Musical Theatre Audition Workshops with Adam Roberts, Austin Jewish Repertory Company, December 1, 2013

Join AJRT Artistic Director Adam Roberts on Sunday, December 1 for a 90-minute master class at the Austin Jewish Community Center, 7300 Hart Lane (click for map) focused on strategies for improving your musical theater dance audition skills. Participants should enroll for the appropriate session and come dressed to dance. Two mock audition combinations will be taught in each session, with specific strategies and tips discussed and implemented. Students will have the opportunity to put these strategies into practice as the session progresses.

*You do not need to be a member of the JCC to participate in these classes!! They are open to ANYONE**

Session A: For "Movers" and Less-Experienced Dancers - 1:00-2:30 pm $30

Session B: For Dancers with Experience - 2:30-4:00 pm $30

Auditions/Workshops in Austin for Circle The Wagons by the Exchange Artists, December 8 and 12, 2013

The Exchange Artists are building a new show called Circle the Wagons set to run February 14th through March 3rd, 2014.

The play will allow a voyeuristic and intimate look at car-culture (broadly defined) – from the anticipation of a first license, to road trips, confessionals, private escapes, DUIs, love nests, accidents, and finally the day a license is given up or lost to old age. A large part of the performance will be five minute plays inside personal vehicles which will be presented simultaneously in a parking lot in actual cars parked in an inward facing circle around a pep band.

Rachel Wiese will be directing this play and Katherine Craft will be in charge of the script. Rohan Joseph will be composing the "car orchestra". The five minute plays in cars will be selected from the new works of many contributing playwrights who were solicited to create pieces for this project.

If you're interested in joining the cast or simply in participating in the development process you are invited to attend a workshop! These workshops will help us select the five minute plays out of those submitted for the production, and will also serve as auditions.

The workshops are: December 8 from 1 - 3 pm and December 12 from 6-9 pm. Email exchangeartists@gmail.com to reserve your spot! Locations will be confirmed via email, so rsvp.

Opportunity: Three Shakespeare Workshops with Kat Steffens, starting October 28 or November 3, 2013

ACTING WORKSHOP WITH KAT STEFFENS

Using Shakespeare’s Folio techniques to unlock your emotional depth and create a richer understanding of classic as well as contemporary scripts

Kat Steffens is a working actress with her BFA in acting from DePaul’s prestigious Theatre School in Chicago. She had extensive Shakespeare training at DePaul as well as two years intense Shakespeare Folio Technique study with the Chicago leading lady Susan Hart and Julliard graduate/ leading man Jeffrey Carlson from 2008-2010. She has privately coached and mentored acting students for three years.


Kat plays Jacqueline Kennedy in the upcoming Tom Hanks produced film Parkland. Her Shakespeare skills led to a final screen test with the director, Peter Landesman. She was asked to perform a tragic Shakespeare monologue for the callback, which landed her the role. Tom Hanks also started his career doing Shakespeare in Ohio.


“Shakespeare is a great skill to have in your back pocket as an actor. I firmly believe that if you have a strong 
understanding of Shakespeare, it will make you a better actor in contemporary film and theater.” –Kat Steffens

Three weekly sessions: LIMIT 10 students per session

1. Sundays November 3, 10, and 17 from 2-5 PM at Rose Movement Studio: 2015 E Riverside Dr. Austin, TX 78741

2. Mondays October 28, November 4 and 11 from 7-10 PM at a North Austin Location

WEEK ONE: PREPARE Students will learn the concepts of Folio technique and apply them to an assigned audition monologue based on age/ casting type. Packets of detailed material will be provided as a reference guide. Students also will have their classmates’ monologues in their packets so they leave the workshop familiar with several monologues. They will study the language and arc of their assigned monologue to make the monologue audition ready. *Please bring a pen and notepad- a LOT of information will be covered!
WEEK TWO: EXPLORE Students will come to class with their assigned monologues memorized. We will explore the monologue, character, and world of the character through exercises focusing on the voice, the body, the language, the punctuation, beats, and the emotional life of the character. Students will develop a closer understanding of the character and monologue, gaining comfort and ease with the heightened language. *Please wear comfortable clothes you can move in and have monologue “by heart.”
WEEK THREE: PERFORM Students will do some final exploration of their monologue and perform it for the class. Kat will spend time with each student; directing and adjusting moments of their monologues make them more audition ready and real. The final performance of each monologue will be taped; and footage will be provided to students for their acting reels. All students will leave the workshop with an understanding of Folio technique, packets of information and monologues, as well as an audition ready Shakespeare monologue on tape.

$150 for the Entire Workshop $50 deposit needed to hold your spot (remaining $100 cash or check due at first class). Register early to reserve your spot in the workshop. Cash or checks only, please.

Contact Kat at 312-810-9040 or FadoFilms@gmail.com to register. Please include your headshot and resume when registering, as well as previous Shakespeare experience and knowledge.

Single Sword Combat Workshop with Toby Minor, October 6 - November 3, 2013

ROSA DE DOS AROMAS by Emilio Carballido, workshop scenes by ALTA Teatro at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center, May 25, 2013

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Saturday, May 25 at 8 p.m.

Black Box theatre of the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center, 600 River Street -- click for map 

A workshop production -- three teams of young actors will present scenes from the work by Emilio Carballido
in Spanish with English subtitles
Free admission - Donations accepted

Este sábado 25 de mayo, Alta presentara la muestra final del primer taller de Actores y Productores impartido por el director Alejandro Pedemonte. Durante 4 semanas 12 jóvenes participantes aprendieron acerca del proceso de producción comenzando por la selección del guion teatral e incluyendo todos los puntos a considerar en el montaje; cerrando con la puesta en escena de un fragmento de la conocida obra del escritor mexicano Emilio Carballido, “Rosa de Dos Aromas”. 3 Grupos de 4 integrantes cada uno fueron encomendados la tarea de elegir un fragmento de la obra. Una vez asignados los roles, un director, un asistente de dirección y dos actrices darán vida a 3 cuadros diferentes desde una perspectiva original. Acompáñanos a una función gratuita, apoya el talento local de Austin y disfruta un previo de lo que será la próxima temporada teatral de ALTA. Lugar: Caja Negra del Macc (The Black Box at the Mexican American Cultural Center) Hora: 8 pm. Entrada: GRATIS (se pasará sombrero al final de la función) ***La presentación será en español subtitulada en Ingles***

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Dramatis Personae workshop with Kirk Lynn, Scriptworks, May 7, 2013

DRAMATIS PERSONAE WORKSHOP COMING UP!

Kirk Lynn of the Rude Mechs
place and time TBA

Contact Christi@scriptworks.org to sign up!

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Dramtis Personae: Delving into Character with Dael Orlandersmith, Scriptworks at the Hyde Park Theatre, April 3, 2013

DRAMATIS PERSONAE WORKSHOP COMING UP!

Delving Into Character

with Dael Orlandersmith
Wednesday, April 3rd at 7:00 pm
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 West 43rd St.

Contact Christi@scriptworks.org to sign up!

This workshop will explore character development using aspects of Carl Jung's work. The workshop will emphasize the inner life of characters and how and why they respond to the story set up by the playwright. How and why does a character think/respond to circumstances? How does the family background/environment play a role?

Dael Orlandersmith is an actress, poet and playwright who is best known for her Obie Award-winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Yellowman. Her latest project, a co-production between Berkeley Rep and the Goodman is Black N Blue Boys/Broken Men in which she plays male characters who have been abused. She will be doing a reading of that work at Austin Community College as part of their Arts and Humanities Festival on April 4th.

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THE MOON'S A BALLOON, Patch Theatre at the University of Texas, Austin, January 13, 2013

The Moon’s a Balloon Residency

with Dave Brown and Patch Theatre

at The University of Texas at Austin, 

performing Sunday, January 13

The Balloon Project is a collaborative theatre-making process bringing Artistic Director Dave Brown from Patch Theatre of Adelaide, Australia to create new work at the University of Texas at Austin. The Balloon Project will take place over a two week period in January in two parts. For Part 1 the focus will be on the process of exploring theatre-making using Patch Theatre’s artistic model which seeks to balance the multiple languages of theatre in making highly sophisticated non-didactic work for children. In Part 2 the focus will shift to explore how the performance may lend itself to further research and community engagement activities that would extend the performance beyond it’s 25 minute run time.

Part 1: Creative Exploration and Theatre-Making, Monday January 7- Sunday January 13, 2012

Part 2: Community Engagement: Research and Development for Extending the Experience, Sunday January 13-Saturday January 19, 2012


Collaborators will include faculty, graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Texas at Austin Department of Performing Arts, as well as other Austin-based artists.

Additional information available on-line



Please join us for a Free Performance: Sunday January 13 at 1 pm in The Brockett Theatre, Winship Drama building (WIN) for The Balloon Project's Workshop Performance

Workshops and Discussions based on the performance include:

Tuesday January 15 from 6:30-8:30pm in Payne Lobby for a Workshop on Community Engagement

Wednesday January 16 from 6:30-8:30pm in Winship 1.134 for a Roundtable discussion on Early Arts

Thursday January 17 from 6:30-8:30pm in Winship 1.134 for a Workshop on Arts Integration

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Youth Summer Theatre at the J, Workshops March 19 and Auditions March 20 for Brigadoon and Wind in the Willos

Theatre at the J is embarking on a “Summer of Adventure” in 2012, and they want your young performer to come along for the ride. This year, they’re performing the timeless Brigadoon and whimsical Wind in the Willows.

The fully-produced musicals are directed and designed by professional Austin theatre artists and the participants are provided with thorough instruction in voice, acting and dance through classes taught by respected, in-demand local instructors.

Because Theatre at the J desires a high-quality pre-professional experience for young artists and to put on a superb production, they require that each participant completes an audition in order to be considered for acceptance into the summer musical programs. But don’t worry if you’ve never been onstage or auditioned before; they just want to get to know you and what you can do.

The audition prep classes will be Monday, March 19, 2012. These classes are highly recommended for students interested in auditioning for the Summer Musicals. For Wind in the Willows, the Audition Prep Class for kids ages 5-11 is from 6:00-7:00 p.m. For Brigadoon, the Audition Prep Class for kids ages 12-18 is from 7:00-8:00 p.m. Cost for either class is $10 JCC members, $15 Non-members.

Auditions will be Tuesday, March 20, 6:00-6:30 p.m.: 5-7 year olds, 6:30-9:00 p.m.: 8-11 year olds for Wind in the Willows and Wednesday, March 21 6:00-9:00 p.m.: 12-18 year olds for Brigadoon. Please register securely on-line.

About Theater at the J Theater at the J brings award-winning performances to the Austin community through such productions as Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!, Cabaret, and through our Summer Youth Workshop productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, A Year with Frog and Toad, Seussical, and Singin' in the Rain, Into the Woods & Cinderella, Honk! Jr., Crazy for You, Children of Eden and Once Upon a Mattress. For more information please contact Adam Roberts (adam.roberts[AT]shalomaustin.org], 512-735-8048 or Pam Prais [pam.prais[AT]shalomaustin.org, 512-735-8034.

Audition Workshop with Scott Tatum, Zilker Productions' Director for The Sound of Music, March 3

Looking to find your "showmance?" Audition workshops for The Sound of Music will be held on Saturday, March 3rd.

Join The Sound of Music Director, M. Scott Tatum, and our Creative Team for a FREE workshop to help potential auditioners and Austin area musical theatre performers. This workshop will cover vocals, dancing, and audition etiquette. Sessions will be at McCallum High School, 6500 Sunshine (click for map). Free of charge to all participants

When: Ages 7 - 14: March 3 from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. -- Ages 15 - Adult: March 3 from 12 - 2 p.m.

Registration is required to attend this event. Please contact auditions@zilker.org to register.

Stay tuned for The Sound of Music audition dates, which will be publicized soon! Know someone who may be interested in auditioning? This information will be announced via our Newsletter first, so be sure to subscribe at www.zilker.org, and then via Facebook. In the meantime, mark your calendars for the show's run dates, which will be from July 6 to August 11, with performances Thursday through Sunday evenings.

Class on Single Sword Combat with Toby Minor, March 5 - 26

Single Sword Workshop

Dates: Monday evening class from 7-9pm
March 5, 12, 19 and 26
Cost: $100 per student for 4-week session

Location: Biophiliac Productions

near intersection of 290 and 183

Registration: Email tobywon55@gmail.com or call (512) 909-0254
Payment either by check in the mail, or due first day of class at registration (check or credit card). Extra $3 fee for credit cards.
Cancellation policy: full refund within 48 hours of first class

About the Instructor: Toby Minor is an actor combatant, certified with the SAFD (Society of American Fight Directors) and received his B.A. training from NMSU. He also holds black belt level in BudoTaijutsu (Ninjitsu), which makes him a real-life Ninja. Toby has choreographed fights for various shows around town, including Big Love with Shrewd Productions, The Three Musketeers with Leander High School, Hamlet with Austin Shakespeare and Black Swan Productions, True West with DYS theatre, I Hate Hamlet with the Georgetown Palace Theater, and Lear at the Vortex (for which he was nominated for a BIP Award for outstanding fight choreography). Film Choreography credits include, among others, Haze, and Omniscience with Stage left in Chicago.

and coming up next.... Rapier and Dagger (advanced level). Single sword class is a pre-requisite to the rapier and dagger class!

Upcoming: Scriptworks Dramatis Personae Workshop with Octavio Solis, May 3

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ScriptWorks presents

a Dramatis Personae Workshop

with

Octavio Solis
Tuesday, May 3rd 7 – 9:30pm
Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd. (click for map)

Reserve your seat by emailing info@scriptworks.org

This class with award-winning playwright Octavio Solis will involve relaxation and visualization exercises as part of the writing process. Participants will do their writing in the class and then read what they wrote aloud.

Octavio Solis is a playwright and director living in San Francisco. His works John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven, Ghosts of the River, Quixote, Lydia, June in a Box, Lethe, Marfa Lights, Gibraltar, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, The 7 Visions of Encarnación, Bethlehem, Dreamlandia, El Otro, Man of the Flesh, Prospect, El Paso Blue, Santos & Santos, and La Posada Mágica have been mounted at the California Shakespeare Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Dallas Theater Center, the Magic Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, South Coast Repertory Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the San Jose Repertory Theatre, Shadowlight Productions, the Venture Theatre in Philadelphia, Latino Chicago Theatre Company, the New York Summer Play Festival, Teatro Vista in Chicago, El Teatro Campesino, the Undermain Theatre in Dallas, Thick Description, Campo Santo, the Imua Theatre Company in New York, and Cornerstone Theatre.

Solis has received an NEA 1995-97 Playwriting Fellowship, the Roger L. Stevens award from the Kennedy Center, the Will Glickman Playwright Award, a production grant from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the 1998 TCG/NEA Theatre Artists in Residence Grant, the 1998 McKnight Fellowship grant from the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, and the National Latino Playwriting Award for 2003. He is the recipient of the 2000-2001 National Theatre Artists Residency Grant from TCG and the Pew Charitable Trust for Gibraltar at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Solis is a Thornton Wilder Fellow for the MacDowell Colony, New Dramatists alum and member of the Dramatists Guild. He is working on commissions for South Coast Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Upcoming: Watch Me Work, Suzan-Lori Parks at Zach Theatre, December 8 - 11

Received directly:

ZACH Theatre presents SUZAN-LORI PARKS in

WATCH ME WORK

ZACH Theatre’s Nowlin Rehearsal Studio (adjacent to ZACH’s Whisenhunt Stage) at 1426 Toomey Road

WHEN:
WATCH ME WORK Sessions:
Wednesday, December 8 from 6 – 7:15 p.m.
Thursday, December 9 from 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Friday, December 10 from 5 – 7 p.m. (Songwriter Showcase Happy Hour -- see below)

Saturday, December 11 from 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m

Admission is free for all Suzan-Lori Parks WATCH ME WORK events and open to the public. For additional information go to http://www.zachtheatre.org/special-events or call ZACH’s box office at (512) 476-0541, x1.

This performance piece, a meditation on the artistic process and an actual work session, features Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks working on her latest project live at ZACH Theatre in three intimate work sessions. The WATCH ME WORK sessions will take place on select days in ZACH’s Nowlin Rehearsal Studio, adjacent to the Whisenhunt Stage on Toomey Road. The audience is invited to come join Suzan-Lori up-close and personal to get some of their own writing done at the tables provided around her workspace. Working on writing a short story? A poem? A play? A novel? Song lyrics? ... Whatever you are working on, all writing assignments are welcome. Or, simply come watch Ms. Parks as she creates her newest writing and share the space with other Austin writers. During the last fifteen minutes of each performance, Ms. Parks will answer any questions the audience might have regarding their own work and their creative process.

Each performance is free and open to the public.

The sessions will also be broadcast live on ZACH's website, and you are invited to tweet your questions for Suzan-Lori to answer during the last 15 minutes of the work session. Please use the hashtag #newplay @zachtheatre.

Named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most acclaimed playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog and is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient. In 2007 her 365 Plays/365 Days was produced in more than 700 theaters worldwide, creating the largest grassroots collaboration in theater history. She is the first recipient of the master writer chair at the Public Theater, a three-year residency in which she is also a visiting arts professor in dramatic writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Suzan-Lori Parks will be in residence at ZACH Theatre to direct her new play The Book of Grace from June 2 - July 10, 2011. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

SONGWRITER SHOWCASE HAPPY HOUR
Friday, December 10 from 5 – 7 p.m.
Austin Singer/Songwriters are invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks for an open-mic Happy Hour Showcase hosted by ZACH. Come share two or three songs with an appreciative audience on ZACH’s Kleberg Stage along with new music from Suzan-Lori sung by the playwright herself! Informal, friendly, supportive and fun! ZACH’s cash bar will be open, and drinks are welcome inside the theatre.