Acting for Stage and Screen
The Open Arts Studio at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts
Spring Only! Acting for Stage and Screen is the new Open Arts Studio at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. It is designed for a select, diverse student body, ready to challenge and stretch the physical and emotional instrument of the actor and broaden the imagination as a force for effecting social change. The studio is dedicated to developing the actor's entire instrument-the body, the voice, and imagination. Therefore, training focuses on freeing the actor to be able to go with his instincts and impulses, being more intuitive than rational.
Angela Pietropinto, actor and teacher, as well as a Tisch alumnae and director of the studio, has assembled a faculty composed of master teachers, dedicated to teaching the creative process an actor must go through in order to become a conduit for a playwright's ideas. The studio's faculty members are working theater professionals as well as experienced teachers. The faculty exposes students to the ideas and philosophies of award-winning contemporary playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Donald Margulies, Beth Henley, Tony Kushner, Theresa Rebeck, David Rabe, August Wilson, and Kenneth Lonergan.
The second half of the semester aims to integrate the movement, voice production, games/improvisation, scene study, and film production techniques and apply them to the students' scenes. The director and instructors collaborate to utilitze all of the training.
Students will attend the studio 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. three days a week. The remaining two days are spent in academic theatre studies courses, such as Major Playwrights, World Drama, and Theatre in New York. Students earn 8 points of studio credit and earn an additional 4 - 10 points through elective courses.*
*Spring 2009 courses will be posted in September.
NYU Students please see : Admissions for NYU Students.
Areas of Study:
- Movement
- Voice Production
- Games/Improv
- Clowning
- Commedia Dell'Arte
- Scene Study
- Film Production
