This workshop is geared to young actors who would like the training and insight of professional actors.
Program Emphasis
Gender
Type Of Stay
Session Options (Weeks)
Acting and Theater Camp Drama Camp
Coed
Resident Camp
1
Age Range
Capacity
Average Cost
15 - 18
16
$401 - 500 (week)
More About Camp
Two One-Week Acting Workshops
Dates: July 11-July 19th & July 25-August 2
Location: Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, TX
Students will live on the Kilgore College Campus
Daily classes from 8:30 AM–5:30 PM
Subjects include:
1. Audition Techniques: How to choose the right monologue, basic headshot information and a "how to" for resumes, marketing yourself, and discovering what roles fit you.
2. Stage Combat: Learn a choreographed fight with rapier swords, daggers, and more.
3. Musical Theatre: Finding your vocal range, choosing a song, vocal exercises and techniques.
4. Voice and Speech: Breath support, pitch, control, posture, diction, dialects, and vocal warm ups for the actor
5. Movement: In movement class you will discover how to refocus the pre-audition jitters into a positive energy. It is applied to recovering freedom of movement, impulse control and attention to poise.
6. Classical and Contemporary Scene Work: Students will rehearse scenes and monologues from period pieces such as Shakespeare and modern works as well like Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard.
7. Shakespearean Text: Become more familiar with the text of Shakespeare. You will be comfortable and confident speaking Shakespearean language.
Students will get to see all of Texas Shakespeare Festival 2009 Season:
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Moliere’s Tartuffe, the musical She Loves Me and our children’s show Rumpelstiltskin
Activities and Features
Religious Emphasis
None
Performing Arts
Drama
Other Activities
Audition techniques musical theater stage combat voice and speech movement classical and contemporary scene work Shakepearean text.
Camp Address
Winter Address
1100 Broadway
Kilgore TX, 75662 United States
903-983-9117 (tel.)
1100 Broadway
Kilgore, Texas, 75662 United States
903-983-9117 (tel.)
