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Contact Tessa LaNeve for details at 212.840.9705 x 212

PLAYWRITING

Face the Blank Page and Write: This ten-week course provides students with the tools necessary to complete a first draft through writing exercises, workshopped readings and insight from working playwrights. Students are advised on ways of structuring a scene, conflict and character. Small classes of 6 - 8 offer an intimate setting and the opportunity to have new work read out loud each week. Classes are offered for all skill levels, from first time writers to those who have hit a roadblock with their current piece.

Section A:
Instructor Rogelio Martinez (Fizz at Ohio Theatre, All Eyes and Ears at Theater Row)
Tuesdays from 11:00am - 2:00pm
Begins Tuesday, Feb 24

Section B:
Instructor Eddie Sanchez (Barefoot Boy… at Primary Stages, Diosa at Hartford Stage)
Tuesdays from 11:00am - 2:00pm               
Begins Tuesday, Feb 24

Section C: SOLD OUT!
Instructor Michelle Bossy (Associate Artistic Director, Primary Stages)
Tuesdays from 6:00pm - 9:00pm                   
Begins Tuesday, Feb 24

Section D: SOLD OUT!
Instructor Cusi Cram (All The Bad Things at The Public, The Wild Inside at Fordham University) 
Wednesdays from 2:30pm - 5:30pm              
Begins Wednesday, Feb 25

Section E:
Instructor Tanya Barfield (Blue Door at Playwrights Horizons, The Antigone Project at The Women’s Project)
Thursdays from 11:30pm - 2:30pm               
Begins Thursday, Feb 26

The Rewrite: The class focuses on rewriting with structure and action stressed over style. Prerequisite: (semi-)finished piece that’s ready for the chopping block!

Section F: SOLD OUT!
Instructor Eddie Sanchez (Barefoot Boy… at Primary Stages, Diosa at Hartford Stage)
Tuesdays from 6:00pm - 9:00pm              
Begins Tuesday, Feb 24

Section G: SOLD OUT!
Instructor Cusi Cram (All The Bad Things at The Public, The Wild Inside at Fordham University)            
Wednesdays from 6:00pm - 9:00pm         
Begins Wednesday, Feb 25

Section H: SOLD OUT!
Instructor Rogelio Martinez (Fizz at Ohio Theatre, All Eyes and Ears at Theater Row)
Thursdays from 6:00pm - 9:00pm             
Begins Thursday, Feb 26

Comedy Tonight: Writing funny is serious business. Develop your comedic gifts through writing, studying, and seeing plays that make us chuckle, chortle, and guffaw.

Section I:
Instructor Michael Hollinger (Opus and An Empty Plate... at Primary Stages)
Fridays from 2:30pm– 5:30pm                  
Begins Friday, Feb 27

As a playwriting student…

       -You will be in a class with 5-7 students.
  -You will have the opportunity to sign up for the Friday Jam Sessions to workshop your pieces with the PSST actors as well as have your work read aloud for the public in the PSST Playwrights Festival in May.
-You will receive discounts on all PSST workshops.
-You will be invited to one of the first performances of the Primary Stages production of Tina Howe’s Chasing Manet.

ACTING

Approaching Television Acting:

This twelve-week intensive program is geared toward developing your on-camera acting skills. Whether it’s single camera film style, multi camera sitcom, or live on tape shooting, there are certain techniques and principles with which the actor must become familiar to insure that the performance comes across effectively on screen and doesn’t end up “on the cutting room floor.” Team-taught by a host of television professionals, the class teaches both by example and experience. Actors memorize and perform scenes from scripts that have been broadcast on network television. They then view their performance and receive a constructive critique. “Live on tape” shooting makes it possible for the students to see and record their work, in finished form, with cutting and camera angles just as it would appear in an actual production.

Instructed by Casey Childs (Executive Producer/Founder, Primary Stages; Principle Director "All My Children"), Steven Williford (Principle Director, "All My Children") Linda and David Laundra ("Oz", "Another World", "All My Children") and a New York Casting Director

Section A: Sundays from 6:00pm - 9:30pm
Begins Sunday, February 8
**For Teen Actors**

Section B: Mondays from 10:00am -1:30pm         
Begins Monday, February 9

Section C: Thursday from 4:30pm - 8:00pm   
Begins Thursday, February 12

Advanced Scene Study: This ten-week course concentrates on developing the actor’s technique through scene study. The class is designed for actors who already have some training and experience. Although participants will be welcome to work on any dramatic material, there will be a special emphasis on new works. Learning how to work on a play in development is an essential skill for successful actors. We encourage our acting students to collaborate with the emerging playwrights in our playwriting classes as much as possible.

Section A: Instructor Michelle Bossy (Associate Artistic Director, Primary Stages) Mondays from 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Begins Monday, Feb 23

Section B: Instructor Casey Childs (Executive Producer/Founder, Primary Stages; Principle Director, “All My Children”)
Tuesdays from 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Begins Tuesday, Feb 24

Section C: Instructor Jim Boerlin (HB Studios)
Wednesdays from 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Begins Wednesday, Feb 25

Auditioning for Today’s Theater :This five-week class will focus on how to prepare for a theater audition. Each student will work on perfecting a contemporary audition monologue, preparing sides, and learning the do’s and don’t’s of an actual audition situation. This class will also concentrate on how to succeed at callbacks and provide ample insight into what exactly the industry is looking for.

Instructor Andrew Leynse (Artistic Director, Primary Stages)

Session A: Wednesdays from 2:30PM - 5:30pm
Begins Wednesday, Feb 25

Session B: Wednesdays from 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Begins Wednesday, Apr 15

As a acting student…

WORKSHOPS

Primary Previews: This four-night seminar offers an advance look at Primary Stages 25th Anniversary season of exciting new plays by some of today's most prominent playwrights. Each night of the seminar is dedicated to reading and discussing one of the upcoming plays with Primary Stages Literary Manager, Tessa LaNeve.

Section 1: March 4, 11, 18, 25 from 5:00pm – 7:00pm
At The New York Society Library (53 East 79th Street)

Section 2: March 10, 17, 24, 31 from 6:30pm– 8:30pm
At Primary Stages (307 West 38th St, Suite 1510)

Section 3: April 14, 21, 28, and May 5 from 6:30pm– 8:30pm
At Primary Stages (307 West 38th St, Suite 1510)

Workshops are essential to kicking creativity into overdrive for actors and playwrights alike. Past workshops have included:

Audition Breakdown
A two-day workshop that provides audition tips straight from the Primary Stages casting director.

Stage Combat
A workshop designed to create an understanding of the techniques and rules needed to perform safe and effective unarmed stage combat.

Playwriting Intensives
A weekend workshop designed to put you on the fast track to writing your play.

Viewpoints
A two-day workshop that teaches the fundamentals of the Viewpoints technique and allows a group of theater artists to function together spontaneously and intuitively.

For more information, please contact
Tessa LaNeve at 212.840.9705 x212 or SCHOOL@PRIMARYSTAGES.ORG

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