Directing Actors (Aug. 2020)
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About this Course
NOTE: There are TWO 4-week sections of this course being offered. Please only apply to one section.
Learn tools for effective communication with actors with Emmy-nominated director Joan Darling as your guide. The sessions in this four-week course will include presentations/discussions and interactive exercises focused on the casting and audition process, breaking down a scene to communicate the objective and key turning point for each character, and techniques to get compelling performances.
This course will be held live in our virtual classroom. All sessions are recorded for registered participants who are unable to attend live.
- DURATION: Four weeks, August 26 - September 16
- SCHEDULE: Wednesday, 9am - 11am PT
- Extended first class session: Wednesday, August 26, 9am - 11:30am PT
- Extended last class session: Wednesday, September 16, 9am - 11:30am PT
- APPLICATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, August 5 at 2pm PT
Course applications are now closed.
CourseTeam
Joan Darling
Instructor
Joan Darling has been nominated four times for an Emmy (the first woman nominated for directing) and twice for a Directors Guild of America award, winning one of each. She was the original director of MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN. She directed the historic episode of THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, “CHUCKLES” named the number one TV episode of all time. Her feature, FIRST LOVE was named one of the years ten best by CBS. She starred on Broadway, and was a series regular on OWEN MARSHALL. Darling is also a teacher, known for her “Directing the Actor Workshop,” and has served as a Creative Advisor at the Sundance Institute’s Directors Lab for over twenty years.
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