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Who We Are
Founded in 1947 in Original York Reserve by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, discipline Robert Sprinter, the Building began trade in a wedge where theatreintheround artists could gather, privately, to investigate new come first deeper exchange ideas to picture work.
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Jane Nichols is a teacher, director, and actor who has been teaching Clown for over 25 years. Her work brings together skills and techniques of Improvisation, Mask, Le Jeu, Physical Comedy, Clown, and Fool. She has studied with world-renowned Clown Master Philippe Gaulier, Avner Eisenberg (Avner the Eccentric), Clive Mendes (Theatre Complicite), Ronlin Foreman (DellArte School of Physical Theatre), Michael Kennard (co-founder of Canada’s acclaimed Mump & Smoot, and Master teacher of the Richard Pochinko native American mask/clown technique), Bolek Polivka, Antonio Fava, Davis Robinson, Keith Johnstone, and Merry Conway. She has taught at Brown University, Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, Harvard University/Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at American Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Stella Adler Conservatory, University of Washington, University of Utah, Emerson College, Simon’s Rock College of Bard, Actor’s Center in NYC, and Shakespeare & Co in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Lesley College Graduate School.
She is the founder and artistic director of the Crosswalk Theater in Boston. Her acting credits include roles at En Garde Arts, New Georges and SoHo Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Stage Company, Gloucester Stage, Shakespeare & Co., the Lyric Sta
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Connection to the self and others,
Complete actors have a variety of tools at their command - an expressive and impulsive physical instrument, a strong understanding of text analysis, and heightened powers of concentration, imagination and emotional expression. We call it the BRAIN - BODY - BEING approach.
THE COMPLETE ACTOR
BEING
How are things happening. Moment - to - moment truth as a result of listening and being present.
Truthful expression of responses in action and in context
Why are things happening in the script, found through text analysis (circumstances, actions, objectives, relationships, etc.), and research
BRAIN
Identifies and builds connections
BODY
Provides access to absorb those connections and the freedom to respond
Breath, voice & speech, movement: Physical expression. Your instrument.
Ideal to work on something specific, like an audition piece or a habit you want to start addressing.
Valid for 2 months
Perfect for actors looking to work on individual work and group work on a semi-consistent basis.
Valid for 3 months
Perfect for those actors looking to have significant growth in their individual work, scene partner connection, and entuning with their instrument.
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