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Acting / Improv Workshop, Sundays at 5:00pm with Marc Zatorsky

Acting Class And Workshop, Wednesdays at 7:00 pm with Ralph Villani

Master Acting Class, Mondays at 7:00pm with Richard Zavaglia

2008 Calendar - a pdf version of the monthly calendar of events

The Burt Reynolds Institute’s Acting/Improv Workshop With Marc Zatorsky

Class is held on Sundays, starting promptly at 5:00 and runs until 7:30.  The workshop is open for everyone from the established actor to the beginner who has never performed.  The workshop is divided into three parts.

Part 1. Improv

Have fun while honing your improv skills with a variety of improv games and sketches.  The improv part of class provides a great opportunity to warm-up while interacting with a large group of students at one time.

Part 2. Scene work

The class is divided into small groups that receive 2-3 page sides from a screenplay that Marc has written. After a short read and rehearsal period within your group, you will perform the sketch on-stage in front of the class. After receiving some direction and blocking, each group will re-perform each scene.

Part 3. Cold reads

The class will be divided into small groups and will be given a chance to perform 2-5 page scenes of published works. Many of them are from current or past TV sitcoms.

The workshop also provides a great opportunity for you to perform your monologues or audition pieces in front of your peers.

There is a $10 fee required to help pay for the lights. 

Any questions feel free to call marc @ (561)-389-4603 or email Mzatorsky@aol.com.

Ralph Villani’s Acting Class And Workshop

Class is held on Wednesdays from 7 pm – 9:30 pm. Ralph’s classes are held every week during this time period. 

Ralph Villani is a director, producer, actor and musician.  He has studied with the New Group Theatre,  the Tribecca Drama Institute and HB Studios in New York City.  As an acting teacher his focus is within the methods of  Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler. He had served on the Board of Directors for Theatre Gym in New York City. He has been artistic director for Bravado Theatre Company.

Class Outline
The acting class is held every Wednesday evening at 7:00PM. This class is for the beginner as well as the advanced actor. The class is about 2 ½  hours. The cost is $10.00 per class.

The best definition of acting that I know is: “Acting is behaving truthfully in imaginary circumstances.”  It would be wise to weigh this statement carefully before continuing, for it is more than a definition, it contains a fundamental philosophy regarding the art.  The key word in this phrase is “truthfully.”  It is over this word and its possible alternate “effectively,” that almost all disputes arise.  This class is built on the foundation of this method.

Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler methods of acting.

1. Introduction to Acting
2. Justification: Who, What When, Where, And Why.
3. The Repetition Exercise
4. The Relationship
5. The Action Exercise
6. Understanding the Independent Activity
7. Improvisation / Objectives, Intentions, Being Specific, Timelocks, The Stakes.
8. Acting on Stage
9. Acting for Camera
10. Emotional Memory
11. Sense Memory
12. Fantasy Memory
13. Monologues
14. Auditioning

There is a $10 fee required to help pay for the lights. 

Richard Zavaglia’s Master Acting Class

Mr. Zavaglia has an extensive 40 year career in theatre, film, and TV. An accomplished actor, director, producer, and teacher, he has starred on Broadway, feature films, network TV shows, movies , and pilots. Richard recently was a teacher, coach and director at the KD studio acting conservatory of the southwest, in Dallas Texas for four years.

Class will meet on Mondays from 7:00 to 10:00 PM. Classes will cover extensive scene study work, audition monologues, script analyses, and cold reading skills. After a few open classes Ritchie will develop a 10 week session that will culminate in a staged reading of Arthur Miller’s “A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE” - a play the BR Institute will produce and perform at the museum and hopefully at another venue. After a few individual classes the format will revert to 10 wk. semester’s which will end with a showcase reading of a play for fellow actors and the public. These readings will be an attempt to increase our student base and audience.

I would like to establish an acting company of actors, directors and writers who want to be part of a creative hub; a safe space where a creative artist can flourish and grow. - Richard Zavaglia.