[NEohioPAL]PRESS RELEASE: CPT Academy's Summer 2004 Session

[Dan Kilbane]

For Immediate Release
Contact:  Holly Holsinger, CPT Academy Director
216/631-2727 ext. 202
cptacademy at cptonline.org <mailto:cptacademy at cptonline.org>
June 7, 2004

CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE PRESENTS
CPT ACADEMY’S SUMMER 2004 SESSION
Cutting edge theatre training for children, teens, and adults!

CLEVELAND, OH - After a successful first year, the Academy is back in
session.

For 20 years, CPT has blazed trails, offering high quality, adventurous
theatre and education in Northeast Ohio.  Building on the success of the
first two sessions, this Near West side institution is offering more theatre
education opportunities for children, teens, and adults, enabling students
of all ages to take a thrilling step toward the edge:  the summer 2004
session of CPT Academy.  Classes are taught by resident artists, who provide
innovative training to theatre enthusiasts of all ages, regardless of
experience.

For this special summer session, CPT Academy is geared again for children,
teens, and adults, with convenient classes to meet summer schedules, and a
special class for the whole family!

CPT’s Academy Director, Holly Holsinger, is thrilled with the success of the
spring session, which included creative classes for children and the very
popular Audition and Going Solo classes for adults.  CPT’s groundbreaking
methods unlock the creative power and inspiration in each individual, while
at the same time focusing that energy into clear dramatic technique.

CPT Academy’s summer session consists of three offerings, and they all take
place on the CPT campus (CPT is located at 6415 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, OH
44102):

Theatre Experience Mini-Camp    June 21 - 25, 2004
Ages 4-6 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Ages 7-11 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Experience the art of theatre through this one-week intensive workshop for
kids. This hands-on day camp explores all aspects of theatre, including
acting, playwriting, design, and directing, and ends with a presentation of
work in CPT’s Upstairs Theatre.
Taught by Holly Holsinger & Jaime Bouvier
$100

Acting 101      June 26, 2004
Teens - Adult 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
This acting workshop is for beginners as well as individuals looking for a
review of the basic principles of the craft, based on the method of four
rules to good acting used by Robert Cohen (Acting Power, Acting
Professionally), and taught by his prize student Holly Holsinger. $35


Family Puppet Day       July 17, 2004
All ages 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
A fun filled day for the whole family!  Get together and be creative as you
design and build your own puppets and then use them to put on a puppet show.
Bring a brown bag lunch to munch on as we perform for each other on the
lawn.
Taught by Holly Holsinger & Jaime Bouvier
$25/person or $80/family

The Faculty

Holly Holsinger brings over 20 years of acting and teaching experience to
the CPT Academy.  In 2001, Holly was voted “Best Actress in Cleveland” in
The Free Times.  She has toured all over the U.S., Canada, Europe, and
Brazil, performing with Wishhounds performance group, as well as taking on
classic roles for the stage.  She holds an M.F.A. in acting from the
University of California, Irvine, where she studied with Robert Cohen
(Acting Power) and experimental theatre guru Jerzy Grotowski. Holly has
taught theatre at Ohio State University, the University of Akron, Tri-C, and
Lorain Co. Community College. She has been teaching and performing for
children since 1987.

Jaime Bouvier received a degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa.
She completed her honor’s thesis while studying at the Universite de Caen in
France, where she worked with renowned puppet theatre Le Papillon. She also
performed with Natalie Amourette’s company in Normandy. In Cleveland, she
has worked with Theatre Labyrinth and has performed in various roles at
Cleveland Public Theatre.

The mission of Cleveland Public Theatre is to inspire, nurture, challenge,
amaze, educate, and empower artists and audiences, in order to make the
Cleveland public a more conscious and compassionate community.

Cleveland Public Theatre and its artistic and education programs are funded
in part by The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, Ohio Arts
Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Nord Family Foundation, John P.
Murphy Foundation, Kulas Foundation, Theatre Communications Group, Bruening
Foundation, Codrington Foundation, Giant Eagle Foundation, Thomas White
Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Lorain, Family Foundations of
Jewish Community Federation, The Dolphin Trust, Saint Ann Foundation,
William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Foundation, Stocker Foundation, Key
Foundation, Nordson Foundation, Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, The
Heartland Arts Fund, Wolf Family Foundation, The Doll Family Foundation,
Raymond John Wean Foundation, The Ellie Fund, Cyrus Eaton Foundation,
Greater Cleveland Community Shares, Forest City Enterprise Charitable
Foundation, Alcoa Foundation, Hankins Foundation, Wolpert Fund of the
Cleveland Foundation, The Cleveland Browns Foundation, The Cleveland Plain
Dealer, City Architecture, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan, & Arnoff LPA, Joan
Horvitz, Roe Green Foundation, Third Federal Bank, Huntington National Bank,
National City Bank, Marous Brothers Construction, and other corporate and
individual contributors.