Young Women grades 7-12
She
Empowering young women and their voices!
Saturday, March 24, 2018 Noon-5:00 p.m.
She Speaks. This workshop will focus on physical, vocal, and emotional awareness
to empower young women to command attention, respect and confidence in stressful situations. Three professional women will teach rotating workshops using theatre techniques to help young women make their voices be heard! Young Women: 7-12 grade. Date & Time: Saturday, March 24 — Noon-5:00 p.m. Event Breakdown Noon-12:30 p.m. Welcome & icebreakers 12:30-1:30 p.m. Workshops Rotation 1 1:30-2:30 p.m. Rotation 2/workshops continue 2:30 p.m. 15 minute break 2:45-3:45 p.m. Rotation 3/workshops continue 3:45-4:15 p.m. Regroup for closing remarks and disscusion 4:15-5:00 p.m. Mingle in lobby. Welcome parents to join at this time Workshop Descriptors Cynthia Beckert PHYSICAL AWARENESS: structured physical exercises to find your power in a space large and small. Lauren O’Quinn VOCAL AWARENESS: finding the power in your voice to confidently express yourself and state who you are. Tips on vocal modulation and inflection, Meisner technique. Monica Tamborello EMOTIONAL AWARENESS: using role playing techniques, Stanislavski objectives and active verbs to get at the core of what we want and how to express what we want as young women in productive ways, explore how to connect with the other people in the room, “I See You” exercises.
Instructors Cynthia Beckert has been a professional performer for over 25 years. She began her career as a dancer, studying classical and contemporary ballet, jazz, modern, Middle Eastern, folk, and musical theatre. Her passion for Shakespeare led her to explore period medieval and Renaissance dance styles and postures, and to explore the biomechanics of movement throughout different theatrical eras. Combining her training as a classical singer and stage actress, Cynthia encourages an integrated awareness of breath, movement, posture and voice, offering simple but powerful physical tools to empower the speaker to express her fullest self. Cynthia has a BA in Music from The University of the South, Sewanee, an MA in Theatre from Florida State University, and an MFA in Acting from The University of California, Irvine. For 10 years she worked with the all-female Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, performing male roles in classical plays, and teaching movement workshops in theatrical gender-crossing and period dance. Lauren O’Quinn is an award-winning actress, director, and teacher. She majored in theatre at the University of Georgia and moved to Orlando in 1997. Since that time, she has appeared in over 200 national and regional commercials, and numerous films, television shows, and plays. Recent credits include Nashville (with Connie Britton), The Florida Project (with Willem Dafoe), House of Cards (with Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright), Bloodline (with Sissy Spacek), national commercials for Allegiant Airlines, Tires Plus, and on-going television appearances as the host of ION Kitchen on ION Television. She has been teaching advanced Meisner-based acting classes since 2002 and is a former talent agent and a freelance casting director who currently serves on the Executive Board of Film Florida. Her specialty is training actors in deep emotional access and the ability to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances, all while building their confidence and encouraging them to embrace their own unique essence. Monica Long Tamborello has been directing, acting, and teaching drama for over thirty years throughout the southeast. She graduated with a BA in Theatre from Nicholls State University and studied graduate level coursework in Theatre for Youth at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro; since then, she has created theatre classes and curriculum and taught all ages from pre-K through college level. For the last nineteen years,
Instructors Monica Long Tamborello (Continued) she has made her home in Orlando, working with professional companies such as Mad Cow Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Orlando Repertory Theatre, RS&C Productions, the Florida Children’s Repertory Theatre, and TheatreWorks!, a teen theatre/service organization. As a teaching artist, her content focus has included basic creative dramatics, improvisation, encouraging empathy through role-play and story dramatization, and dissecting and performing a Shakespearean text. Monica has also served as an Interactor in the ground-breaking TeachLivE™ program with the College of Education University of Central Florida, empowering current and future classroom teachers through role-play with virtual classroom avatars. She has directed productions with The Young Company at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre for the last eight summers, directing high school students in such shows as Hamlet and The Winter’s Tale. Monica currently teaches at Lake Eola Charter School and continues to direct, perform, and coach actors; her last professional production was at Mad Cow Theatre where she directed the relevant and powerful one-woman show, Grounded, by George Brant. Mad Cow Theatre is celebrating its 21st season as one of Orlando’s most respected professional theatre companies, committed to presenting compelling works of theatre for a wide range of audiences, with a passion for both classic and contemporary plays representing the best of American and world literature. Mad Cow Theatre attracts the area’s most talented and actors, designers, and directors. A mainstay of the company is its dedication to the process of creating theatre, incorporating in-depth rehearsal and research periods along with a nurturing collaborative process. The company’s awards include Arts Innovator of the Year (United Arts of Central Florida), “Best Place to See a Play” (Orlando Sentinel), “Best Live Theatre” (Orlando Weekly), “Best Local Theatre Company” (Orlando Magazine), and “Best Performance Theatre” (Orlando Business Journal). Mad Cow Theatre 54 West Church Street, Downtown Orlando, FL 32801 Patron Services 407.297.8788 x1 madcowtheatre.com