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Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

Guest Speakers and Special Topic Workshop Leaders

PAST GUEST SPEAKERS :

THE SAINT PLAYS LUNCHBOX:

Thursday, April 22, 2010
12:30-2:00 pm
Lunch Box Presentation with Erik Ehn

Erik Ehn, Visiting Professor and head of playwriting at Brown University is known for proposing the Regional Alternative Theatre movement. His published works include THE SAINT PLAYS, produced by Theatre Arts and Performance Studies April 22-25, 2010.

Thursday, April 15th from 12:30 – 1:15 pm in C131.

The “Art of Transformation” Workshop with Ronald Rand

You are invited to attend this FREE event!

Mr. Rand will share some of what he teaches in his Workshop including his ‘Method of Physical Actions’ chart with you!

“THE ART OF TRANSFORMATION”

Using the original chart Stanislavsky gave Stella Adler in Paris in 1934, The “Art of Transformation” Workshop enriches and expands the actor’s imagination, allowing the actor to explore their entire instrument. Discover and use the tools on the ‘Method of Physical Actions’ chart.

Mr. Rand’s mentors include Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Bobby Lewis, Joseph Chaikin, and Jerzy Grotowski. An Adjunct Professor of Acting & Directing at Pace University in New York City, Mr. Rand has taught for over 20 years around the world, at over 75 universities, colleges, festivals, conferences, theaters, and acting schools including Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb; Anadolu University, Eskesehir; Espacio Blanco Leis Acting Studio, Buenos Aires; New York University, Northern Illinois University, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, across America and around the world.
“Ronald Rand is an illusionist! I felt I was actually with Harold Clurman. Don’t miss it!” ELAINE STRITCH

DON'T MISS an opportunity to meet HAROLD CLURMAN, STELLA ADLER, LEE STRASBERG, CONSTANTIN STANISLAVKSY in the internationally acclaimed, inspiring solo play, “LET IT BE ART!” Harold Clurman’s Life of Passion” at North Coast Repertory on April 14th at 7:30pm.
987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive Solana Beach call 858-481-1055 $25-$35
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“MAGICAL!” BACKSTAGE
“A THEATRICAL EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED!” IN-NYC.COM

“Ronald Rand is one of the great dedicated professionals of the American Theatre.” ALEC BALDWIN

Now in its 10th year “LET IT BE ART!” has received standing ovations twice Off-Broadway in New York City, in 10 countries - including London, Paris, Athens, Zagreb, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Buenos Aires, Paysundu, New Delhi, Mumbai, Paysundu, and in 14 states across America!

VISIT www.ClurmanThePlay.com www.SoulAmericanActor.com
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RONALD RAND Internationally acclaimed Performing Artist-playwright He has performed in his play “LET IT BE ART!” around the world in 10 countries – and in many capitals including London, Paris, Athens, Zagreb, Eskisehir, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kerala, Frankfurt, Tbilisi, Paysundu, Buenos Aires, and across 14 states in America www.ClurmanThePlay.com. Well-known on the stage, he appeared opposite Marian Seldes, Jayne Atkinson, Rosemary Harris and Elizabeth Ashley in The Scheuer Series in New York City – and Off-Broadway in Julius Caesar at BAM with Richard Dreyfuss; Endgame, directed by Joseph Chaikin; August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Servant of Two Masters. He toured throughout Europe as the Fool in King Lear. His over 100 film and TV appearances include Emperor’s Club, In & Out, Quiz Show, When in Rome, O’Keefe and Steiglitz opposite Christopher Plummer, Homeless opposite Yoko Ono, Law & Order, and Saturday Night Live. Author of best-selling “Acting Teachers of America,” he is the Founder & Publisher of “The Soul of the American Actor,” (10th year) –the only newspaper in North America dedicated to the art of the theatre, www.SoulAmericanActor.com. Adjunct Professor of Acting & Directing at Pace University (NYC), he has been a visiting guest professor at over 75 universities, colleges, theatres, high schools, and acting schools around the world.
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"ACTING TEACHERS OF AMERICA”
by RONALD RAND photos by Luigi Scorcia

The most comprehensive book published with 50 of America’s most influential Acting Teachers! Plus 50 Interviews with the world’s leading actors!
ELI WALLACH: "A valuable, insightful book that every actor should read!"
HAROLD PRINCE: "I would recommend Mr. Rand's book to anyone seeking a life in the theatre!"
JOANNE WOODWARD: "Too often the work of these teachers goes unacknowledged, except by the actors who need and love them. Here, it is great to see them get the attention they deserve.”
Books can be ordered at www.RandomHouse.com
50 Interviews with acting teachers, actors and directors including: Olympia Dukakis, William Esper, Zelda Fichandler, Michael Howard, Anne Jackson, Michael Kahn, Milton Katselas, Gerald Freedman, Theodore Mann, Anne Bogart, Ivana Chubbuck, Joanna Merlin, Eric Morris, Larry Moss, Lloyd Richards, Terry Schreiber, Andre De Shields, Kathryn Gately, Marian Seldes, John Strasberg, Loyd Williamson.
Plus 50 interviews of leading actors including: Sidney Poitier, Gene Hackman, Laura Linney, James Gandolfini, William Hurt, Doris Roberts, Lillias White, Edward

 

Thursday, March 4

A Workshop with Robert Farid Karimi

Theatricality of Poetry, Story & Memory:
A Well of Voices & Experiences

This workshop begins with the premise that every writer has access to a well of potential voices. The root of this comes through the writers’ ability to access memories, both experiential and sensory. Through writing and performative exercises, we will focus attention on developing these voices and identities. In addition to creating and embodying these ideas from the substance of your life and being, we’ll address issues relating to the creative process, audience, social and cultural relevance, point of view, and using sense-memory in the oral interpretation of your work.

You can see Robert at the 10th Avenue Theatre from Feb. 24th until March 21st in a Mo'olelo production of self (the remix), a spoken-word, hip-hop play that mixes together stories, movement and music to tell the tale of an American child of Iranian and Guatemalan immigrants growing up in California in the 1970s and 1980s in the shadow of the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Acclaimed playwright and performer Robert Farid Karimi, accompanied with a soundscape created by DJ D Double, tells a "remixed" autobiographical tale of a boy struggling to learn about manhood, nationhood, and neighborhood with the voices and music of his environment helping him along.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 16th

Talkback with Broadway Stage Manager, Richard Costabile

Attention Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Student, Faculty, USD community members:

There will be a talkback opportunity for all Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department students and the USD community with Broadway Stage Manager, Richard Costabile in town working on Duncan Sheik’s WHISPER HOUSE currently playing at the Old Globe starring Mare Winningham.

This will take place in Camino 131 during the dead hours (12:15pm) on Tuesday, February 16th. Come hear from an expert on one of the most privileged positions in the theatre right here at USD!

Richard Costabile Bio:

Mr. Costabile has been lucky enough to have worked on seven Broadway productions (Translations, The Odd Couple, Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight!, Anna in the Tropics, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The School for Scandal, George Abbott's Broadway), plus tours that have included Roger Rees in What You Will, Death of a Salesman, Mark Twain Tonight! and White Christmas. Off Broadway he has stage managed at Roundabout Theatre (Intimate Apparel, Fiction, All Over), Playwrights Horizons (Goodnight Children Everywhere), and the Public Theater/NYSF (Love's Labors Lost), among many others. Regional theatre work includes Great Lakes Theater Festival (11 seasons), Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, McCarter Theatre Center, O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Hartford Stage and Denver Center Theatre. He ran away with Big Apple Circus (Summers of ’07 and ’08), and he recently made his Carnegie Hall debut as stage manager for the Collegiate Chorale’s Fall concert with the American Symphony Orchestra. He has taught at Mason Gross/Rutgers and SUNY Purchase and has been a guest lecturer at colleges nationwide. The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in NYC is where he received his training as an actor. Last May, the members of the Stage Managers' Association elected him to his fifth term as Chairman.

No charge.

 

Thursday, November 19th
FALLUJAH GOOD®
Written and presented by Benjamin Mathes, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Faculty Member

Fallujah Good is a 45-minute, one-man play adapted from the journal of a combat 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps on his first deployment to Iraq. It is a story unlike other tellings of the Iraq War in that Fallujah Good does not promote a political agenda or provide body counts. Nor does it provide a step-by-step account of the platoon's movement or quantity of RPG fired at them by masked insurgents. Fallujah Good tells a truth that is vulnerable, terrifying, and rich with emotion as it was discovered by one platoon commander in a small but significant Area of Operation in the war on terror.

No charge.

http://www.youtube.com/bcmathes

 

Thursday, September 24th
THEATRE OF GENOCIDE:
A Q & A with CATHERINE FILLOUX
The internationally re-known playwright discusses her career, work and the power of theater to engage a diverse audience with issues of human rights.. Catherine Filloux has been writing about genocide, human rights, and social justice for the past twenty years. She received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and her French Baccalaureate with Honors in Toulon, France. She is a co-founder of Theater Without Borders, a volunteer organization engaged in international theater exchange. Her awards include the PeaceWriting Award, Roger L. Stevens Award, Eric Kocher Playwrights Award (O'Neill) and the Callaway Award. Her articles have appeared in American Theater, Manoa, The Drama Review, Contemporary Theater Review (UK), and the Drama Guild Quarterly. For a full biography and review of Ms. Filloux's work, please see http://www.catherinefilloux.com.

 

Spring 2009

Moe Angelos of Continuous City leads a workshop. For more information on The Builders Association, producer of Continuous City: http://www.thebuildersassociation.org/index.html