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SPRING 2011
Theater Departmental Meeting
Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 7:00- 8:00 pm
Mainstage Theater - Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater
FIRST YEAR LONDON STUDENTS & TRANSFER STUDENTS meet with
Lary Opitz @ 6:30 pm in the Blackbox studio
Open to everyone interested in working in the theater and learning about the Department. You are strongly advised to attend this meeting. You will meet the theater faculty, staff and other students involved in theater. Departmental requirements, courses being offered, the Skidmore Theater Company, and the workshop production program will be explained. The directors of this semester's productions will discuss their productions and casting requirements. This is where you sign-up for auditions, find out about working in the Department, and place your name on a wait-list for closed theater courses.
Audition Workshop - The Blackbox Studio Theater
Wednesday, January 25, directly following Theater Meeting (about 8:00 pm)
This is an important opportunity for anyone who has never auditioned here before to learn about how our process works. Suggestions and guidelines about appropriate procedures will be discussed.
General Theater Auditions
Seniors & Juniors - Thursday, January 26, 6:00 -10:30 pm
Sophomores & First Year Students - Friday, January 27, 6:00 -10:30 pm
Blackbox Studio Theater - Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater
General auditions for all of Skidmore Theater’s fall productions.
The Blackbox production will be Bert Royal’s DOG SEES GOD directed by Margaret Smith '12.
The Mainstage production is Ellen Mclaughlin’s AJAX IN IRAQ directed by Lary Opitz.
All of our Workshop productions will also be casting from these auditions.
See our CURRENT SEASON for more details on workshops.
Auditions are open to everyone, and new students are frequently cast. You should be prepared to present a contemporary monologue (from about 1900 to the present) which is no longer than two minutes in length (preferably closer to one minute). You are also asked to prepare a short portion (about eight bars, or twenty seconds) of a song without accompaniment. It is suggested that your contemporary monologue be relatively close to your own age range. See Skidmore Auditions for more information.
Skidmore Theater Company Meeting
Friday, January 27, 2012 from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Mainstage Theater
Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater
This is the Theater Company’s first meeting, led by Technical Director and Production Manager, David Yergan.
The Spring 2012 production season will be discussed in depth. The opportunity to sign-up for technical crews (lights, set, and costumes) and management staff (Box Office, Visuals, Photography, Ad Sales, Publicity, Newsletter, etc.) will be explained.
If you are interested in being involved with the Skidmore Department of Theater this semester, you should be at this meeting!
CALL BACKS: Sat. & Sun., January 28 & 29, 2012
A list of actors who are called back for our Department productions will be posted in the JKB Theater lobby (on the grey doors near the elevator) shortly after the completion of auditions on Friday, January 27 (about midnight). If your name is on either of the lists, you must initial it. Instructions about the time and place for the call-backs will also be posted. DOG SEES GOD will have call-backs on Saturday, and AJAX IN IRAQ will have call-backs on Sunday. Actors who are not called back for these productions and actors who are not cast in either of these productions are eligible for the workshop call-backs which will be held on Monday, January 30 and Tuesday, January 31. On Sunday evening (about 6:00pm) cast lists and information on workshop call-backs will be posted in the JKB Theater lobby.
FALL 2011
ANNOUNCEMENTS
More Arts/Less Martial Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 @ 8:00PM
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DYLAN BRODY is an award winning playwright, humorist and thrice published author and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. In recent years, he has emerged as a radio raconteur, whose witty and profoundtales of his journey through life are unique, yet utterly recognizable to everyone, earning him a reputation as one of America’s fastest risingstorytellers. His one-person show MORE ARTS /LESS MARTIAL premiered in January 2009 to a standing ovation. The piece takes Brody and his audience on a poignant and often hilarious journey from a childhood of bullied insecurity to an adulthood of martial arts study, personal growth and ultimately true Mastery of storytelling and Taekwondo. For more than two decades, Dylan Brody has been making people laugh around the world. He has evolved into an artful anecdotalist with an engaging style all his own.
STEPHANIE FLEISCHMANN, our playwriting teacher
Her new play, WHAT THE MOON SAW, or "I ONLY APPEAR TO BE DEAD" premiered in Los Angeles with the Son of Semele Ensemble (Sept. 9 – Oct. 3)
The play is a gathering / remembrance / homage in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
There was a reading of the play on 9/11/1 at the Mint Theater in NYC
Read an interview with Stephanie in the Los Angeles Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/09/talking-with-playwright-stephanie-fleischmann-on-her-911-play.html
EUNICE FERREIRA, our new Assistant Professor
We welcome Professor Eunice Ferreira who comes to us with a Ph. D in Drama from Tufts University. She has taught at Tufts and was an Assistant Professor and Producing Artistic Director at Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts. She has directed extensively and has taught a wide range of courses in theater history, directing, and acting. Her research is both transnational and interdisciplinary. Her dissertation was entitled: Theatre in Cape Verde: Resisting, Reclaiming and Recreating National and Cultural Identity in Postcolonial Lusophone Africa. This semester she will be teaching Introduction to Theater and Introduction to Directing.
GARETT WILSON, named our newest Artist-in-Residence
We congratulate Gary on his becoming a full-time member of the Theater Faculty.
DAVID YERGAN (Technical Director, Production Manager, Lighting Designer) honored this summer in a ceremony in the dance theater
“For the past 23 years, David has provided the NYSSSA School of Dance students, faculty and guest artists with the highest theatrical production values for our performances, thus raising standards of professional excellence.”
PROFESSOR GAUTAM DASGUPTA named SKIDMORE DIRECTOR OF ASIAN STUDIES
We congratulate Gautam on this new venture.
PROFESSOR LARY OPITZ AND SKIDMORE STUDENTS IN SARATOGA SHAKESPEARE COMPANY'S THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
This summer the Saratoga Shakespeare Company enjoyed a successful season. Lary Opitz played the role of Shylock. Five Theater students were among the other cast members in this Actors’ Equity production.