Bored with the same old summer camps?
Want some serious acting training?
Join Dr. Forte's Advanced Acting Academy--
Guaranteed to challenge and guide you to
better acting and
better appreciation for your craft.
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2009 Dates: no camp being offered this year--
check back next year!
Location:
first three weeks at Jordan Middle School, Little Theatre,
750 N. California Avenue, Palo
Alto, CA 94303
Last week in Palo Alto High School's Haymarket Theatre,
50 Embarcadero
Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301
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For serious,
advanced students of theatre ages 14 - 19
Entrance by application and audition
Limited enrollment: Minimum 10,
Maximum 30
Cost: $800 per student - includes all materials, venue rentals,
guest instructors, morning snacks,
royalties, and production costs
Also: attendance at TheatreWorks' summer production, seminar with
the actors, tour
of TheatreWorks' facilities and meet artists behind the scenes.
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9:00 AM to 3:00 PM each day--
Mornings (9:00 - 12:00) focus on technique-- with workshops in improv, voice & dialect,
mime technique, audition protocols, Scene Study with Dr. Forte, clowning, dance, and stage combat.
Afternoons (12:45
- 3:00) we rehearse, leading to full production;
performances on the last Friday and Saturday
in the Historic
Haymarket Theatre at Palo Alto HS; this year's title TBA
Training
& direction by Dr. Jeanie Forte, w/guest instructors from
TheatreWorks and other local
working theatre professionals
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APPLICATION
DEADLINE APRIL 30th
Print out application from this website, fill it out and mail it in.
You'll
be contacted for your audition appointment.
e-mail Dr. Forte with any questions: see link below.
Jeanie
Forte has a Ph.D. in Theatre and over 25 years teaching acting at all levels;
over 25 years directing;
recipient Dean Goodman Choice Award 2003 for her direction
of The Seagull; two WAVE Small Theatre
awards; and a lifetime of theatre experience.
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TOO YOUNG FOR AAA?
I recommend a few summer programs for Elementary age:
TheatreWorks Summer Camps--
go to:
http://www.theatreworks.org/thewks_camps.htm
Bay Area Shakespeare Camps-- run by
San Francisco
Shakespeare Festival, offered
in two-week programs all over the Bay Area!
http://www.sfshakes.org/camp/index.html
Dragon Theatre-- go to:
http://www.dragonproductions.net/classes.htm
or click on the link below
or, for Musical Theatre fans, there's Hope!:
http://www.hopemusicaltheatre.com/
