Acting As Play on Zoom with Gabriel Levey
Wednesdays, 6-9pm
March 20th - May 8th
On Zoom
$395
Wednesdays, 6-9pm
March 20th - May 8th
On Zoom
$395
A Clown-based Scene Study class?? You got that right bucko!!
Harness the Clown’s relentless pursuit of fun in order to take big risks before feeling “ready." Get out of your brain and into your body! Embrace the precarious pleasure of not needing to know what’s coming next! And always lead with hope! Using a mix of clown exercises and scene work, Acting As Play will strengthen each student’s ability to listen, play without shame, be generous with others and themselves, and ultimately fully embrace each individual's Empathic Vulnerability: the ability to fully see another while being seen fully by another - remaining open to the possibility of transformation.
"Taking Acting as Play with Gabe Levey has been, and this is not hyperbole, PROFOUNDLY illuminating to how I go about my process as an actor. Gabe is enormously insightful, clear in his tutelage, and most importantly, insists on the inclusion of FUN into the proceedings, a fundamental element of performance that I feel too often gets short-shrift in the multitude of classes and training available to actors currently. It will terrify you by asking you to truly be courageous in the pursuit of creative curiosity, but the rewards yielded cannot be overstated. Based on this single 8 week course, I am now revising my whole approach to acting. I cannot recommend this class enough."
- Student Testimonial
"Taking Acting as Play with Gabe Levey has been, and this is not hyperbole, PROFOUNDLY illuminating to how I go about my process as an actor. Gabe is enormously insightful, clear in his tutelage, and most importantly, insists on the inclusion of FUN into the proceedings, a fundamental element of performance that I feel too often gets short-shrift in the multitude of classes and training available to actors currently. It will terrify you by asking you to truly be courageous in the pursuit of creative curiosity, but the rewards yielded cannot be overstated. Based on this single 8 week course, I am now revising my whole approach to acting. I cannot recommend this class enough."
- Student Testimonial
A NOTE FROM GABE ABOUT WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS ROUND OF AAP!
Hi folks!
I’m unable to be in the city at the moment, so here comes Acting as Play on Zoom!
In this eight-week-long round of Acting As Play, open to just eight participants, scenes will be assigned based on each student's interests and goals. This a unique opportunity to explore a role you've always dreamed of, dive into the world of a playwright you're in love with, and/or take on a role you'd never be cast in but would love to work on!
I invite you to come: remember what you love about acting; play with great abandon, audacity and disrespect; discover (or rediscover) what a pleasure it is to be seen in all of your beautiful mess. Psst! This is also a great class to be taking in conjunction with Justine Williams' Character Lab and Annelise Lawson's Russian Études drop-ins. All three classes will be offering their own magic, but how they all resonate together is going to be super exciting.
If you have any questions about Acting As Play, you can email me directly at [email protected]. For enrollment questions email [email protected], or click the big blue button below to sign up!
Yours,
Gabe
Teacher Bio:
Gabriel Levey (Co-Founder and Director of Faculty and Curriculum) is an actor, teacher and theatre maker straddling the divide between Northampton, MA and Brooklyn, NY. Over the last 15 years Gabe has collaborated with Christopher Bayes as a student, teaching apprentice, actor, assistant director and teacher. Now, joining together to create The Pandemonium Studio could not be more of a thrill. In addition to Acting as Play at The Pandemonium Studio, Gabe teaches Physical Acting, Clown, and Shakespeare as Play at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New Studio; as well as Clown at the Yale School of Drama Summer Acting Conservatory. In Northampton Gabe teaches The Fun of Failure and Acting as Play at Completely Ridiculous Productions, a Training Center and Theatre Lab for the development and performance of theatrical comedy, founded in 2019. Gabe has taught classes and/or workshops at The Berkshire Theatre Group, Northern Stage, Galim Dance, Smith College, Amherst College, Shakespeare & Co., The Professional Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, and The Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School in Massachusetts. He also works as an acting coach, specializing in BFA and MFA auditions. Over the last 5 years alone, Gabe has assisted individuals get accepted into the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Juilliard, NYU, Brown/Trinity Rep, Columbia, The Pig Iron School, Steppenwolf, The Actor's Theatre of Louisville, CalARTS, UCSD in addition to RADA, Guildhall, Rose Buford, and Central School of Speech and Drama in London. For more information visit: www.gabriellevey.com A maker of theatrical comedy, Gabe's original work includes the clown duet Dwellicle 109 (IRT); the solo show Brainsongs or the play about the dinosaur farm (Yale Cabaret); an ensemble piece And now we do LINDBERGH’S FLIGHT by Bertolt Brecht (Yale Cabaret); The Most Beautiful Thing in the World (Yale Cabaret/Boston University/Cloudcity); How to Help the Self Needs Help with Carol A. Jantsen (The Peoples Improv Theater); and most recently A Super Serious and Not at All Funny Reading of Stories I Wrote After Brain Surgery, which kicked off Completely Ridiculous Productions first season of new work at the Northampton Center for The Arts. Gabe received a BFA in Acting from Boston University, and an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. |
To ask questions, email [email protected]