Provincetown Playwrights' Festival Announcements -

SATURDAY, MAY 14
FINDING THE FUNNY: Writing, Directing & Performing Comedy
For writers, directors and actors.
A repeat of the workshop offered during the Fall '09 Playwrights' Festival when Hester was directing with us. It was a sell out!

Physical Theatre moves to enhance your comic writing, and polish up physical stage business to get your audiences rolling in the isles. Slapstick moves, timing, double takes, entrances and exits, prat-falls, spit takes, problems with props to bring your comic direction and performances to a new level.
Limited enrollment: 15.
Investment: $45.
Time: Saturday, May,14 th 4 hours. 9 am - 1 pm
Pre-Registration required: Email to reserve your spot - hester.schell@gmail.com
Audit the seminar for $20. Auditors admitted only once we reach minimum enrollment (10).
Auditors observe only.

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SUNDAY, MAY 15
ACTORS TUNE UP: Audition Skills Workshop - Monologues and Scene Readings
For Actors.
Polish your audition skills. Work your audition monologues. Handle your nerves.
Bring two contrasting monologues up to 2 minutes each selected according to your age range and character type. We will also cover basic cold reading skills for script auditions.
Limited enrollment: 10.
Investment: $40.
Time: Sunday, May,15th 4 hours. 9 am - 1 pm
Pre-Registration required: Email to reserve your spot - hester.schell@gmail.com
Audit the seminar for $20. Auditors admitted only once we reach minimum enrollment (7).
Auditors observe only.

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Registration instructions: Email to reserve your spot - hester.schell@gmail.com
Register for both seminars: $70. That's 8 hours of exceptional instruction.
Email: hester.schell@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
PayPay instructions to follow.

ABOUT HESTER -
Hester directed for the Provincetown Theatre in the Fall 2009 Playwrights' Festival, and we are thrilled to have her back. A veteran stage and film director, she teaches at Film Acting Bay Area in San Francisco. She is a member of SAG, AFTRA and the Harvard Square Script Writers. She completed her Master of Fine Arts in directing at the University of Utah and has taught at several colleges and universities in the USA. Hester is the author of CASTING REVEALED: A Guide for Film Directors, from Michael Wiese Productions. The book is available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Hester-Schell/e/B003YLHA3W/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_6?q...

MORE links about Hester’s book and her work.
http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/filmstore_events.html
http://www.duckinalightbulb.com/podcast_008
http://backstage.blogs.com/blogstage/2011/01/casting-revealed-a-guide-fo...
http://www.thewriterslife.org/Thewriterslife.org/Hello.html
LinkedIN - http://www.linkedin.com/in/hesterschell
IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770719/