[NEohioPAL] WAKE UP And LIVE's Tricks of the Trade" Sessions. 4/25: "7 Keys . . ., " 5/2: "Diction, Dialogue . . ., " 5/16:
sue holland johnson
suehollandjohnson at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 20 10:05:42 PDT 2009
Don’t Miss The Opportunity to Attend These 3 Offerings from WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio
1. Sat. 4/25: "7 Keys to Reposition, Repurpose & Recession- Proof You &
Your Life for Positive Power and Prosperity”
2. Sat. 5/2: “Tricks of the Trade” Acting Techniques to Enhance Public
Speaking and Communication Skills for Effective
Performances, Presentations & Total Image Impact”
3. Sat. 5/16: “Tricks of the Trade”: Creative Writing for
Aspiring Playwrights, Screen & Fiction Writers”
See Detailed Course Descriptions Below.
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Sat. 4/25: We’re still accepting registrations for . . .
"7 Keys to Reposition, Repurpose & Recession-Proof You & Your Life for Positive Power and Prosperity”
Devote A Day to Changing Your Life! in YOU!
with Sue Johnson
Saturday, April 25, 2009
WHAT: “WAKE UP And LIVE: 7 Keys to Reposition, Repurpose &
Recession-Proof You & Your Life for Positive Power & Prosperity”
An Inspirational Session of Enlightenment & Empowerment. If you want to change, improve & enrich your life on 7 levels, this session will show you HOW.
. Body . Mind . Emotions . Spirit . Financial . Material . Relationships
This Artistic Life Makeover session includes:
. Begin at the Beginning: Tuning into You
. Wake Up, Get Up, Get Busy: Choosing Change
. Create a New You For A New Life: Let Others See the Real You
. Inventing Your Brighter Future: Stop Limiting You, Your Dreams
. Using Your Sun Sign for Artistic, Career and Life & Goal
Success: Expand Your Horizons
. Using Your Power Within for CreativeChange: Connecting With Your Higher Power
WHO: YOU! Especially, if you’re . . .
. facing uncertainty in your artistic career or life
. looking for new life and career fulfillment
. ready to make 7 major changes in you
WHEN: Ready to be a “New You for A New Life,” Now?
Saturday, April 25th
10:00 A – 1:00 P
WHERE: Shaker Heights, OH
WHY: If you don’t, who will? If not now, when?
FEE: $85.00
($75.00 if paid in full by Wed. 4/22/09/)
To Register: $50.00 deposit due (non-refundable). By Wed. 4/22/09.
$35.00 balance due at 4/25 session.
email: wakeup4664 at aol.com ..
Major Credit Cards Accepted.
(Private Consultations to accommodate your busy work schedule or lifestyle! Email for an appointment.)
About Sue Johnson: Director, WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio, is a Performing Artist, Business and Professional Development Consultant . Director .. Producer . Actor . TV Host. Motivational Speaker. Life Coach . and Author . who uses the insights and practical guidance from her studies in the ancient and modern teachings and writings. You also know her as co-Host of her WUAL TV shows, WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS, and A New You For A Life which helps to enlighten, inspire and transform you into being the person you are meant to be.
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Sat. 5/2: “Tricks of the Trade” Acting Techniques to Enhance Public
Speaking and Communication Skills for Effective
Performances, Presentations & Total Image Impact”
with Sue Johnson
Actor . Coach . Director . Author . Motivational Speaker . Leadership Training
WHAT: Learn to use an “actor’s” process, i.e. Audition - Rehearse – Perform – Review, to become a better speaker and enhance chances of success in employability, career advancement, personal and professional well-being. mprove your “performance” status through public speaking, interviewing, and professional image impact skills; and how improving these interpersonal communication skills can also, have a positive impact on other areas of your personal and professional life.
Public Speaking “Rehearsals,” “Performances” and “Director’s Review,” will include, but not be limited to, addressing the following: Improving language usage, grammar, diction, and articulation; Breaking distracting, ineffective speaking habits and behaviors; Using “improvisational” techniques to improve fast, on-your-feet-thinking, saying and doing; cultivating positive energy to communicate more effectively by using the whole person to create & engage in winning presentations, using basic actor’s tools: voice, facial expressions, gestures, mannerisms, body language and movement; Breaking down barriers and connecting with the audience; Identifying techniques to control nervousness and respond to surprises; Learning to bounce back from ‘flubs’; Discovering and embodying the empowering ‘who-what-when-where-why-&-how’ acting techniques to transform into a successful speaker.
WHO: For You . . . Career & Business Professionals, Performing Artists, Job-seekers, Motivational, Sales & Other Public Speakers
WHEN: Saturday, May 2nd
10:00 – 1:00 P. (and private coaching by appointment)
WHERE: Shaker Hts. OH
WHY: “To be ready for your close-up” performance in front of your audience, clients, co-workers, managers & others to whom you want to sell you, your products, services or inspirational message.
HOW: . “Lights! Camera! Action!”. Video-based Coaching ‘Rehearsals,’ ‘Performances’ & ‘Director’s Review.’
. Improving language usage, grammar, diction, and articulation;
. Breaking distracting, ineffective speaking habits and behaviors;
. Using “improvisational” techniques to improve fast, on-your-feet-thinking, saying and doing;
. Cultivating positive energy to communicate more effectively by using the whole person to create & engage in winning presentations;
. Using basic actor’s tools: voice, facial expressions, gestures, mannerisms, body & movement;
. Breaking down barriers and connecting with the audience;
. Identifying techniques to control nervousness and respond to surprises;
. Learning to bounce back from ‘flubs’;
. Discovering and embodying the empowering ‘who-what-when-where-why-&-how’ acting
techniques to transform into a successful speaker.
. Workshop Fee: $65.00 (Advanced paid registration due by Wed. 4/29)
($55.00 if paid in full by Mon. 4/27 /09/)
. Private Coaching: Customized Packages begin at $150.00
Credit Cards can be processed by phone:
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Sat. 5/16: “Tricks of the Trade: Creative Writing for
Aspiring Playwrights, Screen & Fiction Writers”
with
Sue Johnson, Ruby Fox and Gary Webster.
Sat. 5/16/09
10:00 – 1:00 P
WHO: Aspiring Playwrights, Screen and Fiction Writers
WHAT: A 3-hour workshop to help you develop your creative work. Explore
how you can develop and translate your creative writing ideas into
actual content. Discuss and read your work-in-progress to fellow
writers in an informal setting and get feedback. Here’s your chance
to express your creativity through developing and writing drama,
comedy or 'dramedy' and get insights and advice from experienced
writers and directors.
WHEN: Saturday, May 16th
10:00 – 1:00 P
WHERE: Shaker Heights, OH.
HOW: Johnson, Fox & Webster will help you learn and/or “fine tune and
tweak” the fundamentals of writing. Hone your skills or learn how to
combine the elements (exposition, setting, characters, plot, theme,
climax, denouement, etc.) in the craft of writing a stage play, screen
play, or fiction, which tells a story through strong characters and
events: Concept, Content, & Format for each genre.
FEE: $40.00 Advanced Registration required. Registration must be
received by Wed. May 13th.
($30.00 If paid in full by Mon. 5/11. Save $10.00)
Credit Cards accepted.
[NOTE: You will need to bring multiple copies of pages to be read/worked on at the session.
(Upon registration, you’ll be informed of number of copies to bring.]
Can’t Attend the Workshop?
Ask about our Reading, Review & Revision for Plays, Film Scripts & Prose Editing Service.
Do you have completed, or a work- in -progress? A play? Film script? Or, prose? Sue Johnson will read your work for content, format, character & scene development, theme, plot, logic, sequence and other basic elements which will help make your work eligible and more attractive to be considered for full productions, staged readings, or publication.
Fees: Begin at $35.00 for Initial Reading & Editing evaluation for One-Acts, Film Scripts
and Fiction (50 pages max). Additional fees required for reading & editing 2-Acts,
multiple scenes, other play or film drafts,20and fiction. Editing services customized
to meet your specific needs.
The instructors . . .
. Sue Johnson, Director of the WAKE UP And LIVE's Actors' Studio, is an actor, director, producer and coach who writes and co-authors plays with Ruby Fox and Gary Webster. Fox, Webster and Johnson co-wrote Harlem Blues, which was staged in “PlayActs” Performances, 2004. Fox and Johnson were co-writers with Gary Webster who conceived and wrote My Big Fat Dysfunctional Office, commissioned by the Ohio Education Association.
Sue and Leon Bibb, news anchor, WEWS TV, are known for their “PlayActs” Performances and touring productions of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters. Love Letters tells the story of Andrew Makepeace Ladd, III and Melissa Gardner’s extensive relationship over a 60-year period.
Sue produces, directs and co-hosts “WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS” and “A New You For A New Life.” The programs air on Cox Cable, ch. 45 and Cleveland Access, ch. 197, as well as YouTube.
Sue’s professional acting credits include recent appearances in Cleveland area theatres. She has directed My Big Fat Dysfunctional Office, a commissioned play, numerous “PlayActs” Performances, staged readings for Jim Spriggs’ Terror on Biddle Street (2005), and Faye Sholiton’s All Things Being Equal (2006) for Karamu’s Arenafest. TV credits include A & E’s 100 Centre Street, and films, Antwone Fisher directed by Denzel Washington, and The Year That Trembled, Jay Craven, Director. Her talent resume lists numerous TV commercials, industrials, and voiceovers.
Johnson’s “Tricks of the Trade: Craft, Career & Professional Development” workshops and private
coaching are wellknown throughout the performing arts and business community, as are her “Tricks of the Trade: Acting Seminars for Business & Leadership Training” consultations, workshops and private coaching. Her “WAKE UP And LIVE Life Lesson” series has been recently added to her coaching and consulting repertoire. Sue has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years as a small business consultant and as a small business owner. She shares her expertise based on her extensive experiences and the most up-to-date artistic and business development practices.
For more information about the WAKE UP And LIVE's Actors' Studio "PlayActs" Performances, Touring Productions, of Love Letters and the TV Divas, Training or, about being a guest on “WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS” or “A New You For A New Life,” email: wakeup4664 at aol.com..
. Robert “Ruby” Fox, Playwright –in – Residence, has written both drama and comedy which reflect his deep understanding of people, their foibles and triumphs. Over the years, he has written such diverse pieces as Wednesdays with Hilda which addresses race relations and touches the heart with Jewish heritage an d, Sophie’s Legacy, which takes an improbable look at “creative pregnancy.” Ruby is also co-author, along with Gary Webster and Sue Johnson of Harlem Blues, a play about four female African-American actors in Harlem, which sprung from his fertile imagination. Ruby also was part of the writing team for Webster’s My Big Fat Dysfunctional Office which was commissioned by the Ohio Education Association. For the past 6 years, Ruby has been leading a writers’ group that meets at Borders Books, Severance Town Center in Cleveland Heights, OH.
Ruby has seen his original one-act plays, Wednesdays with Hilda and Celibacy Odyssey performed at the Cleveland Play House. He has been featured twice in the Cleveland Jewish News as an “elder” person and playwright of distinction. The WAKE UP And LIVE s Actors’ Studio dedicated its 2005-06 season of “PlayActs” to Ruby. In September, 2005, Ruby and Celibacy Odyssey headed to the Big Apple, where Celibacy Odyssey, “a farcical fantasy romp,” was performed off-Broadway at the Studio Theatre. His plays have also been read at the Cleveland Play House, Cuyahoga Community College and Ensemble Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio.
. Gary Webster, Playwright – in – Residence, had “PlayActs” Performances, 2006-07 dedicated to him in recognition of his extraordinary writing contributions to WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio. Gary has been working with WAKE UP And LIVE since 1998. As a prolific sketch writer, he co-wrote Harlem Blues with Fox and Johnson, and was the head writer on My Big, Fat Dysfunctional Office, which was performed in Columbus, OH, before an appreciative group of members of the Ohio Education Association. His full-length play, Strictly Platonic? premiered as a stage reading in “PlayActs” Performances, 2007. More recently, Gary has penned the “TV Divas” ‘Sistahs and Their Mistahs’ and ‘The Divas Do Vegas’ series being performed in “PlayActs” Performances.
Gary has been writing plays since high school. The first he can remember was written in eleventh grade. It was titled "This Wasn't What I Had in Mind," and the topic was...surprise...relationships! He followed that up with parodies of several Shakespearian plays. Gary made his directorial debut with Saturday Confessions, A Priest’s Tale, which was performed at Cleveland Public Theater. He’s been a member of Fox’s writing group for years. His playwright's training came via Bob Noll's class at the Cleveland Playhouse. Gary is the morning announcer and operations manager at WBKC/AM-1460 in Painesville, in addition to being a performer, essayist, and director. You can find more of Webster’s work at www.keepwriting.net.
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About WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio
WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studio is a non-profit 501©3 organization dedicated to education and the performing arts. Established in 1997, we have provided aspiring and experienced performing artists with an opportunity to learn, improve and practice their crafts and skills through “PlayActs” Performances, which provides actors and performing artists the opportunity to showcase their talents through plays, prose, poetry, performance pieces, dance and music.
We produce WUAL TV’s “WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS” and “A New You For A New Life” which can be seen on, on Cox cable, channel 45, and Cleveland Access, channel 197, as well as clips on YouTube.
We also offer video web streaming which enables an artist to literally do a self-promoting commercial over the Internet.
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Sue Johnson
Executive Director
Wake Up And Live
P.O. Box 201524
Shaker Heights, OH 44120
wakeup4664 at aol.com
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