.

To apply, contact: swan@austinshakespeare.org.

Education: Babs George Teaches Acting at State Theatre & ACC, September 15 - October 20

Found on-line:

The Creativity of Acting for Film & Stage

presented by State Theatre School of Acting

in association with Austin Community College at The State Theatre

Wednesdays, September 15-October 20, 7 - 10 p.m.

Intuitive acting. What does it mean? Where does it come from? How do you get there consistently?

Living in the moment, in a highly intuitive state is the method explored, (learned from Charles Conrad, now retired, but well known Los Angeles acting teacher of 40 years). Improvisation and cold reading scenes will be the bulk of the class work. Both film and stage scripts will be used, with some work filmed for playback and critique.

Beginning- Advanced Beginning. Led by Babs George Sept. 15-Oct. 20 (6 weeks) Wednesdays 1-3:30pm $165 DRAM 3003 100

Seminar: Writing the Impossible, with C. Denby Swanson, Austin Scriptworks at Dougherty Arts Center, June 26

Received directly:

Austin Script Works Dramatis Personae Series

WRITING THE IMPOSSIBLE

A workshop with Colin Denby Swanson

Saturday, June 26th from 2-4pm
Dougherty Arts Center , 1110 Barton Springs Rd.

COST: $20 ASW members/ $30 General
INFO/RESERVATIONS: 512.454.9727; christi@scriptworks.org

Playwright Jose Rivera encourages us to include at least one impossible thing in each of our plays. In the play that you are writing or even just thinking about, what is your one impossible thing? What *can* it be? We’ll study Rivera’s “36 Assumptions About Playwriting,” and specifically the idea of impossibility. The workshop will also include writing exercises to make room for impossibility in character, dialogue, scene direction and events.

More information at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Arts Profile: UT Professor of Acting Fran Dorn, by Christina S. Murrey

Found on-line at UT's "Know" website for video work:

Arts & Humanities
Center stage with actor and Professor Fran Dorn
by Christina Murrey
Published: April 2

Fran Dorn, the Virginia L. Murchison Regents Professor in Fine Arts and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, leads the Acting Program at The University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught since the spring of 2000. Here, Dorn examines what it means to be an actor, for both her students and herself. With guidance from her students and the never-to-be-taken for granted works of William Shakespeare, Dorn continues to grow as a teacher.

CLICK on image to go to website in order to view slideshow and hear interview (3 min, 23 sec)

Theatre Classes: Intermediate Acting, Directing for the Stage, WOBCP, Leander, June 16 - July 30

Received May 21 from WOBCP, Leander:

Classes in Leander!
Way Off Broadway Community Players present two new classes at the WOBCT, 10960 E. Crystal Falls Parkway, Leander,
in our new Theater Arts Education Series:

INTERMEDIATE ACTING CLASS June 16 - July 30
(7 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday evenings)

and

DIRECTING FOR THE STAGE, June 18 - July 30
(Thursday evenings, 7-9 pm)

Click for further information at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: "Green Room" Acting Classes at City Theatre, from April 27

Received April 9:

On April 27 City Theatre Austin begins The Green Room, a series of classes to be held at City Theatre for Austin actors and performers.
Classes will include The Art of Auditioning, Actually Acting!, Creative Dramatics for Young Adults, Dramaturgy and Scriptwriting, Nia Techniques for Actor and Artist, and Yoga For Actors.

Taught by seasoned actors and licensed instructors, classes will be offered in two- to six-week sessions, as well as on-going sessions and will be given at a low cost for those participating. See “Classes” at the City Theatre website for descriptions, activities, and dates.

And get rolling with A FREE ACTING CLASS from the Austin Acting Workshop taught by Barry Pineo to be held, Saturday, April 11 from 9:00 to noon at The City Theatre. Workshop is open to the first six people to commit. If interested, call 512-636-5802 or bpineo@austin.rr.com.

Read More, with Full Class Descriptions, at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .