<div dir="ltr">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!!! <br>
<br>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)<br>
<br>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)<br><br><div>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 <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream </i>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 <i>Jekyll & Hyde </i>and he will be directing <i>Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street </i>for HBTI this July. He is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.<br>
</div><div><br></div>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)
<div><br></div><div>Ryan Zarecki is the supervisor for Prime Time with HBTI. He <span>has his Bachelors' degree from Bowling Green State University and is a proud member of the Society of American Fight Directors.</span> <span>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, </span><i></i><span>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.</span><br>
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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. <br><br>The deadline for enrollment for winter workshops/classes is December 1, 2013.<br><br>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, <a href="http://www.hb.edu/hbti" target="_blank">click here.</a></div>
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