Webster University
Acting for the Camera

Session1	July 25 - July 30, 2010
Grades	9 - 12
Tuition	$995
Audition	No Audition Required

Tuition includes room and meals
Grade entering in Fall 2010

Camp/Workshop Details

Artistic Director: Dorothy Englis
Camp Director: Lana Hagan
Faculty: Doug Finlayson, Bill Lynch

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.

* Additional Camp/Workshop Information

Students check-in between 1 - 2:30pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Lambert-St. Louis (STL) on the First Day of camp between 10am and 12:30pm.
Flights should depart from Lambert-St. Louis (STL) on the last day of camp after 6pm.
Transportation is available to and from Lambert-St. Louis (STL) for $30 each way.

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Directors and Faculty

Lana Hagan

Camp Director

Lana Hagan is a veteran teacher who has been on the faculty in the Department of Theater and Dance at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for the past twelve years. Prior to that she taught secondary theatre for thirteen years. During that time her school's theatre program was awarded the 1995 Outstanding School Award by the Educational Theatre Association, and she was named the Theatre Educator of the Year in Missouri. Her drama program and curriculum served as a model for other schools, and Ms. Hagan has been invited to present workshops at state and national conferences. Her advocacy work for the theatre arts in education was rewarded with an annual $1000 scholarship given in her honor by the Missouri State Thespian organization. There have been eleven students thus far who have received The Lana Hagan Theatre Educator Scholarship. Recently she was inducted into the Educational Theatre Association Hall of Fame, the association's highest honor.

She has taught classes in drama, acting, technical design, playwriting and public speaking at the secondary and college level. Presently, she is Director of Theatre Education at SIUE. This position allows her to coach new teachers and to visit a variety of schools where she serves as a consultant for curriculum, best classroom practices, and program development.

Ms. Hagan holds a B.A. in Literature and Language from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, and an M.A. in Theatre/Directing from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. She is also an adjunct professor at Webster University where she teaches Public Speaking and Theatre Appreciation. She holds professional credentials of secondary teaching in three areas: Speech and Theatre, Journalism, and Language Arts.

Doug Finlayson

Faculty

Doug has been the Head of Directing at Webster University since 1998. He won the 2008 Kevin Kline Award for Best Director of a Play for Kindertransport which he directed at the New Jewish Theatre . Other work for NJT includes The Last Seder, Via Dolorosa, Lebensraum and Miklat. Other directing projects include Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (with Jef Awada) at St. Louis Shakepeare, How the Other Half Loves at Northern Fort Theatre in Aberdeen, SD, Aca Y Alla at the Evidence Room in Los Angeles, Resident Alien at Nebraska Repertory, The Philadelphia Story and Inspecting Carol at the Black Hills Playhouse, Art at the Ozark Actor's Theatre, The Bremen Town Musicians for The Imaginary Theatre Company, and Death of a Salesman at Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre. Doug has directed around the country for Court Theatre, Chico CA, Evidence Room, Los Angles, CA, Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, CO, Belfry Theatre, Lake Geneva, WI, New American Theatre, Rockford IL, Madison Rep, Madison WI, and Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Normal, IL. Doug started his career in Chicago where his credits include The Ice-Fishing Play and Between East and West for the Next Theatre Company, Pastel Refugees and The Butter and Egg Man at Northlight Theatre, and Execution of Justice and Nebraska at Bailiwick Repertory. From 1983-88, he served as Associate Artistic Director to Robert Falls and Richard E.T. White at Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, where he directed Painting Churches, The Immigrant, 'Night Mother, Hunting Cockroaches and Circe & Bravo.

Bill Lynch

Faculty

Bill Lynch joined the faculty of Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts in 1992. He holds a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Maryland, College Park and an M.F.A. in Acting from the Florida State University/ Asolo Conservatory of Actor Training. Since coming to Webster he has served as the dialect/vocal coach or director for over forty productions and has taught workshops for The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Black Rep, Stages St. Louis and Opera Theatre of St. Louis. In 2006 Bill received the William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching. Prior to coming to St. Louis Bill worked as a professional actor throughout the United States and Canada. A member of Actor's Equity since 1989, Bill continues to act professionally and has appeared in over thirty St. Louis productions, including Footloose (Kevin Kline Award nominee: Best Actor in a Musical), Sweet Charity, Damn Yankees, 110 in the Shade (Stages St. Louis), Urinetown, the Musical (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Kevin Kline Award, Best Ensemble in a Musical) I am a Man, Train is Comin' (St. Louis Black Rep), As You Like It (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Art (Ozark Actor's Theatre), Evita, Camelot, Annie (The MUNY) and Falsettos (New Jewish Theatre: Best Actor in a Musical; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Best Musical; Riverfront Times).

Location Information

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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.

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