| An intensive, professionally-oriented, ongoing training program for ages 8 to 18, offered year-round. Classes will include Drama and the Theatre Arts, Creative Dramatics, Scene Study, and Improvisation. Children will be exposed to live professional theatre in an intimate surrounding, developing their appreciation for theatre and nurturing their abilities to relate theatrical scenarios to their real life interactions. Members of the program will also have the chance to participate in theatrical productions of the highest possible artistic quality, specifically and solely for families and young people. In addition to the ongoing weekly workshops, we eventually plan to establish a Company Group of no more than 25 students who are selected based on experience and invited audition. All members of the Company Group will be required to maintain a high GPA and have a dedication to their craft. We envision being involved with this family of students through their high school years. |
| Saturdays 10 AM - 12 Noon Beginning Workshop 12:15 PM - 2:15 PM Intermediate Workshop 2:30 PM - 5 PM Classical Class Tuesdays 4 PM - 6 PM Beginning Workshop |
| Dues: $125.00 per month, payable the first Saturday of the month. Unlike "acting classes," CTGSC is a dues-oriented membership-only workshop. Dues go towards membership in CTGSC and enable us to provide workshops that go beyond the typical "per hour" cost basis. Dues also allow us to have our own home in a shared space at the Eclectic Company Theatre. |
| Instructors: |
| BONNIE HELLMAN is the Co-Artistic Director and Co-Founder of CTGSC. She helmed CTGSC productions of The House at Pooh Corner, Godspell, Cinderella, Annie & You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Bonnie has been a working director for over 20 years. Professional highlights include directing the Award-winning West Coast premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along & She Loves Me (which won 2 LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, the LA Weekly Award for Best Director and was nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Musical). Outside LA, she has directed productions of The World Goes Round, High Button Shoes with Jason Graae and Susan Egan (Belle from the Broadway Beauty and the Beast), & Tintypes (Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura), Finian's Rainbow, It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman & Funny Face (San Francisco), 42nd Street (Denver), Oklahoma (San Jose), Peter Pan (Santa Cruz), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Whittier-LaMirada CLO), and My Fair Lady & Hello Dolly! (Santa Barbara).
Bonnie's last 10 summers have been spent directing productions with 7 - 14 year olds for CAPS (Creative Arts Program in the Summer). Her mini-thespians have been guided in Music Man, Charlotte's Web, Annie, Bugsy Malone, Fiddler on the Roof & Oklahoma, among others. As a professional actress, Bonnie has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in regional and stock theatre. Favorite roles include Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods with Leslie Uggums, Agnes Gooch in Mame with Mariette Hartley and Sister Mary Amnesia in Nunsense. Her extensive television and film background includes a 2 year stint on the CBS series Nurse (1980-82 with Michael Learned and Robert Reed), 2 years as "snarky" Nurse Stacey on the soap opera Sunset Beach and many guest appearances. Most recently she shot episodes of Life and Everybody Hates Chris. |
| SHERRY LYNN is the Co-Artistic Director and Co-Founder of CTGSC. An L.A. native who began acting at the age of 19, Sherry began her career on camera. One of her first appearances was working with Robert Zemeckis in his first feature, I Wanna Hold Your Hand. She then landed a lead in a Norman Lear pilot. The series didn't make it but she was offered an NBC contract. During a SAG strike she discovered the world of voiceover and never looked back. Since that time she has starred in a number of cartoon series and can be heard in the animated features Wall-E, Cars, Ice Age 2, Horton Hears a Who, Shrek 2, Brother Bear, Finding Nemo, Spirited Away, Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life, Toy Story 1 & 2, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Little Mermaid. Most recently she finished work on the upcoming Pixar films, Up and Miyazaki's Ponyo. She has also found her niche providing the English voices for popular Japanese anime series and video games. Ms. Lynn is the founder and director of CAPS (Creative Arts Program in the Summer) at Campbell Hall, which has just completed its tenth successful year. As CAPS Director, she has produced sold out performances of Oklahoma, Wonderland, Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast, Once on this Island, Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Bugsy Malone, Charlotte's Web, and Annie. Sherry has also produced CTGSC's previous main stage productions, House at Pooh Corner, Godspell, Cinderella, Annie, Into The Woods, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown and The World Goes Round. Her dream was always to start a children's theatre company with a young ensemble of actors, which would guide them through their senior year in high school. Her CTGSC kids have truly become her extended family. |
| Amanda Tepe is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her recent film work includes Rob Zombie's Halloween, Wes Craven's Pulse, and Bottom's Up, as well as the independent features Dumping Grounds, Crazy, Save the Mavericks, Jelly and 2005 Tribeca Film Festival Favorite Iowa. Amanda also has starred in several multi-award winning short films, including Framed, Dandelion Dharma and Side Effects. Some of Amanda's recent television credits include guest-starring roles on Without A Trace, Dexter, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, That's So Raven, Entourage, The Inside, October Road and notorious recurring roles as a monotone-speaking drone with multiple jobs on Disney's 2009 Emmy Award-Winning show Wizards of Waverly Place, as Donna the spazzy White House Tour Guide on Disney's 66 and as Colleen the evil nanny of Nikolas Cassadine (Tyler Christopher) on ABC's General Hospital. Amanda has performed in various theatrical productions throughout Los Angeles and abroad, including recent critically-acclaimed productions of The Dining Room, the dreamer examines his pillow, Lobby Hero, and The Laramie Project. Amanda also wrote, produced, and appeared in Tepe for Mayor: 3 One-Acts to Get Your Vote in Hollywood. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) and studied at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Amanda also holds a Master of the Arts in Educational Theatre from New York University and is a proud to be a longtime member of the multi award-winning Interact Theatre Company, based in North Hollywood, CA. Ms. Tepe has also taught Acting to children and adults all over the greater Los Angeles area for close to a decade. |
| In addition, guest teachers will come from the membership of the Eclectic Company Theatre and from the theatrical community in Los Angeles. |
| Space is limited. |
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| Mail to: Robert Briscoe Evans - Children's Theatre Group of Southern California C/O The Eclectic Company Theatre 5312 Laurel Canyon Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91607 |
| Enclose a check for dues ($125.00) made out to The Eclectic Company Theatre. You will be notified about classes, audition times and rehearsal schedules. |
| Any questions? Contact Sherry Lynn or Robert Briscoe Evans via e-mail at CTGSC@aol.com |
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