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CAST's guaranteed stage experience combined with personalized,
private instruction, offers the aspiring professional actor an unparalleled
learning environment:
Learn how to mine the script
for the most important details; how to use your knowledge of your own feelings
and experiences to help you understand your character.
Learn how to make the most of every rehearsal situation,
from the first reading of the script, through blocking rehearsals,
run-throughs, and dress rehearsals. Learn what top directors expect from actors
both in and out of rehearsals.
Gain invaluable performance experience:
with eight weeks of performances for each show, you'll learn the most effective
techniques of show preparation: how to warm up, get into character, handle
stage fright, and do your best in front of a live audience.
Learn how to approach plays and monologues in many different styles:
recent classwork has featured the works of Mamet, Pinter, Becket, Sheperd and
Genet; in private lessons you'll have the opportunity to explore the works of
masters like Shakespheare, Chekov, and Aeschylus.
Develop twenty winning monologues
that showcase your talent and maximize your chances of landing roles.
Explore other areas of the theater that you find exciting; such as
playwriting and directing -- recent productions have featured a student-written
comic monologue and full-length play.
Work in a supportive environment
with other students who are passionate about acting and serious about becoming
professionals.
Increase your awareness:
you'll be applying the things you observe and experience in your daily life to
the characters you are playing; your whole life will become a source and
inspiration for your work on stage.
Become the kind of actor that top directors will want to work with:
a thinking actor who is able to work with a director's ideas, work dynamically
with other actors, and bring in creative ideas of your own.
Work with an accomplished director and master actor with over 3 decades
of experience as a professional coach and director.
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