[NEohioPAL] Study theatre this fall with Seth Gordon, Brian Zoldessy, Marc Moritz, Arian Steiner and Dana Hart at Fairmount Center for the Arts

[Fred Sternfeld]

*Fairmount Center for the Arts, School of Theatre*

*Fred Sternfeld, director*

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*Theatre Classes and Workshops at the Mayfield Village Performing Arts
Center** *

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*All classes will be held at Mayfield Village Civic Center off of I-271 and
Wilson Mills Rd.  6622 Wilson Mills Rd. at the corner of Wilson Mills and
SOM Center Rd. (Ohio Rt. 91)

To register, call the Fairmount Center at 440-338-3171 or visit
www.fairmountcenter.org *

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*CLASSES – NINE SESSIONS*

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*SATURDAYS**
**Acting and Improv (7th & 8th grade)*

*Instructor: Marc Moritz
*Nine Sessions
Saturdays, Starting October 6, 2007; 10:30am – Noon
Fee: $135

A fun study of the Actor's process in creating action completely through
impulse. Students will learn acting concepts and fundamentals, teaching them
how to communicate on stage and how to create and understand a character.
These fundamentals will help students with character building, preparing
monologues, and working with scene partners. This course is perfect for
students who have some experience performing on stage and are interested in
learning more about the art of Acting!

*Scene Study and Script Investigation - The DNA of Your Text (9th grade –
Adult)***

*Instructor:** **Brian Zoldessy*

Nine Sessions

Saturdays, Starting October 6, 2007; 10:30am – 12:30pm

Fee: $150



*Script: *The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams - Copies Provided



The DNA of a script are the basic building blocks of scene investigation.
The discovery and identification of these separate elements will deepen the
actor's understanding to the material and heighten the ability to live
"in-the-moment".  Moment to moment acting is indispensable and vital to the
creation of moving and believable performances  The scene study and analysis
will guide the performer to the organic communication of these moments,
resulting in pure action; clear, economic, committed and comprehensive.
This process and it's principals can be applied to every monologue, scene,
every separate act, and an entire play.



Actor and Director scene investigation:

   - A step by step approach; investigation leads to *doing* rather than
   *being.*
   - Clear, immediate, easily accessible; a one page reference graph
   becomes the actor's roadmap; a guide that leads the performer to actions.
   - Creation of a *character map;* a quick reference; getting acquainted
   with the play and discovering important patterns which may go unnoticed.
   - Clarification of beats and units in every moment of the scene or
   play.


*SUNDAYS**
Improvisation (8th grade - Adult) *
Instructor: *Marc Moritz*
Nine Sessions
Sundays, Starting October 7, 2007;   1:00 – 3:00pm
Fee: $175

Take your improv and acting to a more advanced level. Improvisation is a
vital tool in an actor's development.  In this class you learn to trust your
own instincts, improve your listening skills, your focus of attention, and
allow moments of inspiration to carry the scene.  Whether you are developing
an improvisational routine or working in a classical play, improvisation is
the key to unlocking your unique, creative powers.*

**MONDAYS**
*Theatre by the Book *(3rd – 5th grade)*

*Instructor: Dana Hart
**Nine Sessions**
*Mondays, Starting October 8, 2007;  4:30 – 5:45pm
Fee: $135

Through the use of costumes, masks, puppets and music young actors will
perform classic characters from dramatic and children's literature. Nine
sessions with an open performance at the end of the session.
*The 3-Minute Audition - Creating a Dynamic Presence (separate sections for
teens and adults)*
Instructor: *Marc Moritz*
Nine Sessions
Mondays, Starting October 8, 2007
9th – 12th grade: 4:00 – 6:00pm
Adults: 7:00 – 9:00pm
Fee: $195

This intensive workshop focuses on professional self-awareness,  monologue
choices, resume presentation and actual "rehearsal"  of your audition pieces
with feedback from the instructors and  your peers.  Participants must
memorize two, contrasting pieces and have available their pictures and
resumes.*

**TUESDAYS**
*Shakespeare Character Monologues for Teens (8th – 12th grade)

*Instructor: Dana Hart
*Nine Sessions

Tuesdays, Starting October 9, 2007; 4:30 – 5:45pm
Fee: $135

"No Fear" - Shakespeare. Learn the techniques of unlocking the character and
power in Shakespeare's short dramatic monologues. These 20 line selections
are perfect as audition pieces or for competition and will introduce you to
some of the most moving moments in all of dramatic literature.**

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**THURSDAYS**
**Great Scenes for Young Actors** (6th – 8th grade)*

*Instructor: Dana Hart
*Nine Sessions

Thursdays, Starting October 11, 2007;  4:30 – 5:45pm

Fee: $135

Age appropriate monologues and scenes picked from classic and contemporary
drama as well as some film scripts. A great introduction to scene work and a
chance to "try on" favorite characters. A great class to work with good
friends or to meet a new theatre gang.*

**WORKSHOPS - ONE OR TWO SESSIONS*



*Putting It Together – 2 day Directing Seminar (Adults: 18+)
Instructor: Seth Gordon*
Two Sessions
Saturday & Sunday, December 15 & 16, 2007, 1:00 – 4:00pm each day.

Fee: $60



*Script:* Our Town, by Thornton Wilder (participants must read this in
advance)



Seth Gordon goes through the salient points of directing a play and offers a
director's approach to preparing a script for production.



*Day One* – The nuts and bolts of directing.



*Day Two* – Applying the nuts and bolts on preparations for directing the
American classic Our Town. The day will culminate with volunteers acting out
a scene from Our Town with the participants team directing.

*Going In With Your Best: An Audition Workshop For the Working Professional
**Instructor: Seth Gordon**
One Session
Saturday, December 8, 2007, *1:00 – 4:00pm* – 6-8th grade
Sunday, December 9, 2007, 6:30* – 9:30pm* – 9th grade - Adult
Limit: 12
Fee: $30***
The workshop will focus on making sure that the actor provides every
audition with the right material and the confidence and presentation their
talent deserves. Actors who wish to participate should come with a memorized
and prepared three minute monologue.
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Improv Intensive: Scared Scriptless! (8th grade – Adult)
Instructor: Marc Moritz
**One Session
Saturday, October 21, 2007, 12:30 – 3:30pm
Fee: $30

* *Come and play! A unique approach to Improv that will get you thinking
quickly on your feet and heighten your sense of play and spontaneity. This
Workshop will include Theatre Games as well as Long-Form and techniques used
by Second City. No experience necessary. Just a willingness to explore your
own unique sense of humor and imagination.* * *

*Character Creation through Movement (10th grade - Adult)*

*Instructor: Arian Steiner*
One Session
Saturday, December 1, 2007, 1:00 – 4:00pm
Fee: $30



This workshop will explore a variety of techniques to help the actor
discover character through movement based work.  We will be drawing from the
teachings of Augusto Boal, Michael Chekhov, and Libby Appel.  Students
should come with a prepared monologue and character to work from.  Students
should dress in comfortable clothes and be prepared to move.



*ABOUT THE THEATRE INSTRUCTORS AT THE MAYFIELD VILLAGE ARTS PROGRAM

**Thomas Q. Fulton, Jr.*
*Executive Artistic Director, The Fairmount Center
*A producer, director, actor, and teacher for the past 30 years, Tom has
served as Producing Director for three professional regional theatre
companies: Center Repertory Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and the
Cleveland Theatre Company.  He spent five years as a company member of The
Cleveland Play House and served as Artistic Director for Cain Park Summer
Theater.



Elsewhere Mr. Fulton has performed and directed at many regional theatres in
the area including Playhouse Square, The Cleveland Orchestra, Blossom Music
Festival, the Cleveland Actor's Theatre Company, The Halle Theatre, and
Actor's Summit Theatre.  Tom grew up in Geauga County and brings a special
love of Northeast Ohio to his position at The Fairmount Center.   To learn
more about Mr. Fulton, see his website:
*www.tomfulton.com*<http://www.tomfulton.com/>

*Fred Sternfeld*
*Director, School of Theatre**
Director, Fairmount Performing Arts Camp*
Fred Sternfeld is a one of Northeast Ohio's most prolific and successful
directors.  His work has spanned most of the theatre companies in
Cleveland.  He has garnered numerous theatre awards and is well known for
his ability to bring honesty and humanity to the characters in all of his
productions.  To learn more about Mr. Sternfeld, please visit his website: *
www.fredsternfeld.com* <http://www.fredsternfeld.com/>


*Seth Gordon* is Associate Artistic Director of  the Cleveland Play House.
At the Play House, he produces FusionFest, helps with season planning and
casting, runs the Playwrights' Unit, and directs plays. His Play House
directing credits include *Dinner with Friends, Proof, Forest City *(world
premiere), *Vincent in Brixton, Tuesdays with Morrie,* *A Christmas Story *and
this season *RFK *and *Of Mice and Men. *He has also directed in Cleveland
for Dobama Theatre, the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, and the Beck Center
for the Arts. He recently directed the Arabic premiere of *Our Town *in
Cairo. Previously, he served as Literary Manager and then as Associate
Producer of Primary Stages in New York, where he produced and/or directed
countless productions, workshops and readings of new plays by this country's
leading playwrights. While at Primary Stages, he also founded the New
American Writers Group, which supports the next generation of playwrights.
He has also directed at many other New York theatres, and has directed and
lectured at various universities including Case Western Reserve University.
He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre
Communications Group, The Jerome Foundation, and AT&T. Productions he
produced at Primary Stages received Obie Awards, Theatre World Awards, and
several Drama Desk nominations. He received the 2004 Northern Ohio Live
Award for Excellence in Theatre. He received his education at the High
School of Performing Arts in New York, and Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh. He considers himself a lucky man.

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*Marc Moritz *originated the role of Talk Show Host in the original Broadway
production of the Sondheim/Prince musical *Merrily We Roll Along*. Theaters
worked in include: The Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre Festival,
Long Wharf, Goodman, New Harmony, Cain Park, Dobama and many more. Marc was
the Founder/Director of the Cleveland based Giant Portions Improv Troupe.
His improv training includes stints at ImprovOlympic and extensive workshops
with Paul Sills, Del Close and Charna Halpern. He currently teaches Improv
at The Cleveland Improv Institute housed in the landmark Cleveland Hermit
Club, as well as Improv at Beck Center and is on staff at Chicago's Second
City Training Center. Marc is also a Guest Artist with The University Circle
Early Educational Enrichment Program - bringing Improv and other Creative
Dramatics into area schools.

*Dana Hart**
*Dana Hart apprenticed to the Cleveland Play House and has been a member of
Actors Equity for over 25 years. He has performed from Alaska to Zimbabwe
and in 48 of the 50 states including seasons with Alaska Repertory Theatre,
Center Stage (Baltimore), Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory
Theatre and Theatre West Virginia. He has appeared Off- Broadway in New York
and with many Northeast Ohio theatres including The Beck Center, Ensemble,
Actors' Summit, Dobama, Clague Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre Festival and
the Cleveland Play House.

Mr. Hart holds degrees in both Theatre Arts and English (teaching) from the
University of Alaska Fairbanks . He is currently the Upper School Drama and
Speech teacher at the Laurel School in Shaker Heights and also a member of
the faculty at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts. While in Alaska Mr.
Hart was the co-founder of Playmaking: a theatre company doing theatre and
storytelling workshops in towns and villages across Alaska . He was both a
teacher and the Artistic Director of the Sitka Summer Fine Arts Camp and a
teacher with both the Fairbanks Summer Fine Arts Camp and the Fairmount
Performing Arts Camp at Laurel School . He has been funded by four states to
conduct Artist in the Schools programs in Maryland , Washington , Alaska ,
and Ohio and was awarded an Ohio Arts Council travel grant to present new
works at the Hararre International Festival of the Arts in 2000.

*Arian Lara Steiner* is a recent graduate of Otterbein College in Columbus,
Ohio.  (For more information about Otterbein's theater department see the
website: *http://www.otterbein.edu/theatre/*<http://www.otterbein.edu/theatre/>
).  Last summer she studied acting at The Atlantic Theater Company in New
York City.  Arian just finished playing Puck in *A Midsummer Night's
Dream*at the Actor's Theater of Columbus. Favorite roles include
Amelia in
*House of Bernarda Alba* and Fairy May in *A Curious Savage*.  Arian has
assistant taught classes with Jill Wadsworth at Carnegie Mellon's
Pre-College drama program.  She also taught young actors at the Pittsburgh
Public Theater and The Center for Theater Arts.  This past year she was the
student teacher in two theater classes at Otterbein College. This past
summer Arian taught for the Professional Training Workshop at Fairmount
Performing Arts Camp.   Her training includes: Viewpoints and Suzuki
training with Ellen Lauren and Kelly Maurer of Anne Bogart's SITI Company,
Commedia with Commedia Zuppa, Fitzmaurice and Linklater Voice Work with Ed
Vaughan, and Psychological gesture at the Actor's Movement Studio in New
York City.

*Brian Zoldessy* is Assistant Professor and Director of the Theatre Arts
Department at Cuyahoga Community College, Eastern Campus. In 1995 he was the
first non-tenured faculty member to receive CCC's prestigious Ralph M. Besse
Award for Teaching Excellence and was honored with The Outstanding
Achievement Award for Teaching by the International Conference for Teaching
and Leadership, Austin, Texas.

As a professional actor, Brian has worked in New York, L.A., Chicago, and
Cleveland *(**Modern Orthodox, ART, Crossing Delancey, Awake and Sing,
Talley's Folly, Down The Road, Forty Deuce, Seedfolks, To Know Him** and **The
Boys Next Door**) *and has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in television
and films, working with, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Broderick, Fisher Stevens,
John Travolta, Woody Allen, Eli Wallach and the late, great, Jack Gilford.
Additionally, Brian performed stand-up comedy at many of New York's famous
comedy clubs, including, *The Improvisation, Catch A Rising Star, and
Dangerfield's* (Rodney Dangerfield's Nightclub), where he also served as
comedy writer/manager for Dangerfield's back-up comedian, Adam Keefe.

A winner of the Kennedy Center's Irene Ryan Acting and Directing Award, he
has directed and produced over 50 productions. Favorites include, *Six
Degrees of Separation, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Glengarry Glen Ross,
Agnes of God, The Male and Female Odd Couple, Othello, The Taming of the
Shrew, Jeffrey at Beck Center, The Sunshine Boys at the JCC Halle Theatre,
Hamlet ESP at the Cleveland Stage Company, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The
Comedy of Errors, and Coriolanus, *all at *The Cleveland Shakespeare
Festival. *He also directed the highly acclaimed *Lord of the Flies* at the
Beck Center for the Arts. Other awards and honors include *The Exemplary
Professor Award *from the National Conference of the American Association
for Higher Education*, Meritorious Performance and Professional Excellence
Award* from California State University, *The Carleton and Winthrop Palmer
Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Theatre Arts *from Long Island
University, *Best Actor, Supporting Actor, and Best Character Actor *from
Post Theatre Company, New York. Brian is also a theatre faculty member for
the *Special Studies Program *, at the Chautauqua Institution*, *the *Beck
Center Conservatory program *and* the Fairmount Performing Arts Camp.*

In 2005, Brian was nominated for a "Critic's Choice Award" and "Member's
Choice Award" for Best Actor for *To Know Him* at the JCC Halle Theatre, for
his work as actor, director and theatre educator by the *Cleveland Theatre
Collective. *He was also recently awarded *The Cuyahoga Community College
Dean's Award of Excellence *for his outstanding contributions to the college
and the theatre arts department. *Ohio Magazine *and *Crain's Cleveland
Business *recently selected Brian as one of Ohio's top educators. His
inclusion appears in the December '05 Excellence In Education issue (Ohio
Magazine) and the January '06 Crain's Higher Education issue. In addition to
his classroom activities, Brian also privately coaches many Cleveland
performers as well as preparing many Senior High School students for their
college theatre arts auditions.
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