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Workshops & Special Events

Roger Guenveur Smith with participants from his intensive workshop course, Performing History, January 2011.

Expand your experience beyond the classroom!

Spring 2013 Workshops

Finding Character Through Language in Shakespeare's Plays
with Ellen Newman, Artistic Director, London Dramatic Academy

Stage Combat Workshop
with Nick Erikson

Intro to Writing for Television
with Dan Dietz, Inaugural Guest Artist in Residence for Edgerton Program

Let's All Be Married, new play by Oxy Alumnus Omar Paxson
Directed by Jim Martin and featuring several Oxy Alums
Sunday April 21 at 2pm
 

Fall 2012 Workshops

Saturday, September 15, 1pm to 4pm
Keck Theater Stage
Juggling Workshop
The Flying Karamazov Brothers
 


Monday, September 24, 5:15pm
Keck Theater
Distinguished Alumni Guest Speaker
Tim Sanford '75
Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons

Friday, November 2, 7pm to 10pm
Bird Studio
Song Audition Master Class
with Oxy alumni Ben Bryant '92 and Gretchen Weiss '92

 

Throughout the year, the Theater Department offers special workshops and guest speakers to augment the classroom experience.

Past workshops have included:

The SITI Company

Performing History (Roger Guenveur Smith)

Hip Hop Dance Fusion (Grace Shinhae Jun)

Stage Combat (Nick Erickson)

The Business of Acting (Jesse Burch)

Acting Awake (Patrick Shaw from The National Theatre Institute/O'Neill Center)

Mask and Improv (Ezra Weisz)

Guest speakers have included:

Roberta Levitow (artistic director of Theatre Without Borders)
Carrie Yonekawa (Oxy alum)
Melissa Berger (agent, CED Talent)
Mitchell Gossett (agent, United Talent)
Christine Dunford (actress)
Beth Holmes (casting director, Beth Holmes Casting)
John Billingsly & Bonnie Friedericy (actors, Bonnie is an Oxy alum)
Alan Bruun (Creative Director, Disney, Oxy alum)

 

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