Acting As Play: Grad School Edition with Gabriel Levey
Tuesdays, 6-8pm, October 29th - December 10th
On Zoom
Tuesday 6-9pm, December 17th
In person. Space TBD
$825
Tuesdays, 6-8pm, October 29th - December 10th
On Zoom
Tuesday 6-9pm, December 17th
In person. Space TBD
$825
Class Description:
In this 8-week class, we will start with an open discussion about the graduate school audition process and why the pleasure of the performer is the most critical, and often overlooked piece of the process. We will then move into individual monologue work and one on one private coaching, using the language of clown and games to draw out as much fun, wonder and surprise as is possible in each piece.
All participants will be up on their feet with text in each group class. And, after 7 weeks of play, we will put it all together with an in-person mock audition on the final day of class.
By the end of the class, you will walk away with pieces that bring you so much joy, you will be able to step into any audition room with courageous generosity, excited to share the beautiful work you’ve crafted with any and everyone.
Enrollment in the class includes:
-Seven Tuesday night group classes on Zoom
- Four sixty-minute long, one-on-one coaching sessions on Zoom (totaling over $600 in value), scheduled individually to fit each everyone’s schedule
- One in-person mock audition on the final day of class
All participants will be up on their feet with text in each group class. And, after 7 weeks of play, we will put it all together with an in-person mock audition on the final day of class.
By the end of the class, you will walk away with pieces that bring you so much joy, you will be able to step into any audition room with courageous generosity, excited to share the beautiful work you’ve crafted with any and everyone.
Enrollment in the class includes:
-Seven Tuesday night group classes on Zoom
- Four sixty-minute long, one-on-one coaching sessions on Zoom (totaling over $600 in value), scheduled individually to fit each everyone’s schedule
- One in-person mock audition on the final day of class
*This class is not exclusive to folks auditioning for MFA programs. While there will be a focus on grad school auditions, it is meant to serve all actors looking to work on monologues*
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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 16 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. 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. Gabe 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. |
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