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Character Acting for Animators

Course Details
  • Course Number ANC-1070-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 12 - Jul 24
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 1.50
  • Cost 210.00
  • Additional Fees 25.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

Offering a unique perspective to sketch comedy and drama, this course will engage students in creating characters based upon human behavior. Through the discovery process and acting sessions, students will explore how to bring empathy to comedy with techniques used in pantomime, and by clowns and dancers. Sketching performances will be routine.

Instructor

Stella Pulo

Actress; singer; columnist, The Age (Australia); acting coach; member, The Actors Studio

Education:

B.Ed., Melbourne University

Professional experience includes:

Founder, artistic director, Stel Productions; No Grant Theatre; Theatrix; Other People's Business World; Speeches. Peaches.

Film projects include:

Sarah, Whadda Ya Doin' Here Anyway?!, Maltese Connection, SBS, Every Night Something Awful, Crossroads

Television projects include:

Australia's Most Wanted, Truckies, Flight of the Conchords

Theater projects include:

Rashomon, Walking on Sticks, The Maids, Alien From Down Under, Crazed!

Publications include:

Victorian Lifestyles; Right Words at the Right Time, vol. 2; American Theatre; Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature; Shrimp Shells in My Cleavage

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Acting

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-1076-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 12 - Aug 07
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 2.00
  • Cost 270.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

From Stanislavski, to Strasberg.to you, this course will focus on the actor's personal journey and examine the motivations and emotions an actor makes in personifying him or herself to create a character. Students will work toward recognizing the analogy between their own personal history and the characters they are portraying. We will work on individual scenes to develop this connection. Scenes will be recorded and critiqued.

Instructor

Mihaela Mihut

Actress

Education:

BA, MFA, New School University

Acting credits include:

Manipulation, The Bear, Perkins' 14, Ben Again, The Visitor, Art People, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Bald Soprano, Hunting Cockroaches

honor:

Lifetime member, The Actor's Studio


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Preparing the Actor for the Casting Session

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-1289-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 13 - Jul 11
  • Hours 06:00PM - 08:30PM
  • Ceus 1.00
  • Cost 200.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

This course is designed for new or established actors who are interested in learning how to prepare for the casting session and improve their chances of getting the role. Actors will learn what the director is looking for and how to present themselves at an audition. We will also explore how to navigate around obstacles that present themselves in a casting environment. Conducted as in-class auditions, this course will guide class members on their appropriateness for a part. Students will be provided with scenes to work on in class and are welcome to bring in their own material.

Instructor

Kim Moarefi

Casting director, producer, audition coach

Education:

BA, Lehigh University

Casting for film, television and theater projects that include:

Evenhand, Bernard and Doris, Not Interested, Good Sharma, The Exonerated, Celebrity Charades, Grey Gardens, Third Watch, Cosby, Shakespeare on the Sound, Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon

Award:

Artios Award

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Inside the Voice-Over Industry: Learn How to Find Your Voice

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-1443-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 10 - Jul 08
  • Hours 06:00PM - 08:30PM
  • Ceus 1.00
  • Cost 300.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Closed
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

The voice-over industry has changed dramatically. With the explosion of voice-over casting websites on the Internet, and the easy and inexpensive technology available to record at home, interest in this booming field has never been greater. This course will focus on the essential elements to become a voice-over artist and point you toward your authentic sound, working intensively with various types of copy most conducive to your personality. You'll get the inside scoop on current trends in a fun and nurturing workshop environment. Students will have the opportunity to work in a professional sound booth.
NOTE: Please bring a blue or colored pen to mark copy, a highlighter and a USB drive to the first session.

Instructor

Valerie Smaldone

Principal, Valerie Smaldone Media Worldwide; voice-over artist and live announcer; host, Valerie's New York; actress; producer; writer; celebrity interviewer, 92Y; talent coach

Education:

BA, Fordham University

Professional experience in voice over includes:

NBC, Investigation Discovery, CBS, Lifetime, HBO, Cinemax. Featured in “Secrets of Voice-Over Success”

Radio credits include:

WOR, WLTW (Lite-FM) New York; J-WAVE Tokyo; emcee/host: Clinton Global Initiative, The Kennedy Center, National Association of Professional Women, The Broadway League, tonyawards.com, Channel 13

Awards include:

Radio Personality of the Year Award, Billboard; Radio Personality of the Year Award, Radio and Records; Metro Air Award; Golden Apple Award, America Women in Radio and Television; Woman of the Year, Italian Welfare League; Italian Heritage and Culture Committee; Humanitarian Award, Sass Foundation for Medical Research

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Voice-Over Boot Camp: Professionally Produced Demo

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-1476-A
  • Day(s) S,SU
  • Dates Jul 20 - Jul 21
  • Hours 10:00AM - 04:00PM
  • Ceus 1.00
  • Cost 470.00
  • Additional Fees 150.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

This boot camp is an intensive two-day voice-over workshop where students will work on targeted copy chosen for their particular area of expertise and geared toward students' specific talents, including narration/industrial, promotion, commercial, urban, character or kids' demos. Students will be coached to perfect their delivery in a professional recording booth. By the end of the workshop, students will have recorded five to six pieces of copy that will be professionally mixed and produced into a finished demo.
PREREQUISITE: CFC-1443, Inside the Voice-Over Industry: Learn How to Find Your Voice.

Instructor

Valerie Smaldone

Principal, Valerie Smaldone Media Worldwide; voice-over artist and live announcer; host, Valerie's New York; actress; producer; writer; celebrity interviewer, 92Y; talent coach

Education:

BA, Fordham University

Professional experience in voice over includes:

NBC, Investigation Discovery, CBS, Lifetime, HBO, Cinemax. Featured in “Secrets of Voice-Over Success”

Radio credits include:

WOR, WLTW (Lite-FM) New York; J-WAVE Tokyo; emcee/host: Clinton Global Initiative, The Kennedy Center, National Association of Professional Women, The Broadway League, tonyawards.com, Channel 13

Awards include:

Radio Personality of the Year Award, Billboard; Radio Personality of the Year Award, Radio and Records; Metro Air Award; Golden Apple Award, America Women in Radio and Television; Woman of the Year, Italian Welfare League; Italian Heritage and Culture Committee; Humanitarian Award, Sass Foundation for Medical Research

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The Art of the Interview

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-2753-A
  • Day(s) S
  • Dates Jul 27 - Jul 27
  • Hours 10:00AM - 04:00PM
  • Ceus 0.00
  • Cost 150.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

This seminar will focus on the art of the interview: How to prepare for and conduct interviews and enjoy the process. It is designed to assist anyone with a creative project, documentary, product or service to promote. Interviews are really just engaging conversations. What makes them great and surprising? Insightful? Provocative? Conversely, what propels them to be boring, predictable and flat? We will screen and evaluate clips of classic celebrity interviewers and online webisodes. Participants will conduct an interview and be interviewed, and both will be recorded and critiqued. In addition, mock panels will be created to provide a group discussion environment. Body language, vocal technique and how to shape a message and engage an audience will all be explored.

Instructor

Valerie Smaldone

Principal, Valerie Smaldone Media Worldwide; voice-over artist and live announcer; host, Valerie's New York; actress; producer; writer; celebrity interviewer, 92Y; talent coach

Education:

BA, Fordham University

Professional experience in voice over includes:

NBC, Investigation Discovery, CBS, Lifetime, HBO, Cinemax. Featured in “Secrets of Voice-Over Success”

Radio credits include:

WOR, WLTW (Lite-FM) New York; J-WAVE Tokyo; emcee/host: Clinton Global Initiative, The Kennedy Center, National Association of Professional Women, The Broadway League, tonyawards.com, Channel 13

Awards include:

Radio Personality of the Year Award, Billboard; Radio Personality of the Year Award, Radio and Records; Metro Air Award; Golden Apple Award, America Women in Radio and Television; Woman of the Year, Italian Welfare League; Italian Heritage and Culture Committee; Humanitarian Award, Sass Foundation for Medical Research

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Commercial Voice-Over Workshop

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-3014-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 10 - Jul 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 1.50
  • Cost 210.00
  • Additional Fees 100.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

New York City is the country's largest and busiest center for voiceover production. Success in this competitive market can mean earning thousands of dollars in session fees and high residuals for voice-over talents. Learn the essential competitive skills that can win voice-over jobs with highly productive training sessions held in a working recording studio, utilizing actual voice-over copy for national commercials, corporate/educational projects and narratives, animation work, television/radio promos, trailers and audio books. Learn necessary professional audition skills and recording session techniques, vocal textures/attitudes, copy interpretation and performance execution. You'll also receive an introduction to the business of voice-overs, focusing on talent unions, talent agents, producers and casting directors, and also listen to a variety of talent demo reels, learning the key essential elements of a successful demo reel. This course will be held at a professional audio recording studio facility, and each student will receive a master-quality audio CD compilation of all in-studio recorded readings from this workshop.
NOTE: Please bring a notebook, pencil, pen and highlighter to the first session.

Instructor

Steve Harris

Voice-over artist; commercial sound director; member, AFTRA/SAG; voice-over demo reel producer; president, The Art of Voice, New York

Voice-over credits for television and radio commercials, promos and narrations include:

ABC-TV, AAMCO, AT&T, Bose, CSTV (CBS), Disney World, Downey, ESPN, Gannett, Flovent, HotJobs, IBM, KFC, Kraft, Kellogg's, Lotus Software, Macy's, The New York Times, Panasonic, PBS, Pepsi, Prevacid, Toys "R" Us, UPS, U.S. Coast Guard, BMW, Children's Television Workshop, Health Net/SmartChoice, IDB Bank, JVC Jazz Festival, Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, Solgar, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Salvation Army, Yahoo, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, 92nd Street Y

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Advanced Voice-Over Workshop

Course Details
  • Course Number CFC-4014-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 12 - Jul 24
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 1.50
  • Cost 210.00
  • Additional Fees 100.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 380 2nd Ave

Description

This advanced voice-over workshop is designed for aspiring voice talents with previous voice-over/acting training or professional experience. Learn highly competitive voice-over performance techniques, held in a working recording studio, by recording a variety of actual voice-over copy for national commercials, narrations, promos/trailers, animation, and many other script styles. All essential voice-over performance/acting techniques and elements will be covered, preparing students for the competitive voice-over craft industry, while preparing them to eventually record a successful demo reel. This course will be held at a professional audio recording studio facility, and each student will receive a masterquality audio CD compilation of all in-studio recorded readings from this workshop.
PREREQUISITE: CFC-3014, Commercial Voice-Over Workshop, or CFC-1443, Inside the Voice-Over Industry: Learn How to Find Your Voice, or equivalent.
NOTE: Please bring a notebook, pencil, pen and highlighter to the first session.

Instructor

Steve Harris

Voice-over artist; commercial sound director; member, AFTRA/SAG; voice-over demo reel producer; president, The Art of Voice, New York

Voice-over credits for television and radio commercials, promos and narrations include:

ABC-TV, AAMCO, AT&T, Bose, CSTV (CBS), Disney World, Downey, ESPN, Gannett, Flovent, HotJobs, IBM, KFC, Kraft, Kellogg's, Lotus Software, Macy's, The New York Times, Panasonic, PBS, Pepsi, Prevacid, Toys "R" Us, UPS, U.S. Coast Guard, BMW, Children's Television Workshop, Health Net/SmartChoice, IDB Bank, JVC Jazz Festival, Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, Solgar, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Salvation Army, Yahoo, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, 92nd Street Y

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