[NEohioPAL] Bill Cobbs- Only Few Seats Left. You Can Still Register!

[sue holland johnson]

Attention Actors!
 
Registration for Bill Cobbs' Master Class will be closing soon. Only a few seats left.  You can still take make special arrangements to attend at discount fee.
Contact us to find out how!

Sue Johnson
Director
Wake Up And Live's Actors' Studio
wakeup4664 at aol.com
 
You Can Still Register for the Bill Cobbs Master Class!
 Hello, Actors, Directors, Playwrights and Performing Arts Supporters . . .
 
We at the Wake Up And Live's Actors' Studio are excited to announce that Bill Cobbs is coming home to work with us, Sat. April 10 & Sun. April 11.  If you don't recognize Bill by name, go to www.billcobbs.com and you will instantly  recognize him as a great character actor with over 30 years experience.   .                       
                        Bill Cobbs 
                               is Coming Home to Cleveland
                                                                  to teachBelow, you will see complete information.  We would really appreciate it if you would share this exciting event with your email lists, websites, Facebook, Twitter & any other technology you may have.
“In the Moment"
 Scene Study and Monologue Development
for Actors
for the 
WAKE UP And LIVE's Actors' Studio
and
“Wake Up And Live with the Arts” 

Saturday, April 10th  . & .  Sunday, April 11th
                                                10:00 A – 2:00 P                    12:00 – 4:00 P
 
The Cleveland Play House . Rehearsal Hall C
8500 Euclid Avenue
(Complimentary Parking)

 
For Immediate Release  
Bill Cobbs, Veteran Film, TV and Stage Actor is Coming Home to Cleveland
 
Contact:  Sue Johnson
              Wakeup4664 at aol.com
              www.wakeupandlives.org
 
Bill Cobbs is coming home to Cleveland to teach “In the Moment" Scene Study and Monologue Development for Actors for the WAKE UP And LIVE's Actors' Studio, Saturday, April 10, 10:00A – 2:00 P,and  Sunday, April 11,12:00 – 4:00 P, The Cleveland Play House, Rehearsal Hall C, 8500 Euclid Avenue. (Complimentary Parking)
 
Are you an aspiring or experienced actor or director? Then, let Bill Cobbs, Cleveland native, veteran stage, film and TV actor and director, help you hone your craft for better auditions and performance.Bill is coming from Los Angeles to lead this 8-hour, intensive which will give you the opportunity and techniques to develop, rehearse and perform your character monologue or scene for Bill.
 
Make your auditions and performances come alive with the skills and techniques to make your characters rich and real. You will work on important components of your craft:  
                            .  Audition Techniques 
                                           .  Selecting Audition Monologues and Scenes Right For You   
                                           .  Cold Readings; Interpreting and Analyzing; Character Development
                                           .  Breaking Down the Beats
                                           .  The Power of Listening
                                           .   Digging Deep for Authenticity
                                           .  Working with Scene Partner:  Getting What You Want
                                           .   Inside-Outside: Incorporating “Flavor” and “Style” 
                                           . Taking direction to empower your performance
Registration
.  Both Sat. & Sun.        Sat. only             Sun. only
    $135.00 by 4/2        $100.00 by 4/2       $100.00 by 4/2
    $165.00 after 4/2     $135.00 after 4/2    $135.00 after 4/2
 
.  To register: email: wakeup4664 at aol.com . www.wakeupandlives.org
.  Credit Cards accepted. 
   PayPal payment: www.wakeupandlives.org
. Make checks payable & mail to:  WAKE UP And LIVE's Actors' Studio   
   P.O. Box 201524 . Shaker Heights . OH . 44120
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Biography
Wilbert "Bill" Cobbsis a film and television actor. He has starred in over 120 television programs and movies.
Born in Cleveland, OH, Cobbs began his acting career in Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious   at the historic Karamu Theater in Cleveland.
 In 1970, at the age of 36, he left his car salesman job and headed for New York to seek work as an actor. There he turned down a job in the NBC sales department in order to have time for auditions. He supported himself by driving a cab, repairing office equipment, selling toys, and performing odd jobs. His first professional acting role was in Ride a Black Horse at the Negro Ensemble Company. From there he appeared in small theater productions, street theater, regional theater and at the Eugene O'Neill Theater. He made his Broadway debut in First Breeze of Summer.
 
Cobbs’ first television credit was in Vegetable Soup (1976), a New York public television educational series, and he made his feature film debut in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three in 1974. Cobbs has appeared and been a regular on many television programs including: The Others, The Michael Richards Show, The Outer Limits, I’ll Fly Away, Yes, Dear, The Sopranos, The Others, JAG, The Drew Carey Show, and October Road.Perhaps his most memorable television appearance is his role as Regina Taylor's father on I'll Fly Away as well as in the TV movie version I'll Fly Away: Then and Now. 
 
Throughout his film career, Cobbs has built a long list of credits playing kindly fathers, grandfathers, and even Moses (in The Hudsucker Proxy). He was Whitney Houston's manager in The Bodyguard, an old man in New Jack City, and Grandpa Booker in The People Under the Stairs.. In 2002, he played wisened elders in Sunshine State, Enough, and Sweet Deadly Dreams.
In 2006, Cobbs played a supporting role in Night at the Museum as Reginald, a security guard on the verge of retirement. He also played basketball coach and retired basketball player Arthur Chaney in Disney's Air Bud and Medgar Evers’ older brother Charles Evers in Rob Reiner’s Ghosts of Mississippi.  He had a pivotal role in the Coen Brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy, and played a jazz pianist in Tom Hanks’ That Thing You Do.
 
He was awarded the 1988 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for Driving Miss Daisy in Chicago, Illinois
 
For complete bio and filmography, www.Bill Cobbs.com.
 
 
   About Wake Up And Live’s Actors’ Studio 
 
WAKE UP And LIVE’s Actors’ Studiois a non-profit 501©3 performing arts and education organization.  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 other performing artists the opportunity to showcase their talents through plays, prose, poetry, performance pieces, dance and music.
We produce “WAKE UP And LIVE with the ARTS,” a cable access TV show which celebrates and showcases the diversity of the performing arts. The show can be seen on Cox Cable, channel 45, and Cleveland Access, channel 197, as well as on YouTube.  
Since 1998, Johnson has coached and counseled more than 700 performers and writers. Among the Wake Up and Live Actors Studio's success stories are Ruby Fox, whose plays have been performed off-Broadway as well as on the Brooks Theater stage of the Cleveland Play House by Wake Up and Live's own actors; Rollin "Mac" Michael, who polished the skills that earned him acceptance by New York's prestigious Michael Chekhov school of performing and who has appeared in plays both locally and in New York; Cody Wood, one of whose band's first appearances was on Johnson's Wake Up and Live With the Arts local access cable TV show and who has since cut a CD and performs for appreciative audiences in Los Angeles; and Bernadette Lords, who has appeared in the major motion pictures You Don't Mess With the Zohan and Doubt.
 
. Sue Johnson  Director of the WAKE UP And LIVE's Actors' Studio, is an  actor, director,producer and coach. Sue produces, directs and co-hosts  WUAL TV’s  WAKE  UP And LIVE with the ARTS, which celebrates and showcases the diversity of performing and cultural artists. Sue’s professional acting credits include recent appearances in Cleveland  area theatres, including co-starring with Leon Bibb in A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters, performed at the Brooks Theatre, Cleveland Play House and, more recently, at the Kent State Writers’ Conference.  She has directed My Big Fat Dysfunctional Office, a commissioned  play, numerous "PlayActs" Performances, staged readings for Jim Spriggs' Terror on Biddle Street and Faye Sholiton’s All Things Being Equal 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
 
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