March 20 - April 03, 2025
Acting: Acting Through Song
Mason Community Arts Academy/GMU • 4260 Chain Bridge Rd Fairfax, VA 22030 Organized by Mason Community Arts Academy
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Description
We're sorry, but this program is over. The last meeting was Thursday, April 3, 2025.
Acting Through SongAges: 14 - 22Time: 6:30pm-9:00pmDates: March 20, 27, April 3 (three weeks)This intensive course is designed for the dedicated musical theater performer. Actors will work at a rigorous pace to apply script analysis to musical theater pieces and strengthen their acting and storytelling during singing performances and auditions. Students will learn to perform and actualize the song with physical, emotional, and vocal clarity; and how to identify the best choices for their character portrayal. Our concentrated schedule keeps students working productively each week. This three-week session will not only allow students to prepare a thorough and well-rounded performance of a musical theater piece, but to gain the knowledge to apply these skills to future roles. Ideal for the musical theater student seeking to create thoroughly-realized characters for performances and auditions and to gain skills for a competitive high school or college theater environment.
Enrolled students should bring to the first class:
- Two complete songs within their vocal range. The songs should be contrasting in style, tempo, and mood. Please bring printed sheet music for the selected songs.
This class is for the intermediate-advanced musical theater performer who is dedicated to in-depth, rigorous study. Previous theatre experience is necessary to reap the most benefits from this course.
INSTRUCTOR: Jessie Holder Tourtellotte is a working actor, teaching artist, and theatre/film maker with a long history of audition coaching for college and graduate admissions as well as for school and professional work. She has served on the faculty of the Identity School of Acting and the Artists' initiative, worked for summer programs like the University of the Arts Pre College Program and the Rutgers Summer Acting Conservatory, and served on numerous panels for collegiate and training program admissions and as a guest judge. Recently, she guest directed West Springfield Spartan Theatre's Peter and the Starcatcher this past spring, and worked with Lake Braddock Theatre's recent Romeo and Juliet (Movement Director, Intimacy Coach, Text Coach- Cappies NCA Best Play Winner), and Something Rotten (Music Director, Choreographer), as well as returning to teaching for AFYP this summer. Her coaching students have recent admissions to CCM, UNCSA, Carnegie Mellon, Boston University, Rutgers, Troy, Indiana, Shenandoah, UC Fullerton and Irvine, USC, and more.
Online registration closes 2 business days before the first class, however space may still be available! Please contact the office to check academy@gmu.edu or 703-993-9889. A $10 late registration fee may apply.
- Add academy@gmu.edu to your email contact list in order to receive important information before the class starts. Email is our primary method of communication to enrolled students.
Activity Sub-Category
Teens
Location
Mason Arts Academy Building, Unit A-3
Age and Gender
Ages 14-23 · Co-Ed
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