Page 1 of 10 Centenary College of Louisiana And The Community Foundation and United Way Present Regional High School Theatre Festival Schedule Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2017 Friday Nov 30 th : 3:00-5:00pm Registration MLP Lobby 5:00-5:20pm Opening Ceremonies Stage President Holoman and Professor Don Hooper 5:30 pm Bailey-Alan/First Show Load in Stage TAPS 6:15 pm Bailey-Alan/Second Show Load in Stage Caddo Magnet 7:00 pm Bailey-Alan/Third Show Load in Stage TPT Captain Shreve Parents pick up by 7:30 p.m. at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse on Centenary Campus Saturday Dec 2 nd : 9:00-10:20am Voice for the Stage: Prepare to be heard I MLP With Jodie Glorioso-Centenary College Classroom This workshop is for students that did not attend last year s workshop. Robert Barton and Rocco Dal Vera have created a voice recipe for the actor in the text, Voice Onstage and Off. This workshop will use the nine voice ingredients exploring the actor s instrument for creating voice for the stage. Participants are to have a short monologue prepared and to wear clothing to move and work.
Page 2 of 10 9:00-10:20am Yoga For Actors With Logan Sledge-Centenary College The actor s body is his/her main instrument for communication. This workshop uses the practice of yoga to show how it can benefit actors by helping them develop physical awareness, strength, balance, flexibility, and the mind/body connection. Please wear clothing you can move in! 9:00-10:20am Theatre Games With Amelia McClain Group games based workshop that helps actors sharpen their focus and get out of their heads. 9:20-10:20am Directing and Designing with Action With Don Hooper Act is a verb indicating something is happening. How does a director and designer approach their art with the action of the play in mind? We will examine specific scenes to determine how the action influences the scenic design and thus the directing of a moment. Note: This workshop begins at 9:20 to give teachers and Don enough time to get the other workshops underway. Dance Studio Whited Room 10:30-11:30am Embodying the Elements MLP 106 With Kristen Blossom Classroom Embodying the Elements is a Workshop that combines acting, Movement and creative writing. You will be using breath, spontaneity, intuition and imagination to channel your creative nature. Certain yoga postures will be used to help open and expand your heart, allowing for deep breathing, greater vulnerability and connection. The elements of air, water, earth and fire will be explored physically and emotionally. Essentially, you will walk away from this workshop having designed 4 different characters representing these 4 different elements. Wear clothes you can move around easily in, bring a sketch pad and/or journal, a pencil and/or crayons and markers.
Page 3 of 10 10:30-11:30am Viewpoints With Logan Sledge-Centenary College This workshop examines Viewpoints, a movement philosophy that explores the issues of time and space. Originally developed for dance by Mary Overlie, this technique was adapted for stage acting by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau. In theatre, it allows a group of actors to function spontaneously and intuitively, and to generate bold new work quickly by developing flexibility, articulation, and strength in movement. Dance Studio 10:30-11:30am Auditioning in the Real World With Amelia McClain As hard as it is to believe, monologues are rarely used as audition materials in the professional world. So how do actors get jobs? What happens in between when a theater decides it is going to do a play and when the actors show up to the first day of rehearsal? And what is the actor's responsibility during that process? In the workshop we will talk through all of this and discuss casting directors, breakdowns (a list of character descriptions for each show), auditioning and callbacks with sides, and using a reader in auditions. 10:30-11:30am Voice for the Stage: Prepare to be III With Jodie Glorioso-Centenary College This is a continuation of the workshops presented last year. Robert Barton and Rocco Dal Vera have created a voice recipe for the actor in the text, Voice Onstage and Off. This workshop will use the nine voice ingredients exploring the actor s instrument for creating voice for the stage. Participants are to have a short monologue prepared and to wear clothing to move and work. Whited Room 10:30-11:30am The Magic Garment: Understanding the Power Behind Hall of Fame Costume Design Room With Kim Condon The costume designer s art lies in effective interpretation and execution. Doing so successfully requires a solid foundation in general artistic principles and the application of those principles. This workshop takes a look at the power behind costume design and the important role the costumer plays to transform actors into characters and to transport the audience to a different time and place.
Page 4 of 10 11:30-12:50 BOX Lunch IN THE CAFETERIA Provided by Centenary 1:00-2:00pm The (REAL) Life of Working Actor - Commercials! Films! Broadway! Babysitting! With Amelia McClain Wait... The real life of a working actor might look a little different than you think. Most actors have to have "survival" jobs. Some wait tables the day before they win their TONY! During this workshop, we will have an informal conversation where I will talk through my experience as a professional actor, answer questions and hopefully demystify the idea that the only successful actors are the ones who only do blockbuster films. Parents pick up students at 2:15 UNLESS they performed in the showcase. Then pick them up at 2:40 p.m. at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse on Centenary Campus 2:20-2:40pm Response Session MLP 106 TPT Captain Shreve Classroom Don Hooper and Jodie Glorioso 2:20-2:40pm 2:45-3:05 Response Session Caddo Magnet Amelia McClain and Logan Sledge Response Session TAPS Amelia McClain and Logan Sledge Sunday Dec. 3 rd : 8:30-9:45am Scholarship Auditions Acting All actors gather in the Classroom MLP 106 9:45-10:30 Scholarship Auditions Musical Theatre All actor/singers gather in the Classroom MLP 106 10:30am Callbacks MLP Lobby Tech Auditions TBD
Page 5 of 10 1:00-2:00pm An interview with Amelia McClain With Don Hooper 2:30pm Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks Don and Logan Fini Parents pick up students at 3:00 at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse on Centenary Campus
Workshop Presenters Page 6 of 10 Logan Sledge Logan Sledge is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. A Shreveport native, he received a BA in Theatre Arts from Centenary College before moving to California and receiving an MFA in Acting from California State University, Fullerton. Sledge remained in Los Angeles until 2008, doing film and commercial work. While working as an actor he also taught acting and voice and movement courses at California State University, Fullerton, Citrus College, and South Coast Repertory Youth Conservatory. Sledge has appeared in numerous River City Repertory Theatre productions. He was most recently seen in Venus in Fur and True West. Sledge is now in his fourth year as Assistant Professor of Theatre at Centenary College of Louisiana. He will be directing Of Mice and Men at Shreveport Little Theatre in April, 2018.
Page 7 of 10 Jodie Glorioso Ms. Glorioso received her graduate degree from Southern Methodist University in the Professional Acting Program. After brief work as a performer she served as a program director in the Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, Division of the Arts in Louisiana. There she administered the federal dollars from the National Endowment for the Arts. During her tenure with this position she continued her theatre work with many regional theatre groups as well as the other art forms including dance, music, and visual arts but in an administrative capacity. She has continued her work with our community arts organizations as a volunteer and recently, back on the stage at the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse, Centenary College. She operates and manages a special events facility and planning service that also allows her to work with the performing arts groups that use the building. This facility became SciPort, their temporary home. She has worked in the management of properties and business of Santa Maria Corporation. She has served on various boards statewide, on grant review panels for the arts, and appointed by the Governor as Commissioner on the State Tourist Commission as the Arts representative. Her work in the public arena for the arts has taken her around the world enabling her to have experienced the performing arts in the People s Republic of China, Europe, Canada, South America, and Mexico. In the works now is the cultural exchange with Cuba and the League of Historic Theatres. Also, currently she teaches Voice for the Stage in the theatre department at Centenary College of Louisiana
Page 8 of 10 Kristen Blossom, AEA Professor Blossom holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Acting from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory, one of the top 25 Drama Schools in the world. Kristen is a member of the Actors Equity Association, and she has extensive experience performing on stages across the country and doing independent film work in Los Angeles, CA. Highlights of her performance career include working with Tony Award Winner, Frank Galati as Rose of Sharon in his stage adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath and as Juliet in the 2013 New Stages Tour of Romeo and Juliet. Kristen is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200) and has taught Acting, Directing, Voice and Movement Classes for a wide variety of excellent educational institutions, including the Ringling College of Art and Design. She continues to study the Demidov Acting Technique with Andrei Malaev-Babel. Combining psychology and acting, this technique works to remove the obstacles standing in the way of the student s subconscious creativity, allowing an unobstructed flow of the creative nature. Additional highlights of her theatre training include studying clown with Broadway director, Mark Bell and Shakespeare with author, Patsy Rodenburg. For three years Kristen has taught and directed Musical Theatre at the Hunterdon Academy of the Arts in NJ. She uses a combination of yoga, acting and vocal technique to help her students achieve truthful, emotionally-heightened moments on stage. Highlights of her Musical Theatre career include performing regionally as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, The Blue Fairy in Pinocchio and Christine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Kristen has modern dance training and has served as choreographer for Godspell and A Midsummer Night s Dream at Huntington University.
Page 9 of 10 Kim Condon Kim Condon is the Events and Programs Coordinator for Bossier Parish Community College s Division of Communication and Performing Arts. She s a public relations specialist with six years of experience working in Shreveport- Bossier City, Louisiana. Kim is an outgoing, comedic performance artist and director that discovered the art of communicating through digital media design. Plain and simple, managing a creative production for both a live audience and a target audience is her specialty. She has worked as Canterbury Summer Theatre s company manager, director and costumer for 5 seasons and the digital media manager for SB Magazine before beginning her new position at the BPCC Performing Arts Theatre. She received her Associate of Arts in Theatre from BPCC followed by her Bachelor of Science in Communication/Public Relations from LSU Shreveport.
Page 10 of 10 Amelia has just completed a starring run on Broadway as Sandra in The Play That Goes Wrong. Also on Broadway, she worked on Fool For Love, Noises Off, The Heidi Chronicles, The House of Blue Leaves along with the Tony Award winning Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike. Amelia has been in over 20 productions off Broadway and regionally. Her favorites include October/November at E.S.T., Brooke in Noises Off at Arena Stage, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Pioneer Theater. If you don t blink, you can catch Amelia in the Coen brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis. Amelia received her BFA from the University of Evansville in Indiana and her MFA from New York University s graduate acting program. She currently is at the University of Evansville as an Artist in Residence with her husband and son.