Acting for the Camera
Open to students ages 14–18

July 25–August 21
Two two-week sessions

Session I July 25–Aug. 7 Course # YYCA Ø3-Ø4
Session II Aug. 8–21 Course # YYCA Ø5-Ø6

Culmination: Student Film Screening
Saturday, August 7, 10 a.m.
Saturday, August 21, 10 a.m.

A jam packed, two-week course for growing actors curious about the specific demands and intimate nature of acting for film and television.

The course will start off exploring the difference between theater and film acting, and guide the students toward the naturalistic style necessary for the camera. Participants will learn relaxation techniques, emotional access methods, and more technical aspects such as how to adjust their performance for different types of camera shots (e.g., wide, medium, close-up).

We will regularly incorporate actor games, improvs, and other performance exercises, and explore the difference between comedic and dramatic acting. Throughout the session participants will work on monologues and scenes on-camera. This class is taught in tandem to the Directing for the Camera Class who film and edit the scenes for a final screening for family and friends.

Students are asked to bring an adventurous spirit!

Tuition, room and board: $2550
Lab fee: $50
Enrollment limited to 12 students.

Karina Becker
Wendy Girard

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Creating the Character: Concept to Performance
Open to students finishing grade 8–12

July 25–August 7
Course # YYTH Ø3-Ø4
Two-week session

Student Performances
Friday, August 6, 8 p.m.
Saturday, August 7, 11 a.m.

As an actor, one is often limited by the work that is available, unless… the actor creates their OWN work. In this two week long program students will create characters, monologues, and scenes. The first week will focus more on the writing and improvisation and the second week we will add music and physical staging, playing with props and costumes to finally culminate in a performance that showcases and celebrates the work that’s been developed. Many of today’s successful actors jumpstarted their careers this way. Why wait for the right role to come along when you can create the perfect role for yourself!

Tuition, room and board: $2550
Enrollment limited to 20 students.

Leon Martell
Laurel Ollstein

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Sketch Comedy is Serious Business
Open to students finishing grade 8–12

August 8-21
Course # YYTH Ø5-Ø6
Two-week session

Student Performances
Friday, August 20, 8 p.m.
Saturday, August 21, 11 a.m.

Sketch performers, like the comic actors on Saturday Night Live, make it look easy, but there is a lot involved in making the public laugh. Those performers help write the material. In this two week program we will practice approaches to developing characters, creating scenarios, and presenting work that has both humor and depth. We’ll practice the tools that help make characters that can live on beyond one skit. We will also play with writing “genre pieces”, sequels, and comic adaptations. A music director will help the students in creating comic songs for their scenes and characters. The session will end with a public performance of all the comic masterpieces created over the two weeks. Learn to the tools needed to generate more than a quick sketch. With these tools, you can continue to create endlessly.

Tuition, room and board: $2550
Enrollment limited to 20 students.

Leon Martell
Laurel Ollstein

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Summer Theatre Festival
Open to students finishing grade 8–12

July 11–31
Course # YYTF Ø1-Ø3
Three-week session

Student Performances
Fri./Sat., July 30 & 31, 8 p.m.

Programs of Study and Performance
The Theatre Arts Department offers programs of study geared for the serious high school student of theatre. It affords the student the opportunity to experience disciplined training in performance and technical theatre as exemplified in conservatory theatre training programs normally found at the college level. The summer curriculum will offer an introduction to the crafts of theatre including actor training in Voice and Diction/Acting, Stage Movement, Clowning and Mask work, Improvisation, Stage Combat and technical theatre training in set/costume/prop construction.

Students will be placed in classes and performances as actors or technicians based on an audition at the beginning of the three-week session. Every effort to accommodate student interests will be considered for class placement, however, casting is based on ability and enrollment in the Summer Theatre Festival does not guarantee casting in a production. All students enrolled in the summer program will participate in production in either an acting or technical theatre capacity. Summer Theatre faculty may perform alongside students in productions.

Special workshops will be offered as staffing permits. Typical offerings from past summers include Audition Techniques, Stage Combat, Clowning Techniques, Mask Making, Dance Improvisation, Technical Theatre, Audition Techniques and Musical Theatre.

Typical Daily Schedule
Mon/Thurs. (Mornings & Afternoons, 8:30-5)
     Classes, workshops, rehearsals and technical theatre production
Friday (All Day, 8:30-5)
     Rehearsals and technical theatre production
Saturday (10-5)
     Workshops and rehearsals
Sunday
     Off
Evenings (6:30-9:30)
     Rehearsals and technical theatre production as called.

Performances
The Summer Theatre Festival will culminate with a production presented on the Friday and Saturday nights of the last week of the session. Lecture/Demonstrations of some workshops will be presented in the last week for visiting family and friends.

Performance schedules and titles will be announced after students arrive. Workshop subjects will be announced at that time as well.

Shows under consideration: Macbeth, The Tempest, by Shakespeare; The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Beaumont and Fletcher; William Davenaut’s Adaptation of MacBeth. Enrollment will be limited to 25 Acting Students and 5 Technical Theatre students.

Casting
All casting will be done in Idyllwild on the first Monday of the session. Students interested in acting must be prepared to present the following:

1) Two one-minute contrasting monologues: one (1) contemporary and one (1) classical.
2) 16 bars of a simple song a capella (no accompaniment).
3) A resume and head shot (photograph-black and white).
4) A Teacher Recommendation Form.
For students who are unable to obtain two contemporary monologues, prepared materials are available from the Summer Registrar. Please request the audition material at the time of registration.

Tuition, room and board: $2995
Script fee: $25
Enrollment limited to 30 students.

Students are requested to stay in campus housing until the Sunday morning following the end of their session in order to assist in striking the set.

J. Barrett Cooper, Director
Stephanie Erb
Alec Volz, Improvisation Instructor

Additional Faculty TBA

Song and Dance

July 11–24
Course # YYDS Ø1-Ø2
Two-week session

Student Performance
Friday, July 23, 8 p.m.

In this musical theatre workshop, designed for students grades 9–12 (graduating seniors may apply) with background in either musical theatre (or vocal music) and/or dance. All students will receive intensive training in voice and dance, with a final performance which will include individual solo work and full company production numbers from recent and classic Broadway shows. A major emphasis is placed on learning how to select audition material and to audition successfully. Students should come prepared to work hard, be challenged, and have a great time doing it!

A typical daily schedule is shown here (some activities alternate):

9 a.m. Dance warm-up
9:45 a.m. Jazz dance & individual voice lessons
10:45 a.m. Break
11 a.m. Tap dance (students placed by level of skill)
12 noon Lunch
1:30 p.m. Vocal Warm-up
1:45 p.m. Voice Classes/Audition techniques
3 p.m. Auditions for recitals
          Rehearsals for final concert
          Coaching as needed
4 p.m. Break
5:30 p.m. Dinner
6:30 p.m. Musical theatre repertoire
          Choral rehearsal

For program information, email Joel Pressman: jpressm@pacbell.net. Students enrolling in Song and Dance are asked to submit an audition tape. Please submit a video recording (VHS or DVD) showing a performance of one or two songs from musical theatre repertoire and one letter of recommendation from a music or theatre professional (choir director, voice, dance or acting private teacher, drama coach) who knows your work. If possible, please include a sample of your dance or movement ability–individual routine, clip from a musical in which you performed (be sure to include information to identify you in any group numbers), or even dance class. Please send the video, a completed registration form, Teacher

Recommendation form, the $25 application fee and the $225 deposit to:

Idyllwild Arts Summer Program,
Song & Dance
P.O. Box 38, Idyllwild CA 92549

Please note: All videos must be received by
March 27. Students will be notified of acceptance into the program by April 15, 2010. Returning Song & Dance students do not need to audition for the 2010 session.

Students should bring jazz and tap shoes, and either a black character shoe (women) or any sturdy black dress shoe. Women should bring a white blouse and black skirt (knee length), leotard and tights (at least one pair each of black and beige), and a simple knee length “rehearsal” skirt. Men should bring a white dress shirt and black pants, as well as clothes for dance class. All students should bring sheet music in their range - musical theatre repertoire-and be prepared to perform at least one song, from memory, at the start of the session. Students auditioning solo songs for the final concert might also want to bring appropriate costume for those numbers (not required).

Tuition, room and board: $2450
Enrollment limited to 35 students.

Joel D. Pressman, Director
Marina Benedict
Richard Berent, accompanist
Janet Miller
Linda Muggeridge, costumer
Wendy Knudsen Pylko, vocal coach

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Directing for the Camera
Open to students ages 14–18

July 25–August 21
Two two-week sessions

Session I July 25–Aug. 7
Course # YYCD Ø3-Ø4
Session II Aug. 8–21
Course # YYCD Ø5-Ø6

Culmination: Student Film Screening
Saturday, August 7, 10 a.m.
Saturday, August 21, 10 a.m.

A jam packed, two-week course designed to inspire directors. Students will learn the role of the film director and techniques of visual storytelling. The course will cover crew responsibilities, art direction, shot selection, camera movement, lighting for visual tone, sound recording, editing and most importantly, working with actors. This class is taught in tandem with the Acting for the Camera class. After two weeks every student will direct two scenes starring two students from the Acting for the Camera class. The scene will be presented in the final screening for friends and family. Students are asked to bring their imagination!

Tuition, room and board: $2550
Lab fee: $50
Enrollment limited to 12 students.

Isaac Webb, Director

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Filmmaking for High School Filmmakers
Open to students ages 14–18

July 11–31
Course # YYFM Ø1-Ø3
Three-week session

Culmination: Student Film Screening
Saturday, July 31, 10 a.m.

Designed for high school-aged artists passionate about making films. Using our state-of-the-art sound stage, lighting and grip equipment, digital cameras and editing suites, filmmakers will cast their films from a wide variety of actors in the Idyllwild Arts Casting Directory to make short digital films. During an intensive three-week period, the young filmmakers will learn techniques of visual storytelling leading to an understanding of the creative collaboration in filmmaking between the writer, director, cinematographer, editor and actor in creating authentic, memorable films. In the first week, participants will concentrate on story, screen writing, development, producing, camera, sound, directing and crewing skills. In the second week, they will complete pre-production planning, cast actors, and work in several positions on crews to shoot their short films. In the third week, students will edit picture and sound, score, and add visual effects. All films will be screened on the last day of classes at Idyllwild’s first-run movie theater, pending its availability. Each student will receive a DVD of the films made in class.

Tuition, room and board: $3900
Lab fee: $125
Enrollment limited to 16 students.

Ira Abrams
Alex Gaynor, BFA in Film, Chapman University
Pam Pierce, MA in Screenwriting from Stanford University.

Additional Faculty TBA

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