UCLA - Television Sit Com Acting

Dates:	Jul 27 - Aug 1, 2008
Grades:	9 - 12 (Entering in Fall 2008)
Tuition:	$1,250 (Includes room and meals)
Spaces Remaining:	FULL Call 888-497-3553 to be added to waitlist.

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Act in a situation comedy by week's end.

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What do Will and Grace, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Two and a Half Men and The Office, all have in common? You guessed it! They are all situation comedies - and the UCLA Arts Camp offers the only Sitcom Camp in the country in acting for the situation comedy. The art and craft of sitcom acting is significantly different than acting for movies and this workshop will teach the actor those techniques. Taught by legendary actress Sally Struthers this week- long program will collaborate with the sitcom writing/ producing workshop and realize an actual taped performance in front of live cameras in a real television studio.

This program will only accept 25 actors so registration for this popular workshop should be made as quickly as possible. The week long camp is patterned after the real life experiences of the actors who must prepare and tape a sit com episode. Industry guests may drop in from time to time to share their wisdom and experiences with the participants. So have your camera ready, you never know who may drop by.

* Additional Information

Students check-in between 1pm and 2:30pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Los Angeles International (LAX) on the first day of camp between 10am and 12pm.
Flights should depart from Los Angeles International (LAX) on the day after camp ends (Saturday) between 9am and 12pm. There will be an additional $100 fee for the overnight stay.
Airport transportation is available to and from Los Angeles International (LAX) for $30 each way.

College Credit Information

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Information Packets

Information Packets for students registered for summer 2008 are available for download NOW!
Please contact us for download instructions.
The packets will be mailed mid May for those who requested them.

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Program Directors

Conchata Ferrell

Conchata Ferrell joins the 2008 faculty of our summer program as the head of our Sitcom Acting workshop.
A brilliant actress Conchata made her theatrical debut in the New York Off-Broadway scene in the 1970s. She is a founding member of New York's Circle Repertory Theater, and has performed in such productions as Picnic and The Sea Horse , a performance which earned her a Drama Desk Award, an OBIE and the Theater World Award for the Most Promising Newcomer. Conchata was in the original cast of Lanford Wilson's Hot L Baltimore , the award-winning Off-Broadway production which legendary producer Norman Lear later produced as a series for ABC-TV with her recreating her starring role. This led to a succession of roles in numerous TV-movies, many theatrical films, several TV series and countless guest spots.

She appeared in Sidney Lumet's Network and was the lead opposite Rip Torn in Richard Pearce's small-scale, beautifully acted gem about rural life, Heartland . Movie fans will also remember her appearing opposite then newcomer Julia Roberts in the ensemble comedy romance Mystic Pizza . A superb actress Conchata appeared in Edward Scissorhands , True Romance , Heaven and Earth , My Fellow Americans , Touch Erin Brockovich , Crime + Punishment in Suburbia , K-Pax , Mr. Deeds and the wonderful mockumentary Surviving Eden working with such directors as Oliver Stone, Sydney Lumet and Tim Burton. Her television credits are many including the Stranger Inside and Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy and Isabelle.

Conchata appeared in the highly successful BBC miniseries The Buccaneers . Among Cochata's many spots as a TV primetime series regular are roles on the popular seriocomic road adventure B.J and the Bear and L.A. Law , for which she received an Emmy Award nomination. She was in the series Hearts Afire for CBS, the ABC sitcoms Townies and Teen Angel . Conchata Ferrell was a guest star on several popular television series, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Touched by an Angel, JAG, Friends, Popular, ER, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Becker and Judging Amy, and she appeared on the short-lived drama Push Nevada . And of course for the past five years she plays the role of Berta, Charlie Sheen's sardonic housekeeper on the Emmy winning sitcom Two and a Half Men .

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Faculty (Faculty subject to availability)

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Location Information

UCLA is one of America's most prestigious universities, and their theater department is rated number one in North America. Bordered on the north by protected wilderness and on the south by Westwood Village, UCLA has long been known as an entertainment magnet for the entire Los Angeles area. Selected for their artistic and professional achievements, UCLA 's exceptional faculty from the School of Theater, Film and Television lead these inspiring workshops.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) is the only university in the country where the study of theater, film, television and digital media is integrated within a single professional school.

The Department of Film, Television and Digital Media offers a wide range of courses for undergraduates in the study of three areas of moving images: Critical Studies, including the history, theory and aesthetics of both film and television; Production/Directing, including film, television (studio and field), digital, experimental and animation; and the film and television disciplines, including writing, producing, cinematography, sound recording and editing.

At the graduate level, there are five areas of concentration: Critical Studies, which offers film and television history and theory; aesthetics and popular culture, films from diverse genres and extensive national cinemas; Production/Directing, which trains students in all aspects of directing narrative fiction, documentaries and/or experimental film, emphasizing the aesthetic components; Screenwriting, in which the elements of character, dialogue, story and tone are explored; Animation, in which students are trained to create an individual style and voice; and the Producers Program, in which students learn the business and art of making films and television programs.

At UCLA's Department of Theater, we believe that great theater programs must prepare and train students for careers in all contemporary and emerging entertainment forms -- including live theater, film, television, video, themed entertainment, interactive gaming, and more. Our students live in a world that is interactive, collaborative, and fueled by their passion for our art form -- one that encompasses the many forms of professional practice as well as the theoretical exploration of current and emerging entertainment forms.

Igniting our students' talent and passion to achieve success is our goal. That is why students work with a distinguished faculty composed of professional and creative artists who have excelled in their fields. UCLA Theater has some of the most distinguished faculty and visiting artists in the world, among them Mel Shapiro, Annette Bening, Anthony Hopkins, Larry Moss, Neil Jampolis, Deborah Scott and Jerry Katzman. With this professional training, students are following in the footsteps of such illustrious alumni as Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Robbins, James Dean, Carol Burnett, Susan Egan, Jack Black, Ben Stiller and many others.

TFT's extraordinary undergraduate and graduate students are drawn from an admissions pool of the finest students from around the world, and enjoy participation in small classes with faculty members who themselves are accomplished artists and industry leaders.

We invite you to explore our US Performing Arts Camps web site further where you can register online for any of the ucla summer programs offered to high school students.

Students attending a UCLA Arts Camp, in association with US Performing Arts, have the option of enrolling for college credit. Please ask our staff for more details.

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