Saturday, December 31, 2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
Happy New Year!!! I hope that everyone should rock out and enjoy all day as much as Sarah Hess does in this vid. Happy New Year!!!
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
WAITING ON OTHERS: KITCHEN GUY
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
MOMENT TO MOMENT
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT
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"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
José Angel Santana, PhD
Directing the Actor II
H68.2115.01 H68.2115.02
Spring 2010
Friday: 10:00am – 1:00pm 2:00 – 5:00
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
The Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
Department of Film and Television
Graduate Program
José Angel Santana, Ph.D.
Email: j.a.santana@nyu.edu
H68.2115.01 H68.2115.02
Spring 2010
Friday: 10:00am – 1:00pm 2:00 – 5:00
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
The Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
Department of Film and Television
Graduate Program
José Angel Santana, Ph.D.
Email: j.a.santana@nyu.edu
DIRECTING THE ACTOR II continues to explore and focus on the best practices for Directors working with Actors: the task to GUIDE THE ACTION; the concepts of ACTION, OBJECTIVE, and JUSTIFICATION; the process – TO SEE, TO EXPERIENCE and TO SHARE.
Students will practice guiding the specific actions by leading actors in both group and paired improvisations. To do so, student directors will learn the dynamics of dramatic structure from an actor’s point-of-view. Students will learn about the deeper implications of ACTION, OBJECTIVE and JUSTIFICATION and how it informs the craft of acting and directing in the service of dramatic writing.
Through the use of improvisation, from both the actor's and director's point-of-view, student directors will learn of the great importance of the concepts: THE REALITY OF DOING, CONTACT, LISTENING AND ANSWERING, THE INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY, THE MOMENT, COMMON KNOWLEDGE, RELATIONSHIP, SPECIFICITY, and BEHAVIOR, as they relate to the making of narrative motion pictures.
In tandem, student directors will learn script analysis and its enormously useful implications to the interpreting of and directing narrative film.
Through the use of specific exercises and a piece of dramatic literature, the class will function as a collaborative group, one that reflects the dynamics of all theatrical productions. As such, the instructor will model behaviors that set a tone to invite: respect for co-workers, group participation, discussion, reflection, permission to dissent, inquiry, and a safe place to risk; all, with an emphasis on DOING.
Through the use of specific exercises and a piece of dramatic literature, the class will function as a collaborative group, one that reflects the dynamics of all theatrical productions. As such, the instructor will model behaviors that set a tone to invite: respect for co-workers, group participation, discussion, reflection, permission to dissent, inquiry, and a safe place to risk; all, with an emphasis on DOING.
Course Requirements and Grading:
100% attendance and 100% participation.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
DIRECTOR DAVID CRONENBERG ON WORKING WITH ACTORS
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
WAITING ON OTHERS - CREATOR INTERVIEW
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
CONGRATULATIONS BROOKE SWANEY AND KENDRA MYLNECHUK WHO ARE GOING TO SUNDANCE
2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Program
:|: OFFICIAL SELECTION :|:
OK BREATHE AURALEE (Director and screenwriter: Brooke Swaney) — Auralee wants a baby and will go to great lengths to get what she wants.
Director and screenwriter: Brooke Swaney
Kendra Mylnechuk plays "Auralee"
Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today the program of short films selected to screen at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. This year's Short Film program is comprised of 64 short films selected from a record 7,675 submissions, up 16% over submissions for the 2011 Festival. The Festival will be January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Teatro Lincoln
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"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
Monday, November 7, 2011
SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS
Arrested for participating in the White Rose resistance movement, anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch) is subjected to a highly charged interrogation by the Gestapo, testing her loyalty to her cause, her family and her convictions. Based on true events, director Marc Rothemund's absorbing Oscar-nominated drama explores maintaining human resolve in the face of intense pressure from a system determined to silence whistle-blowers.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
PETER BRODERICK
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Daniel B. BURKE; HELPED ENGINEER CAPITAL CITIES-ABC DEAL
Daniel B. Burke Dies at 82; Helped Engineer Capital Cities-ABC Deal
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
Daniel B. Burke, who helped engineer the acquisition of the American Broadcasting Company by Capital Cities, one of the boldest corporate takeovers of the 1980s, and went on to become chief executive of the merged company, died on Wednesday at his home in Rye, N.Y. He was 82.The cause was complications from Type 1 diabetes, the family said in a statement.
Mr. Burke worked for most of his career alongside Thomas S. Murphy, whom he served as a trusted lieutenant and partner. Mr. Murphy had been a Harvard Business School classmate of Mr. Burke’s older brother, James E. Burke, who later became the chief executive of Johnson & Johnson.
Daniel Burke and Mr. Murphy were a formidable pair. Together they built Capital Cities through a series of acquisitions and orchestrated the merger with ABC in 1986. While Mr. Murphy was the outside man, happy to be the public face of the company, Mr. Burke thrived as the inside man, the cost-conscious manager much less eager for publicity.
“He was really a partner,” said Mr. Murphy, who described their relationship as a collaboration between equals, even though Mr. Murphy was always a notch higher on the organizational diagram. “It was not a one or a two,” he said of their working relationship.
“As far as running the business and, particularly when we took over ABC, the details of putting that ship in order so we maximized our financial opportunities, a great deal of that was him,” Mr. Murphy said.
The acquisition of ABC, a much bigger company than Capital Cities, for $3.5 billion stunned the business world. It was the first time one of the nation’s three major broadcast networks had changed ownership, and at the time it was the biggest corporate acquisition outside the oil industry.
Despite the surprise, Wall Street reacted positively, not least because Capital Cities brought in Warren E. Buffett to help finance the purchase.
Mr. Burke became president and chief operating officer of the merged company, while Mr. Murphy was chairman and chief executive. Capital Cities was a highly profitable company that owned television and radio stations, newspapers and trade magazines. ABC was the third-largest network, but still a vast operation that ran television and radio stations and produced programming.
ABC insiders were skeptical about the acquisition at first, but Mr. Murphy and Mr. Burke turned the new company into a well-managed and profitable media conglomerate. Known as cost-cutters, they sought to replace a celebrity-oriented culture at ABC with a less profligate one that emphasized management teamwork.
Mr. Burke could be a tough task master, Mr. Murphy said, but he also had a deft way with people.
Daniel Barnett Burke was born in Albany on Feb. 4, 1929, a son of James and Mary Barnett Burke. His father was an insurance salesman. He grew up in Slingerlands, N.Y., outside Albany, and Dorset, Vt. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1950, served as an infantry lieutenant in the Korean War in 1951 and 1952, and received an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1955.
After leaving Harvard, he worked for the Jell-O division of General Foods. In 1961, Mr. Murphy hired him to manage an Albany television station owned by Capital Cities. Mr. Burke became chief executive of Capital Cities/ABC in 1990, when Mr. Murphy retired from that position but stayed on as chairman. Mr. Burke retired in 1994.
In 1995 Mr. Murphy pulled off one more mega-deal: negotiating the sale of the company to Disney for $19 billion. In retirement, Mr. Burke lived in Maine and ran a minor league baseball team, the Portland Sea Dogs.
He was a director of Conrail, the federally operated freight railroad, from 1981 to 1986. He was also a director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, and he was a chairman emeritus of New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
Two of his three sons also made careers in media. His oldest son, Stephen, held top posts at Comcast and Disney and in January 2011 was named chief executive of NBC Universal. His son Bill was president of TBS and the Weather Channel.
He is also survived by his wife of 54 years, Harriet; another son, Frank; a daughter, Sally McNamara; a brother, James; a sister, Phyllis B. Davis; and 14 grandchildren.
Monday, October 24, 2011
THE CASTING DIRECTORY*SOCIAL - 700 MEMBERS
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
FOG CITY MAVERICKS
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
imagine science films: SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL - OCTOBER 14 - 21, NEW YORK
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
PARSONS ET ALL SET T JOIN TRIBUTE TO GROUP THEATRE
Frances Sternhagen, Estelle Parsons, Lois Smith, George Bartenieff, Marsha Warren, Director of the Paul Green Foundation, Wendy Smith, author of The Group Theatre book, Real Life Drama, are slated to join the 20 member ReGroup Ensemble in this one night benefit performance.For the first time ever, letters and stories from the Group members along with scenes/monologues from their 23 plays will be woven together into a 2 hr narrative celebrating the the country's most influential theatre group. The event is a fundraiser for the non-profit ReGroup Theatre Company and will take place October 10, 2011 at 7 PM. The tribute will be held at Peter Norton Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre, 2537 Broadway at 95th St. Tickets can be purchased online at www.symphonyspace.org or by calling 212-864-5400.
For the most up to date list of guest artists and speakers, please check out www.regrouptheatre.org
Though The Group turned out some of the top actors, directors and teachers, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Elia Kazan, Sanford Meisner to name a very few, they also worked with some of the greatest dramatists. Most remembered for the 6 plays of Clifford Odets, such as Golden Boy and Awake and Sing, The Group presented works by John Howard Lawson, Paul Green, Dawn Powell, Sidney Kingsley, and many more. Though most of them have been forgotten over the years, many due to the blacklist, these Great Depression era stories are once again extremely relevant. Several of the plays that will be represented during the tribute, including Nellise Child's Weep for the Virgins, Robert Ardrey's Casey Jones, and Irwin Shaw's Retreat to Pleasure have never been published, so this is a rare chance to get a glimpse of a piece of American Theatre History.
Regular priced tickets for the fundraiser are available for $55 in advance, tickets will be $75 at the door. In an effort to re-educate the young as to the power of great playwrighting, student tickets are $25. There will also be a limited number of VIP tickets available for $100 that will include a private reception with the artists after the show.
The ReGroup artistic team includes Allie Mulholland, Emily Ciotti, Linda Glick, Maurya Scanlon, Alex Ristov, Kelsey Moore, Shelley Valfer, Angelo Angrisani, Pete McElligott, Stephen Dexter, Rachel Casparian, Emilio Tirado, Kate Warren, Selena C. Dukes, Timothy Weinert, Shaun Bennet Wilson, Ben Weaver, Zach Wegner, Alexander Carney, Joseph McDonnell, Jaclyn Biskup, José Angel Santana, and John Moletress.
The non-profit ReGroup Theatre Company burst onto the scene in 2010 and has since presented 7 gripping staged readings of the Group plays. The ReGroup recently published a collection of 3 of the Group's plays for the first time in over 75 years. It features a foreword by Estelle Parsons. The "Lost" Group Theatre Plays: Volume 1 will be available for sale at the tribute and on their website at www.regrouptheatre.org Volume 2 is already in the works and will feature several Group plays that have never been in print.
Tickets for the fundraiser can be purchased through www.symphonyspace.org
October 10, 2011 7 PM 2537 Broadway at 95th Street New York, New York 10025
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Monday, October 3, 2011
DARREN ARONOFSKY ON CONNECTING WITH AUDIENCE
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Friday, September 30, 2011
ACTIVE VERBS
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"I'm of the Aristotelian School: characters are nothing but habitual action. You don't create a character; you describe what he does. . .the theory of true action. . .is the essential understanding of drama." - David Mamet pp. 42
| Accelerate | |
| Accommodate | |
| Accomplish | |
| Accumulate | |
| Achieve | |
| Acquire | |
| Act | |
| Activate | |
| Adapt | |
| Add | |
| Address | |
| Adjust | |
| Administer | |
| Advertise | |
Advise | |
| Advocate | |
| Aid | |
| Aide | |
| Align | |
| Allocate | |
| Amend | |
| Analyze | |
| Answer | |
| Anticipate | |
| Apply | |
| Appoint | |
| Appraise | |
| Approve | |
| Arbitrate | |
| Arrange | |
| Articulate | |
| Ascertain | |
| Assemble | |
| Assess | |
| Assign | |
| Assist | |
| Assume | |
| Attain | |
| Attend | |
| Attract | |
| Audit | |
| Augment | |
| Author | |
| Authorize | |
| Automate | |
| Avert | |
| Award | |
| Bargain | |
| Begin | |
| Bolster | |
| Boost | |
| Bought | |
| Brief | |
| Broaden | |
| Budget | |
| Build | |
| Built | |
| Calculate | |
| Calibrate | |
| Canvass | |
| Capture | |
| Care | |
| Catalog | |
| Catalogue | |
| Categorize | |
| Cater | |
| Cause | |
| Centralize | |
| Chair | |
| Charge | |
| Chart | |
| Check | |
| Clarify | |
| Classify | |
| Co-operate | |
| Coach | |
| Code | |
| Collaborate | |
| Collate | |
| Collect | |
| Combine | |
| Comfort | |
| Commence | |
| Communicate | |
| Compare | |
| Compile | |
| Complete | |
| Compose | |
| Compute | |
| Conceive | |
| Conceptualize | |
| Conciliate | |
| Conclude | |
| Condense | |
| Conduct | |
| Confer | |
| Confirm | |
| Connect | |
| Conserve | |
| Consider | |
| Consolidate | |
| Construct | |
| Consult | |
| Contact | |
| Contract | |
| Contribute | |
| Control | |
| Convert | |
| Convey | |
| Convince | |
| Cooperate | |
| Coordinate | |
| Copy | |
| Correct | |
| Correlate | |
| Correspond | |
| Counsel | |
| Create | |
| Critique | |
| Cultivate | |
| Customize | |
| Dealt with | |
| Debate | |
| Debug | |
| Decide | |
| Decrease | |
| Dedicate | |
| Deduce | |
| Defend | |
| Defer | |
| Define | |
| Delegate | |
| Deliver | |
| Demonstrate | |
| Depict | |
| Depreciated | |
| Derive | |
| Describe | |
| Design | |
| Detail | |
| Detect | |
| Determine | |
| Develop | |
| Devise | |
| Devote | |
| Diagnose | |
| Diagram | |
| Differentiate | |
| Direct | |
| Discharge | |
| Disclose | |
| Discover | |
| Discriminate | |
| Discuss | |
| Dispatch | |
| Display | |
| Dissect | |
| Disseminate | |
| Distinguish | |
| Distribute | |
| Diversify | |
| Document | |
| Draft | |
| Draw | |
| Drew | |
| Earn | |
| Edit | |
| Educate | |
| Effect | |
| Elect | |
| Elicit | |
| Eliminate | |
| Emphasize | |
| Employ | |
| Enable | |
| Encourage | |
| Enforce | |
| Engineer | |
| Enhance | |
| Enlarge | |
| Enlighten | |
| Enlist | |
| Enrich | |
| Ensure | |
| Enter | |
| Entertain | |
| Enumerate | |
| Equip | |
| Establish | |
| Estimate | |
| Evaluate | |
| Examine | |
| Exchange | |
| Execute | |
| Exercise | |
| Exhibit | |
| Expand | |
| Expedite | |
| Experiment | |
| Explain | |
| Explore | |
| Express | |
| Extend | |
| Extract | |
| Extrapolate | |
| Fabricate | |
| Facilitate | |
| Familiarize | |
| Fashion | |
| File | |
| Filter | |
| Finalize | |
| Fine-tune | |
| Fix | |
| Focus | |
| Forecast | |
| Formulate | |
| Fortify | |
| Forward | |
| Foster | |
| Found | |
| Frame | |
| Fund | |
| Furnish | |
| Further | |
| Gather | |
| Gauge | |
| Generate | |
| Govern | |
| Grade | |
| Grant | |
| Greet | |
| Guide | |
| Handle | |
| Head | |
| Help | |
| Highlight | |
| Hire | |
| Host | |
| Identify | |
| Illustrate | |
| Impart | |
| Implement | |
| Import | |
| Improve | |
| Improvise | |
| Incorporate | |
| Increase | |
| Index | |
| Individualize | |
| Influence | |
| Inform | |
| Initiate | |
| Innovate | |
| Inspect | |
| Inspire | |
| Install | |
| Institute | |
| Instruct | |
| Insure | |
| Integrate | |
| Interact | |
| Interface | |
| Interpret | |
| Intervene | |
| Interview | |
| Introduce | |
| Invent | |
| Inventory | |
| Investigate | |
| Involve | |
| Join | |
| Judge | |
| Justify | |
| Label | |
| Launch | |
| Lead | |
| Learn | |
| Lecture | |
| License | |
| Lighten | |
| Liquidate | |
| List | |
| Listen | |
| Litigate | |
| Lobby | |
| Localize | |
| Locate | |
| Log | |
| Maintain | |
| Manage | |
| Manufacture | |
| Map | |
| Market | |
| Master | |
| Maximize | |
| Measure | |
| Mechanize | |
| Mediate | |
| Mentor | |
| Merge | |
| Methodize | |
| Minimize | |
| Mobilize | |
| Model | |
| Moderate | |
| Modernize | |
| Modify | |
| Monitor | |
| Motivate | |
| Narrate | |
| Navigate | |
| Negotiate | |
| Notify | |
| Nurse | |
| Nurture | |
| Observe | |
| Obtain | |
| Officiate | |
| Offset | |
| Operate | |
| Orchestrate | |
| Order | |
| Organize | |
| Orient | |
| Orientate | |
| Originate | |
| Outline | |
| Overhaul | |
| Oversaw | |
| Oversee | |
| Package | |
| Participate | |
| Perceive | |
| Perfect | |
| Perform | |
| Persuade | |
| Photograph | |
| Pilot | |
| Pioneer | |
| Plan | |
| Practice | |
| Predict | |
| Prepare | |
| Present | |
| Preserve | |
| Preside | |
| Prevent | |
| Prioritize | |
| Probe | |
| Process | |
| Produce | |
| Program | |
| Project | |
| Promote | |
| Propose | |
| Provide | |
| Publicize | |
| Publish | |
| Purchase | |
| Qualify | |
| Quantify | |
| Quote | |
| Raise | |
| Ran | |
| Rank | |
| Rate | |
| Read | |
| Reason | |
| Recall | |
| Recognize | |
| Recommend | |
| Reconcile | |
| Record | |
| Recreate | |
| Recruit | |
| Rectify | |
| Reduce | |
| Refer | |
| Refine | |
| Register | |
| Regulate | |
| Rehabilitate | |
| Reinforce | |
| Relate | |
| Related | |
| Release | |
| Remodel | |
| Render | |
| Renew | |
| Reorganize | |
| Repair | |
| Replace | |
| Report | |
| Represent | |
| Research | |
| Reserve | |
| Resolve | |
| Respond | |
| Restore | |
| Restrict | |
| Retain | |
| Retrieve | |
| Revamp | |
| Reveal | |
| Review | |
| Revise | |
| Revitalize | |
| Route | |
| Sample | |
| Save | |
| Scan | |
| Schedule | |
| Screen | |
| Script | |
| Scrutinize | |
| Search | |
| Secure | |
| Segment | |
| Select | |
| Serve | |
| Service | |
| Set goals | |
| Set up | |
| Settle | |
| Shape | |
| Share | |
| Show | |
| Simplify | |
| Simulate | |
| Sketch | |
| Sold | |
| Solicit | |
| Solve | |
| Sort | |
| Speak | |
| Spearhead | |
| Specialize | |
| Specify | |
| Spoke | |
| Stage | |
| Standardize | |
| Start | |
| Stimulate | |
| Straighten | |
| Strategize | |
| Streamline | |
| Strengthen | |
| Structure | |
| Study | |
| Submit | |
| Substantiate | |
| Substitute | |
| Suggest | |
| Summarize | |
| Supervise | |
| Supply | |
| Support | |
| Surpass | |
| Survey | |
| Sustain | |
| Symbolize | |
| Synthesize | |
| Systematize | |
| Tabulate | |
| Tail | |
| Target | |
| Taught | |
| Teach | |
| Tend | |
| Terminate | |
| Test | |
| Theorize | |
| Time | |
| Tour | |
| Trace | |
| Track | |
| Trade | |
| Train | |
| Transcribe | |
| Transfer | |
| Transform | |
| Translate | |
| Transmit | |
| Transport | |
| Transpose | |
| Travel | |
| Treat | |
| Triple | |
| Troubleshot | |
| Tutor | |
| Uncover | |
| Undertook | |
| Unify | |
| Unveil | |
| Update | |
| Upgrade | |
| Upheld | |
| Use | |
| Utilize | |
| Validate | |
| Value | |
| Verify | |
| View | |
| Visit | |
| Visualize | |
| Vitalize | |
| Volunteer | |
| Weigh | |
| Widen | |
| Win | |
| Withdraw | |
| Witness | |
| Write |
Book Description:
ACTIONS: The Actors' Thesaurus is a vital companion for actors in rehearsal—a thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance.
Actors need actions. Actors cannot ‘act’ adjectives, they need verbs. Verbs are an aim to achieve, an action to perform.
‘Actions’ are active verbs. ‘I tempt you.’ ‘You taunt me.’ In order to perform an action truthfully--and therefore convincingly-- an actor needs to find exactly the right action to suit that particular situation and that particular line. That is where this book comes in….
ACTIONS is a thesaurus of active verbs that the actor can use to refine performance until s/he hits exactly the right one to help make the action come alive. ACTIONS: The Actors’ Thesaurus by Marina Caldarone & Maggie Lloyd-Williams has gathered together the (formerly) dogged-eared photocopied lists of action verbs from greenrooms and rehearsal rooms and put them together in this pocket-sized thesaurus. All with a view to helping actors get to the heart of meaning and to a great performance. This thesaurus of action words is indispensable in developing mood, line readings, and acting choices for each and every line.From the Publisher
This new book just released by Drama Publishers gathers together -- for the first time -- the acting community’s –- formerly — secret lists of action words and makes them available in an organized and comprehensive format.
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