[NEohioPAL] Period Acting Styles, Comedy and Prime Time classes with HBTI this Winter

[Bob Russell]

The Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute (HBTI) will be offering single
half-day workshops for Period Acting Styles and Comedy this January and
full day Prime Time classes this winter!!!

Period Acting Styles:  The student will develop the physical and
psychological skills needed for expressive action through the use of
breath, voice and body with period costuming. This workshop will give the
student the opportunity to develop their craft as an actor as they rehearse
and present a scene from a popular historical period that is commonly
presented onstage. Possible time periods including: Elizabethan, Victorian,
Restoration, 1900-1940 This workshop will only be available for Grades 5-12
on January 2, 2014 from 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM.  (Instructor:  Bob Russell)

Comedy:  This course covers the history of comedy, learning the comic
structure of a scene, and basic physical comic gags. Students will further
their understanding of comedy by focusing on comic timing and comic styles,
from the subtle to the slapstick.  This workshop will only be available for
Grades 5-12 on January 2, 2014 from 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM.  (Instructor:  Bob
Russell)

Bob Russell is an adjunct faculty member with Kent State University;
teaching the  Art of Acting and Art of Theatre for the School of Theatre &
Dance. He has also performed regionally with Porthouse Theatre, the Beck
Center for the Arts, the Factory Theatre, Cedar Point and Cain Park.  You
can see him this March as Nick Bottom in *A Midsummer Night's Dream *with
the Akron Symphony Orchestra.  Additionally, as a director his work has
been seen in Northeast Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania.  This past summer
he directed HBTI's production of *Jekyll & Hyde *and he will be
directing *Sweeney
Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street *for HBTI this July.   He is a proud
member of Actors' Equity Association.

Prime Time:  Come and share the fun of acting, singing, dancing and
stagecraft. Each day is filled with arts activities to explore each
students' creativity and imagination. Students will work with trainer
professional instructors. Join us for a day, a few days or all five days of
HBTI's winter break classes.  Prime Time classes will be available for
Grades 1-4 on December 23, December 27, December 30, January 2 and January
3 from 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM.  Single or multiple day registration is offered
for these classes. (Instructors:  Ryan Zarecki, Kyra Kelley, John Krol, and
Aubrey Fink)

Ryan Zarecki is the supervisor for Prime Time with HBTI.  He has his
Bachelors' degree from Bowling Green State University and is a proud member
of the Society of American Fight Directors.  As a fight choreographer, Ryan
has worked on everything from film to opera and looks forward to bringing
safe, repeatable, awesome violence to his students.   Locally, he has
worked with the Beck Center,  Porthouse Theater, TrueNorth Theatre and Ohio
Shakespeare Festival  as well as the sold out three year run of Evil Dead:
the musical at the Valentine Theater in Toledo, OH.

 Both workshops and all of the Prime Time classes will be at the Hathaway
Brown School in Shaker Heights, OH.  Tuition for the each of the Period
Acting Styles and Comedy workshops is $30.00 and the tuition for the Prime
Time classes is $50.00 a day.

The deadline for enrollment for winter workshops/classes is December 1,
2013.

To see what the student must bring for these workshops, register for
additional workshops and to check out what other opportunities HBTI is
offering this winter, click here. <http://www.hb.edu/hbti>

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