classes
Mississippi Mud Productions is pleased to offer classes through its educational wing for the artist who wants to go farther, deeper, higher, wider, freer. Classes are small, to allow for one on one time and a true creative immersion experience with artist friendly pricing. Got Mud questions? For help and for more information please email Lisa at lisa@mississippimudproductions.com. |
Intermediate Acting Mud Gym with Jen Danby
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Mud Gym with Austin Pendleton |
Bio AUSTIN PENDLETON is currently directing DETROIT at the National Theatre in London after having directed it at Steppenwolf. He directed THREE SISTERS at CSC and won an Obie award for Best Director. Select credits include: Mississippi Mud Lab's unfolding CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, VIVIEN LEIGH: THE LAST PRESS CONFERENCE (with Jen Danby), THE FIRST LADIES COALITION (with Ginger Grace), Tennessee Williams's SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS, the New York premiere at the Lincoln Center Theatre of A MINISTER'S WIFE, Mr. Pendleton's musical adaptation (with Josh Schmidt and Jan Tranen) of Shaw's CANDIDA. MORE |
Film and Television On Camera Acting Technique (FAT CAT) Workshop with Liz Keifer |
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The key to good film acting is finding a level of calm that allows you to feel comfortable in your own skin. Ms. Keifer calls it the FAT CAT. (Film And Television Camera Acting Technique.): "Observe a well fed cat lying on her back licking her paws. You can't take your eyes off her. That level of comfort is what we strive for as actors." Through exercises and work with sides, Ms. Keifer will help bring out the Fat Cat in you for increased freedom, playfulness, truthfulness, and spontaneity on camera. Learning by doing allows the actor to see what works and what doesn't by watching their work played back to them after each "take" on High Def, state of the art camera equipment. For teens and adults. All levels welcome. Note: please submit headshot and resume in advance of the class. Sides (scenes) may be sent ahead of time to actors who already have on camera experience, and the class will consist of exercises and scene work designed to free the actor on camera. Class structure: Slating for camera. Hitting marks and conducting On Camera interviews typical of any commercial or theatrical audition. Scene work: Coverage of Master shots, Two shots and Close ups. Calibrating your acting and vocal technique in order to adjust to the different camera angle and shots required to film a scene. Concentration on emotional and physical continuity. Further exercises developing technique for non verbal close ups. Bio LIZ KEIFER has been working professionally for over thirty years in television and film. She was raised in California and started working in her teens. She studied with acclaimed director David Alexander at The Academy of Stage and Cinema Arts and has spent her entire career between theater and film. Her recent film credits include THE CLIQUE and MORNING GLORY with Jeff Goldblum and Rachel McAdams. You can also see her in season 2 of VENICE THE SERIES on the web. MORE |
Scene Study with Alexandra Neil |
Please bring a monologue to the first class, and be dressed in clothes that allow you to move freely. If you'd like, bring a mat for the floor. Bio ALEXANDRA NEIL worked on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's ROCK' N' ROLL, and in MATCH with Frank Langella. Other theater credits include Barrow Street Theater, EST, WPA, Jewish Rep, LaMama, SoHo Rep, and St. Clements' (all NYC), and Alley Theater in Houston, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actors' Theater of Louisville, Syracuse Stage, the Hartman Theater, and the Philadelphia Company, among others. Alexandra is currently in rehearsals for IN at Pioneer Repertory Theatre in Salt Lake City. MORE |
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Rehearsed scenes are worked on and critiqued in class. For actors working at intermediate to advanced levels on scenes chosen in consultation with Mr. Pendleton. Scenes and acting partners will be assigned at the first class, but acting duos may feel free to sign up and bring a scene on day one, understanding that Austin may guide you towards other work, too. Limited to 10 actors. Headshot and resume submission required. Please bring a monologue to the first class to share your work, or a scene if you sign up for class with a partner. For actors who want to be challenged in a supportive environment and be in the sport of theatre by playing with sensory and emotional aliveness in action to as Byron says in Camino Real, "make voyages, attempt them, there is nothing else."
Alexandra Neil has been a working actor (theater, film, and television) for thirty years. In her scene study class, Ms. Neil challenges each actor to go further and take the risks necessary for work on a play, in the rehearsal room, and even at auditions. This class is for committed actors working at the intermediate to advanced level. There will be a combination of individual exercises, group exercises and scene work. Focus is on craft and rehearsal techniques for the working actor. You will develop your own methods of approaching the work, increase your text analysis skills, find freedom, power, an increased sense of play, and learn to bring aspects of yourself into the work. Actors will bring rehearsed scenes to class, assigned in consultation with Ms. Neil at the first class. Headshot and resume submission required.