Classes & Workshops

2010 Class & Workshop schedule

Scene Study
Spring class schedule is being developed
Fee: 6 week course (receive a 5% discount if fee is paid in full prior to the first session)
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Instructor: Ray Conrad (see bio. below)
Enrollment limited to 15 students!

Students will learn the method approach to scene study as used by teachers such as Stanislaus and Uta Hagen. Actors will learn how overall awareness, character development, sensory memory, given circumstances, relationship and environment impact the scene.

Playwriting Workshop
Spring workshop schedule is being developed
Fee:  6 week workshop (receive a 5% discount if fee is paid in full prior to the first session)
Beginning:
Ending:
Instructor/facilitator: Henry Meyerson (see bio. below)
Enrollment limited to 8 participants!

The Workshop will be geared to the student’s level of experience in writing. Plotting, character development, development of character motivation and conflict will be the basis of instruction. By the second week students will be expected to present pages of a new play to the class for feed-back. All feed-back will be supportive and geared to helping the student move the play forward in development, the goal of which is either a completed short play or the beginnings of a full-length play by the end of the Workshop.

Improv Workshops---Long Form Improv
Month to Month Improv Workshop Series
Mondays, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Fee:  $80.00 (register by March 27, 2010 and the fee is only $70.00)
Next session:
Beginning: Monday April 5, 2010
Ending: Monday April 26, 2010
Instructor: Robin Starr (see bio. below)
Enrollment limited to 15 students!

Long Form Improv is not "Who's Line". We work on agreement, on being true to the scene, on making your partner look good. As one recent student put it, "the class is part play, part self discovery, part silliness, and all fun". In Improv, you can't make a mistake, and you are only good when you don't try. Anything worth doing is worth doing badly!

Audition Workshop
Spring workshop schedule is being developed
Fee:  4 week course (receive a 5% discount if fee is paid in full prior to the first session)
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Enrollment limited to 20 students!

Sharpen your auditioning skills and learn the do's and don't's necessary to get the part!

All classes / workshops will be held at:
The UCC: Education Wing Room C
444 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215
(corner of East Broad and 9th, just west of the Columbus Museum of Art. Entrance is on 9th Street and there is free parking in the rear)

Complete the registration form below to reserve your place in the class or workshop.  The fee can be paid in instalments.
Questions??? email info@evolutiontheatre.org

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Ray Conrad
Ray worked as professional actor and teacher at the prestigious G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Television. He was instrumental in developing G-Stars curriculum, helping to lead them to their present status as the largest High School acting program in the nation. Ray has performed, directed, and produced over 50 professional shows. As well as Theatre, Ray also has extensive training and experience in both television and film. In 2004 Ray was instrumental in the formation of Rude Mechanical Productions a South Florida theatre company. Ray earned his BA in Theatre from Michigan State University and an MFA in Acting from Florida Atlantic University.

Henry Meyerson

Henry (Hank) has had both full length plays and collections of short plays published by Samuel French, Inc. and Smith & Kraus. Previous productions include: Fresh Brewed: Tales From The Coffee Bar, as a cabaret, Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, 2008 and 2009; Jump Jim Crow, Midtown International Festival, NYC, 2008, The Last Falcon, Victory Hall, Jersey City, 2006; Beware The Man Eating Chicken, at the New York International Fringe Festival, 2004 and Java Jive, staged at the Avery Point Playhouse, Groton, CT., in 2000 and 2002., the 2000 Midtown International Play Festival and The Producer's Club, 2000, both in New York. His works have also been produced by City Theatre, Miami for their Summer Shorts Festival, Turtle Shell Theater, NY, Chatham Playhouse, Chatham, NJ, Theatre of Note, in L,A., Manhattan Playwrights, Inc. by Epiphany Theater Company at the Blue Heron Theater in NY and by Firststage, L.A. He has a Masters of Fine Art in Playwrighting from Brooklyn College where he studied with Jack Gelber, Mac Wellman and Cary Harrison. He served on the board of directors of 'D' Stages Writers Workshop. He is a member of The New Jersey Dramatists, where he served as Literary Manager, The Dramatists Guild, and Times Square Playwrights. He has also taught creative writing at New Jersey City University.

Robin Starr

Robin is an improviser and actor and has been involved in Improv since 2002. She has trained with and attended workshops hosted by Mick Napier of the Annoyance Theater of Chicago, Keith Johnstone of Theatre Sports, and Megan Garano of Second City of Chicago. Robin as also trained with Cinublue Productions of Columbus Ohio, Columbus Actors Studio and McClatchy Acting Studio. She was a board member of the Applied Improvisation Network and a founding member of Easily Amused, a long form Improv troupe based in Columbus Ohio. She has worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies using improv based activities, and is very excited to introduce people to the art of long form Improv!