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Spring Theater Workshops

TWO VERY SPECIAL SEMINARS WITH DIRECTOR/AUTHOR HESTER SCHELL, MFA

San Francisco master acting teacher, director and author Hester Schell returns to Provincetown Theatre. Pre-Registration is required for these special theatre seminars. Both seminars are 9am to 1pm.

SATURDAY, MAY 14
FINDING THE FUNNY: Writing, Directing & Performing Comedy For writers, directors and actors.

A repeat of the workshop offered during the Fall ‘09 Playwrights’ Festival when Hester was directing with us. It was a sell out!
Physical Theatre moves to enhance your comic writing, and polish up physical stage business to get your audiences rolling in the isles. Slapstick moves, timing, double takes, entrances and exits, prat falls, spit
takes, problems with props to bring your comic direction and performances to a new level.
Limited enrollment: 15.
Investment: $45.
Time: Saturday, May,14th 4 hours. 9 am – 1 pm
Pre-Registration required: Email to reserve your spot – hester.schell@gmail.com
Audit the seminar for $20. Auditors admitted only once we reach minimum enrollment (10).
Auditors observe only.

SUNDAY, MAY 15
ACTOR TUNE UP: Audition Skills Workshop – Monologues and Scene
Readings
For Actors

Polish your audition skills. Work your audition monologues. Handle your nerves.
Bring two contrasting monologues up to 2 minutes each selected according to your age range and character type. We will also cover basic cold reading skills for script auditions.
Limited enrollment: 10.
Investment: $45.
Time: Sunday, May,15th 4 hours. 9 am – 1 pm
Pre-Registration required: Email to reserve your spot – hester.schell@gmail.com
Audit the seminar for $20. Auditors admitted only once we reach minimum enrollment (7).
Auditors observe only.

Registration instructions: Email to reserve your spot – hester.schell@gmail.com
Register for both seminars: $70. That’s 8 hours of exceptional instruction.
Email: hester.schell@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

ABOUT HESTER

Hester is joining us after returning from her London book tour where she was invited to speak at the British Film Institute. Hester directed for the Provincetown Theatre in the Fall 2009 Playwrights’ Festival, and we are thrilled to have her back. A veteran stage and film director, she teaches at Film Acting Bay Area in San Francisco. She is a member of SAG, AFTRA and the Harvard Square Script Writers. She completed her Master of Fine Arts in directing at the University of Utah and has taught at several colleges and universities in the USA. Hester is the author of CASTING REVEALED: A Guide for Film Directors, from Michael Wiese Productions. The book is available on Amazon

CANDACE PERRY—WRITING THE SHORT PLAY

Theaters all over the country are producing and holding contests for short plays, plays that cut to the chase without sacrificing character, content or conflict. In this half day class, we’ll look at examples of
successful short plays, perform in-class exercises, and begin writing plays. Open to experienced as well as beginning playwrights, the class has only one
requirement: the desire to write a play.

About Candace

Candace Perry is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced by a number of
theater companies. More than twenty of her short plays have been produced by the PTC, two have been selected for inclusion in the Boston Theater Marathon of Ten Minute Plays, and she has been a finalist in several contests, including the prestigious Actors’ Theatre of Louisville Ten Minute Play Contest. She is an active member of the Provincetown Theater Company’s Playwrights’ Workshop and has taught “Writing the Short Play” on the Cape and in New Orleans, La.

*If you would like to teach a class or workshop at the theater, please call 508-487-7487.

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