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Workshop: "Taking the Reins"

Kevin Rich will be holding a workshop, "Taking the Reins: Creating Your Own Opportunities," centered on providing ideas and motivation for those first few years out of college. It will be held on Friday, March 13th, in Carrington Auditorium, from 12:00-1:50

ALL THEATRE & DANCE Majors are invited to this FREE Workshop. If you are not enrolled in THE 398/THE 498, PLEASE RSVP to Stacy Joyce (stacyjoyce@missouristate.edu) if you plan to attend and what time you will be joining us.

Following is a list of primary topics:
1. The Audition
2. Alternatives to the Audition: Original Work, Adaptations and Public Domain, Childrens' Theatre
3. Finding Your Playground: Fringe Festivals, Theatre Spaces, Coffeehouses, Church Basements, Schools
4. Once You Have Their Attention, How To Keep It
5. Pathways: LA, New York, Everywhere Else
6. More Pathways: Graduate School, Grants, Unions, Sideline Careers
7. Ten Things To Do Before You Graduate
8. The Importance of Self-Ignition Part 2: 2:00-3:50
Q& A with Kevin and some one on one monologue coaching.

Kevin Rich works as an actor, director, and educator in the Chicago-Milwaukee area. He's an active member of the Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actor's Guild with over ten years of professional acting experience for such companies as Chicago Shakespeare, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Company, Portland Center Stage, San Jose Rep, and Yale Rep, as well as film and commercial television. He is a member of the adjunct theatre faculties at Carthage College & UW-Parkside, and was named Milwaukee Shakespeare's National Endowment for The Arts Education Associate for their 2008/9 season. His company, Rich Workshops, has created custom-designed theatre workshops for both teachers and students (elementary, high school & college levels) nationally. This summer, he will be playing Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the title role in Richard III at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Kevin received a BA in Theatre from Grinnell College and an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.

 

ID 167 • 3/3/2009



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