DIRECTING ACTORS WORKSHOP: Understanding the Actor’s Process, Terminology, Script Analysis & How to Effectively Give Direction

This 3.5 hour workshop is designed for directors (or anyone) to learn more about the actor's process, concepts, terminology, and how to communicate better with actors in order to become better directors. This workshop leaves the technical aspects of the camera, lights, and sound aside to hone in on the important process of directing actors. As a result of this workshop, directors will learn to communicate more effectively with actors, improve their actor-director relationships, have a better understanding of the actor’s process, and learn how to get the results they want from their actors.

Participants will all be given a scene to analyze. The scene will be broken down by learning Acting Technique & Concepts. Participants will be led through the process of analyzing a script from an actor’s point of view (as well as making directing discoveries.) Script analysis of a scene is crucial to good acting and directing and participants will build their skills and understanding of differences in the ways those on the other side of the camera may approach their work.

Participants will learn tips on how to effectively (and non-effectively) communicate with actors when giving direction.

Volunteers will then work with actors & give direction as they perform the scene.

This workshop is open to anyone who would like to learn. Writers, Actors, and Directors should find this workshop extremely valuable to their process. Actors may sharpen their analytical and choice-making skills, as well as learn how to better take direction.

Participants will leave with a greater understanding of:

-how actors approach a script
-acting concepts and terminology
-how to communicate effectively with actors
-what kind of direction to avoid and to implement
-how to analyze a scene/script
-how to be a better director that actors will want to work with

The workshop is $16 per person in advance or $20 at the door. To pay in advance go to my website and scroll down to the Directing Actors Workshop info and use the Paypal option. Here’s the link:

http://www.janetmilst...

The workshop will take place on Tues. Sept 14th from 6:30-10pm at:

The Riverview Tavern
1958 W Roscoe St
Chicago, IL 60657
(773) 248-9523

You can RSVP here: CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Janet B. Milstein is an actor, acting teacher, award-winning acting coach, best-selling author, director, produced screenwriter and playwright, independent casting director, and series editor. She received her MFA in Acting from Binghamton University in New York (SUNY), and her BA in Theatre with Distinction from the University of Delaware.

Janet has appeared numerous independent films, including the award-winning film Power Singles which she co-wrote with Barbara Lhota. Most recently she co-wrote and co-produced and acted in the film Blindsided. In late August, Janet will be starring in the film Small Enough for War, written and directed by Carter Martin. Janet is also currently cast in the comic short Donuts directed by Matt Wechsler of Hourglass Films and in the feature film Normal, written and directed by Nicholas Richards. Janet recently appeared in the films Blindsided, Kickstand, Want and Need, and The Silent Truth.

Janet has an extensive background in theatre, having performed at numerous theatres with a variety of companies, including the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, the Organic Theater, Collaboraction, Bailiwick, The Artistic Home, ImprovOlympic, Tinfish Productions, Stage Left Theatre, Mary-Arrchie Theatre, Speaking Ring Theatre, Stockyards, Point of Contention, Women’s Theatre Alliance at Chicago Dramatists, Writers’ Block at the Theatre Building, Symposium at National Pastime Theater, Theatre Q, and more.

Janet has been directing actors as an acting teacher for the past 15 years. She currently teaches acting classes at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts. She has taught for universities, acting studios, schools, theaters, and summer camps. Janet has also taught various acting workshops around the country.

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