[NEohioPAL] CPH Announces Summer Acting Conservatory for High School Students

[Cathy Hartenstein]

> The Cleveland Play House Announces 
> The CPH Summer Acting Conservatory
> A New Acting Program for High School Students.
> What: CPH Summer Acting Conservatory 
> Who: Students ages 15-18 
> Dates: June 14-25, 2010 
> Time: Monday-Friday 10am-4pm 
> Cost: $700 
> CPH Acting Conservatory is a two-week intensive program designed to give
> high school students the opportunity to experience in depth actor training
> taught by accomplished theatre experts within the context of a
> professional theatre.
> Classes meet from 10-4 and include rigorous daily training in acting,
> voice, and movement. All classes are taught by accomplished theatre
> professionals and Senior CPH Artistic Staff. In addition, students
> participate in Master classes in auditioning, acting for the camera,
> specialized techniques, and scene study. The goal is for students to learn
> comprehensive acting skills that help them become skilled performers. The
> conservatory culminates in a showcase of scenes and monologues. 
> This is a highly selective program. Acceptance into the program is by
> Audition Only. Auditions will be held on Saturday March 13th and Saturday
> April 10th . (If for some reason you absolutely cannot make these dates,
> additional audition dates may be available.) 
> To audition please prepare one 60 second monologue.  Your auditions will
> be timed so please stick to the time limit.
> To set up your Audition call: 
> 
> Cathy Hartenstein 
> Education Director 
> (216) 795-7000 X270 
> 
> Master Class Instructors include:
> 
> CATHY HARTENSTEIN has taught acting and directing all over the world for
> the past 12 years and has worked at a total of four universities, four
> professional theatre institutions, and given workshops at both National
> and International Theatre conferences. She has held positions at The
> University of Colorado at Boulder, The New York Film Academy, DeSales
> University, Southwestern University, The City of Austin’s Dougherty Arts
> School, The Metropolitan Opera, The State Theatre, St. Louis’ Center of
> Contemporary Art, Portland Oregon’s Regional Art and Culture Council, and
> Northlight Theatre. She has directed all over the country. Directing
> credits include Huck Finn, A Jewel of a Tale and The Emperor's Groovy New
> Clothes, The Cleveland Play House Theater for Children series; Chekhov in
> Yalta, Cleveland University Summer Stages 2009; Fool for Love, Chasm View
> Productions; The Persephone Project, Arezzo Festival, Italy; Hang Town
> Fry, Austin Theatre Company; The Babu Show, New York City Fringe Festival;
> The Comedy of Errors, Saint Louis Shakespeare Company; Dark Rapture,
> Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre; and Occupational Hazard, Cygnet
> Productions. She has assistant directed at the Goodman Theatre, Northlight
> Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Other professional experiences
> include serving as the Casting Director for 42 Productions and Casting
> Associate for Deborah Brown Casting where she worked on THE GREEN BIRD,
> Broadway, BAND OF BROTHERS for HBO; and various Off-Broadway productions
> and National Commercials.
> 
> 
> MICHAEL BLOOM is the eighth artistic director of The Cleveland Play House,
> America’s oldest regional theater. Recently for The Play House he directed
> Lost in Yonkers, Heaven’s My Destination, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar
> Named Desire, Lincolnesque, Rabbit Hole, and Well. He has directed at many
> of the country’s major theaters, including American Repertory Theatre,
> Berkeley Rep, Old Globe Theatre, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep,
> Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Alley Theatre,
> Alliance Theatre Company, The Cleveland Play House, Long Wharf Theatre,
> and the Sundance Playwrights’ Institute. His productions have also been
> seen throughout Japan and in Tokyo at the Aoyama Theatre and Theatre
> Cocoon. His off Broadway production of Sight Unseen garnered three Obie
> Awards, and he received a Drama Desk nomination for direction. Other
> productions include the American premiere of A Young Lady from Rwanda;
> Gross Indecency, Elliott Norton Award for Best Directing, 1998; the world
> premiere of Dinner with Friends at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Los
> Angeles premieres of The Cryptogram and The Old Neighborhood at the Geffen
> Playhouse; Major Barbara and The Philadelphia Story at Kansas City Rep;
> and the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Spring Storm. Mr. Bloom has
> been associate artistic director at the Hartman Theatre Company and
> associate director at American Repertory Theatre, and co-founder of Actors
> Repertory of Texas. He has taught at New York University, Harvard
> University, University of Texas, and Scripps College. His articles have
> appeared in American Theatre Magazine and The New York Times; and his book
> Thinking Like a Director was published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in
> 2001.
> 
> SETH GORDON is associate artistic director of The Cleveland Play House,
> where he produces FusionFest, runs the Playwrights’ Unit, and assists with
> season planning. Mr. Gordon directed Play House productions of Dinner with
> Friends, Proof, Forest City (world premiere), Vincent in Brixton, Tuesdays
> with Morrie, A Christmas Story, The Wind in the Willows (Play House
> Theater for Children series), RFK, Of Mice and Men, Ferdinand the Bull
> (Theater for Children series), The Chosen, Doubt, and The Lady with All
> the Answers. He served as associate producer of Primary Stages in New York
> City, where he produced and/or directed countless productions, workshops,
> and readings of new plays by America’s leading playwrights. Here in
> Cleveland Mr. Gordon has directed for Dobama Theatre, The Beck Center for
> the Arts, and Cleveland Shakespeare Festival. He directed the Arabic
> premiere of Our Town at el-Hanager Theatre in Cairo, Egypt. Mr. Gordon has
> directed at many New York theaters, including Ensemble Studio Theatre and
> Theatre for the New City; and directed and lectured at various
> universities, including Case Western Reserve University. He received the
> Northern Ohio Live Award for Excellence in Theatre in 2004 and 2006. He
> considers himself a lucky man.
> 
> MARK ALAN GORDON performed in Cleveland Play House productions of Pride
> and Prejudice and Room Service. Select regional credits are La Jolla
> Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Syracuse Stage, The Kitchen Theatre, Round
> House Theatre, and Arlington’s Signature Theatre. He was associate
> artistic director for Champlain Shakespeare Festival from 1986-1988.
> Before arriving in Cleveland he worked on original plays, including
> Ambrosio, True Crimes, Wintertime, and Big Love. Other roles include
> Merchant of Venice, with Hal Holbrook; Angels in America (Parts I & II);
> The Dybbuk; and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Television credits
> include “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” and MTV’s
> “Made: Actress.” A founding member of Signature Theatre Company in New
> York, he assisted Michael Kahn in direction of the Obie Award-winning
> Sleep Deprivation Chamber. Mr. Gordon is associate director of The
> CWRU/Play House MFA Actor Training Program for whom he recently directed A
> Midsummer Night’s Dream, Big Love, and Angels in America.
> 
> Cathy Hartenstein
> Education Director
> The Cleveland Play House
> 8500 Euclid Ave
> Cleveland, OH 44106
> (216) 795-7000 X270
> 
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