[NEohioPAL] Audition for CPH Summer Acting Conservatory

[Cathy Hartenstein]

The Cleveland Play House Announces 
The CPH Summer Acting Conservatory
A New Acting Program for High School Students.
SIGN UP TODAY FOR YOUR AUDITION
                                                 What: CPH Summer Acting
Conservatory 
                                                 Who: Students ages 14-18 
                                                 Dates: July 12-23, 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. To audition please prepare one 60 second monologue.  Your
auditions will be timed so please stick to the time limit.
To schedule 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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