UCLA
Shakespeare & Classical Performance

Shakespeare & Classical Performance Camp

Session1	NOT AVAILABLE
Grades	10 - College Freshman
Tuition	$1325
Audition	No Audition Required

Tuition includes room and meals
Grade entering in Fall 2010

Camp/Workshop Details

Program Director: Armin Shimerman

This week-long workshop focuses on performance of the classics. Whether it be Shakespeare, Moliere, or the Ancient Greeks, this workshop trains the young actor in the basics of classical rhetoric, period thinking, and theater history. Students will learn to understand the nuances of the language and the character that they are portraying. They will discover character development from the informed intensions of the language and its motivations. Your focus will be with the monologue and its performance as well as two person scenes which will focus on the language, movement, motivation and character. An excellent workshop for any serious actor who is in need of further training in performing classical and Shakespearean theater for a college or high school audition or just to improve their stage performance skills and develop the dramatic excitement of the language through performance. Taught by one of the premier Shakespearean and classical coaches in Los Angeles, the final result of this workshop is showing the young artist a classical technique that will be invaluable for the language of the old and modern playwrights alike.

Earn College Credit this summer!

You can earn 2 college credits for this program.
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* Additional Camp/Workshop Information

Students check-in between 1 - 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 between 9am and 12pm.

Transportation is available to and from Los Angeles International(LAX) for $30 each way + Additional $125 for overnight stay.

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Directors and Faculty

Armin Shimerman

Workshop Head

After graduating from UCLA with a degree in English and a specialization in Shakespeare, Armin Shimerman apprenticed at the prestigious San Diego Old Globe Theater and eventually took over the lead comic roles. Armin went on to work many years on Broadway in \"Three Penny Opera\" at Lincoln Center, \"St. Joan\" at the Circle in the Square, \"Broadway\" , and finally Richard Rogers' last musical \"I Remember Mama.\" Regional Theater work followed including classical plays at Stage West, the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford Conn., Vermont Champlain Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory, Rutgers' Mason Gross Theater, Los Angeles Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Seattle's ACT, and the San Diego Repertory Theatre's production of \"King Lear\". He has guest starred in over 80 different TV shows and had major recurring roles in Beauty and the Beast, Brooklyn Bridge, Invisible Man, the Handler, Judge Hooper on Boston Legal and, of course, Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However, he is perhaps best known for his seven years of work as the incorrigible QUARK on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He has been teaching Shakespeare to young people for over twenty years including seminars and classes at UCLA, Pomona Claremont college, the High school for the Performing Arts, and Los Angeles theaters like Theatre 40, Shakespeare at Play, Theatricum Botanicum, the Antaeus Academy, and Los Angeles Classical Lab. He has published three novels with Elizabethan themes.He is uniquely qualified to merge actors' performance techniques with the scholar's intimate knowledge of the language and the period.

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.

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If you have questions or need help registering, please call 888-497-3553

Dates, Directors, and Faculty subject to change without notice. The faculty is comprised of college professors representing their schools and professional industry artists. Images are of USPA programs, but may not represent actual program or location. Photos by Tito Deverya (UCLA TFT), and Lauren di Matteo.

** USPA highly recommends that students secure travel insurance to cover trip cancellation, interruption, and/or medical emergency. For more on travel insurance, please visit: Assurance Solutions.

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