Roger Guenveur Smith: RODNEY KING

Edgerton Guest Director Roger Guenveur Smith brings Rodney King to Los Angeles this September and October as part of RADAR L.A., an International Festival of Contemporary Theater. 

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Intro to Writing for Television

In this workshop, students will receive an introduction to the everyday work of the television writer.  They will be taught the basic structure of TV drama, and participate in a simulated Writers Room, where students will generate an idea for an episode of television and "break story."  Please note that students should come ready to collaborate and vocally participate.

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Finding Character Through Language in Shakespeare's Plays

Finding Character Through Language in Shakespeare's Plays

with Ellen Newman, Artistic Director of London Dramatic Academy
Friday, February 1, 2013 1:55pm-3:55pm 
Acting Shakespeare Master Class
             

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Stage Combat Workshop

The Stage Combat workshop will focus on the basic skills necessary for effective unarmed or hand-to-hand combat for the stage. Students will learn a choreographed fight with a partner that includes slaps, punches, kicks, chokes, rolls, and falls. The workshop will finish with student presentations of their fight to their peers and invited guests.

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November updates
Acting Intern at A Noise Within

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Ovation Honors Award


From left: Paige Lindsey White, Adriana Sevahn Nichols, and Sonny Valicenti
photo by Ed Krieger

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Play by Theater Faculty Playwright Laural Meade Published

"ONE OF THE 10 BEST PLAYS OF THE YEAR! Writer-director Laural Meade's inspired explosion of history, the underside of Ragtime." - Los Angeles Times
"Blending Arthur Miller's sense of civic outrage with Oscar Wilde's winking satire, it glitters like a diamond in the rough. Go!" - LA Weekly

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