Acting As Play: Grad School Edition with Gabriel Levey
Thursdays, 6:30-9:30pm
In-person October 5th - November 9th
Plus a free one-on-one coaching session on Zoom!
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, Manhattan
$485
THIS CLASS IS SOLD OUT
BUT YOU CAN GET ON THE WAITLIST HERE AND/OR INQUIRE ABOUT ONE ON ONE COACHING HERE.
Thursdays, 6:30-9:30pm
In-person October 5th - November 9th
Plus a free one-on-one coaching session on Zoom!
Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th St, Manhattan
$485
THIS CLASS IS SOLD OUT
BUT YOU CAN GET ON THE WAITLIST HERE AND/OR INQUIRE ABOUT ONE ON ONE COACHING HERE.
Class Description:
In this 6 week course (which includes a free one on one coaching session on Zoom), 8 people will have the opportunity to work with Pandemonium co-founder and faculty member Gabriel Levey on their audition monologues.
The course 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, using the language of clown and games as a means to draw out as much fun, wonder and surprise as is possible in each piece. Everyone will be up on their feet with text in each class. After 5 weeks of play, we will put it all together with a mock audition on the final class.
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. COME PLAY!!
**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/solo material**
In this 6 week course (which includes a free one on one coaching session on Zoom), 8 people will have the opportunity to work with Pandemonium co-founder and faculty member Gabriel Levey on their audition monologues.
The course 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, using the language of clown and games as a means to draw out as much fun, wonder and surprise as is possible in each piece. Everyone will be up on their feet with text in each class. After 5 weeks of play, we will put it all together with a mock audition on the final class.
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. COME PLAY!!
**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/solo material**
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. |
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