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University of Washington
June 15 - 19

WORKSHOPS
Presence - Actors, Auditor and Auditioning
Alexander Technique – Multiple Impacts
The River of Sound - Vocal Technique
Screen Acting Technique – A Workshop on Teaching Methods

Location:  Seattle, WA
Cost: $1,538 - $1,806
Includes Tuition and Housing Options
Deadline to register:  May 20, 2009

Presence - Actors, Auditor and Auditioning: As head of Professional Actor Training Program at UW, Mark Jenkins sees hundreds of auditions each year.  He has developed a series of exercises that deal directly with the encounter of the actor with the auditor as audience.  In his class, he will teach some of these and insights into his experience in auditioning actors for the Program.

Instructor:  Mark Jenkins has had a long professional career in New York, Hollywood, and regional theatres around the country.  He has worked on Broadway, off-Broadway and made his professional debut with the New York Shakespeare Festival.  His film and television credits include The Andromeda Strain, Riverrun, Apocalypse Now; guest starring roles on many major television series: Hawaii Five-0, Medical Center, The FBI, Barnaby Jones, etc.  Regional theatre roles include playing Biff in Death of a Salesman at Seattle Rep, Still Life, Husbandry, and The Waverly Gallery at The Empty Space Theatre; The Wild Duck, A Doll's House, Duet for One and The Seahorse at Intiman, Cat's Paw at the Old Globe, etc. He appeared in the recent production of David Hare's Stuff Happens at ACT in Seattle and will appear in the forthcoming feature The Spy and the Sparrow. He is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and has frequently collaborated with Russian Stanislavski master, Leonid Anisimov in Russia, Japan and the U. S.  He co-founded Seattle's Freehold Theatre Lab Studio in 1991.

Alexander Technique – Multiple Impacts: Cathy Madden’s sessions will have a dual focus.  Learning the basics of the Alexander Technique will give you greater coordination and also enhance your observation skills as a teacher.  Madden will also look at how the choice of language in teaching affects the learning of physical, vocal and acting skills.

Instructor:  Catherine Madden, Senior Lecturer in Alexander Technique, was a student of, and assistant to, fabled Alexander teacher Marjorie Barstow for nearly twenty years. Ms. Madden is a former Chair of Alexander Technique International. She is also Director of the Alexander Technique Training and Performance Studio in Seattle and Associate Director of ATA, an Alexander Technique training school with centers in Tokyo and Kyoto. Ms. Madden is on the founding faculty of United Kingdom Alexander Technique Associates in London and was on the founding faculty of the Performance School in Seattle.  Internationally she is a regular Guest Teacher at Alexander Technique training centers in Europe, Australia and Japan. She has been a featured speaker/ teacher for several International Congresses of the Alexander Technique Teachers, and is preparing to fill this role in the 2008 Congress. Her specialty is the direct integration of the Alexander Technique into the acting process. She also directs and teaches acting in Seattle.

The River of Sound – Vocal Technique: Judith Shahn has spent over two decades training actors to allow the breath to take up physical and vocal space, and to clearly deliver the message of the speaker.  Teaching and acting have a lot in common.  Through a series of vocal exercises and practice with text, Judith will lead even the most fearful speaker through the task of communicating with intention and without apology.

Instructor:  Judith Shahn, Senior Lecturer in Voice and Dialects in the PATP, has been a leading voice specialist in the Northwest for the last twenty years.  Her innovative approach to dialect training has been documented in VASTA's publication Essays in Voice and Speech.  An actress and director as well, Judith has coached dozens of productions at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, ACT, as well as the Oregon and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. Most recently, she coached the national tour of A Light in the Piazza and To Kill a Mockingbird at Intiman Theatre. Judith is a designated Linklater teacher and is a member of AEA, AFTRA, SAG and VASTA. Directing credits at the UW include: Fallen Angels, The Queens, Sled, As You Like It, Othello and last season an original script called Humor Me. Internationally, Judith was invited to teach at The Giving Voice Conference in Cardiff, Wales. 

Screen Acting Technique – A Workshop on Teaching Methods: Screen Acting Technique: An overview for understanding the impact of the camera on an actor's approach to work; creating exercises to develop skills for screen acting careers. 

Instructor: Associate Professor Andrew Tsao has directed dozens of prime time episodes for network television, including such award winning shows as Home Improvement starring Tim Allen, The Tick, Friends, Caroline in the City and many more. He served as resident director at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, and was the artistic director of The New Harmony Project, where notable writers including Horton Foote, Robert Schenkkan and Angelo Pizzo developed new work under his leadership. He has directed regionally at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, Shakespeare Festival L.A., East West Players, Pan Asian Rep and others. He has been awarded the Center for Leadership Arts Award in Indianapolis, served as a panelist for the NEA Theatre Grants Program, and been a guest artist for the directing program at California Institute of the Arts and the Film Department at the UniversityNevada Las Vegas.  He received his MFA in directing from California Institute of the Arts and is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

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