Webster University
College Audition Workshop

Session1	July 18 - July 23, 2010
Grades	12th grade - age 20
Tuition	$995
Audition	No Audition Required

Tuition includes room and meals
Grade entering in Fall 2010

College Audition Workshop Camp/Workshop Details

Camp Director: Lana Hagan
Faculty: Doug Finlayson, Gary Glasgow, Neil Richardson

The College Audition Workshop provides a rare opportunity for you to prepare for the audition and interview process that is essential for your college application to top theater training programs.

You're beginning your senior year in high school. The college performing arts auditions are looming. Your questions are mounting. What is a contemporary monologue? Where do I find the right one for me? How do I approach classical work? How do I present myself in the interview? I want to do musical theater. Do I have to act and dance? How do I prepare? Is my preparation enough from my own school? This intensive College Audition Workshop will give you the tools to forge ahead with confidence next fall. Register early to ensure your space.

* 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.

Gary Glasgow

Faculty

Gary Glasgow has been a faculty member in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University since 1993, where, in addition to courses in Pilates and Text Analysis, he teaches the Second Year acting sequence. As an actor, he has worked extensively in St. Louis and throughout the country. St. Louis venues include The Municipal Opera of St. Louis (more than 30 productions), the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Mustard Seed Theatre, Historyonics Theatre, Theatre Project Company, and the Westport Playhouse. Favorite local productions include Evita, Annie, Showboat, Singin' in the Rain, and Brigadoon at The Muny; Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III and The Tempest at the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis; Galileo, Born Yesterday, and The Threepenny Opera at The Repertory Theater of St. Louis. Regional credits include work at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City (Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Singin' in the Rain), Wisconsin Shakespeare Company (As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Hamlet); and the Colorado Shakespeare Company (The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, All's Well That Ends Well). In Chicago, he has worked with The Apple Tree Theater (Cyrano de Bergerac, Seesaw), Chicago Shakespeare Repertory (King Lear), Lifeline Theatre (A Servant of Two Masters, Purloined Poe, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Joseph Jefferson Citation) and Pegasus Players (The Devil's Disciple). He directs frequently for Webster Theatre Conservatory and has developed several new plays for the St. Louis One-Act Play Festival. Gary is a member of Actor's Equity and completed his certification in Pilates in April 2006.

Neil Richardson

Faculty

Neal Richardson is a magna cum laude graduate of Belmont University and holds a Master's of Music degree (piano and music theory) from Baylor University with doctoral studies in piano and music theory at University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music. Neal has taught and worked as a music director at Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (john & jen, Cabaret, Starting Here, Starting Now and Baby) and Northern Kentucky University (Little Mary Sunshine, Nunsense, The Fantasticks and others). He currently teaches musical theatre at Webster University and was music director for The Spitfire Grill, OKLAHOMA!, No, No, Nanette, Cabaret, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Pippin, 42nd Street, Violet, Lucky Stiff, Nine, Ruthless: The Musical, Into the Woods, A New Brain, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and Rodgers and Hart: A Celebration. Other teaching opportunities at Webster University include History of American Musical Theatre, Music Appreciation and Music Theory. Neal has taught voice and musical theatre at Stages Performing Arts Academy and the Webster Community Music School. Neal is the composer and lyricist for Peter Rabbit, Robin Hood, My Father's Dragon, The Box Wars and Hansel and Gretel: the Next Generation produced at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. As a freelance arranger for Hal Leonard, he is responsible for the vocal selections of Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Brooklyn, Jersey Boys, The Drowsy Chaperone, Grey Gardens, The Color Purple, The Pirate Queen, Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, Passing Strange and [Title of Show] as well as many other arrangements for solo piano. Neal serves Samuel United Church of Christ as organist/choir director and is cofounder of Early Music Saint Louis. He is editor-in-chief of Africanus Editions, a publishing house producing monographs of music by African-born composers of the Baroque and Classical eras by African-born composers of the Baroque and Classical eras.

Location Information

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The school - founded on the principle of providing a higher education to those who might not possess the opportunity to obtain one - today operates as a private, nonprofit, accredited university offering undergraduate and graduate education.
The home campus is located in Webster Groves, Mo., a picturesque suburb of St. Louis. The university certainly has grown since it was established in 1915 and now includes more than 100 campus locations throughout the United States and across the globe.
It's created a unique educational environment at Webster, blending the conveniences of a small university with the opportunities of a large one.
Webster is dedicated to academic excellence, innovation in higher education, meeting students' needs in an ever-changing world and incorporating an international perspective throughout the curriculum.

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.

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