[NOW WITH EVEN MORE PLAYING OF SELF]
Bring your stories and ideas into the next stage of development with Elysian’s Artistic Director, Jacquelyn Landgraf.
**Pre-requisite: Playing Yourself. Limited spots available.
Building on the work from the first session, continue to translate elements of your autobiography into mythology, weaving your memories, passions, quirks, obsessions, secrets, juicy gossip...into a compelling stage performance. Through writing, devising, and directing prompts, script therapy, group collaboration and experiments, and one-on-one feedback, we will work together to expand, deepen, and hone your material as you create your new solo show, which--who knows?--may even become a multi-person-more-than-solo-show!
Post-class, all students will have the opportunity to show their work in a work-in-progress performance at the Elysian.
Wednesdays, April 22nd - June 17th
12pm - 3:30pm
in the Skunk Room
About the Instructor:
Jacquelyn Landgraf is the Artistic Director of the Elysian. She is a director, performer, writer, and teacher, with a focus on new and developing work, and supporting artists-in-process. Alum of the experimental comedy collective The New York Neo-Futurists, the writer/performers of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, The Infinite Wrench, and a long roster of downtown performance pieces. For over fifteen years, she was on the acting faculty at NYU Tisch School of the Arts/Atlantic Acting School, teaching scene study for Atlantic’s NYU Studio and Professional Conservatory. For those programs, she also created the class Moment Lab, a study of chasing the sincere and unplanned moment in performance and deepening connection between actors and audience. She teaches performance and writing workshops across the country and internationally, including at the Williamstown Theater Festival, Austin Film Festival, London’s Central Film School, Hollins University MFA program in Berlin, On Time Productions in Mexico City, Brave Studios in Melbourne, Australia, and the U.S. State Department. As an actor, Jacquelyn was in the original cast of the U.S. premieres of Deaf West’s Orpheé, Anna Nicole the Opera directed by Richard Jones at BAM/New York City Opera, John Guare’s 3 Kinds of Exile directed by Neil Pepe at the Atlantic Theater, Suzan Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays at The Public, and The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill, vol. 1, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for “Unique Theatrical Experience.” She created the two-season musical fiction podcast It Makes A Sound, and produced its original soundtrack album, Wim Faros: the Attic Tape.
Class cancellation policy: No refunds, exchanges, or transfers.