The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival and the Combined Great Lakes/Playhouse
auditions are approaching – call me – I’ll help you find
great monologues, get you prepared and our work together will catapult you to
the top of your audition work! 216-987-2338.
Prepare your College or Cleveland Auditions with the first acting coach in
Ohio sanctioned by the North Central College Association – Brian
Zoldessy, award winning actor, director, coach, recently named one of the top
acting professors in Ohio by Ohio Magazine and Crain’s Cleveland
Business, invites you to join the growing list of students who have
successfully auditioned and have been accepted to: NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Boston
University, Northwestern, Boston Conservatory, UCLA and many others. Numerous Cleveland performers have
won the call-back and/or the role in many productions. The Actor’s
Toolbox *, presents a “blueprint” for preparing
auditions and sectioning materials to achieve distinction and individuality in
every audition performance.
-increase the range
and depth of your auditions;
-give voice and body
to every monologue performed;
-conquer the
frequently unpredictable artistic challenges of contemporary and classical
theatre auditions;
-experience a
persuasive _expression_ of a finely etched audition performance.
(* The Actor’s
Toolbox by Brian Zoldessy, currently in re-writes/ Copyright 2005 Course Packet
Publishing)
* Convenient
location! * All rehearsals in a real theatre, not an artificial work-space
*
The Best Rates in Town!
REVIEWS:
Dear Brian,
Well, you have succeeded once more,
Mr. Zoldessy. Yesterday, I found out I got into the Theatre Education program
at NYU! I just want to thank you again so much for all your amazing advice and
training. You are an amazing teacher and I hope you will come to visit me in
the city when I am there. I will definitely keep in touch with you to let you know
about what happens in my life in the future and I hope you will
let me know what you are doing as well. Thank you again for everything Brian,
and I hope we can work together again in the future. Good luck.
Sincerely, Emily Baron
Brian Zoldessy is the greatest
acting teacher I have ever had. I give him a lot of the credit for my college
acceptances. He first directed me in Lord of the Flies in 2002, which ended up
being one of the most rewarding acting experiences of my life. Brian has helped
me grow in ways I didn't think possible, and he has not only been a wonderful coach,
but a wonderful friend. He's funny, caring, and intelligent, and I've
recommended him to everyone I know seeking a coach.
Alex Wyse
Great Acting Coach in our own backyard
I just wanted to write a note regarding the
talents of my acting coach, Brian Zoldessy. A gifted actor and director, he is
also terrific as an acting instructor. He shows you how to start with the
basics of acting and then how to build on those basics to get the layered
performance that every actor strives for. His passion and respect for his
craft have certainly inspired me to pay “even more attention to the
work”.
Molly Clay
Dear Brian,
Congratulations on the wonderful article in the
January 2nd Crain’s edition! You do such good work at the
College particularly at the Eastern Campus. The article certainly chronicles
your many talents in promoting the arts. We are all very proud of your
accomplishments and thrilled that the media decided to share your achievements
with the public.
You are certainly an ambassador for Cuyahoga
Community College and we value all that you have done over the years and what
you are and will continue to do to expose our students and community to the
arts.
Jerry Sue Thornton, President, Cuyahoga Community College
Subject: Celebrating a great performance
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 17:19:06 -0400
I had one of those rare moments the other day. I saw a local actor give a
once-in-a-lifetime performance. It was even more unusual, in that the
performance was in a new play which still needed work.
The play is called TO KNOW HIM, a drama by Albi Gorn about an AIDS patient
and a female rabbinical student who comes to visit him. They argue
religion, talk about old movies, and ultimately she tries to get him to
reconcile with his estranged father. The incredibly riveting performance
was by Brian Zoldessy, who so inhabited the role with every breath,
movement, look, gesture, and action that I will likely remember it to the
end of my life.
Brian himself had a severely life-threatening illness earlier this year --where
he was in and out of the hospital for a good 3 months. His experience
clearly shaped how he handled the role. With painstaking physical work --
from the smallest details, like putting lotion on his leg -- Zoldessy
showed exhaustion, anger, pain, and spiritual despair – yet instead of
being depressing, the effect was exhilarating. No one could take their
eyes off him.
It reminded me how one can't really judge a script until it is fully
incarnated. I would have dismissed this play as predictable and way too
talky had I read a draft. But with this textured, loving performance
fueling it, it ended up being deeply moving.
I just wanted to celebrate a wonderful performance!
Linda Eisenstein
Cleveland, OH, USA
lindaeisenstein@xxxxxxxxx
www.lindaeisenstein.com
BIOGRAPHY:
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 (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. Additional, 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 (Beck Center), The Sunshine Boys, (Halle Theatre),
Hamlet ESP (Cleveland
Stage Company), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, and
Coriolanus, (The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival) as well as the highly acclaimed Lord of the Flies at the Beck Center for the
Arts. Other awards and honors include, The Exemplary Professor Award ( National
Conference of the American Association for Higher Education), Meritorious Performance and
Professional Excellence Award ( California State University ), The Carleton and Winthrop Palmer
Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Theatre Arts ( Long Island
University ), Best
Actor, Supporting
Actor, and Best Character Actor (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 by the Northeast Ohio Critics Association for Best
Actor (To Know Him
– Halle Theatre), for his work as actor, director and theatre
educator by the Cleveland
Theatre Collective and was 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’
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.
Contact: brian.zoldessy@xxxxxxxxx
216-987-2338
Brian Zoldessy
Home – 216
– 752-6972
Work – 216
– 987-2338