Ages 13 - 18
1 - 4 pm
July 11: Audition Technique - Contemporary Monologues
Led by Bay Street Theater’s Associate Artistic Director Will Pomerantz, this workshop will focus on how to pick and prepare material that shows you to your best advantage to directors, casting directors, agents, and acting training programs. This workshop will also provide a road map for avoiding common mistakes that can be made by young actors on their way to getting the part! Participants will do a showcase of their work for their friends and family on the Bay Street Mainstage.
Will has lead acting and audition workshops across the country and has directed and developed new plays and musicals with such theatres as The Guthrie, American Repertory Theatre, 2nd Stage, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theatre, Hartford Stage, New York Theater Workshop, The Signature Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Studio Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum and Ensemble Studio Theater. He has directed world premieres by such playwrights as John Guare, David Auburn, Neil LaBute, Craig Lucas, Kia Corthron, David Lindsay-Abaire, Stephen Belber, Noah Haidle, Linda Cho, Kira Obolensky, and Russell Davis. In addition to his work on new plays, Will has also directed texts by Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Shakespeare, Shaw and Sophocles.
August 22: Speaking Shakespeare - Speeches as Soliloquies
A soliloquy is a mini play in itself. It has a beginning, middle and end.
If you want to perform a Shakespeare Soliloquy, then you need to prepare. Most of Shakespeare’s longer speeches for one character are soliloquies – a moment when a character shares their inner feelings with the audience alone. This workshop will provide guidance and tools to help you engage with the character’s emotion with instruction from Shakespeare performer and Round Table Theater’s Artistic Director Tristan Vaughan. Participants will do a showcase of their work for their friends and family on the Bay Street Mainstage.
Training: M.F.A. Acting, The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University; Certificate, Acting, Circle in the Square Theatre School; Certificate, Acting Shakespeare, RADA. Directing: Macbeth; Extremities. Representative Roles: Hamlet; Orsino; Clifford in Deathtrap. Teaching Artist: Speaking Shakespeare at Guildhall. Tristan lives in East Hampton with his wife and son.
August 29: Musical Theater - Acting and Staging the Song
Group training and one-on-one coaching and staging of participants’ songs offered by Scott Schwartz, Broadway Director and Bay Street Theater’s Artistic Director. Participants will do a showcase of their work for their friends and family on the Bay Street Mainstage.
*Please note: each student should bring sheet music for one full song, which they should have memorized and be comfortable performing.
Scott Schwartz is the Artistic Director of Bay Street Theater. Most recently, he directed Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey and La Jolla Playhouse in California. As a director, he has worked on and off-Broadway, in major regional theaters across the country and in London. On Broadway, he directed Golda’s Balcony, and Jane Eyre (co-directed with John Caird). Off-Broadway, he directed Murder for Two, Bat Boy: The Musical (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), tick, tick…BOOM! (OCC, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), Gigantic (Vineyard), The Foreigner, Rooms, Kafka’s The Castle (OCC nomination, Outstanding Director of a Play), and No Way to Treat a Lady. At New York City Opera he directed Séance on a Wet Afternoon. The regional theaters he has worked act include ACT, Alley, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center, The Geffen, Goodspeed Opera House, Old Globe, Pasadena Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Signature, Theatre Under the Stars, and Westport Country Playhouse. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and a graduate of Harvard University.
