CETA-S HSTF 2009 WORKSHOPS LIST (Revised 1/12)

1.Title: Directing Middle School Kids

Sessions 1 - 2
Leader: Marcia Barryte
Description: What you bring to the table for the Middle School kid is MORE THAN YOU DREAMED!! - High School
kids will realize how much expertise they have and what skills they need to develop to work with directing younger
kids: theatre warm ups and games that work with the age group 6th - 8th grade and approaches they would use for
each age group and scene work.
2. Title: Tai Chi
Sessions 1 - 2 - 3
Leader: Peter Chen
Description: Tai Chi is able to reduce stress and give you more energy. Tai Chi is a most effective way to develop
balanced health for the body and the mind. It develops and improves overall health, calmness of mind, relaxation
and freedom from stress! Gain strength, coordination, balance, agility and harmony.
3. Title: Mime
Sessions 1 - 2 - 3
Leader: Judi Garrett
Description: Students will learn basic mime techniques, principles, and some illusions and will have an opportunity
to experiment with them through improvisation.
4. Title: Melodrama
Sessions 1 - 2 - 3
Leader: Dianne Bye
Description: Students will understand, through theatre exercises, the stock characters and typical scenarios of the
American version of Melodrama. They will create their own melodrama plays and use costume pieces and props to
share their presentations to the group.
5. Title: Improvisation - 5
Sessions 1 - 2 - 3
Leader: ComedySportz
Description: Improvisation is one of the most useful skills an actor can master. Yet few colleges, universities or
professional programs provide the training. Here's a chance to learn those skills in a challenging, fun workshop.
Explore the tools of improvisation--risk, spontaneity, listening, teamwork, trust, focus, story structure and more, and
understand its application to the work of the actor. ComedySportz is the longest running show in Los Angeles (20
years). Check ComedySportzLA.com for info on our summer camps.
6. Title: Improvisation - 6
Sessions 1 2 - 3
Leader: ComedySportz
Description: Improvisation is one of the most useful skills an actor can master. Yet few colleges, universities or
professional programs provide the training. Here's a chance to learn those skills in a challenging, fun workshop.
Explore the tools of improvisation--risk, spontaneity, listening, teamwork, trust, focus, story structure and more, and
understand its application to the work of the actor. ComedySportz is the longest running show in Los Angeles (20
years). Check ComedySportzLA.com for info on our summer camps.
7. Title: Instant Shakespeare: Add Water and Stir
Sessions 1 2 - 3
Leader: Carolyn McKnight
Description: We will use a sonnet and a monologue to create a multi-character short play, with music and
movement, and explore powerful emotions and universal truths. For Shakespeare freaks and those for whom
Shakespeare is just too freaky.
8.Title: Dancing with Character
Sessions 1 2 - 3
Leader: Kelee Thompson
Description: Learn how to portray different types of characters through body movements, and learn a fun musical
theatre dance combination.

9. Title: Acting Chekhov

Sessions 1 2 - 3
Leader: Elizabeth England
Description: The key to understanding Chekhovs work is to look beyond what is said and examines what lies
beneath, in the characters' minds and hearts. In this workshop, students will practice the art of playing the subtext of
a script, using Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Technique is inspired by the instruction of James Bundy, Dean of the Yale
School of Drama.
10. Title: Acting
Leader: Beverly Quinn
Description: Work on your monologue.

Sessions 1 - 2 - 3

11. Title: Fast and Furious/Art Actions Image Theatre

Sessions 2 - 3
Leader: Corky Dominguez
Description: Rock n roll instant theatre making around the campus, using elements of Augusto Boals Theatre of
the Oppressed and Anne Bogarts Viewpoint/Composition we will create a one time only unique ensemble working
in the moment and from the heart!
12. Title: Rehearsing Your Scenes
Sessions 1 2 - 3
Leader: Max Schafer
Description: Rehearsing your Scenes
Learn rehearsal techniques to really bring your scene to life. Viola Spolin develops these. You with rehearse a short
scene; then we will rehearse it in a variety of ways. These techniques can be applied to any play you are rehearsing.
13. Title: Community/Culture/Gender Performance Exploration
Sessions 2 - 3
Leader: Shaun Klaseus
Description: Movement based session using various theatre techniques to explore themes and issues around
community, culture, and gender.
14. Title: Shakespeares Language
Sessions 2 - 3
Leader: The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Description: Scansion, Rhetoric and unlocking the secrets of Shakespeares Text. Within Shakespeares poetry
are messages from the Bard about the character, emotion, idea, pace, and performance. Actors will begin to decode
these messages using the basics of scansion and rhetoric and apply them to performance.
15. Title: Elizabethan Movement and Dance
Session 1
Leader: The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Description: Discover how period movement enhances your work as an actor through this physical and interactive
class. Actors learn the basics of Elizabethan Movement and Dance.
16. Title: Stage Management Survival 101
Sessions 1 - 2 - 3
Leader: Diane Jones
Description: Learn the basics of how to set up a back date calendar, run rehearsal, set up your script and how to
call a show.
17. Title: An Introduction to Object Work
Sessions 1 - 2 - 3
Leader: Anthony Castillo
Description: We will explore new ways of looking at object work on stage. The session will include exercises for
bringing inanimate objects to life, and lesson on creating a simple, quick, and cheap Bunraku puppet out of
newspaper. Participants can keep the puppets they create.

18 Title: Physical Theatre

Sessions 1 2 - 3
Leader: - Christopher Morrison
Description: We all use our bodies to tell each other what we think of ourselves and what we think of everyone else
too! Learn how to manipulate your status (and other people/actors) to tell the story of your character with specific and
actionable choices. Learn the status game to elevate your acting (and get one over on everyone else you know!) For
ANY level actor this class will improve your performance guaranteed!
19 Title: Bollywood - Praise Dance
Session 1
Leader: Rev. Joe Elvis Always
Description: A combination of Indias Bollywood, Jazz and Praise dance; done to the rhythm dance song entitle
Halleluiah is the Highest Praise. Learn basic Bollywood and Praise dance. Bollywood is the new Hollywood of
Musical movies and live show. You saw it on "So You Think You Can Dance". Come it will be fun.
20 Title: Broadway CA Dance
Session 2
Leader: Rev. Joe Elvis Always
Description: Learn two musical theater numbers in the style of Broadway auditions. It should be fun and a window
on the reality of NYC dance auditions. Learn a combination from West Side Story America and the opening number
of A Chorus Line.
21 Title: High Impact Salsa-Funk Aerobics Dance
Session 3
Leader: Rev. Joe Elvis Always
Description: A combination of Latin rhythm salsa beat with percussion and funk beat. Break into a sweat, warm your
body; learn basic Latin combination mix with jazz-funk. Get ready to start the year with a new attitude and good
health. Come on, dont miss it you will have fun and make new friends.
22 Title: Stage Combat
Sessions 1 - 2 - 3
Leader: Ken Merckx
Description: Ken will be addressing safe methods of dynamic acts of theatrical violence, Covering fights, and
weapons and factors that contributed to a safe and entertaining fight scene.
23 Title: Movement for the Actor
Sessions 1 - 2 - 3
Leader: Shalico Sain
Description: Using a physical approach to acting allows students to free their inhibitions and get in touch with their
bodies, create characters from a physical, organic level rather than a cerebral one. We will work with breathing and
stretching techniques; have students mimic/create the movements of the four elements: Earth, Wind, Water, and
Fire. Students will then use these movements to create original characters inspired by their elements and perform a
short, improvised scene.
24 Title: Set Design [This Session Has Been CANCELLED]
Leader: Randy Shorts
25 Title: Lighting Design: A Method of Lighting the Stage
Sessions 1 - 3
Leader: Daniel Weiermann
Description: A basic overview of using light as a design medium and how to apply it. Qualities and functions of light
are discussed. This knowledge is then applied to techniques for formulating a light plot and cues for a show. Mr.
Weiermann is the System Sales Person for DTC Grip & Electric.
26 Title: Fixtures: How to Use and Maintain Them
Session 2
Leader: Daniel Weiermann
Description: Discussion of the various types of lighting fixtures in use today, and how they differ and are used.
Fresnels, PARs, ellipsoidals, cyc fixtures, and automated fixtures. Techniques for maintaining the lighting fixtures no
matter the manufacturer or age.

27 Title: Obama Drama

Sessions 2 - 3
Leader: Bernardo Solano
Description: How do theatre artists use their art to express their politics and their politics to express their art?
Writers, actors, directors, designers--tap into your inner revolutionary, society-changing, shape-shifting self!
28 Title: Improvisation & Character with the Voice
Sessions 2 - 3
Leader: Patrick Williams
Description: Students will have fun creating characters and monologues through vocal techniques. We will work on
quickly establishing the character and situation, making choices and committing to them. The two main exercises will
be vocal orchestras: The Emotional Orchestra will create witty characters & monologues as students express various
emotions and topics. The Truth Orchestra will develop a story rooted in truthful improvisation amongst various
characters involved in the same situation. Students should leave the workshop with a greater confidence in their
characterization, improvisation and monologue skills.
29 Title: Got Character [This Session Has Been CANCELLED]
Leader: Cathy Petz
30 Title: How to Survive a Dance Audition
Sessions 2 - 3
Leader: Cheryl DesPalmes and Kathleen Switzer
Description: Are you uncomfortable or out of your element at dance auditions? We will give you tips for surviving
your audition and making yourself look good. Learn to fake basic tap moves, create fun characters and look like you
know what you are doing!
31 Title: Voice and Speech
Sessions 1 - 2 - 3
Leader: Christopher Fairbanks
Description: This session will introduce and reinforce the fundamentals of breath support and vocalization. It will
also help you to identify speech habits through an introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet.
32 Title: Improv with Props
Sessions 1 - 2 - 3
Leader: Chelsea Camp
Description: We will begin with a warm up. This will consist of the students shaking out their legs and hands for 8, 6,
4, and 2 counts. (Shake it Out) We will then do two tongue twisters. Character Commercial: Students will come up
and perform a 30 second commercial as a certain character and with a specific prop. I will assign them the character
and hand them the prop. For example they are rock star selling toothpaste. They must keep in mind how their
character would speak, move, and what their relationship is with prop. We will discuss as a class between
commercials what worked well, and why this exercise is helpful for getting comfortable with improv.