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WHO: Fairmount Center for the Arts Tom Fulton, Executive Artistic Director Fred Sternfeld, Director of Theatre & Fairmount Performing Arts Camp WHAT:
AN OPEN HOUSE This
new theatre has been renovated with lighting and sound systems, new theatre
seats, an extendable stage and box office.
We’re very excited about it and want to share with you the vision for the
future in this new venue. There
will be performances by professional actors, FPAC students, writers, dancers and
others. You will learn all about
our plans for the future, which include a robust teen theatre program with
productions; a professional theatrical season; writing programs; and dance
programs.! WHEN: Saturday, January 5, 2008 from 1:00pm –
4:00pm WHERE: Mayfield
Village Performing Arts Center, 6622 Wilson Mills Rd., Mayfield Village,
Ohio. Near the corner of Wilson
Mills and Som Center Rd. just off of I-271. SCHEDULE:1:00pm -
Tour our facillities and have refreshments. Hear Tom
Fulton, Fred Sternfeld and Carol Pribble speak about our upcoming plans for a
professional theatre, youth and teen theatre, classes and Fairmount Performing
Arts Camp 2:00 – 3:00pm AND 3:00 –
4:00pm choose between several options… - Participate in 2 separate one hour classes with Brian Zoldessy, Mitchell B. Fields, Carol Pribble, Marc Moritz, Dana Hart and/or Tom Fulton. You can take a different class each hour. FREE. - Q and A session about Fairmount Performing Arts Camp with Fred Sternfeld - Performances by by
professional actors, FPAC students, writers, dancers and
others. DISCOUNTS:JANUARY 5 ONLY IN PERSON AT THE OPEN HOUSE!Sign up for Fairmount Performing Arts Camp '08 today
and receive a 5% discount. CLASS DESCRIPTIONS for OPEN HOUSE - F R E E The Moment Before – Brian Zoldessy, instructor The participants will learn one of the
most important aspects of Audition Technique - The Moment
Before. When a performer begins a scene or a
monologue without the moment before, it usually take a while for
the piece to get going. By the time the performer gets to the middle and
finally feels warmed up, its too late - they have lost the attention of
auditors. The Moment Before will propel the actor into a
specific action and give the monologue the "kick-start" it needs to really
be effective and immediately grab the attention of the
auditors. Improv: Scared
Scriptless! - Marc Moritz,
instructor
Come and play! A unique approach to Improv that will
get you thinking quickly on your feet and heighten your sense of play and
spontaneity. This Workshop will include Theatre Games as well as Long-Form and
techniques used by Second City. No experience necessary. Just a willingness
to explore your own unique sense of humor and
imagination.
other descriptions of the FREE classes will be announced in the near future!
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BIOGRAPHIES
Thomas Q.
Fulton, Jr. Co-Artistic Director of Fairmount
Center’s new professional theatre Elsewhere Mr. Fulton has performed and
directed at many regional theatres in the area including Playhouse Square, The
Cleveland Orchestra, Blossom Music Festival, the Cleveland Actor's Theatre
Company, The Halle Theatre, and Actor's Summit Theatre. Tom grew up in
Geauga County and brings a special love of Northeast Ohio to his position at The
Fairmount Center. To learn more about Mr. Fulton, see his website:
www.tomfulton.com
Co-Artistic Director of Fairmount
Center’s new professional theatre
Brian
Zoldessy
is
Assistant Professor and Director of the Theatre Arts Department at Cuyahoga
Community College, Eastern Campus. In 1995 he was the first non-tenured faculty
member to receive CCC's prestigious Ralph M. Besse Award for Teaching Excellence
and was honored with The Outstanding Achievement Award for Teaching by the
International Conference for Teaching and Leadership, Austin,
Texas. As
a professional actor, Brian has worked in New York, L.A., Chicago, and Cleveland
(Modern
Orthodox, ART, Crossing Delancey, Awake and Sing, Talley's Folly, Down The Road,
Forty Deuce, Seedfolks, To Know Him
and The
Boys Next Door)
and
has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in television and films, working with,
Kevin Bacon, Matthew Broderick, Fisher Stevens, John Travolta, Woody Allen, Eli
Wallach and the late, great, Jack Gilford. Additionally, Brian performed
stand-up comedy at many of New York's famous comedy clubs, including,
The
Improvisation, Catch A Rising Star, and Dangerfield's
(Rodney Dangerfield's Nightclub), where he also served as comedy writer/manager
for Dangerfield's back-up comedian, Adam Keefe. A
winner of the Kennedy Center's Irene Ryan Acting and Directing Award, he has
directed and produced over 50 productions. Favorites include,
Six
Degrees of Separation, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Glengarry Glen Ross,
Agnes of God, The Male and Female Odd Couple, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew,
Jeffrey at Beck Center, The Sunshine Boys at the JCC Halle Theatre, Hamlet ESP
at the Cleveland Stage Company, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors,
and Coriolanus, all
at The
Cleveland Shakespeare Festival. He
also directed the highly acclaimed Lord
of the Flies
at the Beck Center for the Arts. Other awards and honors include
The
Exemplary Professor Award from
the National Conference of the American Association for Higher
Education,
Meritorious Performance and Professional Excellence Award
from California State University, The
Carleton and Winthrop Palmer Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Theatre
Arts from
Long Island University, Best
Actor, Supporting Actor, and Best Character Actor from
Post Theatre Company, New York. Brian is also a theatre faculty member for the
Special
Studies Program ,
at the Chautauqua Institution,
the
Beck
Center Conservatory program and
the Fairmount Performing Arts Camp. In
2005, Brian was nominated for a "Critic's Choice Award" and "Member's Choice
Award" for Best Actor for To Know
Him at the JCC Halle Theatre, for his work as actor, director and
theatre educator by the Cleveland Theatre
Collective. He was also recently awarded The Cuyahoga Community College Dean's Award of
Excellence for his outstanding contributions to the college and the
theatre arts department. Ohio Magazine
and Crain's Cleveland Business
recently selected Brian as one of Ohio's top educators. His
inclusion appears in the December '05 Excellence In Education issue (Ohio
Magazine) and the January '06 Crain's Higher Education issue. In addition to his
classroom activities, Brian also privately coaches many Cleveland performers as
well as preparing many Senior High School students for their college theatre
arts auditions. Carol
Pribble’s
career as a teacher and director of young actors spans thirty years. Presently
she is the drama teacher/ arts chairman/ play director at University School
where she has worked for the past twenty-one years. Carol has directed over
eighty plays in the Cleveland area including Shaw High School, Twinsburg High
School, University School, and Chagrin Valley Little Theatre.
Some of
the shows she has directed at Chagrin Valley Little Theater are Over the
Tavern, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Art, Biloxi Blues and Twilight of
the Golds. Over the Tavern recently won numerous OCTA awards,
including best production, best direction and best
ensemble. Carol was
the supervisor of the Professional Training Intensive in the inaugural summer of
FPAC in 2004 and the Associate Director of FPAC in 2005. In addition, she has
spent numerous summers working in camp programs teaching tennis and drama. Her
skill and enthusiasm for theatre arts and summer camps combine to generate an
equal enthusiasm in her students. Camp Director Fred Sternfeld is very enthusiastic about Carol Pribble's involvment as Associate Director of the Camp: "When Carol first expressed interest in getting involved with the camp before our first season, I was extremely excited. I have seen her high school productions -- her students are well-trained and the productions are high quality -- some of the best high school productions I have ever seen. She has dedicated her career to the education of young people - just the kind of person I was looking for to help me run the professional training at FPAC. CP is an outstanding director and teacher and has mentored many of her interested students to professional careers. Many of her students have gone on to professional careers on Broadway (Wicked, Footloose, Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Miz, Our Town, The Elephant Man, How I Learned to Drive and The Complete Wks. of Shksp), national touring companies, television, repertory theatre and film. We are extremely fortunate to have her outstanding leadership." Mitchell Fields is an Adjunct Professor
at Baldwin-Wallace College where he teaches Improvisation, Film and Theatre. He
is also an acting coach in private practice. Dana Hart apprenticed to the Cleveland PlayHouse and has been a member of Actors Equity for over 25 years. He has performed from Alaska to Zimbabwe and in 48 of the 50 states including seasons with Alaska Repertory Theatre, Center Stage (Baltimore), Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre and Theatre West Virginia. He has appeared Off- Broadway in New York and with many Northeast Ohio theatres including The Beck Center, Ensemble, Actors' Summit, Dobama, Clague Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre Festival and the Cleveland PlayHouse. Mr. Hart holds degrees in both Theatre Arts and English (teaching) from the University of Alaska Fairbanks . He is currently the Upper School Drama and Speech teacher at the Laurel School in Shaker Heights and also a member of the faculty at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts. While in Alaska Mr. Hart was the co-founder of Playmaking: a theatre company doing theatre and storytelling workshops in towns and villages across Alaska . He was both a teacher and the Artistic Director of the Sitka Summer Fine Arts Camp and a teacher with both the Fairbanks Summer Fine Arts Camp and the Fairmount Performing Arts Camp at Laurel School . He has been funded by four states to conduct Artist in the Schools programs in Maryland , Washington , Alaska , and Ohio and was awarded an Ohio Arts Council travel grant to present new works at the Hararre International Festival of the Arts in 2000. |