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Geared for new and experienced actors who are developing skill for performance and audition, this workshop will introduce participants to the celebrated techniques originated by legendary acting teacher Sanford Meisner. Relying on each actor’s native abilities, the class will enable them to access their natural impulses, and to channel their behavior into truthful behavior for the stage. This technique will be applied to improvisation with others and will include a range of useful exercises that each actor will be able to apply to future endeavors. All ages are encouraged to enroll.

Tom Gladwell has directed many productions in New York, at theaters including La Mama, Ubu Repertory, New York Theater Workshop and Theatre for the New City. His most recent work includes directing new plays by John J. McLaughlin (Lycanthrope and Woof), Jane Edith Wilson (Train of Thought) and four world premiere productions written by Harry Kondoleon: The Little Book of Professor Enigma, The Convertible of Love, Half Off and The Houseguests, which received the Obie Award for Best Play. He has also directed numerous films, including Hand-Me-Downs, which received an award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and The Witch, from the story by Shirley Jackson. He studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner and received a degree in film from New York University.

Jacqueline Gelernter Levinson: Introduction to Set Design

August 20 – 24
Monday – Friday, 9am – 12:30pm
5 Sessions, $325
Pamet Crossing
For academic credit $375

This course is designed for new and more experienced set designers as well as helpful to actors, artists, directors, producers, and playwrights. We will design a set for a play that each person has chosen. Beginning with the initial design phase and the first and finished sketches. We will proceed to the drafting of floor plans and elevations. Attention will be paid to practical and aesthetic limitations and challenges, and the goals of the writer and director. Exploring this creative and technical process should give participants a better understanding of this very complex art form.

Jacqueline Gelernter Levinson is a fine arts graduate of Cooper Union and has a BA in art education and an MFA in theatre arts from Montclair State University. She studied acting and set design at Piscator’s Dramatic Workshop and William Patterson University. She worked as a designer in the lighting industry, was an educator for arts and theatre, and has designed sets for regional theatres on Cape Cod, in New Jersey, and in New York City.

Seanad Dunigan Chang and Wei Tsun Chang: Music Lessons on String Instruments
Learn or improve on a string instrument and/or play with a summer ensemble. All ages and experiences welcome.

July 12 & 13
July 19 & 20
July 26 & 27
August 2 – Ensemble Performance at Castle Hill
Thursdays and Fridays,
$200 for all sessions, or $60 per session.

Seanad Dunigan Chang (Viola) has had an International career as soloist and chamber musician. She has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe including appearances at Avery Fischer Hall, and the Festival Internacional de Santander in Spain. Formerly Assistant Principal Viola of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, she has also been a member of the Florida Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony and Principal Viola of the Midland Symphony of Michigan. Seanad earned her degrees from Indiana University and the North Carolina School of the Arts and lives in Tennessee with her husband, Wei Tsun, where she performs and teaches at Tennessee Technological University and at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.

Wei Tsun Chang (Violin) is a graduate of Indiana University and the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has already had a distinguished career as soloist and Chamber musician. He has appeared in Avery Fisher Hall, Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck in Michigan and the International Music Festival of Santander, Spain as a soloist with L’Orchestre Français Alberic Magnard. Currently Wei Tsun teaches at Tennessee Technological University and at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, and he also serves as Concertmaster of the Bryan Symphony.

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