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122 South Putnam Williamston, MI 48895 517.655.SHOW Email Buy Tickets Subscriptions Directions Contact Us Rehearsal Blog	Classes COMING IN THE 2010-2011 SEASON ADVANCED ACTING FOR ADULTS Dates: Mondays, October 11 - December 6, 2010. No class on November 22. Time: 6pm to 9pm Cost: $195 Ages: 18 and up Class size: minimum 6, maximum 16 Registration: Begins September 7, 2010 Instructor: John Lepard, with voice and movement sessions with Sandra Birch This class is for advanced actors looking to deepen their skills and work on practical application. Students should have previous experience either through class or performance work and will be required to submit a theatrical resume before the first day of class. Particular areas covered include relationships, scene work, justification, voice, movement, text analysis and character interpretation. The actor will establish a solid foundation in an organic approach to acting that overcomes the limitations of intellectual training. The skills acquired in this class allow the actor to harness his/her personal powers of instinct, imagination, emotional truth, senses of reality, and personal experience in order to bring a deeper, more lively and personally unique expressiveness to his/her work. Many actors with previous experience find that this acting class effectively provides them with an approach to acting that is more practical and comprehensive. Class will culminate in a short contemporary scene to be performed for a small audience using the techniques learned over the 8 weeks. All classes will be held at the Williamston Theatre, 122 S. Putnam Street, Williamston, MI 48895. John Lepard, Executive Director for the Williamston Theatre, has been acting professionally for 19 years. His credits range from film and television in Los Angeles, to live theatre off-Broadway. He is a member of the Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actors' Guild. John received his BA in Theatre from Michigan State University and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. In the 2009-2010 Season his appearances on stage included Home: Voices From Families of the Midwest, This Wonderful Life at the Williamston Theatre, and The Blank Page at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre. He has been awarded the Best Actor Award from both the Detroit Free Press (2004) and the Lansing State Journal (2009). John directed the award-winning productions of Talley's Folly and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds at the Williamston Theatre and is an adjunct professor at Lansing Community College and a guest professor/director at MSU. Sandra Birch has appeared on the Williamston Theatre stage in Home: Voices From Families of the Midwest, It Came From Mars and Maidens, Mothers and Crones: Voices From Women of the Midwest. She has been a professional actress for twenty-eight years, is a member of the Actors' Equity Association and received the Detroit Free Press Best Actress Award for Stand, the Detroit Free Press Best Supporting Actress Awards for Julie Johnson and Blithe Spirit and the Best Actress in a Comedy Wilde Award for Sea of Fools. She has done numerous other theatrical productions, commercials, voiceovers, film and radio dramas in her home state of Michigan as well as her adopted home of Canada primarily in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. She is a voice and movement teacher and proudly a First Stage Teacher for Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit. SPECIAL PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP FOR TEENS Dates: Mondays, January 24 - March 28, 2011. No class on February 21. Additional mandatory final dress rehearsal on Sunday, March 27; 5-9pm. Time: 6pm to 9pm Cost: $195 Ages: 13-18 Class size: minimum 6, maximum 16 Registration: Begins December 13, 2010 Teacher: Dana Brazil The students will use the fundamentals of acting as well as improvisation and theatre games to create a piece of theatre for performance. This will provide the high school student with an invaluable performance experience. It will also reinforce the following aspects of theatre: auditioning, theatre games, improvisation, acting technique, scene study and character development. Additionally, the students will be involved in all the elements of a theatrical production including costuming, props, sound design and set design. The class will take a play (material will be chosen to suit the students) from the page and go thru all stages of production in preparation for the final public performance. There will be one public performance on March 28th. All classes will be held at the Williamston Theatre, 122 S. Putnam Street, Williamston, MI 48895. Dana Brazil is a professional actress and teaching artist who has been seen locally onstage at the Williamston Theatre as well as The Purple Rose Theatre Company, Peppermint Creek, Stormfield Theatre and the former BoarsHead Theatre in Lansing. She won a Lansing State Journal Thespie Award for her portrayal of Ellen Pazinski in Over The Tavern. Dana is a graduate of Michigan State University, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and is a member of the Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actors' Guild. Dana is currently the Associate Director of the Michigan State University Federal Credit Union Institute for Arts & Creativity at Wharton Center for Performing Arts.