“Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.”-Sanford Meisner
SCENE STUDY WORKSHOP WITH ANGIE NOLAN
Actor, Writer, Director Angie Nolan will guide you through a two session acting intensive that is designed to help aspiring actors who dig deeper into scene and character study. These sessions will be focused on uninhibited imagination work and will help actors dive deeper into the following aspects of scene work:
Breaking down the inner workings of a scene.
Using imagination to ‘Get out of our own way' to the let the character in
Being grounded in the moment while losing yourself in the text
Psychologically and physically transforming into the character
Staying true to character in front of an audience
This course is intended for performers and people who have previous training and acting experience and who are interested in embracing a new level of scene and 'character' work. This will be an extremely focused course where at the end of the final class, participants will be given the opportunity to showcase their work for friends and family in a relaxed and safe environment. Participants should expect to be off book before the intensive starts and plan to get to together with scene partners outside of class time as well.
Class size: 10 people maximum
Cost: $130.00
ABOUT ANGIE
Angie Nolan is an award winning filmmaker, actor and theatre writer/director who studied theatre and creative writing at Cap College and UVIC. She has thirty years of experience in BC’s film and television industry in a variety of roles. Angie spent fifteen years at the Whistler Film Festival where she helped create and grow WFF’s esteemed Talent Labs and Industry Summit . She stepped down as Director of Industry Programming in 2018 to further pursue her filmmaking career. Angie has written, directed and acted in numerous theatre productions and taught a variety of acting classes and intensives in the Sea to Sky corridor for a number of years.
Angie received a WIFTV Spotlight Awards (CA) - Leadership in Education Award (2018) for her work at WFF. She also received a Whistler Excellence - Champion of Arts and Culture Award (2018) for her long-time commitment as a board member and key theatre creative at The Point Artist-Run Centre.