January 16 - 30, 2025
Acting: Advanced Audition Techniques
Mason Community Arts Academy/GMU • 4260 Chain Bridge Rd Fairfax, VA 22030 Organized by Mason Community Arts AcademyAbout this event
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Description
Advanced Audition Techniques
Thursdays 6:30pm - 9:00pm January 16, January 23, and January 30, 2025 (3 weeks)
This intensive course is designed for the dedicated theatre student in high school or college. Actors will work at a rigorous pace to develop standout and competitive audition material. Students will strengthen their foundational audition skills, learn techniques for gesture and space use in an audition format, apply script analysis techniques to their audition materials, learn how to prepare for the audition room, how to ease audition-day nerves, and how to identify the best choices for their unique talent.
Our concentrated schedule keeps students working productively each week. This three week session will allow students to not only prepare material appropriate for school, college, and community auditions, but to develop selection and preparation skills they can repeat for subsequent auditions as well. This course is ideal for the student seeking to be more competitive in casting at their high school or university, or seeking to prepare auditions for competitive training programs and majors.
Enrolled students should bring to the first class: 1) one contemporary monologue (1-2 minutes in length) for a character within their age range 2) one classical monologue (1-2 minutes in length) for a character within their age range 3) (Optional) if pursuing musical theater, students may also bring one 16-32 bar cut of an audition song in their vocal range.
This class is for the intermediate-advanced 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 has served on numerous panels for collegiate and training program admissions and as a guest judge. She holds a BFA from the University of the Arts' Ira Brind School of Theatre Arts and has worked as an actor across the country, with the bulk of her work in NYC and Los Angeles. She recently appeared opposite Lauren Lapkus in the forthcoming film Another Happy Day, due to release October 1 via Gravitas Ventures, received awards for her world premiere performance in the world premiere of the play Wounded at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, has served as a producer and performing company member of the Riot of the Tipsy Bacchanals, and since relocating has served as a guest artist for numerous local productions including working as the resident Intimacy Choreographer for NOVA Nightsky, guest directing West Springfield Spartan Theatre's Peter and the Starcatcher this past spring, and working with Lake Braddock Theatre's recent Romeo and Juliet (Movement Director, Intimacy Choreographer, 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 14-22 · Co-Ed
Location
Sessions
Acting: Advanced Audition Techniques
$10.00
in 68 days $225.00