New Repertory Theatre, the Resident Professional Theatre Company at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, Massachuetts

Overview:

Who:
- Students entering grades 9-12
- All experience levels welcome. Space is limited.

When:
- July 5 - August 1, 2010, Monday - Friday 9:00am - 3:30pm at New Repertory Theatre in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts (321 Arsenal St, Watertown, MA)
- Public performances: Friday, July 30th at 8pm and Saturday, July 31st at 3pm and 8pm

Tuition:
- $950
- $250 non-refundable deposit is due upon registration.
- Registration deadline and balance due - June 15, 2010
- New Repertory Theatre does offer payment plans if needed.
- Some scholarships are available, please call 617-923-7060 x204 for more information.

To register call Bridget O'Leary, Artistic and Education Associate, at 617-923-7060 x204, or download a registration form here and send it to: New Repertory Theatre, Summer Studio, 200 Dexter Ave., Watertown, MA 02472.

What to Expect:

New Rep Summer Studio is a month-long program geared towards high school students who are interested in acting and exploring various techniques and approaches to develop the craft of acting.

Ensemble Playmaking and Performance is the focus of New Rep’s 2010 Summer Studio. Students will be able to:

Participate in an array of workshops and classes taught by professionals to build a core foundation that will allow the student to grow as an artist.
Work together to construct and perform a play.
Learn how to market, design, and build their own production.
Perform 3 public performances at New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts.

The Program is split into two parts.

The AM: Classes will be held in the mornings from 9:00am until 12:15pm. Each day will begin with a warm-up. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, students will take an Acting class. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, they will take an assortment of technique classes: Voice and Speech, Movement, and Shakespeare classes.
The PM: The Ensemble Playmaking Portion of each day will begin at 1:00pm and run until 3:30pm, Monday thru Thursdays. It will focus on writing, field trips, and group exercises to help serve as a foundation for the creation of an ensemble-based performance. On Friday afternoons, students will be offered workshops to round out their theater knowledge, including Directing, Stage Combat, Improvisation, and Technical Theater.

Class Descriptions:

Acting: Three times a week students will work to build and strengthen their understanding of the fundamentals of acting. They will focus on following their impulses, creating grounded characters, and achieving their objectives through monologue and scene work.

Movement: Over the course of 2 sessions, students will have the opportunity to explore different physical approaches to creating characters. They will work on using physical movement to tell stronger, more dynamic stories. Utilizing group and individual interaction, students will learn to express different types of energy through movement.

Voice and Speech: Over the course of 2 sessions, students will work with a professional vocal coach to release inner thoughts, emotions, and intentions through an uninhibited voice. Through the use of scripted text and improvisational work, students will explore their voices using breathing, sound, pitch, resonance, and other vocal techniques.

Shakespeare: Over the course of 2 session, students will work on a Shakespearean monologue, learning how to speak the text and how to make complex choices with the material. In addition, students will finish the class with a strong Shakespearean audition piece and the tools to approach any Shakespeare piece and make it their own.

Instructors:

Bridget Kathleen O’Leary (Acting and Ensemble Playmaking) is in her second season at New Rep as Artistic Associate. Most recently, she directed New Rep’s production of boom and Fool for Love. Other directing credits include The Boys of Winter (IRNE Nomination, Best New Play, 2008) for BKS productions; The Devil’s Teacup (IRNE Nomination, Best New Play, 2007) at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The American Clock, Much Ado About Nothing, Curse of the Starving Class, Dancing at Lughnasa, and Sarah Kane’s Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, all at Boston University. In 2007, she assisted Artistic Director Wendy C. Goldberg at the National Playwrights’ Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and worked as an assistant on new plays by Rebecca Gilman and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Before moving to Boston, Bridget worked in Washington, D.C. with the Olney Theatre Center, Theater Alliance, Cherry Red Productions, Charter Theater, Studio Theatre Second Stage, and Phoenix Theatre DC, of which she was a founding member. Selected D.C. directing credits include Independence, Parallel Lives, and the creations of Unwrapped and Lulu Fabulous by area playwrights. Bridget received her MFA in directing at Boston University.

Angie Jepson (Movement) returns to New Rep having previously choreographed fights for boom and the New Rep On Tour production of Othello. As a fight choreographer, Angie has worked on Legacy of Light for Lyric Stage, Epic Proportions for Suffolk University, Bat Boy for the Noble and Greenough School, and Hamlet for GAN-e-meed Theatre Project. Other fight choreography credits include: Jerry Springer: The Opera, Blackbird, and Fat Pig for SpeakEasy; Carmen for Boston Midsummer Opera; Love of the Nightingale for the Noble and Greenough School; Peter Pan, Kiss Me Kate, and Waiting for Lefty for Acton-Boxborough High School; and numerous productions for Shakespeare Now! Acting credits include: multiple roles in Shipwrecked! with the Lyric Stage Company; Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with the Publick Theatre; Aramintha in Howard Zinn’s Daughter of Venus with Suffolk University and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; and Ellen in The Little Dog Laughed with SpeakEasy. She received her MFA in Acting from Brandeis University.

Christine Hamel (Voice & Speech) is currently an Assistant Professor of Voice & Speech at Boston University’s School of Theatre, and a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. Christine earned a BA at Williams College and her MFA at BU, and studied also at Boston Conservatory (Graduate Performance Certificate, Voice), Trinity College, London (Performer's Certificate in Speech & Drama), and Shakespeare & Company (Training Intensive). Additional study with Louis Colaianni (Phonetics/Dialects); Merry Conway (Four Humours/Emotions); Paula Langton, Marya Lowry, Richard Armstrong (Extended/Primitive Voice Work) and has extensive study in Classical Voice. Recent performing credits include Laurain The Glass Menagerie with Boston Centre for American Performance (BCAP), Our Town at Wellesley Summer Theatre, and will be seen next as Emma Darwin in Peter Parnell’s Trumpery at the Olney Theatre Center. Christine has dialect and voice coached over 40 productions, including the award-winning Light in the Piazza (Speakeasy Stage), Cabaret (New Rep), Othello (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Boston Children’s Theatre), The Overwhelming (Company One), Miss Margaret LaRue in Milwaukee (Boston Playwrights’) and others. As a director, Christine recently co-directed Better off Dead for the Village Theatre Project at the Boston Center for the Arts, and the solo show In Between at Boston University. Christine is a Company Member of the Village Theatre Project, is on the Board of Directors of Theatre Espresso (Theatre-in-Education company), and is an artistic associate with the Gypsy Mamas. She is a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and Actors' Equity Association.

Ross MacDonald (Shakespeare) graduated from the University of Southampton. He spent two years at The London Academy of Performing Arts (LAPA) performing in numerous productions ranging from Greek chorus work, to Shakespeare, Moliere, Wilde, and Chekov, as well modern classics including the works of Pinter, Genet, Coward, and Carol Churchill. While at LAPA, Ross worked with various former members of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theater. He also studied under David Perry who for 25 years had been one of the leading text coaches at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Ross received the Lillian Bayliss Award given to the most promising students at the accredited Drama Schools of London. Ross has worked in various London fringe venues. He became a member of the Hammersmith Actors and Writers group developing plays for London theatres, one of which he directed and produced in a sold out run on the London Fringe.

Class Schedule:

July 5 - 9, 2010:
Monday & Wednesday	Tuesday & Thursday	Friday
9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Acting 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Ensemble Playmaking	9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Movement 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Ensemble Playmaking	9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Acting 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Workshop

July 12 - 16, 2010:
Monday & Wednesday	Tuesday & Thursday	Friday
9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Acting 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Ensemble Playmaking	9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Voice and Speech 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Ensemble Playmaking	9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Acting 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Workshop

July 19 - 23, 2010
Monday & Wednesday	Tuesday & Thursday	Friday
9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Acting 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Ensemble Playmaking	9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Shakespeare 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Ensemble Playmaking	9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Acting 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Workshop
July 26 - 30, 2010
Monday & Wednesday	Tuesday & Thursday	Friday
9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Acting 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Ensemble Playmaking	9-9:45am Warm-up 9:45-12:15pm Ensemble Playmaking 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-3:30pm Ensemble Playmaking	See Below

Friday & Satuday, July 30 - August 1, 2010
Friday (10:00-8:00pm)	Saturday (2:00-10:00pm)	Sunday (12:00-3:00pm)
10-12:15pm Tech 12:15-1:00pm Lunch 1-6:00pm Tech/Final Dress 6-7:00pm Dinner 8:00pm Opening Performance	2-3:00pm prep for performance 3:00pm Second performance 4:30-6:00pm Check-in 6-7:00pm Dinner 8:00pm Final performance 9:00pm Closing party	12-3:00pmWrap-up

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