Classes & Workshops

ADULT WORKSHOPS

We are pleased to announce our new adult workshop to kick off our 2010-11 season. This workshop is just the 'ticket' to help you get ready for upcoming opportunities to audition or perfect your acting techniques.

NEW ADULT CLASSES AT THE BARN!

FUNDAMENTALS OF IMPROV
The coach and director of the RTB's wildy successful in-house improv comedy troupe "Role in the Hay Players" will be offering classes in Improv at the Barn!

The classes will be 8 weeks long, and will end with a performace at the RTB for friends and family.

If you like the show, Whose Line IS IT Anyway?, then these courses are right up your alley. Many of the techniques employed in improv are based on teamwork concepts. In addition to the humor, improv can improve your ability to "think on your feet," and has been known to help with public speaking and assertiveness.

In addition to being a founding member and coach of the RITHP for almost five years, Rick trained with the Gotham City Improv in NYC and performed in their ensembles for two years (a group of the famous LA Groundlings who moved to NYC and started a school). He has also been training with the Upright Citizen's Brigade in NYC (a group that was stated in part by Amy Poehler from Saturday Night Live, graduates from which are appearing in The Office and major motion pictures). Rick recently directed Godspell at the Barn, the highest grossing show in the history of the RTB!

Instructor: Rick Hodder
Session: 8 weeks (2 hours per week)
When: Beginning September 14, and running Tuesdays through November 2, 2010, 7-9 pm
Cost: Members: $320, Non-Members: $340

So you’ve always wanted to be an actor?
Or perhaps you want to improve your acting skills?
Here’s your opportunity to learn the method technique
from a teacher to the stars—right here in Ridgefield!

Developing Your Acting Career

An acting course for adults taught by Susan Grace Cohen,
professor for more than 10 years at
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
Film, Drama & TV Divisions

The Ridgefield Theater Barn is thrilled to be able to offer an adults-only acting class this summer, to be taught by Susan Grace Cohen of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, where she has been a faculty member for 20 years.

Among Ms. Cohen’s former students: James Gandolfini (Sopranos), Linda Hamilton (Terminator 1 & 2) Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark), James Spader (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Boston Legal, Race—currently on Broadway), Melora Walters (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Big Love), Steven Buscemi (Fargo, Sopranos), Mel Harris (thirtysomething), Justin Chambers (Grey’s Anatomy), Heather Juergensen (Kissing Jessica Stein) and Sarah Burns, (I Love You, Man).

With John Strasberg, son of the late Lee Strasberg, Ms. Cohen owned and operated a private acting studio in New York City, Paris, Barcelona and Madrid. She coaches principals for Broadway, Off Broadway, film & television. She was honored to represent the United States in the work of Lee Strasberg, at the Metodi Festival in Tuscany, where guest master acting teachers and directors from throughout the world were represented.

She is author of Bridging the Gap, Student to Professional Actor, and is a contributing essayist to the online newspaper, Soul of the American Actor. Recently, Ms. Cohen received the James L. Hearst Guest Lecturer Award in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. She has led acting workshops at Pace University, Miami Dade Community College and The Bank Street College of Education.

Recently, Ms. Cohen was an associate casting director for Universal Studio’s production of It’s Complicated starring Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin.

NEW Class Added

Six Saturday classes

(12 hours of class training)

10 am - 12 noon
Saturdays, October 30-December 11, 2010

No class on November 27th

at the Ridgefield Theater Barn

37 Halpin Lane, Ridgefield CT

$240 for Ridgefield Theater Barn members

$260 for non-members

Become a member today!

To assure that every student receives adequate attention, class size is limited to 14 students. This is an adults only course; minimum age 18. All levels of experience are welcome.

This class will fill up quickly! REGISTER NOW
Once you have a paid reservation in Developing Your Acting Career with Susan Cohen, please COMPLETE THIS FORM to provide your contact information. Ms. Cohen will then contact you by phone for a brief interview before you start the course. She may also ask some students to meet with her in advance, and may request that they prepare a one minute monologue.

Please be sure your registration is submitted by October 15, so the information is received in time for Ms. Cohen to plan for your participation in the class.

MUSICAL THEATER WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PERFORMERS

Our Youth Musical Theater Workshops showcase student actors ages 8-18 and teach them to shine! Classes meet two days a week for instruction in musical-theater performance with the Barn's dedicated and talented staff of theatrical and educational professionals. Directed by Missy Slaymaker-Hanlon, the workshop culminates in student performances that are open to the public. We've had rave reviews from our young thespians who now refer to themselves as 'The Theater Barn Kids'.

"THEATER BARN KIDS" FALL WORKSHOP

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Presented by Missy Slaymaker-Hanlon

Saturday, August 28th ~ Thursday, October 21st, 2010

CAST 1

Wednesdays
3:30-5:00: Ages 11-13
5:00-6:30: Ages 14-16
and Saturdays 11:45 am-12:45 pm

CAST 2

Thursdays
3:30-4:30: Ages 11-13
4:30-5:30: Ages 8-10
and Saturdays 9:30-11:30 am

Student Performances of

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

October 22nd - 24th, 2010
open to the public

Tuition for 8 week session: Non-members $370 per student, Members $350 1^st student & $300 per sibling

REGISTER Today!

Student Crew -- In this tuition-free opportunity, students ages 16-18 attend workshop classes, participate in performances, and are assigned a behind-the-scenes role for a student production. REGISTER today! Limited to 8 students.

Student Performances

Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat

October 22nd ~ 24th, 2010

Performances are open to the public
everyone is welcome!

All Tickets: $12