Work with seasoned professionals as you receive intensive training in acting, movement, and voice.
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The University of Connecticut Department of Dramatic Arts has developed one of the finest university-based actor-training programs in the country. Our teachers have worked, and continue to work, as actors, directors, and performance coaches for important regional repertory theatres, on and off-Broadway productions, television programs, and major motion pictures. Students in this camp will receive intensive training in acting, movement, and voice. There will be a special emphasis on physical theatre - experiences like masking and clowning enable young actors to go beyond interpretation to the actual creation of theatre.
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Students check-in between 1:30 and 4pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Bradley International Airport (BDL) or Hartford bus and rail depots on the first day of camp between 10am and 12:30pm.
Flights should depart from Bradley International Airport (BDL) or Hartford bus and rail depots on the last day of camp after 6pm.
Transportation is available to and from Bradley International Airport (BDL) or Hartford bus and rail depots for $30 each way.
Dale AJ Rose, Program Director Dale AJ Rose comes to University of Connecticut from Tampa, Florida where he served as Director of the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Florida. Previously, Dale was the Director of Performance Training at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Under his leadership the program received recognition by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top 20 Graduate Theatre Programs in the country. During the 80's Dale was the Master Acting Teacher at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Dale has taught professionally in New York City at the Warren Robertson Theatre Workshop, The George Morrison Studio space and The Actors Center. Dale was Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas where, among others, he directed Earle Hyman in King Lear and Morgan Freeman in Othello. Dale was Artistic Director of the Plaza Theatre where he worked with John Goodman, Mariel Hemmingway and Zakes Mokae. Again in Dallas, Dale was a co-founder of Stage #1.
Dale began his professional directing career as founder and Artistic Director of the Alice People Theatre in Tampa. Known for its cutting edge productions, the company was the first to produce the works of playwright David Mamet outside of Chicago. Dale has directed all but seven of Shakespeare's plays. As an American Cultural Specialist for the U.S. Information Agency and later for the State Department, Dale taught in Jerusalem, on the West Bank, in Barcelona and Athens. He also worked with actors from the Palestinian Theatre League on Julius Caesar. Dale feels fortunate to have been taught by some of the greats of the American Theatre including Bill Hickey, Larry Moss, Kristin Linklater, Uta Hagen, Stella Adler and members of the Working, Living and Open Theatres. Dale was co-producer of the feature film Animal Behavior starring Karen Allen and Armand Assante; which you can catch on late-late night cable TV.
Greg Webster, Co-Director Greg Webster is a professor in residence at the University of Connecticut Professional Actor Training Program and a former faculty member of the London International School of Theatre Arts, a school dedicated to the work of Jacques Lecoq. Greg has worked as a performer, teacher and fight choreographer from Broadway to the West End of London. He is a founding member of the international award winning Split Knuckle Theatre Company.
Andrew Grusetskie Andrew Grusetskie is a founding member, Split Knuckle Theatre (The Pearl, Edinburgh Fringe 2006) and Associate Artist with New York's ACTIVE EYE (Hard Lovin' Ever After, Woyzeck, Senjo, and Dojoji). His regional credits include the McCarter, Seattle Rep, Cleveland Public Theatre, Northern Stage. He is a graduate of Yale University and London International School of Performing Arts.
The University of Connecticut is the state's flagship institution of higher learning. Founded in 1881, the University of Connecticut has grown to include 10 Schools and Colleges at its main campus in Storrs, separate Schools of Law and Social Work in Hartford, five regional campuses throughout the state and Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at the UConn Health Center in Farmington.
UConn is a Land Grant and Sea Grant College and a Space Grant Consortium institution. The University spans 4,104 acres at its main campus and five regional campuses, and an additional 162 acres at the UConn Health Center in Farmington. The University of Connecticut is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.