OVERVIEW & registration for ACTING classes
4-Day WORKSHOP, Fundamentals of acting
What you will learn
- Breathing and Vocal Techniques
- Script and Scene Analysis
- Sense Memory and Imagination
- Character Development for Stage & Film
- Monologue and Dialogue Performance
- Moment and Stage Presence
- Exploring the Conscious & Subconscious Mind in Acting
- Theatre Games and Improvisation
Dates, Location, & Cost
Dates: Fundamentals - Thursday: (7pm - 9pm) October 1, 8, 15, & 22
Dates: Fundamentals - Friday: (12pm - 2pm) October 2, 9, 16, & 23
Location: 1308 Olney Sandy Spring Road, Sandy Spring, MD 20860
Cost: $120 for 4 days
Instructor Bio:
Percy W. Thomas, Sc.D. Dr. Thomas has been with the AmaZing Theatre Company as its Artistic Director since 2005 and though he would like to be on stage, he spends his time teaching, writing, directing, and producing plays. He has written numerous plays that focus on the African American experience from the 1800's to today. Percy began his acting career at the Arena Playhouse in Baltimore, Maryland in Ed Bullins play Clara’s Ole Man. He studied acting under Sam Wilson and Irvin Turner at the Arena Playhouse, and later he studied at the Mafundi Institute's under the tutelage of Roger E. Mosley. Percy is a dedicated acting teacher and mentor, committed to nurturing new generations of performers through community workshops and educational programs.
2-Day WORKSHOPS, MASTER acting & DIRECTOR
Actors: What you will learn
- Acting
- Beats and scoring a script.
- Sense Memory
- Emotional Recall
- Substitution (understanding of elements in the life of one's character)
- Moment Before
- Objectives, Need and Obstacle
- Active Listening
- Getting Affected
Directors: What you will learn
- How to talk with/to an Actor;
- How to analyze the Script for its theme/message
- How to use Stage Space.
Dates, Location, & Cost
Dates: Master Acting Classes: (12:00 pm - 2:30 pm) - October 3 & 4
Dates: Directing Classes: (12:00 pm - 2:30 pm) - October 17 & 18
Location: 1308 Olney Sandy Spring Road, Sandy Spring, MD 20860
Cost: $60 for 2 days
Instructor Bio:
Professor Vera J. Katz is a professor emerita in the theatre arts department at Howard University, has taught acting and directing for 32 years. For the past 22 years, she had also been a member of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. She has directed more than 50 productions, originally working with Joe Hyman, who produced the famed playwright-director-author, Moss Hart, on Broadway.
She has taught such notables as Debbie Allen, Anthony Anderson, Chadwick Boseman, Corey Hawkins, Taraji P. Henson, Isaiah Johnson, Jayme Lawson, Phylicia Rashad, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Fredericka Whitfield, and Lynn Whitfield.
2-Day PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP
What you will learn:
This is a Two-Part "Online" Workshop and each session is 3-hours. In Part One, "Tell Me Your Story" explains and explores the essential building blocks of compelling storytelling, including character, plot, premise, and story world.
In Part Two, "The World of the Play,” participants will work with practical tools for developing a "brainstorming" process needed for creating their stage play sets and props. This approach will result in them better understanding the world that their story will play in, thus creating richer, more dynamic narratives. Also, attendees will receive six playwriting templates and information on applicable technical playwriting resources to support their creative process long after the session ends.
Drawing from more than 40 years of experience learning the processes for teaching playwriting and screenwriting, Clyde shares insights gained from mentoring emerging playwrights and leading writing workshops in Virginia Beach, Philadelphia, and Gaithersburg. The workshop offers a contemporary approach to creating new plays in today’s theatrical landscape, with particular attention to the challenges and opportunities facing minority playwrights and women as they develop and produce new work.
Attendees need to come with a short description (paragraph or premise line) describing an idea that they want to turn into a play.
Dates, Location, & Cost
Dates: Playwriting (6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST) - October 3 & November 7
Location: Online
Cost: $60 for 2 days
Instructor Bio:
Clyde Santana is a multidisciplinary artist and educator with more than 30 years of experience in playwriting, poetry, visual art, and theater development.
His stage work has been produced or featured by respected theaters and festivals, including Zeiders American Dream Theater, Bushfire Theater of Performing Arts, and the National and International Black Theatre Festivals. In 2000, he was a co-recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creation and Presentation Award.
From 2016 to 2023, Santana taught at Norfolk State University, founded the Attucks Writers Workshop, and continues to coordinate the Z Playwrights Workshop. He also helped guide students in creating 14 downtown Norfolk murals, with solo museum exhibitions of his large canvas paintings scheduled for 2028.
Contact Us
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