Core Acting Class

with Gabriel Grilli Sign up today at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/32944 (no service charge!)

This 7 week course focuses on getting back to the core of acting – through exercises and focused scene study, participants will concentrate on the tenets of acting including:

• 'doing' rather than 'showing'
• listening and responding truthfully
• being 'in the moment'
• creating a role
• developing a physical character life
• exploring what 'raising the stakes' means
• proper breath, focus and relaxation
• engaging your body
• using improvisation as a tool
• letting go of limiting habits

7 weeks, Sundays, 5pm -8pm– Cost: $280 General Public, $250 TBA Members / Students / Seniors

About Gabriel Grilli:

Gabriel comes to the Bay Area after 14 years in New York City as an actor, director, writer and teacher.  He has worked at theatres such as the Old Globe, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Cider Mill Playhouse, NY Fringe Festival, ASCAP and HERE, and has taught at NYU, The New School, the School of Visual Arts, Penn State and Trinity Hall, Cambridge UK.  The former Artistic Director of Venus Fly Trap, his original multidisciplinary theatre pieces include Strange Desire, identity, Stalking Christopher Walken, and The Windows of Albert Camus. Gabriel has an MFA in Directing from Penn State University and a BFA in Acting from Hofstra University.  His approach to actor training incorporates acting and movement techniques gleaned from master teachers Manuel Duque and Mark Olsen.  He is a member of AEA and Lincoln Center Directors Lab.  www.gabrielgrilli.com.

Directing for the Small Theatre

with Christopher Jenkins .Sign up today at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/32946

This seven week course will take the early career director through all aspects of directing for the smaller stage from selecting scripts, working with stage managers and designers, casting, getting the most out of your actors and much, much more.

This class will be split between lecture, discussion and then working with actors on scene study to improve one's developing skills.

This class is for someone who is looking to get into directing for the many black box companies in the Bay Area or wants to hone their skills in a safe, supportive environment.

About Christopher Jenkins:

Christopher Jenkins (Director) is the founding artistic director of the Unidentified Theatre Company. He was also the producer of the San Francisco production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. His most recent west coast directing credits are Burn This, Matt and Ben, In The Garden, The Food Chain and Rescue and Recovery. Before moving to the Bay Area, he was the managing director for Buffalo United Artists, for which he directed more than 30 productions, including As Bees in Honey Drown, and Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love. For Custom Made he has directed the Bay Area Premiere of Mark Eisman's Shove and Woody Allen's God and Death and the current hit The Book of Liz.

7 weeks, Sundays, 2pm -5pm– Cost: $280 General Public, $250 TBA Members / Students / Seniors