Audition Workshops
Connecting to the Audition: Part 1
with Caymichael Patten
“My time with Cay without exaggeration, changed my life.
She is hands down the reason I booked a Broadway show out of an open call.”
Dates: TBA, 2013
Times: Thursdays 6:30 – 9:30/10:00pm
Fee: $285/4 Classes ($225 when taken with Scene Study)
This 4-week workshop taught by master teacher Caymichael Patten gives the actor the foundational steps to successful auditioning and interviewing. These steps will get you deeply and personally connected to audition material in a short period of time and give you the tools to handle the demands of the text. Cay will help to organize your thinking and time during the audition and specific exercises will also focus on interview techniques. The goal is to give the actor the tools to claim the part.
Interview or TSS teacher recommendation required.
Instructor: Caymichael Patten
Caymichael Patten has been teaching and directing in New York for more than 25 years. She was a founding member of The Women’s Project and the Casting Director for The American Place Theatre. She studied with Wynn Handman and established The Caymichael Patten Studio in 1988. Ms. Patten has directed extensively in New York City at Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle Repertory Company, Second Stage, The WPA, Playwright’s Horizons, American Place Theatre, and The Women’s Project. She has also adapted numerous plays for the stage. Some of the original New York productions she has directed include Rapmaster Ronnie by Elizabeth Swados and Garry Trudeau, Hold Me! and A Think Piece by Jules Feiffer, A Foot in the Door by Bruce Jay Friedman, Lady With A Braid by Dory Previn, Jacob’s Ladder, Conversations with Don B. and George F. Walker’s BeautifulCity. Ms. Patten has also directed many revivals in the city and productions outside New York. Among her favorites are: Sam Shepard’s La Turista, Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and Corinne Jacker’s Bits and Pieces. Most recently, she has been adapting and directing Side Dishes, which has been performed in half a dozen regional theatres and in New York at the Nuyorican Poets Café.
NOTE: A one-time-only, non-refundable registration fee of $75 is charged to new students.
The Actor’s Audition Workshop: For the Working Actor
Dates: TBA
Times: Fridays 6:30 -10:30pm
Fee: $350/5 Classes ($255 when taken with Scene Study)
Curiosity, intuition and deductive reasoning are brought together in this step-by-step breakdown of the auditioning process. This workshop tackles the building blocks of any successful audition including: pinning down the first moment, working off the reader, identifying genre and character arc, and making on-the-spot adjustments. These skills help eliminate the fear and doubt that can scuttle any audition (no matter how talented the actor). Participants will learn to analyze text and create a moment-to-moment audition with a clear point of view, sense of stakes, and reality of scenario.
Interview or TSS teacher recommendation required.
Instructor: Robert Verlaque
NOTE: A one-time-only, non-refundable registration fee of $75 is charged to new students.
