Drama Teacher Delray Beach
About
I teach practical, immediately usuable skills that you generally don't learn in acting school.
I am currently teaching the Drama Curriculum at Old School Square in Delray Beach.
I am a professional director, theatre critic, and college instructor. (MFA Carnegie Mellon in theatre directing, former member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, American Theatre Critics Association, and American Federation of Teachers).
I teach acting at all levels and DIALECTS.
I specialilze in practical SUBTEXT, and also making Shakespeare understandable without losing the poetry.
Website: www.DramaTeacherDelrayBeach.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LifeInTheTheater/
The satisfaction of a student improving and getting roles.
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Frequently asked questions
What is your typical process for working with a new student?
Whether the goal for entering or advancing in the profession or for avocotational fun, inquiring about experience and training, asking them to do a reading, giving them some specific direction to determine their talent and ability.
I observe their speaking and movement, and ask them about their background (in real life).
What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I am a professional director, theatre critic, and college instructor. (MFA Carnegie Mellon in theatre directing, MA San Francisco State in Drama, former member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, American Theatre Critics Association, and American Federation of Teachers), and playwright. I've taught at City College of San Francisco, Los Medanos College, Carnegie Mellon Unversity, and private group and individual classes in the SF Bay Area and New Orleans to both Equity and amateur actors. I've written three plays and a musical (Blood Tango the Musical). I acted Off-Broadway and studied with William Hickey at HB Studio in NYC.
How did you get started teaching?
I was a TA in the Theatre History course at San Francisco State University, and I loved it. I taught while I was getting my MFA at Carnegie Mellon. I went back to the SF Bay area and established myself as a private teacher. I acted the male lead in "A Doll's House" at City College of San Francisco, and they offered me a job as an instructor. I taught intro to acting, advanced acting, improv, Introduction to Theatre, directing, Dialect for the Stage, Audition and Vocal Production.
What types of students have you worked with?
Equity and amateur, native speakers and emigres, experienced and newbies.
Describe a recent event you are fond of.
Google just took a quantum leap in computer science.
The quantum computer completed the complex computation in 200 seconds. That same calculation would take even the most powerful supercomputers approximately 10,000 years to finish, the team of researchers, led by John Martinis, an experimental physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, wrote in their study published Wednesday (Oct. 23) in the journal Nature. https://www.livescience.com/google-hits-quantum-supremacy.html
What advice would you give a student looking to hire a teacher in your area of expertise?
Look no further.
What questions should students think through before talking to teachers about their needs?
Have they been cast in anything. Why do you want to do this (acting in an amateur production requires 200 hours and usually some travel for little or no compensation; only 10% of Equity actors make of $10K in any year). Remember, however, that "amateur" means "for the love of it." It affords an immediate society of companions who sometimes become family, and a ready-made social life. The key is to develop your art so you can touch people's hearts and make them laugh. It gives one purpose in life and a deep satisfaction in a ethereal undertaking that only leaves a program, a poster, some photos, a resume credit, maybe a review, and memories.