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Schedule
Schedule
Sample Daily Schedule
9:00 Physical Warm-up and Workout: building flexibility, strength, stamina, and coordination
10:00 Vocal Warm-up and Workout: building range, resonance and clarity
11:00 Imagination Workout: exercises for invention, improvisation, play and building ensemble
1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 Festival Choir (all divisions)
3:00 Mask Work
4:00 Poetry or Monologue Study
4:30 Games & Exercises
*Subject to change. Each student will receive an individualized schedule at the start of the program.
Student Preparation
Student Preparation
MONOLOGUE
All students must bring 2 memorized monologues from full-length plays.
Each must be 2 minutes or less.
You can use monologues that you would like to use for auditions, or just speeches that you are interested in exploring.
Returning students cannot have presented either monologue before during the summer program—they have to be new.
You can bring the monologue you auditioned with if you want, or you can bring new material.
Note that if you auditioned with a monologue that isn’t from a full-length play, for example one that was written for a monologue book, a short play, or a movie, you need to choose and memorize a new monologue from a full-length play.
You must also read the entire play that your monologues come from, if you haven’t already.
Please upload a copy of your monologues here by June 1st
Upload Instructions: At the top of the page, list your name, the name of the play, the name of the play’s author, and the name of the character you are playing. If you have made cuts, that is fine; please represent those with strike-through so that we can see what you have cut.
POEM ASSIGNMENT
Please review the list below for your poem assignment. Everyone must have their assigned poem memorized for the first day of the program. Many students have been assigned the same poem they auditioned with. Some students are asked to instead memorize a different poem, in order to have a balanced range of assignments to work with as a group. All poem assignments are from the original selection of poems from the application, which can be found here.
Packing List
Packing List
PACKING LIST
Rehearsal clothes for class:
These clothes are for MOVING!
Bottoms: Jazz pants, loose-fitting athletic pants, yoga pants, leggings, capris, or knee-length athletic shorts. Stretchy material only: no denim. Either loose-fitting or fitted is fine.
Tops: T-shirts, dancewear, or yogawear; leotards or full-length tank tops are fine as well. Be sure to bring thin layers, so that you can be comfortable at different levels of activity and in different room temperatures. Sweatshirts are okay to have with you, but they will be too heavy/bulky for much of the work we will do.
Gym shoes: Athletic shoes that stay on your feet securely. These should have light-colored soles so they don't leave dark scuff marks on the studio floors. These should be INSIDE shoes only and used only for classes. Please do not wear the same gym shoes you wear outside.
Hair must be out of your face for class. Long hair should be securely tied back and short hair should be pinned or otherwise secured off your face.
You will also be working barefoot some of the time. A packet of wipes to clean your feet after class is a good thing to have in your bag.
Even though the weather in Florida will be very hot outside, all of our class and rehearsal spaces are air conditioned. We suggest bringing layers so you can be warm enough inside and then cool off outside.
* Your rehearsal clothes can be any color, but you MUST HAVE a minimum of one all-black set of rehearsal clothes as described above. Shoes do not need to be black.
* No specific performance attire is needed.
Other Items:
Notebook and pen/pencil
Optional: socks intended for movement class. These are the kind with separated toes and tread/grip on the bottom. No need to purchase if you don’t already own them, but if you have them please bring.
The following are prohibited in class:
Jeans
Woven pants or shorts that are not stretchy
Shorts that are shorter than knee-length
Midriff-baring clothing/crop tops
Flip-flops
Large logos or graphic tees with profane imagery/text
Hard-heeled shoes
High-heel shoes
* If you show up to class without appropriate clothing/hair as described above, you will be asked to change before participation is allowed.
Faculty
Faculty
Jenny Lord
Lead Faculty
Jenny Lord
Lead Faculty
Jenny Lord has directed and taught at The Juilliard School in New York since 2014. She has directed many productions over the years, including plays by Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Anton Chekhov, Lorraine Hansberry, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Lucy Prebble, and Maria Irene Fornes. She was the Associate Director for the Broadway productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III, featuring Mark Rylance and directed by Tim Carroll.
She has directed opera and regional theater across the US, as well as productions for several training programs. She is a member of SDC and AEA, and as an actor appeared with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, and many others.
Mark Olsen
Lead Faculty
Mark Olsen
Lead Faculty
Mark Olsen received his undergraduate degree in Theatre from Trinity University and trained with many of the great master teachers in the mime and movement disciplines, attending studios in Paris, Los Angeles, São Paulo, and New York.
Olsen is formerly the head of Graduate Acting at Penn State University, teacher emeritus and former secretary of the Society of American Fight Directors, and vice president of the Association for Theater Movement Educators. Olsen taught scene study and directed the industry showcase for the Columbia University Graduate Acting Program, stage movement at Carnegie Mellon University, mask performance at Sarah Lawrence College, and stage movement for New York Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab. Olsen has appeared on Broadway and toured internationally with mime/mask ensemble Mummenschanz. Olsen has taught in the Drama division at Juilliard since 2012 and is the author of three texts: The Actor With a Thousand Faces, The Golden Buddha Changing Masks, and Acting: Scene One.
Richard Dent III
Faculty
Richard Dent III
Faculty
Richard Dent is a transient actor and artist. Through workshops and personal coaching, he uses mask to heighten the artist’s intention, strengthen instincts, gain awareness of unconscious habits and make clear choices to tell a story.
After graduating from Juilliard, worked throughout the US and Europe to study and work with specialists in mask making and performance. He builds customized masks for various artists in the United States. Richard studied under Moni Yakim, Head of Movement, Juilliard Drama Division, and Christopher Bayes, Head of Movement, Yale School of Drama, in Clown as well as Commedia dell’Arte. He continues to work with and assist Orlando Pabotoy, Head of Physical Acting at Juilliard, in advanced mask work including, character and Commedia dell’Arte. He has assisted with masks at Juilliard and has spent the last several years coming and going from Italy and Bali to further his mask making craft. Most recently Richard developed a Commedia Dell’Arte style “Dracula” in Italy with the Atelier Mask Movement Theatre Company.
Richard has also served as faculty in New York at Stella Adler Studio of Acting and HB Studios, A.C.T. in San Francisco, CA, and at Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard in Geneva, Switzerland.
Acting credits include THE SNOW QUEEN for Portland Stage Company, LORD OF THE FLIES for Barrington Stage, as well as workshops and readings with McCarter Theatre, CSC, Hartford Stage, The Acting Company, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, New York Theater Workshop, The Signature Center, Peter Pucci Plus Dancers, and The Artigiani Troupe. Film credits include IMPRACTICAL SOLUTIONS and A DAY LATE & TEN POUNDS OVERWEIGHT.
Michael Rudko
Faculty
Michael Rudko
Faculty
Michael Rudko is a graduate of Yale and Juilliard and his work in the theater has taken him around the world. He is the only actor to have performed Shakespeare on Broadway, at London’s Globe, at the ancient Greek theater at Epidaurus, and in El Paso, Texas.
Acting Credits include: STC: Twelfth Night (Feste), Cymbeline (Belarius), Hedda Gabler (Tesman), Lorenzaccio, The Tempest. NEW YORK: Broadway: The Audience, Saint Joan, Romeo & Juliet, Mary Stuart, The Best Man, Timon of Athens, Serious Money. Off-Broadway: Theatre for a New Audience: Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Henry V; The Public / New York Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, King Lear, Richard II; Transport Group: House for Sale. INTERNATIONAL: The Bridge Project: Richard III; Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Germany): We Are Not These Hands; Donmar Warehouse (London): True West; Globe Theatre (London): Antony & Cleopatra, Julius Caesar.
Performance Information
Performance Information
There will be a sharing of student work from the program on Saturday, July 12. Families are welcome to join us in the Cypress Center for the Performing Arts at Windermere Preparatory School. Drama students are required to perform in all events listed below.
Saturday, July 12
12:30pm — Drama Open Class
2:15 pm — Festival Choir Performance
All students and faculty will perform in Festival Choir. Students are not dismissed until after this performance and are encouraged to stay for the Farewell Reception, following the performances. All students will be dismissed at 4:00pm.
Additional details about the final day will be sent via email after the start of the program. Times subject to change.
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