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| Dates | July 8 - July 20, 2012 |
| Ages | 15 - 19 |
| Tuition | $2600 |
| Audition | No Audition Required Prerequisite: Students must have previous acting training or professional acting experience. Priority will be given to students who have completed either the UCLA Arts Camp Acting for the Camera or Theater program. |
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| Tuition includes room & meals Grade entering in Fall 2012 |
This Sit Com Acting camp is one of the most popular workshops every summer. It focuses on the acting in a situation comedy as the art and craft of sitcom acting is significantly different than acting for the movies and this workshop teaches the actors those differences. Designed for the serious actor 16 years old and above actors learn the structure of sitcoms and how to perform the joke while at the same time playing character that is so very important in sitcom. This workshop collaborates with the Sitcom Writing/Producing Workshop by weeks end in the staging and performance of original situation comedies under the guidance and experience of a seasoned professional director in a real studio environment.
Both workshops are taught by working industry professionals with the acting workshop headed up by award winning actress Conchata Ferrell. After learning the fundamentals of sitcom character development, physical comedy, and acting timing, the workshop becomes patterned after the real life experiences of a creative sitcom television show which follows an episode from a table read to a taping of the show. By show time, actors will have gone through the experience of reworking a scene at the drop of a hat, adding new dialogue and staging to make it work and finally taping the material on a real set in a real television studio. This workshop is very popular and usually fills quickly. It is a workshop that is high energy, fun and exciting with a lot of laughs from the UCLA television studio during the week. Guests may drop in from time to time who will give the sitcom actors new pointers about the art and craft of sitcom acting and or discuss what it is like to be in a hit television sitcom series.
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Conchata Ferrell joins the 2009 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.
Regarded as one of America's most prestigious universities, UCLA is home to the number one ranked theater department 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.
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*Tuition does not include one-time registration fee($150), weekend stays, or airport transportation.
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), Lauren di Matteo, and Chris Vanderhorst.
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