Hampshire College - Theater

Study the essential components of acting - character development and interpretation - through scene study, voice and speech, movement, and improvisational games.

Week 1:	July 12 - July 17, 2009
Grades:	9 - 12 (Entering in Fall 2009)
Tuition:	$1100 (Includes room and meals)

Details

Join us for an exciting week of honing your craft through professional training in Theater. The week's activities involve intensive training in the craft of acting through theater game techniques and improvisation. The workshops are designed to incite the creative imagination of every participant. Each day students will explore performance techniques in comedy, improvisation, character analysis, rhythm and timing, movement, and stage combat.

* Additional Information

Students check-in between 1 and 3pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Bradley International Airport on the first day of camp prior to 2pm.
Flights should depart from Bradley International Airport on the last day of camp after 7pm.
Airport transportation is available to and from Bradley International for $30 each way.

Program Directors

Robert C. Pullen, Producing Director
Although Robert began his musical theater career in New York City as a musical theater performer he gravitated towards producing and general management. Broadway Credits include The Music Man, Footloose, Chicago, the Musical, Annie Get Your Gun, Titanic, Seussical the Musical, 42nd Street, Blast, and Broadway Salutes Hilary Clinton with Rosie O'Donnell. Currently Mr. Pullen is Director of Programming for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

Kennedy Center producing highlights include Marc Blitzstein's Regina starring Patti LuPone, A Recital of French Song starring Renée Fleming, Voices of the Arts with John Lithgow, Susan Stroman, Harold Prince and Christine Baranski; Television specials include the 2005 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoring Steve Martin, 2006 Mark Twain Prize honoring Neil Simon, 2007 Mark Twain Prize honoring Billy Crystal and the 35th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center starring Angela Lansbury, Savion Glover, George Hearn and Marvin Hamlisch. Other credits include directing and producing Bravo Networks On With the Show.

Pullen recently produced Celebrate Broadway with Linda Eder and John Lithgow and is currently producing several engagements in Buenos Aires for the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts and will soon tackle the Kennedy Center Spring Gala Celebrating the Music of the Silver Screen in May.

Education: Graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, studying voice, dance and acting, as well as attended The Juilliard School for voice and piano.

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Location Information

Hampshire College is a small, independent, coeducational liberal arts college located on 800 acres of meadow and wooded land in Amherst, Massachusetts. An integral part of the Five Colleges Consortium, comprised of Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hampshire College hosts several US Performing Arts programs this summer. This is a wonderful opportunity to experience college life at one of the renowned Five Colleges.

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