The key focus of the workshop for actors aged 12-17 is how improvisation skills can help them improve their acting skills and develop multi-layered characters on stage. Spontaneity, listening, and creative problem-solving are key to the improvisation
technique. Over 8 weeks, you will work in a safe and nurturing environment to develop teamwork, creativity, and self-confidence. The workshop culminates in a showcase for friends and family.
CURRENT CHALLENGES
- Trouble thinking on your feet
- Fear of being in an unprepared situation
- Lack of confidence in front of an audience
LEARNING OBJECTIVES & OUTCOME
- Building a character
- Improves your concentration skills
- Enables you to think on your feet and recognise opportunities as they arise.
- Be flexible in your thinking
- Develop your story-telling capability
Warren Baumgart is a professional director and a theatre arts educator. Before moving to Singapore, he was a director for over 23 years in the US working in Chicago, Phoenix, San Diego, and New York City. Early in his career (1980), Warren had the
privilege of working for a couple of years with a young new theater company in Chicago called Steppenwolf. During that time Warren worked with Gary Sinise, John Malkovich, Joan Allen, John Mahoney, Glenne Headly, Gary Cole, Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, Martha
Lavey and Laurie Metcalf. Warren began his directing career as assistant director to Laurie Metcalf for the play Big Mama featuring a young John Malkovich in the lead role. In 1989 Warren received a Joseph Jefferson Citation for Best Directing (Chicago) for
his production of Alan Browne's Beirut. Warren was the Artistic Director for Imagination Theater, a touring educational theater company in Chicago, for over 15 years. In New York City Warren was the Artistic Director for City Lights Youth Theater Company and
has directed and produced numerous plays and musicals on Broadway in which all actors were inner city youth. Warren has a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from Arizona State University. Warren also has extensive training in the Sanford Meisner technique from
David Mamet?s St. Nicholas School of Theater Arts, and the Lois Hall Studio, both in Chicago. Warren has also trained with the Steppenwolf Theater Co., Victory Gardens Theater Training Center, Kyle Donnelly?s The Actor?s Center, and Jane Brody?s Audition Center.
He also teaches theatre arts to teenagers at the Canadian International School in Singapore. Warren is also the director for the Theatre Incubator for Teenagers at HCAC.
Super Early Bird: $450 (Register by 26 Jul)
Early Bird: $510 (Register by 10 Aug)
Register at: http://workshop.methodactingasia.com/courses/show/46
Founded by Kamil Haque in 2013, the Haque Centre of Acting & Creativity (HCAC) is an acting school. HCAC is one of the companies under Method Metropolis, an umbrella group focusing on arts, entertainment, and education.
HCAC, is the home of Method Acting in Asia. It is the first professional acting school in English in Singapore. Regardless of your background, training and experience, the training caters to actors and non-actors from as young as 13 years old. The multi-approach training includes acting fundamentals, techniques and specific skill sets of the actor’s craft to add depth and breadth to your method of acting.
Located on the edge of the Little India Arts Belt in Singapore, the HCAC studio is nestled in a conservation shop house - A creative home and safe haven for students to hone their craft, build a network and free their talent.
