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UNLEASH YOUR
CREATIVE SELF
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CONQUER THE CRITIC WITHIN
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CONQUER COMPETITION
FEAR
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CONNECT YOUR
PERSONAL DRAMA TO YOUR PUBLIC FACE |
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ENGAGE IN
CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING
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FIND YOUR
INNER VOICE
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CONNECT WITH
EVERY CHARACTER YOU PLAY |
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EMPOWER YOUR
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MAKE THE
WRITTEN WORDS COME ALIVE |
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The unique approach of Actors’ Workshop
allows beginners through professionals from all walks of life to explore and
expand personal boundaries. In addition to working professionals in the
performing arts, members of Actors’ Workshop have included students, athletes,
attorneys, educators, therapists, engineers, architects, painters, poets,
neurosurgeons and veterinarians.
Artists who have worked under Mr.
DeCarlo’s direction include Frank Aletter, Haskell Anderson Jr., Zina Bethune,
Joe Bologna, Michael Callan, Molly Cheek, George Coe, Sandy Faison, Deborah
Harman, Alice Hirson, Peter Jason, Matthew Laurence, Barbara Minkus, Priscilla
Morill, Ron Palillo, Stuart Pankin, William Schallert, Albie Selznick, Sammy
Shore, Louise Sorrell, Todd Susman, Renee Taylor, Dianne Turley Travis, Renn
Woods and playwrights Brenda Krantz, Rose Lieman Goldemberg, Jerry Mayer and
Annie Reiner. |
Chris
DeCarlo's
work is
"Spellbinding"
L.A. TIMES
"Imaginative!"
L.A. MAGAZINE
"Spectacular!"
DRAMA-LOGUE
"Thrilling!"
The OUTLOOK
"Superb!"
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CHRIS DeCARLO combines teaching
with an active career as performer, writer and director in theatres everywhere
from the Henry Street Settlement Theatre in New York to the Hitori Memorial Hall
in Tokyo, and has been directing, writing and acting in Los Angeles for over
forty years. As Co-Artistic Director of Santa Monica Playhouse and its resident
acting company, Actors' Repertory Theatre since 1973 together with his partner
Evelyn Rudie, he has been responsible for bringing over 500 World, American and
West Coast premiere productions to the boards and has created more than 300
roles, with more than 10,000 on-stage performances.
Mr. DeCarlo is co-founder and director of Actors' Workshop and the Young
Professionals' Company. Under his direction, members of these groups have
participated in over forty-five international tours, performing as well as
teaching and directing in New York, Canada, Japan, Ireland, England and Hong
Kong. Former students include Kate & Oliver Hudson, Zooey & Emily Deschanel,
Jason Ritter, Jon Kasdan, Obi Ndefo (Stargate), Rina Mimoun (producer,
writer Dawson’s Creek, Gilmore Girls), Mickey Madden (Maroon 5),
and Cami Anderson (New York Superintendent of Alternative Schools and Programs).
His innovative methods are changing the face of theatre education worldwide.
Under his aegis, the Santa Monica Playhouse has been
honored with the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle's prestigious Margaret
Harford Award, over 25 Drama-Logue Awards, and eleven Mayor's Commendations. |
Acceptance is by interview
only, and enrollment is limited.
FOR INITIAL INTERVIEW and FREE PERSONAL CONSULTATION and EVALUATION
please call: 310-394-9779 ext.
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Actors'
Workshop
Performance Theatre Lab
A specially scheduled
performance-based session directed by Playhouse Co-Artistic Director Chris
DeCarlo, internationally renowned for his Short-Burst Theatre projects
“Spectacular! Please do more!”
Giuseppina Candia, Deputy Director, Istituto Italiano Di Cultura
“Our
performers learned so much! Amazing!”
Masa
Ota, President, Model Language Studio, Tokyo
Short-Burst Theatre
combines movement, voice, performance art, text, ensemble work and the
artist’s voice to create intense, intimate, original theatre productions
performed for the public.
Sessions are scheduled at
the discretion of Mr. DeCarlo and the Playhouse Education Conservatory Staff
when there are a requisite number of eligible and committed theatre artists.
Class times are arranged
based on the schedule of the participants and theatre availability
(sometimes weekends, sometimes weekday mornings, afternoons or evenings),
typically in an intense two to three week time period, with two, three or
four culminating performances.
Prerequisite: director
approval and participation in at least one Monday Night Actors’ Workshop
Session.
For more information, and
to find out how to become eligible, contact us at
1-310-394-9779 ext 3
or
education@SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com
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Casting
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Although plays at Santa Monica Playhouse
are cast through open auditions, it is Playhouse policy to use workshop
members whenever appropriate in order to give them the opprotunity to bring
their work to the stage and to apply their training in a public, professional
setting.
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Santa
Monica Playhouse, a not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 educational corporation founded in
1960, provides exciting and entertaining dramatic and comedic, classic and
contemporary live theatrical productions, Family Theatre musicals, birthday and
tea parties, year-round and summer theatre acting classes and educational
programming for kids, teens and adults, create-a-play classes and Mommy and Me
events for pre-schoolers, daytime and after school field trips, enrichment
classes and in-service in public and private schools, cultural exchange,
international touring, and community outreach, as well as theatre rental space
for productions, seminars, solo shows, concerts, recitals, lectures, meetings
and more. |
