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Class

Burning Coal Theatre Company: Uta Hagen-based Scene Study Class

( Mon., Jun. 11, 2012 )

Performed by Jerome Davis

Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC 27601

Program

Mondays through July 30: [A]n 8-week acting class based on the principles found in Uta Hagen’s landmark book Respect for Acting. Davis studied with Ms. Hagen in New York City for seven years. The class is a scene study class, so students will be expected to work on material with other actors. The class is founded on Ms. Hagen’s ‘Basic Object Exercises,’ so students can work with these exercises on weeks when not doing scene work.

Notes

Jerome Davis studied with Uta Hagen in New York City from 1998 to 2005. Among his classmates there were Hope Davis and Amanda Peet. Davis is a professional, AEA actor with credits ranging from NYC’s Soho Rep, Barrow Group, MINT Theatre and Columbia University, to Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and People’s Light & Theatre Company near Philadelphia. He appeared with Ellen Burstyn in The Trip To Bountiful by Horton Foote, and worked in Providence with Richard Jenkins, Adrian Hall, Ralph Waite, David Wheeler, Peter Gerety and Lindsay Crouse. He has also studied or worked with Oliver Platt, Julie Bovasso, T. Scott Cunningham, Nikos Psacharapolous and Ben Gazzarra.

& 2 Somewhat Related Events: "Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will present its annual Summer Theatre Conservatory for Middle School students (STC, JR) beginning on Monday, June 11^th. STC, Jr. runs for two weeks, through June 22^nd, Mondays through Fridays from 10 am to 3 pm at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC 27604. Enrollment is $295 and may be done through our website at http://burningcoal.org/stc/ or by calling 919-834-4001. Our senior Summer Theatre Conservatory (STC) for high school-aged students runs for three weeks, from July 9 – 27, 2012, Mondays through Fridays from 10 am to 4 pm, also at the Murphey School in Raleigh. Enrollment is $395 and may be done through the same means shown above. Burning Coal Director of Education Ian L. Finley, current Piedmont Laureate, will teach both classes. Both culminate with the performance of a play on June 22^nd at 6:30 pm (STC, Jr.) and on July 27 & 28^th at 7 pm (STC)."