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Tennessee Williams Monologue Intensive with Noted Actor, Teacher, Playwright Austin Pendleton Austin Pendleton, a master teacher of Tennessee Williams, will work in depth with you to craft your monologue so that it is both authentically Williams and powerfully and uniquely your own. |
Song and Monologue Intensive with Noted Tony-Award Nominated Bookwriter/Lyricist & Director Bill Russell Working with Bill is transformational. Together you will explore multiple choices for how to best inhabit your character and play your scene. Expect to gain invaluable insights into your creative process. |
- Gain invaluable insights into the “world” of William’s characters
- Discover meaningful tools to help analyze and explore your character’s motivations
- Access and relate to your character with greater honesty, privacy and authenticity
- Take what you’ve learned with ease and confidence to your next audition
- Work in depth with Bill to further craft your audition material and explore your
character’s motivations in song and monologue - Access and relate to your character with greater honesty, privacy, authenticity,
power and passion - Sharpen your audition skills and confidence
- Take what you’ve learned with ease and confidence to your next audition
BILL RUSSELL wrote the book and lyrics for the critically acclaimed Broadway musical Side
Show, receiving a Tony nomination for book and sharing a nomination with composer Henry
Krieger for score. He also directed that show at the Park Square Theatre in St. Paul. Mr.
Russell co-wrote the book and lyrics for Off-Broadway’s long-running musical Pageant (with
collaborators Frank Kelly, Albert Evans and Robert Longbottom), and directed it at the King’s
Head Theatre in London. That production transferred to the West End, received two Olivier
Award nominations and won that prestigious prize for “Best Supporting Performance in a
Musical” for Miles Western’s portrayal of Miss West Coast. Bill subsequently directed Pageant
in Chicago and Los Angeles and at the University of Kansas. He authored the book and lyrics
for Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (music by Janet Hood), directing it in New
York and in London’s Fringe and West End, among many others, including a celebrity benefit
in New York which was recorded by Fynsworth Alley. Everything’s Ducky (written with
Henry Krieger and Jeffrey Hatcher) premiered with TheatreWorks of California and
subsequently received several successful regional productions, garnering the Will Glickman
Award for Best Play (S.F. Bay area) and the “Backstage West” Garland Award for Best
Score. A revised version under the new title Lucky Duck was directed by John Rando
(“Urinetown”) at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and Bill directed a version at the Boston
Conservatory which is being licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. Mr. Russell’s latest
creation with Henry Krieger Up in the Air, premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.
C. under the direction of Amon Miyamoto, who also conceived the project. Bill’s other credits
as Bookwriter/Lyricist include: Off-Broadway’s Fourtune and The Texas Chainsaw Musical
(co-author), Family Style (Minneapolis) and Kept (with Henry Krieger and Steven Chbosky),
which premiered at TheatreWorks of California and was subsequently performed at the
Edinburgh Festival. He adapted the book of Call Me Madam (starring Tyne Daly) for City
Center Encores! His credits as Lyricist include the Radio City Music Hall Christmas
Spectacular, the official theme for Gay Games and the women’s duo Jade & Sarsaparilla. Mr.
Russell’s directing credits include John Augustine’s Generation X and the comedy team of
Monteith and Rand on and off Broadway and at theaters around the nation. He has been
honored with two Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Commendation Awards and honorary doctorates from
his first alma mater, Morningside College and the Boston Conservatory. For more, please visit
www.billrussell.net.
Show, receiving a Tony nomination for book and sharing a nomination with composer Henry
Krieger for score. He also directed that show at the Park Square Theatre in St. Paul. Mr.
Russell co-wrote the book and lyrics for Off-Broadway’s long-running musical Pageant (with
collaborators Frank Kelly, Albert Evans and Robert Longbottom), and directed it at the King’s
Head Theatre in London. That production transferred to the West End, received two Olivier
Award nominations and won that prestigious prize for “Best Supporting Performance in a
Musical” for Miles Western’s portrayal of Miss West Coast. Bill subsequently directed Pageant
in Chicago and Los Angeles and at the University of Kansas. He authored the book and lyrics
for Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (music by Janet Hood), directing it in New
York and in London’s Fringe and West End, among many others, including a celebrity benefit
in New York which was recorded by Fynsworth Alley. Everything’s Ducky (written with
Henry Krieger and Jeffrey Hatcher) premiered with TheatreWorks of California and
subsequently received several successful regional productions, garnering the Will Glickman
Award for Best Play (S.F. Bay area) and the “Backstage West” Garland Award for Best
Score. A revised version under the new title Lucky Duck was directed by John Rando
(“Urinetown”) at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and Bill directed a version at the Boston
Conservatory which is being licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. Mr. Russell’s latest
creation with Henry Krieger Up in the Air, premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.
C. under the direction of Amon Miyamoto, who also conceived the project. Bill’s other credits
as Bookwriter/Lyricist include: Off-Broadway’s Fourtune and The Texas Chainsaw Musical
(co-author), Family Style (Minneapolis) and Kept (with Henry Krieger and Steven Chbosky),
which premiered at TheatreWorks of California and was subsequently performed at the
Edinburgh Festival. He adapted the book of Call Me Madam (starring Tyne Daly) for City
Center Encores! His credits as Lyricist include the Radio City Music Hall Christmas
Spectacular, the official theme for Gay Games and the women’s duo Jade & Sarsaparilla. Mr.
Russell’s directing credits include John Augustine’s Generation X and the comedy team of
Monteith and Rand on and off Broadway and at theaters around the nation. He has been
honored with two Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Commendation Awards and honorary doctorates from
his first alma mater, Morningside College and the Boston Conservatory. For more, please visit
www.billrussell.net.
AUSTIN PENDLETON has acted on and off Broadway, in regional theatres, extensively on
television and in about 100 movies, among the best known of which are A Beautiful Mind, Dirty
Work (on DVD), My Cousin Vinny, Short Circuit and What's Up Doc. His best known
television work was in recurring roles on both Homicide and Oz; more recently has appeared on
two Law and Order shows, Special Victims Unit and Criminal Intent. His most recent stage
appearances in New York (in 2006 and 2007) have been with Meryl Streep in Mother Courage
and Her Children and with Lauren Ambrose in Romeo and Juliet, both for the New York
Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. He is also a playwright; his three plays -- Orson's
Shadow, Uncle Bob and Booth -- have all been published, and produced in New York City and
around the country (and in the case of Uncle Bob around the world as well). He is a
Tony-nominated Broadway director. He is also a member of Chicago's famed Steppenwolf
Theatre ensemble, and has worked there extensively for many years, most recently this last fall
in The Crucible. He teaches acting at New York's HB Studio, founded by Herbert Berghof and
Uta Hagen.
television and in about 100 movies, among the best known of which are A Beautiful Mind, Dirty
Work (on DVD), My Cousin Vinny, Short Circuit and What's Up Doc. His best known
television work was in recurring roles on both Homicide and Oz; more recently has appeared on
two Law and Order shows, Special Victims Unit and Criminal Intent. His most recent stage
appearances in New York (in 2006 and 2007) have been with Meryl Streep in Mother Courage
and Her Children and with Lauren Ambrose in Romeo and Juliet, both for the New York
Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. He is also a playwright; his three plays -- Orson's
Shadow, Uncle Bob and Booth -- have all been published, and produced in New York City and
around the country (and in the case of Uncle Bob around the world as well). He is a
Tony-nominated Broadway director. He is also a member of Chicago's famed Steppenwolf
Theatre ensemble, and has worked there extensively for many years, most recently this last fall
in The Crucible. He teaches acting at New York's HB Studio, founded by Herbert Berghof and
Uta Hagen.
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To reserve your spot or for more info contact: Kimberly Vaughn 212-340-9598
To reserve your spot or for more info contact: Kimberly Vaughn 212-340-9598
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Vaughn, Director, Audition Coach and Producer and Top Casting Director, coming this Fall Do you ever leave your auditions thinking, "I wonder if I booked this job? I'm not sure the casting director got to see what I can really do." Register for this class and you WILL CONNECT with your real personal human truth and your PERFORMANCE POWER. Join Kimberly Vaughn, Broadway performance coach, regional director and Tony-Award nominated producer for a musical theater class that will CHANGE your audition process and INSURE more callbacks and bookings. Be among those working on Broadway, in National tours and Regional theater! Essential skills you will develop: For the first class, please prepare, fully memorized, 4 contrasting 16 bar cuts and 4 contrasting 32 bar cuts. Bring typed lyric sheets, your songbook and your picture and resume. This first class will run from 7-11pm so that you and Kimberly can choose the 16 and 32 bar cut you'll be refining for the next three weeks In the second and third classes, you'll work your two cuts as you continue to develop the skills listed above. The fourth class will include an audition rehearsal of your two songs with Kimberly followed by your audition showcase and interview with a Top NY Casting Director. Each week will cover lyric interpretation, freeing your instrument, and audition protocol. For all classes, please bring your audition book, typed lyric sheets and your picture and resume. Also, please dress as you normally dress for auditions. Dates Wednesday, November 30, 7-10pm Wednesday, December 7, 7-10pm Wednesday, December 14, 7-10pm See Actor's Connection website to register |
Audition-Interview DYNAMITE Workshop …because you can’t afford to be less than Dynamite! Does your audition and interview meet your personal standard of excellence? Do you give the casting director and agent the performance excellence that results in callbacks and agent representation? This weekend workshop culminating in an on camera audition gives you the tools to turn “No” into “Yes”! AND use your new skills in an interview and audition for TWO top industry leaders: casting director and agent
$345 with $50 discount for early registration Register with a $100 deposit and enjoy a $50 discount off the full price of $345. That’s $295 with your discount for 19 hours of training and presentation taping. Coming soon! Contact: Kimberly Vaughn, performingcoach@gmail.com, 212-340-9598 When you enroll, you’ll receive your “type analysis” to clarify your unique strengths! |
"For me, this course was like a lighthouse on a foggy night. Kimberly and Penelope helped
put into focus a vision for my career. This class gave me clarity about my type, my goals
and led directly to me booking regional work, my first Equity national tour and now a
principal role on Broadway, Rosalia in the Broadway revival of "West Side Story", all
within four months of taking the class."
Jennifer Sanchez, West Side Story, Rosalia and Anita cover
KIMBERLY VAUGHN, Triple-Tony Award nominated Producer
Regional Director/ Performer & Musical Theatre Performance Coach
Clients working on: Broadway, National tours, Regionally, Film, TV
PENELOPE BRACKEETT, The Creative Seed Career/Life Coaching is a
master certified coach and nationally recognized veteran in the field of career and
life coaching specializing in working with creative artists and companies including
acting, music, dance, publishing and design. She has been featured in The New
York Times, The Today Show, CNN and Child Magazine. She is the coauthor of
“Seven Keys for Unlocking Success without Struggle” with Lester Thomas Shane.
Presentations include American Academy for Dramatic Art, Brandeis University,
Rutgers University, New Actors Workshop, Actors Connection, Elizabeth Browning
Studio, and Atlantic Theater.
put into focus a vision for my career. This class gave me clarity about my type, my goals
and led directly to me booking regional work, my first Equity national tour and now a
principal role on Broadway, Rosalia in the Broadway revival of "West Side Story", all
within four months of taking the class."
Jennifer Sanchez, West Side Story, Rosalia and Anita cover
KIMBERLY VAUGHN, Triple-Tony Award nominated Producer
Regional Director/ Performer & Musical Theatre Performance Coach
Clients working on: Broadway, National tours, Regionally, Film, TV
PENELOPE BRACKEETT, The Creative Seed Career/Life Coaching is a
master certified coach and nationally recognized veteran in the field of career and
life coaching specializing in working with creative artists and companies including
acting, music, dance, publishing and design. She has been featured in The New
York Times, The Today Show, CNN and Child Magazine. She is the coauthor of
“Seven Keys for Unlocking Success without Struggle” with Lester Thomas Shane.
Presentations include American Academy for Dramatic Art, Brandeis University,
Rutgers University, New Actors Workshop, Actors Connection, Elizabeth Browning
Studio, and Atlantic Theater.