NDG Studios - Acting for the Camera
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.
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July 5 - July 10, 2009 |
Spaces Remaining:
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| Ages: |
14 - 18 yrs
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| Tuition: |
$1100 |
| Room & Meals: |
$700 |
Limited housing available, please call 1.888.497.3553 for details.
Details
Tailor your craft specifically for the on-camera experience. This week-long intensive covers everything from auditions - cold readings and callbacks - to onscreen performance for television and film. You'll learn how to present your best self when you enter a room full of strangers. You'll become familiar with basic techniques developed to focus mind and body on the acting task. You'll read and perform scenes from produced scripts with your peers and with professionals, discover how to make the role your own, 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. You'll leave feeling charged and confident about your ability to make and execute strong acting choices, to get the job, and to reap the rewards of playing it as only you can.
This terrific program is five full days of intensive study, bringing together students from all over the world to enjoy NYC and the "Big Apple" with their families. Limited housing is available, please call 1.888.497.3553 for details.
A letter of recommendation from a teacher is required prior to the beginning of camp. Enrollment for this program is limited.
* Additional Information
Students check-in 9am on the first day of camp,or 2pm the day befoe camp begins.
Flights should arrive into LaGuardia or JFK on the day before camp begins before 2pm.
Flights should depart from LaGuardia or JFK on the last day of camp after 630pm.
Airport transportation is available to and from LaGuardia for $30 each way,
or JFK for $50 each way,
or Port Authority bus station for $25 each way,
or Penn Station for $25 each way.
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Program Directors
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.
Location Information
NDG Studios is on the list for "great NYC rehearsal spaces". Located at 305 West 38th Street at Eighth Avenue, NDG is the space for the entire arts community including the casts of Chicago, The Producers, and Phantom of the Opera. Performing artists including Chita Rivera, Bebe Neuwirth and Susan Stroman rehearse their shows at NDG. These beautiful studios will be your week's workspace for your acting, singing and dancing. Not only will you feel inspired by your faculty and fellow students but you will have the added bonus of "rubbing elbows" with current Broadway stars as you all come and go in the elevators, lounges and studios.
Limited housing available, please call 1.888.497.3553 for details.
Dates, Directors, and Faculty subject to change without notice.
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