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Course Outlines - Specialty Courses
Some of these courses are
intended as a follow-up to our
Adult
Professionals series.
The workshop listed below is open to actors of all levels of
experience.
Acting
Intensive with
Michèle Lonsdale Smith
JANUARY 24-29, 2009 - 5 days
(Jan. 27 is OFF)
AFTERNOON CLASS
11:30am-4:30pm
EVENING CLASS
5:00-10:30pm
(participants are encouraged to audit all evening or
afternoon classes -- no extra charge)
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Cost: $475.00 + 5% GST = $498.75
ACTRA/Early Bird (must pay by Dec. 26): $450.00 + 5% GST = $472.50
PRE-REQUISITE(S): By Invitation Only
AUDITING
COSTS:
$25.00/class (+ 5% GST) = $26.25
$40.00/day (+ 5% GST) = $42.00
$100.00/5 classes (+5% GST) = $105.00
OR $175.00 (+ 5% GST) = $183.75 for the
whole week
** Please note: sometimes
classes go later than scheduled **
To be
considered for this class as an auditor, please
email your
photo/resume to
Info@ACTottawa.com
and answer the
following questions:
1. Why do you want/like to act?
2. Why do you want to study with
Michèle
3. What will you as an actor
bring to this class?
Former participants/auditors do not need to send a photo/resume, but
ALL invited participants MUST send a $100.00 by Monday, December 22,
2009.
A.C.T. RE: Michèle Lonsdale
Smith 798 High St. Ottawa, ON K2B 6C4
** Please remember to include your name, age, mailing address,
email and telephone #'s.**
All applicants will be contacted upon
Michèle's final decision on participants & auditors.
Serious applicants only please.
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Michèle
Lonsdale Smith
Actor •Teacher • Writer • Director
Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director
Lyric School of Acting Inc • 341 Water St • Van
604 685 0752 f/ 604 685 0782
www.lyricproject.com
Michèle graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York
in the
late 80s, and acted in numerous feature film, television, and theatre
projects
over the last 15 years including Sidney Poitier’s mini-series,
Children of the
Dust, It Takes Two, Soul Food and DaVinci’s Inquest. She is the
co-artistic
director of the Lyric Project with Kate Twa, founded in 2001, the
umbrella
project of the now renown Lyric School of Acting and the Lyric Stage
Company. She is the Advanced Acting Instructor at the school. She has
directed for the stage among others, The Mercy Seat by Neil Labute,
Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana, Eric Bogosian's one man
show
Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll and most recently, Blackbird by Adam Rapp.
As a writer, she recently co-wrote a feature film screenplay A Winter
Tale
which is slated for production in February 2006 for Leda Serene Films
where
she is periodically asked to assist in the development of projects,
lead
rehearsals for production, as well as casting, story editing and
writing of
scripts. Michèle will direct the theatre version of A Winter Tale in
Toronto in
January 2006.
She has also served as acting coach on both American and Canadian film
and
television productions including Alienated, the feature film Six
Figures, and The
Dark Hours both of which had their premieres in the 2005 Toronto Film
Festival. She regularly prepares actors privately for a multitude of
stage, film
and television roles and travels periodically to other cities in
Canada to mentor
and workshop actors.
Michèle's technique is rooted in Stanislavski,
Chekhov,
Strasberg and a little Meisner and is one she has been
working on for five years with actors in the master
class at Lyric. It's all about bringing your true and
authentic self to the work and being present every
time you work (at an audition, in class, on stage or
on set). It's about finding the artist within and
using the artist impulse to work instead of the
"clever" ideas the brain/ego comes up with so people
will "like you". It's about work ethic and the
life-long mastering of this incredible art form. It's
about focus and concentration and overcoming the
self-consciousness and fear that plagues all actors.
Of course all the problems cannot be solved in a
weekend but it will certainly give actors something to
work on for the rest of their careers and lives.
Each class begins with relaxation and sensory
exercises, some will be assigned private moments
and/or other exercises depending on their level. Then
we will work on the scenes. But the focus will be on
the bringing of truth to the scene, and how to ensure
each actor's unique and personal vision of the
character.
For more information about
Michèle Lonsdale Smith, please visit
www.lyricproject.com
IMPORTANT NOTE:
All applicants must email a resume & head shot to
Info@ACTottawa.com.
Michèle will look at all photos & resumes before assigning partners &
scenes.
More workshops
coming soon. Please bookmark this page and check back often.
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