University of Kentucky - Acting for the Camera

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Tailor your craft specifically for the on-camera experience in television and film. Develop new skills in a week long intensive that covers everything from auditions - cold readings and callbacks - to on-screen performance. Learn how to present your best self when you enter a room full of strangers. Learn basic techniques to focus mind and body on the acting task. You'll read and perform scenes from produced scripts with your peers as well as professionals, discover how to make the role your own, explore the differences between situation comedy and drama, and have the opportunity to meet and talk with working actors, directors, casting directors, and cinematographers. In a safe, positive space, we focus on each individual's unique talent and specific needs. Small, personalized sessions will be captured on video and analyzed by faculty and peers. For those interested in commercial work as well as a future on the big screen, this camp offers essential how-to information and experiences. You'll leave feeling charged and confident about your ability to make and execute strong, specific acting choices, to get the job, and to reap the rewards of playing it as only you can.

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

Program Directors

Dinah Lenney, Program Director
Dinah Lenney studied at Yale University Drama Department and has developed her own techniques under the watchful eye of Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and is one of Los Angeles' leading coaches of young people in acting technique and character study. A renaissance actress in her own right, she has recently appeared as Lady Macbeth in the Uprising Theatre's production of The Scottish Play, and Gertrude in that company's critically acclaimed Hamlet. Dinah's theater work is extensive and well known in Los Angeles. She has been seen on the screen in many films including the starring role in Henry Jaglom's Babyfever. Dinah has guest starred on numerous television shows including Joan of Arcadia, The West Wing, Providence, A Fine Romance, and Murphy Brown, and she is in the middle of her eleventh season in the reoccurring role of Nurse Shirley on ER. Her new book, co-authored with Mary Lou Belli, Acting for Young Actors, is available this spring. Dinah will bring her creative eye and expertise to insure that there is truth in performance from every participant of the Conservatory.

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"To create, to think critically, to manage, and to continually experiment and learn these are the core abilities that the College of Fine Arts' majors and programs offer. In this process of making, appreciating, and managing the arts, you will refine your artistic sensibility while developing ethics of work and of craft. Whether you will become an arts professional, connoisseur, or advocate, you will continue to serve the mission of the University by making a vital contribution to the quality of life in the Commonwealth and in other communities. "
- Bob Shay, Dean of the College of Fine Arts

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