Theatre--Performance

Cite des Arts will present a staged reading of Revolting Women/WOMANBOMB at 6 pm on Friday, July 15.  Tickets for the performance are free and can be reserved by emailing mcgeec50@yahoo.com.

 Awarded “Best Acting” in The 2010 International United Solo Festival held at New York City’s Theatre Row, 42 Street, Revolting Women/WOMANBOMB explores the world of a 17-year old female suicide bomber and those of us left behind to pick up the pieces.

 Local actors Martha Diaz and Christy Leichty will join playwrights Allan Graubard and Caroline McGee to portray the roles of the suicide bomber, a BBC journalist, and two mothers mourning their daughters.
 A woman walks into a public place and explodes. Do we know her? Do we want to? Do we care?  Revolting Women/WOMANBOMB tracks an encounter with a tragic event and how media influences our perceptions of it – when suicide becomes a political weapon….

Theatre--Workshop

During the week of July 11th through the 14th, Cite des Arts will sponsor another session of Caroline McGee’s Master Acting Workshop for actors of all ages and experience.

Ms. McGee recently 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 master acting techniques developed by Lee Strasberg and Michael Chekhov.  Improvisation/exercises will be based on Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill, and Sam Shepard.  For an application and more information: mcgeec50@yahoo.com.

Theatre--Master Class/Workshop

 Caroline McGee (see biographical information below)is coming home to Louisiana for another acting method acting workshop scheduled for December 29th through January 5, 2011at Cite des Arts in downtown Lafayette.  The workshop will focus on exercises, improvisations and scene and monologue work from the modern classics---Chekhov, Williams, Albee, Sam Shepard, Mamet and others.  

The class will be designed to suit all actors from beginning to advanced, and ages 7 through adult are welcome to apply.   When applying, please be sure to include availability during the days/evenings of the workshop. This winter session includes five workshop days for 3 hours each.

On a personal note, former Method Workshop member Savannah Des Ormeaux has been accepted into the NYU Tisch School of the Arts BFA acting program.  Congratulations to Savannah!

Bio:

Director Caroline McGee's recent production, "Revolting Women/Woman Bomb," for the United Solo International Festival, Theatre Row, NYC, won the Best Acting Award for Jelena Stupljanin's portrayal. Caroline's training includes: Yale Drama, Stella Adles, Wynn Handman, Bill Esper, Michael Howard, Robert Lewis, and the National Conservatory in France. She has served as Associate Professor/Director, Catholic U. MFA Acting Program, Director/Producer for NYU TischDrama/Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, the professional program at NYU’s Stonestreet Studio for Film & TV, and, currently teaches at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Art in Film & TV. She has produced and performed theatre extensively in the US and Europe, and appeared in films with/by Gregory Peck, Woody Allen, Gena Rowland and others. Her theatre reviews have appeared in Slavic & Eastern European Performance and Western European Stages.Since 1997, she has been a panelist for the New York State Council of the Arts, Individual Artists awards. Caroline is a member of all 3 actor unions, AEA, SAG and AFTRA.

Theatre--Workshop Presentation

Caroline McGee is in the process of completing the third in a series of Master Classes in the Strasberg Method.  She will present her students in A Night of Chekhov on Sunday, January 3rd at 5 pm at Cite Des Arts in downtown Lafayette.  For reservations, contact Ms. McGee at mcgeec50@yahoo.com.

Caroline McGee and the students of her Master Class, held this week (December 28th through January 3rd) at Cite Des Arts.

Rehearsing

Observing and offering suggestions to fellow students

Rehearsing

Theatre--Performance

Caroline McGee's Master Class will present The Cajun Chekhov, a collection of monologues taken from the works of Anton Chekhov, on Sunday, January 3rd, at 5 pm at Cite Des Arts.  The production will last approximately one hour and admission is free of charge.

The students, many of whom who began their work on these monologues during the November session of the Master Class, have been studying "Method" acting, originally developed by Lee Strasberg.  Ms. McGee, currently director of the Moscow Art Actor Training Program at The Baryshnikov Center in New York City, has also served as the director of the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, and the MFA Acting Program at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC.

 Her training includes a Master’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Directing, Theatre History, Literature & Criticism, actor training with Robert Lewis at The Yale School of Drama, and a 2-year acting certificate at the Conservatoire Nationale in Strasbourg, France.  She has studied professionally in New York City with master teachers William Esper, Michael Howard, Stella Adler, Wynn Handman and Elaine Aiken/Lee Strasberg .

For more information about the show or the class, contact Caroline McGee at mcgeec50@yahoo.com.