How To Nail Your Shakespeare Audition Monday, July 28th 7 PM New York Panel Description This session is dedicated to the Shakespeare monologue. We will kick off the evening with a thirty-minute Shakespeare relay with interested audience members. All relay participants will be on stage at the same time. For the Relay: --Bring any piece of memorized Shakespeare (song, sonnet, line, monologue) that is 60 seconds or less and join in the fun in a fast paced relay. The referee will time you so remember: Brevity is the Soul of Wit. --One piece per performer. Open to all ages. Sign up begins 30 minutes prior to our event. Show us your Shakespeare! The Panel: The relay warm-up will then transition into an in-depth and interactive seminar on the Shakespeare monologue. Panelists will explore audition etiquette, industry trends, close-reading approaches to enrich or innovate the Shakespeare text as well as provide advice on how to choose the monologue for your type and skill level. A Shakespeare monologue in your repertoire is a great way to show your range and handle of language. *A limited number of attendees will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with a panelist on a 1 and a half min or less paragraph of Shakespeare text in front of the audience. Text MUST be memorized and a HARD COPY must be brought for the panelist. Participants will be announced via a voluntary raffle system and will be filmed while working with the panelists. All participants will need to sign a SAG Foundation release form prior to participating - no exceptions. REGISTER FOR EVENT Melinda Hall Melinda Hall is a writer, director, producer and actor that lives in NYC. Her current episodic project is: HOW SHAKESPEARE CHANGED MY LIFE in which she interviews people who share a pivotal moment how Shakespeare literally changed their lives. Her company, Willful Pictures produces the annual Shakespeares Birthday Sonnet Slam at the Bandshell in Central Park. Ms. Hall has spoken on the topics of Directing Shakespeare & Shakespeare & Medicine for the Shakespeare Lecture Series at the New York Public Library. This is her 5th year as the Shakespeare Moderator for the SAG Conservatory and she runs a small group Shakespeare class at Simple Studios weekly. She coaches privately for film & stage and has an upcoming Shakespeare workshop for THE NETWORK on August 19th. Previously she has taught Shakespeare for Stella Adler, L.A. and taught a range of acting classes at NYFA. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA and THE DRAMATIST GUILD and has a soft spot in her heart for the SAG Foundation. Twitter: @willfulpictures @sonnetslam Ian Hersey Ian is a professional Shakespeare coach, teacher, consultant and director. He just finished coaching Alex Timbers’ production of The Last Goodbye at The Old Globe in San Diego. He has also worked as a Shakespeare coach at The Public Theater, The Juilliard School, Williamstown Theater Festival, Shakespeare on the Sound and other venues. Ian has taught classes in Shakespeare at The Public Theater Shakespeare Lab, The Actors Center, the MFA program at Brown, Barnard College, New World School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, Atlantic Theater School, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting as well as high schools, prisons, shelters and other institutions. He is the Director of A Midsummer Day’s Camp at The Public Theater where he also leads the educational component of The Mobile Unit. Ian is the Master Teacher of the R.Evolucion Latina Shakespeare Project. Ian served for many years as the casting director and administrator of The Shakespeare Lab at The Public where he was the Shakespeare Initiative Associate. Ian was the Assistant Director on King Lear at The Public Theater. He adapted and codirected a production of Othello for the Jose Limon Company and directed A Comedy of Errors at The Stella Adler Studio. An alumnus of The Shakespeare Lab himself and The Actor’s Center, Ian studied with Barry Edelstein, Peter Francis James, Michael Langham, Brian Murray, Lloyd Richards, Ron Van Lieu, Earle Gister, Deb Hecht, Catherine Fitzmaurice, Kevin Kline, Olympia Dukakis and others. He is a recipient of the Fox Foundation Fellowship for professional actors and has a master’s in education from The Harvard Graduate School of Education. Tom Ridgely Tom Ridgely is a Drama Desk-nominated director, educator and co-founder of Waterwell. For Waterwell hes directed or co-directed GOODBAR, #9, The|King|Operetta, Marco Millions (based on lies) and The Persians, among others. He assisted Daniel Sullivan on As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Park) and Barry Edelstein on Timon of Athens (Public Theater). In New York hes directed at Fordham, Ars Nova, 59E59, Symphony Space, Barrow Street, NYU/Tisch, Theatre Row and more. Nationally hes presented work at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Out of the Loop, Philly Fringe, Yale, Indiana, Johns Hopkins, Trinity, James Madison and Bentley College . With Waterwell, he also directs the Drama Program at the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) in Manhattan, providing world-class training to exceptional 6-12th graders absolutely free of charge. Upcoming: The Rufus Equation (FringeNYC), Assassins (Penn), The Hound of the Baskervilles (Playhouse on Park), and a workshop of Hamlet (The Old Globe). Joe Salvatore – Moderator Joe Salvatore’s recent plays include Fan Club Unplug, open heart, and Project | Hope. His play III received the Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Play from FringeNYC and was subsequently published in Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 (Applause Books). Joe was recently commissioned to create an interactive theatre experience for Red Bank Battlefield and Whithall House, a national historic landmark from the Revolutionary War located in southern New Jersey, and his short play Mother’s Milk will be presented this fall as part of Play/Date, a theatrical speed dating event. Joe is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Educational Theatre at New York University’s Steinhardt School, where he teaches courses in acting, directing, Shakespeare, play development, and community-engaged theatre. He has directed numerous productions of Shakespeare’s plays with young people including Pericles, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, Richard II, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. His writing about teaching Shakespeare appears in The Routledge International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching. sagfoundation.org/userhome/eventdetails/10887
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:41:29 +0000
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