From commercial work to a future on the big screen, this camp offers essential how-to information with hands-on experience in front of the camera.
Week 1:
June 15 - June 20, 2009
Spaces Remaining:
Week 2:
July 13 - July 18, 2009
Spaces Remaining:
Ages:
12 - 18
Tuition:
$1150
(Includes room and meals)
Details
Tailor your craft specifically for the on-camera experience in television and film. Develop new skills in a week long intensive that covers everything from auditions - cold readings and callbacks - to on-screen performance. Learn how to present your best self when you enter a room full of strangers. Learn basic techniques to focus mind and body on the acting task. You'll read and perform scenes from produced scripts with your peers as well as professionals, discover how to make the role your own, explore the differences between situation comedy and drama, and have the opportunity to meet and talk with working actors, directors, casting directors, and cinematographers. In a safe, positive space, we focus on each individual's unique talent and specific needs. Small, personalized sessions will be captured on video and analyzed by faculty and peers. For those interested in commercial work as well as a future on the big screen, this camp offers essential how-to information and experiences. You'll leave feeling charged and confident about your ability to make and execute strong, specific acting choices, to get the job, and to reap the rewards of playing it as only you can.
* Additional Information
Students check-in between 2 and 4pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Los Angeles International (LAX) on the first day of camp prior to 1pm.
Flights should depart from Los Angeles International (LAX) on the last day of camp after 5pm.
Airport transportation is available to and from Los Angeles International for $30 each way.<
Week 1 (June 16-21) Mary Lou Belli, Program Director Mary Lou Belli is an Emmy Award winner producer, writer, and director. She has just finished directing her 7th consecutive season of Girlfriends on the CW network as well as the new Web series 3Way. With over 100 episodes to her credit, Mary Lou directed Living with Fran starring Fran Drescher, Misconceptions starring Jane Leeves, and Eve starring hip-hop artist Eve, as well as Charles in Charge, Major Dad, and Sister, Sister. Mary Lou received BET nominations for directing Girlfriends and One on One as well as a Prism Award for Girlfriends. After receiving a BA in theatre from Penn State, Mary Lou acted in musical theatre and soaps in New York, followed by a Los Angeles career producing and directing theatre with over 75 play productions to her credit. Among the awards she holds the dearest is her citation from the late Mayor Tom Bradley for her work with abused children. She lectures frequently throughout the United States including many universities such as AFI, NYU, Northwestern, and UConn. She is the co-author of two books: The Sitcom Career Book, and Acting for Young Actors, and is the head of the Education Advisory Committee for 3 Minute Highschool.com. She has been served as judge and guest speaker for three consecutive years for the CSU Media Arts Fest, a judge for the Miss America Outstanding Teen Pageant, and a panelist for Women In Film, the DGA, SAG, and AFTRA. This spring she is a judge for the California Independent Film Festival as well as guest artist at the International Thespian Festival for secondary school theatre where she will give workshops to thousands of teens and high school theatre teachers.
Week 2 (June 14-19) Dinah Lenney, Program Director Dinah Lenney received her BA from Yale University and a Certificate of Acting from the Neighborhood Playhouse where she studied with Sanford Meisner. In the middle of her 14th season as Nurse Shirley on NBC's critically acclaimed ER, Dinah's guest-starred this season on Monk, Law and Order, Private Practice, and Without a Trace. She's well-known, too, for her work in the theatre, regionally and in Los Angeles, where most recently she played Lady Macbeth in the Uprising Theatre production of Macbeth, and Gertrude in that company's critically acclaimed run of Hamlet. A long-time teacher of acting, Dinah coaches privately, and has worked as a visiting professor on campuses across the country, including UCLA. She's the co-author, with Mary Lou Belli, of Acting for Young Actors, and the author of a memoir, Bigger Than Life. Dinah lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children.
Faculty
Jamison Jones Jamison Jones is a Swordmaster and theatrical combat instructor with over 18 years of experience in the art of theatrical swordplay and hand to hand combat. He's staged fights for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory Theater, the American Conservatory Theater, and the Pasadena Playhouse. Jamison was the resident Fight Coordinator at LACT and choreographed such plays as Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth and I Hate Hamlet; other theater fight direction includes the Napa Valley Shakespeare Festival, the East LA Classic Theater and La Mirada Theater for The Performing Arts. He has worked as an instructor in the art of theatrical combat at The California Shakespeare Festival, ACT, South Coast Rep, San Francisco State, Cal State Fullerton, Orange County High School of the Arts and many other theaters, schools and Universities.
As an actor Jamison's most recent film credits include The Lodger with Alfred Molina and He Was a Quiet Man, opposite William H. Macy and Christian Slater. Other film work includes Two:Thirteen, Destiny with Casper Van Dien and William Fortsythe, Water Under the Bridge, Radioland Murders, Dark Blue with Kurt Russell, Hollywood Homicide with Harrison Ford, and Actor and Producer credits for Gettin' Lucky and West of Brooklyn with Joe Mantegna. He can also be seen in multiple episodes of last seasons hit TV series 24, as well as in CSI: NY, N.C.I.S., Crossing Jordan, ALIAS, That 70's Show, General Hospital, Strong Medicine, The Division, Conan, Will & Grace and JAG.
Most recently, Jamison appeared in critically acclaimed productions of Therese Raquin and BENT. Prior to that he performed the title role in Timon of Athens at CSUF's Little Theater, and in The Foreigner at the La Mirada Theater for the Arts where he also starred in The Lion in Winter, All My Sons, Dancing at Lughnasa and The Rainmaker. Other appearances include How the Other Half Loves at the Pasadena Playhouse, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Joe Pitt in Angels in America at The American Conservatory Theater, as well as Cyrano de Bergerac at A Noise Within.
Jamison holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from The American Conservatory Theater.
Resting on a bluff overlooking the famous Malibu Beach Colony and just minutes from Hollywood, Pepperdine University provides a perfect location for digital filmmaking. With its remarkable setting, warm sunshine, mild summer days, and beautiful ocean view, you will experience the lifestyle of college students: from living in dormitories to eating in the dining hall. The residence facility at Pepperdine provides ideal living conditions: an intimate, casual atmosphere with students in small suites of four rooms.
Enjoy sunny Malibu with US Performing Arts Camps at Pepperdine University. Pepperdine offers a safe camp atmosphere removed from the city, with easy access to movie studios and working professionals. Come have fun and learn from some of the world's best professionals in their fields on this beautiful university campus.
Jamison Jones is a Swordmaster and theatrical combat instructor with over 18 years of experience in the art of theatrical swordplay and hand to hand combat. He's staged fights for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory Theater, the American Conservatory Theater, and the Pasadena Playhouse. Jamison was the resident Fight Coordinator at LACT and choreographed such plays as Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth and I Hate Hamlet; other theater fight direction includes the Napa Valley Shakespeare Festival, the East LA Classic Theater and La Mirada Theater for The Performing Arts. He has worked as an instructor in the art of theatrical combat at The California Shakespeare Festival, ACT, South Coast Rep, San Francisco State, Cal State Fullerton, Orange County High School of the Arts and many other theaters, schools and Universities.
As an actor Jamison's most recent film credits include The Lodger with Alfred Molina and He Was a Quiet Man, opposite William H. Macy and Christian Slater. Other film work includes Two:Thirteen, Destiny with Casper Van Dien and William Fortsythe, Water Under the Bridge, Radioland Murders, Dark Blue with Kurt Russell, Hollywood Homicide with Harrison Ford, and Actor and Producer credits for Gettin' Lucky and West of Brooklyn with Joe Mantegna. He can also be seen in multiple episodes of last seasons hit TV series 24, as well as in CSI: NY, N.C.I.S., Crossing Jordan, ALIAS, That 70's Show, General Hospital, Strong Medicine, The Division, Conan, Will & Grace and JAG.
Most recently, Jamison appeared in critically acclaimed productions of Therese Raquin and BENT. Prior to that he performed the title role in Timon of Athens at CSUF's Little Theater, and in The Foreigner at the La Mirada Theater for the Arts where he also starred in The Lion in Winter, All My Sons, Dancing at Lughnasa and The Rainmaker. Other appearances include How the Other Half Loves at the Pasadena Playhouse, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Joe Pitt in Angels in America at The American Conservatory Theater, as well as Cyrano de Bergerac at A Noise Within.
Jamison holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from The American Conservatory Theater.
Resting on a bluff overlooking the famous Malibu Beach Colony and just minutes from Hollywood, Pepperdine University provides a perfect location for digital filmmaking. With its remarkable setting, warm sunshine, mild summer days, and beautiful ocean view, you will experience the lifestyle of college students: from living in dormitories to eating in the dining hall. The residence facility at Pepperdine provides ideal living conditions: an intimate, casual atmosphere with students in small suites of four rooms.
