GoAudition! - The StageSource Audition Boot Camp
Sponsored by StageSource and Harvard Office for the Arts
GoAudition! is a one day Audition Prep Boot Camp for actors leading up to the StageSource General Auditions and the beginning of the Boston audition season.
Saturday, March 10th from 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM (time subject to change) at Harvard University, Farkas Hall (formerly The New College Theatre) 10-12 Holyoke St., Cambridge, MA 02138.
$20 for StageSource members/$50 for Non-Members.
We will begin our day at 9:00 AM with a Yoga Warm-up lead by Josie Bray.
This day long intensive will feature Seminars and Workshops in:
While most classes will be lead as seminars we encourage all participants to prepare a short monologue (2 minutes) and if interested 10-12 lines of your favorite Shakespeare verse (not prose). Time permitting we may be able to have some participants work on material in class.
Between 12:10PM and 1:40 PM we will hold The Audition Prep Seminar - McCaela Donovan, Christine Hamel, and Tony Estrella will participate in a moderated discussion on how to prepare for an audition. What directors and artistic directors are looking for, how an actor might go about preparing, mistakes to avoid, and good ideas and practices to incorporate into one's auditioning tool belt for example, how to dress/present yourself, how to walk into an audition room with confidence, the benefits of changing up your monologue.
Do you offer services that are valuable to actors? Are you an acting coaches, intructors, accompanists, photographers, or make-up artists? If you're looking for a way to introduce yourself to the Boston Theatre Community we encourage you to participate in the Go Audition! Vendor Fair, click here for details.
Josie Bray is certified pilates instructor, yoga teacher, personal trainer, and health and wellness coach. She has over a decade of teaching experience in various movement modalities, She has trained in multiple kinds of dance, Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga, Qi Gong, Myofascial Release, Contemporary Pilates as well as Pilates for pregnancy, for injury prevention, and for cancer survivors. Josie just returned to Boston after living in New York City for several years, where she certified and trained new pilates instructors at the Fitness Guru in Brooklyn. While in NYC, Josie trained professional performers in the Broadway and National Tours of Mary Poppins, Ragtime, Wicked, and The Lion King as well as dancers from Pina Bausch, David Dorfman Dance, and the Bang Group. Josie's sessions are highly tailored to individual needs. Contact her for a special intro rate for private sessions.
John O'Neil, one of New England's finest cabaret actors (Niagara Falls Gazette), has also been recognized by the Boston Globe as one of New England's best-known cabaret artists. Regularly appearing at popular nightclubs and cabarets across the country, an evening with John O'Neil equally charms the lover of the soulful cocktail pianist and the fan of the art of cabaret. Composer Ernie Lijoi says, "Listening to John O'Neil ... I was knocked over. It changed my way of writing. After that, I wrote thinking how my music would sound in performance." John's show, 'So Kaye: The Songs of Danny Kaye was nominated for a 2000 IRNE AWARD (Independent Reviewers of New England). His show Camp Songs was named one of the year's 10 best cabarets by Bay Windows newspaper in 2000. John made his New York debut at Danny's Skylight Room in Being Earnest: The Songs of Ernie Lijoi, also named one of Boston's best cabaret shows in 2001. Reviewers have called John's newest show, Not That You Asked, "a perfect mix of standup comedy, song and personal anecdote" and "the best show of the season so far, cabaret or comedy, theater or soapbox." In August of 2002, John released his CD 'So Kaye: The Songs of Danny Kaye at Musikfest, the nation's oldest and largest music festival. In March of 2003, the Independent Reviewers of New England presented John with a special recognition award for his many contributions to the field of cabaret. In the fall of 2003, Black Arrow Entertainment produced a one hour video featuring John called Portrait of a Cabaret Singer.
Jeremy Johnson has been a freelance director throughout New England for the past twelve years. He is a graduate of Emerson College where he studied directing, acting and set design and also trained with the Shakespeare Festival of NJ. He directed the Boston premiere of Speech & Debate at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston which received the 2009 Elliot Norton Award for Best Production for a Mid-Size Company and a nomination for Best Ensemble. He will be returning to the Lyric to direct The Temperamentals this spring. Jeremy directed the Boston premiere of Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby as well as Genet's The Balcony for Boston Directors' Lab. Other directing credits include The Wind and the Willows (Gloucester Stage Company) The Scarlet Letter, A Christmas Story (Foothills Theatre) The Crucible (Charlestown Working Theatre) and The Pajama Game (Stoneham Theatre) as well as assistant directing at The Theater Offensive, The Market Theater and Boston Theatre Works. He has directed and and taught at The Cambridge School of Weston, Beaver Country Day School, Gann Academy and Newton South High School. Jeremy has appeared onstage in Shakespeare's R & J (Mill 6 Theatre Collaborative) SpeakEasy Stage Company's The Last Sunday in June (2005 IRNE Award-Best Ensemble) and Boston’s longest running whodunit, Shear Madness. He is a certified yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance and is the Member Services Manager at StageSource.
Sydney Lauren Robinson graduated with Magna cum Laude honors from Emerson College in 2010 where she majored in Costume Design with a Specialty in Makeup and Wigs. In addition to numerous Emerson Stage shows, student films and original student productions for which she designed hair and makeup, Sydney received the prestigious First Place award in Region I for Costume Design from the Kennedy Center for Emerson’s adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of An Author.”
Meghan Kenny is currently working at Watertown Children’s Theatre as the Director of the winter musical, Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, running March 16 – 18 and the Arsenal Center for the Arts. She graduated magna cum laude with her BA in Theatre Studies and Dance from Wheaton College in Norton, MA where she was recognized for Excellence in Acting and awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Meghan also received a Certificate in Performance Studies and Movement from the Moscow Art Theatre School in Moscow, Russia. As a freelance Director, Actress and coach, Meghan spent several years teaching communication and performance skills to young artists across America and then traveled to Istanbul, Turkey for five summers where she created and managed the performance portion of the Robert College Summer Program. Currently Meghan works as a Director, Actress and Coach in the Boston area. Past directing credits include: Project Flux (an original production that debuted at Wheaton College), Beauty and The Beast, Sleeping Beauty Jr., Into The Woods Jr, Romeo and Juliet. Her next production is Twelfth Night at Newton North High School in Newton, MA.
Michael Hammond appeared recently in Boston in Robert Brustein’s Mortal Terror at Suffolk University, and in the Huntington Theatre’s productions of Circle Mirror Transformation and Prelude to a Kiss. Broadway credits include Exit the King, Big Bill, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, M. Butterfly and Search and Destroy. He spent fifteen seasons with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. Roles there included Iago in Othello, Mister Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Porter in Macbeth, Prospero in The Tempest, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and Leontes in The Winter's Tale. Directing credits include Shakespeare & Company’s productions of Antony and Cleopatra, The Vienna Project, and A Tanglewood Tale; Thomas of Woodstock at Emerson Stage (student production); A Girl’s War (selected by The Boston Globe for “Ten Best Theatre Productions of the Year”) and Scenes from a Bordello, both at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; and Tartuffe at The Drama Shop/M.I.T. (student production). Michael was a member of the Shakespeare & Company faculty for many years. He has also taught acting at M.I.T. and Emerson College, and currently teaches in the acting program at Boston University. He is a board member for the Animus Theatre Company in New York City.
Dossy Peabody has been working in the Boston theatre community for over 30 years. Dossy is an Elliot Norton Award winning actress who has performed on stage and in film/television. She is an acting teacher at Emerson College which honored her with a Teaching Award in Performing Arts. Dossy is a long time private acting coach, working with professional actors of all ages and all levels of experience. www.dossypeabody.com
Jen Alison Lewis and coaches actors of all ages, independently and in school settings, as well as acting and directing. She is a Board Member of GAN-e-meed Theatre Project and Director of their Career Labs for women in theatre. She will be directing "the girls" for SWAN Day 2012, and will reprise the role of Wanda in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" in June at the Emerging America Festival (Stickball Productions), as well as coaching actors privately and teaching an after-school drama program in Medford. Favorite theatre roles include Kate in Taming of the Shrew; Living Out (Lyric Stage); and many many new play readings with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. She is a proud graduate New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (BFA, Honors) and member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild.
M. Bevin O’Gara is currently the Associate Producer at the Huntington Theatre Company. Bevin has worked for such companies as New Repertory Theatre, Company One, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Central Square Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 3 Monkey’s Theatrical Productions, Holland Production, Longwood Players, Metro Stage Company, the Gaiety Theatre School of Dublin and the Actor’s Center of Australia. Bevin has a BFA from Boston University in Theatre Studies. Upcoming Projects include LOVE PERSON with Company One this spring.
Bridget Kathleen O’Leary is in her fourth season at New Rep as Associate Artistic Director. Most recently, she has directed New Rep’s productions of Collected Stories, DollHouse (Elliot Norton Nomination, Best Production, 2011), The Scarlet Letter (New Rep On Tour), boom, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and Fool for Love. Other directing credits include: Recent Tragic Events and Aunt Dan and Lemon, for Whistler in the Dark; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, for Summer Festival Theatre, Roxbury Latin; The Boys of Winter (IRNE Nomination, Best New Play, 2008) for BKS productions; The Devil’s Teacup (IRNE Nomination, Best New Play, 2007) at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The American Clock, Much Ado About Nothing, Curse of the Starving Class, Dancing at Lughnasa, and Sarah Kane’sCrave and 4.48 Psychosis, all at Boston University. In 2007, she assisted Artistic Director Wendy C. Goldberg at the National Playwrights’ Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and worked as an assistant on new plays by Rebecca Gilman and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Before moving to Boston, Bridget worked in Washington, D.C. with the Olney Theatre Center, Theater Alliance, Cherry Red Productions, Charter Theater, Studio Theatre Second Stage, and Phoenix Theatre DC, of which she was a founding member. Selected D.C. directing credits include: Independence, Parallel Lives, and the creations ofUnwrapped and Lulu Fabulous by area playwrights. Bridget received her MFA in directing at Boston University.
