MASTER CLASSES FOR TEENS AND ADULTS
Overview
The Rubicon Acting Intensive - Ages 13-16 and 17-23
A week-long series of master classes with 6 top theatre professionals.
July 27 – 31, 2015
Monday thru Friday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Tuition $350 (Enroll by July 5th and receive a $50 Discount)
Acting for Adults - Ages 24 and up
with Veteran Actor, Matthew Floyd Miller
July 27 through August 11
3 Mondays and 3 Tuesdays from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Tuition $250 (Enroll by July 6 and Save $50)
PLAY/WRITE® - Women ages 20+
with Award-Winning Writer Cheri Steinkellner
A exciting new creative class for women.
August 3, 10, 17 and 24
4 Mondays from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Tuition is $350 (Enroll by July 6 and save $50)
Details & Registration
The Rubicon Acting Intensive
July 27 – 31, 2015
Ages (13-16)
Ages (17-23)
The program runs 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday thru Friday July 27- 31, 2015.
Tuition $350 (Enroll by July 5th and receive a $50 Discount)
Rubicon announces the exciting return of the ACTING INTENSIVE course with top theatre professionals. Whether you are applying for collage auditions, interested in learning a new skill or simply want to flex your creative muscles this class offers a wide range of theatrical disciplines. Students 13-16 and 17-23 work intensively on a range of monologues while engaging in master classes in Acting, Shakespeare, Voice, Movement, Improv and Mask. This is a week-long course for serious students culminating in a showcase on Friday night.
Teaching artists include, Award-winning actor Joseph Fuqua, Shakespearian Scholar Dr. Jonathan Drahos, Emmy award-winning writer of “Cheers” and Groundling Alum Bill Steinkellner, Acclaimed actress Julie Granata, Award-winning Director and Rubicon Casting Director Stephanie Coltrin, and Artistic Director of Grand Guignolers, Debbie McMahon.
Acting for Adults with Veteran Actor, Matthew Floyd Miller
Ages 24 and up
July 27 through August 11
3 Mondays and 3 Tuesdays from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Tuition $250 (Enroll by July 6 and Save $50)
Stretch your creative muscles and step into the world of acting with Matthew Floyd Miller. Although this class is open to all, some acting experience is recommended.
About the Instructor
MATTHEW FLOYD MILLER Has worked as a professional actor all across the U.S. for eighteen years. He has been an adjunct instructor of physical acting at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts - Experimental Theatre Wing since 2013. He has also taught courses in theatre and physical acting since 2000 for Working Classroom in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and more recently for the East Los Angeles College Theatre Arts Department, Theatre of Arts College Hollywood and Chekhov Studio International in Los Angeles. He has acted on Broadway in Not About Nightingales, directed by Trevor Nunn at Circle in the Square and The Invention of Love directed by Jack O’Brien at Lincoln Center Theatre. He has also worked at many prominent L.A. and regional theaters such as The Geffen Playhouse, The Theatre @ Boston Court, The Falcon Theatre, The Rubicon Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Ensemble Theatre Co., La Mirada, ACT Theatre - Seattle, Arena Stage - Washington D.C., The Old Globe, San Jose Rep., Dallas Theatre Center, Playmaker’s Rep., Cincinnati Playhouse and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. His television and film credits include Major Crimes, Criminal Minds, Law&Order, and All Good Things. Matthew received his M.F.A. from the New York University, Tisch School of the Arts - Graduate Acting Program and his B.F.A. from the NYU, Tisch School of the Arts - Experimental Theatre Wing.
What to Expect
In this class we will explore some fundamental questions about acting and apply what we learn to scenes from classic American plays:
How do we make a performance true, believable and dynamic?
We will explore the ‘raw materials’ of our art: The physical instrument of our bodies, our imaginations and our emotional life. Using various psycho-physical exercises we will bring our characters to life and ‘will’ them into action in pursuit of their objectives.
How do we keep a performance alive every time and what is ‘being in the moment’?
We will work with presence. Listening and responding. Improvisation. The willful act of not knowing what’s coming next and saying ‘yes’ to what does. And FUN! A play is play…
What is the difference between playing ‘me’ and playing ‘my character’? What did the playwright have in mind?
We will analyze the text: Discuss the world of each scene, who each character is, their circumstances, relationships, objectives, actions, obstacles and each scenes ‘score’. We will explore character work: finding ourselves in the skin of another and them in us. What to transform and what to leave alone.
How do I know if what I am doing is working?
Scenes will have some direction and staging and then we will have a final presentation of our work for an invited audience- the final ingredient in the theatre!
PLAY/WRITE® with Award-Winning Writer Cheri Steinkellner
A exciting new creative class for women.
August 3, 10, 17 and 24
4 Mondays from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Tuition is $350 (Enroll by July 6 and save $50)
PLAY/WRITE® is an invitation to do two things we just don’t give ourselves nearly enough time, space or permission to do in our busy lives: To PLAY – the act of doing something purely for the pleasure, enjoyment, and fun of it. And to WRITE – the act of expressing, in words – and maybe even a few pictures – our feelings, thoughts, ideas and stories. No previous writing experience necessary.
About the Instructor
Cheri Steinkellner is a Golden Globe, Emmy winning writer of “Cheers,” “Teachers Pet,” and the musicals Sister Act and Hello! My Baby. She also is a professor of creative writing and play-writing at CUSB and Stanford University.
More about the Class
PLAY/WRITE® is an invitation to do two things we just don’t give ourselves nearly enough time, space or permission to do in our busy lives: To PLAY – the act of doing something purely for the pleasure, enjoyment, and fun of it. And to WRITE – the act of expressing, in words – and maybe even a few pictures – our feelings, thoughts, ideas and stories.
By definition, play is not something you do for a purpose. Play, when you’re doing it right, takes you out of time and space, into the zone of pure fun. “Writing” on the other hand, feels terribly purposeful. For we who do it for a living – and we who avoid it like the plague - writing can feel like a whole lot of “no fun”.
Not in this workshop –or play-shop. This is 4 weeks of play - playing with our imaginations, observations, thoughts, stories, characters and words. Playing with writing games, invitations and experiences that allow us to transcend time and space; transport and transform us.
Albert Einstein said “Play is the highest form of research”, Plato said “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than a year of conversation. Carl Jung said “The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” But what do those guys know? Girls have just wanna have fun, playing - and writing - with great abandon and purposely purposeless purpose.
Come play, come write - for four wonderful, funderful Mondays this summer - come PLAY/WRITE®.
For questions please contact us at bmcdonald@rubicontheatre.org or call 805.667.2912 ext. 234.