Understanding Agents: Relationship Building and Therapy!
Beth Chaplin
$10/$5 for Players Club Members
When you decide to use your acting skill and talent to make a little money in commercials, industrials and voice-overs, your best doorway to this work is through a talent agency -- but it can be a tough door to open. Most of the agents in the Twin Cities are truly nice folks who are very supportive of actors. However, the maddening subjectivity in this business often manifests itself in the worst way in your relationship with agents.
Beth Chaplin (author of The Acting Biz: A Career Guide to the Twin Cities) has worked as both actor and part-time agent for nearly 20 years. Come ask questions and gain insight -- from how to get an agent to notice you, to what to do when agents aren't calling, to choosing an exclusive agent, to resolving conflict. In this 90 minute workshop, we'll discuss how to navigate the agent relationship with some sensible strategies. If you understandhow an agency works and why they make the decisions they do, your agent-actor relationship will be much simpler!
Take the first steps toward learning to play the instrument you were born in.
You’re not cast-able if you can’t be heard and clearly understood. Discover a new way to think about your voice and begin a few, basic exercises that will make a difference.
18 and over
Cheryl Moore Brinkley is a lifelong theatre professional (NYC and Twin Cities), actor, director, instructor. She serves as adjunct faculty for the Macalester College dept. of Theater & Dance, teaching Acting, and Voice & Speech.
The object is to free the individual from the ‘need to please’ in order to get the task solved during the audition, rehearsal process, or in performance.
Participants will be encouraged to step out of their comfort zone, to let go of the need to please or to be accepted, to release blocks, achieve flexibility, center and focus intention, and explore emotional potential through a series of proven exercises.
Workshop is open to adults - all levels of experience welcome.
Participants should wear loose, comfortable clothing and rubber sole shoes.
About the instructor:
Chrissy Fournier is a veteran Broadway performer who appeared in the original cast of SWEET CHARITY on Broadway with Gwen Verdon, directed by Bob Fosse, the national company of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS, and the international company of WEST SIDE STORY in Tokyo, Japan. The first choreographer of the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre, Ms. Fournier has worked as an on-camera talent, voice-over specialist, and musical theatre director.
Basic Principles of Performing Power offers a glimpse into
the integrated performance approach developed by Nautilus,
based on the radiant performing technique of master teacher
Wesley Balk. Participants will learn about an integrated approach to
singing acting, which focuses on the whole person. Attention
is given to the basic tools of voice, face, and body, then
expanded to include the performer’s relationship to their
material, the artform, their colleagues, and their community.
For over thirty years, this approach has had a profound
impact upon hundreds of participants who have found its
concepts applicable to all styles of performance, ranging
from traditional opera to Broadway musicals to new and
experimental music-theater. It is the cornerstone training
of many of the performers who work regularly with Nautilus.
Ben Krywosz has served as Artistic Director of Nautilus
Music-Theater since 1986. He produces and directs fullystaged
productions of new work (Sister Stories, Alice
Unwrapped, Orpheus and Euridice, Loss of Breath, etc) and
existing work (Man of La Mancha, Carousel, A Water Bird Talk,
etc); conducts training programs for performers, writers,
composers, and directors; and hosts Nautilus’ monthly ROUGH
CUTS works-in-progress series. He may be joined by one of
Nautilus veteran performers.
On-Camera Talent Business "Acting from Stage to Screen"
Bill Cooper
$10/$5 for Players Club Members
Students receive basic information about the on-camera talent business in the Twin Cities and instruction on performing on-camera commercials and scenes.
Longer description of class/workshop:
Actors will learn about the talent business including agents, auditions, types of projects, headshots, resumes, and expectations. They will also participate in practical exercises to help them understand the basic differences of performing on-stage and on-camera.
Bill Cooper has been working in the television, video and film business in the Twin Cities for over 25 years, primarily as an actor. He has appeared in 150 television commercials, a dozen films, and thousands of industrial presentations, print and voice-over projects. He is also a producer/director and acting coach. More info HERE.
Explore the process of developing original pieces of theater through a multitude of games and exercises in improvisation intended to shake up your sillies and energize the senses of your creative mind. They don't call it a "play" for nothin'. Joy is at the heart of fulfilling creation. Explore the process of developing original pieces of theater through a multitude of games and exercises in improvisation intended to shake up your sillies and energize the senses of your creative mind. What may appear to be goofing around is actually the inspiration of artistic expression.
Brant Miller has been creating original pieces of theater with a myriad of companies in the Twin Cities for the past decade. Recent productions for which he has been involved in the conception and creation are: Mortem Capiendum (Dowling Studio), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Stages Theater Company), S. Gunter Klaus and the Story Before (Southern Theater), Welcome to Distopia (Bedlam Theater), and The Happy Show (Bedlam Theater), and Harold (Critics' Pick, Cincinnati Fringe festival). He works extensively with Live Action Set, Jon Ferguson Theater, Three Sticks, and he is one of the co-founders of Four Humors Theater, which will present The Age of Wordsworth, a world premiere rock musical, at The Southern Theater next March. More about Live Action Set.
