University of Kentucky - Acting for the Camera

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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.

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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.

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"To create, to think critically, to manage, and to continually experiment and learn these are the core abilities that the College of Fine Arts' majors and programs offer. In this process of making, appreciating, and managing the arts, you will refine your artistic sensibility while developing ethics of work and of craft. Whether you will become an arts professional, connoisseur, or advocate, you will continue to serve the mission of the University by making a vital contribution to the quality of life in the Commonwealth and in other communities. "
- Bob Shay, Dean of the College of Fine Arts

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