Master Acting Workshop Taught by NYU Professor Caroline McGee --
March 20-23—4 30 - 6 pm
Cite des Arts will sponsor another session of McGee’s Master Acting Workshop for actors and students of all ages and levels of experience. She has mentored a number of local students for successful acceptance to top-flight institutions including NYU Tisch Drama, California Institute of the Arts, Columbia and Brown Universities, Second City/Chicago, and more.
This session will focus on legendary acting techniques of Lee Strasberg and Michael Chekhov. Improvisation exercises will focus on scenes and monologues from Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill, and Sam Shepard.
For more information and to register contact Caroline McGee: mcgeec50@yahoo.com or call her at 347 677 3164
Fee: $200 for 4 sessions.
Caroline served as:
-Director & Producer of the Lee Strasberg Institute/NYU BFA Programs
-Director for the MFA Acting Program at The Catholic University, Washington, DC
-The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Art, Pace U. BFA Acting and Moscow Art Theatre Professional Acting Workshop
She studied at:
-Yale School of Drama
-received her Master’s at UC Berkeley;
-Caroline was among the first CODOFIL scholarship group to study in France at the National Acting Conservatory in Strasbourg.
As an actor:
- she has worked in films with Woody Allen, Gregory Peck, Danny DeVito
-and in theatre, at the NY Shakespeare in Central Park, Yale Rep, Williamstown and Berkshire Festivals, and in Paris, Avignon, Dubrovnik and Sarajevo Festivals.
Also of interest might be:
Ira Cohen, acclaimed by The London Times in 2007 as a “Lost Genius Refound,” appears in Lafayette, March 21, Cite des Arts, with a special screening of his underground film classics: "Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda" and "Kings with Straw Mats" – an offering of the Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. Presented by poet and critic, Allan Graubard, with discussion and reading. Length: 3 hours. Admission: $5.
Also of interest might be:
Ira Cohen, acclaimed by The London Times in 2007 as a “Lost Genius Refound,” appears in Lafayette, March 21, Cite des Arts, with a special screening of his underground film classics: "Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda" and "Kings with Straw Mats" – an offering of the Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. Presented by poet and critic, Allan Graubard, with discussion and reading. Length: 3 hours. Admission: $5.
In the 1960s two New York lofts fascinated the art world: Andy Warhol’s “Factory” and Ira Cohen’s “Mylar chamber.” Featured in Life Magazine as the preeminent artist of the psychedelic era, Ira Cohen created extraordinary images and films with his friends William S. Burroughs, Jack Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Ludlam, Angus MacLise, and many more. Xavier Garcia Bardon, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, said, “the film is an important artifact of the era, an ecstatic journey full of magical beings, animals and plants…a hallucinatory, almost trance-inducing experience.”
"Kings with Straw Mats" is Ira Cohen’s poignant poetic testament to the great Kumbh Mela Festival, India’s annual pilgrimage of sadhus and holy men to the Ganges River, shot in 1986.
For more on Ira Cohen
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Allan Graubard, poet, playwright and critic, is published internationally now in 13 languages. Recent books and theater works include And Tell Tulip the Summer (Quattro Books, Toronto), Roma Amor (Spuyten Duyvil Press, NYC), Woman Bomb/Sade (Theater Row, NYC), and Erotic Eulogy (Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC). Allan has written extensively on Ira Cohen and has appeared in performance with him in New York and London. Caroline and Allan have collaborated as husband and wife in varied theatrical performances over the past 3 decades. He is a member of the Pointe Noire/Richard, La. Pataphysical Society and cooks a mean crawfish etouffee.
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